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The Doctrine of Justification. Part 4.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.

1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins].” NKJV (New King James Version)

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

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The Doctrine of Justification. Part 4.

The Doctrine of Justification.

Point 1. Introduction; Rom 4:13-25.

Point 2. The Etymology of the word which is the origin and historical development of a word and how it was originally used in its earliest known use.

Point 3. The definition of “dikaiosune Theou” translated the “righteousness of God” which reveals God’s character and nature.

Understanding this doctrine of justification means that you understand that if you sin, you haven’t changed your status with God is still here.

TLJC makes intercession for us, He takes care of us; 1Jo 2:1-2.

Until perfect righteousness is imputed there can be no justification.

God doesn’t think much of your personality or self-righteousness nor of mine.

God loves His perfect righteousness with an eternal love.

1Co 13:6 Impersonal love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Psa 11:7 For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteousness;

Psa 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psa 37:28 For the Lord loves justice, And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever;

Psa 45:7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;

Heb 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

Jam 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

Jam 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone.

Rom 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law.

Gal 2:16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified

Gal 3:11 Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, ” The righteous man shall live by faith. ”

Matt 12:30 “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

Mar 9:40 “For he who is not against us is for us.

Prov 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.
Prov 26:5 Answer a fool as his folly deserves, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

We should ask why is it so important to have so many passages about God loving justice and righteousness?

1. Justification means that the one being justified has the possession of divine perfect righteousness which was imputed at salvation.

2. Justification frees the justice of God to pronounce the fact we have His perfect righteousness.

3. Justification is another way of describing salvation relationship with the integrity of God.

4. Forgiveness is subtraction, justification is addition by grace.
Forgiveness subtracts sin, justification adds the perfect righteousness of God.

5. Justification is the completion of the believer’s salvation adjustment to the justice of God.

6. Understanding this doctrine of justification means that you understand that if you sin, you haven’t changed your status with God.

The justice of God can only judge sin with divine discipline but if we rebound first, the justice of God can only forgive us.

1Jo 1:9 “If we acknowledge [name and cite] our sins, He is faithful and just, with the result that He forgives us our sins [our known sins] and purifies us from all unrighteousness [unknown sins].”

Point 4. Justification is related to salvation adjustment to the justice of God in Rom 3:28; Rom 5:1; Gal 3:24.

Gal 3:24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith.

Point 5. Justification is related to the principle of grace, Rom 3:24; Tit 3:7.

Tit 3:7 that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

When justice functions in the field of blessing, it is always grace.

This leads us to Point 6. Justification is not related to human works, Rom 3:20, 28; Gal 2:16.

Gal 2:16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified.

Point 7. Mechanics of Justification, simply believe, Gen 15:6; Rom 3:22.

Gen 15:6 Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

From these passages, it is obvious that the mechanics of justification involves on the part of man a non meritorious function of simply believing.

Point 8. The judgment of sin frees the justice of God for the blessing of justification.

By judging sin, the justice of God is free to bless man with salvation.

Salvation in the Bible means justification, because it reveals the Source, the mechanics and grace.

That Christ was “raised up from the dead because of our justification.” Rom 4:25

Justification is the word that emphasizes the total integrity of God. “Blood” is the word that emphasizes the total work of Christ.

In Rom 5:9, blood refers to redemption, propitiation, and reconciliation as parts of salvation.

The justice of God is the second half of the integrity of God, the functioning half.

Perfect righteousness, the other half, is the principle part of divine essence.

We have one half of the integrity of God in the imputation of perfect righteousness. But getting the other half (by reaching maturity) is the hard part.

Our first contact with the essence of God is with His justice, not His love.

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

Yet even though His love for the Son was total and maximum, there was something more important than love: the justice of God.

And even in the human realm, great lovers always have integrity behind their love.

(a) God the Father did the judging.
(b) God the Son received the judgment.
(c) God the Holy Spirit reveals the judgment.

Included in salvation are redemption, reconciliation, and propitiation, which are partial words summarizing the full words justification and blood of Christ.

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The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
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Weekly Bible Study – January 30, 2017

The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 5.
Noah and the Nephilim.

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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to have faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

Study to show yourself approved to God!

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The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 5.
Noah and the Nephilim.

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The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 5.
Noah and the Nephilim.

Heb 11:7, By means of doctrine resident in the soul, Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, in reverence constructed a ship for the deliverance of his family, through which he condemned the world.

The word kosmon represents the organized system of the world under the rulership of the devil. Noah turned everything around! He didn’t fight back! He let them judge and gossip about him! He didn’t defend himself. He just stuck with communicating the Word of God doctrine in spite of the opposition. He ignored the whole thing which was designed by Satan to distract Noah from his calling, and instead he just concentrated on the word from God. And God vindicated him and gave him the highest honor any man could have, God spun the whole course of history around Noah.

