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73.4 - Walter Brueggemann on Restorative Grace & Amos Yong on the Spirit Who Bridges the Gap

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The History of Grace in the Old Testament

The word pardon has been uttered in the repertoire of Israel. The reason there is pardon is that my thoughts about pardon are not your thoughts about deeds and consequences nor are your ways my ways for as the heavens are higher than the earth so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts. In Hosea 11 God simply says I don't care if you serious get to let the Assyrians have youLet them punish you let them burn you downDon't call to me I will not ask you. It's an astonishing moment in which the graciousness of God just blows all of those constrictive categories away because God in passion reaches out to undeserving Israel and says I want you for

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