{"id":529,"date":"2011-05-06T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T08:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=529"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:32:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T08:32:24","slug":"bulletin-articles-issue-69-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin Articles Issue #69 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI go to prepare a place for you!”
\n
\n<\/em><\/strong>The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon,
\n“Jesus Affirmed to Be Alive” #2016. Acts 25:18-19 <\/em><\/p>\n

That pierced hand has taken hold of eternal bliss on the behalf of those
\nfor whom He shed His blood.
\nJesus is now in Heaven making preparation for our coming. What has to be done to make
\nHeaven ready I am sure I do not know, though I have often tried to guess.
\nJesus says, “I go to prepare a place for you!”<\/strong>
\nHeaven, when we get there, will prove to be the perfect place for us. It has taken Jesus all
\nthese years to make it ready for us. He that with a word made earth fit for created man,
\ndid not with a word make Heaven fit for His children, but went to Heaven Himself to see
\neverything set in order for them.
\nI think I hear Him say, “This will not do for My Beloved. There is something more needed. These fruits are not quite mellow enough, these flowers are not full bloom enough for My Beloved, whom I desire to entertain to the utmost of their capacity.”
\nJesus now lives to keep Heaven for us and make it in all respects ready for us.
\n“I go to prepare a place for you!”<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

O Christ He is the fountain,
\nThe deep sweet well of love.
\nThe ‘streams’ on earth I’ve tasted,
\nMore deep I’ll drink above.<\/p>\n

There to an ocean’s fullness,
\nHis mercy does expand,
\nAnd glory, glory dwelleth,
\nIn Immanuel’s land.<\/p>\n

O I am my Beloved’s,
\nAnd my Beloved is mine.
\nHe brings a poor vile sinner,
\nInto His house of wine.<\/p>\n

I stand upon His merit,
\nI know no other stand.
\nNot e’en where glory dwelleth,
\nIn Immanuel’s land.<\/p>\n

The bride eyes not her garment,
\nBut her dear Bridegroom’s face.
\nI will not gaze at glory,
\nBut on the King of grace.<\/p>\n

Not at the crown He giveth,
\nBut on His pierced hands,
\nThe Lamb is all the glory
\nOf Immanuel’s land!
\n(author unknown)<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Will Believers Be Called Into Judgment For Their Sins?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities,<\/p>\n

O Lord, who shall stand?”<\/p>\n

Psalm 130:3<\/em><\/p>\n

The question is often raised, “Will believers be called into judgment for their sins; or will God judge his elect for their sins and failures, committed after they were saved, and expose them in the day of judgment?”<\/p>\n

The only reason that question is ever raised is because many try to retain threats and fears like those associated with the Roman doctrine of purgatory, by which they hope to hold over God’s saints the whip and terror of the law.<\/p>\n

Let me be emphatically clear. There is absolutely no sense in which those who trust the Lord Jesus Christ shall ever be made to pay for their sins<\/strong>. Here are seven reasons why that statement must be so.<\/p>\n

1. Our sins were imputed to Christ. <\/strong>They cannot and <\/strong>shall not be imputed to us again (Rom. 4:8). God declares that he sees no sin in his people (Num. 23:21; Jer. 50:20). If he did, we could not stand before him.<\/p>\n

2. Christ paid our debt<\/strong> to God’s law and justice (Gal. 3:13). Justice cannot demand that the same debt be paid twice, by our Surety and by us. God will never require us to pay.<\/p>\n

3. God who has blotted out our transgressions will never write them against us again<\/strong> (Isa. 43:25). Because he has blotted them out of the record book, he does not and cannot remember them. Law cannot remember a crime that is not on the books.<\/p>\n

4. He who covered our sins will never uncover them<\/strong>. As the blood of the paschal lamb sprinkled on the mercy-seat ceremonially covered the sins of Israel, represented in the broken law within the ark, so the blood of Christ completely covers (by atonement) our sins from the eye of omniscient justice (Rom. 5:10-11).<\/p>\n

5. The perfect righteousness of Christ has been imputed to us<\/strong>. We are now made to be the very righteousness of God in him. Just as our sins became his by imputation, his righteousness is ours by imputation (2 Cor. 5:21).<\/p>\n

6. On the day of judgment, God’s elect are never represented as having done any evil, but only good<\/strong> (Matt. 25:31-40). Christ\u2019s perfect obedience is ours. His righteousness is ours. We shall be justly rewarded with eternal life because in him we deserve it (Heb. 9:12).<\/p>\n

7. The day of judgment will be a day of glory and bliss for Christ and his people, not a day of mourning and sorrow<\/strong>. It will be a marriage supper, not a marriage split. Christ will glory in his Church (Eph. 5:25-27; Jude 24-25). The triune God will display the glory of his grace in us (Eph. 2:7). We will glory in our God (Rev. 19:6-7). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Don Fortner.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

We will be like Him!<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>(Octavius Winslow<\/a>, “Eternal Glorification”)<\/p>\n

“We know that when He comes we will be like Him<\/strong>,
\nfor we will see Him as He really is.” 1 John 3:2
\nPerfect holiness is the eternal glory of the saints!<\/p>\n

