Romans 4: 23-25

(Romans 4: 23-25)

Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;  Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

 

“If you believe in Jesus, you will be saved” seems to be saved if you believe. The cause of this is in Romans 4:2-3, “For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Because I think of People think that when they believe in God, it is considered righteous to him. This is one's own righteousness. But faith must be justified by God. That faith must come from God to the repentant. The representative figure of his righteousness is Job. God gave Job to Satan. Church Most of the people who first appeared in the book would have come to church with the heart of “I believe in Jesus.” But this belief is what he regarded as his righteousness.

 

We must be reborn to be justified by God. Just as Jesus rose to justify us, so we must die and be reborn with Christ. Rebirth is resurrection. For resurrection, the former must die. In Ephesians 6:1-2, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise “When Mother's Day comes, many churches speak of this word, which is linked to Ephesians 5:31-33.『For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. 』 If the church doesn't say what's ahead, it just tells the story of the world in 6:1-2. It would be difficult if the church only talked about the world without telling the will of God.

 

Many churches try to link the "First Commandment with Promise" to the fifth commandment of the Ten Commandments. However, the promise is the promise of the seed and the land that God made to Abraham. The first is the promise to the seed. Through circumcision, God speaks the covenant. In Genesis 17:10, "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 』

 

Circumcision is a ritual of cutting the body along with the seed's promise. It is the same meaning as baptism in the New Testament. Baptism is a ritual of dying of the body received from parents in water. So, the promise of the seed refers to being reborn into the life of resurrection. In Ephesians 5:31, ``For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 』What is this secret? It means that the body received from parents is crucified with Jesus on the cross, reborn as a spiritual body, and enters into Christ and becomes one with Christ. Just as a couple is one, Jesus becomes the bridegroom of the born again.

 

The church is not a nicely built building, but the saints gathered in the building. The regenerated believer means the church. In John 4:21, "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father."
Many people today refer to the church as a temple, but we hear a lot of talking about buildings. This may be the result of not getting out of legal thinking. It is unknown how many people are trapped in the net of the law today.

 

In John 4:24, God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 』The spirit cannot survive unless you are reborn as a spiritual body. So, unless you are reborn into a spiritual body by the power of the Holy Spirit, that worship is not received by God. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 』

 

It means that Christ and the saints become one. So, when the spirit of the saints leaves their parents and puts on the divine body given by God (denying the body they received from the parents), just as a couple become one, Christ and the saints become one. This is the expression “in Christ.” In “in Christ,” it is in the Lord. This is a big secret.

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