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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen   
Lørdag, 10. oktober 2009 17:48


When all the people and the tax-collectors heard this, they acknowledged that God was right….”  (Luke 7:29, Danish rendering
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Genuine conversion and saving faith is just acknowledging that God is right and I am wrong.  The people acknowledged that.  The Pharisees also heard him, but instead of humbling themselves they callously consolidated their self-righteous position and rejected God´s plan for their lives.  v. 30


My grandfather, - Uno Rieper-Holm was his name -, had a respectable auditor who once heard my grandfather preach the gospel in Copenhagen.  One Christian woman spoke a few kind words to that distinguished gentleman after the meeting, but he was so angry.  According to his wife he afterwards went back and forth in their beautiful apartment and was furious.  However, before going to bed he said, “Rieper-Holm was right!”  Then soon after he suddenly died.


That made a strong impression on everybody.  Another Christian woman suggested that the admission of the convicted auditor was a good sign.  She said, “Hopefully it meant that he also acknowledged that God was right.”


Have you acknowledged that too?  Have you come to the place where you can honestly say before God, “You are right, and I´m wrong and have always been wrong!”  In that case you´ll meet the happy tax-collectors in Heaven some day, saved by His grace and under the wings of His loving plan.


-jn-

March 27, 2009

 
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