1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
Paul addresses a people who lived in a very licentious city. The people of Corinth worshipped many Greek gods, and the temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was a primary structure in this city. This was a place where many prostitutes both male and female worked their trade. Because of the prevalence of sexual immorality within the community of Corinth, Paul accentuated the wrongness of this wanton sinfulness to the Christians and its negative effects upon the church of God. He wanted them to separate themselves from people who still practiced this kind of lifestyle, yet claimed they were followers of Jesus Christ. He wanted the church to know, of course, they could not leave this world completely, for they had live peacefully in the community, and they had to make a living. He realized they had to associate with the world, so they could carry on with their daily lives, but he did not want them to connect themselves with people who brazenly lived the lifestyle of the sinners around them: you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. He knew this nascent church must represent a different lifestyle, a different purpose for living, than the community around it. He wanted them to do exactly what he told the church at Ephesus: So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. (Ephesians 4:17-19) If they did not reject this wayward living, they would be assimilated into the sinful environment in which the Corinthians Christians found themselves embedded. Their testimony of the Light of Christ and his righteousness would disappear within the darkness of the Corinth world if they continued to compromise with sin.
A manifested and openly glorified lifestyle of profound licentiousness or self-gratification cannot be allowed within the community of believers. We know that Christ came for the sinners of this world, to redeem them to a righteous God. The Bible tells us all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:23-24) We cannot approach God with our own righteousness; therefore, we need a savior, an advocate, before the Father God. But, we cannot claim to be brothers and sisters IN CHRIST if we brazenly involve ourselves in debauchery, lying, deceitfulness, drunkenness, thievery, brutality, and the like. If we participate in these sinful activities or if our minds are filled with thoughts of the spirit that rules the flesh and the world, we must question whether we are truly saved, truly committed to Christ and his life. Paul knew an immoral, unregenerate life would eventually lead to destruction, death away from God forever. Therefore, he wanted the church to separate themselves from sin and to put out from their community anyone who was practicing openly the old Corinthian lifestyle of wickedness. He wanted the act of ostracizing people from the community of believers to bring them back to repentance, so that their souls might be saved from eternal perdition. In his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul asked them, For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? He goes on to say, As God has said, “Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:14 & 17-18)
We know Jesus associated himself with sinners and seemed more comfortable with them than with the outwardly righteous religious leaders. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:15-17) The Bible says Jesus came into the world to save people from their sins, not to condemn them. He wanted lives to be changed, changed from the natural pattern of sin to lives acceptable to God, relying upon the works of Jesus Christ and his righteousness. Jesus was and is the Light of God, shining in the darkness. He brought this light into every environment He entered. We read in the New Testament that Jesus fulfilled prophecy when He walked this earth as the light of God to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, along the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles — the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” (Matthew 4:14-16) Jesus brought healing, forgiveness, grace, and mercy. The people knew that no man since the beginning of time did the marvelous works HE did. They had to say, "This man is different from us; He performs acts beyond what any of us can do." Many listened to his message, for He must be of God. Paul, in his warning to the Corinthians, reminds them that this man, Jesus, is different, and He requires a different way of living from his followers, a separation from the world's mindset. We live in the world to survive, but we are not of the world. We were purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ, so we remind ourselves to carry ourselves every day in such a way that people will recognize us as children of God, joint heirs with Christ Jesus.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
1 Corinthians 5:6-8 God Desires Sincerity and Truth
1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast — as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
In the above verses, Paul beseeches the Corinthian church to rid themselves of the sinful lifestyle of the unredeemed. He identifies an example of this sin in their midst: incest. He warns them that the open sin, old yeast, that is tolerated in their community, will eventually corrupt them as a body of believers. In addition, this sin will despoil their witness of holiness and goodness within the city of Corinth. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. This yeast of sin does not reflect God, but consists of malice and wickedness. Open sin that parades itself as light will eventually blot out the true message of Christ as the light of the world. Even Jesus said, No servant can serve two masters. (Luke 16:13) A Christian cannot serve God and the devil and remain true to the Lord. Therefore, Paul tells the Corinthians, Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast. He tells them not to go back to the lifestyle of slavery to sin; instead, they should know who they are, free IN CHRIST to serve the living God who has given them the blessed promise of eternal life. He says, as your forefathers were freed from slavery by the Passover lamb, so are you free in THE PASSOVER LAMB: Jesus Christ. Paul wants them to understand the significance of what has happened to them; they are no longer slaves to the passion of this world, but they have been set free to live lives of holiness, lives for God's glory. If they go back into the world of their past experiences, they will once again enter into Egypt, under the control of the Pharaoh, who epitomizes Satan. As Paul told the church in Galatia: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) He did not want them to be in a place of weakness where they would once again live lives of darkness, doing the will of Satan and not the will of the Spirit.
