{"id":30339,"date":"2012-07-23T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=30339"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:53:48","slug":"gods-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2012\/07\/23\/gods-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the purest gospel passages in the entire New Testament, 2 Corinthians 1, can be reduced to one word that describes the dynamic, glorious, inexpressible implication of the gospel: that word is Yes. In Christ God says Yes to the divine plan for the world, to the covenant with Israel, to the Trinitarian covenant, and to each of us.<\/p>\n

I wonder if we might have today a Yes Fest: Where is God saying Yes as you read the Bible, as you listen to the Spirit, as you see God at work in yourself, your family, your work, your church and your community? Go ahead, speak up\u2026 Where can you say a big Amen to what God is doing?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul was accused being a Yes and No man, a man who seemed to say Yes but then ended up saying No \u2014 a fickle man who couldn\u2019t be trusted. Paul, of course, denied he was a Yes and No man, but what he affirmed even more was that God was a Yes God, a faithful to-be-trusted God.<\/p>\n

18 <\/sup>But as surely as God is faithful,\u00a0our message to you is not \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a019 <\/sup>For the Son of God,\u00a0Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us\u2014by me and Silas[c<\/a>]<\/sup> and Timothy\u00a0\u2014was not \u201cYes\u201d and \u201cNo,\u201d but in him it has always\u00a0been \u201cYes.\u201d\u00a020 <\/sup>For no matter how many promises\u00a0God has made, they are \u201cYes\u201d in Christ. And so through him the \u201cAmen\u201d\u00a0is spoken by us to the glory of God.\u00a021 <\/sup>Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm\u00a0in Christ. He anointed\u00a0us,\u00a022 <\/sup>set his seal\u00a0of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if you (I speak here to pastors first) can\u2019t get a series of sermons on the word Yes, I\u2019ve got a book for you. And if you (non-pastor) want to hear God\u2019s faithful Yes to us in Christ \u2014 over and over \u2014 with stories and exposition and pastoral common sense, then I want to urge you to read Mike Glenn\u2019s wondrous exploration of God\u2019s Yes to us in Christ: The Gospel of Yes<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mike sketches God\u2019s goodness to us through one word: Yes. God\u2019s favorite word, the problem with living with \u201cNo,\u201d the Yes of creation, the Yes of the cross and resurrection and forgiveness and the Yes of You and Yes of destiny and of authentic relationships and of simplicity and finding Yes in it all\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 and when Mike asked me to write the foreword I said Yes because in that word I found so much good exposition of God\u2019s grace that is alive and well in our world.<\/p>\n

Some good books are hard to blog through because they spill their goods early and often \u2014 and once you\u2019ve got them up it\u2019s hard to keep repeating things; but a good series for a congregation keeps the same theme going until we all get it, and this Yes book by Mike does just that. This is a model for a series of sermons where you can declare the faithfulness of God weekly and show to your folks that God is on our side. In Christ God has said Yes. God\u2019s Yes is what matters.<\/p>\n

I wonder if we might have today a Yes Fest: Where is God saying Yes as you read the Bible, as you listen to the Spirit, as you see God at work in yourself, your family, your work, your church and your community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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