For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world,...WHAT IS A TRUE RELIGION?
Romans 5:10-19
For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.
For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.
Purpose: “To refute the illustration being used: different places, different direction but same point, same mountain top,… like the mountain climbers, we’re all heading the same center-mountain top!â€
I. The meaning of RELIGION.
Latin: Re- again, Ligio- to tie. Results: “to tie againâ€
1. presupposes of having a previous situation of being tied before.
2. Creation, communication, relationship of man to God.
3. Man’s fallen nature.
4. The necessity of bringing this lost relationship between God and man.
5. This relationship will only be accomplished by a mediator.
II. The Mediator:
1. The necessity of being God-man (Illustration: language barrier between two person).
2. This can only be accomplished by Jesus Christ alone. (I Tim. 2:5)
3. Eliminate other religions. (Illustration: Budhism)
4. Resurrection, the only testimony that gave power, hope and endurance to those people who experienced tribulation and persecution.
5. The difference between God came in flesh and man became God as the mediator.
III. JESUS CHRIST: The True Re-Ligio, the true Religion.
The true “to tie againâ€
1. God from eternity to eternity who came in flesh and died on the cross and overcame death by being resurrected, went to heaven with the Father, left the Holy Spirit in place of Him and will return again for the second time to get His Church, the sheep, the flock of God.
2. Eliminate those false Christianity, those who do not accept Jesus as God-man.
IV. True Religion, true Worship.
1. Jesus, as God to be worship in Spirit and in Truth
2. Eliminate Roman Catholicism: Jesus as God, Trinity, but using the “graven images.â€
3. The nature of antichrist is apostasy from Christianity not paganism. (I John 2:19) “They went out from us but they were not of usâ€
4. Anti in Greek usage means instead or in the place of. This antichrist takes the room or place of Christ.
5. Jesus Christ sent the Holy Spirit to be his vicar on earth (John 14:15-30; 16:1-16)
6. The work of the Holy Spirit is described in Romans 8:1-17
V. Application.
1. Chistological Salvation, Jesus Christ as true religion in the context of God-man is very important in the salvation of man.
2. True religion, true faith is the only hope of our salvation.
3. True religion, true worship is the only way to worship God.
4. True religion, true Zeal: Illustrate: two by two’s of the seventh day adventist,
Door to door of the Jehovah’s witnesses zealosness. Where is the zeal of the
Baptist?
5. Prayer for the RC will not be heard by God. (Jer. 11:12-14)
6. Phillippines, the only Christian nation in Asia, but many kinds of graven images from north to south, from Sto. Nino to crabshell.
7. Look out for one man at the end of the age the Man of sin which was soon to be unveiled. The antichrist!!!!!
8. Great changes is being taken place in RC: bible study, fellowship on the weekend, cathechism, ecumenical movement, the apparition of virgin Mary
9. Total destruction of the way to salvation: Apostasy – false Christianity.
10. This is our Faith, having True Religion!!!
Agonidzu of Faith
I Tim. 6:12
To be continued, Abangan, Ang susunod na Kabanata:
The truth of the apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Addendum From John Gill, a Commentary.
Rom 5:19 - For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,.... Agreeably to this the Jews say (g), that
"for the sin of the first man, all that are born of him, יהיו רשעים, "become wicked".''
This is the sum of what is said in the foregoing verses, that as by Adam's sin all his posterity are made sinners, and so are brought under a sentence of condemnation; in like manner by the obedience of Christ, all his seed are made righteous, and come under a sentence of justification of life: the persons made sinners are said to be "many", in opposition to the "one man", by whose disobedience they became so, and because there is an exception of one, even Jesus Christ; and mean all the natural descendants of Adam, who are many, and are so called, to answer to the subjects of justification in the next clause: what they are made sinners by, is "the disobedience of one man, Adam"; and by the first and single disobedience of his, in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree, by which they "were made sinners": the meaning of which is not, that they became sufferers for it, or subject to death on the account of it; the word used will not bear such a sense, but signifies men guilty of sin, and sometimes the worst and chief of sinners; besides, the apostle had expressed that before; add to this, that the sons of Adam could not be sufferers for his sin, or subject to death on account of it, if they were not made sinners by it, or involved in the guilt or it: and though the posterity of Adam are habitually sinners, that is, derive corrupt nature from Adam, yet this is not meant here; but that they are become guilty, through the imputation of his sin to them; for it is by the disobedience of another they are made sinners, which must be by the imputation of that disobedience to them; he sinned, and they sinned in him, when they had as yet no actual existence; which could be no other way, than by imputation, as he was reckoned and accounted their head and representative, and they reckoned and accounted in him, and so have sinned in him. This is also evident, from the sentence of condemnation and death passing upon all men for it; and even upon those, who had not actually sinned; to which may be added, that Adam's posterity are made sinners through his disobedience, in the same way as Christ's seed are made righteous by his obedience, which is by the imputation of it to them;
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous; not by their own obedience; nor by their own obedience and Christ's together; but by his sole and single obedience to the law of God: and the persons made righteous by it are not all the posterity of Adam, and yet not a few of them; but "many", even all the elect of God, and seed of Christ; these are all made righteous in the sight of God, are justified from all their sins, and entitled to eternal life and happiness. | more | less
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If Christ is not God (the second person of the triune God) who came in flesh to reconcile man back to God not only in the essence of His person as God-man but also in His works in the Death of the Cross, ....there is no Salvation!
