The Season of Lent: A New Life

 “Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We therefore were buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life” Rm:6:3-4

The Season of Lent which is observed by many Christian Churches of both Western and Eastern Traditions. In the Eastern Tradition the Season of Lent is often referred to as the Great Lent or the Great Fast, and sometimes the Great Forty Days, for the Season of Lent is often thought of as a forty-day period of time, but in actuality it encompasses forty-six days, the six Sundays, which are within, the Lenten season are not counted. 

Forty

The number forty was borrowed from the Sacred history found within the Scriptures themselves; Moses’ forty years of preparation to lead Israel and his forty days upon Mount Horeb in receiving the Ten Commandments which were the center piece of the Covenant between God and Israel. Israel’s forty years from leaving Egypt to entering the Promised Land and even the Lord Jesus’ own forty days of temptations in the Wilderness wherein he demonstrated that he, and he alone, is the Messiah and rightful King to sit upon the throne of all things.

A Season of Reflection

The Season of Lent is a time of great reflection of the change of life and the transformational power of the living Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit in the lives of those who come to accept the work of salvation which was manifested in and through Jesus’ life, death and glorious resurrection. 

The word Lent is a form of an Old English word “Lencten” which means “in the spring of the year” for in the early years of the Church, that of the Post Apostolic period, out of which Lent emerged, the Church would hold it’s Baptism Sacrament once a year on Easter Sunday. This was done to emphasize to new converts the transformation of their lives which was about to take place in light of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

New Converts to Christianity were encouraged to spend the forty days prior to the observe of Easter in reflect upon the transformation of their lives which was about to be entered into acknowledged through Baptisms Sacrament. They , now would live in an all-new life because of the Salvation work of Jesus.

This forty-day period was to sharpen the focus of the new converts to what their new life was to look like. Generally, this time was used for deep prayer the reading of what Scriptures were available to them, meditation, fasting and personal worship and of reflection upon entering an all-new life.

The Purpose of Lent

As new converts through-out the centuries have considered their lives throughout this season, we are today called upon to consider our own lives in light the reality of the resurrection of Jesus. 

The Lenten Season is situated in the Church’s Liturgical Calendar by intent, it is placed there to lead us all into the reality of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection and our own sharing in Jesus’ life and death. This is the purpose of the Lenten Season, to begin to see our new life in him and our own sharing in all that is Jesus’.

The Season of Lent leads us directly into Holy Week and to the resurrection commemorated on Easter. Lent calls upon us to reflect upon the words found written by St. Paul.

The New Life Accomplished by Jesus

St. Paul wrote extensively about the new life which we can experience in Jesus sharing in all that is our Lord’s, the suffering, death and his glorious resurrection. All these are ours’ to share in our new life as we are forsaking our past lives.

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.” Eph: 2:1-5

Our Lord Jesus Christ himself has accomplished this new life for us and bestows it upon us; and when we embrace this new life, we experience leaving our old life  behind in the grave as is symbolized by the Sacrament of our own Baptisms as St. Paul reminds us all.

“Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We therefore were buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life” Rm:6:3-4

New Life Now

This new life which is ours’ is not just a future reality some day in Eternity to come, but rather is ours even now as we live here upon the Earth. This life, is ours' through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and lived not out of the power of the flesh but through following the lead of the Spirit’s gentle guidance and that which has been laid out for us in the Holy Word of God.

“Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” Rm: 8:5

As we yield to the Spirit and look to Jesus this new life becomes ever more vibrant and fruitful, our old life becomes more distant and remote to us as our whole life is filled with the merits of Christ.

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin” Rm:6:5-6

The Way of Eternal Life

This new life, is eternal life as a way of life. It is way of living built upon the person of Jesus, a way of knowing the true God and his Holy Son.

“this is eternal life, that they might know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” Jhn:17:3

This is the way of living which is a result of the of Jesus’ work of salvation for each and all who will but freely receive it. As we come to know our God through Jesus even how we relate to others, and even to ourselves, is forever changed in view of the work of Jesus.

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though  we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2Cor: 5:14-17

As eternal life is a way of life, so is death a way of life one which creates a needless state of alienation from the great God who love us and wants us. This way of death gives rise to every pain and sadness which has plagued humanity personally and collectively from the dawn of creation until this very hour upon the Earth.

