Matthew 7, 21-29
21 These are Not all those who say: Our Lord! Lord! 'Will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to me that day, 'Lord, Lord, is it not by your name we spoke in the prophets, by your name we cast out demons in thy name we have come a long miracles? "
23 Then I will declare:" I've never known, stay away from me, you who are evil! "
24 Thus, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
25 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and rushed to this house: it did not fall, because it was based on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and do not put them into practice is like a fool who built his house upon the sand.
27 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and crashed into that house it fell: and great was its fall.
28 When Jesus had finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
29 because he taught as one who has authority, not as the scribes.
Romans 3, 13-24
23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God;
24 and it is they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.
Matthew seems to oppose what Paul tells us about the word that liberates, that of grace alone by faith alone. It is actually not uncommon to oppose Matthew Paul.
But if we look closely ...
Paul to the Romans, ch. 10, v. 8-10: "Everything around you is the word in your mouth and in your heart. This word is the word of faith we proclaim. If, in thy mouth, thou shalt confess Jesus is Lord and in your heart, you believe that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Indeed, believing in his heart leads to righteousness and confess with his mouth leads to salvation. "
That would imply something less simple than the opposition we put perhaps too easily between Matthew and Paul ... If we add to that the injunctions upon which Paul leads invariably end of his epistles, we find ourselves may be closer than expected ... Ex Matthew Romans 12, 1-2: " I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice living, holy and pleasing to God which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, to discern what the will of God, which is good, what pleases him, which is perfect. "
Where the found exactly what we gave Matthew, namely a word received so intimate: it is the central message of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) which this chapter 7 gives the conclusion.
call received in private, "in your heart," said Ro 10 between the first concrete being confessed (ibid. Ro 10). This also Matthew says, speaking of those who say "Lord, Lord", while - as is already implicit in the negative connotation of the reference in Matthew - the confession is the first time an "incarnation" more concrete This speech received and confessed.
A "incarnation" which is the result. The speech received only saves. And it actually saves, until world, "the whole creation that awaits deliverance" (Romans 8), entering into practice in the world, spreading its missionary aspect, deacon, political ... In
rooting called to give hello to take concrete the world, a solid foundation.
21 These are Not all those who say: Our Lord! Lord! 'Will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to me that day, 'Lord, Lord, is it not by your name we spoke in the prophets, by your name we cast out demons in thy name we have come a long miracles? "
23 Then I will declare:" I've never known, stay away from me, you who are evil! "
24 Thus, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
25 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and rushed to this house: it did not fall, because it was based on the rock.
26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and do not put them into practice is like a fool who built his house upon the sand.
27 The rain fell, the floods came, the winds blew and crashed into that house it fell: and great was its fall.
28 When Jesus had finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
29 because he taught as one who has authority, not as the scribes.
Romans 3, 13-24
23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God;
24 and it is they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.
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Matthew seems to oppose what Paul tells us about the word that liberates, that of grace alone by faith alone. It is actually not uncommon to oppose Matthew Paul.
But if we look closely ...
Paul to the Romans, ch. 10, v. 8-10: "Everything around you is the word in your mouth and in your heart. This word is the word of faith we proclaim. If, in thy mouth, thou shalt confess Jesus is Lord and in your heart, you believe that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Indeed, believing in his heart leads to righteousness and confess with his mouth leads to salvation. "
That would imply something less simple than the opposition we put perhaps too easily between Matthew and Paul ... If we add to that the injunctions upon which Paul leads invariably end of his epistles, we find ourselves may be closer than expected ... Ex Matthew Romans 12, 1-2: " I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to offer yourselves as a sacrifice living, holy and pleasing to God which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, to discern what the will of God, which is good, what pleases him, which is perfect. "
Where the found exactly what we gave Matthew, namely a word received so intimate: it is the central message of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) which this chapter 7 gives the conclusion.
call received in private, "in your heart," said Ro 10 between the first concrete being confessed (ibid. Ro 10). This also Matthew says, speaking of those who say "Lord, Lord", while - as is already implicit in the negative connotation of the reference in Matthew - the confession is the first time an "incarnation" more concrete This speech received and confessed.
A "incarnation" which is the result. The speech received only saves. And it actually saves, until world, "the whole creation that awaits deliverance" (Romans 8), entering into practice in the world, spreading its missionary aspect, deacon, political ... In
rooting called to give hello to take concrete the world, a solid foundation.
RP
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