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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.