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04/06/2020

THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF SIN: Prt3

REMISSION

Hebrews 9:15
"For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."(Amplified Bible).
Remission is "Passing Over" of sin done afoertime (that is, since Adam) to demonstrate the consistent righteousness at present time.

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

Romans 3:26
"to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus."
(Amplified Bible).
Righteousness is the Greek word, "dikaios, meaning, "Righteous".
God's Righteousness is refered to God's consistency with His own Law and Holiness in freely justifying a Sinner who believe in Jesus Christ (that is, a Sinner in whose behalf Christ has met every demand of the Law(Rom.10:4).

The Righteousness of God is neither the attribute of God nor the changed character of the believer, but Christ Himself, who fully met in our stead and behalf every demand of the Law, and who is, the act of God called imputation (Lev.25:50; Jam.2:23); made unto us..... righteousness (1Cor.1:30).

The believer in Christ is now, by grace, shrouded under so complete righteousness that the Law from Mt. Sinai can find neither fault nor diminution therein. This is what known as the "Righteousness of God by faith in Christ" (2Cor.5:21; Rom.4:6; Rom.10:4; Rom.3:26; Phi.3:9).

JUSTIFICATION
Romans 3:28
"We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law."(Amplified Bible).

Justification is the Greek word "dikaioo", which means, "to justify". The believing sinner is justified because Christ, having borne his sin on the Cross, has been "made unto him" righteousness (1Cor.1:30).

ORIGIN OF JUSTIFICATION
Justification originates in grace(Rom.3:24; Tit.3:4-5); is through the redemptive and Propitiation works of Christ, who has vindicated the Law (Rom.3:24-25; Rom.5:9); is by faith, not works(Rom.3:28-30; Rom.4:5; Rom.5:1; Gal.2:16; Gal.3:8, 38; Gal.3:24) and may be defined as the judicial act of God whereby He justly declares righteous one who believe on Jesus Christ. It is the Judge Himself (Rom.8:31-34) who thus declares. The justified believer has been in court, only to learn that nothing is laid to his charge(Rom.8:1, 33-34). What a Privilege!

03/06/2020

THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF SIN: Prt2

(3) Redemption is a Greek word "Lutroo" meaning "to loose", "to set free by paying a ransom"(Jn.8:32; Gal.4:4,5,31; Gal.5:13; Rom.8:21). Redemption is by sacrifice and power. Jesus paid the price, and the Holy Spirit makes deliverance actual in experience (Rom.8:2).

GRACE OF GOD

Grace is God's enabling power to live a godly and overcoming life.
When a Sinner is redeemed through faith in Christ, he become salvated, and the "Grace in salvation" drop into his life to empower him to live above sin and temptations from the devils. (Read Rom.4:4-16; Rom.3::24).

PROPITIATION
Romans 3:25
"whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;"(Amplified Bible)
Propitiation is the removal of God's wrath. Literally, a Propitiatory sacrifice, through faith by His blood; (Greek word "Hilasterion", interpret, "place of Propitiation"). The word occurs in (1Jn.2:2; and 1Jn.4:10) as a translation of the Greek word, "Hilasmos", meaning, "that which Propitiate", "a Propitiatory Sacrifice". "Hilasterion is used by the Septuagint, and (Heb.9:5) for "Mercy-seat". The Mercy-seat was sprinkled with atoning blood in the day of atonement(Lev.16:14) in atoning that the righteous sentence of the Law has been (typically) carried out, so that what must have been a judgement-seat could righteously be a Mercy-seat(Heb.9:11-15; Heb.4:14-16); a place of Communion(Ex.25:21-22).

Propitiation establishes the Mercy-seat; and at the Mercy-seat, the anger of the Judge is removed, and the righteous judgement of the Law by an Angry God is counseled, making it(Mercy-seat) a place of Communion between the redeemed and the merciful God.

In fulfilment of the type, Christ Himself is "Hilasmos", "that which Propitiates", and "Hilasterion", the place of Propitiation"--- the Mercy-seat sprinkled with His own blood--- the token that in our stead He honored the Law by enduring His righteous sentence that God, who ever foresaw the Cross, is vindicated in having "Passed Over" sins from Adam to Moses(Rom.5:13) and the sins of believers under the old covenant and just in justifying sinners under the covenant. There is no thought in Propitiation of placating a vengeful God, but of doing right by His holy Law and so making it possible for Him righteously to show Mercy. What a privilege!

03/06/2020

THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF SIN: Prt1

Romans 3:23
"for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;" (Amplified Bible)

What is SIN?

