May. 7th, 2025

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May. 7th, 2025 08:33 pm
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DAD VISIT❤❤❤❤❤❤


My talents are GOD'S PROPERTY.
He may allow them to be stolen from me to teach me a lesson... but they're STILL STOLEN. He WILL demand them back. And, legally, MY NAME is on the loan.
...maybe my true test of loyalty here, first, is GETTING THEM BACK FOR HIS SAKE.

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This sermon is BLOWING MY MIND

‼️‼️‼️...the whole of the life shall be brought into relation with, and shall be moulded after, the pattern of the God in whom we profess to believe. Religion, in its deepest meaning, is the aspiration after likeness to the god. You see it in heathenism. Men make their gods after their own image, and then the god makes the worshippers after his image. Mars is the god of the soldier, and Venus goddess of the profligate, and Apollo god of the musical and the wise, etc., and in Christianity the deepest thing in it is aspiration and effort after likeness to [the One True] God.
⭐⭐⭐Love is imitation; [and] admiration, especially when it is raised to the highest degree and becomes adoration, is imitation. [Therefore all the imitations of adoring love begin with simple yet sincere admiration.] And the man that lies before God, like a mirror in the sunshine, receives on the still surface of his soul-- but not, like the mirror, on the surface only, but down into its deepest depths-- the reflected image of Him on Whom he gazes. ‘We all with unveiled face, mirroring glory, are changed into the same image.’ So to walk in the light is only possible when we are drawn into it-- and our feeble feet made fit to tread upon the radiant glory-- by the thought that He is in the light. To imitate Him is to be righteous
So... a correct creed, and devout emotions, and a morality which has no connection with Him, are all imperfect, and that the end of all our religion, our orthodox creed and our sweet emotions and inward feelings of acceptance and favour and fellowship, are meant to converge on, and to produce this-- a life and a character which lives and moves and has its being in a great orb of Light and purity... side by side with [God's] changeless abiding in the perfect purity, which is inaccessible... [yet] in parallel {as He is}, our changing, effortful, active, progressive life in the Light {God is}; we walk.

But another thing is included in this grand metaphor... Not only does it enjoin upon us effort and activity and progress in the light and the linking of all our purity with God, but also, it bids us shroud no part of our conduct or our character either from ourselves or from Him. Bring it all out into the light. And although with a penitent heart, and a face suffused with blushes, we have sometimes to say, ‘See, Father, what I have done!’
It is far better that the revealing light should shine down upon us, and like the sunshine on wet linen, melt away the foulness which it touches, than that we should huddle the ugly thing up in a corner, to be one day revealed and transfixed by the flash of the light turned into lightning. ‘He that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest.’

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💜💜💜⚡John was the Apostle of love, but he was also a ‘son of thunder.’ His intense moral earnestness and his very love made him hate evil, and sternly condemn it; and his words flash and roll as no other words in Scripture, except the words of the Lord of love.

In all languages, light is the natural symbol for three things: knowledge, joy, purity. The one ray is broken into its three constituent parts. But just as there are some surfaces which are sensitive to the violet rays, say, of the spectrum, and not to the others, so John’s intense moral earnestness makes him mainly sensitive to the symbolism which makes light the expression, not so much of knowledge or of joy, as of moral purity... 

⭐⭐‼️‼️To ‘walk in the light’ then, is, speaking generally, to have purity, righteousness, goodness, as the very element and atmosphere in which our progressive and changeful life is carried on... That implies effort, and it implies activity, and it implies progress. And we are only Christians in the measure in which the conscious activities of our daily lives, and the deepest energies of our inward being, are bathed and saturated with this love of, and effort after, righteousness. It is vain, says John, to talk about fellowship with God, unless the fellowship is rooted in sympathy with Him, in that which is the very Heart of his Being: the perfect Light of perfect holiness. Test your Christianity by that.
Then, still further, there is implied in this great requirement of walking in the light, not only activity and effort, and progress and purity, but also that the whole of the life shall be brought into relation with, and shall be moulded after, the pattern of the God in whom we profess to believe. Religion, in its deepest meaning, is the aspiration after likeness to the god.

...unless we are in sympathy with God, in our aspiration and effort after the Light which is His Home and ours, we have no real communion with Him... sin separates us from God, and if our hearts are turned towards, and denizens of, the darkness of impurity, then we have no communion with Him. He cannot come to us if we love the darkness... God moves about us, but is without us, so long as we walk in darkness. So let us remember that no union with Him is possible, except there be this common dwelling IN the light.

[God and man] will never unite if [man's heart] be dusted over with minute impurities... A film of sin separates men from God. And if the film be removed, the man dwells in God, and God in him... Clean away the [sin], and [inevitably] they will coalesce and be one.

...sin separated man from man, and disrupted all the sweet bonds of amity, so that if men come into contact, being themselves in the darkness, they come into collision rather than into communion.

