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|  PotOnWheel Registered Member

Date Joined Jul 2001 Total Posts : 9890 | Posted 7/28/2007 10:06 AM (GMT -6) |   | |
I like these words.
"Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me the sinner."
- Jesus, whose name in Hebrew means God saves...
- To affirm that Jesus is the Christ implies that the whole history of the Old Testament is ours, that we accept it as the truth of God.
- We call him Son of God, because we know the man who was called 'Son of David' is the incarnate Son of God.
- These words sum up all we know/believe about Jesus Christ, from the Old Testament to the New, and from the experience of the Church through the ages.
- In these few words we make a complete and perfect profession of faith.
- But it is not enough to make this profession of faith; it is not enough to believe.
- ...recognition of our own sinfulness, our essential estrangement from God and the people around us.
- ...the cry for mercy of the publican, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner"
- we put ourselves face to face with Him, in the right state of mind: 'Have mercy on me, a sinner'.
(from http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article7104.asp and http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Jprayer.html )
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