Quote from the radio message, Forgiveness. We’ve got to put - TopicsExpress

Quote from the radio message, Forgiveness. We’ve got to put off all kind of deceit, subterfuge, mistrust, dishonesty. We have to be absolutely open with one another as God’s people. All the barriers, all the pretenses, all the subterfuges have been done away with. It’s openness and honesty. I often think of the story of Noah’s ark. You remember that God made provision for the preservation of a selected number of animals from the old order before the world was plunged beneath the flood? God supernaturally caused them to come to Noah, and at a certain point they went into the Ark. And it says there were every kind of animal. Now many of those animals were by nature at enmity with one another. They preyed upon one another, they killed one another, they feared one another. But inside the Ark, there was peace. Have you ever thought about that? Because the Ark is a picture of Christ. And no matter what background you come from, or what kind of attitudes you’ve had, when you come into the Ark they’re done away with. You’re a new creation. You have a new relationship. There’s peace where there was strife, and disharmony and natural hatreds before. All have been replaced by the peace of God through the reconciliation of Jesus on the cross.