‼️‼️‼️‘The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.’... the cleansing here meant is not the cleansing of forgiveness, but the cleansing of purifying. For the two things are articulately distinguished in the ninth verse: ‘He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, AND to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’ So, to use theological terms, it is not justification, but sanctification that is meant here... not thinking of that Blood as shed on the Cross, the atoning Sacrifice, but of that Blood as transfused into the veins, the Source there of our new life. The Old Testament says that ‘the blood is the life.’... And when John says the blood of Jesus cleanses from ‘all sin,’ he says just the same thing as his brother Paul said, ‘the law of the spirit of life in Jesus Christ makes me free from the law of sin and death.’ That is to say, a growing cleansing from the dominion and the power of sin is granted to us, if we have the life of Jesus Christ breathed into our lives. The metaphor is a very strong one... sometimes it has been possible to revive a moribund man by transfusing into his veins blood from another. That is a picture of the only way by which you and I can become free from the tyranny that dominates us. We must have the Life of Christ as the animating principle of our lives, the Spirit of Jesus emancipating us from the power of sin and death... there are two aspects of Christ’s great work set before us under that one metaphor of the blood in its two-fold form, first, as shed for us sinners on the Cross; second, as poured into our veins day by day. That works progressive cleansing. It covers the whole ground of all possible iniquity.
⭐⭐⭐⭐‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ Pardon is much, purifying is more. The sacrifice on the Cross is the basis of everything, but that sacrifice does not exhaust what Christ does for us.
He died for our sins, and lives for our sanctifying.
He died for us, He lives in us.
Because He died, we are forgiven; because He lives, we are made pure.
‼️‼️‼️‼️Only remember John’s ‘if.’ The ‘Blood of Jesus will progressively cleanse us until it has cleansed us from all sin,’ on condition that we ‘walk in the light,’ not otherwise. If the main direction of our lives is towards the light; if we seek, by aspiration and by effort, and by deliberate choice, to live in holiness, then, and not else, will the power of the Life of Jesus Christ deliver us from the power of sin and death.
Now, my text presupposes that the people to whom it is addressed, and whom it concerns, have already passed from darkness into light, if not wholly, yet in germ. But for those who have not so passed, there is something to be said... ‘If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for our sins only, but for the whole world.’ So we have to begin with the Blood shed FOR us, the means of our pardon, and then we have the advance of the Blood sprinkled ON us, the means of our cleansing. If by humble faith we take the dying Lord for our Saviour, and the channel of our forgiveness, we shall have the pardon of our sins.
If we listen to the voice that says, ‘Ye were sometime darkness, but now ARE ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light,’ we shall have fellowship with the living Lord, and daily know more and more of the power of His cleansing Blood, making us ‘meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.’

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just because someone - in this case the Suffering Servant - is having pain inflicted upon them, even by God's decree, that this automatically entails God's Wrath must be upon the individual, for that is a serious logical fallacy. 

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The only way to detach ourselves from worldly ways of thinking is to attach ourselves to God. And we can only attach ourselves to God by taking advantage of the opportunities He provides for us to “catch on”. If we have some connection with the Catholic Church, we should strengthen it as the fastest way to grow spiritually. If we do not, we must seek frequently to raise our minds and hearts to God and ask for His help and guidance—a habit called practicing the presence of God which should also be applied continuously by those who are already members of the Church. This practice of spiritual mindfulness is essential. When our minds and hearts are essentially empty, they are filled constantly with useless things, which almost invariably become sinful things. And then we say and do stupid things. Instead of growing as God’s beloved children, that is a quick way of becoming “everybody”... The catch in all this is that we must, in our spiritual growth, always remember the law of the gift. As St. Paul says: “ What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?” (1 Cor 4:7). So we must not be everybody or even just anybody. But we must learn to exchange pride for gratitude—I mean gratitude for gifts and graces all unmerited—at every moment of our lives.

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We were detained in bondage by the Evil One, sold under sin, and receiving pleasure in exchange for wickedness.

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The reason why blood is forbidden is because it is the 'life-force' of all living things (not to be confused with the soul),  and thus carries a sacred function, making atonement. What is important to note is that the blood makes atonement in virtue of it's life-force, not in virtue of it being spilled. In other words, the focus here is not that something innocent took the death penalty, but rather that the value of life is of such a worth that it can make atonement for sin.


...the simple fact that sacrifices not involving sin were killed is a serious blow against the whole Penal Substitution framework.  Another fact that militates strongly against the Penal Substitution system is instructions such as those found in Leviticus 5:11-13, which states that if someone cannot afford an animal for a sin offering, a sack of flour can be used instead. (EUCHARISTIC!!!)

