JY Bible Notes 聖經小筆記

From: TFTW Bible College Blood is also used to seal an agreement. You may have seen a Western movie where two Native Americans make a promise. They state what they agree to, then they cut their hands and clasp them together. They have sealed the agreement in blood. In the Old Testament, Moses used blood to seal the agreement the people made to obey the will of God. “ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words. ” ( Exodus 24:7-8 ) As Jesus said, His blood would be for a new testament and would seal the agreement between God and man. Any man willing to obey God’s laws would get the sin-cleansing benefit of the blood of Jesus. A testament is sometimes called a “Last Will and Testament.” It is something that goe...

From: TFTW Bible College Jesus is God as we have already seen. He came to Earth to live as a man. " And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. " ( John 1:14 ) The difference between His life and ours was that He lived perfectly, without sin. He did that to be an example and show us how to live, and also to offer Himself as the sacrifice of a perfect man. This was the exact sacrifice that man needed to repay God what He had lost. A man could then be at peace with God, even though he had rebelled against God.

  From: TFTW Bible Collge In the Old Testament, people rebelled against God’s commandments as we do today.  That is sin.  God told the Jews in the Old Testament what He wanted to be done by the people when this happened.  It involved a sacrifice.  It’s really no different than what we do today.  If I drive recklessly and crash into your car, you might ask for payment to cover the damages to your car.  I would then have to sacrifice my money to make up for the damage I caused. God told the Jews in the Old Testament to sacrifice part of what they had after they had rebelled against Him and sinned. Those sacrifices could involve animals. So, the goat that would be sacrificed would be the one to pay for the sins of man. It wasn’t the goat’s fault, but it had to take the blame. It was a scapegoat! The animal was not the sin, but it was an offering, a sacrifice, to pay the penalty for sins. The problem, however, was that these sacrifices couldn’t really...

  From: TFTW Bible Collge Some believe there is no way we can be righteous in the sight of God because they think we are born evil and have “original sin.” Also, if one believes we do not have freewill because God’s authority will not allow it, which is false, then we could not be righteous even if we wanted to be. Therefore, some may say that God’s grace allows the righteousness of Jesus to be “draped over you.” That means you are not really righteous, but you just  appear  to be righteous because you have the righteousness of Jesus imputed to you and draped over you.  But, as we have seen, the imputation we see in the Bible says that you are righteous when  you choose  to be righteous. “ Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. ” ( 1 John 3:7 ) “Righteousness” is defined as the commandments of God. “ My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. ” ( Psalm ...

  From: TFTW Bible College This idea is that all the sins of the world were imputed to Jesus on the cross, and He became the worst sinner ever.  This contradicts the Bible’s teachings that Jesus was a perfect sacrifice. If Jesus became a sinner because He had our sin imputed onto Him, He is no longer a perfect man, and therefore He is not a perfect sacrifice. If that is true, we have no payment for our sins and we are all lost. When Jesus was offered to God, He was a sacrifice “ without spot ,” meaning He had no sins. “ How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ” ( Hebrews 9:14 ) This incorrect idea may also stem from a misunderstanding of a Bible verse. “ For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. ” ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ) Jesus is made to “ be sin ” for us does not mean He lit...

  From: TFTW Bible College There is such a thing as imputation according to God, but God makes it clear that the responsibility falls upon the shoulders of the individual. “ The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. ” ( Ezekiel 18:20 ) If I sin, it is because I choose to sin, not because someone else sinned or because God made me sin. If I sin, then I bear the spiritual consequences of that sin. I do not have to bear the spiritual consequences of the sins of other people, and other people do not have to bear the spiritual consequences of my sin. It is true that I might have to suffer the  physical  consequences of the sins of others. A drunk driver may crash into a loved one and take them from me. In that case, someone else made a sinful choice and I suffered the conse...

From: TFTW Bible College Once King David had Solomon anointed and set up as the new king, Adonijah was in trouble and feared for his life. He did not want to be killed for trying to take over the throne. But the new king, Solomon, gave him a choice. “ And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. ” ( 1 Kings 1:52 ) Did Solomon have all authority as king? Yes. Did that stop him from giving Adonijah a choice? No. Adonijah was fearful for his life, but Solomon basically said, “Be good, and you will live. Be bad, and you will die.” Sound familiar? It’s the same dilemma man finds himself in. We have rebelled against the King of Heaven and found ourselves worthy of death. But, the merciful King says, “If you will repent and be good and obey me, you may live. If you choose to be bad and go against my laws, you will die and be separated from me.”  Our choice in no way ne...