The literal meaning of the Hebrew, and (Greek word, "Hamartano", meaning, Sin, Sinner, etc) disclose the true nature of Sin in its manifold manifestation.

Sin is Transgressions,
Sin is an overstepping of the law,
Sin is the divine boundary between good and evil(Ps.51:1; Lk.15:29);
Sin is iniquity;
Sin is an act inherently wrong, whether expressly forbidden or not;
Sin is an error;
Sin is the departure from right ( Ps.51:9; Rom.3:23);
Sin is missing the Mark;
Sin is a failure of meeting the divine standard;
Sin is Trespass;
Sin is an intrusion of self-will into the sphere of divine authority(Eph.2:1);
Sin is Lawlessness, or Spiritual Anarchy(1Tim.1:9);
Sin is Unbelieve, or an insult to the divine Veracity(Jn.16:9).

THE ORIGIN OF SIN

Sin originated with Satan(Isa.14:12-14), entered the world via Adam (Rom.5:12); was, and is, universal (Rom.3:23); but Christ alone, who New not sin (1Pet.2:22), accepted, and incurred the penalties of both physical and spiritual death(Gen.2:17; Gen.3:19; Ez.18:4; Ez.18:20; Rom.6:23) and has no other remedy than His sacrificial death on the Cross.

Sin May be Summarized as threefold:

(1) An act, a violation of, or want of obedient to the revealed will of God;

(2) A state, absence of righteousness;

(3) A nature, enmity toward God.

THE REDEMPTION

Romans 3:24
"being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;" (Amplified Bible).

REDEMPTION means, "to deliver by paying a price".
The N.T. records the fulfillment of the O.T. types and prophecies of redemption via the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The completed truth is set forth in the three Greek words which are translated Redemption.

(1) Redemption is a Greek word "Agorazo" meaning, "to purchase in the market". The underlying thought is of a slave market. The subjects of Redemption are "sold under sin"(Rom.7:14) but, moreover, under sentence of death(Ez.18:4; Jn.3:18-19; Rom.3:19; Gal.3:10); and the purchase price is the Blood of Jesus Christ who dies in place of sinners(Gal.3:13; 2Cor.5:21; Mat.20:28; Mrk.10:45; 1Tim.2:6; 1Pet.1:18).

(2) Redemption is a Greek word, "Exagorazo", meaning "to buy out of the market". Sinners has been purchased out of the slave market by the "blood of Jesus Christ, and become "redeemed". So the redeemed of Christ are never again to be exposed to sale in the slave market.

03/06/2020

Discover The Whole Time Religion And Back To God's Standard

29/05/2020

STEPS TO SALVATION PRT2

Salvation is deliverance from sin and its consequences, it is brought about by faith in Christ.

STEP ONE — ACKNOWLEDGE (To Admit, to be true or to exist) Admits you are a sinner/have sin inyour life. Romans: 3:23; Luke 18:33

STEP TWO — REPENT (To feel sorry for having done wrong and seek forgiveness. To feelsorry, regret something done in the past.) A turning away from sin, disobedience or rebellion and a turning back to God. A change of mind. True repentance is of Godly sorrow for sin — a act of turning aroundand going in the opposite direction. Luke 13; Acts 3:19

STEP THREE — CONFESS (To admit one’s guilt — take responsibility for your own life by acknowledging sin) Refreshing your life. I John 1:9; Romans 10:10

STEP FOUR — FORSAKE (To give up, leave alone, abandon) Putting aside those things in your life that will hinder your walk with Christ. Isaiah 55:7

STEP FIVE — BELIEVE (To place one’s trust in God’s truth, on who takes God at his work and trusts in him) Believers are those who have trusted God with all their will, heart and mind. John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10, I John 3:23

STEP SIX — RECEIVE (To take something offered to you, acceptance) Receiving all of the benefits offered by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. John 1:12; Acts 17:11

Accepting Christ in your life is an extremely important task. We often feel we will give our lives to the Lord when we have “gotten ourselves together.” Do not worry about that. If you will confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead for your sins, you will be saved. Do not be concerned about what your friends or family say, your salvation must be very important to you. There is also the misconception that once you are saved you must live a perfect life. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). You must remember, Jesus Christ was the only perfect man who walked this earth. So, when reciv Jesus, you have a perfect Life.

29/05/2020

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD'S GREATEST GIFT PRT2:

How Will You Respond to God’s Greatest Gift?

