Repentance vs Penance

Penance is a self punishing activity in an effort to free oneself of sin.

Repentance is acknowledging our sinfulness, turning to a sin pardoning Savior for forgiveness and turning from self to Christ; receiving Christ into our lives through faith allowing Him to live His life in us, thus good works will be manifest.

Martin Luther acknowledged his sinfulness but in his early years he turned to "penance" for a solution. Whipping himself, denying himself of food and comfort, ascending steps on his knees, etc., but penance has no power at all to forgive and cleanse from sin, or relief from guilt.

After he found the gospel in the Bible, he still preached about the offensive character of sin, but now he also found the Savior. Now he taught his students that it is impossible for man, by his own works, to lessen its guilt or evade its punishment. Nothing but repentance toward God and faith in Christ can save the sinner. The grace of Christ cannot be purchased; it is a free gift. Luther counseled the people not to buy indulgences, but to look in faith to a crucified Redeemer. He related his own painful experience on vainly seeking by humiliation and penance to secure salvation, and assured his hearers that it was by looking away from himself and believing in Christ that he found peace and joy. {see GC 129}

Epoch News
Media Reports indicate the Liberals and the Bloc are poised to pass the related amendments as the House of Commons justice committee is currently undertaking its review of Bill C-9
The Conservatives are mainly against it.

The bill in its current form seeks to remove the requirement to obtain the attorney general?s consent to prosecute hate propaganda offences. It would also criminalize the display of certain symbols in public places if they promote hatred against an identifiable group. The bill would also create an offence for those who block access to places of worship.

In addition, Bill C-9 would create a new definition of hatred that doesn?t employ the word ?extreme? used by the Supreme Court, which defines hatred as ?emotion of an intense and extreme nature that is clearly associated with vilification and detestation.?

Conservatives say the bill could lead to a similar situation as in the United Kingdom, where police are routinely arresting individuals for comments made online.

The Bible and other religious "holy books" were also being discussed.
Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Romans, were referred to as having passages with clear hatred

Tory MP Andrew Lawton remarked on social media that the Liberal MP ?who wants clergy members jailed for quoting scripture is now Canada?s minister of identity and culture,? in reference to Miller.
Lawton has been vocal about his opposition to Bill C-9, saying it will lower the threshold of what constitutes hate and of what can be considered free expression in Canada.

Some call it "criminalization of religious belief".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mM9R7tGXmg

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places).
It seeks to remove a religious exemption from Canada?s hate-speech laws.

The proposed amendments in the Bill would create four new criminal offences:
(1) an intimidation offence that prohibits conduct that is intended to provoke a state of fear in another person to impede them from accessing religious or cultural institutions and other specified places;
(2) an offence that prohibits the intentional obstruction of a person's lawful access to such places;
(3) a hate crime offence to more explicitly denounce hate-motivated crime; and
(4) an offence that prohibits wilfully promoting hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in any public place, certain hate or terrorist symbols. A definition of "hatred" would also be added to the Criminal Code to clarify the type of conduct captured by the new hate crime offence and existing hate propaganda offences. The Bill proposes other amendments to the Criminal Code, including adding some of the new proposed offences to the existing scheme governing the interception of private communications, forensic DNA analysis and making release orders (bail) with conditions.

Oh, and it seems to me there is great promotion of ads/products when given a chance. So it will become the new advertising mechanism directly to the kids.

They told us to change our light bulbs to fluorescents to stop global warming. I went, huh? They don't save very much. They had mercury in them. Now you can't really find them as LEDs took over. LEDs save more, but still, setting your thermostat one degree different would overwhelm any savings. They said LEDs would last 10 years or more. My experience has been if they last a few weeks, several don't last 3 years.

I read they launch many satellites to monitor methane, a global warming gas.

Question:
Lots of energy is expended with each space launch. How many incandescent light bulbs need to be changed to LEDs to make up for one satellite launch?

