Predestined for Glorification

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Should we just go out and sin all the more now that we know that God’s grace is given to us as a gift simply when we believe his son died for our sins, and put those sins off the table of God’s justice. We must understand that God has predetermined to glorify us. In fact, God has predestined us to that glorification. To predestinate simply means to decide and decree in advance the destiny of something. The natural man has his mind tuned in only to the channel of his own human perspective; satisfying the lust of his flesh; the lust of his eyes; and the pride of life. If something is not logical to the natural man’s way of thinking, he refuses to believe it, whether God said it or not, he wants to remain in his comfort zone. God is not giving out his righteousness as a reward to those who are sorry for the past, and who promise to do their best in the future. At the point of our belief in what Christ accomplished where our sins are concerned, we are as closely associated with Christ as anyone could be, we are joined to him. What an ingenious salvation plan, to take someone else that is righteous and join us to that person, therefore what is Christ’s is ours! It is a gift, a declaration of rightness with God, and this comes totally apart from that unrighteous person’s production.

God’s Reconciliation of Man, read more about it at http://godsreconciliation.blogspot.com/
 

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newnature said:
Should we just go out and sin all the more now that we know that God’s grace is given to us as a gift simply when we believe his son died for our sins, and put those sins off the table of God’s justice. We must understand that God has predetermined to glorify us. In fact, God has predestined us to that glorification. To predestinate simply means to decide and decree in advance the destiny of something. The natural man has his mind tuned in only to the channel of his own human perspective; satisfying the lust of his flesh; the lust of his eyes; and the pride of life. If something is not logical to the natural man’s way of thinking, he refuses to believe it, whether God said it or not, he wants to remain in his comfort zone. God is not giving out his righteousness as a reward to those who are sorry for the past, and who promise to do their best in the future. At the point of our belief in what Christ accomplished where our sins are concerned, we are as closely associated with Christ as anyone could be, we are joined to him. What an ingenious salvation plan, to take someone else that is righteous and join us to that person, therefore what is Christ’s is ours! It is a gift, a declaration of rightness with God, and this comes totally apart from that unrighteous person’s production.

God’s Reconciliation of Man, read more about it at http://godsreconciliation.blogspot.com/

It is ingenious because men invented it. The blood of Christ does not cover up unrighteousness.

1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
 
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HeRoseFromTheDead

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newnature said:
What an ingenious salvation plan, to take someone else that is righteous and join us to that person, therefore what is Christ’s is ours! It is a gift, a declaration of rightness with God, and this comes totally apart from that unrighteous person’s production.
That is the nature and working of the blood covenant Jesus cut in his own blood with the 11 disciples, into which we are grafted in through faith: everything he has became ours (righteousness), everything we have became his (sin).
 

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Here's the thing...once I fully accepted the grace of Jesus Christ, He also lifted much of the urge to sin. I'm not saying I never sin...not by a long shot. But, I am far more conscious of it and want to follow Him as best I can. This comes much more naturally when I am filled with the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:1-4 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

BGA :)
 

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ChristRoseFromTheDead said:
Apparently, you understand little to nothing about blood covenants in the OT.

You can't discern the holy from the carnal. There is no power in the positional ideology. The "I get all the glory and Jesus gets stuck with all the mess" approach to the servant-hood of God.
 

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You can't discern the holy from the carnal. There is no power in the positional ideology. The "I get all the glory and Jesus gets stuck with all the mess" approach to the servant-hood of God.
The blood covenant Jesus cut with Israel is the foundational framework of our faith. There is no salvation apart from it. It is most holy.

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave [it] to them, saying, 'All of you drink it, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many into remission of sins'. Matthew 26:27-28

The blood covenant instituted an exchange in which everything Jesus has was imputed to us (righteousness); everything we have was imputed to him (sin).

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 (but imputing them to Christ); and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

But for us also, to whom [righteousness] shall be imputed (while our sins were imputed to Christ), 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. Romans 4:24-25

The Greek words translated reconciliation above means an exchange.

Reconciliation
G2643 καταλλαγή katallage
1. an exchange

Blood covenant
 
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