Using the Sin against the Enemies – “God’s Way”
2 Cor 10:6 And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
Contrary to what we often think – our obedience, our complete obedience, does not set the stage for God to bless – indeed, the Apostle was not waiting for the church’s obedience to be complete so that they could bless – but waiting for the church’s obedience to be complete – so that they could punish – and as long as the church never listened to Jesus or the Holy Spirit and never preaches the Words of Jesus – there was never a chance of the obedience being complete – and as long as that was the case – those who are opposed against the knowledge of God would go unpunished.
Jericho was given a 40 year reprieve when the just generation of Hebrews who came out of Egypt where they were slaves – disbelieved and disobeyed God and let fear take over – when they saw the giants in the land and the night strongholds with high walls. The disobedience of that first generation meant that the whole nation wandered back into the desert and the strongholds in the promised land remained. That first generation – although they were no longer slaves in Egypt, did not even enter the fullness of the promise that God had in mind for them. However, when the second generation was raised – and the first generation had all died away – they went in and took the land, not only take the land – but they punished the inhabitants of the land for the pride, fear, immorality and idolatry – for Canaan was not only a land of idols – but a land in which there were descendants of the Nephilims –
Nu 13:33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.
Nephilims were first mentioned in Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
These Nephilims were wiped out in the flood of Noah – so how come they reappeared almost a 1000 years later in Canaan – except the Canaanites were offering up their daughters to the fallen angels (the sons of God of the Old Testament) and producing children again. There were producing a form of human life, that was outside God’s ordained way – through a man and a woman – not a spirit and a woman. The power of the Canaanites obviously came from these Nephilims – whose descendants Anakites – also known as Rephaites – which included Og the king of Bashan and Sippai in 1 Cor 20:4-8 – and goliath and his brother Lahmi – they were large tall powerful men – physically large in a time when physical size mattered more than it does now.
It was through these creatures that Canaan ruled – a man like creature – fathered by a spirit and mothered by a human female – something that brought about an absolute subjugation of the land and something that God wiped out completely. And since they were fathered by gods who were not God – they could not raise themselves up again – for what they did was a sin and being sin was subjected to death.
The obedience of the second generation to God’s command – allowed them to attack and genocidally destroy the Anakites and those who were afraid of them – like the Jerichoans. God waited for the obedience to be complete and then used them to punish completely. Complete obedience ushers in complete punishment for the enemies of God.
So, it is only to disciples who are at complete obedience – not successful obedience – but complete obedience to the command – “Listen to Him” – that Paul and all the others in heaven are waiting for – to bring down the strongholds in our promised land, with their giants – as did that second generation – a generation that came out of a period of religious service to God that got them nowhere, again they were set free from the slavery of Egypt.
When Christ came and set us free from the power of the sin – by getting us cut from the Law through the eating of His flesh and the drinking of His blood – we were set free, from slavery to sin by the Law – so that we could take the short journey from Egypt to the promised land and take hold of it. Christ was the bridge from the figurative Egypt of slavery to sin to the fullness of freedom of the promised land, where the only law is to listen to Jesus. His ministry of fulfillment of the Law, with his miracles of provision, healing and deliverance was a replay of the deliverance of Israel from Egypt – and the manifold healing and provision of God, across the desert – leading us to the edge of the New Promised Land – the New Covenant and its Laws of Freedom from Sin.
The obedience of the Laws of the New Covenant keeps us free from sin because the first commandment – “Love one another as I have loved you” – fulfills the Law that fulfills the law and the prophets –
Mt 7:12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
And as long as there were disciples, who would love each other, as Christ has loved them – the law and the prophets remained fulfilled – summed up – and no sin could have any power.
Now, how you will love one another – depends on how much Christ has loved you, and that is directly related to your realization – just how much you have been forgiven of and the understanding of the degree of freedom that He has given you.
It was never our righteousness that led us to Christ for Christ did not come for the righteous but for the sinners – as much, each and everyone of us here – are here, not because we had any righteousness that mattered – but the effect of sin in our lives, to varying degrees – brought each and everyone of us, to a place, where we had to cry out to God and in His mercy – God gave us to Jesus – who is God’s correction to this world and God’s answer to the problem of sin once and for all.
2 Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin [Or be a sin offering] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
How did God made Jesus to be sin – a sin offering – so that, we who sinned, might be the righteousness of God?
All flesh came – that is the flesh of Adam and Eve came – by the hand of God, who formed Adam out of the earth and God breathed life into Adam – and Adam became a living being – that was the established way, by which God made man, in His image – and when spirits, that is the angels of God, mated with the daughters of men to produce Nephilims – it was an abomination in God’s eyes, for it was not God’s way – an abomination that led to the destruction of the earth in Noah’s days and the destruction of Canaan in Joshua’s days. For God had decreed – a man born of spirit and flesh was born for destruction. If God had once more put His hand to dust and formed a body for Jesus to inhabit – then Jesus would have walked this earth – but HE would not be related to Adam at all, and therefore, could not atone for Adam’s sin. So the only way for Jesus to be born into the line of Adam – is for the Holy Spirit to cause – Mary to be found with child through the Holy Spirit – as the Angel declared – Mt 1:20 …because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit
So in truth – in shocking truth – God used the sin of angels – sons of God marrying the daughters of men as they pleased – and made Jesus who was without sin, to be sin – Jesus was born to die, condemned to die and be destroyed – just as all the Nephilims were destroyed – a son of Adam – a son of Man, conceived in a woman by a spirit who happened to be the Holy Spirit – except this one – this condemned one – fulfilled the Law of God, the Prophets and the Psalms – where as, none of the others did – and in so doing, because a law unto Himself for He was sent by God to be a sin offering and He became sin out of obedience to the one who sent Him – the One who is judge and the One from whom the Law came – and in His obedience, set Himself apart from the Law completely. And since as it is written in Ro 5:13 sin is not taken into account when there is no law – the elimination of the Law by the fulfillment through one that was born as a sin offering, set all who were under law free from sin if they followed Him. Had Jesus not been the Son of God Himself – and is one with the Father – that is, had Jesus not had Life in Himself, then the crucifixion of Jesus Christ would have just been the death of another one, who were abnormally born – conceived in a daughter of man by a spirit – and like all the others before Him, He would have remained dead – and sin would still have regard over Him, in death.
