The scheme of things
Sept 6, 2016 9:38:07 GMT
Post by Colossians on Sept 6, 2016 9:38:07 GMT
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THE SCHEME OF THINGS
In our work: “Christ our sacrifice, not our substitute” (see that work), we have said that the atonement consists of Christ’s taking away the law from over us.
But this brings us to ask why He couldn’t simply achieve such via declaration? Why did He have to die for us?
Well … it is because we wouldn’t have believed Him.
You see … words, no matter who says them, are simply not enough to make us know that we are worthy to be made joint heirs with Him whose very presence causes the sinful to burn:1 we must rather and instead be joined to Him so that He and we are one indivisible being: only then can we know that we are worthy.
1 See our work: “Heaven and hell”.
This then is the scheme of things:
The Father took us out of the Son and gave us to Him to wife, on the condition that He (the Son) would not accuse us of any deficiency, the satisfaction of which condition necessarily having to manifest itself as His (the Son’s) death at the hands of the very law which had (otherwise) determined2 such (our) deficiency.
2 “Determined”: (1) In that “the law is not made for a righteous man” (1 Ti 1:9), any and all directives in it imply a propensity in us to do the opposite. (2) In that “the strength of sin is the law” (1 Cor 15:56) and in that “the law is spiritual” (Rom 7:14), any and all directives are naturally rebelled against by the flesh, thus bringing us to actually do the opposite and thus confirming that the law is indeed spiritual. (See Rom 7:7-16.)
More particularly, in His being crucified specifically for declaring Himself God, the Son most assuredly proved to the Spirit that He had given up the right to use the law as one who was God and therefore given up the right to use the law against us who had been given to Him by the Father and who (prior to such relinquishment) were under that very law.
And so the Spirit could then with confidence enter us in the behalf of Christ, declaring to us that this very Christ is indeed our very true Husband who will love us as Himself.3
3 See also our work: “Understanding Romans 3:31”.
And so we see that Christ did not atone for us as a substitute, but as a husband who in a very direct sense absorbed the deficiencies of his wife.
“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth” Is 53:7.
"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them" Col 3:19.
Amen.
(See also our work: “The legal proof that Jesus Christ is God”.)
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THE SCHEME OF THINGS
In our work: “Christ our sacrifice, not our substitute” (see that work), we have said that the atonement consists of Christ’s taking away the law from over us.
But this brings us to ask why He couldn’t simply achieve such via declaration? Why did He have to die for us?
Well … it is because we wouldn’t have believed Him.
You see … words, no matter who says them, are simply not enough to make us know that we are worthy to be made joint heirs with Him whose very presence causes the sinful to burn:1 we must rather and instead be joined to Him so that He and we are one indivisible being: only then can we know that we are worthy.
1 See our work: “Heaven and hell”.
This then is the scheme of things:
The Father took us out of the Son and gave us to Him to wife, on the condition that He (the Son) would not accuse us of any deficiency, the satisfaction of which condition necessarily having to manifest itself as His (the Son’s) death at the hands of the very law which had (otherwise) determined2 such (our) deficiency.
2 “Determined”: (1) In that “the law is not made for a righteous man” (1 Ti 1:9), any and all directives in it imply a propensity in us to do the opposite. (2) In that “the strength of sin is the law” (1 Cor 15:56) and in that “the law is spiritual” (Rom 7:14), any and all directives are naturally rebelled against by the flesh, thus bringing us to actually do the opposite and thus confirming that the law is indeed spiritual. (See Rom 7:7-16.)
More particularly, in His being crucified specifically for declaring Himself God, the Son most assuredly proved to the Spirit that He had given up the right to use the law as one who was God and therefore given up the right to use the law against us who had been given to Him by the Father and who (prior to such relinquishment) were under that very law.
And so the Spirit could then with confidence enter us in the behalf of Christ, declaring to us that this very Christ is indeed our very true Husband who will love us as Himself.3
3 See also our work: “Understanding Romans 3:31”.
And so we see that Christ did not atone for us as a substitute, but as a husband who in a very direct sense absorbed the deficiencies of his wife.
“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth” Is 53:7.
"Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them" Col 3:19.
Amen.
(See also our work: “The legal proof that Jesus Christ is God”.)