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In our verse-by-verse study of Romans last time we completed our Expanded Translation of Rom 7:24;"I am a miserable person! Who will rescue me from the body of this death?"
We noted that what is being described here is the principle of the increase of God's grace. While grace covers the sins performed under the old sin nature at salvation and when the believer rebounds, grace is not increased through the human good and evil production of the old sin nature.
Grace is God's policy whereby God's justice blesses the believer with capacity from God's righteousness. This means that grace increases first at the point of justification for salvation and then incrementally under God's GASP system as the believer advances in doctrine to maturity adjustment to God's justice at spiritual maturity
God's grace increases in direct proportion to the development of the believer's capacity for blessing from epignosis doctrine resident in the heart of the soul. Grace increases as a believer grows through God's system of GASP.
Therefore grace increases through perception of God's Word of Truth under the filling of the Spirit. Maximum inculcation of doctrinal truth results in maximum blessing from thinking the absolute truth of divine viewpoint.
Grace is never advanced by the production that comes from the trends of the old sin nature.
The principle of rescue is an increase of grace. The mechanics of rescue include the filling of the Spirit and the constant daily function of GASP, eventuating in maturity adjustment to God's justice from epignosis doctrine.
God gives each of us one day at a time for the purpose of perception of Bible doctrine that is the only means of spiritual growth.
The "body of death" is a body of death because of the residence of the old sin nature in the cell structure of the biological human body.
Rescue or deliverance is the direct result of increased grace based upon capacity from doctrine as the believer adjusts to God's justice in their advance to spiritual maturity.
Three things occur at salvation that begins God's rescue or deliverance. First is the imputation of God's righteousness to the believer results in justification and the construction of the grace pipeline between God's perfect righteousness and God's imputed righteousness in the believer.
Second is the real imputation of everlasting life to the regenerated human spirit that is the home God prepared for it at second birth.
Third is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that divorces the new believer from the old sin nature as the first husband, and marries the new believer to the Lord Jesus Christ who is the second husband.
Newness of life "kianotes zoe" (Rom 6:4) is the grace environment provided through the baptism of the Spirit for greater blessing from God's justice as the believer advances to spiritual maturity.
This new life is superior to the life that the original man and the woman had in the perfection of the Garden of Eden.
We must understand that under God's grace policy that God's love created God's justice blesses the believer. Grace is not increased through the function of the old sin nature and grace does not provide motivation for living under the power of the sin nature.
As a divine policy grace cannot and does not motivate the believer to go back to the OSN, the ex-husband however the only way to avoid this is through epignosis Bible doctrine resident the heart (kardia) of the believer's soul combined with the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
To the legalistic believer grace appears to be a license to sin and to the antinomian believer grace appears to be an excuse to sin. Neither viewpoint is correct.
Both are wrong and both are antithetical to God's perfect immutable holy integrity. God's integrity does not sponsor or enable the trends of the OSN so neither legalism nor antinomianism can break away from the power of the sovereignty of the old sin nature.
Maximum Bible doctrine results in increased grace from righteousness created from doctrinal truth. The soul and specifically the heart of the soul is the key to the advance to spiritual maturity that glorifies Jesus Christ.
The soul must be occupied with and saturated with God's Word of Truth under the filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
God's grace policy uses His justice to provide blessing for the believer in time as well as in eternity. God's integrity does not depend on sinfulness or the production of human good or evil.
Personal sin, and the production of human good, and evil that are the products of the OSN do not bring grace blessings from God's justice instead they bring discipline from God's justice.
God's justice the source of both blessing and discipline because under God's grace policy that God's love establishes God's justice is always the believer's point of reference for their spiritual advance.
God's justice must discipline the believer's reversionism, and God's justice must bless the believer's advance in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ into cognitive invincibility.
After salvation the believer cannot be dominated by the old sin nature and advance to maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Sinfulness or carnality is quickly handed by rebound adjustment to God's justice but the OSN's trends toward human good and evil produce reversionism that results in punishment and discipline from God's justice instead of blessing from God's justice.
After salvation God has provided a system of doctrine to protect the soul as a base of operations for the advance to spiritual maturity.
This system of doctrine provides a daily option from the volition of the soul, the means of placing ourselves under orders to God. That option requires two things: the filling ministry of the Spirit that requires rebound when necessary and persistent positive volition toward learning Bible doctrine.