Though Jesus himself entering into death itself he has defeated not just the way of death, but all of its painful consequences temporal and eternal and made eternal life a reality for us.

“because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh” Rm: 8:2-3

A Time to Reflect

The Season of Lent is a time for Christians to reflect upon our own Christians lives in view of finished the work of Jesus and the life which has been given to us all. A life lived out in view of all that Jesus has done for us all to his glory.

Lent is far more than a season of legalistic performance based religious self-examination, it is rather a time of fully embracing the grace of God and the reality of the risen Christ and the Season of Easter.

Benediction: May we each and all live out our lives in this new life all for the glory of God, today, tomorrow and forever more. Amen.

Rev. Todd Crouch, Pastor

Topinabee Community Church

Topinabee Michigan

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The Season of Lent: The Temple Cleansed

 The Season of Lent is far more than a season of legalistic performance based religious self-examination, it is rather a time of fully embracing the grace of God and the reality of the risen Christ and the Season of Easter.

“So, Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts,”

The Season of Lenten is situated in the Church’s Liturgical Calendar by intent, it is placed there to lead us all into the reality of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection and our own sharing in Jesus’ life and death, this is the purpose of the Lenten Season, to begin to see our new life in him and our own sharing in all that is Jesus’.

St. John, in his Gospel, gives us the account of Jesus Christ who was motivated by his zealous perfect love for his Heavenly Father entering into the Temple of God at Jerusalem and seeing the money changers buying and selling and making merchandise of the people. Our Lord in his righteous indignation drove them out with a whip made of rope.

“When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So, Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves Jesus said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” Jhn: 2:13-17

Some Biblical Scholars believe that this event actually took place at the end of Jesus’ ministry just prior to his arrest and crucifixion as it has been recorded by St. Matthew in his Gospel, but some scholars believe that St. John choose to place it early in his Gospel account as a literary device to set the tone for the whole purpose for which Jesus had come. Still, others believe that Jesus, in reality, drove the money changers out twice, once at the beginning of his ministry and another time at the very end. Either way the account is there in the inspired record for our edification.

Religious Leaders Confront Jesus

Regardless of the actual time order of the event, it is what Jesus did that is important. Jesus purged out of the Temple what should have not had been there in the first place. The money changers and the making of merchandise of the people and exploiting them for gain, ultimately to the profit of the religious establishment who worked with the less than savory money changers and others to gain wealth.

After Jesus’ zealous confrontation with the money changers and others who sold the sheep and doves used for the temple sacrifices, we are told by St. Matthew that it is the religious leaders the Chief Priest and the Elders, who confronted Jesus wanting to know who and what gave him the right to take such actions.

“The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” (18)

When asked about his authority to enter the Temple and drive out those who had no place to be there Jesus answers them in a way which to them seemed cryptic and strange. 

“Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” (19)

The religious leaders were misunderstanding and perplexed by Jesus’ response, they could only perceive with their eyes and ears and interpret Jesus’ words as a threat to their very place of authority, the Temple itself, for the Temple as it stood gave them their place and position and power.

“They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” (20)

St. John wrote with historical hindsight now, inserts a comment giving explanation as to what Jesus was referring to in answer to the issue of authority to enter the Temple and drive out those who did not belong there.

 “But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken”. (21-22)

 Authority and Power

St. John is telling us that it is Jesus’ divine identity, which is confirmed by his resurrection that gives him authority to take such an action. Jesus’ actions were telling the religious leaders that his resurrection gives evidence to his authority and power to act in cleansing the Temple and that this authority does not come from men but from God himself. This means that Jesus’ not only had the right and authority to act but the power to act.

St. Paul wrote of the connection between Jesus’ divine identity and his resurrection in his Epistle to the Church at Rome. 

“and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord” Rm: 1:4

What St. Paul is telling us is, that Jesus is not the Son of God because he was resurrection but rather Jesus was resurrected because he is the Son of God, his resurrection only confirms to us what is and always has been true.

Jesus, being God's Son, has the Authority and power to act and Jesus acts zealously to bring all things into conformity to the will of God the Father. 

