Bible language - KJV

Some modern translations of the bible take the following words out and replace them with words that instruct men with what to work toward; what to achieve; or how to gradually make progress toward; thus leaving the work of Christ in the human soul out of the picture.

• The word "redemption" is what God does to a penitent sinner through faith in the sacrifice of Christ.
• The "remission of sins" is what God does for man's personal forgiveness.
• "Regeneration" is what God does through the work of His Holy Spirit when man is born again.
• "Renewal" is what God does after He sanctifies your heart from the old Adamic life.
• "Justification" a pardon from past sin and down payment of Salvation; Judgment made by God declaring a sinner to be made a saint.
• "Sanctification" a completed work of deliverance from the Adamic life and what God does through the Holy Ghost and fire.
• "Perfection" is what God does after sanctification...and has nothing to do with human works. The word perfect used 113 times in the KJV.
• "Grace" The operation of God that morally changes the human soul into a child of God. No process.

Bethabara - another place where John baptized with water

John 1:24-28...And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

John the Baptist stated he baptized "with" water - beyond Jordan - at Bethabara

Reason? To help backslidden Israel recognize and worship Christ as the promised Messiah. Confession of sins were made. Water of purification sprinkled in John's baptism "cleansed" and "remitted" sin from all Jewish recipients according to the Law of Moses. John also baptized in the river Jordan.

Mark 1:4-5...John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

Purification of Israel was John's initial objective in baptism - as he and Jesus first preached the Kingdom message to Israel...before the message changed to the death and resurrection of Christ. The first commission to Israel was to restore the Kingdom in Zion.

Saying you're saved; or staying saved?

Salvation of the soul? How; and how long? I note many people say they are saved but how many stay saved all the way through life. Staying saved is the secret to the successful Christian life.

James 1:21...Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2...Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,

Salvation of the soul is not just getting saved from sin and disobedience. It's walking in the Spirit not in the flesh. It's staying in right-standing with Christ daily and never going back. It's not just claiming victory it's living the victorious life in Christ...under the eyes of God. Salvation is "not" part time believing; or being a religious sinner. Salvation is measured by your faithfulness to Christ. Not just something you say...it's something you live until you leave this world.

Salvation is received. Salvation is what you live for Christ. Salvation is the reason why you keep Christ in memory. Salvation is why you study the Bible and build upon it's knowledge. Staying in God's favor is Salvation. Work out your Salvation with fear and trembling.

Philippians 2:12-13...Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Thy seed - her seed - the curse of the Fall

 At the Fall of Adam God cursed the serpent for beguiling Eve and fracturing the perfect creation of humanity. Results from this curse fell upon all human conception since that very "original sin". Human conception, from that point on, was tainted from birth, born with a sinful nature and polluted with sin. Genesis described this very conception in the promise to the serpent as, "thy seed".

In contrast to the curse of the Fall where humanity was tainted with sin you also have "her seed" which indicates the biblical conception of the son of God in the prophetically fulfilled virgin birth. By nature all conception is formed from the seed of man "except" the only seed of a woman in existence, Christ, the Anointed One, and Savior and redeemer of humanity.

Genesis 3:15...And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

In the conception of Christ you find the power to bruise, crush, and destroy the power of the Devil. In the crucifixion of Christ you see the suffering of a Savior where the heel of Christ was bruised, where He actually shed blood, and died only to reveal His supremacy and power over death. Such power from a promised, crucified, and risen Christ bruises the authority of the serpent and offers deliverance from the acts of sin and the very nature of sin inherited from Adam's curse of the Fall.

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Power of the Gospel

The power of the Gospel is the only thing that can save and regenerate the soul of fallen man.

Romans 1:16...For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

What is the power? The Grace of God that brings salvation.

Titus 2:11-12...For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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Faith in Christ not based on what you see

2 Corinthians 5:7...For we walk by faith (in Christ), not by sight:

Faith wells up from within the broken human will. The ministry of the Holy Spirit convicts, breaks, and reveals the person of Christ. Faith comes into man's thinking after hearing the Word of God, primarily the essence of the cross and it's redemptive work. Revelation of the Gospel is heard. Forgiveness of sins that flows from Calvary is experienced. Faith hones in on results from the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ upon the believing soul. After exercising faith in Christ the Holy Spirit makes His abode. Not what you see, but a moral Salvation of the human soul that you experience from the person of Christ - through the power of the Gospel message.

Ephesians 1:13-14...In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance

Reality of Biblical truth within the believing soul

2 Peter 1:4…Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

When men get saved by the power of Christ the carnal nature is changed. The moral make-up is changed. Newness occurs within the human soul. New affections and new desires are formed within. Saving Grace regenerates. Greater is He.