The love the Christ has compels us . . . He died for all so that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them.”—2 Cor. 5:14, 15.
(1) AN EXTRAORDINARY gift should compel us to express gratitude. Jesus highlighted that lesson after he healed ten men of a debilitating disease that had no cure at the time. One of the ten men “turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice.” Jesus said: “All ten were cleansed, were they not? Where, then, are the other nine?” (Luke 17:12-17) The lesson? How quickly we can forget the kind deeds others do for us!
The ransom is unlike any other gift. It is by far the greatest gift ever given. How, then, should you respond to what God has done in your behalf?
(2) Come to know the Giver.
The ransom does not automatically bring everlasting life to all humans. Rather, Jesus said in prayer to God: “This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.” (John 17:3) If someone told you that a man saved your life when you were yet a child, would you not be interested in learning more about that man and why he saved you? Jehovah God, who gave the lifesaving gift of the ransom, wants you not only to know who he is but also to come into a close relationship with him. “Draw close to God,” the Bible urges, “and he will draw close to you.”—Jms. 4:8.
Exercise faith in the ransom. “The one who exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life.” (John 3:36) What does it mean to exercise faith? It means action; to show faith in the ransom requires action. (James 2:17) What kind of action? A gift becomes yours only when you reach out and accept it. So you must reach out and accept the ransom. How? Learn how God wants you to live, and then act accordingly.
* Pray to God for forgiveness and a clean conscience. Approach God in full confidence that the ransom guarantees an eternal future of peace, security, and prosperity for all who exercise faith in it!—Heb.11:1.
(3) Attend the Memorial of Jesus’ death.Jesus instituted an annual event to remind us of the provision of the ransom. Regarding the observance of that event, he said: “Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19).

29/05/2020

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD'S GREATEST GIFT PRT1:

Accepting God’s Gift of Salvation

To receive the redemption God provided for all of us through Jesus Christ, believe the truth. Turn to God. The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19, ESV). “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).

Does that sound too simple to be true? God’s truth is simple. You can believe in Him. Humble yourself as a little child and admit your need for God. (See Mark 10:15.) Turn away from sin. Come to Jesus. He beckons to you with open arms. He has already purchased your salvation—will you receive it as a gift from Him?

“Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God”(Romans 5:1–2).

When you believe on Jesus Christ, accepting God’s gift of salvation, you are justified (declared free of the guilt and penalty of sin) before God because of what Jesus has done. God forgives you of all of your sins. Your relationship with God is restored; you become His child. (See I John 3:8–10.) You are redeemed from the bo***ge to sin and will spend eternity in heaven with God. (See Rom. 6:22.)

The Holy Spirit dwells in each believer. He is “the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ…” (Romans 8:15–17).

22/05/2020

THE BENEFITS OF GOD'S GREATEST GIFT: THE CROSS PRT4:

9). Our Substitutionary
The reality of substitution is at the heart of the atonement. Christ accomplished all of the above benefits for us by dying in our place — that is, by dying instead of us. We deserved to die, and he took our sin upon him and paid the penalty himself.

This is what it means that Christ died for us (Romans 5:8) and gave himself for us (Galatians 2:20). As Isaiah says, “he was pierced through for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities . . . the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him” (Isaiah 53:5-6).

You see the reality of substitution underlying all of the benefits discussed above, as the means by which Christ accomplished them. For example, substitution is the means by which we were ransomed: “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Christ’s death was a ransom for us — that is, instead of us. Likewise, Paul writes that “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13).

Substitution is the means by which we were reconciled: “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). It is the means of expiation: “He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21) and “He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness” (1 Peter 2:24). And by dying in our place, taking the penalty for our sins upon himself, Christ’s death is also the means of propitiation.

To close: Two implications involve: First, this is very humbling. The humble Christ.
Second, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends(sinners)” (John 15:13).

22/05/2020

THE BENEFITS OF GOD'S GREATEST GIFT: THE CROSS PRT3:
6) At the cross, Jesus took your curse:
When the Roman soldiers were mocking Jesus, they placed a crown of thorns upon his head. In the earliest chapters of the Bible, we learn that thorns were one result of the curse that had come into the world because of sin (Gen. 3:17–18). Furthermore, while Jesus was on the cross, there was darkness over the land at noon (Mrk 15:33). Like thorns, darkness at noonday was a sign of God’s curse due to sin (Deut. 28:29; Job 5:13–14; Isa. 59:9–10). Jesus bore the thorns and darkness of our sin upon himself at the cross:
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.” (Gal. 3:13).
7). At the cross, Jesus clothed you:
Mark records that when Jesus was crucified, “they… divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take” (Mrk. 15:24). This was in fulfillment of a prophecy found in Ps.22:18. These men wickedly took Jesus’ clothing for themselves. Ironically, they didn’t recognize that through the cross, Jesus would be clothing his people! The prophet Isaiah wrote, "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with a robe of righteousness" (Isa. 61:10).
Through his death on the cross, Jesus covered the shame of our nakedness by giving us his robe of righteousness.
8). At the cross, Jesus broken the wall of partition:.
When Jesus died, “the curtain of the temple was torn apart, from top to the bottom” (Mrk.15:38). This was the curtain that guarded people from the holy of holies, where God’s presence was most concentrated. Because of sin, mankind didn’t have the same access to God that the Levitical priests had. Mark used the word “torn” one other time in his gospel when describing Jesus’ baptism:
up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. (Mark 1:10)
Interestingly, Jesus would later associate his crucifixion with baptism (Mark 10:38). At the cross, the veil was torn, giving us access to the heavenly sanctuary.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near....Heb.10:19-22a.

22/05/2020

THE BENEFITS OF GOD'S GREATEST GIFT: THE CROSS PRT1:

(1). Expiation
Expiation means the removal of sin and guilt. Christ’s death removes our sin and guilt. The guilt of our sin was taken away from us and placed on Christ, who discharged it by his death. Thus, in Jn.1:29, John the Baptist calls Jesus “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Jesus takes away, that is, expiates, our sins. Likewise, Isaiah 53:6 says, “The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him,” and Hebrews 9:26 says “He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”

(2). Propitiation
Whereas expiation refers to the removal of our sins, propitiation refers to the removal of God’s wrath.
By dying in our place for our sins, Christ removed the wrath of God that we justly deserved. In fact, it goes even further: a propitiation is not simply a sacrifice that removes wrath, but a sacrifice that removes wrath and turns it into favor. (Note: a propitiation does not turn wrath into love --God already loved us fully, which is the reason he sent Christ to die; it turns his wrath into favor so that his love may realize its purpose of doing good to us every day, in all things, forever, without sacrificing his justice and holiness.)
Several passages speak of Christ’s death as a propitiation for our sins. Rom.3:25-26 says that God “displayed [Christ] publicly as a propitiation in his blood through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because in the forbearance of God he passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration of his righteousness at the present time, that he might be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.”
Likewise, Heb. 2:17 says that Christ made “propitiation for the sins of the people” and 1 Jn. 4:10 says “in this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

(3). Reconciliation
Whereas expiation refers to the removal of our sins, and propitiation refers to the removal of God’s wrath, reconciliation refers to the removal of our alienation from God.
Because of our sins, we were alienated — separated — from God. Christ’s death removed this alienation and thus reconciled us to God. We see this, for example, in Rom.5:10-11: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.”

22/05/2020

THE BENEFITS OF GOD'S GREATEST GIFT: THE CROSS Prt2:
(4). Redemption
Our sins had put us in captivity from which we need to be delivered. The price that is paid to deliver someone from captivity is called a “ransom.” To say that Christ’s death accomplished redemption for us means that it accomplished deliverance from our captivity through the payment of a price.
There are three things we had to be released from: the curse of the law, the guilt of sin, and the power of sin. Christ redeemed us from each of these.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13-14).
Christ redeemed us from the guilt of our sin. We are “justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).
Christ redeemed us from the power of sin: “knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ” (1 Peter 1:18-19).
Note that we are not simply redeemed from the guilt of sin; to be redeemed from the power of sin means that our slavery to sin is broken. We are now free to live to righteousness. Our redemption from the power of sin is thus the basis of our ability to live holy lives: “You have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your bodies” (1 Corinthians 6:20).

(5) Defeat of the Powers of Darkness:
Christ’s death was a defeat of the power of Satan. “He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him” (Colossians 3:15). Satan’s only weapon that can ultimately hurt people is unforgiven sin. Christ took this weapon away from him for all who would believe, defeating him and all the powers of darkness in his death by, as the verse right before this says, “having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross” (Colossians 2:13-14).

22/05/2020

THE FALL OF MAN: PRT3
Therefore, the main reason for God's greatest gift for humanity is to restore Man to his original plan with God--Restoration. "...... I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"(Jn.10:10). "And unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given......"(Isa.9:6).
"And she shall bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins"(Mtt.1:21).
Jesus is the container of all good things of God. He is the way; He is the truth; and He is the life. Embrace Jesus and His righteousness today, and every other things, most especially the kingdom, will be added unto you. If you have not received Him into your life, the Cross is before you right there, wherever you are; confess your sin to Him, and let Him into your heart. Having done that, just believe that you are saved. With Jesus Joy, I wish you great grace to accept Him today in Jesus name amen. You are blessed indeed.

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