Robert Capon – Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican
If grace is grace then morality and repentance will be of no consequence.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Unjust Judge
And that, Virginia, is why “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” There is no condemnation because there is no condemner.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Lost (Older) Son
The door to the celebration is open to the older son. But the older son simply cannot bring himself to enter. Although the father opens the door wide, for the older son it is too narrow to enter.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Lost (Younger) Son
We are not forgiven, therefore, because we made ourselves forgivable or even because we had faith; we are forgiven solely because there is a Forgiver.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Great Banquet
The point is that none of the people who had a right to be at a proper party came, and that all the people who came had no right whatsoever to be there. Which means, therefore, that the one thing that has nothing to do with anything is rights.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Narrow and Closed Doors
But now we (specifically Jesus) are faced with the direct question of “will those who are saved be few?” Luke 13:23. Or more subtly, “how do I make the cut, and others won’t?”
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Friend at Midnight
In the parable, God does not come to our aid because we ask or because we have invited Jesus into our hearts, or because we have a right relationship with God, but only in our shameless, selfless admission that we are dead without him.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
The sole difference, therefore, between hell and heaven is that in heaven the forgiveness is accepted and passed along while in hell it is rejected and blocked.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Lost Sheep, pt.2
The sheep is effectively dead and the shepherd gives it life, and he gives it freely and fully on no conditions whatsoever.
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Robert Capon – Parable of the Lost Sheep, pt.1
It is only through Jesus’ death and resurrection by which death is defeated and we are liberated from its power. God’s Grace works when we die to ourselves and our merit and get out of the way.
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