Came to Cleanses

Jesus came to set things right, to make them the way they were intended to be by God, to cleanse our Temple, that is, Jesus came, and continues to come and enters the Temple courts of our lives and zealously takes up the scourge to drive out any and all things which have set up a marketplace within us and makes merchandise of us, and making our Temple courts clean.

St. John’s Gospel is not just giving us a glimpse of a piece of history about something Jesus did centuries ago, rather he showing us what Jesus has and continues to do within the lives of his people.

St. Paul tells us that through our association with Jesus, the very resurrected Son of God, and by the residency of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we, the Church, that is all Christians, are the Temple of God in the world. 

“Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst? “1Cor: 3:16

St. Paul tell us that it is through the work of Jesus we are, in the view God, now made clean, that we have through Jesus been set right with God. Through Jesus’ Salvation work of incarnation, life, death and resurrection this has been accomplished for us by Jesus apart from any effort on our part.

“But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”.1Cor:6:11

When we heard the word of God preached to us and accepted it we entered into experiencing what Jesus has done for us. Jesus spoke to his Disciples this very thing on the night he would be betrayed and arrested.

“You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.” Jhn: 15:3

Many years latter St. Paul speaks of the very same truth of hearing the word of God spoken and embracing the message of Jesus by the Church and coming to experience the cleansing which Jesus has accomplished for us.

“That God might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word” Eph: 5:26

Our Temple Courts

Jesus has entered into the Temple courts of our lives and with a zeal he confronts any and all things which should not be there within our hearts and minds, driving them out with the power of his word and the Spirit, convicting and removing anything which is a part of our lives which might make merchandise of us. Jesus has both the authority and power to do this as God’s Son.

Jesus acted with power and authority as the Son of God to drive out and reclaim and set right our whole being for God, that with in our hearts there is only found the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. We then are set right with God as our whole being be a place of worship and praise of God and service to him.

“How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!” Heb: 9:14

The season of Lent is a time when we, the people of God, his Holy dwelling place, can look within the temple courts of our own selves and reflect upon the finished work of Jesus which has accomplished our salvation. This truth should move us to walk fully into the lives of salvation; we are saved therefore we should as such and allow nothing to make merchandise of us, but being wholly given over to our God.

Our lives set right by the salvation work of Jesus, made free of anything which might make merchandise of us, all that we might serve our God as he has always intended for us all. The Season of Lent helps us focus on the saving work of Jesus, he has come to cleanse the Temple courts of our lives that we might be that Holy Temple of God all for his glory this is the purpose for which Jesus has zealously come.

Benediction: May we each and all live as a cleansed Temple of God, that we might worship, praise and serve our God, today, tomorrow and forevermore. Amen

Rev. Todd Crouch, Pastor

Topinabee Community Church

Topinabee Michigan

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The Season of Lent: God Loves Us In Spite of Our Selves.

"Therefore just as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all ,

 so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all." Rm: 5:18

The ancient Season of Lent, which has come down through the ages and covers several weeks, teaches us powerful lessons about the salvation which our God has ordained for us all, for any who will but freely receive it through Jesus Christ.

The Season of Lent began during the Post Apostolic period of the Early Church. In the early years the Christian Church the early Christians generally began to hold the Sacrament of Baptism once a year on Easter Sunday.

All those who had come to believe in Jesus and wanted the Sacrament of Baptism would be instructed to take a 40-day period of time to consider through prayer and reading Scriptures how their lives were to be transformed in light of who Jesus Christ is and all that he had accomplished on their behalf. 

This 40-day period became what we now call the Season of Lent, lent meaning "in the Spring of the Year"  which is when Easter is observed.

Lent is far more than a season of legalistic performance based religious self-examination, it is rather a time of fully embracing the grace of God and the reality of the risen Christ and the Season of Easter.

One of the lessons which Lent points us to, and speaks to us about , is the answer to the dilemma of human sin and humanities  misconceptions about our God.

From the very dawn of creation, there in the Garden of Eden, the great dilemma of sin was introduced and passed on to humanity through our first parents Adam and Eve who gave ear to Satan in the guise of a serpent. Satan twisted the words of the Lord God and his motivations all in an attempt to distort the view that Adam and Eve had toward the Creator. Gen: 3:1-7

Adam and Eve should have resisted Satan’s words and trusted the Lord God and in what he had spoken to them, but instead they assumed a mindset which saw God very different than the truth of who he is, as St. James wrote “resist the devil and he will flee from you”.

