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Romans 5
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6 [/SUP]You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. [SUP]7 [/SUP]Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. [SUP]8 [/SUP]But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! [SUP]10 [/SUP]For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! [SUP]11 [/SUP]Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Again that passage says NOTHING about Jesus being a wrath absorbing substitute for the sinner. People have just been told that so many times by the teachers they listen to they blindly believe it and THINK the Bible teaches it.
We are justified by His blood because it is via the blood of Christ that we approach God seeking reconciliation. The blood does this...
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for
the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
This verse speaks of the release from the law, Paul parallel's this in Rom 7:4, and the parallel to Heb 9:14 is found in Rom 7:5-6 in that we serve God in the Spirit having been purged of our old sins.
The context applies to both the Jews (under the Mosiac Law + the law of conscience) and the Gentiles (under the law of conscience). It is through the blood of Christ that the purging of our former life of rebellion occurs hence there is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood. The whole sacrificial system was a type and shadow of the reconciliation process which occurs in the spiritual realm when a repentant sinner approaches God with a true heart seeking a return to favour. Jesus Christ offered Himself on our behalf as the lamb as an example of how we are to approach God. Thus it is through His blood that we approach God through repentance and faith.
It has NOTHING to do with some sort of substitutionary sacrifice in the context of God having to pour out His wrath in order to satisfy divine justice. That is an utter perversion of the truth. Jesus taught no such thing. Jesus preached REPENTANCE and SUBMISSION to God.
The Penal Substitution model UTTERLY DESTROYS the teachings of Jesus. His teachings ARE OVERSHADOWED by the doctrine of Penal Substitution and thus His teachings become subsequent to salvation as opposed to being the MEANS of salvation. This is why Pastors preach good moral lessons each week but seldom if ever WARN OF THE DANGER of not submitting to the teachings of Christ.
Being set free from sin has to do with OBEYING FROM THE HEART THE FORM OF DOCTRINE DELIVERED BY CHRIST (Rom 6:17-18). It has NOTHING to do with some mythical legal transaction made on the cross. Satan has deceived the world and millions upon millions of professing Christian's with an extremely dangerous and soul destroying lie.
I know what I say is in complete opposition with what people have ever heard. I know it completely contradicts what they hear preached each Sunday by their pastors. All I can do is compel people to DIG DEEP and SEEK GOD with EVERYTHING THEY HAVE. We have to LOVE truth.
The Bible warns that God Himself sends STRONG DELUSION to those who do not love the truth. STRONG DELUSION means EFFECTUAL DECEPTION. God sends this delusion to damn people. Do not take such warnings lightly.
2Th 2:7 For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The blood of Christ is for this...
Heb 10:14 For
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. The sanctified are those who are set apart unto holiness for they obey unto righteousness unto holiness unto eternal life (Rom 6:16-23).
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
(Holy Ghost only given to those who OBEY Him (Act 5:32), which gives us an unction (1Joh 2:20), whereby we have the down payment ensuring eternal life (2Cor 1:22) on the condition we endure to the end (Rom 2:7).
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
The circumcision of Christ by which we are buried with Him in baptism (of repentance) and raised up or made alive by the effectual working of the power of God (Col 2:11-12, Act 3:19. Eph 2:5-6).
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Parallels found in Col 2:13, Act 3:19 and 1Joh 1:7.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
ONE OFFERING! ONCE! MEANT TO HAPPEN ONE TIME hence Heb 10:26 and continuing in sin is treating the blood with contempt.
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
We approach God in FULL CONFIDENCE.
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
One cannot approach in a NEW AND LIVING way while still in rebellion to God. Hence genuine repentance is MANDATORY. We approach IN CHRIST by RECEIVING the implanted word HAVING FORSAKEN all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness (the rebellion ceased!) (Jam 1:21-22).
Heb 10:21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
One cannot draw near to God with a "true heart in full assurance of faith" IF THEY ARE STILL IN REBELLION. Abraham's faith was an OBEDIENT FAITH (Heb 11:8) by which he walked in the steps of faith (Rom 4:12) and did the deeds of faith (Joh 8:39). That is the kind of faith that God reckons as righteous (Rom 8:5).
There is no possible way that one can have their heart sprinkled from an evil conscience when they are still SET ON DOING evil. The "doing of evil" is purged in repentance. Saints are not sinners. They may not be perfect in knowledge and are thus susceptible to miss the mark through ignorance but the rebellion to God has ceased!
This Penal Substitution doctrine is PURE DECEPTION. It was INVENTED 400 years ago by the Reformers.
Penal substitution (sometimes, esp. in older writings, called
forensic theory)[SUP]
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atonement within
Christian theology, developed with the
Reformed tradition.[SUP]
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[5][/SUP] It argues that
Christ, by his own sacrificial choice, was punished (penalised) in the place of sinners (substitution), thus
satisfying the demands of
justice so
God can justly
forgive the sins. It is thus a specific understanding of
substitutionary atonement, where the substitutionary nature of
Jesus' death is understood in the sense of a substitutionary punishment.
Penal substitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Penal Substitution was an adaption of Anselm's 11th Century Satisfaction Model.
Satisfaction theory of atonement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reformers ADDED a judicial punishment aspect to the Satisfaction Model and thus "justification" and the "forgiveness of sin" is premised on the occurrence of the Penal exchange taking place. Thus the Reformers teach that an individual is saved by TRUSTING in this exchange and they often call it the "Finished Work of Christ."
The true Finished Work of Christ (ie. It is finished) is the SIN OFFERING by which the DEATH OF THE TESTATOR occurred bringing into being the NEW COVENANT by which we approach God in a NEW AND LIVING WAY (through repentance and faith DIRECTLY) instead of through the old sacrificial system and having to abide by the laws of Moses.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
We are the temple now and God resides IN us. Under the Old Covenant, even though it was still by faith, it was external. Now it is PURELY OF THE HEART. Hence Jesus came to...
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
HEART PURITY!
The blood of Christ PURIFIES US.
The modern false Gospel does not teach that. Everything is forensic in some imaginary realm. It is all positional. Thus the "saved" under the modern false gospel remain defiled inwardly. The Pharisees were defiled within due to their false doctrine and so are modern professing Christian's, due to their doctrine. It is the same deception in new clothes.
Satan is a master theologian and he has perverted the entire Gospel message in such a way that people can still preach Jesus Christ and Christ crucified, uphold Jesus as the Son of God, God in the flesh, and yet teach and ENTIRELY different message.
Those whom are deceived are in darkness and cannot comprehend the light and thus they SCORN those who preach PURITY just as the Pharisees SCORNED Jesus and His followers. All the while THINKING they are in the service of God.
Don't be deceived! I beg you.