First of all, we see that our goal is to be conformed to the image of Jesus. In order to be conformed to the image of Jesus, we must live a life of faith, hope, love, prayer and praise, offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, and put old self to death, enter the narrow gate, do not stop at being reborn by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We have explained these things in the words of the Bible in the first four sub-topics. Fifth, we discussed the issue of whether it is fair to be saved once and for all. During the discussion, we saw why the Bible says that when the New Jerusalem of the new heaven and new earth comes, some Christians will be reduced to those who cannot enter the city. Sixth, we have seen that God makes the final decision on who is the overcomer. The best we can do is to run straight towards the goal like Paul. Finally, let’s briefly talk about the reasons why we talked about Jesus in the past and then look at the book of Revelation in the future, and why next time we will discuss God’s justice and its related issues first.
1. Conformed into the image of Jesus
The book of Romans makes it very clear, “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren.”(Romans 8:29) We know, “and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.”(Romans 8:30) So the Bible tells us that we have foreknowledge and predestination at the same time. Foreknowledge and predestination are two aspects of the same thing. We have previously proposed a structure that includes both foreknowledge and predestination in “2005 Only One Bible,” so we won’t go into details here. ““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”(Isaiah 55:8-9) This is true, we have to believe it. We just emphasize that in 2005, if anyone can think of such a structure, He will definitely do it more comprehensively. If you are interested, you can go to the website “https://a-christian-voice.com/” and click “On spiritual understanding about life” to find this short article.
2. A life of faith, hope, love, prayer and praise
If we want to be conformed to the image of Jesus, we must live a life of faith, hope, love, prayer and praise, offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, put the old self to death, and enter the narrow door. We must not just stay at the baptism of the Holy Spirit. In the state of rebirth. We can pray as Paul prayed, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.”(Ephesians 1:17) If we want to truly know Him, we must ask for the wisdom He gives us and the revelation He gives us, so we must ask the Holy Spirit to lead us in reading the Bible.
Without revelation, we would be interpreting the Bible as Peter said, as the scripture says, “…our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.”(2 Peter 3:15-16) You see that Paul had the wisdom given to him, and he himself said, “For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”(Galatians 1:11-12) We see how important revelation is! The attitude of reading the Bible is to “read it out” and to know what God wants to tell us through the Bible, rather than to read it in and put your own thoughts into it. It isn’t what you think what the Bible wants to tell you based upon your own experiences. Since everyone’s experience is different, everyone’s explanation will naturally be different if by this way. It’s too easy to force the explanation! From Peter’s warning that we should not forcefully interpret the Bible, we know that this was already the case in the early church. No wonder Peter issued such a warning!
But we know that “…the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”(Romans 8:26-28) This means that if you love God first, then everything will work together for good. We have seen that the Holy Spirit’s prayers are in accordance with God’s will. If our prayers are in accordance with God’s will and not in accordance with our own thoughts, our prayers will be answered for sure since that’s what God intended to start with.
We need humility, because the Lord Jesus Himself said, “…I am gentle and humble in heart…”(Matthew 11:29) If we are not humble, how can we be conformed to the image of Jesus? A truly humble person will know that Paul is telling the truth, “If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know.” (1 Corinthians 8:2) This verse can be experienced. But those who have experienced this passage and know that Paul is telling the truth may not necessarily be truly humble people, and we cannot equate the two! I’m not kidding, because I am a good example. When God asks me to face myself in circumstances, I often fail! I know that my life doesn’t reach where it should be, and I am really not humble enough.
Listening to what others say should obey the same principle as reading the Bible. You cannot draw two statements with equality sign since they may only means one implies the other; otherwise you may think what others have said isn’t what they:really said. If you read the Bible like this, you will think it is what the Bible says but the Bible does not. You will create a God who is not what the Bible says, but you don’t know it!
We must also live a life in love, because Jesus said it very clearly, “And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.””(Matthew 22:37-40) And he said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.””(John 13:34-35) Some may ask, isn’t there already a command in the Old Testament to love your neighbor as yourself? “You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.”(Leviticus 19:18) How could it be a new command? Yes, it is new. Because there was no indwelling Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, “…your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you…”(1 Corinthians 6:19) We all have the love of God, “…because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”(Romans 5:5) What we need is to live out this kind of love, so this is a new command to love one another with the love of God.
