someone wrote:
The Sacrifice and Exaltation of Christ
And not only was He the priest, but also the sacrifice!
He made a tremendously potent sacrifice, for He forever
purged our sins--something the Old Testament sacrifices
could never do.
this thing right here brings
up a point of interest;
this tends to solidify and establish
the very simple fact that this "Faith"
-must- come -from- Christ, and that -this-
"Faith" is -not- simply a 'belief'
worked up by flesh and blood.
even among a stubborn stiffnecked
people like ancient Israel it would
be possible for some to muster the
simple 'belief' that a lamb's blood
provided a 'propitiation' for his
shortfall, and in so doing, -be-
_cleansed_ of shortfall,
inasmuch as 'faith' and 'faith alone'
would fulfill the requirements to be
'pleasing' to God.
[regarding; "stiffnecked"]
not that ancient Israel is so much worse
than the rest of mankind, but that they
represent our exemplars of a people who
are come upon by God in a certain
personal manner, even if that manner,
before Pentacost, is "in the midst"
of the people, but not a "pouring out
of the Spirit upon all flesh"
as such were individual prophets who
speak -to- Israel in the Name of YHWH
culminating in John, Jesus' cousin.
and so, it -must- be the "paraclete"
that -brings- that "Faith" which is
all encompassing, substantial and evidentiary.
it is because the blood of a lamb
or a bull is not accompanied by
the paraclete, that it has not
the power nor ability to -complete-
a human being's "Faith".
so, why the apparent anger
with ancient Israel?
i tend to think that would revolve around;
"but -you- say, "we see"
and yet, your sin remains"
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John 9:39-41
And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into
this world, that those who do not see may see,
and that those who see may be made blind." Then
some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard
these words, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would
have no sin; but now you say, "We see.'
Therefore your sin remains.
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it's like a -presumption- of a
thing that God has -not- given yet.
and, as John, Jesus' cousin, remarked,
they, "bore no real fruit for repentance"
they came upon John as a "brood of vipers"
but -they- claimed a "special vision"
and -that's- why YHWH can be 'angry'
with a people in whom YHWH has not
come upon in Spirit.
because, they claim, in essence, that
they have already stitched together
a "righteousness of their very own"
and yet, "their shortfall remains"
and this applies to those in Moses'
and Isaiah's times as well to those
in Jesus' day.
The Spirit had not fallen upon the many,
but the many arched their collective
backs against YHWH.
and Jesus pops up several times saying,
basically, that he -knew- they were not
of God, even when they carried on the pretense.
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note; Mark 2:7-9 Luke 5:21-23
John 2:23-25
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast,
many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and
believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust
himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not
need man's testimony about man,
for he knew what was in a man.
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how did Jesus know?
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John 13:3
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things
under his power, and that he had come from
God and was returning to God;
---
because -only- Christ could provide
the paraclete. and aside from the
paraclete, there can -be- no "Faith"
and Jesus knew that the paraclete had
not been poured out and knew exactly
in whom it had been granted.
and, as we see in Peter's confession;
Jesus says;
---
"Matthew 16:17
Jesus replied, "Blessed are you,
Simon son of Jonah, for this was not
revealed to you by man, but by my
Father in heaven.
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and so, now all you need to see is that
the Fullness of Deity can dwell bodily
in Jesus, the man, -and- that same Fullness
of Deity is seated in the heavenlies in
God's eternal dwelling place, simultaneously.
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John 14:10-12
Don't you believe that I am in the Father,
and that the Father is in me? The words I say
to you are not just my own. Rather, it is
the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me; or at least believe
on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in
me will do what I have been doing. He will
do even greater things than these, because
I am going to the Father.
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just as a fullness of deity came to rest
bodily in 5000 people all at once on Pentacost.
so, why is this so important?
it thoroughly establishes the -fact-
that Christ and Christ alone is praiseworthy,
and that -we- just get a free Gift,
and we -keep- that Gift as we maintain
our admirations for Christ and Christ alone.
you have no thing that was not -given- to you,
so, who is able to boast against
the Root and Offspring of David?
and so, -our- 'boast' -is- Jesus Christ.
which doesn't bother -me- one little bit.
i'm just a dead man.
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