Comments January 29, 2010
EXPLICIT BIBLE TRUTH
Jesus
Who is he
What is he
Why is he
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: KJV
Matthew 7:8 For everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened. ISV
Romans 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One (man, Jesus) the many will be made righteous (righteousness is the gift of God, Rom. 3:21-24, Eph. 2:8-10, ISV, KJV).
TODAY’S Comments
âPast, Present, Futureâ
We are important only because God has made us important. No one is more important than God and God never changes His mind so we are eternally important.
The redeemed and the Lost of mankind were foreknown by God before Adam and Eve our great Grand parents existed, Romans 9:22-24, Ephesians 1:4-6.
God has redeemed some very odd people such as the “Thief at Calvary” who was a convicted criminal and Saul who was a murderer of Christians who became the “Apostle Paul”. Other so called good citizens such as the Sanhedrin meaning the Council as in Town Council which was composed of Sadducees and Pharisees, the self appointed Religious authority, Matthew 23:2-3, will go to the “Lake of Fire”, John 8:43-44, Matthew 7:22-23. Some of the Sanhedrin primarily Pharisees will be saved, John 3:1-2, Acts 23:6-8.
If God did not conform us to righteousness, Romans 8:29 nor expel the ungodly into the âLake of Fireâ the awful things we see in the world today would simply continue. If God did not restrain evil we would have self districted long ago as we have had the means to do so for some time.
It is my personal opinion that God foreknew that the redeemed through their personal volition would repent, that is; they would turn to the righteous God with/by sufficient provocation from God. God also foreknew that the Lost would never repent, never turn to righteousness, Revelation 16:10-11, Psalm 1:1-6, Psalm 2:1-12, Psalm 73:1-28, Romans 9:15-24. Many like the Pharisees have their own plan of salvation So, “They did it their way”.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
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John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
The Him in red above is probably not a reference to the invisible God of Heaven but rather the “Son of God” Jesus Christ, the “God-man”. Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God, Colossians 1:13-15.
Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers (Israel) by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world, John 1:1,10,14.
Hebrews 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
To see Jesus Christ “face to face” either in person or in the Scriptures is to see the personality of God. The Lord Jesus Christ, the “God-man” is God manifest in the flesh, 1Timothy 3:16. He is the visible righteousness of God, Romans 3:21. He is the express image of God’s person, Hebrews 1:3. He is what God is like personally. That is why rejecting Jesus Christ is rejecting God, 1John 2:23.
The word translated world in John 3:16 above is the Greek word Kosmos (Genesis 2:1) which actually means the entire universe, the creation including the infrastructure (animal, mineral, vegetable) with mankind in authority beginning with the planet Earth, Genesis 1:28 and the redeemed of mankind who God will place in authority over the new Heaven and Earth, Romans 8:14,19,21. The Earth is sort of a boot camp, training for mankind but with many casualty’s. The sin problem will be resolved here on Planet Earth.
The focus is currently and primarily on Planet Earth and the people and usurpers (Satan and company) of Planet Earth. Shakespeare wrote “The Earth is a stage and its people are the players, paraphrase”. Shakespeare must have read the Bible.
The Devil is used by God as a tool. The Devil was neither appointed or invited and there is no oops here. God cannot do dirty deed’s as God is 100% righteous. God uses Satan to exploit the weakness of mankind. Our innocence is gone and probably will not be restored but God through time and circumstance will heal the redeemed, Revelation 21:4.
The Devil became an authority in the Earth when God subjected mankind, as a result of bad choices, that is what we are, subsequent to loss of innocence to rule by Evil governors so that we will know, experience “Good and Evil” and we experience and see both which is very educational, Genesis 3:22.
Satan is not limited in his capacity to inflict disaster’s but is under the restraint of God whom he fears intently. God has given him much latitude to inflict harm to and through the human race. Satan will be unrestrained after the Church, “The Body of Christ” is raptured, 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7, Revelation 4:1.
Adam and Eve are not who we are but rather what we are meaning: as a result of their fall from innocence we bear the image of the fallen Adam and Eve as he and she are the Parents, patterns for the human race, 1Corinthians 15:21-22, Romans 11:32. In some context both Adam and Eve are called Adam (Hebrew, meaning Man) meaning mankind which is anthropos in the Greek which gives us anthropology, the study of mankind. Genesis 1:27, Genesis 5:2.
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image (fallen Image); and called his name Seth:
The redeemed of Planet Earth are now being conformed, changed to the Image of the forerunner who is Jesus Christ, 1Corinthians 15:49, Hebrews 5:8-9, see below.
The new Kosmos, the new “Heaven and Earth” will be ruled by perfected and redeemed “Sons of God” who are taken from mankind without regard to Gender, ethnicity or status. The Devil and his followers will be in the “Lake of eternal fire” when God no longer needs him and yes the Devil does Deserve that fate.
Most likely we will replace the fallen 1/3 of the Angels of the “Host of Heaven” but we are being processed into a higher creation, Hebrews 1:4-5, Romans 8:29.
Hebrews 5:8 though being a Son (humanity of the God-man, the son of the Virgin Mary), He learned obedience (to Righteousness) from what He suffered
Hebrews 5:9 and having been perfected (through His suffering by Evil men), He came to be the Author (forerunner) of eternal salvation to all the ones obeying Him (God),
Contrarians are welcome here so please e-mail questions and remarks. (ron.clark1939@yahoo.com)
A brother in the “Body of Christ”,
Ron
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