[6-3] Who Are Christians That Believe in Jesus within The Framework of Their Own Fleshly Thinking? (1 Kings 12:25-33)

(1 Kings 12:25-33)
“Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and dwelt there. Also he went out from there and built Penuel. And Jeroboam said in his heart, ‘Now the kingdom may return to the house of David: If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah.’ Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, ‘It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!’ And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. He made shrines on the high places, and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi. Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart. And he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and burned incense.”


I read along with you today the Word of God from the First Book of Kings chapter 12 verses 25 through 33. The words of today’s Scripture passage are frequently dealt with as a topic of a sermon that we get to hear often, but in truth, so many Christians do not know very well the spiritual meaning hidden in this Word of God. And so, along with fellow workers at home and abroad, I wish to look into heretics, a wicked group, as shown in today’s Scripture passages. 
The outline of the passage we read today is as follows. Originally, a man named Jeroboam wasn’t a member of royalty. Because Solomon had sinned before God, Jeroboam became the king of Israel, and in order to defend his kingship, he made two golden calves and set them up in Bethel and Dan. Then, by telling the people of Israel, “Here are two calves of gold, gods which have guided you,” he had the people of Israel worship the idols, and in doing so, he had turned them into collective heretics.
God really hated this sin of Jeroboam. All the sins people commit before God because of their insufficiencies and weaknesses should all receive the remission of sin by having faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, but the sin of having people believe falsely and be cursed by altering this gospel of the water and the Spirit can never be forgiven before God. Like so, those who altered the sacrificial system that God had set as the Law of salvation in the Old Testament could not avoid punishment for the sins they have committed. Even in this current day and age, there are many people who have received the remission of sin by believing in the way of salvation set by God and having faith in the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit. However, all those who do not believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit but instead stand against it are heretics. It would be fine if such people were to believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit even now, but if they do not, they do not get to receive the remission of sin forever.
God tells us that the sin that Jeroboam committed is like the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit in the New Testament (Matthew 12:31, Hebrews 10:29). As from the Word of God, only the sacrificial system set by God is what can save humanity from all their sins. However, because Jeroboam had committed the work challenging and demolishing the plan for salvation set by God from its very foundation, God had reproached and destroyed him, his children, and even his people. 
In order to keep his throne, Jeroboam had changed God’s sacrificial system arbitrarily and offered sacrifices to the golden calves by setting them in his temples and saying that they were gods. And also, he had appointed priests from every class of ordinary people who were not of the sons of Levi, and that was a great sin that had all the people fall into ruin. King Jeroboam, in his own heart, had replaced God with the golden calves. And also, in his own heart, he had installed false priests, not the duly qualified priests God had ordained, and had people offer sacrifices to the idols. Because of the things that he had set according to his own heart, he had his soul destroyed, as well as all the souls of the Israelites under his reign. Thus, God tells us through the Scripture passages that the curse of God fell upon the house of Jeroboam and all those living inside his house and that the same curse of God also fell upon his successors. 


There Are Christians Currently Leading a Life of Faith within the Framework of Their Own Thinking