His respect for God, and being enthusiastic by believing God’s warnings, moved him to construct a ship or what is called an ark, in which he met with the scorns and reproaches of a wicked generation. And in doing so he pleased God as Heb 11:6, And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

The only way you please God is with doctrine resident in the soul and that is what Noah had. And this world has yet to see in full, in modern history, what doctrine in the soul of one person can do much less then in a small group of individuals. You see you don’t have to have a lot of people! You don’t have to have big crowds! And above all, you don’t have to have any kind of popularity. All you have to do is to have doctrine in the soul to please God.

1Sa 16:7, for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Heb 11:7, By means of doctrine resident in the soul, Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, in reverence constructed a ship for the deliverance of his family, through which he condemned the world or the cosmos, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Bible doctrine gives you the inheritance that God has provided for you for you to become an heir of the righteousness which is based upon the faith…that is the Christian faith. Now, we now need to turn to Gen chapter 6 which describes for us the environment that Noah had to deal with in the antediluvian civilization. In this chapter, there are basically two explanations that interpreters have taken. One is the simplified for the naive and the other is complicated for the serious student of the Word of God. It all revolves around who are the “sons of God and the daughters of men” as mentioned in Gen 6:2.

Those who do not relate to the original languages in their preparation and study of the word take the idea that the “sons of God” refer to the line of Seth and the “daughters of men” refer to the line of Cain. And this is an over simplification of the passage and, as a matter of fact, it is a real great strain to even accept as an interpretation. The reason that it is so acceptable however is because it is the easy way out. To teach a passage under those conditions you don’t have to think and you don’t have to study. However, you also don’t have the answers concerning questions like who are the angels in verses like 2Pe 2:4, For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

Who are these Angels! They cannot be all of the fallen angels because we know that our battle is with Satan and his fallen angels in Eph 6:12 and they are free to walk the face of the earth. And as Jud 1:6 says, And the angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. What does it mean they “did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode”? And, who are these Angels that God “has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day”? Or 1Pe 3:19, who are the ones mentioned that He [the Lord Jesus Christ] went and made proclamation to the fallen angels in prison now.

So, if you believe that the sons of God are believers and the daughters of men are unbelievers, you are not able to answer the question as to why there are some fallen angels in prison right now when in reality Satan and his angels are “free” to roam this earth as well as in certain areas in Heaven. So, most people have really no idea how to interpret this passage in Gen 6, let’s read it first.

Gen 6:1-8, Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. And the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

We begin with a principle which is the fact that anytime you find anyone saying that the “sons of God” are anything else but angels immediately you are looking at someone who does not know the original languages. The big problem is that it is inconceivable for people today for them to think that demons could ever have sex with humans. However, I must remind you that all of this took place before the flood. The fact that creatures can have sex with other species then themselves is not only taught in Jud 1:6 when it says, And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, but it is also taught in other passages as well.

In fact, God even commands humans not to do what these angels did which was to have sex with a lower creation and that’s why we actually have commands in the Bible that forbid having sex with animals, Lev 20:15-16, If there is a man who has sex with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal. If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood guiltiness is upon them.

By the way that’s a passage that says that the animal is even guilty.

Lev 18:23, Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

So, as you can see, having sex with another creation is possible and that is why God forbids it because it is possible. So, we shouldn’t be shocked by the idea that angels could have sex with humans. Now, in Gen 6:1, Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

So, the expression “daughters of men” includes the daughters of Seth as well as the daughters of Cain, hence the expression “sons of God” must mean beings different from the human race. The daughters of Cain and the daughters of Seth are daughters of humans, Seth representing the believers, Cain representing the unbeliever…but they are all human.

Now, the title “sons of God” does not have the same meaning in the Old Testament that it has in the New. In the New Testament, it applies to those who have become the “sons of God” by the new birth. Rom 8:14, For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Rom 8:19, For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

However, in the O.T. the phrase the “sons of God” applies to the angels and everytime it’s used it refers to angels. It is so used six times, twice in Genesis, Gen 6:2-4, three times in Job, Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7, and once in Dan 3:25. Here in Gen 6:2, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful;

Then in Gen 6:4, The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.

Then look at Job 1:6, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Job 2:1, Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

Then we have the Lord indicting Job as to where he was when God laid foundation of the earth in Job 38:4, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding,

Job 38:5-7, Who set its measurements, since you know? Or who stretched the line on it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

The phrase “beni ha Elohim” is translated the “sons of God” and it denotes a being brought into existence by a creative act of God. It is only used for angels in the Bible [old testament]. In Dan 3:25, King Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Look! I see four men loosed and walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!”

