Author: Sis Mhay

Types and shadows
They teach us to search
The virtuous woman
Is that not the Church?

The virtuous woman,
The church is it not?
As Peter described,
Without wrinkle or spot.

The traits of her character,
Her love for the groom,
Surely that is the Church,
Correct to assume?

Loving her family,
A home so secure,
Saints loving each other
with hearts that are pure.

Many seem to focus on
the virtuous woman alone,
Yet there’s a deeper lesson,
Hence I wrote this poem.

Let’s examine our hearts,
Whether a boy or a girl,
Apply that hidden treasure,
That greatly priced pearl.

For the virtuous woman,
She applies to us all,
To truly be Christian,
To follow Christ’s call.

Hope is based on promise not on probabilities. And God is a promise keeper

Psalm 145:13

For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. You rule throughout all generations. The Lord always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does.

Hope looks ahead with certainty. It is the confident expectation of good things that are still to happen.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?

Hope produces joy. The joy of anticipation: our hope will come to reality. Hope in trusting God hoping he will deliver.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.

Hope is a person. All I want for Christmas is Jesus.

Luke 2:30‭-‬32

I have seen your salvation, which you have prepared for all people. “He is a light to reveal God to the nations, and he is the glory of your people Israel!”

Please consider..

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that when I come I won’t like what I find, and you won’t like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly behavior.

David

David’s life was a portrait of success and failure, and it highlights the fact that he was far from perfect. He had absolute faith in God. His faith pleased God, he was rewarded for it by the Lord.

David absolutely loved God’s law of 150 Psalms in the Bible. He is credited for writing over half of them. God granted David understanding and wisdom through daily meditation. We would do well to not only read God’s word but also think about it throughout the day for God loves when we think about him.

David was truly thankful. His life was marked by seasons of great peace and prosperity as well as times of fear and despair. But through all the seasons in his life, he never forget to thank the Lord for everything that he had. It is truly one of his finest characteristics.

David was truly repentant. Despite his sin of adultery, lying and murder, he always loved God and sought to repent of these sins. He is a role model for all of us sinners who need to repent earnestly.

Joseph

Joseph was a good administrator. He was a hard working and faithful servant. A fair and handsome man. God was with him and made him prosper and succesful. God blessed his master through him. His master had entrusted him to be in-charge of all of his house affairs. He fear God and always seek him in everything he does.

Daniel

Daniel was a chosen, a man of conviction and commitment. As a child he had been raised to know God’s health laws. A very humanitarian, generous and humble Jewish man who also loves to connect to people. He remain faithful to his culture and to the Lord despite temptations of the Babylonian Empire. He was a noble man, serving the king with loyalty and integrity. He continued to trust God even the circumstances are against him, indeed God blessed him with wisdom and favor throughout his life.

Paul

Paul was a persecutionist who kill children and people because he believes God called him to do so but he was bounded with that sin. But God forgives him and called him to be his apostle. He was transformed by the light of Christ and changed the life of many people. Through him the salvation of Christ was spread and the grace of God was given to the people and reconciliation was done between Jews and Gentiles. He also connected the Jews, Romans and Gentiles.

Paul wrote 13 books in the bible. He was bold enough to preach the word of God. His life is a living testimony that until now it works in the lives of a lot of people. He was a good example to those who suffered trials and confusion in life. A man who killed people then became a good man who preached the word of God. One of the 12 Apostles of Christ. A faithful servant.

The New Testament was originally written in the Greek language and has been translated into other languages. The Greek word for “church” is derived from a verb meaning “to call out from”, in the noun form, ” the ones called out.” Sometimes it carries the meaning “called unto.” In the New Testament it refers to the people who are called out from sin, evil, and the world unto God.

The word was also used to refer to a gathering or group of people. So in the New Testament the word often means an assembly of people, or a congregation, which is related to God. The church is God’s assembly or God’s congregation. The English word “church” is derived from a root which means ” that which belongs to the Lord,” or “of the Lord,” or ” the Lord’s.”

The New Testament usage of the word is more limited than our current usage. In the New Testament there were no buildings known as churches. There were no denominational organizations yet founded to be called churches. And there is no example of a meeting of Christians being called a church service. In the New Testament the word refers to the people of God, to those who have been redeemed by the sacrifices of Jesus Christ.

According to one person’s count, there are 3,573 promises in the bible. The word “promise” itself occurs over 50 times in The King James version of the bible.

When God gives us a promise, we can be sure that this promise will be fulfilled because He never changes and his love never fails. But man is imperfect, he is changing – changed decision, and his promises are meant to be broken.

God out of his love to man, he has given us many promises in every areas of our lives.

The promises of God are “Yes and Amen”. It’s in the bible,

 2 Cor 1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

God promises never fail – none of God’s promises in the bible ever fail.

Jos 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

God promises eternal life – for our children too.

1 Joh 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Isa 49:25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

God promises a new heart – a promise of new heart and desires.

Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

God promises of forgiveness

1 Joh 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

God’s promises include the Holy spirit – the fruit of the spirit.

Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

God promises about money, finances, prosperity and employment – you will not lack anything.

Psa 34:9 O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

Mat 6:31-34 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

God promises to supply all your needs

Phi 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

He does not hold back anything that is for your benefit of good.

Psa 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

God promises of healing – good health and healing.

Jer 30:17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

God promises of wisdom and guidance

Jam 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Pro 3:5-7 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

God promises for children, family and marriage

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Eph 5:21-33 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

God promises about peace and not to worry.

Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Phi 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

God promises help in overcoming temptation – victory over temptations.

1 Cor 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

God’s promises are fulfilled through his word. Believe everything you ask in his name and it will come to pass. Amen!

In the last article we examined the necessity of having to keep ourselves in the love of God lest we negate a genuine salvation as well as the hope of eternal life.

This article will more focus upon the forgiveness of sins and how it is the love of God which covers the multitude of our sins, not as a cloak for ongoing sin, but rather a cover in the sense that manifest righteousness does away with all sin.

The reason “manifest righteousness” or the “love of God” covers sin is found in the combination of firstly God’s mercy in being willing to freely forgive our past rebellion and faithlessness, and secondly, the union we have with God in the establishment of our hearts in Christ. We see this concept patterned in the words of David…

Psa 32:1  A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whosesin is covered.
Psa 32:2  Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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Psa 32:11  Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that areupright in heart.

Take note that David makes a connection between those “whose transgression is covered, whose sin is covered” with “in whose spirit there is no guile” and  “are upright in heart.” There is no forgiveness without a corresponding transformation of a wicked heart full of guile into an upright heart in which there is no guile. This is so important to understand and it is why God reckons or imputes “faith” as righteousness.

Rom 4:5  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6  Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Rom 4:7  Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

We don’t “work” in the sense of simply “moving” in order to be reckoned us just by God. Rather we keep ourselves in the love of God through which we manifest uprightness of heart. Thus it is God working in us to will and to do of His good pleasure for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Our “movement” or “work” is simply a manifestation of God’s work upon our heart.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Eph 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Faith works by love, love works no ill, thus faith upholds the righteousness of the law.

Gal 5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Rom 13:10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Rom 3:31  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Keeping ourselves in the love of God is inseparable from a faith that works by love, therefore the forgiveness of sin is clearly premised upon the principle of the manifestation of an upright heart. This is why the sentiment we find in Romans 3:31 is followed by the sentiment of God reckoning faith as righteousness in Romans 4:5. A faith which is inclusive of steps (Rom 4:12) and a trusting in God (Rom 4:20-21).

This is all so simple, it is the simplicity of Christ which is in accord with the doctrine according to godliness.

1Ti 6:3  If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

How could the Church System get it all so wrong? They have perverted grace from being the manifest power of God working upon an upright heart unto an outworking of genuine righteousness, into some kind of “positional salvation” with a cloak for ongoing defilement.

So dear reader, which will you follow? A cover requisite of a manifest righteousness, or some kind of theological cloak for ongoing manifest unrighteousness?

Carefully reflect upon the following words by James and Peter…

1Pe 4:8  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Jas 5:20  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

You see, we are justified by the grace of God, the grace that brings a total transformation of the heart as the power of God brings our inward parts to life.

Tit 3:7  That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
We are justified freely by the grace of God THROUGH the redemption that is IN Jesus Christ. Paul here is speaking of the transformation wrought through abiding/walking/living in the Spirit of life IN Jesus Christ.

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
This is why Paul would write…

Rom 3:22  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Paul understood the transformative dynamic of “by grace through faith”

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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.

 Jesus Christ truly sets us free from ALL INIQUITY and PURIFIES US UNTO GOOD WORKS.

Has this happened to you do reader? Or have you fallen for the “confess your sinfulness” and “trust in a provision” whereby you “wait on God to change you” ?

If you have not been redeemed of all iniquity and made pure, whereby you are walking in purity and holiness, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, where you no longer sin for you have been born of the incorruptible seed, then dear reader, consider if you have really repented or not, consider whether you have wholeheartedly yielded to God, whereby a true transformation will be wrought within you.

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1Jn 3:6  Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1Jn 3:7  Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10  In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1Jn 3:11  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Why is the blood of Christ necessary?
The answer is simple…

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.
Heb 9:17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Jesus died for the CAUSE that our consciences be purged of dead works that we may serve God in an acceptable manner. Dead works is everything that is done apart from God, sinful deeds and deeds which are vain.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

We are to present ourselves as LIVING SACRIFICES, HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD. In order to do this we have to have our conscience purged of the dead works, works which are not rooted in a living sacrifice, not rooted in holiness, and therefore not acceptable unto God.

Jesus, due to this, is the mediator of the NEW TESTAMENT and where a testament is there must be the death of the testator. In other words the death of Christ is what ESTABLISHED the New Covenant as a manifest reality, the death of Christ brought the New Covenant into reality. We are therefore enjoined into covenant with God by the blood of Jesus Christ, the blood that was shed on our behalf.

