God Promising the Gentiles to His Messieh

    I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles . . . It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 42:6 and 49:6)


    As we have seen, God, the Father, promised to give Jesus, the Messieh, to His people as the new covenant of grace. "I, the LORD . . . will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people." Thus, all of the resources of God's Grace are only available through relationship with Christ. Furthermore, the Father promised that His covenant of grace through his Son would extend to all the Gentile nations: "that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."

    It is clear that the Messieh's mission would initially be to the house of Israel, to the Jewish people. " 'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah: In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David a Branch of righteousness' " Jeremiah 33:14-15. Jesus' initial instructions to His disciples were in line with this truth. "These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: 'Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”' Matthew 10:5-6.

    Yet, God's promises were much larger than solely reaching His chosen people, Israel. "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel." God wanted His light to shine out into the nations. "I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles." The Father wanted His saving grace to extend throughout the world: "that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."

    At the appropriate time, Jesus also instructed His followers in the world-wide dimensions of His mission. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . . Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature . . . that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem . . . But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:47; and Acts 1:8



Isaiah 42: 1- 9 (6)

Isaiah 42:1-9 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit
upon him (Jesus of Nazareth the Christ): he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor
lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has
set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
    Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; He that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. (This took place in Acts 1- 11)



Isaiah 49:1-10 (6)

Isaiah 49:1-10 Listen, O isles, to me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me (Jesus of
Nazareth the Christ) from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name. He
has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished
shaft; in his quiver has he hid me; and said to me, you are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.

    Now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth.


    Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despise, to him whom the nation abhorrers, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you. Thus said the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; (this ; is a time period break) That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst; (this ; to is a time period break) neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

 
    In both of our verses (6) of interest we have the word “LIGHT” to which we have the testimony of the following scriptures: Isaiah 51:4-5; (60:1-3 for Israel and 1 Peter 2:9); Luke 2:32; John 1:4-9; 8:12; Acts 13:47; 26: 18, 23 (to the Gentiles); the word “Covenant” Luke 1:69-72; Romans 15: 8-9; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Galatians 3:15; Hebrews 8:6, 9: 15, 12:24, 13:20



Word means: in the ancient writings AHLB with Strong’s Light H216 and covenant H1285:

H216 has a group of boxes used to mean storage or to pen in a thing, the symbol for a source of light; the box has an entrance, a small hole, which when viewed from inside, is lighted through the hole, of the entrance; H1285 covenant means: it shows grain, used to feed, with the picture of a tent which represents the family. As the seed clusters at the head of a stalk, the grain is gathered and the stalk is burned to form potash, which is cleaned and used to make soap. This is used to polish, to make a thing bright or pure. It also means to fatten or to fill up; the filling up of man with life and the image of God. It is also used (the grain) to fatten livestock used for sacrifice and to cut into two pieces through which the parties of a covenant pass. If one party fails to meet the agreements of the covenant then the other may do the same to them.



Strong’s Word Dictionary:

H1285

From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): - confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.

H216

From H215; illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.): - bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.



We’ll examine Matthew 28: 19 -20 as spoken by Christ after His resurrection: “Go therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the
world.”


The first word we’ll look at is nations:

G3686

Thayer's Definition:
1) name: univ. of proper names
2) the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.
3) persons reckoned up by name

4) the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685)



The next word is name:

G3686

Thayer's Definition:

1) name: univ. of proper names

2) the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.

3) persons reckoned up by name

4) the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685)

G1097

Thayer's Definition:

1) to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel

1a) to become known

2) to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of

2a) to understand

2b) to know

3) Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman

4) to become acquainted with, to know

Part of Speech: verb

G3685 for comparison

Thayer's Definition:

1) to be useful, to profit, help

2) to receive profit or advantage, be helped [or have joy]

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur), for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses [unless indeed it be identical with the base of G3686 through the idea of notoriety]


The next word is Father:

G3962

Thayer's Definition:

2) metaphorically

2a) the originator and transmitter of anything

2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2b) one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way

2c) a title of honour (honor, modern use)

2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

3) God is called the Father

3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men

3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

3d1) by Jesus Christ himself

3d2) by the apostles

Part of Speech: noun masculine

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: apparently a root word


The next word is Son:

G5207

Thayer's Definition:

2) son of man

2a) term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality

2b) son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.

2c) used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendor.