The point is that the phrase used in Gen 6, in Job and in Daniel all referred to angels never humans. Such were the angels and such was Adam, and he is so called in Luke 3:38 Adam is the son of God because he was not born but was created like the angels by the hand of God. For example: Describing the messianic line in Luke’s gospel, Luke writes in Luke 3:23, And when He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being supposedly {the} son of Joseph, the {son} of Eli, Down to verse 36, Luke 3:36-38, the {son} of Cainan, the {son} of Arphaxad, the {son} of Shem, the {son} of Noah, the {son} of Lamech, the {son} of Methuselah, the {son} of Enoch, the {son} of Jared, the {son} of Mahalaleel, the {son} of Cainan, the {son} of Enosh, the {son} of Seth, the {son} of Adam, the {son} of God.

Note that Adam was called a “son of God”, why? Because he came from the created hand of God. Angels are called “sons of God” because they were created by God, Psa 148:2,5 Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all his hosts! Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created. And we are called “sons of God” because we in Christ 2Co 5:17, Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature;

So, Adam’s natural descendants are not the creation of God. Adam was created in the “likeness of God”, Gen 5:1, but his descendants were born in his likeness, for we read in GEN 5:3 that Adam “became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image.”

Gen 5:1, This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Gen 5:3, When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Therefore, all men born of Adam and his descendants by natural generation are the “sons of men” and it is only by being “born again” which is a “New Creation” that they can become the “sons of God” in the New Testament sense. Now the “Sons of God” of Gen 6:2, 4, could not be the “sons of Seth,” as some claim, because the “sons of Seth” were only men, and could only be called “sons of men,” not “sons of God.” And this proves beyond question that the “sons of God” in Gen 6:2, 4, were ANGELS, and not godly descendants of Seth. Objections are raised concerning this point by noting what our Lord said about the resurrection of humans that they are like the angels in Luke 20:35-36, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; Therefore they say that the angels are “sexless” and therefore cannot cohabit either with themselves or human beings.

However, while the passage implies that the angels “do not marry” it does not say that they are “sexless” for that would convey the idea that at the resurrection all believers will also be sexless, a doctrine that is contrary to the belief that husbands and wives and brothers and sisters shall know each other “as such” in the eternal state. They will know each other as males and females! What the passage does teach is that angels do not multiply by procreation. Millions of angels were created all at once and because they never die there is no necessity for reproduction among them. Also, these angels were condemned for some particular sin, as Jud 7 teaches which is the fact that they went after or fornicated with “strange flesh.”

It was the sin of “fornication and going after strange flesh”, as Jud 7 teaches and the “time” of the sin is given as just before the flood. 2Pe 2:5. It is the same sin that caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, whose citizens demanded that Lot surrender the two angels that he had received into his home that they might “know them” which refers to having sex with them in 2Pe 2:6-8, Jud 7, Gen 19:5. Another argument for the support of this view is the fact that the progeny of this union between the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men was a race of giants, “mighty men, “men of renown.”

Gen 6:4, The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

And this is where Greek mythology came from which is really not mythology at all but fact! Now, think of it, to say that the sons of God were godly people and they married the daughters of men who were carnal women and then they had super-kids is ridiculous. There have never been such “monstrosities” as the offspring of the “sons of God” and the “daughters of men” since Noah’s day. The word Nephilim means the “Fallen Ones,” or “giants”.

It is clear that those “mighty men” and “men of renown,” were not the ordinary offspring of the daughters of men, or else why didn’t they appear before or even again? The “sons of Seth” and the “daughters of Cain” had undoubtedly inter-married before this, but there were no such children born to them. Now, in this irruption of angelic beings into the world of men we have the source or Greek mythology where historians obtained their notions concerning the loves of the gods and demi-gods, and the legends of beings half-human and half-divine. And what I want you see is the tremendous obstacles Noah had to overcome.

The characteristics of the “antediluvian dispensation,” as out¬lined by the late Dr. A. T. Pierson, were, “First, an advance in fullness and clearness of revelation; Then gradual spirit declension then conformity to the world, ending with mixture with the world; then a gigantic civilization, brilliant but godless; then parallel development of evil and good; then an ‘apostasy,’ and finally a catastrophe.” That my friends is real trouble.

So Gen 6 talks about the “sons of God” with the Hebrew phrase “beni ha Elohim” who are fallen angels under Satan and as we will see it should be translated “sons of the gods.” They were able to appear with angelic bodies to the women of the antediluvian civilization. A civilization already corrupted by worship of the Olympian pantheon of false Gods. Olympia was a region in ancient Greek noted for the worship of many gods especially Zeus.

