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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 35)

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October 29

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 35)

Here’s more of the profound truths unfolded at the antitypical altar of sacrifice, where and when Christ, the suffering, the Creator incarnate, the only-begotten Son and Lamb of God was crucified, that have been mysteriously ignored or studiously avoided, both fatal errors!

Magnifying on the Biblical accounts regarding these events, the inspired pen continues (all emphasis mine):

“RELIGIOUS LEADERS [of the nation] united with Satan and his angels. They were doing his bidding. Jesus, suffering and dying, heard every word as the PRIESTS declared, ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.’ BUT IT IS BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT SAVE HIMSELF THAT THE [humble, repentant] SINNER HAS HOPE OF PARDON [forgiveness or justification] AND FAVOR WITH GOD.

“In their mockery of the Savior, THE MEN WHO PROFESSED TO BE EXPOUNDERS OF PROPHECY were repeating the very words which Inspiration had foretold [not foreordained or predestined] they would utter upon this occasion! Yet in their [spiritual] BLINDNESS they did not see that THEY were fulfilling the prophecy. Those who in DERISION uttered the words, ‘He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him: for He said, I am the Son of God’, little thought that their testimony would SOUND down the ages.

“But although spoken in mockery, THESE WORDS led men to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES as they had never done before! WISE MEN HEARD, SEARCHED, PONDERED, AND PRAYED. There were those who never rested until by COMPARING SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE [see Isa. 28:9-13], they saw the meaning of Christ’s mission.

“NEVER BEFORE WAS THERE SUCH A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS AS WHEN HE HUNG UPON THE CROSS. Into the hearts of many who beheld the CRUCIFIXION SCENE, and who heard Christ’s words, the LIGHT OF TRUTH was shining.” – E. G. White, Desire of Ages, p. 749.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 35)

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
October 29

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 35)

Here’s more of the profound truths unfolded at the antitypical altar of sacrifice, where and when Christ, the suffering, the Creator incarnate, the only-begotten Son and Lamb of God was crucified, that have been mysteriously ignored or studiously avoided, both fatal errors!

Magnifying on the Biblical accounts regarding these events, the inspired pen continues (all emphasis mine):

“RELIGIOUS LEADERS [of the nation] united with Satan and his angels. They were doing his bidding. Jesus, suffering and dying, heard every word as the PRIESTS declared, ‘He saved others; Himself He cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.’ BUT IT IS BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT SAVE HIMSELF THAT THE [humble, repentant] SINNER HAS HOPE OF PARDON [forgiveness or justification] AND FAVOR WITH GOD.

“In their mockery of the Savior, THE MEN WHO PROFESSED TO BE EXPOUNDERS OF PROPHECY were repeating the very words which Inspiration had foretold [not foreordained or predestined] they would utter upon this occasion! Yet in their [spiritual] BLINDNESS they did not see that THEY were fulfilling the prophecy. Those who in DERISION uttered the words, ‘He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him: for He said, I am the Son of God’, little thought that their testimony would SOUND down the ages.

“But although spoken in mockery, THESE WORDS led men to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES as they had never done before! WISE MEN HEARD, SEARCHED, PONDERED, AND PRAYED. There were those who never rested until by COMPARING SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE [see Isa. 28:9-13], they saw the meaning of Christ’s mission.

“NEVER BEFORE WAS THERE SUCH A GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS AS WHEN HE HUNG UPON THE CROSS. Into the hearts of many who beheld the CRUCIFIXION SCENE, and who heard Christ’s words, the LIGHT OF TRUTH was shining.” – E. G. White, Desire of Ages, p. 749.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 34)

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
October 28

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAYg bookc OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 34)

The Prophesied Sufferings of Persecutions of the Lamb of God at the Antitypical Altar of Sacrifice by His Enemies: Who were they?

