Justification and sanctification as contrasted in the figure
Oct 5, 2022 3:06:40 GMT
Post by Colossians on Oct 5, 2022 3:06:40 GMT
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Prerequisite reading
"The causal sequence of our salvation"
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JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION AS CONTRASTED IN THE FIGURES
The primary figure for our justification consists in the bearing of children by the woman, such being pre-eminently represented in Rachel’s plea to Jacob: “give me children, or else I die” (Gen 30:1). For it is by virtue of such that she is ‘equated’ with the male and therefore justified in bearing his name. For the male is productive through his physical strength and work, whereas a woman is not naturally his equal in this regard.
And so we read:
“But wisdom is justified of all her children” Luke 7:35
and consummately:
“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne” Rev 12:5.
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Contrasting, the primary figure for our sanctification consists of that part of a woman’s life where such ‘justification’ is absent. Specifically, when no figure exists for the bringing forth of Christ in our lives (when a woman is not pregnant and therefore not ‘productive’ with regard to her anatomy), the figure for our sanctification occurs in its stead: the woman has an issue of blood.
That is, and moving from the figure to the spiritual substance, the blood ‘takes the place’ of an otherwise bringing forth of Christ in one’s life: it ‘stands in the gap’ and 'washes away' that which is unfruitful.
So:
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Heb 9:14.
Summarily …
We might then begin to see that, just as the menstrual issue and pregnancy are mutually exclusive, so too sanctification and justification: they are in fact reciprocal to each other, the latter supplanting the former just as pregnancy supplants the menstrual issue.
Amen.
Prerequisite reading
"The causal sequence of our salvation"
_________________________________________________________________
JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION AS CONTRASTED IN THE FIGURES
The primary figure for our justification consists in the bearing of children by the woman, such being pre-eminently represented in Rachel’s plea to Jacob: “give me children, or else I die” (Gen 30:1). For it is by virtue of such that she is ‘equated’ with the male and therefore justified in bearing his name. For the male is productive through his physical strength and work, whereas a woman is not naturally his equal in this regard.
And so we read:
“But wisdom is justified of all her children” Luke 7:35
and consummately:
“And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne” Rev 12:5.
___
Contrasting, the primary figure for our sanctification consists of that part of a woman’s life where such ‘justification’ is absent. Specifically, when no figure exists for the bringing forth of Christ in our lives (when a woman is not pregnant and therefore not ‘productive’ with regard to her anatomy), the figure for our sanctification occurs in its stead: the woman has an issue of blood.
That is, and moving from the figure to the spiritual substance, the blood ‘takes the place’ of an otherwise bringing forth of Christ in one’s life: it ‘stands in the gap’ and 'washes away' that which is unfruitful.
So:
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Heb 9:14.
Summarily …
We might then begin to see that, just as the menstrual issue and pregnancy are mutually exclusive, so too sanctification and justification: they are in fact reciprocal to each other, the latter supplanting the former just as pregnancy supplants the menstrual issue.
Amen.