So, these angels at that time of Gen 6, had sexual capabilities and cohabited with the women of that era producing a mutated race called Nephilim. These were the Herculean “heroes” and “giants” and famous half angel, half man types described briefly in the Genesis account. And this whole plan was an attack by Satan to try and destroy true humanity on earth so that Jesus Christ could not be truly human. And in the midst of this type of wild and evil environment is a man called Noah, going forward with the plan of God in spite of all the opposition and distraction. Satan’s genetic attack appeared to be totally successful but for one glitch. The glitch in Satan’s plan was the divine preservation of eight people, Noah and his wife and their three sons and wives who were the last remains of uncorrupted humanity.

Again, Peter tells us all about it.

1Pe 3:18-22, For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.

Weekly Bible Study – January 23, 2017

The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 4.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The Mystery of the mark of Cain.

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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to have faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

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The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 4.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The mystery behind the Noahic genealogy.

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SSE = Spiritual Self Esteem
PVTD = Positive Volition Towards Doctrine [Bible Truth]
+H - The Happiness of God
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The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 4.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The mystery behind the Noahic genealogy.

We have now come to one of the visible heroes of this dispensation who is a man called Noah. Noah was one of the greatest witnesses for the Lord in the midst of angelic conflict of the Old Testament that he is mentioned with and Daniel and Job. In fact, the prophet Ezekiel identified three men as one of the greatest believers of all time in Eze 14:12-14. For when the nation of Israel and the Jews had gone so apostate and were about to destroyed by God, that the prophet Ezekiel wrote concerning the client nation in Eze 14:12-14, Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it, and cut off from it both man and beast, even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves, declares the Lord God.”

In other words, even if these three were a part of the pivot, the nation could still not been spared, though they would have been. This means that God is declaring Noah, Daniel and Job as mature winner believers and that in times of the fifth cycle of discipline when God destroys a nation that they would only be able to deliver themselves. However, that is not our subject, what I want you to see is what type of believer Noah was known as…this was his eulogy, as it were. To be put into the same category as Job and Daniel, one a Gentile, the other a Jew, is a great compliment to Noah!

So, we need to take a look at Noah’s place in the dispensation of the conscience. The first 500 years of his life are passed off in silence. We assume that during that time he was going back and forth and never reaching the objective of spiritual maturity and super-grace. During that time he reached different stages of spiritual growth only to be pushed back and lose the advantage. The apostle John warned us of this in 2Jo 1:8, Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

So after 500 years of going back and forth, all of a sudden dramatically Noah and his three sons are mentioned in Gen 5:32; Gen 6:9-10. Gen 5:32, And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Then in Gen 6:9-10, These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Noah is mentioned in such a way as to indicate that the last 450 years of his life were years of spiritual maturity and super-grace. Now, the name Noah means rest or relief. And the line of descent from Adam to Noah was as follows: Adam, Seth, Enosh, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared. Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah. By the way, all these individuals were direct descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you have seen the importance of this before but let mention it again. Ten represents the number of completion of the divine order.

Gen 5, God the Holy Spirit who is the author of divine inspiration gives us the genealogy from Adam to Noah! Our problem is that it is not translated, it is transliterated! Translation means to describe or interpret the word whereas transliteration is the conversion of a text from one language to another. And all of these Hebrew names are special significance when you interpret what they mean and Noah is a vital part of this illustration.

Let’s take a look at what the names mean in the original language.

Gen 5:1, This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Adam is pretty easy to define, most of you know that his name means man.

Adam = man

Gen 5:3, When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

What does Seth mean?

Well, we get a clue of what it means in Gen 4:25, And Adam had relations with his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has appointed me another offspring in place of Abel; for Cain killed him.”


Eve felt that Seth was appointed to be a replacement for Abel who was murdered by Cain. So she named him Seth and his name means appointed!

So we have:
Adam = man
Seth = appointed

Gen 5:6, And Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became the father of Enosh.

Enosh, according to the Biblical Library means human.

Gen 5:9, And Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

Kenan means a curse referring to man’s curse of having to work etc.

Adam = man
Seth = appointed
Enosh = human
Kenan = curse

Gen 5:12, And Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

Now, the word “el” you recognize as the name of God. The Hebrews put the name of God in their names like Daniel, Bethel, etc. Mahalalel means “the blessed God” says Gesenius a Hebrew scholar.

Gen 5:15, And Mahalalel lived sixty five years, and became the father of Jared.

Jared is a verb meaning “shall come down.”

