Herald of Holiness Volume 71 Number 06 (1982)
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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 3-15-1982 Herald of Holiness Volume 71 Number 06 (1982) W. E. McCumber (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation McCumber, W. E. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 71 Number 06 (1982)" (1982). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 277. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/277 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i] it'! jwa AN EDITORIAL I WENTY-FIVE years ago the system, as it later became. It was Torah for guidance and challenge -A word agape was just begin instruction and commandment to holiness. “Be perfect, there ning to come into the vocabulary given by God to His people for fore, as your heavenly Father is of Christians. Today even many their good, which they would will perfect” (Matthew 5:48, NIV). In outsiders know it means Christian ingly obey out of loving gratitude the Sermon on the Mount and love. for His grace in redeeming them Jesus’ teachings, as in all the New By faith in Christ we experi and giving them His covenant. Testament, the new Torah is ence agape love through the gift Jesus came to rescue the law spelled out for us, so that we may of the Spirit. “God has poured out from its perverted Jewish form be truly God's holy people in the his love into our hearts by the and restore it to its original mean world. Holy Spirit” (Romans 5:5, NIV). ing as Torah. He did not come to The basic error of the popular This love, then, becomes the abolish the law but to fulfill and “situation ethics” teaching is just power of a new obedience (see 1 complete it (Matthew 5:17; 22:35- here: it argues that all Christians John 5:3). 40). Jesus is our new Moses. “For need is the impulse to love. No, “Faith alone makes righteous Moses said, The Lord your God love needs guidance! For us, that and fulfills the law,” Luther says, will raise up for you a prophet like guidance is found in the Torah as “for out of Christ’s merit it brings me from among your own people; interpreted by Jesus and the the Spirit, and the Spirit makes you must listen to everything he apostles. the heart glad and free as the law tells you. Anyone who does not The Special Rules of the requires that it shall be.” No bet listen to him will be completely Church of the Nazarene become ter explanation of agape has ever cut off from among his people’” for us a contemporary expression been given. “It makes the heart (Acts 3:22-23, NIV). of the Christian Torah— instruc glad and free” to obey God. Like ancient Israel, our first tion for us who would live godly But what about Torah? need is redemption. But Jesus is lives in our pagan world. “They Torah is the Hebrew word for more than our Redeemer, liberat should be followed carefully and the law of God. Literally it means ing us from sin and empowering conscientiously as guides and “instruction.” The Torah was giv us for a new life of obedience. He helps to holy living,” and those en through Moses at Sinai to Is is also our Moses saying, “You who violate them “do so at their rael, whom God had redeemed have heard that it was said. own peril and to the hurt of the from Egyptian bondage. But I say to you . .” (see Mat witness of the church” (see M an Torah might be defined as “ in thew 5:21-48). ual, Paragraph 32.2). struction for the redeemed.” It We need Torah as well as We need Torah as well as also took the form of command agape: agape for motivation, agape! □ ment: “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:2-3, RSV). “ I have redeemed you,” AGAPE & TORAH God is saying; “therefore you LOVE FOR MOTIVATION— must be holy.” Torah spells out what it means LAW FOR GUIDANCE to be holy. In its original Old Testament sense it is not a legal by General Superintendent William M. Greathouse HFRALD OF HOI INFSS by ROSS W. HAYSLIP HE ENTRANCE of city that an ominous si . Jesus into Jerusalem lence greets Him. The was marked by a great cel leaders look upon the 1ebration. A King was scene and take it all in. making His entrance into They know what this the city. He was the means. The citadel of prophesied King of the their power and prestige Jews. His lineage was roy is being shaken. They are al without any question. the leaders of the nation. He was announced to the They have been given shepherds by the angels as h Armstrong Roberts great responsibility. They a King. John the Baptist saw what was happening recognized and proclaimed His royalty. The proph but they could not fully understand it. They were ecies of the centuries are now being fulfilled. The fearful as they said, “ Behold, the world is gone after King long promised and anticipated was now riding h im .” into the royal city. The resolution of these leaders was set as a rigid The multitudes accepted Him joyfully. A great mold. Their silence spoke their rejection, as positive throng gathered about Him. They broke branches and absolute as their rejection could be. They would from the trees and dropped in the roadway before not accept Him as their Lord and King. It is said Him. The road was not worthy of bearing the hoof that the Mosque of St. Sophia in Constantinople is prints of the beast that He rode upon. The people a Christian church that has been changed into a lined it with choice carpets of green boughs. En mosque. All the Christian symbols and inscriptions thusiastically they pulled off their outer garments have been painted out and Moslem symbols and in and added them to the highway. Soon the colt ridden scriptions have been substituted for them. In spite of by the King is treading a lovely carpet consisting of this, the figure of the ascending Lord with out nature’s beauty and man’s woven love combined. stretched hands in blessing is showing through as the Their singing rose up in joyful sound, “Hosanna, covering paint on the dome of the edifice wears off. Blessed be the King!” He could not be blotted out. A great crowd came out of the city to meet and In which group would I have been if I had been in greet Him. They joined in the song and cooperated Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday? Would I be shout in the carpeting process. The two crowds sang back ing “ Hosanna” with the people or would I be standing and forth answering each other in joyful antiphonal silent with the leaders? Of course I was not in Je music. This was truly a Jewish and royal happening. rusalem, but what is my attitude on this Palm Sun As the music fills the air, the hearts of the people day? Shall I not join the prophet Zechariah in are gladdened and the feeling is general that their exclaiming, “Rejoice greatly . shout . behold King has come. It is when they have come into the thy King cometh unto thee”? He is my King of kings and Lord of lords! Some day I shall see Him ROSS VV. HAYSLIP is the pastor of the First Church of in all His glory! Palm Sunday is not a time for the Nazarene in Tucson, Arizona. silence. □ HERALD Bible Quotations in this issue: of H O LIN ESS Unidentified quotations are from the KJV. Quotations from the following translations are used by permission: W. E. McCUMBER, Editor in Chief (RSV) From the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946, 1952, © IVAN A. BEALS, Office Editor 1971, 1973. MABEL ADAMSON, Editorial Assistant (NEB) From the New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970, Contrihutino I V. H. LEWIS • ORVILLE W . JENKINS (NIV) From The Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright © 1978. by New York Friirnre CHARLES H. STRICKLAND • EUGENE L STOWE International Bible Society. traitors | W |LUAM M GREATHOUSE • JERALD D JOHNSON HERALD OF HOLINESS (USPS 241-440) is published semi-monthly by the NAZARENE PUB General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene LISHING HOUSE, 2923 TR00ST AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO 64109. Editorial Office at 6401 The Paseo. Kansas City. MO 64131 Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to Naza Cover Photo: by H. Armstrong Roberts rene Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City, MO 64141 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: S end us your new address, including ZIP code, as well as your old address, and enclose a label from a recent copy. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $5.00 per year. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Volum e 71, N um ber 6 March 15, 1982 Whole Number 3346 Mo. L ith o in U S A.