The Faith of Christ

[teachmevp]

It is a SON issue today, not a SIN issue. The issue is not forgiveness of sin. The issue is believing what Christ accomplished in your behalf, in order to be identified with and joined to Christ himself. Christ believed that God’s justice has been satisfied where the sins he came to sacrifice himself for are concerned, Christ’s faith was and remains in God, and indeed we can believe God’s justice has been satisfied. Christ does not have a wishy-washy faith, it is Christ’s faith who has never, nor will ever waver in faith. It is Christ’s faith that is freely credited to the account of the one who believes the good news given to the apostle Paul to proclaim to us in this age of grace. It is Christ’s faith that righteousifies those who take their stand with God when it comes to what God has stated his son accomplished for them. It was Christ’s faith and as a result, of his faith, his faithfulness that he sacrificed himself and purchased the gift of our salvation. It is our faith in the accomplishment of Christ's faithful sacrifice that is the means whereby God acknowledges that we have accepted the gift his son purchased. Therefore, God is his infinite wisdom devised a plan whereby he could take the very faith belonging to his son along with its resultant faithfulness and credit that faith and faithfulness to the account of those who believe.

[Steve Lortz]

Much of what you say is true, teachmevp, but not all. VP taught us that sin is no longer an issue, because he wanted to take grace as a license to sin. There are still consequences of sin, just as there are still consequences for foolishly trying to violate any of the laws of creation. Building foolishly on the foundation Paul laid will not result in the loss of salvation, (I Corinthians 3:15) but it will result in loss of rewards. There is no "age of grace" in the Bible. In Ephesians, Paul wrote that God had extended grace to the Gentiles under the New Testament, and that God had given him, Paul, the responsibility for proclaiming that grace. Darby distorted this verse to turn the responsibility (dispensation) into an "age." That was bogus, and Wierwille used it to rationalize his own willijngness to sin.

Thought you want to know what vp was teaching you.

Love,

Steve

[Ham]

I dunno. Not a sin issue..

the longer I live, the more I abhor the kind of vile beast I have been at times, or even have the potential to be..

other than that, I think I am generally happy..