On the Thursday night just hours before His path to the cross began, Jesus prepared His first disciples with the prototypical counsels and warnings for all His faithful followers down through the generations after, particularly for our final one, who shall experience its antitype, as recorded in John 15: 17-23 (emphasis mine):

“These things I command you, that ye love one another. If the WORLD hate you, you know that IT HATED Me before IT hated you. If ye were of the WORLD, the world would LOVE his own: but because ye are NOT of the world, but I have CHOSEN you OUT of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

REMEMBER the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord. If they had PERSECUTED Me, THEY will ALSO persecute you; if THEY have kept My sayings, they will keep yours also. But all these things THEY WILL DO UNTO YOU FOR MY NAME’S SAKE; because they know NOT Him that sent Me. If I had NOT COME AND SPOKEN unto them, they had NOT SIN: but NOW they had NO CLOAK FOR THEIR SIN. He that hateth Me hateth My Father also.” John 15: 17-23, KJV.

Based on the Scriptures’ account of the following, God’s messenger-servant wrote:

“The enemies of Jesus vented their rage upon Him as He hung upon the cross. PRIESTS, RULERS, AND SCRIBES, JOINED with the MOB in mocking the dying Savior.

“At the BAPTISM and at the TRANSFiGURATION the voice of God had been heard proclaiming Christ as His Son. Again, just before His betrayal, the Father had spoken, witnessing to His DIVINITY. But now the voice from heaven was silent. No testimony in Christ’s favor was heard [from heaven]. ALONE He suffered abuse and mockery from wicked men.

“‘IF Thou be the Son of God,’ they said, ‘COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS.’ ‘Let Him save Himself if He be the Christ, the Chosen of God.’ In the Wilderness of temptation Satan had declared, ‘IF Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.’ ‘IF Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down,’ from the pinnacle of the temple.’ Matt. 4: 3,6, KJV.

And Satan with his angels, IN HUMAN FORM, was present at the cross. The archfiend and his hosts [in comparison and contrast to Jesus the Archangel and His heavenly host of uncalled angels] were CO-OPERATING WITH PRIESTS AND RULERS. The [religious] teachers of the people had stimulated the IGNORANT MOB to pronounce judgment against One upon whom MANY of them had never looked, and urged to bear testimony against Him. PRIESTS, RULERS, PHARISEES, AND THE HARDENED RABBLE WERE CONFEDERATED TOGETHER IN A SATANIC FRENZY.” – Desire of Ages, pp. 748, 749.

The real enemies of the true people of God in these last days have already been revealed in the prototypical confederacy conspired against the Lamb of God! Do not be part of the antitypical “ignorant and deceived mob and rabble!l

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 33)

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October 27

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 33)

Christ Bore Our Sins in His Own Body or Flesh.

“For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also SUFFERED for us, leaving us an EXAMPLE, that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was there guile found in His mouth: Who when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously: WHO HIS OWNSELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE [of Calvary] that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes we are healed.” 1 Pet. 2: 21-24, KJV.

My fellow weary, suffering mortal, please join me to momentarily refocus our eyes and minds on the untold suffering, the dead, and dying among us and in the world today and concentrate on the Lamb of God, the Sin Bearer of all penitent sinners, represented by one of the two thieves crucified with Him that epochal day. There many ignored truths bearing eternal consequences ENFOLDED in the plan of redemption of the gospel and UNFOLDED to mankind during the Calvary Moment regarding death and resurrection, so grievously misunderstood in mainstream Christianity, thus, in the world that should have been enlightened by them! Now this:

“In the SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST UPON THE CROSS prophecy was fulfilled. Centuries before the crucifixion, the Savior had foretold the treatment He was to receive. [Through David] He said, ‘Dogs have compassed Me; the assembly of the wicked have compassed Me: they pierced My hands and My feet. I may tell all My bones: they look and stare at Me. They part My garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture.’ Ps. 22: 16-18, KJV.

The prophecy concerning His garments was carried out without counsel or interference from the friends of enemies of the Crucified One. To the soldiers who had placed Him upon the cross, His clothing was given. Christ heard the contention of the men as they parted the garments among them. His tunic was woven throughout without seam, and they said, ‘Let us NOT REND it, but CAST LOTS for it, whose it shall be.’

“In another prophecy the Savior declared, ‘Reproach hath broken My heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take PITY, but there was NONE; and for COMFORTERS, but I found NONE. They gave Me also GALL to be My meat; and in My THIRST they gave Me VINEGAR to drink.’ Ps. 69: 20, 21.