As we look at Paul's admonitions to the Corinthian church about open sin in their community of believers, we must also look at our lifestyles today within our communities of believers. Do we display more of the world than of God? Are our hearts captivated by the secular world and its view about life, what is real and what is not real? We must be aware of the yeast of sin within our own lives. Sin is as a prevailing wind; it will bend you to its will a little at a time until you no longer look as you once did. If you have ever looked at the trees on a cliff overlooking the ocean, you will notice how bent they are. The prevailing wind has made its mark on them. The constant pounding of the wind has distorted the trees, even greater than their DNA or the pull of natural forces such as gravity. They live their lives at the will of the wind. Are we living our lives at the will of sin? Are we so embedded in this environment, that we feel right at home with it, not realizing the wind, the yeast, has contaminated us to such a point that we have bent to its will? Paul is concerned that the conditioning to the will of sin will bend the Corinthians away from God and toward slavery to sin. If we are not eating of the bread of sincerity and truth, we can easily become captive to the world's interests, not to God's interests and his plans for our lives. We are no longer slaves to this world but love slaves to the Lord: But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23) Paul is contending for the faith of the Corinthians, making sure they do not reject this great and precious gift in their foolish and wayward actions that pull them toward sin and darkness.
What does God desire for his sons and daughters? How should we live our lives? As the redeemed of God, we should not be living the lifestyle of slaves to Pharaoh, attending to his interests. As members of the body of Christ, we should not behave as slaves to Pharaoh, seeking out the pleasures of his kingdom. Do we not understand when we live as if we have not been delivered from the hands of Pharaoh, as if we are not free IN CHRIST, we are living the life of slaves to sin? As Christians we should know we have crossed over the Red Sea and the Jordan River to live IN CHRIST, who is literally the Promised Land. We are living resurrection life RIGHT NOW, for He was raised from the dead, and we are alive IN HIM. WE SHOULD LIVE HIS LIFE OF LOVE, HIS LIFE OF SERVANTHOOD. This is God's desire: to show his face to a lost and hurting world THROUGH US. If we do not really believe we are newly created IN CHRIST for God's purposes and look forward to eternal life with him, we might as well live as the heathens do, for life is short and we should make the most of it. If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Paul goes on to say, Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God — I say this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:32-34) Paul asks the Corinthians to live a life of holiness, a life that reflects Promised Land dwellers. We must all rid ourselves of the old lifestyle of Egypt, of malice and wickedness, as we learn the new way: peace and love in Jesus our Lord. The Passover Lamb has freed us from slavery to sin. Paul wrote this beautiful prayer that fits so well with our study today, and we pray it with you, dear brothers and sisters: May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. (1 Thessalonians 3:12-13)
In the above verses, Paul beseeches the Corinthian church to rid themselves of the sinful lifestyle of the unredeemed. He identifies an example of this sin in their midst: incest. He warns them that the open sin, old yeast, that is tolerated in their community, will eventually corrupt them as a body of believers. In addition, this sin will despoil their witness of holiness and goodness within the city of Corinth. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. This yeast of sin does not reflect God, but consists of malice and wickedness. Open sin that parades itself as light will eventually blot out the true message of Christ as the light of the world. Even Jesus said, No servant can serve two masters. (Luke 16:13) A Christian cannot serve God and the devil and remain true to the Lord. Therefore, Paul tells the Corinthians, Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast. He tells them not to go back to the lifestyle of slavery to sin; instead, they should know who they are, free IN CHRIST to serve the living God who has given them the blessed promise of eternal life. He says, as your forefathers were freed from slavery by the Passover lamb, so are you free in THE PASSOVER LAMB: Jesus Christ. Paul wants them to understand the significance of what has happened to them; they are no longer slaves to the passion of this world, but they have been set free to live lives of holiness, lives for God's glory. If they go back into the world of their past experiences, they will once again enter into Egypt, under the control of the Pharaoh, who epitomizes Satan. As Paul told the church in Galatia: It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) He did not want them to be in a place of weakness where they would once again live lives of darkness, doing the will of Satan and not the will of the Spirit.
