Note: A Parable of Jesus. Involving self justification vs. relying on the work of the Messiah, and declaring the liberty , redemption, and justification attained in that work.
Speaking to the religious leaders of the time.
A Father asked his two sons to accomplish some work for him...
The Parable of the Two Sons
29 "And he answered, 'I will not'; but afterward he regretted it and went.
30 "The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, 'I will, sir'; but he did not go.
31 "Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first."
Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.…"
Mathew 21
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"I believe there are two sides to the phenomena known as death. This side where we live, and the other side, where we shall continue to live.
Eternity does not start with death.
We are in eternity now." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There is no place in this new kind of physics for both the field and matter, for the field is the only reality." - A. Einstein
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