"The Simplicity : That is IN Christ"

"Redemption" : that is the "simplicity that is IN Christ"

I'll post it 2X for you, #1 & #2.... i'll explain it twice for you, so that it'll stick in your head and in your heart, is the idea.

It could be that you are asked to explain this, at some point, and you dont want to be caught in the dark, in the "Ummmm, ummmmm", position.

It could be that you may become a Mod of a Forum, a Sunday School Teacher, Deacon or Deaconess, or maybe God will Call you to into the Call.

So, you need get this information, down, pat., as its the most most important Doctrine in the entire word of God.

Get it., .....and yes i know some of you know it, but some of you dont, and either way, its good to hear it and hear it and hear it, and REPEAT it.


1.)

God made Adam, and Adam was "one with God".

This means that Adam and God ("God is A Spirit") were joined Spiritually as "one", exactly as Jesus said.. "I and my Father are One""".
When Adam sinned, their spiritual union, was broken.. and death entered.
And because of this, all of humanity has become the same "Adamic" spiritual situation, because we are all sinners, separated from God, Spiritually.

Jesus, is the 2nd Adam, = came to restore us back to God, Spiritually.
The term for being rejoined/restored to God, Spiritually, is : Born Again

Jesus said. "You must be Born Again", or you can't be restored into Born Again Spiritual Union with God who is "A Spirit".

Now, what is stopping all of humanity from being instantly restored into spiritual union with God?

A.) The same thing that ended Adam's spiritual union with God.

= SIN

Sin, having sin, because you have sinned...... denies restored Spiritual Union with God.

So, God sent Christ to the Cross, to die for our SIN, which removes the spiritual barrier between our spirit and God's.
And by Jesus's Cross, we are "made free from sin", = forgiven, and God is then able to birth us into Spiritual Union with Himself, = Born Again, Spiritually as "IN Christ", and "one with God".

If this never happens to you, then you will not go to Heaven when you die.


2.)


Salvation is the "simplicity that is in Christ".

Its so simple....

= Adam lost Spiritual union with God. because he sinned , And we are born with that 'Adamic" situation...
Now, you have sinned, Reader....we have all sinned..."" and if we say we have not sinned, then the Truth is not in us""".. And Some of us more than others, and some of us less than others.
And that SIN, is keeping God from having us as His Spiritual Son/Daughter...., = as Sin separates us from God, until its all forgiven.

See that?

Christ came here to deal with ALL our SIN< so that God can take us into His Spiritual Family, for eternity.
Salvation is literally that simple.
Jesus pays for all our SIN, and then God can birth us Spiritually into Himself, by the Holy Spirit.... and That is to be Born Again Spiritually.

"SAVED"

When we believe in our heart that we are a sinner, needing salvation, and we open our Heart to Christ, giving God our Faith in His Son, God accepts our FAITH...and then applies (imputes) Christ's shed blood and death unto us, and this becomes our redemption from all our sin.
"Jesus is the one time ETERNAL Sacrifice for our sin"
"God hath made Jesus to be sin for us".
We are now made CLEAN, "made righteous"= by the Blood of Jesus and the Death of Christ.
And now being "made free from sin", God gives us a BIRTH in our Spirit, .= we are Born Again into the Spirit of God, by God's Holy Spirit.

This is to become "IN Christ"... "one with God".

= A CHRISTian

.There is no other way to go to Heaven, and God wants us all to go to Heaven.

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Cor 11:3

Yet, people stumble time and time again adding works to maintain salvation or prove salvation.

When the person does not understand The Cross of Christ, they always try to keep themselves saved.

So true!!

My general impression on this discussion board is that the simplicity of the Gospel is not being preserved, back loading works onto the Gospel seems prevalent.