Is Yahwehs Bad Reputation Deserved?
Jackson Snyder, Based on The Preaching Event by Claypool, October 25, 1994 Snyder Bible Home All Sermons Challenging Sermons New Century Sermons Divrei Torah Search entire site PREVIEW Let Nothing Trouble You Saint Teresa of Avila Gen 2:4b-3:24; Mat 28:5-10 Reputation is everything O reputation! dearer far than life, Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell, Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand, Not all the owner’s care, nor the repenting toil Of the rude spiller, ever can collect To its first purity and native sweetness. Sir W. Raleigh The reason people are not reconciled to God today is because God’s reputation has been ruined; our lesson from the Old Testament is the story of how it was ruined, who ruined it, and who perpetuates its ruination. People do not trust God, because God is perceived to be untrustworthy. God has an image problem! The entire point of the existence of the church, the preacher, and the saint, is to bring reconciliation between a misunderstood G