As we look at Paul's admonitions to the Corinthian church about open sin in their community of believers, we must also look at our lifestyles today within our communities of believers. Do we display more of the world than of God? Are our hearts captivated by the secular world and its view about life, what is real and what is not real? We must be aware of the yeast of sin within our own lives. Sin is as a prevailing wind; it will bend you to its will a little at a time until you no longer look as you once did. If you have ever looked at the trees on a cliff overlooking the ocean, you will notice how bent they are. The prevailing wind has made its mark on them. The constant pounding of the wind has distorted the trees, even greater than their DNA or the pull of natural forces such as gravity. They live their lives at the will of the wind. Are we living our lives at the will of sin? Are we so embedded in this environment, that we feel right at home with it, not realizing the wind, the yeast, has contaminated us to such a point that we have bent to its will? Paul is concerned that the conditioning to the will of sin will bend the Corinthians away from God and toward slavery to sin. If we are not eating of the bread of sincerity and truth, we can easily become captive to the world's interests, not to God's interests and his plans for our lives. We are no longer slaves to this world but love slaves to the Lord: But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:22-23) Paul is contending for the faith of the Corinthians, making sure they do not reject this great and precious gift in their foolish and wayward actions that pull them toward sin and darkness.
What does God desire for his sons and daughters? How should we live our lives? As the redeemed of God, we should not be living the lifestyle of slaves to Pharaoh, attending to his interests. As members of the body of Christ, we should not behave as slaves to Pharaoh, seeking out the pleasures of his kingdom. Do we not understand when we live as if we have not been delivered from the hands of Pharaoh, as if we are not free IN CHRIST, we are living the life of slaves to sin? As Christians we should know we have crossed over the Red Sea and the Jordan River to live IN CHRIST, who is literally the Promised Land. We are living resurrection life RIGHT NOW, for He was raised from the dead, and we are alive IN HIM. WE SHOULD LIVE HIS LIFE OF LOVE, HIS LIFE OF SERVANTHOOD. This is God's desire: to show his face to a lost and hurting world THROUGH US. If we do not really believe we are newly created IN CHRIST for God's purposes and look forward to eternal life with him, we might as well live as the heathens do, for life is short and we should make the most of it. If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Paul goes on to say, Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God — I say this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:32-34) Paul asks the Corinthians to live a life of holiness, a life that reflects Promised Land dwellers. We must all rid ourselves of the old lifestyle of Egypt, of malice and wickedness, as we learn the new way: peace and love in Jesus our Lord. The Passover Lamb has freed us from slavery to sin. Paul wrote this beautiful prayer that fits so well with our study today, and we pray it with you, dear brothers and sisters: May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. (1 Thessalonians 3:12-13)
Monday, June 6, 2016
1 Corinthians 5:1-5 We Are God's Temple!
1 Corinthians 5:1-5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this? Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.
Sin that openly invades the sanctuary of the church has the potential to destroy that body of believers, which is the body of Christ. Paul can say I am with you in spirit because the Spirit of God is one of unity, not of disunity. Sin is a cancer, and as with the physical body, cancer comes to destroy not build up. Cancer cells spread and permeate healthy cells, despoiling them, preventing the normal functioning of the cells. Sin in the church destroys the normal functioning of the church, which is to reveal a loving and holy God to the world. Paul knew this particular sin in the Corinthian's church was lethal to the health and well-being of the body of Christ in Corinth. He also knew, A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. (Galatians 5:9) Sin is lethal to a body of believers. Rather than being proud and tolerant of this darkness, the Corinthian church should have condemned it by removing this man from their fellowship who was openly practicing an evil lifestyle. Why is Paul so black and white with his judgment of the situation? Why not encourage the church to work with this man, to counsel him, to help him to extricate himself from such a relationship of darkness? Paul is intolerant because this man's sin is a frontal attack on the body of Christ. His lifestyle is a conscious choice: an affront to holiness, to righteousness, to eternal life, to a holy God, to the cross. Such a lifestyle and incorrect ideas about God's grace and mercy brings death to the spiritual man, not life. Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17) This life of open sin, without repentance, was bringing death not only to the temple of the man who practiced it, but also to the temple of the body of Christ. If the man had problems with lust or was tempted to sin, he could have come to the church for prayer, encouragement, and support; but he acted out his sin openly before God and man. This left Paul no choice but to pass judgment on his sin.
As believers, we know Christ paid the price so that we might be holy before God and within our communities. Our attitude and lifestyle should not be just like the world. But who should judge whether we are living a good life or a sinful life? Who should determine whether we are faithful Christians of light or Christians who portray a lot of darkness in their lives? Who is the judge? Should not God alone be the judge? Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. (1 Corinthians 4:5) Yes, God will judge each of us; He will judge not only our actions, but the intents of our hearts. The writer of Hebrews says, For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:12-13) God alone knows our secret lives; He alone knows how holy our thoughts are. He will judge rightly. We often judge wrongly, from the outward appearance not what is within a person: The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) Is Paul wrong then by saying this man should be removed from the church? Should he not have said this troubled man should be counseled to do better, to forsake this sinful life, and to live a better, more upstanding life within the community, for Christ's sake? Why should this man be handed over to Satan rather than helped? Only the Lord knows the heart, but Paul knew the church had to deal with this flaunting lifestyle and open rebellion to the Word of God. Such rebellion against God could lead astray those in the body who are not established in the Word. Flagrant, open sin has to be dealt with by the leaders of the church. The rest of us must love and pray for all of our brothers and sisters, even the wayward.
