<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Mark 2;16-&amp;17<div><br></div><div><b>16. &nbsp;And the scribes and&nbsp;the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”</b></div><div><b>17. &nbsp;And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need for a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”</b></div><div><br></div><div>The only ‘true righteousness’ is God’s own righteousness, it is&nbsp;spiritual Gold (Au, atomic number 79, mass 196.967).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;‘Human righteousness’&nbsp;is spiritual ‘Fools-Gold’. &nbsp;Fools Gold is iron pyrite, (FeS2)&nbsp;which is&nbsp;shiny yellow (like brass), but is&nbsp;a worthless sulfide mineral.</div><div>Because of the iron content, Fools Gold will stick to a magnet, real Gold will not.</div><div><br></div><div>The ancient art/science of Alchemy is an effort to trans mutate&nbsp;lead into gold.&nbsp;To control nature to the point of imparting eternal life,&nbsp;<span>…(S</span><span>ounds like an attempt to be like&nbsp;God, does it not?).</span><span> &nbsp;Alchemy was never able to succeed in changing lead into gold, or restore perpetual&nbsp;youth.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Changing the&nbsp;molecular structure&nbsp;and atomic weight of lead into gold requires a particle accelerator, The amount of gold produced from lead by a particular accelerator&nbsp;is infinitesimal. &nbsp;It is a foolish and&nbsp;costly endeavor, which amounts in millions of dollars in expense and huge amounts&nbsp;of energy being spent&nbsp;to produce fractions of a&nbsp;penny’s worth of gold.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>True Righteousness, the very&nbsp;Goodness of&nbsp;God is impossible for humans to produce.&nbsp; Jesus said, “<i>No one is good but God alone.” </i>(Mark 10;18b)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Only&nbsp;the Righteousness of God is allowed into heaven. &nbsp;Trying to get into heaven by offering your own goodness is hopeless. &nbsp;It is like trying to buy the Hope Diamond with Fools Gold.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>There is a way in which God <u>can</u>&nbsp;transform us, (a Divine Alchemy) &nbsp;whereby we receive and partake of the true righteousness of God, leaving our own worthless self-righteousness behind forever. &nbsp;</span></div><div><span>It is through faith in Jesus Christ that we are transformed, trans-mutated into the very righteousness of God. &nbsp;Paul writes, <i>“But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. &nbsp;For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”</i></span></div><div><span>(Romans 3;21-24)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The scribes and the Pharisees believed their own self-righteousness was the same as God’s. &nbsp;Their faith was in themselves and their own ability to keep God’s Law perfectly. &nbsp;They were the fools.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>&nbsp;The sinners knew they had no righteousness of their own to offer God, so they were delighting to be made&nbsp;equal with God, sitting at table with Jesus, as a gift of God’s grace which Jesus imparted to them when he consented to eat with them. &nbsp;The sinners had no hope in themselves, they hoped in Christ Jesus. &nbsp;They and we received by faith,&nbsp;the true spiritual Gold of God’s own Righteousness, as an undeserved gift.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Prayer: &nbsp; O most merciful Heavenly Father, (who gives faith through the hearing of the gospel of Christ Jesus), we praise you that Your gift of faith&nbsp;transforms us into Your own goodness, righteousness, love, and life. &nbsp;Bless us to forsake ourselves entirely through our baptismal death into Christ, that we ever dwell in the newness of life lived by faith alone <u>in</u>&nbsp;Jesus, His death, Resurrection, and filling of us who were once only&nbsp;worthless sinners. &nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric</div><div>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</div><div>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”<br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Mark 2;16-&17
16.  And the scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”17.  And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need for a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
The only ‘true righteousness’ is God’s own righteousness, it is spiritual Gold (Au, atomic number 79, mass 196.967). 
  ‘Human righteousness’ is spiritual ‘Fools-Gold’.  Fools Gold is iron pyrite, (FeS2) which is shiny yellow (like brass), but is a worthless sulfide mineral.Because of the iron content, Fools Gold will stick to a magnet, real Gold will not.
The ancient art/science of Alchemy is an effort to trans mutate lead into gold. To control nature to the point of imparting eternal life, …(Sounds like an attempt to be like God, does it not?).  Alchemy was never able to succeed in changing lead into gold, or restore perpetual youth.
Changing the molecular structure and atomic weight of lead into gold requires a particle accelerator, The amount of gold produced from lead by a particular accelerator is infinitesimal.  It is a foolish and costly endeavor, which amounts in millions of dollars in expense and huge amounts of energy being spent to produce fractions of a penny’s worth of gold.
True Righteousness, the very Goodness of God is impossible for humans to produce.  Jesus said, “No one is good but God alone.” (Mark 10;18b)
Only the Righteousness of God is allowed into heaven.  Trying to get into heaven by offering your own goodness is hopeless.  It is like trying to buy the Hope Diamond with Fools Gold.
There is a way in which God can transform us, (a Divine Alchemy)  whereby we receive and partake of the true righteousness of God, leaving our own worthless self-righteousness behind forever.  It is through faith in Jesus Christ that we are transformed, trans-mutated into the very righteousness of God.  Paul writes, “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.  For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”(Romans 3;21-24)
The scribes and the Pharisees believed their own self-righteousness was the same as God’s.  Their faith was in themselves and their own ability to keep God’s Law perfectly.  They were the fools. 
 The sinners knew they had no righteousness of their own to offer God, so they were delighting to be made equal with God, sitting at table with Jesus, as a gift of God’s grace which Jesus imparted to them when he consented to eat with them.  The sinners had no hope in themselves, they hoped in Christ Jesus.  They and we received by faith, the true spiritual Gold of God’s own Righteousness, as an undeserved gift.
Prayer:   O most merciful Heavenly Father, (who gives faith through the hearing of the gospel of Christ Jesus), we praise you that Your gift of faith transforms us into Your own goodness, righteousness, love, and life.  Bless us to forsake ourselves entirely through our baptismal death into Christ, that we ever dwell in the newness of life lived by faith alone in Jesus, His death, Resurrection, and filling of us who were once only worthless sinners.  In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”

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