Romans
3:23
"For
all have sinned and come short of the glory of God;"
Other
than Christ who was not a sinner, not one person, for all natural men
come short of the glory of God. Why? Because they place more
importance on the things of the world and their stuff, and the
pleasures of this life. Just like the rich young ruler. So here he
repeats it 2Corinthians. "That if one died for all, then
we’re all dead." Remember in Hebrews, how many did He
taste death for? "Every man!" Well if that’s
the case, then they were all dead, that is Spiritually. But as stated
by Gill “one” died and therefore “all died”, as stated this does not mean that all of humanity died with Him, as many suppose it and publish it. It is only those who become His sheep that are counted as having died in Him, as those who
are become His inheritance as stated in Psalm 2:6-8. This is NOT of the
general plain of mans own creation ideology, philosophy and theology.
And only applies for those who have chosen Him above all others, the
ones who by choice become His sheep, they are the “every man” and the "all"
that He tasted death for. Oh, I wish that I could say that this
applied to all men but sadly it does NOT! Even when we attend church
religiously we may not be His because we've placed our trust in
church doctrine instead of in Him. This is what bothered me all the
years that I attended church with my parents, grandparents and aunt
during my childhood and young adulthood years. I just did not know
how to express it. It is this that bothers me still to day as I witness so many caught by their traditions and by their practicing them remain on the outside of the Arch where they do not want to be. Because Christ has become our Arch in His Salvation, just as He was inside the arch of Noah's.
2Corinthians
5:15-16
"And
that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth
(from the time of their new birth, and then their receiving His
salvation) live unto themselves, (seek those things
which are above, and not the things here on the earth) but unto
him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we
no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the
flesh (that is His earthly ministry), yet
now henceforth know we him no more,"
He's
not in His earthly (as Son of man) ministry to Israel mode any longer
but is in His, in His, Spiritual Ministry mode, as Christ the Divine
One, LORD of spirits. He is the Head of all redeemed from sin and
death having sanctified, justified, made righteousness and holy to Him
Who IS. For they now are in His Salvation as the saints and holyones
as they walk out their trust in His faithfulness as Seth, Enoch,
Noah, Shem, Elijah, Eber, Abram/Abraham and Isaac and King David did. Thusly
honoring and fulfilling the requirements of the old Covenant made
with Abraham and Isaac as the Prophets said they would and the author
of Hebrews testifies too. These people now have hearts and minds fixed on
Christ. Because now we’re tied to His resurrection
and ascension!
2Corinthians
5:17
"Therefore
if any man be in Christ, (“If” we’re in the Body of
Christ. “If” we’re hid in Christ in God, “If” that has
happened then) he is a new creature (creation):
old things are passed away (the
full package of the Lord's Last Supper on through to our being in Him
at His ascension and His taking His place at the Fathers righthand);
behold, all things are become new."
Why?
Are they now New because we're part and parcel in the promised New
Covenant and in the power of an Endless and Eternal Life, the Light
which entered the world. And I guess most of us have experienced
that, haven’t we? The things that use to appeal to us, now we
wonder, how in the world did we put up with it. The things we used to
hate, or resented now becomes our whole life. How, through
understanding in the knowledge of Christ as His All in all. This is a
very restricked few as the related passages reveal beginning at John
10:16-17, 27-28 and 2Corinthians 5:14-15 state. We just can’t get
enough of Him. Well that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
2Corinthians
5:18
"And
all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by (through)
Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry
of reconciliation."
Well
this is all that concept that comes from the pen of the Apostle Paul,
with regard to our New Divine nature, as against the old Adam-Satan
nature. As it says we are now God's own possessions having been
restored through and in Christ Jesus.
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