Even though Paul's attitude seems to be very judgmental towards this man, we see that his concern is based on his love for this man, not on anger against him. He asks the church to remove the man from their fellowship so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. This should also be our cry when we see a brother or sister wantonly slip back into a sinful lifestyle. God wants his children to be faithful and true to their calling in Christ. He wants them to commit every part of their lives to him in righteousness. We all know God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:16-17) Yet we will eventually face judgment if we are not committed to him in love, revealing his light in the darkness. We are not bastards, we are of his lineage. Therefore, our lifestyles should reflect him as we face the different situations of our lives. Today is the day to seek the Lord. Today is the day to be faithful to God, to change wayward lifestyles. Do not let sin destroy your spiritual person. Let God bless you with his everlasting love. He wants to cover you with his mercy and grace. God said, "Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of my love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you." (Hosea 10:12)
Sin that openly invades the sanctuary of the church has the potential to destroy that body of believers, which is the body of Christ. Paul can say I am with you in spirit because the Spirit of God is one of unity, not of disunity. Sin is a cancer, and as with the physical body, cancer comes to destroy not build up. Cancer cells spread and permeate healthy cells, despoiling them, preventing the normal functioning of the cells. Sin in the church destroys the normal functioning of the church, which is to reveal a loving and holy God to the world. Paul knew this particular sin in the Corinthian's church was lethal to the health and well-being of the body of Christ in Corinth. He also knew, A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough. (Galatians 5:9) Sin is lethal to a body of believers. Rather than being proud and tolerant of this darkness, the Corinthian church should have condemned it by removing this man from their fellowship who was openly practicing an evil lifestyle. Why is Paul so black and white with his judgment of the situation? Why not encourage the church to work with this man, to counsel him, to help him to extricate himself from such a relationship of darkness? Paul is intolerant because this man's sin is a frontal attack on the body of Christ. His lifestyle is a conscious choice: an affront to holiness, to righteousness, to eternal life, to a holy God, to the cross. Such a lifestyle and incorrect ideas about God's grace and mercy brings death to the spiritual man, not life. Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17) This life of open sin, without repentance, was bringing death not only to the temple of the man who practiced it, but also to the temple of the body of Christ. If the man had problems with lust or was tempted to sin, he could have come to the church for prayer, encouragement, and support; but he acted out his sin openly before God and man. This left Paul no choice but to pass judgment on his sin.
As believers, we know Christ paid the price so that we might be holy before God and within our communities. Our attitude and lifestyle should not be just like the world. But who should judge whether we are living a good life or a sinful life? Who should determine whether we are faithful Christians of light or Christians who portray a lot of darkness in their lives? Who is the judge? Should not God alone be the judge? Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God. (1 Corinthians 4:5) Yes, God will judge each of us; He will judge not only our actions, but the intents of our hearts. The writer of Hebrews says, For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. (Hebrews 4:12-13) God alone knows our secret lives; He alone knows how holy our thoughts are. He will judge rightly. We often judge wrongly, from the outward appearance not what is within a person: The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) Is Paul wrong then by saying this man should be removed from the church? Should he not have said this troubled man should be counseled to do better, to forsake this sinful life, and to live a better, more upstanding life within the community, for Christ's sake? Why should this man be handed over to Satan rather than helped? Only the Lord knows the heart, but Paul knew the church had to deal with this flaunting lifestyle and open rebellion to the Word of God. Such rebellion against God could lead astray those in the body who are not established in the Word. Flagrant, open sin has to be dealt with by the leaders of the church. The rest of us must love and pray for all of our brothers and sisters, even the wayward.
Even though Paul's attitude seems to be very judgmental towards this man, we see that his concern is based on his love for this man, not on anger against him. He asks the church to remove the man from their fellowship so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. This should also be our cry when we see a brother or sister wantonly slip back into a sinful lifestyle. God wants his children to be faithful and true to their calling in Christ. He wants them to commit every part of their lives to him in righteousness. We all know God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:16-17) Yet we will eventually face judgment if we are not committed to him in love, revealing his light in the darkness. We are not bastards, we are of his lineage. Therefore, our lifestyles should reflect him as we face the different situations of our lives. Today is the day to seek the Lord. Today is the day to be faithful to God, to change wayward lifestyles. Do not let sin destroy your spiritual person. Let God bless you with his everlasting love. He wants to cover you with his mercy and grace. God said, "Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of my love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you." (Hosea 10:12)
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