But because, Jesus became sin out of obedience to another – His Father – in Love – the Law of Sin had no power over Him, for the Law of Sin demanded a disobedience to a commandment before (the Law of Sin) it had power over a person. But eh Law of Sin was rendered powerless, because Jesus became sin out of obedience to He who gave the Law – and in righteousness – suffered all that was due to Him, according to the sin. As God destroyed the Nephilims and their descendents – so Jesus suffered unto death – a death that made Him completely righteous, for He died in fulfillment of a command, given by the giver of the Law – a death that set Him free from the Law, from sin and from death – and since He had Life in Himself – He was free to take up Life again – except, this time – not only as Son of God but also as Son of Man – for HE was crucified in the flesh and He rose again – in the flesh. Thus through Jesus – flesh was brought out of the temporal realm, made corruptible by sin – into the eternal realm – incorruptible – for sin no longer had power to corrupt. This life, that He took up again – but now in both spirit and flesh – He gave freely to whosoever He pleased, for that was the Father’s commandment to Him as well –
Jn 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
Jn 5:26-27 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
Jn 10:17-18 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life--only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.
So the whole process – was and is done out of obedience to a command from God borne out by a zealousness to glorify God – for in Jesus – in Jn 2:17, it is written - Zeal for your house will consume me – and it is a zealousness for God’s honor that Jesus came – I honor my Father … I am not seeking glory for myself (Jn 8:49-50)
Thus He who became sin out of obedience – is now the Master of Sin – to forgive sin as He chooses or to retain it, as He chooses – so that the effect of sin, with all the sufferings that it causes – will result in bringing to perfection, those who belong to God, just as HE belonged to God.
Heb 2:10-11 In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Lk 8:21 My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice.
And the Word of God is “Listen to Him”.
Like Jesus, our obedience to God’s word – “Listen to Him” – has also made us sin as far as the Law is concerned – our eating of the flesh and blood – done out of loving obedience, like Jesus became one conceived in a daughter of man by a spirit – has made us outcasts, destined for destruction as Jesus was destined for destruction. And because we rejoice in our destruction as we follow Jesus – then our obedience to the command of God – has set us free from the Law of Sin and death as well, even while we are in our flesh – thus Paul writes for us, with the understanding he has –
Ro 7:24-25 Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Ro 8:1-4 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Ro 8:14 those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
The Law of the Spirit of Life is this – the Spirit of God always does whatever God says – if God said – “Let there be light”, then there is – and anyone who does whatever He says – is led by the Spirit and is declared a son of God.
So we who practise, being loved by Jesus and loving one another as Jesus loves us, have the irrefutable right to forgive sins, and to retain (not forgive sins) – whatever sins we chose
- so that the will of God is done – not the will of man
- so that God’s righteousness is upheld – not man’s
- so that God is glorified – not man
And when we obey the words – “Listen to Him” – we are obeying One, who used sin by mastering it – against His own enemies – and the mastering of sin by God, is displayed in Jesus Christ – who now, lives, having paid fully for sin, in sinful man and in continued obedience to He who sent Him as a sin offering, continues to give life to whomsoever He chooses.
God retained the sins of the angels in producing the Nephilims and condemned the Nephilims – and used that which He condemned and made Jesus as the sin offering for man – and the obedience of the Holy Spirit and Jesus to the will of God – set Jesus above all others. As the Holy Spirit led Jesus through His life and unto His death upon the cross, and resurrection – so now the Holy Spirit is able to likewise do the same, to all who follow Jesus’ example to be led by the Holy Spirit – and through the continuous repentance of an excessively submitted fellowship of disciples, who love one another as Christ loved them – the Holy Spirit is able to do the greater things in fulfillment of all that Jesus has said – thus proving His words to be true once for all.
It is now, in understanding the ways of your God and your Father – the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ – that we are able to forgive, as we choose and retain as we choose – without doubt, and as we declare it, without a doubt – and this doubtlessness comes from full knowledge and understanding of who our Father and our God is and how He works – it is done – according to the Law of Speaking in Faith, that Jesus decreed in Mk 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
God decreed in Hos 4:6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
Pro 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
The knowledge that we have acquired by God’s grace – has stopped our perishing – now, it is the acquisition of understanding into the righteousness of God, will we establish the House of God and earth – the way it was meant to be established.
By the command of Jesus Christ to eat flesh and drink blood – we have sinned irrevocably according to the Law, and are cut off, out by the Law of the Spirit of Life – which dictates, we must obey God rather than man – therefore we who have eaten the flesh and drank the blood of One who came by the way of the Nephilim – One conceived in a daughter of man by a Spirit – because we have chosen to obey God and to listen to Jesus – are made like Him – One who fulfilled the Law, over whom the Law has no power and sin, is not our master but it is our tool to use, according to the covenant we have, as the drinkers and eaters of the flesh of the Son of God and Son of Man – to forgive as we choose, so that its power in God’s enemies are dissolved or to retain, so that its wages are fully manifested in God’s enemies – all this, so that – they might be blessed as we are blessed, for it was because we were sinners also, that Christ came for us. Now, we can bring Christ to all sinners – even Christ in the flesh, as we usher in His return, because all righteousness is fulfilled.
Amen.
