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Acknowledging the rule & power of God in the church by its expressions of love

This is how redemption mimics the original creation: What begins in the act of God as an instance of creation—a man’s new birth, much as a germinated seed—also blooms and then blossoms again among the other flowers in a field of perennials.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Exodus
- Exodus 1:1-14

Redemption: Renegotiating the Value of Creation

What Israel’s Exodus tells us about redemption

If Israel would be delivered from Egypt at all, it would be at God’s initiative. Israel’s new life, then, must wholly subsist in the kind and quality of life that God gave Israel through his intervention on Israel’s behalf and, after the fact, no other definition of life could exist for her.

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Select Quotations

Religion is Contemplated in God’s Gift of Redemption

A Selection taken from Herman Bavinck’s The Wonderful Works of God

"Without special revelation the religion of men and the philosophy of thinkers do not have a right knowledge of God, and hence no right knowledge of man and the world, and of sin and redemption."

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

In other words, justice and mercy may exist together, and we are not left to the precarious balance in which government bureaucrats must balance the two principles. They each and simultaneously find their source and definition in the very character of God.

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