{"id":13743,"date":"2015-12-08T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2015-12-08T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:57:56","slug":"the-impartial-power-of-god-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=13743","title":{"rendered":"The Impartial Power of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6UXn_OuJkvE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. \u2014Hebrews 10:14<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWe trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only reason for the forgiveness of our sins by God, and the infinite depth of His promise to forget them, is the death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the result of our personal realization of the atonement by the Cross of Christ, which He has provided for us. \u201c\u2026Christ Jesus\u2026became for us wisdom from God\u2014 and righteousness and sanctification and redemption\u2026\u201d (1 Corinthians 1:30). Once we realize that Christ has become all this for us, the limitless joy of God begins in us. And wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is still in effect.<\/p>\n<p>No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. God does this, not because Jesus pleads with Him to do so but because He died. It cannot be earned, just accepted. All the pleading for salvation which deliberately ignores the Cross of Christ is useless. It is knocking at a door other than the one which Jesus has already opened. We protest by saying, \u201cBut I don\u2019t want to come that way. It is too humiliating to be received as a sinner.\u201d God\u2019s response, through Peter, is, \u201c\u2026 there is no other name\u2026by which we must be saved\u201d (Acts 4:12). What at first appears to be heartlessness on God\u2019s part is actually the true expression of His heart. There is unlimited entrance His way. \u201cIn Him we have redemption through His blood\u2026\u201d (Ephesians 1:7). To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.<\/p>\n<p>God is just in saving bad people only as He makes them good. Our Lord does not pretend we are all right when we are all wrong. The atonement by the Cross of Christ is the propitiation God uses to make unholy people holy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. \u2014Hebrews 10:14 We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only reason for the forgiveness of our sins by God, and the infinite depth of His promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13746,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}