Romans
3:23-24
"For
all have sinned (every last single human being) and
come short of the glory of God. Being justified freely by his grace
(that divine benefit of our benefactor) through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus:"
We
all know should what redemption means by now. It’s the process of
paying the price and gaining something back. The hidden meaning is
that through this action we are given the right of becoming a son of
God again. The reinstatement of being a Genesis 2 child, where sin
and death were not known.
Romans
3:25a
"Whom
(Christ) God hath set forth to be a propitiation
(deleted,
removed the record of sin) through faith in his
(what?)
blood,…"
We
can’t take that out. We have to maintain the absolute, because to
delete or remove means that there remains NO record of sin, that it is
His shed blood which is in accordance with His whole divine plan for
the ages of human history which began with Adam and woman (one with
Adam) who became Eve, the mother of all flesh in sin. This being just
outside the garden all the way up through the Old Testament economy
of the Levitical Law and Temple worship which were nothing more than
shadows of He who was to come, as the seed of woman (the one who was
one with Adam, the second Adam). All bringing us up to the Supreme
Sacrifice of all time, the death of Christ Himself called “the day
of the Lord”, the end of the second Adam. And that’s when
sacrificing stopped Biblically. There was no more need for sacrifice,
because through His blood all record of the past sin was forever
deleted, once forever in Christ or through Christ Jesus, when He
died. But the pagans and those caught up in and by religion (the
snare of the devil) kept it on. But Biblically there is no more need
for sacrifice nor any of the related and connected rituals, customs
and ceremonies of Judaism or anything else, by those who remain
self-willed, self-ruled, self-centered who resist God, as seen in James 4:13-17. As they all pointed
to the “Day of the Lord” as the everlasting one: the one
concealed, the one who was seen as being far off in the distance, yet
who was and is the culmination of the end of days. Never forget
that without the shedding of blood there is no remission, no deletion
and no Redemption. And without Redemption there is NO Salvation. What
does it take to please God?
Colossians
1:15
"Who
(that’s a pronoun, but it refers back to God the Son up there in
verse 13. So it’s God the Son, who) is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of every creature (or
creation)."
I
have to stop. Everybody that knows anything about the Bible, at all
,knows the verse that says, "No man has seen God at anytime
and lived." And yet we have instances back there in the
Old Testament where Jacob actually put up a landmark after he
wrestled with God and prevailed in the over powering of Him in
Genesis 32. This took place after Jacob sends his family and herds
away to safety, looking at verses 24-29 where it states this:
“Jacob
was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking
of the day. And
when he saw that he prevailed not against Him, He touched the hollow
of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with Him. And he said, let Me go, for the day breaks. And he
said, I will not let You go, except You bless me. And He said to him,
What is
your name? And he said, Jacob. And He said, your name shall be called
no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince has power so do you with
God and with men, and because you have prevailed. And Jacob asked
Him,
and said, Tell me,
I pray You, Your name. And He said, Wherefore is
it that
you ask after My name? And He blessed him there.”
Jacob the supplanter was no longer the supplanter but a prince that
would prevailed. Demonstrating the conflict between the lower life
and the higher life that God calls us to in Christ. Again how do we
please God, is it by prevailing with God or by a humble humility,
with a contriteness of heart and then
submitting to God that we please Him?
Genesis
32:30
"And
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face
to face, and my life is preserved."
So
then people think that the Bible contradicts itself. On the one hand
it says, "No man can see God and live, and yet Jacob
says, "I have seen God face to face." Well you can
go back to Genesis chapter 18 and we know that Abraham set the table
with the fatted calf, and what ever else went with it, and the Lord and
two angels sat down and ate. Now Abraham wasn’t out in some
invisible fog some where, but rather the Lord Who was visible. He was
there physically. He, ate and drink, and Abraham talked about
the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.
It
is not a contradiction, but you have to understand that God, the
invisible triune God (the El of
Elohim), no man has ever seen, how could they, He’s
invisible (He is Spirit)!
Plus the fact that if man would have ever found himself in the
position to be in the presence of that invisible triune God, he would
have never survived. So what has happened? Well the best way I can
put it, if you can imagine a blackboard, this is God, the invisible
triune Spirit God, but once man came on the scene and would now have
to have some way of identifying with his Creator, what did God do?
Well one person of the Godhead (Elohim) stepped out and became
visible, tangible, over and over, and it is always God the Son, the
LORD. God the Son is the member
of the Trinity that has always been the One to communicate with man,
and become the visible manifestation of that invisible God. He is the
one Who put on mans flesh but without mans sin nature as the promised
seed of woman. Not the seed of man and woman but rather of woman and
the divine word (sperma, semen) received with a virgin womb.
So
yes, no one has ever looked on the triune, invisible, Spirit God. But
when God the Son steps out and becomes visible, and communicates with
man, it’s no problem whatsoever. So it is not a contradiction, we
just have to understand the circumstances. This is what meats great
resistance by those who profess to be Jews but are not (Revelation
2:9 and 3:9). Now this is what Paul is talking about here in
Colossians chapter 1:15.
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