Adam = man
Seth = appointed
Enosh = human
Kenan = curse
Mahalalel = The blessed God.
Jared = shall come down

Gen 5:18, And Jared lived one hundred and sixty two years, and became the father of Enoch.

Enoch means to consecrate one self.

Gen 5:21, And Enoch lived sixty five years, and became the father of Methuselah.

It’s interesting to note that Methuselah lived longer than anyone in all of human history, 969 years, probably because of blessing by association to his father Enoch. Methuselah died the year that the flood occurred and as we noted in the past, his death was a warning that this was the year of the flood. Enoch was told as long as his son was alive, the flood would be withheld! So Enoch, who was a prophet, named his son Methuwshelach translated Methuselah and his name means “his death shall bring.” Methu means to die. Shelach means to bring. So when he died the flood was brought forth or sent. Now, you ladies are probably thinking it must have been tough to bring up that kid because every time he caught a cold the neighborhood would go into panic!

Methuselah’s name means “his death shall bring.”

Adam = man
Seth = appointed
Enosh = human
Kenan = curse
Mahalalel = the blessed God.
Jared = shall come down
Enoch = to consecrate oneself.
Methuselah = “his death shall bring”

Gen 5:25, And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Lamech = conquering

Gen 5:28-9, And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty two years, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one shall give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Just as this verse says, Noah’s name means rest. So here is a chart of the description of the names God the Holy Spirit inspired Moses to write.

Adam = man
Seth = appointed
Enosh = human
Kenan = curse
Mahalalel = the blessed God.
Jared = shall come down
Enoch = to consecrate oneself.
Methuselah = “his death shall bring”
Lamech = conquering
Noah = rest

Man is appointed a human curse. The blessed God shall come down to consecrate himself. His death shall bring conquering rest.

So we have just gone through quickly ten names, the number of completion in the Bible, and these ten names mean something very precisely in the original language. Now, I picked this passage for few reasons. First of all, there’s no way that you could ever convince me that a group of Jewish Rabbi’s would have contrive to hide the Christian Gospel in a genealogy of the Torah. Remember the Jews do not believe in the New Testament and the Christian Gospel.

Secondly, this passage also points out the importance of going back to the original language and discovering what was really said.

And thirdly, I think this is another passage that reveals the integrity of the Bible and the fact that this book was divinely inspired by God!

This is why we go back to the original language to see what the Bible really has to say!

Noah lived at a time when the whole earth was filled with violence and corruption. Yet, what made Noah great is that Noah did not allow the evil standards of his day to rob him of His relationship and fellowship with God. For we read in Gen 6:11-13, Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

He stood out as the only one who “walked with God” at that time in Gen 6:9, as was true of his great grandfather Enoch. However, to really get a short synopsis of Noah’s life we need to go to Heb 11:7, By faith or by means of doctrine, Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

As we noted on Friday the verb for “being warned” means to be divinely instructed doctrine. It took many teachings and warnings to prepare Noah for what the Lord was about to do. Noah received the doctrine, believed it and then applied it, so that he became spiritually mature from the divine warnings from God concerning the future. And one of the most overlooked functions of Noah’s life is that he had to go against the majority and appear to be a fool for our Lord’s sake.

Noah teaches us that when you have doctrine in the soul, you can take the proper action, even though you are in the minority. Even though people say that you are crazy, Noah was in the minority. We know that from certain passages of scripture like Gen 6:5, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Heb 11:7, By means of doctrine resident in the soul, Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen,

The phrase “not yet seen” is the Greek word blepo which refers to being warned about things that have not yet occurred in human history. In fact, they were things that had never occurred in history before. Do you realize that it never rained before the flood? Rain began at the flood. Not only that, but most scholars believe that there were not even boats before the flood. And so as a super-grace believer, Noah received doctrinal information about the termination of the antediluvian (before the flood) civilization.

Heb 11:7, By means of doctrine resident in the soul, Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen [the future of human history], in reverence [having been motivated by reverence or his respect toward God] constructed an ark for the salvation of his household,

It took Noah 120 years to build this ship. One day sitting up on dry land was a completed construction, a ship designed for water. Noah was motivated by the doctrine in his soul to build the ship. The word for ark is kiboton which refers to an ark, a wooden chest, or a ship.

The seven members of his family were all delivered by the building of the ship by Noah. And this is blessing by association to the super-grace believer. Some of you will never reach super-grace or spiritual maturity and so the best thing for you to do is to hook up with a mature believer and get blessing by association. In fact, that’s the only way that some believers ever get happiness as believers, association with a spiritually mature believer. In Noah’s family, the other seven were not spiritually mature. Noah’s wife was not spiritually mature. Noah’s sons were not in super-grace but Noah was and there is the principle of blessing by association. Super-grace blessing is the means of blessing those in the periphery who are not super-grace types. And in some cases, not even saved.