Satan used their understanding that their Creator God is Holy, and suggested to them that Holiness could be obtained by them through disobedience to what the Lord God had spoken to them , though the fruit of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” that all they need do is take it.

 “your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good from evil” (5)

Adam and Eve then acted on the deception and chose to eat of fruit from the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, but instead of rising to the place of God as Satan implied that they would, they now came to grasp the truth about themselves. They now see the truth, that they are “naked”, and in the process their minds and thoughts about the Lord God are now transformed negatively, a misperception is now in place regarding God and his love and grace toward them.

Satan created a distorted view of the creator God and his motivation in the minds of Adam and Eve. God's view of humanity was not altered, but rather, humanities’ view of God.

 Their view of God had become distorted and seeing themselves for what they truly were, as it is recorded in the Genesis narrative.

"the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked;” Gen: 3:7a

Adam and Eve now seeing themselves for what they were (and are) , that is , that “they knew that they were naked” led them both to conclude that,  their inadequacies would matter to God and that the Lord’s reaction toward them would be one of anger and rejection. A latent hostility toward God had now crept into their minds due to this misconception of God.

The pair  attempt to find their own solution to being “naked” by covering their self-realization of their true state of being “naked”.

“and they sewed fig leaves together to make coverings for themselves” (7b)

Hiding from God

This distorted mind set, regarding the Lord, which they now had toward God manifest itself when Adam and Eve heard the voice of God calling out to them as he walked in the garden, out of fear they withdraw from God and hid themselves.

This altered view and perception of God, that is, that, he would reject them and be angry with them, is why they “when they heard the voice of God as he walked in the garden they hid themselves among the trees of the garden”, even when they heard the voice God calling out to them. 

God knew what had happen and that they both had taken and eaten the fruit, God knew that they were both “naked”, that is, he knew and understood exactly who and what they were, yet, he came to them, calling to them, lovingly seeking them out.

The Lord God did not charge into the garden in an angry pursuit of them, instead he strolled in at the eventide of day, when all things begins to quiet down and turn to resting, that is , “in the cool of the day” . This shows us our God's graciousness,  calmness, patience and love toward his human children and his desire to reach out to them, letting them know that all would be well. 

This timing of the Lord’s approach and calling out to them should have put them both at ease and signaled to them that God was at peace with them and was drawing near to bring them the understanding of his love and grace, rather than impending harsh judgment.

The Lord God did not withdraw from them even in spite of them being “naked”, rather, God came and sought them out. They being “naked”, that is, what they truly were did not matter to God, he still wanted them and wanted to fellowship with them.

When God finds them hiding among the trees and when the truth is then made known. God asked.

 “who told you that you were naked?” (11a)

It is, as if, that God is asking “who told you that your state of being, that of being naked, mattered to me?”

The Hope Revealed

God then allows them to live with the consequences, but first he offers hope and  the solution to the human condition which Adam and Eve had chosen for themselves and their children , and the way to regain a proper view of our God.

This promised hope is in itself and revelation of the Grace of God which seemed to be beyond the grasp of Adam and Eve, had they understood that God was truly loving and gracious toward them they would not have hid among the trees of the garden, rather they would have called out to God and sought his help.

This declaration of the promised seed is called by some Theologians the Protevangelium, the first preaching of the Gospel.

God gives them hope in a form of a promised “seed” who’s heel would be “bruised”.(vrs.15)

This “seed” would be the hope of not just Adam and Eve, this promised seed would be the one to deal with the estrangement between God and humanity and correct humanities distorted view of the Lord God. 

Problem Started in a Garden 

The story of our first parents Adam and Eve is the story of all humanity.

The problem of sin which has plagued humanity ever since to varies degrees, with the net effect being that humanities estranged toward their God and sufferings innumerable traumas throughout human history.

This enslavement to and of sin and death and the estrangement which resulted was begun in an idyllic garden setting. Here, our first parents, and each of us following suit in their sin

Not even the garden setting with all of Adam and Eve’s needs met, with no undue pressure or difficult demands placed upon them could they chose rightly. All the demands which were upon them was to “dress and keep the garden” there, at that time was no heavy burdens to assume.

