{"id":29966,"date":"2020-07-29T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T02:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=29966"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T05:23:30","slug":"transformation-for-a-troubled-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/transformation-for-a-troubled-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Transformation for a Troubled World\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"\u2018Transformation for a Troubled World\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-07-29T12:14:03+10:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT15M48S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In these dramatically changed times the Word on Wednesday provides a mid-week ministry of Bible reading, reflection and prayer, turning hearts back to God.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Logo-1.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"14.5\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Ftransformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Ftransformation-for-a-troubled-world%2F&amp;artwork_url=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2FLogo-1.jpg#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=29966-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 15:48 &#8212; 14.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Read&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.21&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Back in August 2011, The <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> carried an article, <b>\u2018Reversing the Decay of London Undone\u2019<\/b> by Dr. Jonathan Sacks, then chief rabbi in Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dr. Sacks stated, \u2018In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. All you need, sang the Beatles, is love. The Judeo-Christian moral code was jettisoned. In its place came: whatever works for you\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He further observed, \u2018The collapse of families and communities leaves in its wake unsocialized young people, deprived of parental care, who on average\u2014and yes, there are exceptions\u2014do worse than their peers at school, are more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse, less likely to find stable employment and more likely to land up in jail\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2018Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives,\u2019 he went on. \u2018Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Gospel Centered Re-fresh<\/b>. Let me suggest that more than ever we need a re-fresh moment of God\u2019s good news. True and lasting changes in society occur when individual lives are transformed from the inside out through God\u2019s mercy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Consider Paul\u2019s words in Colossians 2:13-15: <i>And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, having cancelled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul is writing of the condition of the Jewish and the non-Jewish peoples. The Jewish people could not keep God\u2019s written law, and the world that doesn\u2019t know God fails to keep even the law of their own conscience. All men and women are morally bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This biblical teaching is central to a Reformational understanding of humanity. Dr Ashley Null, a leading authority on Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Henry VIII, summarizes Cranmer\u2019s anthropology this way: \u2018What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.\u2019 Cranmer understood that \u2018the trouble with human nature is that we are born with a heart that loves ourselves over and above everything else in this world, including God. We are born slaves to the lust for self-gratification,&#8230;.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Captives<\/b>. Furthermore, we are captive to spiritual forces we cannot defeat. Satan, holding himself out as a chief prosecutor, presents the catalogue of our failures to God. Being the demanding prosecutor he is, Satan insists that the penalty must be paid \u2013 something that God, in his justice, cannot refuse. And because sin is a capital offence we are all <i>en route<\/i> to a death we cannot avoid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">C.S. Lewis brilliantly captures these elements in the <i>Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe<\/i>. Edmund has betrayed Peter, Susan and Lucy, and Aslan himself. The Witch demands Edmunds\u2019 life. \u201cHe has broken the laws of the deep,\u201d she insists. \u201cHe is mine,\u201d she shrieks.&nbsp; \u201cHis life is forfeit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>God\u2019s Intervention<\/b>. In the busyness of life it is easy to forget the significance of Jesus\u2019 crucifixion. Let\u2019s pause and consider Paul\u2019s words. He tells us that through Jesus\u2019 death God has smashed the bars of our spiritual prison of self-interest and <i>has cancelled the debt<\/i> we owe. The charge sheet against us has been wiped clean. And in the same way that the indictments against Jesus were nailed to his cross, he has taken the indictments against us and nailed them to his cross as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furthermore, Paul tells us that Jesus through his death has disarmed the demonic powers that we couldn\u2019t overcome. Had those powers known the mighty power Jesus wielded through his voluntary sacrifice, they would have dismissed any thought of putting the Lord of glory to death (1 Corinthians 2:8). St. Augustine spoke of Jesus\u2019 crucifixion as the devil\u2019s mousetrap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And so it is, supremely, that Jesus Christ once and for all abolished death for us. As John 11 records, Jesus says to all men and women, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life, those who believe in me, though they die, shall live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die\u201d (John 11:25f). No longer should we fear death\u2019s inexorable approach: <b><i>God made you alive with Christ<\/i><\/b>, Paul says in Colossians 2:13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cross is where Jesus turned our captivity into the glorious liberty of the children of God.&nbsp;The hymn-writers, Keith Getty and Stuart Townend wrote: <i>This the power of the cross: Christ became sin for us. Took the blame, bore the wrath; we stand forgiven at the cross.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Transformation<\/b>. Jesus\u2019 death provides a fresh start in life for everyone who turns to him in repentance and faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">FF Bruce in his commentary on Colossians (p.112) writes: \u2018The message proclaimed by Paul to the Colossians remains the one message of hope to men and women in their frustration and despair. Christ crucified and risen is Lord of all.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>A prayer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/b> Almighty God, our heavenly Father, like lost sheep we have gone our own way,&nbsp;not loving you as we ought, nor loving our neighbors as ourselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;&nbsp; We have done what we ought not to have done,&nbsp;and we have not done what we ought to have done.&nbsp;We justly deserve your condemnation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Father, for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, forgive us all that is past, and grant that from this time forward, we may serve and please you in newness of life, to the honor and glory of your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord.&nbsp; Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>The good news is<\/b>, God has promised in his Word that when we confess our sins, he forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"\u2018Transformation for a Troubled World\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-07-29T12:14:03+10:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT15M48S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In these dramatically changed times the Word on Wednesday provides a mid-week ministry of Bible reading, reflection and prayer, turning hearts back to God.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Logo-1.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"14.5\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Ftransformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Ftransformation-for-a-troubled-world%2F&amp;artwork_url=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F05%2FLogo-1.jpg#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-3\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=29966-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"transformation-in-a-troubled-world_v2.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 15:48 &#8212; 14.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>Back in August 2011, The Wall Street Journal carried an article, \u2018Reversing the Decay of London Undone\u2019 by Dr. Jonathan Sacks, then chief rabbi in Britain. 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