And he did all of this in view of the strongest possible human opposition as well as Satanic, with the Nephilim on the earth. Remember that these were the days of rampant visible demonism, half-human, half angelic creatures as well as evil vile humanity, and all of these beings were in opposition to Noah.

The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.

Internet Church Service –– January 22, 2017

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The Doctrine of Justification. Part 3.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.

1 John 1:9 says—“If we confess [simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins].” NKJV (New King James Version)

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

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The Doctrine of Justification. Part 3.

How could they miss it? Because instead of trusting God, they took matters into their own hands.

They were so absorbed in their “work for God” that they didn’t notice God’s work right in front of them, like a huge rock or as this passage says a “stumbling stone” in the middle of the road.

1Ti 3:16 And by common confession great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh, Was vindicated in the Spirit, Beheld by angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

TLJC therefore is called the Rock who the Jews had rejected in DEU 32:18 “You neglected the rock who begot you, and forgot the God who gave you birth.

1Co 10:4 “They all drank from the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Christ is the rock of salvation. 1Co 3:11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

As the Rock, TLJC provides the solid mental attitude to honor Him. Isa 26:3-4, “The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in Thee. Trust in the Lord forever, For in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.”

Christ is the foundation rock of Israel. Psa 118:22; Isa 28:16.

Christ is the foundation rock of the Church. Matt 16:18; Eph 2:20-22.

Christ is the destroying rock of the Second Advent. Dan 2:34-35.

h. To the unbeliever, Christ is the rock of judgment. 1Pe 2:8.

What is your house, or the edification complex of your soul, built upon?

Rom 9 = the Righteousness and Justice of God, the First Adam and the Last Adam, the Doctrine of Imputations.

Doctrine of Justification.

Point 1. Introduction; Rom 4:13-25.

Abraham failed twice when he lied to the Pharaoh and said that Sarah was not his wife, Gen 12:10-20, and when he lied to Abimelech, the king of Gerar in Gen 20:1-15 and said the same thing, Sarah was not his wife.

He listened to the voice of his wife Sarah who told Abraham to go and have sex with her female slave, Hagar, and bring an heir from her rather than waiting on the timing of God.

He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promises asking cautious and skeptical questions, he plunged into the promises and came up strong, ready for God.

The same thing is said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions seemed to be hopeless.

His resurrection was the validation of the sacrifice of His spiritual death and the proof of our acceptance with God.

Point 2. The Etymology of the word which is the origin and historical development of a word and how it was originally used in its earliest known use.

The word for justification is the noun dikaiosis which means anything pertaining to the integrity of God, His righteousness and justice.

When used for man it refers to imputed perfect righteousness.
When used for God it refers to His righteousness and justice.

Point 3. The definition of dikaiosune Theou translated the “righteousness of God.” which justifies us at the moment of salvation.”

This function of divine blessing from the justice of God at salvation is called “dikaiosune Theou” or a judicial function of the justice of God.

This function of divine blessing from the justice of God at salvation is called “dikaiosune Theou” or the dikaioo or justification, a judicial function of the justice of God.

Justification means an act of vindication. This is a judicial act of vindication means we have been vindicated by God from being born under condemnation, or being spiritually dead.
The justice of God acts on our behalf pronouncing us justified, which means, having a relationship with God forever because we have the perfect righteousness of God imputed to us.

Col 2:10 and in Him you have been made complete,

Col 1:22 He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach

Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.

Mic 7:18-19, “Who is a God like thee, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? Yes you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Isa 38:17c For You have cast all their sins behind their back.

Isa 43:25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake [because of my honor and integrity]. Furthermore, I will not remember your sin.”

Jer 31:34c For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

Col 2:13 He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us ALL our transgressions,

Psa 85:2 You did forgive the iniquity of Your people; you did cover all their sin.

Eze 16:63 “I will forgive you for all that you have done”

1Jo 2:12 Your sins are forgiven for His names sake.

The mechanics of justification are found in what is known as at salvation adjustment to the justice of God which include three logistical steps.

a. First, personal faith in Christ. The object of faith has all the merit.

b. The justice of God the provides perfect righteousness to all who believe.

c. God judicially pronounces us justified, officially righteous.

At salvation we receive God’s perfect righteousness and His justice must recognize that very same perfect righteousness which backs Him up in His divine essence.

Understanding this doctrine of justification means that you understand that if you sin, you haven’t changed your status with God.

Until perfect righteousness is imputed there can be no justification.

No perfect righteousness imputed means no justification.

God doesn’t think much of your personality or self-righteousness nor of mine.

