10. Lack of understanding of the identity and salvation of the saints

 10. Lack of understanding of the identity and salvation of the saints

 

The object of salvation is the spirit imprisoned in the flesh. That is why it is said to be the salvation of the spirit. The spirit of all people is dead. In 1 Peter 3:18, it says, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit." Being made alive in the Spirit means that one was dead in the spirit. In John 6:63, it says, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." So the identity of the flesh was playing the role of the master.

The believers in the church community do not understand salvation well. They believe that God created the world beautifully, but because Adam and Eve sinned, all humans became sinners, and that Jesus came to the world to save humans and died on the cross, so those who believe in him will be saved and go to heaven.

The place where Adam and Eve sinned was not the world, but Eden. That is why they were driven out of Eden and came into the world. This means that there was sin in the kingdom of God. It tells us that sin entered the world. Romans 5:12 “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.” The word through means causes, but the Greek word means through. It means that sin entered the world from Eden through the first man, Christ. It tells us that the cause of sin was not the first man, but the spirit of the angel who sinned in the kingdom of God entered the world through the body given by the first man. The first man, Adam, and the man (Adam) and the woman (Eve) are different beings. The first man, Adam, is Christ, and the man and the woman refer to people who entered the spirit of the angel who sinned in the kingdom of God. Colossians 1:15 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”

Therefore, the world is like a prison. The world is not a paradise, but a prison where the spirit is imprisoned in the flesh. Therefore, the word is that escaping from the prison is salvation. Believers seek the cause of sin in Adam and Eve, but strictly speaking, each and every person with a body has his or her own sin. It means that one’s sin is the spirit of an angel who committed a crime in the kingdom of God. If one does not realize this, everyone ends up transferring their sin to Adam and Eve. They are indirectly sinners, but they are not the ones who committed the sin directly. That is why people are insensitive to original sin. And people only think about the sins of the world. They think that disobeying God’s command is sin. Original sin is greed, and the desire to become like God is original sin. Because of that greed, they ended up eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Also, we have inherited the body of sin from Adam and Eve. Romans 6:6 says, "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin." The body of sin is like a vessel that holds sin. Eliminating this body of sin is the basis of salvation. Jesus died on the cross to eliminate the body of sin, and because he died to sin, those who are united with him also have their sins eliminated.

Salvation is not forgiveness of sins, but death to the body of sin. Therefore, sin disappears. Since the saint dies in union with Jesus, he also dies to the body of sin that comes from his parents. This is the beginning of salvation. Therefore, salvation is to be united with the resurrected Jesus and receive a spiritual body from heaven.

Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.' Jesus said to deny yourself and take up your cross because he wanted to correct your identity. Romans 6:6 says that the old man's identity is the fleshly self. Therefore, it tells us that we must change from this fleshly self to a spiritual identity.

Romans 6:5 says, "For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, certainly we will also be in the likeness of his resurrection." The old self of the saints dies with Jesus, and the saints are resurrected as new people with the resurrected Jesus. Therefore, the new self refers to the spiritual body with resurrection life. Romans 8:6 says, "For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace."