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Act 20:26
Wherefore I take
you to record this day, that I am
pure from the
blood of all men.
Act 20:27
For I have not
shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
God.
Act 20:28
Take heed therefore
unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over
the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers,
to feed the
church of God,
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Joh 3:15 That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through
him might be saved.
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Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant
had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for
the second.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them,
he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they
continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the
Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write
them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they
shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach
every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will
I remember no more.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
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"Therefore if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creation;
old things have passed away, behold, all things are become new;
and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by
Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and
hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we
are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us,
we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He
(God) hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we
might be made the righteousness of God in Him."
Truly, "ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD," and "We are God's workmanship;
created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph. 2:10); and again,
"Ye are God's husbandry, (tilled land) ye are God's building" (I
Cor. 3:9). Read also the 5th, 8th, 9th and 11th chapters of
Romans, and many more scriptures in the New Testament to the
same effect.
I call the reader's attention to these passages in order that
they may notice that the whole redemptive work is attributed to
God. Christ is God's agent; God is the principal at every step,
and it is His love and His power and His grace that is
manifested throughout. He is "God our Savior, who will have all
men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth" (I Tim.
2:3, 4).
How different is this scriptural view of the redemptive work
from that false view that exhalts Christ and vilifies the
character of God, making the former to be loving and gracious
and the latter harsh and implacable, a being who must be
appeased and propitiated in order to make Him willing to forgive
the sinner. Thus is the Father and the Son presented in
contrast, when in fact the latter is an exact revelation of the
former, and by the same false view the teaching of scripture is
reversed by declaring that Christ's mission was to reconcile God
to man, when in fact the atonement is wrought out by God in
Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, and then beseeching
individuals, through His ambassadors, to be reconciled to Him.
Thank God for the truth.
There is one passage of scripture that may occur to the reader
that perhaps I ought to notice in this connection; it is Phil.
2: 12: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." To
many this passage seems to make one's salvation depend entirely
upon his own efforts; he is to work out his own salvation, i.e.,
he is to save himself by his own works. But of course it cannot
mean this, for if it did it would contradict other scripture
which expressly declares that we are not saved by works but by
faith "without works." What then does it mean? Read the next
verse. "For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do
of His good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13). There you have it again.
"All things are of God." When God works in us both to will and
to do of His good pleasure, what part is there left for the
individual to do? The willing and the doing is about the whole
of it, is it not? And if God working in you does both the
willing and the doing according to His good pleasure, then there
is not much room for the good works of self; it is as the
apostle says, "I labored more than they all, yet not I, but the
grace of God that was in me" (I Cor. 15:10). Thus even this text
teaches the same doctrine that we have learned from so many
others: our salvation is of God. Salvation is life indeed. (I
Tim. 6: 19, R. V.). This is the consummation of creation, and
the work of the Creator, just as much as it was "in the
beginning." But what shall we do then with the other verse,
"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling?" Why the
meaning of this is plain enough work out what the Lord works in;
that is all there is to it. God is working in you both to will
and to do of His good pleasure; now you work that out; let the
life inwrought of God be manifested outwardly, that all may know
that you have been with Jesus and learned of Him. You can only
work out what God works in; you cannot work for your salvation,
or secure salvation by working; but the salvation, i.e., the
life, that God imparts, we may manifest, and that is what the
text enjoins that we should do.
Thus from the foregoing we arrive again at the true basis of
redemption. God will have a desire to the work of His hands. He
takes an interest and a pride, as we say, in His own work, and
for His own sake He will carry it on to a successful
termination. Now we will notice how this is confirmed and
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Joh 1:6 There was a
man sent from God, whose name was John.
Joh 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light, that all men through him might believe.
Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of
that Light.
Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world.
Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and
the world knew him not.
Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth. And also to fulfill the word
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Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from
generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the
glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every
man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in
Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour,
striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through
your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Php 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that
in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as
always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body,
whether it be by life, or by death.
Php 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Php 1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my
labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
Php 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to
depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: |
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