Not one us, even the most pious of humanity , even in ideal conditions has proven able to resist sin, as St. Paul intoned.

“All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” Rm: 2:23

St. Paul address this collective culpability of all humanity in his Epistle to the Christian Church in the city of Rome around 57 AD.

"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all have sinned" Rm:5:12

Through the sin of Adam, that is, taking the taking of “Tree of Good and Evil”, the “one man's” sin and death passed to all. We all have made the same choice as Adam and death has followed along with a distorted view of God which has perpetuated a latent hostility toward God in the minds of humanity.

The Solution Revealed in the Wilderness

The problem of sin and death and misperceptions about God which began for humanity in the Garden of Eden find’s its solution revealed in the Wildness of Judah, one of the most inhospitable places in all the Holy Land.

“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” Matt: 4:1

It is here, in this dry and wind-swept desolate place that Jesus Christ is led by the Spirit to openly demonstrate that he is the promised “seed”, the one who would bring humanity and God together and restore what God intends for us, and give us an undistorted view of who the Lord God is and what he is like.

It is important to understand the setting of the Wilderness, this area of Judah was in Hebrew Cosmology, which is how they saw and thought about the world, thought to be the habitation of evil spirits. It is as if Jesus was invading Satan’s own territory and declaring himself the Messiah , the "promised seed" and the rightful ruler of all.

Jesus enters the Wilderness, and confronts Satan. But Jesus, unlike Adam accepts the words of God and yields himself to trust them in spite of what Satan says as he attempts to twist and distort God’s word and cast doubt into the mind of Jesus. As Adam failed in a garden Jesus, succeeded in a wilderness.

Each temptation which Satan brought forth against Jesus was met with a Scriptural response.

“the tempter came to Jesus and said to him “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread”(3)

“but Jesus answered and said “it is written” man will not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God” (4)

Whatever the temptation was Jesus always responded to the temptations by truing to the word of God showing his complete trust in what God has spoken.

Where Adam failed by disobeying in the Garden setting of God, which was the very best of conditions; conversely Jesus succeed in the Wilderness setting. Jesus did what Adam nor any of us could not do, he perfectly obeyed God even in the worst of conditions.

Jesus is not the Messiah because he defeated Satan, but rather Jesus defeated Satan because he is the Messiah.

Healing the Misperceptions

Jesus came not to fulfill some judicial demand of a law, no, rather, Jesus came as God did in the Garden seeking out his naked children who were hiding among the trees of the Garden due to the distorted view of God which they held and their misunderstanding of the Creator as the majority of humanity still holds to.

Jesus came bringing grace and calls out to all humanity through the Gospel to show us the Father's loves to and for us in spite of us all being “naked”.

In Jesus, God shows us all that in spite who and what are he loves us and wants us. Jesus comes to us and calls out to us through the Gospel showing us the depth of God’ divine love.

Jesus is healing our distorted view of God and bringing the forgiveness of sin that our God has always had for us. Jesus’ obedience, like Adams’ disobedience, has been passed onto each and all. As Adam chose for all, so Jesus chose for all.

God looks to Jesus, and in his Holy Son the Father sees us, each and all dressed in the robe of his divine Son. What we are, that “naked” does not in any way a challenge God’s grace toward and for us nor his love. The Cross of our Lord is the ultimate expression of God’s love toward us.

“ while we were yet sinners Christ died for us” Rom:5:8  

The Cross is not directed toward God, but toward us, to show us what he is like, a loving God who would die for us in spite of us.

God did not wait for us to “sew fig leaves” together to cover our “nakedness” that is, to reach some morally high level so that we might be acceptable to merit his grace. God through the Person of Jesus came ,and comes to us, and calls out to us so that we might know that he loves us in spite of we all being “naked”.

This is a lesson of the Season of Lent that our God loves and seeks to heal the distorted view which we may have of him in spite of ourselves and come to know we are loved and accepted by him all through Jesus.

Benediction: May we each and all have our misconception and views of God healed knowing that he loves us in spite of ourselves, today, tomorrow and forevermore. Amen.

Rev. Todd Crouch, Pastor

Topinabee Community Church

Topinabee Michigan

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