3) son of God

3a) used to describe Adam (Luke 3:38)

3b) used to describe those who are born again (Luke 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ

3c) of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

3c1) in the OT used of the Jews

3c2) in the NT of Christians

3c3) those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Hebrews 12:5-8)

3d) those who revere God as their father, the pious worshipers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Romans 8:14, Galatians 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father’s will in all his acts

Part of Speech: noun masculine

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: apparently a primary word


The next word is Holy:

G40

Thayer's Definition:

1) most holy thing, a saint

Part of Speech: adjective

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from hagos (an awful thing) [compare G53, G2282]

G53 clean:

Thayer's Definition:

1) exciting reverence, venerable, sacred

2) pure

2a) pure from carnality, chaste, modest

2b) pure from every fault, immaculate

2c) clean

Part of Speech: adjective

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from the same as G40

G2282 warm:

Thayer's Definition:

1) to warm, keep warm

2) to cherish with tender love, to foster with tender care

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: probably akin to thallo (to warm)


The next word is Ghost:

G4151

Thayer's Definition: pneuma

1) the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son

1a) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasizes his personality and character (the \\Holy\\ Spirit)

1b) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasizes his work and power (the Spirit of \\Truth\\)

1c) never referred to as a depersonalized force

2) the spirit, i.e. the vital principal by which the body is animated

2a) the rational spirit, the power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides

2b) the soul

3) a spirit, i.e. a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter, and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting

3a) a life giving spirit

3b) a human soul that has left the body

3c) a spirit higher than man but lower than God, i.e. an angel

3c1) used of demons, or evil spirits, who were conceived as inhabiting the bodies of men

3c2) the spiritual nature of Christ, higher than the highest angels and equal to God, the divine nature of Christ

4) the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one

4a) the efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire, etc.

5) a movement of air (a gentle blast)

5a) of the wind, hence the wind itself

5b) breath of nostrils or mouth

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G4154

G4154

Thayer's Definition: pneō

1) to breathe, to blow

1a) of the wind

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a root word


    Now we come to John’s gospel record of Jesus found in the sixth chapter, He had just feed a great multitude with five barley loaves and two fish, which starts His (Jesus’) teaching on the Covenant and the hidden meaning of it for those who have eyes and ears to both see and hear what the Spirit of Holiness is saying to the spiritual Body of Christ. What we need to understand is found in the word meanings given above. Remember that Jesus (as the federal head of the church of God, in the flesh of natural man) is the testator of this covenant and humanity is the beneficiary of the covenant or will. Remember that we’ve found out that if one party violates the covenant the other party is bond to exact the penalty revealed in the terms of the covenant on the other party.


John 6:26-66 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, You seek me, not because you saw
the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.
    Then they said to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he has sent.
    They said therefore to him, what sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? What do you work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, verily, verily, I say to you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gave it to you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which came down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
    Then said they to him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst. But I said to you, that you also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. This is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. This is the will of Him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. They said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he said, I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father.

    Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes me has everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eats of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

    The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say to you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (Exodus 16:8; Luke 10:16; Romans 13:1-5)


    For my flesh is true meat indeed, and my blood is true drink indeed, he that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live for ever. (Study 1 Corinthians 10:16-23 and is else where referenced)

    These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard said, this is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you? What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, are spirit, and are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
    He said, therefore said I to you that no man can come to me, except it was given to him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.


Now lets look what John’s testimony of Jesus is:


John 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
    There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light that all through him might believe. He was not that light, but to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as receive him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name: which are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 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 1:16-18 Of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared Him.

    How does this all tie together the New Covenant based on better promises with the Old Covenant between Abram and God as found in Genesis 15: 8-21; 12:1-7; 15:1-6? This Grace and Truth which has come through Jesus Christ? To find out we’ll need to look at Acts 13:38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 10:4 and Hebrews 9:7-14; 10:8-12, and 14.

Gen 15:8-21 He said (Abram), Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? He said
to him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old,
and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. He (Abram) took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. When the fowls came down upon the
carcasses, Abram drove them away. When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
    God said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
You shalt go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
It came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
    In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

What was the foundation for this covenant action? We’ll find it in Genesis 12.


Genesis 12:1-7 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get out of this country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show to you: and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curse you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
    So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite were then in the land. The LORD appeared to Abram, and said, to your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared to him.

How does this compare with what the Lord told Abram in the first part of Genesis 15?


Genesis 15:1-6 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: “I am” your shield, your exceeding great reward. Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house this Eliezer of Damascus? Abram said, behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. The word of the LORD came to him, saying, this shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir.
He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and tell (count) the stars, if you be able to number them”: and He said to him, So shall your seed be. He believed the LORD; and He (the LORD) counted it to him for righteousness.


    Now we can see that there is a difference between these two promises in chapter 12 Abram is promised the land for his natural seed (blood line) and in the second he is promised a spiritual line of heirs. These are not both of the same line of heirship but rather two separate seed lines, one carnal or natural, the other is spiritual, those of the same faith or trust in Jesus Christ, though they can be a mixing as Paul tells us Romans 4:18; Hebrews 11:12.

Now we’ll look at Romans 4.

Rom 4:1-18 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? For if
Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory, but not before God. For what say the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
    Even as David also described the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being uncircumcised.

    For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

    Therefore it is of faith and that by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall your seed be.


Rom 4:19-25 Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he
was able also to perform.
    Therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.


Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land
of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
promise: for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
    Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has prepared for them a city.


