1. Certainly, Jesus’ parable provides a dire warning for where, not wealth, per se, but obsession with it, will lead.
  2. The reign of God in Christ compels us to pray for all in authority, while at the same time our praying for them calls into the question all the idolatries that arise from the exercise of this authority.
  3. This is why Paul is still an “example” for us. If this is what God in Christ can do with “a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence," imagine what God in Christ can do with you and me.
  4. Love bids us to choose life, always life, because the love of Jesus has already set us free for a life beyond our wildest imagination.
  5. Love for the brethren should be the hallmark of the Christian Church. It is basic to our witness to an unbelieving world .

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