Very right Helen. We toy with imaginations of how to bring justice to the
situation, but it is not our job, and yes wouldn't that be difficult for us
to accept it if Sadaam Hussein were to accept Christ and follow God as we
know god? What would we feel? Would we be like Jonah and not want to be the
one to preach to him, would we not want him saved, and after he was saved
would we be mad he was, would we be upset? In our recent series of Jonah,
it was pointed out that the people of Nineveh, particularly the Assyrian
people, were the most wicked people in all history making Hitler look like
a amateur, Sadaam Hussein with his live people grinder must have to be
close, but the point is, they were wicked and perhaps if we had a country
of Sadaam Husseins doing atrocities and God said go preach, go lead them to
repentance, no wonder he ran lol. No wonder after he tried living up to
godly expectations, these people who performed the atrocities would be part
of God's people just as him? Would we be upset? Hard to think of all that
and not understand perhaps a little more of Jonah.
Brad
At 12/17/2003 on Wednesday, you wrote:
>Aren't we thankful that we won't be judging Saddam Hussein? We are told to
>pray for our enemies, though, and if I listen to, or think about all the
>horrible things the man has committed in his life, I couldn't pray for
>him. But here is where we need to remember that Christ died for him as
>well as for us, and to remember that he is a human being in more need of a
>Saviour than we can begin to imagine. So my prayer for him is that the
>Spirit of God will bring him to repentance and to reconciliation with His
>Creator Saviour God.
>
>Peace!
>Helen
>
>At 05:55 PM 12/17/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >Do you know what God would have had David do with him? hehehehehehe.
> >Perhaps wipe out his entire family and his animals and burn the place
> down lol
> >
> >But, you are probably right, not too Christian of us to sit and talk how
> >we'd like to see him hang, no wait firing squad, no wait, Chinese Water
> >Torture, no wait, burn at the stake, no wait.... lol
> >
> >Brad
> >
> >
> >At 12/17/2003 on Wednesday, Matt wrote:
> > >I wonder if we are inviting evil into our heads by discussing this person?
> > >It kind of brings out the lusts of the flesh in us.
> > >Still, it's posative to enjoy a victory of good over evil. Perhaps we
> > >should praise the good who caught him and leave the judging of the evil to
> > >those who take on that responsibility.
> > >Hah! I know, bummer Matt!
> > >Sorry, I haven't had coffee yet.
> > >I just wondered about that.
> > >I am glad he is off the streets, or out of the hole as it were and I can't
> > >help but think what they are putting him through with a bit of a grin
> on my
> > >face but but but.
> > >Ok, I'll go have coffee now.
> > >
> > >Matt
>
>Far too often a friend is but a doctrinal alliance, and once your position
>changes, the friendship is no more.
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