THE OBJECTIVE ASPECT OF LIFE--Part 10

III. OBJECTIVE LIFE REALIZED
JOHN 3;14-''And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.''

This is The Foundation of The Gospel Message-Christ's Message began in The Eternal Covenant of Grace;
from God's Perspective, The One speaking to Nicodemus, was The Lamb, slain from The Foundation of The World.

Let's see, What He said, to the Two, on The Road to Emmaeus-
LUKE 24;26-''Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory/''
''OUGHT''=MUST-NECESSARY.

There was necessity, but not compulsion in Christ's Death-
JOHN 10;17-18-''Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.''
God was not bound absolutely, but conditionally, to give His Son to die, because His Death supposes the entrance of sin, and the only way, the guilt of sin could be settled.

God's Wisdom decreed that sin should enter into His Universe, for the purpose of His Own Glory.

God created Man mutable, with the possibility of sinning, because A Immutable God CANNOT
CREATE IMMUTABILITY-God cannot create Himself.
Thus, Whatever God creates, must of necessity, be inferior to Himself.

Thherefore, Man was created mutable, but he wasn't created Sinful;
man is the author of his own Sinful Nature. . .
[ECCL. 7;29--[TURN].
[Created Upright-not innocent--mutable-free agency].

NOW, GOD'S PURPOSE THAT EVIL SHOULD COME INTO EXISTENCE, IN MUTABLE MAN,TO FULFILL HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE, IS NO ARGUMENT THAT HE DOESN'T HATE EVIL AS EVIL.
Sin demands Death, for sin against An Infinite God, is Infinite Crime.
Infinite punishment equal to infinite crime is Justice. . .

Since God was not obligated to prevent Man's Fall, He wasn't obligated to redeem man, after The Fall.
However, to redeem those, the Father chose among sinful men, Christ had to die, to provide, an infinite sacrifice.

CHRIST IS GOD'S SACRIFICE, NOT MY SACRIFICE;
HIS BLOOD WAS SHED TO APPEASE GOD.
God, out of His Good Pleasure, having elected some to be redeemed, regenerated, converted,
progressively sanctified, and glorified, was under obligation, to accomplish it, through The Sacrifice of His Son.
The Covenant of Grace made mandatory Christ's Death, for The Elect, and The Breathing of Life into them, by The Holy Spirit.

The Analogy of JOHN 3;14-15, must not be overlooked, in its use, in the life of Israel, in Her Wilderness Journey, nor in Its relationship to Regeneration in John 3.
As The Brass Serpent had nothing to do, with God's Deliverance of Israel from Egypt, so believing in The Uplifted Christ, has nothing to do with Good Redeeming A Passive Sinner.

Now, although an analogy is a partial similarity between like features of 2 things, One doesn't have the liberty, to let his imagination run wild, and go beyond the contexts of each feature, when making a comparison.
Israel's Deliverance by Blood in Egypt, was not her looking at The Brass Serpent.
Furthermore, The Regenerated Sinner, is not born from Above, by believing in Jesus Christ, but he believes in Christ, as a result, of his having been born of God.

The Principle of Spiritual Life is implanted in Regeneration.
Its Fruits, Repentance and Faith are called into action, by The Effectual Call of The Holy Spirit.

Everyone believing The Truth regarding Christ's Death, for The Sins of The Elect, is interested in What Christ DID FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

One's Believing does not enable him, to attain Spiritual Life, provided for him, but his God-Given
Faith enables him, to experience The Life, Christ provided for him, at Calvary.

Attaining and experiencing life differ--Therefore. The Subjective Spiritual Life causes The Regenerated Person to hunger and thirst for Objective Spiritual Life, which is experienced by believing The Objective Message of Christ's Person and Work.

You see, Spiritual Life must be imparted to The Passive Sinner, before He can experience The Objective Life of Christ's Work at Calvary.

You see, being born again and believing in Christ are completely different aspects of Eternal Life;
[1] Regeneration is subjective; Conversion is objective.
[2] Regeneration is Righteousness imparted to God's Elect;
Conversion is belief by The Regenerated One in imputed Righteousness.
[3] Regeneration is actual apart from One's Consciousness of it;
Conversion is his conscious experience of believing in Judicial Righteousness.

Now, There is a common Un-Scriptural statement made today; ''The Sin of Unbelief is the only hindrance to One's Salvation.''
FALSE-for Unbelief is caused by depravity. Its direct cause is One's depraved Will.
You see, If One is not of Christ's Sheep, He will never believe;
thus proving that The Salvation Experience is not left to the ability of depraved people, to decide if Christ should have any objects of lover, or not.
Now, people are not believing because they are not God's Sheep-
JOHN 10;26-''BUT YE BELIEVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, AS I SAID UNTO YOU''

Saved Sheep are always Sheep;
no where does The Bible say that a goat, hog, or dog, can be changed into a sheep.

Christ's Sheep, for whom He died, were crucified with Him-GALATIANS 2;20....
3 Things are taught in Galatians 2;2o;
1. Judicial-''I am crucified with Christ''-The Cross came in between me and God [Theme of
Romans 6].
2. Spiritual-The Cross came in between me and my old sin nature [Theme of Romans 7].
3. Practical-The Cross comes in between me and The World [Romans 8].

There are 3 truths included in our being crucified with Christ--
1. Christ was crucified.
2. We have been crucified.
3. Crucified together with Christ.

The Lord died, We died, We died together with Christ.

Christ paid the penalty, and The Elect were spared. He died in our place

Life in Gal. 2;20 is God's gift to us-Faith is a grace, by which we believe God the Father, Son, Holy
Spirit and The Word, He has given us-Assent-Consent-Trust.

Faith=fruit of life implanted in Regeneration.

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