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In Jesus, and supremely in his death and resurrection, Israel’s God had done what he had long promised. He had returned to be king. He had visited his people and redeemed them.

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Following Jesus is what being a Christian means; and Jesus is not leading us on a pleasant afternoon hike, but on a walk into danger and risk.

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People often scoff at the wordiness of Christianity . . . but without the words to guide it, faith wanders in the dark and can easily fall over a cliff.

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There is a new world, it’s already been launched in Jesus’ resurrection, and all God’s people will be given new bodies in order to share in it.

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Empires thrive on religious relativism; the more gods the better, since the more there are the less likely they are to challenge the ruling ideology.

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The Bible which Paul had known and loved as a young man was like a story in search of an ending; and when Jesus rose from the dead the ending was now revealed.

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Paul reaffirms the goodness and God-givenness of the created world, of food and drink, of marriage and sexuality, of political structures; the goodness and image-bearing vocation of human beings.

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Central to second-temple monotheism was the belief that Israel’s God, having abandoned Jerusalem and the Temple at the time of the Babylonian exile, would one day return.

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Just as the Exodus was launched by the coming of Israel’s God in person to rescue his people, so the new Exodus has been launched by the long-awaited return of this same God in and as Jesus himself.

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Jesus’ first followers found themselves not only (as it were) permitted to use God-language for Jesus, but compelled to use Jesus-language for the One God.

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In his life, death and resurrection Jesus had accomplished the new Exodus, had done in person what Israel’s God had said he would do in person. He had inaugurated God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven.