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Having Started from the Spirit are We Now Justified by the Law?

  • Kelvin Bwalya
  • Zambia
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  • 01/31/2024

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Sermons on Galatians - FROM PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION TO THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE (I)

Rev. Paul C. Jong

  • ISBN8983145498
  • ページ407
  • 評価

This Book "From physical circumcision to the Doctrine of Repentance" revealed a great number of spiritual things into my life of faith:truly we are people who can`t help our Lord in fulfilling our salvation that He has already perfectly completed,our Lord has apart from human deeds saved us and granted us the remission of sin.
By faith without the deeds of the law God the Father in Christ has given us the blessing of promise has it was with Abraham our father of faith;just like Abraham believed God`s word apart from deeds of the flesh before circumcision and received God`s blessings and His righteousness so have we who have believed in the word of righteousness fulfilled by Christ when he received our sins by the reception of His Baptism from John and His death as He hung there on the Cross for our curses received the blessing of the promise made to Abraham,God has fulfilled in Christ the promise of saving us from our sins once for all that we may enter the spiritual Canaan as His people sealed with the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Truly today`s Christians are lost in the doctrine of prayers of repentance as a way to deal with their daily sins committed;I too believed that my sins could be remitted only if I offered such prayers,I grew up in such a doctrine and was faithful to it without realizing how fallacious it was not until I met the truth of God that Christ saved me from all my lifetime of sin all by Himself without consulting me for anything in that there is no lacking in His ability as God to save me from sin.
The faith that adds human works to God`s work of redemption is a wrong faith made by men who failed to grasp the knowledge of the gospel of the water and the Spirit;just like the Galatian believers who had so easily been removed from the faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit,countless so called believers of Jesus in today`s era have been drowned into the fallacious beliefs that prayers of repentance, physical circumcision and observing the Sabbath literally could help them become approved before God as they go on living and if they offer prayers of repentance faithfully and emotionally,this doctrine has blinded many from the truth and led them to spiritual death such that it`s hard to bring them back to life as they can`t even realise how wrong the faith they have placed in prayers of repentance is,they are too arrogant to even let go of it and rather speak ill of the gospel of water and the Spirit which would bring them from their self engrossed deception if only they can accept it into their hearts and forsake their legalistic faiths.
Jesus Christ has saved us wholly from all our sins by Baptism and Bloodshed and that is enough to cleanse from all our sins of the past,present and the future;Jesus has saved us in the present perfect tense and the not the present progressive tense,the law having been given for us to know our sins,once we admit our sinfulness before God we come to enjoy His Grace of salvation fulfilled by His righteous acts of Baptism,Bloodshed and Resurrection.People live in emptiness because they haven`t found the truth that would get rid of sin from their hearts once for all;the confusion and emptiness in people`s hearts is as a result of the presence of sins intact in their hearts,until people receive the remission of sins they can never find satisfaction in the pleasures or other things of this world such as money,fame,power,etc.
We must all come to embrace the truth of the gospel of the water and the Spirit to enjoy the true peace of redemption in our hearts;without trying to add anything in attaining salvation we just have to bend our will to the will of God and believe in His true word of righteousness on how He has saved us from sin by water and blood.
Until we get rid of our sins and escape from legalistic faith we can`t serve God as the true servants God whose hearts are set to do God`s work but we will be driven by our fleshly desires,we must serve God`s work of righteousness without trying to please men or for our selfish gain;the doctrines of men can not surpass the gospel we have received which was given by the revelation of Jesus Christ and came not from man.
Truly God has allowed His word of truth to dawn in my heart and has brought all brightness and no trace of sin can be found within me though I am weak and insufficient,the grace of God is sufficient and I need not to add my own works to His work of redemption which He Himself accomplished perfectly and makes me truly born again by my faith in it.Hallelujah