o) NOW WE MAY COME to Our Father and give Him the most true and heartfelt thanks for His Way of our Salvation! He created a way where there was “no way”… in the eyes of Satan, that is.
Let us now consider the Greatest Mystery and Victory of God that there is or that there ever could be concerning man. Let us also see ourselves in this mystery of our Salvation and the absolutely matchless sacrifice of Our Savior Jesus Christ. Let us also SEE the unfathomable Wisdom and Love of Our Father in His Great Salvation of man.
God had two steps to do to bring this sinful man back to His Presence, make him His son again and live with him eternally as the First Adam was supposed to live had he not fallen into sin. God had to:
1) redeem the sinful man from Satan’s possession in paying the full price required by God by His Principles of legality, holiness and righteousness so that He would remain Holy and Righteous and beyond any accusations by Satan or his fallen angels, and…
2) once the man was redeemed, He had to give him the sure means to change his sinful nature back to God’s Nature by the same free-will choice by which man lost God’s Spirit and His Nature and gained the spirit of sin and its nature.
We all know the first step since all true believers are redeemed by the death and resurrection of Our Saviour. So, this step is completed in all true believers. We should also know the second step and this step should also be completed. It is completed in Christ, but not necessarily in us!
I have living experiences that in some believers this second step may have not even started! THIS IS THE TRAGEDY of these believers. And I believe that the chief reason for this tragedy is this deep deception, and the reason for this deep deception is pride and willful ignorance of man.
About four years ago, when the Lord led me to write the book “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ[8]”, I already had the vision of “two crosses” as a Scriptural fact which fact I then incorporated in that book to some degree. But my vision at that time was not clear. There was always something missing in it, something was incomplete and I did not know what. That “something” has now been revealed to me by the Grace of Our Lord and it is a very important spiritual fact which we are now called to apprehend into our understanding and faith. It should help us tremendously in SEEING truth about our Salvation through Christ. How the “WORKS OF THE DEVIL WERE DESTROYED” by Christ and how they MUST be destroyed in us also by the Power of God! This fact should give us the necessary spiritual understanding of THE DEEPEST MYSTERY OF THE SALVATION OF MAN and thus facilitate making our specific decisions in our heart and mind and will. These are the decisions which Our Father requires from us as our part of our Salvation. Also, this unmasks the deepest and most successful deception of Satan perpetrated within the Church of Jesus Christ ever since the beginning of the Church and of the New Testament!
Those four years ago I sincerely believed and understood that “the cup that the Father was giving to Jesus to drink” was the Cross. Three times Our Saviour asked His Father to “REMOVE THAT CUP FROM HIM”! (Lk. 22:42) But already at that time, I did not “feel good” about equating the cup with His physical death on the Cross. Jesus knew well His destiny that He will be killed and also drink a cup and the third day He will rise again. (Mk. 9:31// Mt. 20:22// Mk. 10:38)
He was prepared for the Cross and did not question it. He was also prepared to drink the cup, but for some reason, HE QUESTIONED THE CUP that His Father was giving to Him to “drink”. He, Who never knew sin, loathed and feared the CUP in the very depth of His Soul and Spirit! For that reason, He asked His Father to “REMOVE THIS CUP” from Him saying also: “IF THOU BE WILLING” indicating clearly that it was not the will-desire of Jesus. As I SEE in my spirit, Jesus the Man was not truly ready for “THIS CUP”. He had to be strengthened by an Angel from Heaven. (Lk. 22:43,44) This also may explain why He made such an unusual request to His Father and that three times in a row! So, what was THIS CUP, if it was not the Cross?
GOD HAD NOT ONLY TAKEN OUR SINS AND PUT THEM ON CHRIST AND CRUCIFIED THEM ON HIS CROSS. NO! THAT WOULD NOT HAVE CONSTITUTED THE FULL SALVATION OF MAN. IT WOULD HAVE ONLY EXTENDED TO MAN THE FORGIVENESS OF HIS SINS AND HIS RECONCILIATION WITH GOD. BUT SUCH A REDEEMED MAN WOULD HAVE KEPT SINNING FOR EVER AND WOULD HAVE NEEDED AN ETERNAL FORGIVENESS! WHY?
FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND RECONCILIATION WITH GOD DOES NOT DESTROY MAN’S SINFUL NATURE! HIS “OLD MAN” WOULD HAVE SURVIVED! THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED! THEREFORE…
GOD HAD MADE HIS SON TO BECOME SIN FOR US (2Cor. 5:21), TO BECOME A SINFUL SOUL, TO BECOME EXACTLY AS ONE OF US, TO RECEIVE THE POWERFUL, CUNNING, EVIL SPIRIT OF SIN, TO RECEIVE THAT SNAKE WITH ITS VENOM, TO RECEIVE OUR SINFUL NATURE TOGETHER WITH ALL OUR SINS, INIQUITIES AND EVIL DEEDS INTO HIS ABSOLUTELY HOLY, PURE AND SINLESS SOUL!
THAT WAS THE CUP THE FATHER WAS GIVING HIM TO “DRINK” AND WHICH HE HESITATED TO DRINK, BUT DESIRED THREE TIMES THAT IT WOULD BE RE- MOVED FROM HIM!
