the Red Sea resounded down the corridors of history and echoed off each obstacle: “Of course This is the story of the Exodus. not!” Redpath: Confessions of sin and repentance are not things to be left in the background of Christian life, things that were only connected with the early days of Christian experience far from it. It is the humble and contrite heart which God does not despise. – It is the proud whom He knoweth afar off. If you avoid in your present Christian life a daily humiliation before God, you will soon become hardhearted, cold and indifferent to the things of God. God will never plant the seed of His life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his Spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy. Days of great joy in the Lord are always accompanied by days of great humiliation in ourselves. How often the discovery of something new in the loveliness of the Lord Jesus has brought with it the discovery of some new corruption in our own hearts. Breneman: The exodus profoundly theology, especially in three influenced Israel’s areas: (1) in the way Israel viewed history as acts and as a dialogue between God’s
the Red Sea resounded down the corridors of history and echoed off each obstacle: “Of course not!” This is the story of the Exodus. Redpath: Confessions of sin and repentance are not things to be left in the background of Christian life, things that were only connected with the early days of Christian experience – far from it. It is the humble and contrite heart which God does not despise. It is the proud whom He knoweth afar off. If you avoid in your present Christian life a daily humiliation before God, you will soon become hardhearted, cold and indifferent to the things of God. God will never plant the seed of His life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his Spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy. Days of great joy in the Lord are always accompanied by days of great humiliation in ourselves. How often the discovery of something new in the loveliness of the Lord Jesus has brought with it the discovery of some new corruption in our own hearts. Breneman: The exodus profoundly influenced Israel’s theology, especially in three areas: (1) in the way Israel viewed history as God’s acts and as a dialogue between
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