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Name Your Price
Exodus 30:14-15
“Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives.”Think of the fact that the price of atonement here is too cheap for some and too rich for others.
The rich man thinks, “Come on—half a shekel? That’s it?! That’s all my life’s worth?! That’s far too cheap for my noble blood! No, I can do a lot better than that!” So he brings a hundred shekels to Aaron, maybe even a thousand just to prove the point, because the idea of his wealth meaning nothing is a thought he can’t stomach.
But the poor man thinks, “Come on—half a shekel? That’s way too much! I can’t pay that! I’d have to sacrifice dinner or a night out with friends or a weekend membership—no, can’t do it! I’ll bring a nickel or a dime, whatever I’ve got left over this month, and God will just have to accept it if He wants my life that badly.”
That’s why a Pharisee is no better off than a profligate at the foot of the cross, friend. A Pharisee brings his squeaky clean record, his works of penance, his wealth of knowledge, and drops that bundle of righteousness at Christ’s feet like a pile of golden shekels, only to realize that his wealth means nothing here. And the poor profligate comes too, clutching tightly to his bag of addictions—his gambling, his alcohol, his pornography, his sports, etc.—having no room left in his hands for the Savior, no place left on his tongue for the words, “Father, forgive me—a sinner!” and he, like the Pharisee, walks away empty.
Marvel at the thought that our Redeemer paid the atoning price of our lives from both ends of the spectrum: both as the richest Man in the world and as the poorest. That He neither considered the atoning Passion too belittling from His exalted, kingly state, nor too severe from His lowly, humbled state. That He paid it all—for us—from the depths of His riches, from the depths of His poverty, from the depths of His love.
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Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Smell
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A Most Fulfilling Prophecy
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Marked by the Blood
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Dressing the Part
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Sabbath Psalm 44 (Revision of John Peterson’s hymn ‘Open Wide, Ye Doors’)
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Facts and Feelings
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Priesthood: A Balancing Act
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Beautiful Glory—Glorious Beauty
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Lamplighters
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A Mobile Home
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Sabbath Psalm 43 (Revision of Giovanni P. Da Palestrina’s hymn ‘The Strife is Over’)
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An Open Door
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Gold Rush
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Practicing God’s Presence
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An Ark Like No Other
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A Heavenly Contribution
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Sabbath Psalm 42
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A Crackling Fire
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Picnic Time!
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There is a Fountain
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A Book Signing
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A Recurring Theme
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Sabbath Psalm 41
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Are You Listening?
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Almighty Love
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Got Justice?
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A Song to Share
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Fable of Farce?
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Sabbath Psalm 40
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A Revolutionary Idea
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The Avenger
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A Silver Lining
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Liberty by Submission, pt. 2
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Liberty by Submission, pt. 1
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Sabbath Psalm 39
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A Bit More Context
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Laws on Slavery (An Introduction)
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The Art of Worship
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A Deep Light
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A Word on Honor
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Blessed Rest
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What’s in a Name?
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The Law in Essence
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Further In
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Lead Me to Calvary
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The Gospel Call
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Supreme Court Justice
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An Intervention
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The Tie that Binds
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Coming Around
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Pitching In
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Strong as a Rock
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How Long, O Lord?!
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Treasures in the Dust
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Mark My Word
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Heaven Sent
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In Between
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Meaning, as a Rule
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Fight or Flight
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If the Bones are Good
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Sabbath Psalm 34
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The Power of His Word
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A Song is Rising
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A Wake-Up Call
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Genesis, First-Hand
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Do or Die
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Sabbath Psalm 33
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Face Off
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Not on Auto-Pilot
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Oh the Radiance!
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Unbreakable Bonds
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God is Strong—for Starters
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Sabbath Psalm 32
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Indigenous Saints
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A Traveling Band
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A Blood Bath
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Reserved Seating
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Shadow and Substance
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Sabbath Psalm 31
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Another Genesis
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Wonderful News
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Post Traumatic Sacrifice Disorder
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A Great Glimpse
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Some through the Fire
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Sabbath Psalm 30
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Let There be Light
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A Painful Plea
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Sour Words
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From the Mouths of Babies
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Mustard Seeds
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Sabbath Psalm 29
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At the Heart of the Story
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The Hardened Heart Problem—Continued
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Mid-Life Crisis
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The Fuss—no Feast—of Faith
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Defining Lines
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Sabbath Psalm 28
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Absent-Minded Professors
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Temporary Relief