God loves His perfect righteousness with an eternal love.

Psa 11:7 For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteousness;

Psa 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psa 37:28 For the Lord loves justice, And does not forsake His godly ones; They are preserved forever;

Psa 45:7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;


Justification frees the justice of God to pronounce the fact we have His perfect righteousness.

Forgiveness is subtraction, justification is addition by grace.
Forgiveness subtracts sin, justification adds the perfect righteousness of God.

First, God took care of our dirty laundry. Then he bought us a brand new wardrobe.

The justice of God can only judge sin with divine discipline but if we rebound first, the justice of God can only forgive us.

1Jo 1:9 “If we acknowledge [name and cite] our sins, He is faithful and just, with the result that He forgives us our sins [our known sins] and purifies us from all unrighteousness [unknown sins].”

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The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.

Weekly Bible Study – January 16, 2017

The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 3.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The Mystery of the mark of Cain.

IF YOU’RE NEW
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Prepare yourself for learning the Word of God!

Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge (confess) your sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father).

1 John 1:9 says: "If we confess our sins, He (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (known sins) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [unknown or forgotten sins]." NKJV (New King James Version) [italics added]; we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to have faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." NKJV [italics added]

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

Study to show yourself approved to God!

Grace Bible Church
Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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STUDY TITLE:

The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 3.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The Mystery of the mark of Cain.

Terms & Abbreviations used:

PPOG = Predesigned Plan of God
Human Good = Evil + Good Deeds while not in fellowship with God
Old Sin Nature = Old Sin Nature
TLJC = The Lord Jesus Christ
SSE = Spiritual Self Esteem
PVTD = Positive Volition Towards Doctrine [Bible Truth]
+H - The Happiness of God
NVTD = Negative Volition Towards Doctrine
Doctrine = Bible Truth

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BEGIN BIBLE STUDY
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The Doctrine of Dispensations. Part 3.
Dispensation of Conscience.
The Mystery of the mark of Cain.

We have now completed the first dispensation of innocence and saw that even though man was placed in a perfect environment, he failed and rejected the plan of God for that dispensation.

Gen 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Gen 2:15-17, Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.”

Then while in the garden of Eden we read in Gen 3:6, When the woman saw that the tree [which God had forbidden] was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

It was at this point that man experienced for the first time a knowledge of “good and evil” that brought into existence the human conscience when his problems really began. For in Gen 3:7-8, we read that for the first time, The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Notice for the first-time man experienced some negative vibes.

In Gen 3:7, they realized that they were naked and they became ashamed or embarrassed which they were not back in Gen 2:25. In Gen 2:25, before the fall, The man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. For the first time, they were conscious of the fact that they had disobeyed God ; and they sewed fig leaves together and tried to cover their sin. In Gen 3:10, now that they have a conscience, they were afraid, and they were living in fear.

Gen 3:9-10, Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you [Adam, not where are you both, Adam and the woman]?” And he [Adam] said, “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

These are the four “I’s” of Adam. “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” What a contrast to what Adam was like before the fall and before he did what the Lord said that he did in

Gen 3:17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.

So much for the first dispensation, the dispensation of innocent perfection! Now, it was at time that because they now had knowledge of good and evil that they also experienced a conscience of what is good and what is evil. And so after the first dispensation which is a period of time that we call the dispensation of innocence, we are not ready for the second dispensation, called theologically, the dispensation of conscience.

Dispensation = Conscience
Opening Event = Able offers a lamb – Cain murders Abel (Gen 4:2-15)
Man’s Responsibility = Believe and obey – Gen 4:3-7; Heb 11:4. Abel did – Cain did not!

Heb 11:4, By faith [by means of pistis or doctrine] Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts [blood sacrifice], and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

Man’s failure – his conscience was so defiled and perverted that we read that God destroyed those who were on the earth in Gen 6:5-7, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. And the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Man’s Tendency = He fell away from God – Gen 6:11-13.

Closing Event = Judgment – flood – Gen 7:11-23.

Personal Salvation = By Grace through Faith – Gen 6:8; Heb 11:4-7; 1Pe 3:18-22.

We quote Gen 6:8 because in the midst of the perversion on earth we read: Gen 6:8, But Noah found favor or grace in the eyes of the Lord.

So the dispensation of the conscience was a period of negative volition beginning with the first murder in history, Gen 4:1-15. Let’s look at it one more time to get to our main message on the Mark of Cain.

