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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Blessings and curses

Blessing: Leviticus 26:3-6, 9
Curse: Leviticus 26: 14-21, 32-35
In Leviticus 26: 32-35 we see that the Lord thinks that allowing the land its Sabbath rest is so important that if the Israelites do not obey this command He will allow Israel’s enemies to lay waste to the country so that it will lie desolate so “it shall have the rest it did not have on your sabbaths when you were living on it”. 
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Important Lessons from the Bible

Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17

Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19

Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15

The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability

1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.

2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).

3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).

4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)

5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).

Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+