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Yeah...it was the poor being hurt in order to prove a point and support...a priciple. If God had stuck to principle he would have let Noah drown with the rest of humanity and folded up the universe and stalk back to gross darkness and comisserate with his three in one self.(sorry Lord, you know my heart)If God had stuck to principle, he wouldn't have taken on flesh and blood to suffer the indignities that men suffer, and to die for our sins, instead he would have let us destroy our-selve in due course. You know why we haven't yet Nuked ourselveas out of existence...it is God, not sticking to the principle of his Perfect Glory over all else. Ironically by extending to us grace he actually sticks by a greater principle..For God so loved the World, he gave his only son....His love for us in spite of our foolishness provided a way out of our sins(of which he cannot ignore, I realize that). It's his grace and mercy that makes his perfection palatable, the more you have of it,in spite of the sober knowledge it gives you regarding your inner darkness, the more you want it. God knows the Heart of man, and provided a HUMAN interface thru which he could share his glory with us, a HUMAN intercessor who pleads our case like a seasoned lawyer before his throne. Moses could not look God the Father in the eye but he could Jesus if he had come then. Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad.
The SA should have taken the man's money and shut up about it! The man should have given the money quietly...and shut up about it. And God who watches in secret would have rewarded all of them openly!

GRACE....GRACE is the heart of the matter...with such grace extended to us, shouldn't we learn to extend it to each other as well? GRACE should be one of our FIRST PRINCIPLES....it is principle we are talking about...right?