As for the life of faith, hope and praise, we have mentioned it before in
“6. A life of faith, hope, love and prayer and praise” in “1063 Introduction to christian faith,” so we won’t go into details here. Those who are interested can find this article using the same method as “2005”.
3. Offer yourself as a living sacrifice and put your old self to death
Paul said, “Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”(Romans 12:1-2) It is a living sacrifice! They are alive and will run away when circumstances come, so they must repent in this occasion. Therefore, you must offer yourself often, and don’t think that you only need to offer yourself once! Just like the burnt offering in the Old Testament, it is the basis of all sacrifices, because “
The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.”(Leviticus 6:12) “for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”(Romans 8:13) This is like an example of a cup. If we are like a cup, we were filled with the old self before. When we first believed, there was a little space left for the new man with the indwelling Holy Spirit. But the new man is still very small, because the cup has a fixed space. When the old self is killed more, the new man will have more space to grow. Just like when we want to make a new garden, we must clear out the old garden first.
The scriptures make it very clear, “Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him.”(Colossians 3:5-10)
4. Enter the narrow gate and don’t just stay in the state of rebirth.
”Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”(Matthew 7:13-14)
We have also shared this scripture, “And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem. And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’”(Luke 13:22 -25)
So you really have to enter the narrow gate. This narrow gate means that you have to embark on the road to sanctification, offer yourself as a living sacrifice, and put your old self to death. Therefore, the Bible often uses different angles to explain the same thing. As the scripture says, “If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”(1 Corinthians 3:15) the Bible promises us, “Once saved, you are saved forever.” We will look at the question of whether this is fair in the next paragraph. If we understand the Bible correctly, we will know that although Christians will always fall because of temptation, such a promise is still fair. We want to “read out” what God wants to tell us through the Bible, rather than reading in my own experiences and thoughts to forcefully interpret the Bible!
“Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.””(John 3:3) Don’t just stay in the state of being reborn by the baptism of the Holy Spirit; Know that’s just the beginning, don’t just be saved, be on the path to sanctification. Although once we are baptized, we have been transferred into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son (see Colossians 1:13-14). In the eyes of God there is only Christ, and we are holy in Christ. This is the so-called positional sanctification. But in experience, we will still slip away from Christ because of sin, and we must repent and gradually become holy. We know that as long as Christians pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit, the Bible promises that we will receive it. There are no other conditions, but it does not say when, because there is a time for everything (see Luke 11:5-13). This is also the same as my personal experience. Although I was moved to pray for this at a conference, I did not receive it until several years later. Everyone’s experience is different. Some people experience it when they are very young, and some experience it later. Some people often say the words ‘being filled with the Holy Spirit,’ which usually refers to different things, but this is correct. The filling of the Holy Spirit usually refers to a one-time event, or tells you that the Holy Spirit is very real, or gives you the power to do a specific thing. Being full of the Holy Spirit refers to people like Stephen. The Bible says, “…Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit…”(Acts 6:5). It also said, “But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he (Stephen) was speaking. (Acts 6:10) Stephen was a man full of the Holy Spirit. Being full of the Holy Spirit is what we should pursue.
“Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”(John 3:7-8) The meaning of this is very clear. Although the baptism of the Holy Spirit is invisible and intangible, if we truly believe it, we will know that when we believe and are baptized, we have received the indwelling Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Holy Spirit already means rebirth. So the scripture would say, “This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.”(1 John 3:23-24)
“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”(Titus 3:5-7) We have hope, “and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”(Romans 5:5) Beginning with faith, there is hope and love. The scripture says, “But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.”(1 Corinthians 13:13) We not only need to be baptized by rebirth, but also the Holy Spirit continues to renew us. This is just like what is said in the Old Testament, “The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.”(Deuteronomy 7:22) God is Almighty, and He is absolutely capable of driving out all the sins we have committed from us at once, but if we are asked to face so many sins at once, we will hate ourselves to the point of It is unbearable, so for our benefit, the Holy Spirit will continue to renew us and gradually eliminate our sins. The same is true in subjective experience. When a Christian has a change in his life and looks back on the past, he will think about how he could bear it if he knew all his past sins at once. Fortunately, life can change gradually!