To those who SUFFERED DEATH BY THE CROSS, it was permitted to give a STUPEFYING POTION, to deaden the sense of pain. This was offered to Jesus, but when He had tasted it, He refused it. He would receive nothing that would BECLOUD HIS MIND.

His FAITH must keep fast hold on God. This was His ONLY STRENGTH [in His incarnated humanity!]. TO BECLOUD HIS SENSES WOULD GIVE SATAN AN ADVANTAGE.” – E. G. White, Desire of Ages, p. 748.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 32)

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October 26

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 32)

Jesus Christ is the Real (Antitypical) Lamb of God.

“The next day John (the Baptist) seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the LAMB OF GOD, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1: 29, KJV. See verses 19-37. Compare to Exodus chapter 12.

“As in the TYPICAL service the high priest LAID ASIDE His pontifical robes, and officiated in the WHITE LINEN DRESS of an ordinary dress, so Christ Himself [the Creator] laid aside His [divine] royal robes, and garbed Himself in HUMANITY [John 1:1-3, 14; Heb. 2: 9-18], and offered SACRIFICE, Himself the PRIEST, Himself the VICTIM.

“As the high priest [in the typical service], after performing his service in the HOLY OF HOLIES [or most holy place on the Day of Atonement], came forth to the waiting congregation IN HIS PONTIFICAL ROBES [replacing the white linen dress]; so CHRIST WILL COME THE SECOND TIME, clothe in garments whitest white ‘so as no fuller [soap] on earth can white them’ [Ps. 68: 32-34].
He will come in His own glory, and in the glory of His Father, and all the angelic host will escort His way.” – E. G. White, Acts of the Apostles, p. 33.

As the Lamb of God, “Christ’s SACRIFICE in behalf of men was full and complete. THE CONDITION OF THE ATONEMENT HAD BEEN FULFILLED. The work which He had come to this world had been accomplished. He had WON the kingdom. He had WRESTED it from Satan.” – Ibid, p. 29.

(To be continued). Bless all. NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 31)

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October 25

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 31)

In the Type the blood of the sacrificial animal was presented to the Lord. Lev. 4: 5, 6. When the blood was not taken into the Sanctuary it’s flesh was eaten by the priest before the Lord. Either flesh or blood of the sin-offering was taken into the sanctuary—a type of the actual work of Christ, Himself both the antitypical Lamb at Calvary, and after His ascension, our High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary . Lev. 10: 16-18; 6: 30.

Moreover, by this we also understand what Jesus—Himself the “Word who was in the beginning with God, and was God,” then in the incarnation “was made FLESH and dwelt among us”(John 1:1-3, 14)—meant when He said to the unbelieving Pharisees, “I am the heavenly Manna come down from God.” “Unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood, you have no part with Me.”

To eat His flesh spiritually, is to study the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, the written Word. To drink His blood, spiritually, is to live His life of self-denial and self-sacrifice which He demonstrated by example during His thirty-three and a half years from the manger in Bethlehem to the cross of Calvary. Indeed, “life is in the blood.”

“‘Without the shedding of blood,’ says the apostle, ‘there can be no remission of sin.’
‘The LIFE of the flesh is in the BLOOD.’ Lev. 17:11. The broken LAW of God demanded the LIFE of the transgressor. The blood, REPRESENTING the FORFEITED LIFE of the sinner whose GUILT the victim bore, was carried [transferred] by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the [second] veil, behind which was the ark [of the covenant or testimony] which contained the law that the sinner had transgressed.

“By this ceremony [of the ceremonial law] the SIN was, through the BLOOD [of the sacrificed lamb]TRANSFERRED IN FIGURE, to the sanctuary.

“In some cases the blood was not taken into the holy place: but the FLESH was then to be eaten by the priest, as Moses directed the SONS OF AARON, saying, ‘God hath given it to you to BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE CONGREGATION.’ Lev. 10:17. Both ceremonies alike symbolized the TRANSFER of the SIN of the PENITENT [truly repentant] sinner to the sanctuary.” – E. G. White, Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 418.

