{"id":2041,"date":"2020-04-24T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2020-04-19T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:35:27","slug":"go-and-tell-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Go and Tell&#8230;What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2039\">Yesterday<\/a>, I shared what our pastor said about Jesus&#8217; peace from John 16, John 20, and Philippians 4. Today, I want to continue in John 20 also continue our &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2036\">Go and Tell<\/a>&#8221; theme. Today: Tell them what? What&#8217;s the significance of the resurrection? It&#8217;s all in John 20:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Jesus repeated his greeting, \u201cPeace to you!\u201d And he told them, \u201cJust as the Father has sent me, I\u2019m now sending you.\u201d Then, taking a deep breath, he blew on them and said, \u201cReceive the Holy Spirit. I send you to preach the forgiveness of sins\u2014and people\u2019s sins will be forgiven. But if you don\u2019t proclaim the forgiveness of their sins, they will remain guilty.\u201d (John 20.21 &#8211; 23, Passion Translation)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of those &#8220;obvious&#8221; alliterative outlines: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Peace in verse 21 (and also verse 19)<\/li><li>Process in verse 21 (&#8220;as the Father has sent me&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li><li>Power in verse 22 (&#8220;Receive the Holy Spirit&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li><li>Pardon in verse 23 (&#8220;Proclaim forgiveness of sins&#8221;)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might talk more about the others on another day, but today, let&#8217;s think about the message: &#8220;Forgiveness of sins.&#8221; The idea of the <em>proclamation <\/em>of the forgiveness of sins is not in the standard translations of verse 23, but it is clearly there in Luke 24:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Then [Jesus] opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, \u201cThus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem&#8230;&#8221; (Luke 24.45 &#8211; 47, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message is forgiveness of sins. Not just sins! \u201cYou sinners better shape up!\u201d No, the <em>forgiveness <\/em>of sins. Some Christian writers emphasize the holiness and justice of God. A good message to be sure, but can we temper those with the love of God? It\u2019s the <em>kindness <\/em>of God that leads to repentance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God\u2019s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (Romans 2.4, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. (John 3.16, 17, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I shared what our pastor said about Jesus&#8217; peace from John 16, John 20, and Philippians 4. Today, I want to continue in John 20 also continue our &#8220;Go and Tell&#8221; theme. Today: Tell them what? What&#8217;s the significance of the resurrection? It&#8217;s all in John 20: Jesus repeated his greeting, \u201cPeace to you!\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go and Tell&#8230;What?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-wV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}