ChatGPT:

Step 1: Estimate the energy consumption of a satellite launch.
To launch a satellite, you typically use a rocket. A typical rocket launch consumes about 300 tons of fuel and releases about 1,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. For simplicity, let’s focus on the energy aspect of the launch.
The energy consumption of a rocket launch is enormous, but let’s try to get an estimate of the total energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh). The energy needed to launch a satellite (including the energy to overcome Earth's gravity) can be roughly calculated from the fuel’s energy content. The fuel used in rockets (like RP-1 or liquid hydrogen) has an energy density of around 44 MJ/kg (megajoules per kilogram).
Let’s assume a mid-sized rocket like SpaceX's Falcon 9 uses approximately 500 tons of RP-1 and liquid oxygen as fuel for the launch.
• 500 tons = 500,000 kg
• Energy content of rocket fuel: 44 MJ/kg
Total energy from fuel = 500,000 kg × 44 MJ/kg = 22,000,000 MJ (megajoules)
To convert that into kWh (1 kWh = 3.6 MJ):
22,000,000 MJ ÷ 3.6 = 6,111,111 kWh

Step 2: Energy saved by switching from incandescent bulbs to LEDs.
Now, let’s consider the energy savings from switching from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs.
• Incandescent bulb: A typical 60-watt incandescent bulb uses 60 watts of power.
• LED bulb: A comparable LED bulb uses about 10 watts.
So, switching one incandescent bulb to an LED saves:
60 W - 10 W = 50 watts.

If you use the bulb for 5 hours per day:
• Daily savings = 50 W × 5 hours = 250 watt-hours (0.25 kWh) per day.
• Annual savings = 0.25 kWh × 365 = 91.25 kWh per year.

Step 3: Calculate how many bulbs need to be changed to offset the energy from a satellite launch.
Now, we need to figure out how many bulbs switched to LEDs would equal the energy used in one satellite launch.
We know the energy of a rocket launch is approximately 6,111,111 kWh.
To calculate how many bulbs' worth of energy savings are needed to match that:
6,111,111 kWh ÷ 91.25 kWh (annual savings per bulb) ? 67,000 bulbs

Conclusion:
You would need to change about 67,000 incandescent light bulbs to LEDs to offset the energy consumed by a satellite launch.
This estimate is very rough and doesn’t include other factors like the efficiency of the rocket or the full lifecycle of energy used by the satellite, but it gives you a sense of just how energy-intensive space launches are!

Back to me:
Seems to me to be kind of like the inventor of global warming, Al Gore, or other global warming promoters, flying off in private planes to global warming conferences.

Lesson Ten
The True Joshua

Joshua as a "type" of Christ.

"Typology is one of the main ways the NT authors use the OT. In the OT, types are like historical previews that anticipate the realities brought about by Jesus."

A type being "an example" or "likeness".
An anti-type being the corresponding reality of the type.

The wilderness sanctuary was a type or likeness of the heavenly sanctuary, with it's priests, furniture and ceremonies being a type of Jesus as both our sacrifice and our High Priest in His work in the heavenly sanctuary.
Hebrews 8:2 (Jesus) a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 8:5 (The earthly priests) served as the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: to see, that he make all things according to the pattern showed to him in the mount.

Joshua's most obvious "type"
Joshua 's mission was to cause Israel to inherit the land of Canaan.
Jesus' mission is to enabling spiritual Israel to inherit the antitypical heavenly land of Canaan.

Also
Joshua sought to do God's will with steadfast perseverance. He was in contact with the "Lord of Hosts" Jesus.
Jesus came to do the Father's will. (John 6:38) And did it perfectly. He was in constant contact with God His Father.

Hebrews gives a clear connection between Joshua and Jesus.
4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then God would not afterward have spoken of another day. 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

The contrast of Joshua and Jesus in these texts in Hebrews indicates that Jesus is the anti type or reality of Joshua who represents a limited preview of Jesus.
Jesus will fulfil the task that Joshua only partially accomplish.

Though, we may ask, why didn't Israel find rest? Joshua could only lead them in battles to possess the land and disperse it to them according to God's direction. Israel did have some temporary rest.
Hebrews links their failure to unbelief.
The true rest can only be found in personal connection with Jesus Christ, a connection of faith and trust. Christ is the Prince of Peace.

He calls us:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

We can experience that rest now, finding peace even in a world of turmoil. Yet, the final, ultimate rest is still future, with Jesus in the glorious kingdom.
But we are to seek that living faith and belief in Him, now, we can enter into rest with Jesus now.
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." John 14:27