Forgiveness is a covenant word. A legality word. What do I mean? Let's look at it this
way. If God, who is perfect Love, could have simply forgiven Adam and
Eve and restored all things right then and there, and restored He and their relationship by simply saying I forgive you, He would have done so, for such would
have SPARED JESUS THE PASSIONS OF THE CROSS. But we see that Jesus was not spared.
Forgiveness is more than an emotional response. It is a covenant word
which spiritually means TO PARDON and to make as if the wrong was never done. It takes love to FORGIVE but that in itself is not enough to remove the sin for the sin remains. It takes peculiar precious blood to FORGET SINS, to abolish sins, and to separate the sinner from the sin he actually committed and from there comes the wisdom of the blood and Cross of the Son of God.
Sin is the transgression of
established LAW. God had given Adam and Eve A LAW and that LAW was LAW.
Transgressing that LAW was a type of crime so to speak. A Huge Crime. Law and Crimes
committed against those laws have a price attached to them, even in the heavens of God. Satan fell from heaven from transgressing LAWS in heaven.
When Adam & Eve ate of that tree they transgressed Law. They committed the first trespassing crime of
man on earth. They crossed over the NO TRESPASSING ZONE LAW and that Law was the
original Law of sin and death, it had separation from God attached to it in its wording. It had first immediate spiritual death attached to it, and the physical death would follow.
They (Adam & Eve) transgressed the GREATEST AND MOST
HIGHEST AND THE MOST POWERFUL CONDEMNING LAW IN THE LAND OF PARADISE that man could transgress. It was
almost as bad as Lucifer's sin and crime. The difference between the two
was Satan had no tempter. Adam and Eve were tempted to transgress.
Nonetheless let's not split to many theological hairs about Satan and man's sins, for hell they both go to. There was not that big of difference
when you really think about it and really get to the bottomless pit
about it. Hell is Hell and forever is forever. Both transgressing demons and transgressing men are in hell forever. This should be to us all a very sobering thought.
WE (Mankind) HAVE FORGIVENESS of sins and the removal and FORGETTING of our sins by the power of Christ blood and by the sacrifice of himself only. Love put Jesus on the Cross for our sins. The blood of His Cross cleanses and PURGES us of all our sin.
Now note this.....From the Cross comes this Word of Gods love for us saying, I will be merciful unto their unrighteousness. Then from the power of the atoning blood of His Cross God also speaks these words , saying, And their sins and iniquities will I remember NO MORE. Those two combined scriptures is true, complete, covenant forgiveness. It takes love to forgive. It takes blood to forget and to make sins powerless against the transgressor.
Only because of the
sacrifice of Christ who stepped between us and God and stepped between us and hell and paid the punishment himself on the Cross, only by his sufferings do we have the forgiveness and great pardoning of all our sins and by no other means. (Isaiah 53:1-12) tells us that Jesus became the punished, the
Sacrifice for the sin of the world, so that our freedom from sins eternal consequence could be purchased, being that God himself as a man tasted death, even the death of the Cross for our pardon and so great a salvation. There was the hugest price paid for our ransom. God, he that is from everlasting to everlasting tasted death for every man. That in itself tells us how terrible the bind and the consequence of Adams transgression. Only God the Law giver could save man from the transgression of the Law he gave. And that Law could only be undone and erased by the death of the Law giver.
No one in their right mind in heaven, or on earth, or in hell could justifiably argue that the price paid for Adams sin and for our sins was not enough. For the JUDGE HIMSELF (God) came off His Throne and went to the Cross to ransom and save them for what they were fully guilty of and deserved.
The Judge gave the verdict that we were all guilty under the LAW. The Judge measured out the punishment which was hell forever without God. But in our case THE JUDGE HIMSELF did what was before in heaven THE UNTHINKABLE. He said that He would pay the price for the sin of all the world so that we would not have to, and only He, the Judge, THE CREATOR of heaven and earth qualified to pay such a high price that all the sin of the world demanded so that man in his spirit, in his soul, and in his body could have so great a pardon and Salvation for all eternity.
The Great Pardoning of Guilty Man was purchased by the Judge Himself putting our guilt and its punishment on Himself. The Judge understands and knows what He went to the Cross for, so that by the sacrifice of Himself he would put away sin forever and save to the uttermost his people from their sins.
God could not have nor cannot just simply forgive the
world without Christ blood in the mix. IF HE COULD THEN HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO IN THE VERY BEGINNING AFTER THE FALL, AFTER ADAM AND EVE SINNED. But because, as we said before, redemption's forgiveness is more than just an emotional response, He couldn't. Their sin had to be atoned for by a punishing paid price in blood, for the wisdom of God speaks this, saying, Without the shedding of blood there is no remission, no removal, nor forgiveness of sins.
The GREAT PARDON that we all needed could only be obtained by a price paid to justify that GREAT PARDON not just an emotional response. If God could just simply say I forgive all, then all the world
would be forgiven and saved period, but we see clearly as we look at the blood of His Cross and the souls in hell that it was not that simple. We see that all the world is not being saved. Billions are in hell today testifying to this truth.
That is why we and all must believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and keep our faith in His Blood Covenant & Agreement with us and be washed in His Blood. That is why Jesus really is the only way, and the only TRUTH, and the life that saves us and gives us full access unto the Father. There exist no other way out there, in here, up above, or deep below that God accepts for men to be Pardoned and saved from their sins but HIS SACRIFICE ALONE. Christ did not die in vain. And there is no other Name, no other sacrifice, or redeeming blood for the eternal remission of sin but the death that Emanuel Himself tasted for us all in blood, in the blood of His Cross.
This is the blood
of the New Covenant Jesus said, shed for many. I give my life and my blood
for the redemption and the ransom for many.
What will you give in exchange for your soul? It is only Jesus Christ and Him Crucified and Risen from the dead for me. All other things, all other ideas, religions and philosophies, and goosey bump feelings that take their stand against the Cross of Jesus Christ, those other ideas etc. are the devils formations to deceive the world and keep them from Christ.
Please never forget this. The Lord our God, THE JUDGE HIMSELF is not a God that is divided against Himself. He is not a kingdom divided against itself. He will not nor can He DENY HIMSELF. He knows good and well why He Himself became a man and went to that Cross. There was no other way to save us from our guilt and sin (NO OTHER WAY). If there was then God would have saved His Son (the 2nd Person of the Godhead) from all that pain and sufferings.
God's Spirit will never deny that He is the Only Way. Such He cannot do and such He would never do. He cannot Lie, therefore He cannot deny HIMSELF or His own precious blood that he shed and it's reasons. But Satan sure would preach and present to the world another way, even many other ways to deceive the world again and again......please share freely......deno.
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