Today, Christian leaders have also made a strange faith in accordance with their own thoughts. So far all the Christian denominations have defined Christianity as a religion of the remission of sin, and they have made the doctrine of the remission of sin with Jesus’ blood of the Cross and believed in it. The doctrine of salvation of current Christianity is composed of the blood of the Cross and the doctrine of sanctification. Thus, Christians have a firm conviction that their sins get cleansed by the faith of believing in the blood of the Cross. In other words, thinking within the frame of thought they have created, they have a firm conviction that Jesus came to this earth and remitted the sins of people by the blood of the Cross. In this manner, people tend to believe that one can receive salvation if he believes in Jesus having cleansed all his sins by coming to this earth and by shedding His blood on the Cross. Christians have created the doctrine of salvation according to the framework of their own thinking and spread such faith to others. However, such doctrine is nothing but a fabricated doctrine that was created out of the framework of their own thinking. That no one can receive the remission of sin no matter how ardently one may believe in this doctrine proves that it is not the Truth based on the Word of God. Thus, as a result, the doctrine of prayers of repentance gets added on as a central doctrine of Christianity.
Doctrines created by religious reformers or theologians in each of the denominations within Christianity are mostly similar. First of all, the doctrine of Christianity states “Christianity is a religion of the remission of sin.” It means that Christianity is a religion that cleanses people’s sins. Christians believe that if they believe in the Precious Blood that Jesus Christ had shed on the Cross, all their sins will disappear. It is saying that all they have to do is to believe in Jesus Christ having remitted all our sins by being crucified and dying. And so, they say that “Whoever believes in the Precious Blood that Jesus Christ had shed on the Cross, the doctrine of repentance, and the doctrine of sanctification will gain salvation” is the formula of faith by which they are able to receive salvation. They have all created a doctrine of salvation within the framework of their own thinking and have had people believe in it. 
Therefore, there is a tremendously large number of people these days who believe in the fabricated doctrine which says that anyone who believes in the blood of the Cross will gain salvation. This is a Christian doctrine that the leaders inside Christianity had created within the framework of their own thinking. If one can receive the remission of sin just by believing only in the blood of the Cross, those who really believe so must have theirs sins be gone, but the reality isn’t so. Right now, did you become the righteous who has no single piece of sin by believing only in the blood of Jesus? No, we did not. However, many people believe like in this manner. 
The current doctrines of Christianity have all been created within the framework of human thinking, and they are nothing but false doctrines. They teach that whoever acknowledges one’s own sins and believe in Jesus having blotted out our sins by being crucified and shedding His blood will receive the remission of sin. And, they teach people to think that whoever steps into that doctrine by faith will receive salvation despite having sins. 
Having created a fabricated framework for salvation inside their hearts like so and even though their sins haven’t actually disappeared, Christians continue to believe in Jesus in vain by hypnotizing themselves, “I have received the salvation.” Christians today have created a formula for the remission of sin within the framework of their own thinking by basing it on the blood of the Cross, and they go on believing that if one were to believe according to that formula, they would receive the remission of sin. However, because people who believe in the blood of Jesus only have sins, in actuality they continue to go on living always as sinners because it is nothing but an absurd doctrine. It is just like people who do not believe in Jesus continuing to go on living as sinners until death. 
People often have the tendency to create a certain hypothesis within their frame of logic and then to wish that to be the truth. However, the true gospel of salvation before God is the gospel of the water and the Spirit, rather than the gospel of the blood of the Cross. Whoever it may be, people can receive salvation only when they are born again by believing in this gospel of the water and the Spirit, and this is the Truth. 
Within the framework of his own thinking, Jeroboam believed in the idols as God. What was its result? God’s curse fell upon him. According to his own heart, he had changed the Day of Atonement from the tenth day of the seventh month to the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and by making priests from every class of ordinary people, he had them worship the idols. 
God had built the Temple in Jerusalem for the Israelites. But, by building temples in the regions of Dan and Bethel and putting golden calves there, Jeroboam had people of Israel believe in the idols by saying to them that these were their gods which have guided them. Still not satisfied, he had made shrines that seats idols in every village, and in Bethel he himself had personally ordained the priests. In order to worship the idols according to the framework of his own thinking, he had installed the priests arbitrarily. However, the Bible states that only the descendants of Levi can become God’s priests. This was something set forth by God. But, Jeroboam had believed in God according to his own thinking. His faith, which was manifested by his own thinking, was something gravely inaccurate. 
Among the descendants of Levi, the men selected from the family of Aaron were set forth by God to become the High Priests as they reach the age of thirty, and the ordinary priests from the sons of Levi were to be installed at the age of 25. God has made it so that the priests came from the family of Levi, and especially, a person who was born into the house of Aaron and had reached the age of 30 without any physical or mental problem was an instrument to be used by God as a High Priest. Therefore, when the people of Israel went to the Temple of Jerusalem, this is where they were able to meet the High Priest and the descendants of Levi. When the people passed on the offering to a priest after having laid their hands on it, the priest drew the blood of the sacrificial offering, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and poured the remaining blood onto the ground. And then, the priest offered the sacrifice to God on behalf of the people by burning its flesh on the altar. Thus, God had set all such works to enable His people to receive the remission of sin.
People had weaved together a framework for salvation according to their own thinking which stipulates that if one were to just believe in Jesus Christ’s blood of the Cross, they would receive salvation, but then again, what about the Lord’s will? Didn’t the Lord set the framework for our salvation by the gospel of the water and the Spirit? Whose frame of thinking must we believe in then? Of course, shouldn’t we believe in the framework for salvation set by the Lord? If you are those who fear God, you will believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit that God has set forth as the framework for our salvation. The fact of the matter is that God had saved us by setting forth the framework for our salvation by the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God does not change the law of salvation provided for us in accordance with circumstances. This man, Jeroboam, had altered the framework of salvation according to his own heart.

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Having Conjured up a Doctrine that says, “One Receives the Remission of Sin by the Blood of the Cross,” According to Their Own Thinking, Christian Leaders Continue to Believe with a False Faith

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