Gnashing

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How often do you ever encounter the word “gnashing” in ordinary conversation?  Hardly ever.  It’s a word we associate almost exclusively with the parables of Jesus. About a third of Jesus’s parables are about judgment: reward given to the faithful and condemnation of the unfaithful.  The reward is glorious.  The condemnation is horrific. We don’t always absorb the shocking nature of the language used by Jesus to depict what will happen—what Jesus himself will do—to the unfaithful.  In various parables, the king / judge / ruler orders them to be executed in his presence (Luke 19:27), to be cut in pieces (Matthew 24:50-51), to be disowned (Luke 13:25-28), to be bound hand and foot and thrown into outer darkness (Matthew 22:13), to be thrown into a fiery furnace (Matthew 13:41-42).  And others. There is no mild language used by Jesus when he talks about the judgment.  He intends us to be energized by the glory of the reward of eternal life.  And he intends us to be shocked by the alternative—he takes us by the shoulders and shakes us till our teeth rattle, looking directly into our eyes, so that we know he is serious. ----- Read more at https://tidings.org/

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