Leviticus 16:21 is the only situation where it is explicitly said that "sins are confessed over it," where as no such instructions are given for any other situation. Further, this is the case of the scapegoat, but the scapegoat was not subsequently slaughtered but rather released to the wilderness. Now compare this to the sacrifices not involving atoning for sin yet had hands placed on its head and killed...  [the scapegoat] is dealing with expiation and not propitiation.

...often the one killing the animal and the one making atonement were not the same person, and this disunion of those two events conflicts with Penal SubstitutionTypically, the sinner killed the animal, and from there the Levitical priest applied the blood according to the proper ritual in order to make atonement for the sin.

‼️‼️Numbers 35:31-33 teaches that murder and manslaughter cannot be ransomed for, and this is because such crimes are so serious that nothing short of the killer's own life can pay for it. This is significant because the animal sacrifices would not serve to atone for such sins either, directly disproving the notion the death-penalty can be transferred to an innocent animal... In fact, the sin offerings of the Levitical sacrifices were primarily concerned with "unintentional" and minor sins (not requiring the death penalty), where as major (intentional) sins had one permanently "cut off" from the Israelite people.
(MORTAL VS VENIAL SINS!! Are you MURDERING Christ by your actions? )

Atonement is sometimes made for non-living things, such as the altar... and in such cases is used for "cleansing" an unsanctified object.

...atonement is made due to something's value and not a matter of transferring punishment.

...there is no reason to think God's wrath was poured out on the lamb rather than the Israelites. God was not mad at the Israelites, thus a sacrifice in this case could not have been that of Penal Substitution. The Israelites were only actually subject to that wrath in a indirect/secondary sense, that is if they had they disobeyed the Passover requirements.

⭐⭐You said: "Now answer my questions: in what sense at all is it meaningful to say that Jesus died *for* your sins, outside of the PSub framework?"

I will use an analogy from Scripture:
1 John 3:16,
"This is how we know what love is:
Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
Here we see the definition of love: "lay down your life *for* others".
Now, if this is saying Jesus laid down his life as a Penal Substitute *for* us...then for the parallel to work it would mean Christians are called to be Penal Substitutes for fellow Christians. This obviously fails, and thus the *for* here does not entail Psub.
The *for* must therefor mean "on behalf of" such that your energy and life make it possible for someone else to benefit from. Similar to how a father lays down his life for his family by working to support them.
And with the analysis of "atonement" I gave in my article, we can see someone can atone by doing good works.
The Bible explicitly says Jesus gave his life as a *ransom* for us. So Jesus died as a ransom *for* us. And a ransom is, by definition, not Penal Substitution. Rather, as my article notes, it's an 'equivalent buyout price'. Thus, Psub is refuted on all sides.


God uses holy mediators between Himself and sinners, in this case priests. Some might mistakenly think that the person's guilt was transferred to the sacrificial animal during this process, but that's simply not in the text, and it's erroneous because it would negate the whole purpose of the Priesthood. The lamb was not taking the punishment of the individual because it was only after the Priest had gone through the rituals of the sacrifice after the animal was dead that atonement was made. See Leviticus 4:22-35, where the duties of the sinner (bringing and killing the animal) and the duties of the priest (making atonement) are distinct.
 it directly links the priest's act of "making atonement for them" with that of "bearing their iniquity." In other words, when a priest is said to "bear iniquity" of a sinner, it means the priest takes on the responsibility to "make atonement" for the sinner. It does not mean the guilt is imputed to the priest so that now the priest himself becomes guilty. (And never does the Bible say the sacrificial animal said to be "bearing the iniquity," and for good reason, because that's not the nature of atonement,


Just as every sin we commit, no matter how secret, harms the entire Body of Christ, a similar 'stain' comes upon God's Holy Dwelling place in the midst of a sinful and unclean Israelite nation. Thus it is the High Priest's duty to perform a most sacred rite, going before the Mercy Seat (the Lid of the Ark of the Covenant) in the Holy of Holies, and thus make atonement for all Israel.

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But that brazen serpent Numbers 21:9 was hung up as a remedy for the biting serpents, not as a type of Him that suffered for us, but as a contrast. And it saved those that looked upon it, not because they believed it to live, but because it was killed, and killed with it the powers that were subject to it, being destroyed as it deserved. And what is the fitting epitaph for it from us? O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? You are overthrown by the Cross; you are slain by Him who is the Giver of life; you are without breath, dead, without motion, even though you keep the form of a serpent lifted up on high on a pole.

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...the Cross demonstrated God's love the best. A single drop of His Blood could atone for all sin. The scheme God chose though, the cross, had a powerful effect of demonstrating love to the fullest extent. Giving up one's life in obedience unto death is the most anyone could give, and that's a demonstration of just how far and just how much love was displayed. It's easy to love and obey God when things are going easy, but when suffering and hardship come THEN your real love shows. Further, Christ wasn't just atoning for sin, He was destroying/transforming Death.

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