Concerning the Purpose of Redemption, which is the Title of this Part 5, we must add some very important spiritual facts and consider their impact on our own person.

There is a great difference between “sin” and “sins”. Sins, as acts of evil, may be forgiven us, but sin, as the root of evil, CANNOT BE FORGIVEN! This root of evil in our being is our EGO, our FLESH and that cannot be forgiven – that must be destroyed! Until sin in us is destroyed, it will continually produce in us and through us our sins – for ever and ever! Christ had not only drank the cup of sins and iniquities, which the whole mankind commit­ted during its earthly life (Lk. 22:42), but moreover HE WAS MADE SIN for our sake so that we could become the Righteousness of God in Christ (2Cor. 5:21). Therefore, regarding the two above quoted spiritual facts, there are two main reasons why we may not be spiritual­ly growing, why we are not being perfected, why we may be praying for years, yet, no spiritual change takes place in us, rather, we remain carnal-fleshly believers. There are two reasons for it:

(a) We do not see ourselves, our root of sinfulness – our whole ego-flesh,

(b) We do not see our many sins, nor are we aware of them, since we walk and live in our flesh. That’s why we do not perceive anything spiritual including the real reasons why we actually com­mit­ted those sins.

After some time when the Lord shows us our sins and we are willing to confess them and repent of them, He forgives us and cleanses us from all unrighteousness caused by those sins (1Jn. 1:9). BUT in the root of sinfulness of our spirit – in our flesh – no other change took place! Even if we try to stand against that root of our sinfulness and desire “to do some­thing”, refine our souls or learn so we would not continue committing the same sins and iniquities on and on in our future, we will fail and achieve nothing. The Lord knows it, yet, He will allow us to continue because we need those failures! Because through these manifold trials and failures we will start seeing that this is not the way, we will start see­ing our impotence, emptiness and inability of our soul. The Lord is achieving this through many problems and conflicts, which He creates and puts into our ways for that very pur­pose – that we would see and know ourselves. Therefore, thank God for problems! The true servant of God is not really distressed when he sees believers sinning, but when he sees their attitudes and reactions to their sins and stupidity, how they try to defend them­selves, reason, talk around or excuse themselves just to preserve their “image” not reali­zing that they are thereby preserving their root of sinfulness, their sinful flesh. While we live in a spiritual darkness, we do not realize any sin we commit and thus we live peace­ful­ly. When the Light comes from the Lord our “peaceful life” ends.

Why even our most sincere efforts and prayers fail? After Redemption, many believers try to put their “new will” against sins not realizing that “sin” is a “law” (Rom. 7:23-25) where­as our will is not a law. Therefore, the law of sin al­ways prevails over all our efforts even the prayers of our will, desires of our heart, the thoughts and imaginations of our mind. The failures come because the law can only be stopped or eliminated by another law, which is stronger and more effective. The solution is to set the law of sin against the law of the Spirit of Life, which is in Christ, which is the only law liberating us from the law of sin and death! (Rom. 8:1,2) Nothing else helps! Learning righteousness is the same as learn­­ing the Judgments of God, since the Judgments of God point to the righteousness of God.

We are getting into Christ and our root of evil and sinfulness is being destroyed only by the JUDGMENTS of God. The Judgment of God is His Light-Truth in which we can see ourselves such as we are in His eyes. When we receive and believe that Light-Truth, it is able to LIBERATE US FROM THE LAW OF SIN, from the root of sinfulness, from our flesh (Jn. 8:32). That which the study of the Bible or preaching of the Gospel cannot stop – can be stopped by the Judgment of God. Only the Judgment of God is able to stop sin! When­ever we think of the Judgment of God, we think of punishment. But the reverse is truth be­cause the Judgment of God is God’s Grace, Mercifulness and a Compassion towards us giving us the opportunity to see and be liberated. The same can be said about the Cross of Christ and of our cross as well since cross is also the Judgment of God and not punish­ment. The Life Eternal springs from the Cross – not from the forgiveness of sins. When God is forgiving our sins, it does not mean, that He is simultaneously giving to us our Life Eternal.

Whenever sin and wickedness became the problems of man, God reacted with Judgment, which stopped the sin, cleansed the man and corrected the situation (ex. Noah & Flood). The Light of God burns, it cleans through burning, our God is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29). The New Jerusalem is from a transparent gold and precious stones because it was cleaned by fire. We might also say that this City is „fireproof“. All sacrifices of the Old Testament represent the Cross, and no sacrifice was done without fire. Without fire, God could not receive us. The Judgment of God – the Cross – brings us to the point when there will be nothing remaining in us what could oppose God, what could yet be capable to sin against Him. Under the intensive and radiant Light of God, we lose all our power and the abilities of our natural being. There does not exist a natural man, which would be able to survive the Light of God. The whole Truth is clear in His Light and nothing remains cover­ed. Hence whenever God speaks (His Word is Light), we are finished, and if we would by chance re­main alive, then we had heard only doctrines. Because if we are truly enlightened, we lose the ability to do, what we were doing in the past. The Light of His Judgment is able to break what we were unable to break during many years of our Christian life. “When we are judg­ed (enlightened by His Light) then we are humbled by the Lord, so we would not be con­dem­ned with the world” (1Cor. 11:32). If we keep receiving the Light-Judgment we are being saved-perfected. If we refuse the Light-Judgment we shall be disciplined-hum­bled in the future because it is impossible to escape the Judgment of God.

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To be continued next week

brother Hanola

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