The purchase price for everything has been paid; EVERYTHING-
EVERYONE. The born, not yet born and yet to be conceived;-the
"national church of Zurich notwithstanding"
Jesus' work on the cross was sufficient for all. He paid the price for sin didn't He? Has sin infected all; or has sin infected only a few who have acknowledged it? Jesus was /is the one time/once for all sin offering.
What is sin? We all know what "sinful" acts are, but where do they come from? I know, the "sin principle". But what is that?
The essence/source/root or ground of sin is SELF CONSCIOUS-
NESS.
Gen.3:6-7 "....then took she of the fruit thereof
and did eat-and she gave to her husband also
along with her and he did eat. THEN WERE
OPENED THE EYES OF THEM BOTH AND
THEY KNEW THAT NAKED THEY WERE..."
(Rotherham)
They became self conscious. You might say, "what's wrong with
that?-everyone's self conscious: it's part of the human condition!"
So is sin.
Everything Jesus taught points to the "losing" of self conscious-
ness: "resist not evil; turn the other cheek; stop worrying about your life, what you eat and what you wear; lay down your earthly life and gain the true life; don't defend yourself; etc, etc.
Concern for onesself is sin, for that is self consciousness. Jesus, the Pattern Son; the Word clothed in flesh, shows man the "way back" to the garden in paradise, before the dividing of the female
from the male, when/where there was no such thing as "concern for self". Don't think literally like Nicodemus. It is a condition or state of being that one experiences while yet in his physical body
You might say, "what if this happens?" or "what if that happens?" You will not be given the answers to your "what ifs",
for they come from "taking thought for yourself"; ie, self concern;
self preservation; self consciousness. You will not be able to understand until you experience in your life the truth of what I am saying. You will find the answers when you follow the Patt-
ern and not before.
Jesus didn't really die for "you". He died for/because of sin, which you are/were infected with. His offering up Himself as payment (the theologians call it "atonement") for sin was without limit; ie, for all. Not for only those who "accept it" or "exercise
faith in it", as some say who call themselves by the name of a man who lived in Switzerland a few centuries ago- a name which, by the way, God has not given them, for God doesn't name his
children/sons after men.
Yes, there are millions who have died without "accepting/ack-
nowledging" Jesus' payment and God's offer of reconciliation by
Him. HE STILL PAID THE PRICE FOR "THEIR" SIN!
Unbelief does not negate the facts of what Jesus did. God solved the sin problem in Him. It just has to be experienced individually
for it to work.
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