VV#14 - Clay in the Hands of the Potter

How the great villain serves the vision of the great Director

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Is there ever a great story without a great author or storyteller? And has there ever been a great movie without a great director?  In the same way that there is rarely a great story without a compelling villain—and likewise without a great protagonist—so also, the presentation of the great story before the eyes of men requires a great Director. And for St. Paul, that great Director had to be Yahweh, or Jehovah of his famous Torah— what modern Christians now refer to as the Old Testament. There could be no one else.

And for Paul, his own people—the Israelites—they must have played a central role in the unfolding of that epic story; they had to be the historical protagonists.

But as mentioned, still so many of Paul's fellow Israelites were simply not coming over to this idea of Jesus as “Christ” and the good news of Him risen from a death of shame—this incredible idea that a crucified man had been triumphant over the horrific humiliation ritual of crucifixion. And he kne…