All for your consideration.
If partiality means “to receive the face,” Jesus was “as one from whom men hide their faces; he was despised and we esteemed him not” (Isa 53:3). He bore the shame of poverty to show us the shame of our sin, and at the cross, he bore that guilt and shame in our place.
The beauty of the gospel recognizes that if we are united to Christ, we have already been delivered from all oppression—both the oppression we inflict and the oppression we suffer.
Is hell the same for everyone? A student of mine essentially asked this question after a Bible study a number of weeks ago. Here’s his exact question, and my response: “Hey Patrick, there’s been a question on my mind for a while. It’s when you rescinded a statement that you made earlier when you said