When we enter into covenant with God via the blood we are approaching God in a NEW AND LIVING WAY. We are not approaching God via the Old Covenant sacrificial system, ordinances, rules and regulations. Instead we are approaching God in a “new and living way” which is exclusively of the heart, this why we read…

Heb 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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Heb 10:9  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10  BY THE WHICH WILL WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE AND FOR ALL.
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Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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.

We therefore approach God with a TRUE HEART.

True – alēthinos – G228
From G227; truthful: – true.

In other words…

1Jn 1:5  This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

We come clean with God in repentance and yield wholeheartedly to God and by doing so we ENTER INTO COVENANT BY THE BLOOD and it is through this means that our hearts are sprinkled from an evil conscience, our bodies figuratively washed with pure water.

This cleansing is designed to be a ONCE AND FOR ALL cleansing whereby the believer has been redeemed from ALL INIQUITY and MADE PURE and are thus zealous for righteousness.

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.

It has NOTHING to do with trusting in some kind of abstract provision which Jesus somehow brought into reality via the cross.

Jesus WAS NOT your substitute. Jesus DID NOT bear the full wrath of God. Jesus DID NOT pay your sin penalty. Jesus DID NOT bring satisfaction to the honour of God via being a substitute for the dishonour wrought by sin. Jesus DID NOT die as a substitute for the penalty that the moral law of God be upheld.

Jesus DID die that He might redeem us from ALL iniquity an make us PURE. That is why He died. He brought into effect the New Covenant and tore the veil in order that people would DIRECTLY approach God via the “Temple of the Heart” and therefore worship God in Spirit and Truth.

Jesus PURCHASED US with Hid blood. He DID NOT purchase some kind of provision wrought by Him being a substitute. That is a lie from the pit of hell designed to lure people away from the REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST.

The Word or Logos is the expression or creative principle of God. ie. the Word is that which flows out of God to us.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Joh 1:6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7  The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8  He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Joh 1:9  That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jesus was the expression of God born as a human being. Thus Jesus “the man” did not exist prior to being conceived in Mary, yet the Word did exist but was yet to be fully expressed through a human being.

Thus the Word is not a “separate person” from God as the Trinitarians teach but rather a “manifestation” of God to us.

Likewise it is with the Holy Spirit. Both the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ proceed forth from the Father which is why Jesus would say…

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Jesus Christ was divine, was God in the flesh, but was not a pre-existant separate person. He was the expression of the Father to us, subordinate to the Father for He came FROM the Father, the Father did not come from Him, nor did Jesus and the Father come from a common source.

God can only be fully perceived through the Word which is why we need the Word WRITTEN on our hearts.

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;

2Co 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

There is only ONE God.

We are justified freely by the redemption that is IN Christ. Not by “trusting in a provision.”

Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Redemption involves a RELEASE FROM BONDAGE, a BEING SET FREE.

Redemption – apolutrōsis – G629
From a compound of G575 and G3083; (the act) ransom in full, that is, (figuratively) riddance, or (specifically) Christian salvation: – deliverance, redemption.

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Rom 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

It is OBEDIENCE FROM THE HEART which sets us free, not “trusting in a provision.” WHOLEHEARTED OBEDIENCE TO GOD is wrought through GODLY SORROW WORKING REPENTANCE UNTO SALVATION.

2 Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
2 Co 7:11  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

This is a REPENTANCE NOT TO BE REPEATED, hence one is to be brought into a SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF, a salvation NOT TO BE TURNED AWAY FROM. This is why we are given this warning IMMEDIATELY AFTER the cleansing of Hebrews 10:19-22…

Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28  He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

The wolves simply do not understand this “once and for all cleansing” which is why they imply a sin/repent cycle and the subsequent easy forgiveness. Look around who is teaching a “once and for all cleansing not to be repeated” as the salvation experience? Practically no one is, that is how deceived the world is regarding repentance, faith, salvation, grace and the forgiveness of sin. These folks do not under understand regeneration for if they did they would contend earnestly for endurance in the faith and would never imply easy forgiveness or repeated rebellion (even occasional) by Christians.

Pure means pure.

Mat 5:8  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

1 Ti 1:5  Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Pure hearts do not willfully sin. Willful sin voids the cleansing via the blood and a second repentance is not something easily to be found which is why Peter gave the warning…

2 Pe 2:20  For if AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2 Pe 2:21  For it had been BETTER for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Pe 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Compare…

Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the KNOWLEDGE of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

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2 Pe 2:20  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the KNOWLEDGE of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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2 Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the KNOWLEDGE of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2 Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Knowledge – epignōsis – G1922
From G1921; recognition, that is, (by implication) full discernment, acknowledgement: – (ac-) knowledge (-ing, -ment).

Knowledge is a dangerous thing because with it comes accountability. It is no small issue to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust, be sanctified by the blood, and then turn away from that, count it as cheap and rebel once again. Don’t be deceived into taking the forgiveness of God for granted, the forgiveness of God is not something to be trifled with. Substitution theories insidiously and subtly imply easy forgiveness.