The very utterance of the thought seems to awaken music in the soul. Seeing <\/em>Christ as He is, and knowing <\/em>Him as we are known\u2014we also shall be like <\/em>Him.<\/p>\n

Oh, what a conception! What a thought!<\/p>\n

No more elements of evil working like leaven in the soul.<\/p>\n

No more traces and fetters of corruption.<\/p>\n

No more evil heart of unbelief, perpetually departing from God.<\/p>\n

No more desperate depravity.<\/p>\n

No more sin warring within.<\/p>\n

No more temptation assailing from without.<\/p>\n

All is perfect holiness now!<\/p>\n

The outline of the Divine image is complete, for the believer has awakened in the finished
\nlikeness of his Lord!<\/p>\n

Extirpate all sin\u2014<\/em>and you have erased all sorrow!<\/em><\/p>\n

Complete the grace\u2014<\/em>and you have perfected the glory!<\/em><\/p>\n

You then have chased all sadness from the heart, and have dried all tears from the eye.<\/p>\n

That glory will be the glory of unsullied purity.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing of sin remains but its recollection; and that
\nrecollection but heightens our conception of the
\npreciousness of the blood<\/em>\u2014that shall have effaced
\nevery stain, and of the greatness and sovereignty
\nof that grace<\/em>\u2014which shall have brought us there.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

John 5:24 \u00a024<\/sup>“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and (<\/sup><\/em>A<\/sup><\/em><\/a>)<\/sup><\/em>believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and (<\/sup><\/em>B<\/sup><\/em><\/a>)<\/sup><\/em>does not come into judgment, but has (<\/sup><\/em>C<\/sup><\/em><\/a>)<\/sup><\/em>passed out of death into life.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

In John 5:24, the real genius is in the verb \u00a0\u201caspects\u201d: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cthe one who is hearing<\/em> Me and is believing<\/em> in Him who sent me has <\/span>eternal life, and is not<\/span> come into judgment, but has crossed over<\/strong> out of death into life.\u201d The Greek tenses were more \u201caspect\u201d oriented than \u201ctime\u201d oriented. When we say in English, \u201che ate\u201d , we refer to a past time action; \u201che eats\u201d\u2014present time action; and \u201che will eat\u201d\u2014a future time event, all \u201ctime\u201d oriented. The Greeks spoke not in \u201ctime,\u201d as much as in \u201caspect\u201d or \u201cvividness of portrayal.\u201d Think of it in this way: you are looking at a canvas with a beautiful picture; the edges are painted with light green and light blue water colors, barely visible; then there are some characters closer to the middle, painted with dark yellow and dark blue colors; and the main scene in the middle painted in bright red\u2014actually a vast amount of dark red paint is splattered in the middle. That\u2019s aspect. The Greek writers used certain verbs to paint the background information, and certain stronger tenses to highlight the slightly more important aspects, and certain strongest tenses to highlight the most significant characters\/events. In John 5:24, both \u201cis hearing<\/em>\u201d and \u201cis believing<\/em>\u201d are the outer edges of the canvas with light green and light blue outlines (present participles). The verbs \u201chas <\/span>eternal life\u201d and \u201cis not come<\/span> into judgment\u201d are slightly more important, vivid, dark yellow and dark blue colored characters (present tenses). But, the verb \u201chas crossed over<\/strong> out of death into life\u201d are brightly colored red, burgundy, and neon red colors splattered in the middle of the canvas to bring all attention to it (perfect tense). By this construction, John is saying, \u201cWE HAVE ALREADY CROSSED OVER<\/strong> from death into Life.\u201d Thus, the judgment (I take it as \u201call inclusive\u2014both process and result\u201d) fades into the outer edges of the canvas in slightly colored events. \u201cBelieve,\u201d something Arminians pride in, become smudged out water color, dripping off the canvas. It\u2019s a beautiful verse.\u00a0 Andrew Spurgeon<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

The\u00a0word krisis<\/em> can either refer to the process <\/span>(where a judge is deciding on a case, which we would call \u201cjudgment\u201d) or result<\/span> (which we would call \u201ccondemnation\u201d). However, the word krima<\/em> only refers to the process<\/span>, a judgment call, and katakrisis<\/em> (where the preposition kata<\/em> is added to the verb; kata<\/em> preposition usually means \u201cunder\u201d) only refers to \u201ccondemnation<\/span>,\u201d the result<\/span> (or almost, \u201ca judgment of \u2018thumbs down<\/span>\u2019\u201d). Thus, in John 5:24 and Rom 5:16 we have krisis & krima<\/em> = the process<\/span> of judgment, and in Rom 5:16 we also have the result<\/span>, \u201ccondemnation,\u201d listed. Thus, for example, I would translate Rom 5:16: \u201cThe gift is unlike the results of him who sinned: whereas the righteous judgment call (krima<\/em>) of the transgressor led to condemnation (katakrima<\/em>) of many, the gift became righteousness for many out of their trespasses.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Andrew Spurgeon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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