Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth! Topic: Elucidating The Testaments (K)

Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth!

Topic:  Elucidating The Testaments (K)

Continued from the last episode…

Text Of Interest: 

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

Jn 16:12-13

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 

1Cor 2:13

Case Study Text:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 

2Tim 3:16-17 (KJV)

But one thing was consistent in this relationship and that was the love of God for his people. He loved them so much that He couldn’t allow them to be pummeled by sin always and as a result He has to intervene in their situation. The separation wasn’t God’s plan for man, but as far as making of choice is concerned man’s will has to prevail over God’s will until man wishes that his will should be overthrown by that of God’s (Luk 22:42, Heb 10:9).God’s love is the only thing that can terminate the existence of this separation and God by His love decided to help fulfill the Law and ultimately remove the separation between Him and man. If not for the love of God, under the law there are unavoidable consequences for defaulters (Hew 2:2).

The only way He can do thisis to become a Man, since it requires the blood of a man for perfect remission of sins to take place (1Tim 1:15, Col 1:14, Eph 1:7, Heb 10:4 - 8). Though this was not a fluke, God in His foreknowledge knew about this, that He is going to be the rightful lamb that will be sacrificed for the total emancipation of man from sin (Rev 13:8). This implies that God in His foreknowledge knew that Adam will fail, and that all entire human races cannot meet the requirements for His kind of righteousness, so He opted to undo the situation by Himself (1Tim 3:16). This is the eternal purpose and will of God that a family should be established and rooted in the Christ (Eph 1: 5, 9 – 10), for this reason, the option of the tree of life was offered to Adam but He made the wrong choice. The truth is that no man who is of the earthy would become a citizen of the spiritual family unless through the Christ (Eph 2:19).

It is worthy to mention this, that by the time God created all things man inclusive, there was no sin on earth, sin came through man (Rom 5:13), so sin came through the disobedience of Adam. And if sin through the disobedience ofthe man Adam entered into the world, so it is that sin should be taken away through the obedience of one man (Rom 5:18 – 19, Jn 1:29), the man Christ Jesus. So, the gospel of redemption of man was preached right from the beginning and until the arrival of the Christ. Throughout the pages of the Scriptures, that is in the prophets, in the psalms and in the law, all contains facts about the coming of the Christ (Messiah) that will save the world from the clutches of sin (Luk 24:44, Jn 1:45). The Christ when he arrives will not live His own life, but will definitely interpret all that is written about Him in the Scriptures (Matt 1:22-23, Luk 4:18 -22, Jn 10:35), this is the way to identify that He is the Christ, because the Christ should be the end or fulfillment of the Scriptures.

The major difference between the Old Testament and The New Testament is the death, sufferings and glorification of the Christ. The Old Testament professes them but the New Testament fulfills them. In order words, in the Old Testament is the establishment of man’s destiny but the New Testament fulfills it. This implies that they are two different dispensations in which the former is the beginning of an era, and the latter is the end of the former and the establishment of an everlasting era. But the most important thing about the former is that one cannot know better about the latter if he or she does not go to the former, because in the former is the definition of what the latter is all about (2Tim 3:15). The former therefore, contains the description of how man could be saved from sin while the later contains the interpretation and implementation of man’s salvation. Also, the former couldn’t be understood if not through the lens of the latter, because the implementation of the former in the latter gives lucidity on all the cloudy structures, symbols, visions and dreams found in the former (Jn 3:14 -15, Luk 11:29 – 30). Until these things were implemented and interpreted in the latter they continue to be mere stories and fantasies.

On this note, it is important to declare that if one should be saved, it is a matter of fact for him or her to understand what the former says and agree with the implementation that is established in the latter and only by this salvation is granted on him or her. Salvation from sin becomes a common phenomenon all men should accept and identify with.

To be continued….

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Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu