Doctrine of the Angelic Conflict, part 55 – The essence of God – Truth

Title: Doctrine of the Angelic Conflict, part 55 - The essence of God - Truth.    

                                                                                     

2:8 �See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.    2:9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,

 

2:10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

 

2:11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;

 

2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

 

2:13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

 

2:14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

 

2:15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

 

5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son.

 

HEB 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

 

HEB 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

 

Obviously the cleansed would know that he sinned:

GAL 5:19

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident,

 

 “no longer have had consciousness of sins” - no longer having guiltiness of sin before God because you are completely clean.

 

JOH 15:3

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

 

1CO 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?

 

1CO 5:7 Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

 

1CO 5:8 Let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

 “celebrate the feast” - celebrate the Lord’s supper without boasting about sin or fighting amongst ourselves but rather in the sincere truth that Christ has cleansed us.

 

JOH 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God, and was going back to God,

 

JOH 13:4 rose from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself about.

 

Jesus Christ took the position of a slave by girding Himself with a towel.

 

JOH 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

 

JOH 13:6 And so He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, "Lord, do You wash my feet?"

 

JOH 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do you do not realize now, but you shall understand hereafter." 

 

JOH 13:8 Peter said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." 

 

JOH 13:9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head."

 

JOH 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." 

 

Completely clean, all of them but one, Judas Iscariot the unbeliever.

 

JOH 13:11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, "Not all of you are clean."

 

JOH 13:12 And so when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments, and reclined at the table again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

 

Their silence indicates - no.

 

JOH 13:13 "You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.

 

JOH 13:14 "If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought [indicative command] to wash one another's feet.

 

If foot washing refers to confession of sin then why are they being commanded to wash one another’s feet? Is that to mean that they should take confessions from one another or does it mean that they should be servants of one another?

 

JOH 15:12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

 

JOH 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

 

Go back:

JOH 13:15 "For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

 

JOH 13:16 "Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master; neither is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

 

JOH 13:17 "If you know these things, you are blessed [happy, soul prosperity] if you do them.

 

Let’s go to another foot washing:

 

LUK 7:36 Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him. And He entered the Pharisee's house, and reclined at the table.

 

LUK 7:37 And behold, there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

 

LUK 7:38 and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume.

 

Therefore foot washing doesn’t refer to rebound either here or in the upper room. It refers to service. In her adoration of the One who has cleansed her she prostrates herself before Him and serves Him in the capacity that she has.

 

LUK 7:39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner."

 

According to the Law the one who is made unclean by touching an unclean animal or human and he didn’t know it, once he was made aware of it, he has to confess the sin and then offer a burnt offering and then the sin is forgiven and he is made clean. The Lord doesn’t do this nor does He make her do this for she is clean forever by means of faith.

 

LUK 7:40 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he replied, "Say it, Teacher."

 

LUK 7:41 "A certain moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

 

LUK 7:42 "When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him more?" 

 

LUK 7:43 Simon answered and said, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

 

LUK 7:44 And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair.

 

LUK 7:45 "You gave Me no kiss; but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet [a sign of her love].

 

LUK 7:46 "You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

 

LUK 7:47 "For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." 

1 John  4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

 

Notice that the love is a result of her forgiveness. The evidence of her understanding of her complete forgiveness is her great amount of love and it didn’t take her 40 years of doctrine to love, just simply and understanding of her complete cleansing by Jesus Christ. She already believed in Christ upon hearing Him prior to barging in on their dinner party. She could have only heard Him in the last few days or even that day and yet she already loves much. Why? She has been forgiven much. Do you read any confession being made here?

 

LUK 7:48 And He said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven." 

 

 “have been forgiven” - perfect passive indicative of avfi,hmi[aphiemi] = forgiven in the past with results that go on forever.

 

She has been forgiven forever, cleansed forever and not just until she commits her next sin.

 

Same verb used in 1JO 1:9

 

LUK 7:49 And those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, "Who is this man who even forgives sins?"

 

LUK 7:50 And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

 

He didn’t say, come back for another foot washing when you’ve sinned again, does He?

 

HEB 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

 

HEB 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

 

HEB 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

 

HEB 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

 

HEB 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,

"Sacrifice and offering Thou hast not desired,But a body Thou hast prepared for Me;

 

HEB 10:6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast taken no pleasure.

 

HEB 10:7 "Then I said, 'Behold, I have come  (In the roll of the book it is written of Me)To do Thy will, O God.'"

 

HEB 10:8 After saying above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast not desired, nor hast Thou taken pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

 

HEB 10:9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Thy will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

 

Please notice that the “first” is taken away in order to establish the second.

 

LEV 5:2 'Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

 

LEV 5:3 'Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.

 

LEV 5:4 'Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

 

LEV 5:5 'So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

 

LEV 5:6 'He shall also bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

 

That’s the first. Now look at the second.

 

HEB 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

And now back to the first:

 

HEB 10:11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

 

And now back to the second:

 

HEB 10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

 

HEB 10:13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.

 

HEB 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

 

By one offering - is there ever going to be a time when I am not perfected before God?

 

HEB 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

 

HEB 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And upon their mind I will write them,"

He then says,

 

HEB 10:17 "And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

 

The following two verses are quoted from:

 

JER 31:33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the Lord, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

JER 31:34 "And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the Lord, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

 

If He doesn’t remember sin any more then why am I supposed to?

 

You may say, well this is Israel in the Millennium and you would be right, but would you venture to say that they have a better covenant than we do? What is our covenant?

 

1CO 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 

 

1CO 11:25 In the same way He took the cup also, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." 

 

1CO 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.

 

HEB 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And upon their mind I will write them,"

He then says,

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HEB 10:17 "And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

 

HEB 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

 

HEB 10:19 Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

 

HEB 10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh

 

HEB 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

 

HEB 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

 

HEB 10:23 Let us hold fast the confession [homologia - noun] of our hope [confidence in God’s deliverance] without wavering [in unbelief or false doctrine], for He who promised is faithful;