07/06/24 SIMPLY STATED

07/06/24 SIMPLY STATED

God is not a liar.
God is not confused.
God is not delusional. 

When God refers to a person as being alive spiritually, then that person is not dead spiritually.
When God refers to a person as being light, then that person is not darkness.
When God refers to a person as seeing, then that person is not blind.
When God refers to a person as being found, then that person is not lost.
When God refers to a person as being righteous, then that person is not sinful. 

Before salvation we were dead in our sins and trespasses.
Before salvation we were darkness.
Before salvation we were blind.
Before salvation we were lost.
Before salvation we were sinful. 

God does not find us in our sins and leave us in our sins, if we believe Him for salvation.
God came to find us and to save as many as believe on Christ.
God does not leave us dead.
God does not leave us in darkness.
God does not leave us blind.
God does not leave us lost.
God does not leave us in sin. 

God justifies the believer. 

Being just is being righteous.
Jesus is inherently righteous.
Jesus is righteous by nature.
Believers are righteous by salvation, by Divine action. 

To be justified by God is not simply a change of title or description, it is a change of reality.
To be justified is not simply to be called righteous, it is to be made righteous. 

God does not declare us righteous unless and until He makes us righteous. 

Salvation is a Divine, miraculous transformation that makes us into new creatures (creations).
Salvation is not a change of label, but a change of nature, a change of being, a change of relationship. 

God does not give us a title and encourage us to live up to the title.
God gives us a new relationship and condition and enables us to live up to that relationship and condition. 

Salvation is not God seeing what isn't, neither is it God not seeing what is.

Salvation is God changing us from being lost to being found.
Salvation is God changing us from being blind to seeing.
Salvation is God changing us from being dead in sins and trespasses to being alive in Christ.
Salvation is God changing us from being unclean to being clean.
Salvation is God changing us from being rebellious to being faithful.
Salvation is God changing us from evil to holy, pure and righteous. 

Salvation is God working in us that which is pleasing in His sight.
Salvation is God delivering us from our sins, it is not God accepting us and our sins. 

Remember, God gave us His word so that we would not sin against Him and if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus the righteous. In that same passage we are told:
1 John 2:3-6
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.