Is God Really Good? (The Naked Truth Bible Series Book One 1)
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Unfunded Translations Support Translations Now. Our mission is to show how the Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus. Latest Videos See all videos. What was it like for the apostle Paul to travel around the Roman Empire announcing the good news about the risen Jesus?
What drove him to plant new Jesus communities in city after city, and how did people respond to his message? God's forgiveness of your own sins would be entirely contingent upon you fully forgiving others first. Meanwhile, I'll be praying a very different prayer, an opposite prayer in fact, based on the finished work of Jesus Christ accomplished at the Cross: Thank you, Father, for initiating through the Cross so that I could be a totally forgiven person today.
Thank you for a forgiveness that is not contingent upon my own performance as a forgiver of others but instead is fully dependent on the blood of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Take a few moments to compare Matthew 6: When given an honest look, do they not convey opposite messages?
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So why is this the case? Matthew 6 is directed at Jews before the Cross, while Ephesians 4 and Colossians 3 are taught after the Cross. Don't we believe that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his shed blood make a difference when it comes to the forgiveness we enjoy today? In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus was showing how hopeless we would be if our forgiveness were truly contingent upon our performance in forgiving others. Similarly, he told the Jews around him to amputate body parts in their fight against sin, and he urged the rich man to sell all of his possessions to gain entrance into the kingdom.
Yet these are moves that we know do not earn us salvation.
Meanwhile, after the Cross, the Apostle Paul is showing us that Jesus did it all. He fully forgave us "once for all" by His blood, so that we can now rest in that forgiveness, celebrate it, and then pass it on to others, forgiving others just as God already forgave us Ephesians 4: If the idea that Christians have been perfectly cleansed is "nonsense", then please label me nonsensical. I will cherish the label. As I see it, this is precisely what has happened to us because of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here's just a small number of Scripture passages that communicate this:. In fact, the whole reasoning behind Hebrews So this is exactly what we have through Jesus Christ: Hanegraaff calls it "nonsense" when I proclaim that Christians have been "perfectly cleansed.
As for being made perfectly righteous at our core through spiritual surgery, this too is Christianity Romans 6 explains that, at salvation, we are placed into Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. The result is that we are the new self, the new man, the new creation. This means we have new spiritual hearts that no longer desire sin. We are "dead to sin and alive to God", Romans 6 tells us. This is the "heart surgery" that has occurred within us by God's grace.
This should not be a controversial message but instead should be normal, everyday teaching within the Christian faith. We find these truths expounded upon in Ephesians 2: The Apostle Paul believed that these truths should be among the first to appear in his letters. Because of our death, burial, and resurrection to new life in Christ, Paul announced that we believers actually become "the righteousness of God" 2 Corinthians 5: In conclusion, the idea that Christians are perfectly cleansed by the blood of Christ "once for all" and are now righteous at the core due to new birth is not a "difficult tributary" of interpretation, as Mr.
Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child? So I like this book. So Tamar went to live in her father's house. Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground! The final complaint that I have against this book would be that it does not seem to go very deep. Bekah has a great sense of humor that makes the topic less awkward than it could be. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
These are Scriptural truths within the main stream of the Gospel that should be mainstream today. Even the great Apostle Paul who wrote two thirds of the New Testament epistles recognizes that ongoing struggle. Yes, we continue to struggle. Of course, we do. No one is even remotely claiming that there is not a battle occurring within the life of the believer. But the term "sin nature" or "sinful nature" is old and tired and is easily discredited.
For four decades, the term "sinful nature" had been found in the New International Version NIV Bible released by Zondervan in the 's and then updated in Consequently, many Christians presumed that we are essentially "old creations" and "new creations" at the same time, possessing two spiritual natures.
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In reality, the Greek term "sarx" is best translated as "flesh", not as "sinful nature. Then he presented my concern to someone within executive leadership at Zondervan.
I don't know the specifics that occurred within committee deliberations after that, but in the latest edition of the NIV Bible released in we find that Zondervan changed the term "sinful nature" to the more accurate term "flesh" in many passages. These NIV verses now jive with dozens of other versions of the Bible that have always accurately used the term "flesh" instead of "sinful nature.
Still, this leftover misunderstanding about Christians having a "sinful nature" persists with many Christians, apparently including Mr. Why is it so important to understand that our struggle is with the flesh and not with a so-called "sinful nature"? The reason is that, with use of the inaccurate term, Christians may assume they have one new spiritual nature and then a second old spiritual nature.
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Essentially, they may live out a dual-personality existence, believing themselves to be two different people at the same time.