GenN 4:1, Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.” She was so deceived from the fall that she thought Cain was the male child from the Lord and the fulfillment of Gen 3:15, which was the first promise in human history and the first prophecy in human history. Remember in Gen 3:15, after Adam and the woman fell, our Lord said to the serpent in front of Adam and the woman; Gen 3:15, “And I will put enmity Between you [Satan, indwelling the serpent] and the woman [the virgin Mary], And between your seed [Satan, the father of all unbelievers] and her seed [TLJC]; He [TLJC] shall bruise you on the head, And you [Satan] shall bruise him on the heel.”

Gen 4:1, “Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have gotten a manchild with the help of the Lord.”

Cain’s name Qayin means “one who was made with the help of the Lord.” What hope she much have had when Cain was born thinking that he was the promise see of Gen 3:15. She probably thought that this child, Cain, was to be the one who would bring the end of Satan and restore Eden or Paradise. However, in Gen 4:2, “And again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

The name Abel is also very interesting when you learn that Habel means vanity, vapor, nothingness and even disappointment. It’s not really the type of name you would like to give to your child. However, the name assigned indicates disillusion on the part of the original parents. By the time that Abel was born, they discovered what they had left behind by way of perfect environment. They had discovered some of the repercussions in history from the old sin nature and they had come to the point of disillusion and discouragement. For they left behind a perfect environment! Perfect sex! Perfect food! No work, no sweat, no kids.

Now right away I want you to notice something else. Cain and Abel are brothers. Cain turned out to be a murderer and a loser in life. Abel turned out to be a winner and a visible hero. Now, they both came from the same home. They had the same parents. They came from the same environment. Therefore, there’s no place for blaming the parents! And there’s no place for the parents blaming themselves. Cain was a product of his own decisions not his genes.

Eze 18:20, “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity;”

The righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself. So, Cain was the first unbeliever recorded in human history. Cain was also the first criminal in human history. And I want you to notice something! Adam and the woman were right man and right woman, designed for each other by God, and, in spite of that, their children did not all turn out right.

Gen 4:3-4, So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. And Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering;

In the case of Abel, the animal sacrifices were a part of “worship ritual” and they were meaningful to Abel because Abel had doctrine in his soul. Heb 11:4, By means of doctrine [resident in the soul] Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain. Cain offered certain types of gifts and sacrifices but they had no meaning, there was no doctrine in Cain’s soul…Cain was an unbeliever and therefore was minus the appropriate doctrine.

Abel is a picture of the believer who has P.V.T.D. [positive volition towards doctrine] and does the right thing in the right way. Cain is a picture of an individual who is minus doctrine and tries to impress God with his works.

Gen 4:6-15, Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin [or an animal or a sin offering] is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. “And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you; you shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.” “And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear! Behold, Thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Thy face I shall be hidden, and I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come about that whoever finds me will kill me.” So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should slay him.”

So, this dispensation began with Cain murdering his brother Abel, Gen 4:8, it ends with God destroying the human race, with the exception of Noah and his family, a total of 8; 1Pe 3:20. And we are told who motivated this murder in 1Jo 3:12, Cain was of the evil one, and murdered his brother. Cain was the original criminal in human history. And what was the reason behind it? In 1Jo 3:12, Because his deeds [his form of worshipping God] were evil [religious], but those of his brother were honorable and righteous.”

Cain offered to the Lord the result of his own sweat and toil, his own good works, he should have purchased a blood sacrifice or asked one from his brother Abel, who was a keeper of the flocks. Remember in GEN 3:19, man was to live by the sweat of his brow. And so, in the immediate era following the fall we have envy, jealousy, arrogance, and this was the motive for the first murder. This is a also the beginning in history of capital punishment. Capital punishment has been authorized form the time of the first murder, right down to this moment.

Capital punishment began in Gen 9. It continued in the Mosaic Law, Exo 21:14; Then in the hypostatic union, Matt 26:52; In Rom 13:1-8, it continues in the Church-age; In the Tribulation, terrorism is dealt with by capital punishment; In Rev 2:26-28, capital punishment will even be practiced in the Millennium.

Here’s something that people overlook and try to discredit the Bible by saying, “If murder demands capital punishment then why did God allow Cain to keep on living?” The reason why Cain was not executed was because it had not been a law up to the time of Cain. Again, here’s where dispensational truth answers the seeming contradictions in the word of God.

There are some other reasons why God kept Cain alive. The mark of Cain was also the mark of divine protection not a mark of violence. The mark of Cain permits Cain to remain alive so that he can have an opportunity to be saved. People are always interested in what the mark of Cain was. I do not know what the mark of Cain was but I do have some facts to consider. It is impossible to tell whether it was some physical mark, some sign upon in his body, which indicated that he was God’s property, or something else. We simply do not (as all of us are), an object of universal pity. But the point is, even the guilty man is still God’s property.

The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.