THAT WAS THE GREATEST AND DEEPEST SUFFERING OF OUR LORD ACCOMPANIED BY UNIMAGINABLE PAIN AND HORROR INCLUDING BEING CURSED, (Deut. 21:23// Gal. 3:13) BEING FORSAKEN AND SEPARATED FROM HIS OWN BELOVED FATHER IN HEAVEN! (Mt. 27:46) IT IS FAR BEYOND ALL OUR IMAGINATION AND COMPREHENSION AND ANY HUMAN SENSES.
BUT BY POURING THAT SOUL UNTO DEATH, (Is. 53:12) HE THEREBY DESTROYED SIN AS LAW (Rom. 7:23; 8:2) AND AS NATURE AND CURSE AND BROUGHT THE OLD SOULISH MAN, HIS FLESH, HIS SINFUL NATURE TO DEATH! HE ALSO THEREBY DESTROYED ALL THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL (1Jn. 3:8) BY TAKING ALL THE GROUND OF HIS ACTIVITY AND ALL HIS “VICTORY” IN EVERY HUMAN BEING AWAY FROM HIM AND HE MADE US FREE FROM IT ALL. (Rom. 6:18,22)
HE REPLACED THE SOULISH–SINFUL MAN WITH THE SPIRITUAL-SINLESS MAN. THAT NEW SPIRITUAL MAN LIVES BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND SATAN HAS NOTHING IN HIM! (Jn. 14:30)
DO WE SEE THIS TRUTH IN OUR SPIRIT AND SOUL? CAN WE IMAGINE THIS ACT OF OUR SAVIOUR AND SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE TRUE DEPTH OF THIS SACRIFICE? THERE IS NO WAY FOR ANY MAN TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND THAT. LET US REPEAT THE MOST IMPORTANT TRUTH ABOUT OUR SALVATION:
WHEN WE DIED WITH CHRIST BY THE WILL OF GOD, OUR SINFUL NATURE WAS DESTROYED IN CHRIST IN ITS ENTIRETY, IN OUR SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY. IN GOD’S WILL, OUR OLD BEING SOAKED WITH EVIL, DOES NOT EXIST ANY MORE! AT THE SAME TIME, IN CHRIST GOD CREATED FOR US A NEW MAN, HOLY, RIGHTEOUS AND SINLESS MAN WHOM WE ARE TO PUT ON AND LIVE. (Eph. 4:24// 2Cor.5:17)
THAT IS OUR SALVATION AND NOTHING ELSE! (Gal. 6:14-16// Rom. 6:6,7)
ARE WE DOING IT? NO! THAT IS WHY WE NEED GOD’S FIRE TO WAKE US UP FROM OUR DEEP SLEEP, DEEP DECEPTION, DEEP UNWILLINGNESS TO INTERRUPT OUR COMFORTABLE CHRISTIAN DREAMS, TO DIE TO EVIL AND BE RESURRECTED.
The CROSS OF CHRIST is the only way out of the POSSESSION AND NATURE OF SATAN back to the POSSESSION AND NATURE OF GOD and God had provided this Redemption and Salvation POTENTIALLY for all men born to this world, especially to them that believe. (1Tim. 4:10)
OUR CROSS is the only way out of the NATURE OF SATAN back to the NATURE OF GOD and God had provided this Salvation POTENTIALLY for every born-again believer, who will overcome and die to his nature of Satan by his own will and decision.
WHEN WE ACCEPT BY FAITH WHAT GOD HAD DONE FOR US IN CHRIST, THEN WE STILL HAVE TO WORK OUT THIS FAITH IN OUR LIFE. THE REPLACEMENT OF SATAN BY GOD, THE REPLACEMENT OF OUR OLD MAN BY OUR NEW MAN MUST BE DONE IN US BY US AND BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. OUR TRUTHFUL COOPERATION WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS CRUCIAL IN THIS “UNSEEN BATTLE” FOR OUR SOUL.
p) LET US NOW SEE and receive from the Lord the following spiritual facts and truths.
· Our New Man is NOT living in us at the time when we are redeemed. He is waiting for us IN Christ and we have to put him on by growing up into Christ in all things! (Eph. 4:15) The Lord says we can only grow up into Him on the narrow way.
· When we are fully saved we, as it were, come to where the First Adam and Lucifer were before the spirit of sin, the law of sin, the nature of sin existed. If we are bold enough, we may now ask Our Father what guarantee He has that we would not again fall into sin as Lucifer and Adam did? What difference would there be between us? The Lord says that there is a very basic and also very great difference between us and it is the following.
Lucifer and Adam were CREATED BY GOD and thus capable of sinning, but we are BORN OF GOD, and here the Word says:
“Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for HIS SEED remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he is BORN OF GOD”. (Jn. 1:12, 13// 1Jn. 3:9// 1Pet. 1:23) THAT is Our Father’s guarantee and also ours.
· How and why could Lucifer fall into sin being sinless, spotless, perfect and nobody tempted him? The Lord says that Lucifer DID NOT LOVE! God is love, but Lucifer was never love; he therefore never knew in himself what true love was or what the fruit of true love was, such as, compassion, patience, longsuffering, meekness or goodness.
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To be continued next week in chapter 5 – part 13
brother Hanola
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