Romans
3:23-24
"For
all have sinned*, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified
freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"
*this is
everyone of us, NO one is without this nature NO one!
We
all know what redemption means? That’s the process of God buying us
back out of the slavery market of sin. When we were in Romans chapter 3
we used the analogy of the Roman slave market, and it’s a
very appropriate one, because it was very real. The Romans would
go out with their legions and would conquer other people, they
would bring them back, especially the younger people (children and young boys) who were capable
of slave duty, to Rome and they would end up in the slave market. We
can drew the analogy, here we have a young blond, blue eyed fellow
from northern Europe who finds himself in this market. The slave
market was awful, because if you were bought out as a common slave
you could end up doing any kind of horrible slave labor to include
being sold to ship-masters to row their ships. It was awful, it was
hot, and when they died, they just pitched them overboard. If
these slaves were not bought they could end up in the coliseums as
meat for the wild animals. So that was the prospect of a Roman slave
market.
There was also the good side. There could be a benefactor some one who would come and
buy them out of the slave market. Say a benevolent slave owner would
buy a slave and clean him up, give him a whole new set of clothes,
give him light duty around his estate of trimming the lawns and so
forth, and remember the Romans lived sumptuously. So here’s this
young slave who’s been bought out of that horrible situation, and
given this beautiful place to work, and have all the best food. Then
one day this benevolent Roman owner comes and says, "Young
man! I’m going to go one step further, I’m going to give you your
freedom. I have bought your citizenship. You are free to go and do
whatever you want to do." Now the analogy we have used
before is, "What is this young man going to say? ‘Listen
you’ve done so much for me, and I have learned to love you so much,
I don’t want my freedom, but rather I want to stay here and serve
you the rest of my life.’
That’s where we’ve left that analogy. You know what a lot of
Christians are doing now? What if this same young man would say, 'I want to stay right here and serve you, but once a week can I
go back into the slave market?' Isn’t that ridiculous?
Isn’t that as ridiculous as you can get? Here he’s been spared
the horrors of the slave market, and that’s where every lost person
is, they’re in Satan’s slave market. Know it or not no one is exempt every one is born in sin with the sin nature. However, Christ paid the price of
redemption, He bought us out of it, and then we have the audacity to
say, 'But can’t I just go back and get a taste of that sweet candy, of the
sinful world once in a while?' Listen that’s what
Christians are doing when they go back into, heck I have to be Truthful many have never left, the world! And to me it
just does not fit, it does not make since. I know and understand that we all have some kind of tunnel vision or as Jesus' parable, bad sight a blocked view and corrupted mind (Matthew 5:29, 6:22-23). All because of what we have been told, in ignorance by our parents, preachers, school teachers and the like, in other words because of what we are told someplace in our youth we have formed an opinion be it true or false and everything we see or think is based automatically because of it. We don't have a clear eye or good vision because of a blind spot unknown to us. Now this is the problem over and about the fact that many are in sin because of religion but that not withstanding, any claim to have the Holy Spirit who's job, by the way, it is to clean house, this includes our minds eye, our perception. If we do have the Holy Spirit indwelling us, His first job is to reveal to us Christ! To do this there has to be a house cleaning in which all trash is removed and discarded, sweep clean. This happens of all places within our mind because of the corruption of sin that it contains and has accumulated over the years. I mean our brains are cluttered with dirt, unless stuff, mans wisdom in the from of knowledge to start with. This one hidden fact causes us to see and hear in a twisted fashion, words and words get jumbled up like a log jam. We see but do not see we hear but do not hear, all because of this blockage or blindness in our brain. This is where He the Holy Spirit begins because to read and study God's Word we need clear vision and perception. Here is the key, we have to want Him to do it, we have to allow it. If we do not we return to our sin nature and stay in religion all the while believing we are doing God's Will.
We're not saying we’re going to be perfect, of
course we’re not. We all fail, we all sin, but to go back into
gross sin, and just glibly say, "Oh well, I’m saved and
don’t have anything to worry about." We don’t think a
true believer can look at it that way. Especially those to whom the
revelation of the mysteries and meaning of the Lord's Supper, garden
prayers, the trail, crucifixion, and on through His ascension is all
about. These people become immovable by His Faith working within them
for they are the sanctified, holy ones. They have God's
righteousness infused within them, they have been restored to Adam's Genesis 2 condition. That is why they have to come out from among them as seen in 2 Corinthians 6 through 7:1, the church with it's religion is corruption of mind and blind to clear vision of understanding in perception.
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