Nambari 126
Thank you for amazing truth
I hope this finds you well and prosperous in Jesus Christ, our Lord!
Firstly, let me assure you that translation work is going very well and it comes out with a very good quality, by the inspiration, guidance and blessings of the Spirit of Christ Himself.
I just had a very striking revelation when reading Reverent Paul C. Jong's book today, and I just wanted to share with you in love these thoughts, which I believe would benefit people who can hear them, and fellow especially believers, who already know some scripture. It was about the chapter where Rev. Paul C. Jong spoke about the dead sin of the outer man. ("...Our outer selves were already crucified with Christ. Those who have the remission of sins also go on sinning through their physical bodies. But isn’t that a sin? Yes it is, but it is a dead sin. It’s dead because the sins were taken to the Cross with the Lord."). And it made me immediately recall the OT image of Moses' brass serpent on the rod.
The same way, when you look at the dead sin, you are freed from the venom of the sin forever! The brass serpent on Moses' staff in the Old Testament was a symbol of this dead sin, which was to be revealed in the New Testament. Just as the Israelites bitten by venomous serpents were instantly healed when they looked up at the brass serpent with their physical eyes, now we too are completely healed from all our sins when we look with the eyes of faith at the dead sin nailed to the cross in Jesus Christ!
Formerly I used to be taught that the brass serpent symbolized crucified Christ, and there is of course a truth to it. But no one had told me that the whole point of this brass serpent symbol was that it represented the actual DEAD sin, not just the crucified Messiah!
Then I realized as well, that the reason why so many Christians can't receive complete forgiveness of their sins is that they don't understand this symbolism of a brass serpent. If they had realized that the serpent on the staff was actually not real, but DEAD, e.g. made of brass, - they would have realized that in the same way, all sins of our external carnal man that have been taken up by Jesus Christ, and nailed and killed at the cross, - so they are just as dead as the dead brass serpent on the Moses' staff!
When Christians would see the complete death of the sin by this example, they would immediately understand what had been actually done by Jesus and would immediately receive complete salvation from all sins! The constant "carrying Christ's death within ourselves" would be just this constant reminder of faith about the fate of the dead sin eliminated forever on the cross!
I thank Rev. Paul C. Jong so much, as well as you and other coworkers, who helped these books to be published and spread throughout the world, to free people's consciousness.
God bless,
George Gogolashvili, Georgia
- George Gogolashvili
- Georgia
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