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Justification by Faith
Posted by: ehuffman | Fri, May 4, 2007 2:18 pm | Tag(s): Testimonies | Permalink |
The article by Pastor Myers,
“The Dilemma of One Accord and the Third Angels Message in Verity”
is right on. He explains in clear language the concept of justification by faith. Those who give reasons (justification) for their sins disqualify themselves for salvation. Examples include blaming others, blaming circumstances, blaming the devil, saying “well, I am human”, or saying “at least I didn’t …”, etc, etc.. We can’t be forgiven of sins we didn’t commit - we have to admit that they are sins, and that means there is no excuse for them.
He also mentioned the nature of Christ. That has been a big debate, but Pastor Myers let the air right out of it by pointing us to 2 Peter 1:4. I have known people who maintained that Christ had a human nature superior to ours that gave Him advantages in His fight against temptation. That belief allowed them to excuse some of their little nagging sins because “we can’t be perfect, we’re human”. But now “we are without excuse” - the secret is out. We just need to claim God’s “exceeding great and precious” promise and ask Him for the Divine Nature! It now makes sense to me that if we don’t believe that this Divine Nature is available to us, we won’t ask for it, and so we can’t receive it. As James says “ye have not because ye ask not”. So the secret to perfection is faith. Not faith in the our ability to stop sinning, but faith in God’s promise to give us His Divine Nature. We don’t need an excuse, we need faith!
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One Response to “Justification by Faith”
PowerOfChoice | May 6th, 2007 at 12:55 amThanks E Huffman!
Right on! Again!
Another common excuse I hear all too often among our own people is “We are living in a sinful world. We are going to wait until Jesus comes.”
Also I like this new emphasis on 2 Peter 1:4. That’s looking at the same issue from another point of view, isn’t it? Things become so much easier to comprehend and to make sense of when we are able to look at them from various angles, don’t they?
When reading the introductory paragraph of Pastor Ivor Myers it also struck me how important it is to know what time it is such that we can indeed meet together in unity not only on the same place, but also at the same time. How else could we be in unity with one another?
However, under whose banner and under whose calendar are we meeting for this latter rain look alike? Is it on the 7th 7th Day [May 26, 2007] following the weekly Passover Sabbath OR is it on “the 7th Day of the 7th Month in the 2007th Year after the beginning of the reign of Caesar Tiberius?”
Perhaps the above date, “7/7,” could serve as a waker upper for all of us? That is, kind of like an alarm clock that is waking us up at 7 minutes past 7 in the morning?
Could it be that ignoring these not so subtle differences re God’s timing vs. Pope Gregorian’s timing are in fact yet another species among of the above mentioned excuses? Think about it! How much emphasis are we SDAs putting upon implementing in our day to day lives the lessons inherent in Daniel 7:25?
“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws…”
I think we are quite “worn out,” aren’t we?!
Nevertheless, I whole heartedly commend this Operation Global Rain initiative! On that Way upon which we ought to be traveling there are steps to take one by one, aren’t there? The important thing is that we are waking up to our need for receiving more and ever more of the grace of God and that we do not sit down and exercise status quo teaching, thus becoming a cesspool of lukewarm water, is it not?
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