1 John 4:4… Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Reason?

Romans 10:10…For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Believing in Christ’s redemptive work on the cross brings forgiveness and regeneration to the heart and soul inwardly in the present tense. Outwardly, confession is made about what Christ did within. Believers testify Christ, His forgiveness, and power to make men new on the inside. Divine power and Divine nature overrules the inherited carnal nature and allows man to “partake” in the person and power of Christ that flows from Calvary and the Throneroom. Such divine operation is maintained by faith in the person of Christ in Salvation.

1 Peter 1:5… Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Faith in the power and person of Christ connects and keeps connected. Faith in Christ must be kept, continued in, held to, and kept in memory. Without faith in Christ it is impossible to please God.

The Blessing of such reality?

Hebrews 3:1… Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

By partaking in a divine nature in this present life believers become eligible to partake in the heavenly calling or Eternal Life beyond the grave. Such blessing and reward are the elements of Salvation from a present tense life of holiness and right living on this side given from the life in Christ. Partakers of the divine nature are automatically partakers of the heavenly call “if” they continue in the faith and keep Christ’s redemptive work in memory.

Eternal life

Hebrews 6:1-3

 Therefore,

1. Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ. The principles of the doctrine of Christ were the teaching of the Law of Moses. Christ was born under Law; Grew up under Law; practiced the Law to the letter; taught the Law; died on the cross to abolish the Law and became God’s sacrificial Lamb to bring in the everlasting Grace Covenant we now live under.

2. Let us go on unto perfection. Perfection was the product of the Grace of God that flows from the cross at Calvary and is ministered to the believing soul by the power and omnipresence of the Holy Spirit.

3. Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works. Repentance under the Law of Moses required a man to bring sacrifices to the Priest and do as Moses commanded. Old Testament repentance makes a reference to obeying the Law of Moses and keeping it. Constant repentance without peace with God was the picture.

4. And of faith toward God – The faithfulness of the Old Testament Jew was to hear, learn, and practice the ordinances and teachings of Moses and Levitical Law. Under Law men struggled to learn and keep the Law and 613 commandments. Struggle alone was enough to cause men to miss God and thus becoming unfaithful. Under Grace the sacrifice of Christ took away human struggle and allowed man to receive an “inner moral work of the Holy Spirit”. Salvation and redemption were produced by such Grace that flows through the ministry of the Holy Spirit from the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary.

5. Of the doctrine of baptisms – Many ceremonial baptisms and not necessarily body immersion in water, many various washings of Levitical instruments, sprinkling of the blood and water with Hyssop as means of atonement. Dipping. These practices with water and blood of animals were many according to Jewish Law. Some baptisms were even customary by Jewish elders and teachers and not actual scriptural practice according to Law. Traditional influence and Talmudical based.

6. And of laying on of hands – Due to Christ’s atoning sacrifice and Israel’s final sin offering Great Grace and the ministry of the Holy Spirit birthed the Church upon humanity. Not for Jews only but also for the Gentiles. Impartation of sin with the laying on of hands by a Levitical priest was ministered upon sacrificial goats, lambs, turtledoves, pigeons etc. This method of impartation of sin to an animal sacrifice as a means of yearly atonement for faithful Jewish families in Israel was no longer needed.

7. And of resurrection of the dead – Resurrection of the dead has always existed in Biblical perspective. Body resurrection (raising from the grave) is the God given form of Eternal Blessing or Eternal Punishment and deals specifically with the physical make-up of the human being. The Pharisees and Sadducees were divided on the scriptural doctrine of resurrection of the body which is very vague in Old Testament records. Resurrection of the dead was proven to be realistic and actual through Biblical records of the resurrection of Christ. The resurrection of Christ was the greatest of blessings in Biblical history. Today under Grace in the Church the body of Christ resurrection power is what morally and spiritually changes the sinner into a child of God. The actual body (physical) resurrection will unite with the redeemed soul in the Rapture of the Church.

8. And of eternal judgment – The Bible says Christ will come (again) in flaming fire taking vengeance upon those who obey not the Gospel. Jewish and Hebrew people of faith know the Messiah came the first time at Calvary - in suffering, death on a cross, and resurrection from the tomb. God’s determination of Judgment took place at that time and will not be a flood like the days of Noah but with fire from Heaven unlike anything known to human comprehension. Tribulation will take place after the Rapture. God’s wrath will be unleashed for seven years beginning in Jerusalem. Judgments will take place at the end of the great Tribulation and at the end of the 1000-year reign of Christ on planet Earth. The final Judgment of the Great White Throne will take place at the end of the 1000 years as Hell, and death, and the Devil himself are cast into the lake of fire and experience the “second death”.

9. And this will we do if God permit.