Random Thoughts on the Really Good News

"I have been young, and  now  am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." (Psalm 37:25) Of course King David was not alive to see the crucifixion of Jesus. "About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  (Matthew 27:46) Some saw the righteous one forsaken, but three days later the one forsaken righteous human was raised to life, never again to be forsaken - and the judgment of all other humans has been given to Him. "And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the righteous and the unrighteous." (Acts 24:15) "Father forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34)

“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever — the spirit of truth. The world cannot receive it, because it neither sees it nor knows it. But you do know it, for it abides with you and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17) The word "spirit" refers to power of truth.   "Jesus is saying to him, "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one is coming to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6) When we hear the truth and believe, the truth sets us free from wasting our lives trying to save ourselves by the  works of the law. Now we are aware that, whatever the law is saying, it is speaking to those under the law, that every mouth may be barred, and the entire world may become subject to the just verdict of God, "...because, by works of law, no flesh at all shall be justified in His sight, for through law is the recognition of sin.  Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God is manifest (being attested by the law and...