Since learning Bible doctrine is the greatest thing we do in life, the daily positive volition toward doctrine is the only way to advance to the high ground of spiritual maturity.
Self-determination must be related to perception of doctrine under the filling of the Holy Spirit. Being committed to Christ means receiving the delivery of His doctrinal system and deploying it.
The soul must be saturated with Bible doctrine to offset the influence of the old sin nature, and simultaneously to advance to the objective of maturity adjustment to God's justice.
Rejection of doctrinal teaching and ignorance of or the rejection of the doctrinal system revealed in God's Word of Truth is the only reason for failure.
Rejection of doctrinal truth results in ignorance of doctrine so it is the most serious offence against the second husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing in Christianity can ever be divorced from perception, inculcation and application of God's Word of Truth.
Rom 7:25; In this verse we see the conflict between the options in two sentences. The first sentence is the source of the solution to the conflict and the second sentence recognizes the options.
The NASB reads "Thanks be to the God through Jesus Christ our Lord" but in the original the verse begins with the nominative singular of the noun "charis" (grace) with the adversative conjunction "de" (but to) as a nominative of explanation so there is no verb.
Then the dative singular indirect object from "theos' (God) with the definite article "ho" (the). The use of the definite article makes it monadic so it places God into a unique classification. Literally this passage says, "Grace belongs to the God." So the solution is God's solution, not our solution.
In the Koine Greek this can also be translated, as the idiom" thanks be to the God" as translated in the NASB and every other translation I looked at, but it literally says "Grace belongs to the God" and that describes the solution to the problem so that is how we will translate it.
Then comes the prepositional phrase "dia" (through) plus the genitive of " Iesous Christos" (Jesus Christ) "through Jesus Christ." Plus the possessive genitive from "kurios" (Lord) with the definite article "ho" (the) " he Lord" making it monadic and placing Jesus Christ into a special category with the personal pronoun "hemeis" (our) so we have "our Lord."
We see here that God's solution is the second husband Jesus Christ our Lord and that the solution to the problem is grace. Grace is the decisive factor in the inner conflict between the old sin nature and the Lord Jesus Christ.
This amplifies the reference to grace in Rom 5:2; The believer can be disappointed by people or circumstances in life on this earth but God's grace never fails us.
Rom 7:25; Our hope does not depend upon other people our hope depends exclusively upon God's grace. Under God's grace policy the believer depends exclusively on God's perfect integrity.
Grace is the basis for mankind's adjustment to God's justice. Mankind will either adjust to God's justice or God's justice will adjust to mankind.
This is the difference between discipline and cursing or blessing and prosperity from God's justice. We must remember that God does not just possess life; He is life, perfect life uncorrupted and uncontaminated by the old sin nature.
This means that God's action toward His creatures is never arbitrary, nor the result of indifference. God is governed by the nature of His perfect character in accord with the relevant attributes of essence.
This also brings us to a fortiori that means with stronger reason. If the greater is accomplished then the lesser will not be withheld.
If God's justice has provided the greater blessing of justification and it has it follows a fortiori that the lesser blessing will not be withheld. The lesser is blessing in time flowing through the grace pipeline.
The blessings flow from God's justice to God's imputed righteousness and what God's righteousness demands God's justice executes.
The direction is to the mature believer who has the capacity for the blessing from maximum doctrinal truth resident in the heart of the soul, and from the re-programming of the heart with divine viewpoint thinking.
The greater degree in a fortiori is not quality or quantity, but degree of effort. If God's justice can accomplish the greater through grace it follows a fortiori that God's justice can accomplish the lesser through grace.
If God's justice at salvation gave the greater benefit of imputed righteousness, it follows a fortiori that God's justice will not withhold the lesser of blessing and prosperity in time directed to experiential capacity righteousness.
Blessing and prosperity from God's justice glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we are left on this earth in the adverse environment of the devil's world in a sin nature infused biological body after salvation.
Remember that the difference between greater and lesser in a fortiori is not quality or quantity it relates to degree of effort. The greater is more difficult to provide while the lesser is much easier to provide.
That means that the provision of blessing and prosperity in time is nothing compared to the provision of imputed righteousness and subsequent justification at salvation.
It also means that if God's justice provides the greater blessing and prosperity in time it follows a fortiori that God's justice will provide the lesser in eternity because that is easier for God to do.