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The Annunciator The Annunciator Newsletter of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Anglican Patrimony within the Catholic Communion Canadian Deanery of St John the Baptist Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter 289 Spencer Street Ottawa ON K1Y 2R1 613-722-9139 www.annunciationofthebvm.org Vol. 22 No. 08– JULY 2020 ********************************************************************** A SPARROW IN THE HAND st TRINITY 2, June 21 , 2020, Jeremiah 20:10-13; Romans 5:12-15; Matthew 10:26-33 “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” Who has that power to destroy both body & soul? Some assume it’s the devil and that Jesus is warning us to be wary of that spiritual foe rather than just human enemies; but no, the devil does not have that authority; God alone does. We tend to imagine that hell is Satan’s eternal domain, where he presides over the damned, tormenting them for evermore; but Revelation 20 describes the devil, death and Hades being thrown into the lake of fire! The devil has an end, for he is just a created being; God alone is Creator. It is one of Satan’s perpetual tricks to convince us that he has more clout than he does—and he is a formidable foe for us, whom we underestimate to our peril—but he is a creature like us, not a rival god; and he has NO power over the LORD. And let the prince of ill look grim as e'er he will, he harms us not a whit; for why? his doom is writ; a word shall quickly slay him. Hymn #405 T. Carlyle’s translation of Luther’s Eine Feste Burg). He has no power over God, and I would argue that likewise the devil has no rights in our lives as Christians. There is no question that we open doors to him through our sins, allowing him to get a finger or foothold there—and he will claim accordingly that he has does have the right to take up residence— but let me be absolutely clear: he has NO right WHATEVER in a Christian’s life—and frankly, I don’t believe he has a right in anyone’s life, for we were all made in God’s image and for life in the Lord. Yes, but, some will say, do not we who are in Christ often give him permission by choosing to open doors through deliberate sins? Yes, we do open doors; but think about this: if I were to open the door to my house, or leave it unlocked, and an intruder were to wander in, claiming that he has a right to be there, I might legitimately say, “No! It is my house. You are not free just to walk in.” Still he might reply, “The door was open/unlocked, so I have a right to be here.” No, he does not; it is still my house, and I have full legal right to send him packing! However, more than just standing on the rights of personal property, when dealing with our lives as Christians, we ought to recall St. Paul’s words at I Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. It is not simply YOUR house, but the Lord’s; YOU belong to Him, and He alone can grant the devil the right to be there—and He will not do so! The Spirit is not just a Guest in your house; it is His TEMPLE! That is why, when you fall into sin, you need to repent and return to the Lord, clearly and deliberately closing doors, renouncing whatever you did to open them. Further, it ought to be done aloud, this renunciation and declaration of the closing, because while the devil can throw thoughts into your head, he cannot read your mind—although he will try to convince you otherwise—and he has no power over the soul. Pray aloud in Jesus’ Name for the disarming of Satan and his servants, and claim the victory in Christ. Consciously re-consecrate the Temple to GOD the Holy Spirit. Satan endeavours to rule by fear, as do the powers of this world; but their authority is only temporal, i.e. in this world alone; so we are not to fear them. Whom then are we to fear? GOD alone has the power over body and soul. …continued on page 2… Both the Psalms (e.g. 111:10) and Proverbs (e.g. 9:10) somehow even that little life is in His hand; nothing’s tell us that the Fear of the LORD is the beginning of lost, neither crumb nor fragment (cf. John 6:12); and wisdom; yet we know that this is not the fear then Jesus says, “You are of more value than many occasioned by sin, which drives us away from God, to sparrows.” hide from Him—like Adam and Eve in the Garden— I am drawn back to an image presented in Isaiah 49, or to hate and cower before Him as the demons do. at a time when Israel was feeling very much lost and No, rather than that which covers and hides, this fear even abandoned by their LORD. He responds provides revelation: a glimpse; an awareness of at through His prophet, “Can a woman forget her sucking least something of the LORD’s holiness and the child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her immensity and seriousness of eternity, on the one womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. hand, and of our own inadequacy on the other—our Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands; your un-holiness if you will. Rather than pushing us away walls are continually before me. Isaiah 49:15-16. from God, though, this holy fear drives us to Him in worship—even if it completely undoes us, as was That is, not simply that He holds them there, but has Isaiah’s experience (see Isaiah 6:1-8). This fear is not carved them there—i.e. they have become part of Him, to be of GOD, but of being separated from Him; for He never to be lost. In like fashion, we have become the is Life, that which is eternal, everlasting. Body of Christ; precious to Him; part of Him; ultimately lives over which no other earthly or So in Eden, the turning from Him was to embrace heavenly power has dominion. Hear again those death—mortality— and come under the power of this magnificent words from Romans 8:38-39 I AM persuaded, world; and as Israel was to discover, nothing can that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor abide eternally in God’s presence without becoming powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor even as He is: holy. That requires a death to life depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us apart, and being raised up into new life in the LORD. from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I have spoken often of the importance of the Old None snatch us away; we alone can turn; so it is good Testament sacrificial system and its detailed to embrace the holy fear of falling away from Life, prescriptions in impressing on God’s ancient people, that we might continually give ourselves to Him. To but also upon us the immensity of God’s holiness, and follow and to be found in Christ is the way of the how great a gulf must be spanned to approach Him. Cross, and of the Consuming Fire of the Divine Only as we glimpse this, can we begin to comprehend Love—the Fire which would consume all that is not of all that has been gathered up in the costly sacrifice of Him and fit for eternal life, in order to make us pure Christ; (cf. Hebrews, especially chapter 9). and holy as He is. It is the Refiner’s Fire, which is a terror only to those who would so identify with their To become holy as the LORD is, can be accomplished sins, that they imagine such refinement to be fully only by letting go of our lives to Him—dying destruction of their souls, rather than their sins. For with Christ, that we may be raised with Him to share those who would turn towards Him and away from His eternal life. their sins, He will be known as Saviour, who came to Notice that the primary power which the world and give Life in full abundance. the devil hold over us is in the fear of suffering, dying Yes, there is a holy fear which is the beginning of and death. Yet, while not wishing to trivialize that wisdom, still as I have spoken of before, following fear, or belittle anyone’s suffering, I would urge all of George MacDonald, this beginning is not its End; us to lay hold of Colossians 3:3 You have died, and your life rather that is for even holy fear to be swallowed up in is hidden with Christ in God. We have already died with perfect Love (cf. I John 4:18), in which we come to see Christ to the powers of the world and the devil.
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