5. Is it fair that once you are saved you are saved forever?
Some people, especially non-Christians, may feel that “once saved, saved forever” is unfair. This is a good question. Let’s see what the Bible says? We can first look at what is said in the Book of Revelation. There are such verses after the coming of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth. We have shared these verses before, and we share them again because they are really very important. The first is that the scripture says, “Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and (G2532) I will be his God and (G2532) he will be My son. But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.””(Revelation 21:6-8) In the above verses, the original text of both versions contains also the word “and (G2532)”, so only the overcomers can say with certainty that He will be our God and we will be His sons. Therefore we must be overcomers.
After talking about the second death, there are such verses, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”(Revelation 22:14-15) Please note that when talking about the second death, unbelievers are included. At that time, unbelievers have entered the lake of fire and brimstone, so those outside the city here include those who were once believed and had the promise “once saved, saved forever,” but they can fall to the point of being unable to enter the city due to the temptation of Satan the devil. Not only does Satan disguise himself as an angel of light, but so do his servants (see 2 Corinthians 11:14-15). Be discerning. So Peter would say, “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”(1 Peter 5:8)
Really don’t think that people who have been Christians will not fall. There is an example in the Bible, which came out when a fellowship shared the book of Philemon recently. At that time, I thought I understood the book of Philemon very well, which is just an example of Paul’s practice of love. Regarding the greeting in the almost last verse, “as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow workers.”(Philemon 1:24) I used to think this was an ordinary greeting, nothing more, just like it says in Colossians 4:14, “Luke, the beloved physician, sends you his greetings, and also Demas.” In fact, the person Demas is only mentioned three times in the New Testament. One other place says, “for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; …”(2 Timothy 4:10) So we see that Demas was a co-worker of Paul. He was definitely a Christian at that time. The salvation of Christians is to come out of the world, but he fell! The result is also that I experienced this scripture again, “If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know.””(1 Corinthians 8:2)
Although “once saved, saved forever” means one will not die the second death, God is fair, and some such Christians cannot enter the city! We have also seen that it is much better to be a Christian outside the city than to go to the lake of fire and brimstone, but we really do not want to do what Jesus said: “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.””(Matthew 22:13-14) So you really need to be an overcomer who can enter the city. We have also seen that the reason why it is said to be a narrow gate is because there are only few people chosen! It’s not that God deliberately wants to reduce the number of people chosen, but there are some eternally saved Christians who are reluctant to put their old self to death. For the sake of His justice, how can God choose such people? If we know that we still have weeping and gnashing of teeth because we cannot enter the city, we will be willing to do things that the Holy Spirit inspires us to do, and will not “…turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”(Jude 1:4) Don’t be like the church in Laodicea in the book of Revelation. They did a lot of good things from a human perspective, but shut out the Lord Jesus Christ (see Revelation 3:14-22). The Holy Spirit wants the things we do can last forever, as said in the verses, “And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.””(Revelation 14:13)
Some people say that it is impossible for Christians to be outside the city, which goes against my conscience. This Christian forgets that conscience is also tainted by sin, unlike the Bible, which is our absolute standard. He forgets that the Bible says there are Christians outside the city. When our conscience conflicts with the Bible, we must listen to the Bible. We only have to look at David to see that conscience is stained by sin. Let us just take an example of David’s numbering of the people. In this case, “So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. And Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.”(2 Samuel 24:8-9) Numbering the people should take time to prepare, so at least during this time, doesn’t David have a conscience? His conscience was stained by sin and he couldn’t see what he had done! Christians have all heard the gospel and know to rely on God’s word rather than relying on a conscience tainted by sin. We know “…there is no partiality with God.”(Romans 2:11)
Only when people do not have the opportunity to hear the gospel, especially those before Jesus was born, to them, they will be like this, “For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them.”(Romans 2:14-15) I used to think this was impossible, but the Bible has this example, “Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”(Genesis 5:22-24) Didn’t Enoch do things according to his nature?
