Lee McDerment

He is the Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin. But who does not leave the guilty unpunished? He is a God who is unbelievably merciful and who is just and righteous. And he poured all that out on Jesus at the cross.

He is the Lord, the Lord, compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin. But who does not leave the guilty unpunished? He is a God who is unbelievably merciful and who is just and righteous. And he poured all that out on Jesus at the cross.

If you can hold that, hold that truth about that's God's character, that's his revealed character.

If you can hold that, hold that truth about that's God's character, that's his revealed character.

If you can hold that, hold that truth about that's God's character, that's his revealed character.

If you can hold that in your heart while you read these difficult passages all the way through, what you begin to find is that God is far larger and grander and more mysterious and more loving and more gracious, but also more pure and holy and perfect than whatever your little box was that you had him in, you know, in all your thought processes previous to that. So, yeah.

If you can hold that in your heart while you read these difficult passages all the way through, what you begin to find is that God is far larger and grander and more mysterious and more loving and more gracious, but also more pure and holy and perfect than whatever your little box was that you had him in, you know, in all your thought processes previous to that. So, yeah.

If you can hold that in your heart while you read these difficult passages all the way through, what you begin to find is that God is far larger and grander and more mysterious and more loving and more gracious, but also more pure and holy and perfect than whatever your little box was that you had him in, you know, in all your thought processes previous to that. So, yeah.

You know, that's the thing I'd encourage people with. It's like, go back to Ezekiel 34, and when you have a hard passage that you are finding difficult to understand, remember, God is compassionate. He's grace. He's slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. He forgives. He just, and ultimately, all wrongdoing gets poured out on Jesus at the cross.

You know, that's the thing I'd encourage people with. It's like, go back to Ezekiel 34, and when you have a hard passage that you are finding difficult to understand, remember, God is compassionate. He's grace. He's slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. He forgives. He just, and ultimately, all wrongdoing gets poured out on Jesus at the cross.

You know, that's the thing I'd encourage people with. It's like, go back to Ezekiel 34, and when you have a hard passage that you are finding difficult to understand, remember, God is compassionate. He's grace. He's slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. He forgives. He just, and ultimately, all wrongdoing gets poured out on Jesus at the cross.

The gospel is all, is threaded through, all the way through the scriptures because it's a part of, you know, who God is, you know?

The gospel is all, is threaded through, all the way through the scriptures because it's a part of, you know, who God is, you know?

The gospel is all, is threaded through, all the way through the scriptures because it's a part of, you know, who God is, you know?

Yeah, so, you know, honestly, two main reasons come to mind initially. Number one, there's a promise in Scripture, Romans chapter 10, I think verse 17, it says, faith comes from hearing and hearing the words of Christ. The idea there is that And this is Wayne Grudem's definition about the words of Scripture. He basically says, all the words of Scripture are God's words.

Yeah, so, you know, honestly, two main reasons come to mind initially. Number one, there's a promise in Scripture, Romans chapter 10, I think verse 17, it says, faith comes from hearing and hearing the words of Christ. The idea there is that And this is Wayne Grudem's definition about the words of Scripture. He basically says, all the words of Scripture are God's words.

Yeah, so, you know, honestly, two main reasons come to mind initially. Number one, there's a promise in Scripture, Romans chapter 10, I think verse 17, it says, faith comes from hearing and hearing the words of Christ. The idea there is that And this is Wayne Grudem's definition about the words of Scripture. He basically says, all the words of Scripture are God's words.

Therefore, to disbelieve or disobey any of the words of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. So I take all those words of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation as Jesus' own words.

Therefore, to disbelieve or disobey any of the words of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. So I take all those words of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation as Jesus' own words.

Therefore, to disbelieve or disobey any of the words of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. So I take all those words of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation as Jesus' own words.