{"id":22369,"date":"2016-10-10T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/we-need-a-divine-reset\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:12:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T12:12:53","slug":"we-need-a-divine-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/we-need-a-divine-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need a Divine Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/YomKippur-crop-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This week,\u00a0October 12th, is the Jew&#8217;s Day of Atonement or &#8220;Yom Kippur.&#8221; \u00a0This celebration is significant to Christians because Jesus became our atonement, fulfilling the human need for purgation from sin.<\/p>\n<p>1 John 2:2 says, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>He [Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Bless the Lord for becoming our atonement in Christ!<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Day of Atonement in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) was a robustly significant celebration. Atoning for the people&#8217;s sins was only part of it&#8217;s significance. Historically, the Jews have seen Yom Kippur as a time for a sort of\u00a0<strong><em>reset<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong><em>reset <\/em><\/strong>their\u00a0<em>attention<\/em>\u00a0on God&#8217;s will, recognizing how far they had swayed from God over a single year&#8217;s time.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong><em>reset <\/em><\/strong>their\u00a0<em>submission<\/em>\u00a0to God&#8217;s kingship, acknowledging their need for obedience to their supreme deliverer.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong><em>reset <\/em><\/strong>their\u00a0<em>commitment<\/em>\u00a0to obedience to God. It is so easy to become haughty and self-centered, falling into a life of disobedience to God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I want to invite you to reflect with me on the Celebration of Yom Kippur (Atonement) in the Hebrew Bible in light of the current state of affairs in the United States and around the world. Our world is hurting.<\/p>\n<p>We need a\u00a0<strong><em>reset<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>God presents to us a way forward in\u00a0<strong><em>resetting<\/em><\/strong>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.&#8221; 2 Chronicles\u00a07:14<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Lord, may this nation and our world experience a\u00a0<em>reset<\/em>\u00a0in Jesus&#8217; name. We cannot depend on human efforts and big promises. We need You, Lord, Amen!<\/p>\n<p>Grace and peace,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Antipas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week,\u00a0October 12th, is the Jew&#8217;s Day of Atonement or &#8220;Yom Kippur.&#8221; \u00a0This celebration is significant to Christians because Jesus became our atonement, fulfilling the human need for purgation from sin. 1 John 2:2 says, &#8220;He [Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":22370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4367,11],"tags":[3450,4421],"ppma_author":[4448],"class_list":["post-22369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2016","category-living-the-faith","tag-divine","tag-reset","author-antipaslharris"],"authors":[{"term_id":4448,"user_id":2861,"is_guest":0,"slug":"antipaslharris","display_name":"Antipas Harris","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AntipasLHarris-URC-274x274-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AntipasLHarris-URC-274x274-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}