There are extremely important truths in the plan of redemption connected with the “handling” and “disposal” of confessed sins and its corresponding guilt, both individual and corporate (congregation of faithful believers), taught in this part of the sacred ceremony and service of the type. Think of the words and processes of “transferring,” and “blotting out of sins” and “cleansing of the sanctuary,” all part of Christ’s last work for His faithful followers on earth before He returns.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 30)

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October 22

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 30)

In the Type the Repentant Sinner Brings the Lamb, Confesses His Sins over it, then Slays it.

“And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against ANY of the commandments of the Lord, concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring HIS OFFERING, a kid of the goats (sheep), a female without blemish, FOR HIS SIN, which he hath sinned.” Lev. 4: 27, 28, KJV.

“And he shall lay his HAND upon the HEAD of the SIN OFFERING, and SLAY the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.” Lev. 4:29.

Num. 5: 5-7. “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty. Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add them to the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.” Num. 5: 5-7.

In both the Old Testament type and New Testament antitype, nowhere does the Bible teach or even imply suggest that sins (the transgression of God’s law) whether committed ignorantly or intentionally are “already forgiven” because Christ already paid them all at Calvary,” etc.

Christ, the one and only Lamb of God, PAID the one and only ransom price acceptable to heaven’s plan and way of salvation—HIS BLOOD, not obtained by non-fatal extraction or transfusion, but by and through His actual DEATH at Calvary. Through this sacrificial blood atonement provision, devised by the Godhead, the guilt and burden of sin and the AUTOMAtTIC condemnation that comes with the sinful act, may all be TRANSFERRED to Christ, the Burden-bearer and Sin-bearer.

How and when? Each time the winner sins, is genuinely sorrowful for his deed, repents in true contrition for the act, not the painful consequences, confesses this sin in prayer, “having repentance towards God,” white law had been transgressed, and “exercises faith in Christ, his Substitute, Surety, Advocate, Mediator, and intercessor to the Father.

He then receives forgiveness, pardon of justification. That forgiven sun is now COVERED with Christ’s blood in his book of records in heaven. It is only BLOTTED OUT, if and when he is found to have fully overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his testimony” when he dies, during the pre-advent judgment currently taking place in the most place in the heavenly sanctuary!

Such kind of believers continually “asks, seeks. and knocks” for the grace of God, imparted through the Holy Spirit that empowers him to successfully resist temptation and overcome all the “sins that have so easily beset him.”

This is how he “turns away” or “forsakes his sins” while trusting implicitly on the efficacy of Christ’s shed blood” to “cleanse him from all unrighteousness.” This is the essence of “overcome even as He (Christ) overcame.”

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.

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THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 29)

FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK: October 21

THE SANCTUARY DOCTRINE EXPLAINS THE WAY OF SALVATION OF THE GOSPEL (Part 29)

Christ’s Shed Blood was for the Remission of Sins:
“And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them [the Twelve], drink ye all of it; for this is MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.” Matt. 26, 27, 28, KJV.

[Read 1 John 3: 1, 2; 1: 9]. The conditions for obtaining MERCY from God are simple and reasonable. The Lord does NOT require us to do some GRIEVOUS THING in order to obtain forgiveness (pardon of justification) [as Church of Rome and other world religions do].

We need not make long and wearisome pilgrimages, or perform painful penances, to commend our souls to the God of the HEAVEN or to expiate our transgression. For he that ‘confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall have mercy.’ (Prov. 27:13).

“In the courts above, CHRIST is pleading for His church—pleading for those for whom HE HAS PAID THE REDEMPTION PRICE OF HIS BLOOD. Centuries, ages, can NEVER LESSEN the efficacy of His atoning sacrifice [made on earth at Calvary]. ‘Neither life nor death, height nor depth, can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus;’ not because WE hold Him SO FIRMLY, but because HE holds us SO FAST.

“If our salvation depended on OUR EFFORTS, we could not be saved; but it depends on the One who is behind all the promises. Our grasp on Him may be FEEBLE, but His LOVE is that of an older brother; so long as we maintain our UNION with Him, no one can pluck us out of His hand.” -E. G. White, Acts of the Apostles, pp. 552, 553.

(To be continued). Bless all, NMF.