By the way, let’s mention other things about David. He is a man after God’s own heart, as the scripture says, He “…have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.”(Acts 13:22) But he sinned, and the Lord sent Nathan to David (see 2 Samuel 12:1-15). “Why have you despised the word of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.”(2 Samuel 12:9) As soon as David knew about his sin, he immediately repented. His repentance was very thorough. He not only He wrote Psalm 51 to repent before God but also gave it to the choir director to sing. So he repented in front of everyone and did not hide his sins. The same was true when David numbered the people. As the scripture says, “Now David’s heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.””(2 Samuel 24:10) He immediately repented after he realized what he did. “When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the LORD says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’””(2 Samuel 24:11-12) For details, please see 2 Samuel 24:13-25.
6. Who decides who is an overcomer ?
Someone may ask, who can be sure that he is an overcomer? God is very fair, “…From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.”(Luke 12:48) He knows, but we don’t know how much He has given to a person and how much He will ask of that person. This will only be known to us at the judgment before the great white throne. Because the scripture says, “And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.”(Revelation 20:12) So although Paul believed, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day;…”(2 Timothy 4:7-8) But he was still in his old age. Said, “Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”(Philippians 3:13-14) After his death, the Book of Revelation says that when Jerusalem comes to the new heaven and new earth, “And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”(Revelation 21:14) The twelve apostles chosen by the Lamb Himself include Paul since he was chosen after Jesus resurrection in the big light and Matthias was chosen by lots (see Acts 1:26). Indeed, Paul has the crown of righteousness from above!
So all we can do is run towards the goal. Know that “…God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”(1 Samuel 16:7) In the list of famous people of faith in the book of Hebrews, it is said, “By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace. And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.”(Hebrews 11:31-32) Looking at the names of the people listed, it is clear that God looks at the heart. Otherwise, how could some people’s names be on it? The book of Proverbs says very clearly, “Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.”
7. Briefly talk about the reason why we talked about Jesus in the past and will read the book of Revelation next.
We need to live a “sanctified” life. Today we briefly talked about how to live a life of “faith, hope, love, prayer and praise”. This can only be accomplished in Christ and relying on the Holy Spirit. In the past period of time, we have used the Gospel of Luke, which is written in the order of events, as the main body, and then discussed some relevant information mentioned in the other three gospels and the Bible.
Just like John’s criteria for selecting materials, he said: “but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.”(John 20:31) Yes, this is what we “believe”. In the past period of time, we have mainly discussed our “faith” through the four gospels, believing that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God. This faith brings the indwelling Holy Spirit. In our daily life, we will notice changes in our lives, and we will willingly work with God and gain life. This was just like the Israelites dedicating themselves to the tabernacle at that time, until “…Moses issued a command, and a proclamation was circulated throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman any longer perform work for the contributions of the sanctuary.” Thus the people were restrained from bringing any more. For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.”(Exodus 36:6-7) They were willing, as “…the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My contribution.”(Exodus 25:1-2)
Of course, the four gospels also include many other things. For example, love is mentioned everywhere. When we talk about “love”, we will talk about other related parts. It also talks about “If I (Jesus ) go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.”(John 14:3) In other words, Christians all look forward to the return of Jesus, and what will happen when Jesus returns is mainly in the Book of Revelation. When we talk about “hope”, we have to mention the book of Revelation. This is why we chose to look at the book of Revelation next. I don’t understand the Book of Revelation very well at the moment. I hope the Holy Spirit will lead us like what He did in our discussion of the Gospel of Luke and let us understand some scriptures that we didn’t understand before.
Generally, churches will emphasize love, because “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.””(John 13:35) And “And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.””(Matthew 22:37-40) But both the New Testament and the Old Testament are the same God, and they are mentioned everywhere in the Old Testament. When it comes to “God’s justice”, we have talked about the righteousness in the Old Testament that includes love, and the love in the New Testament that includes righteousness. The Old Testament even more clearly states that righteousness is the foundation of God’s throne, as the scripture says, “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.”(Psalm 89:14) If the foundation of a building is damaged, it will fall. How could God allow the foundation of the throne to be destroyed? God’s justice to the world is because God loves the world, so salvation in the New Testament is based on God’s love for the world, and at the same time it must meet the requirements of God’s justice, so we will discuss this point of justice and its related aspects next time.
(Verses refer to those in NASB unless otherwise specified.)
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