biblical redemption

  Redemption

1. REDEMPTION'S ORIGIN—Involving God’s foreknowledge,[1] man’s redemption was decreed by the elective counsel of Providence before the foundations of the world. Free-will[2] advocates hate the Bible teachings of election, predestination, and ordination , , , Why? Because they cannot choose their way to heaven! 
2. REDEMPTION'S PURPOSE—To deliver us from the consequences of Adam and Eves’ disobedience to God, namely broken fellowship and spiritual death (twice dead), as well as physical death (biological-cellular & D.N.A. decline and death).[3] In addition to this, we must also add what is referred to as innate or cognitive reprobation.[4]
3. REDEMPTION'S FREQUENCY—The Bible is clear on this issue of redemption and the Holy Spirits’ work of repentance and crucifixion of the sin nature . . . Redemption happens only once. The teaching of multiple baptisms by the Holy Spirit is completely unscriptural.[5] We will never get any more of the Holy Spirit than at the time the old man is crucified. We can grieve or quench the Holy Spirit. We can also be guilty of elevating self back on the throne of our life, and when that happens, disaster occurs.
4. REDEMPTIONS’ OCCURRENCE—Salvation happens supernaturally and invisibly and is a spiritual phenomenon where the twice dead are transformed having their soul revived and the promise of eternal life assured—a new creature in Christ.[6]  Redemption is neither initiated nor accomplished by man, but by God.
5. REDEMPTION'S APPEARANCE—Is manifested in the saint through the fruit of the Spirit’s operation from Galatians 5:22, 23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” An important virtue to be added to this list is a teachable spirit woven throughout the Book of Proverbs.
6. REDEMPTIONS’ CONFIRMATION—Assurance of salvation and Christ in me, do not evoke a confidence steeped in subjectivism, but rather from the Holy Spirits’ presence accomplishing his purposes within; in spite of who and what I am—a forgiven sinner saved by grace.
7. REDEMPTIONS’ AUTHOR—Man’s free will, or the belief that I can save myself, is anathema or cursed to the doctrine of redemption.[7] Man’s free-will has its counterparts in the scriptures such as: the circumcision, Nicolaitanism, Pharisaicalism, etc. After the completion of the scriptures, it became known as Romanism, Protestantism, Pelagianism, semi-Pelagianism, Arminianism, and MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. The elevation of man is reflectedin the denominational, non-denominational, interdenominational, or ecumenical movement prevalent in the contemporary American church scene.
8. REDEMPTIONS’ CONSEQUENCES—Rest, contentment, and peace characterize the life of the saint. Because salvation is all of God, he will see It through to its ultimate fulfillment.
9. REDEMPTION'S CONSUMMATION—For the saint, redemption’s consummation will occur when physical death happens. It is at this point that sanctification, consecration, and man’s sin nature will be erased . . . For corruption will put on incorruption and mortality exchanged for immortality. Yes, death will be swallowed up in victory, namely entrance into paradise and eternal life with Jesus our Savior.
10. REDEMPTION IS EXCLUSIVE NOT INCLUSIVE (Matt. 13:11)—Jesus’ parable of the sower and the seed could not be more emphatic regarding the division between the multitude assembled on the shore anxiously awaiting to hear Jesus’ teaching, versus those few ‘outcasts’ living his teaching, assembled within the boat, who openly and unashamedly identified with their Lord.
11. REDEMPTION IS CONTRARY TO MAN’S PERSPECTIVE—Let us face it, God’s ways are contrary to man’s ways, while God’s thoughts are higher than man’s thoughts. Such is redemption! God is the sole agent by which redemption or justification of man’s condemned condition can be reconciled. The two testaments of God’s covenant can be understood only in the light of man’s sinfulness and God’s holiness. The Old Testament, picturing the priesthood, the law, and human effort in obedience before the law, falls far short of the grace, mercy and forgiveness in Jesus Christ as revealed in the New Testament. As it says, in the book of Galatians, the law was our schoolmasterto bring us to Christ (Gal. 3:24, 25).
12. REDEMPTION'S PLAYERS 

THE CALLED—While the chosen must be called, there are many called, but not chosen. The called are those who are likened to babes[8] in Hebrews 5:12,13. The Bible is full of examples of those that are called, and the few that are chosen. Take for example, Noah, his wife, Noah’s three sons, and daughters-in-law. Out of the millions of people, before the flood, God chose to deliver just eight souls. After the flood, there was a further thinning of those who would emerge as faithful and having faith in their Creator. While I am not saying that everyone in the lineage of Ham the youngest, and even Japheth the elder was evil, God revealed that many within Hams’ line would be generally characterized by the traits of pleasure, worldliness, and godless habits. 

THE CHOSEN—Simply put, reference will again be made to the most important parable Jesus’ ever taught.[9] The chosen in this parable are those whose hearts are characterized by rocky soil and soil that is thorny. For the former, when persecution or tribulation occur because of their identification (outward appearance) with Christ they are offended—they bail. With the seed, namely Christ, who is sown amongst a heart containing thorns (the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches) Christ is forgotten, hence no fruit is produced. Sadly, these are the multitudes of people that have been beguiled by the physical, visible church advocating works and ‘proper behavior’ (willful determination vs. Spirit-filled living) as influenced by ‘Christian’ psychology,[10] feminism, ecumenism, denominationalism (the cult of personality—I Cor. 1:12, 13) and the counterfeit ‘bible’ movement. It is the spiritually beguiled whose names will be blotted out from the Book of Life.

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[1] An attribute belonging only to God, foreknowledge is not limited by time, space, or circumstances. 

Foreknowledge means knowing something before it happens. Rom. 8:29, 30–For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

[2] A creature born in sin and inheriting Adam’s curse is not ‘free’ to choose.

[3] Twice dead means spiritually and physically dead. Spiritually blind in this life, separated from God in the hereafter. Luke 9:59, 60—And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.  60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. Jude 12—These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; . . .

[4] Falling under the heading of sorcery, bewitching produces a reprobate mind. One who is reprobate labels evil as good, and good as evil. In Acts 8 we see how Simon the sorcerer beguiled the Samaritans who had another Torah (the Samaritan Pentateuch) and had disobeyed by marrying outside the Jewish bloodline. In Romans 1:27, 28 this is especially true in the area ofone’s God-determined sexuality. For those who want to argue against God’s divine plan, we are told that those individuals who engage in perversion ARE reprobate—their thought processes are defiled.

[5] Eph. 4:4, 5—There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, . . .  Multiple baptisms by the Spirit is a central teaching of the Charismatic denomination.

[6] II Cor. 5:17—Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

[7] Gal. 1:6-10—I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, Ifany man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

[8] In Hebrews 5:13, 14, babes are unskillful in the word of righteousness, meaning, they are hypocritical and LOST (Heb. 6:4-6). While they virtue signal to others what they should do, they themselves do not intend to rest in the righteousness and finished work of Christ that is fulfilledin the saint through the Holy Spirit’s abiding presence.

[9] Namely, the parable of the sower and the seed. Mark 4:13—And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables?

[10] Simply put, the blame game!