    We could like so many get off on the promise of the land but that is not our focus of this study. We’re
about the promise of the Grace of God, which is the foundation of our Gospel for this economy of God. But
before we get into that we need I think establish that God is a just God, a righteous God, a Holy and jealous
God and a consuming Fire. Because man does not walk in the fear of God set before his eyes. For this we
should look at Israel’s first acts of disobedience and the results of that disobedience turn to Numbers 16:16-38 and for emphasis the Lord repeats this again in chapter 26. Now these men brought unholy fire, did Israel remember this and learn from it? No, but what about our guilt of not having reverence for the word of God in this day? Are we guilty of the blood and cross of Christ by our actions and words of our mouths? Just
something for us to consider and think about, now on with our study.


Romans 1:1-10 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God,
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning His Son Jesus Christ our
Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; declared the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: by whom we have received
grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: among whom are ye also
the called of Jesus Christ: to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.


    So far we’ve found that it is of the same faith that Abram had, that the seed of promise are made of. Jesus
and Paul are examples of this seed of faith to which, that the Grace of God is given. We’ve also learned that
Paul’s Gospel is different from that preached to Israel by Jesus, though the risen Jesus Christ is the author and Publisher of God’s secret Gospel of Grace. I say this because Paul said: “that it pleased God to reveal Christ in me.” How can this be? Look at Galatians 2:20 and Philippians 4:13.

Galatians 3:1-7, 8-18 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of
you, Received the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

    He therefore that ministers to you by the Spirit and works miracles among you by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

    For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident: for, the just shall live by faith. The law is not of faith: but, the man that does the works of the law shall live in them.

    Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    I speak after the manner of men; though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannuls, or adds thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

    This I say, the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Galatians 3:22-23, 26-29 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be revealed.


    For we are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. If you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.


Again let’s look at what the word of Jesus reveals about covenant or testament in this old verses new.


Matthew 9:16-17 Jesus said unto them: No man puts a piece of new cloth on an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. Also in Marks gospel:

Mark 2: 21-22 Jesus said unto them: No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old, and the rent is made worse. No man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.


    Now despite what you may have been told these two verses are saying the same thing. The old cloth and the old wine skin are metaphors for the old testament or covenant which is about to be done away with by Jesus as He fulfills the requirements of it. He is about to establish a new and better testament or covenant of Grace of which He is the testator, the new cloth and the new wine. Now Paul in his letter to the Hebrews puts this new or better covenant into perspective for both the Jews that are on the fence, undecided about a total
commitment of release of their Jewishness and for the learning by Gentiles. Let me also point out that this
Gospel was a mystery to Peter and the others, listen to what Peter said as found in his letter to the “Christian
Jews” of his day in 2 Peter 3:14-18. One other point to consider is that Paul does not use the term “Christian” in any of his letters, but rather saints Let us examine just a few verses:

Hebrews 7:14-25 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing
concerning priesthood. It is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises
another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless
life. For he testified, Thou are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. For there is truly a
dis annulling of the old commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the
law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope by the which we draw nigh to God.

    Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, you are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

    They truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.



Hebrews 8:6-13 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of
a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he said, behold, the days
come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead
them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the
Lord.

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.


In that he said, a new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decayed and waxed old is ready to vanish away.


Hebrews 12:23-29 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn (this would be Israel the seed of
faith), which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than
that of Abel. See that we refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on
earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: whose voice then
shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

    This word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.

From here we’ll return to our list of scripture as referenced earlier connected to John 1:17 and are as follows Acts 13:38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 10:4; Hebrews 9:7-14, 10:8-12 and 14 which follow.

First for a refresher John 1 :17
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Act 13:33-41 (38-39) God has fulfilled the same to us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus again; as
it is also written in the second psalm, ‘Thou are my Son, this day have I begotten you’.

    As concerning that he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he said also in another psalm, ‘Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.’

    For David, after he had served his own generation as a prophet by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

    Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; “behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.”



1Corimthians 1:17-31 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God.

    For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” That in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God; it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

    For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.


Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I
bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of
God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.


Hebrews 9:6-10 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not
without blood, which he offered for himself, and the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: which
was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make
him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.


Heb 9:11-14 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the
flesh: 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?


Heb 9:15-17 For this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a
testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.

Heb 10:1-10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshipers once purged should have
had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

    Wherefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do tour will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He toke away the first, that he may establish the second. By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.



Heb 10:11-22 Every priest stood daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

    For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, ‘I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.’

    Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

The Father Promising His Messiah as a Covenant

    I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people. Isaiah 42:6

    Once again, multiple promises reveal God's plan and guarantee His purposes. These promises are actually being made from God, the Father, to His Messieh, the anointed King (who is God, the Son). The promises show that the Messiah would be the new covenant of grace for His people.

    In the opening words, the Father is describing the call of His Messieh (later referred to as "My Servant" — Isaiah 49:6. "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness." Also, the Father is promising full participation in His Messieh's mission. "I, the LORD . . . will hold Your hand; I will keep You." This would be essential, because the Messieh would go forth as a humble, dependent Servant ("My Servant"): "taking the form of a servant . . . He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross" Philippians 2:7-8.

    Then, the Father offers this great promise of Christ's primary role in going forth to earth. "I will . . . give You as a covenant to the people." Jesus Christ Himself would be given to God's people as His new covenant with them. The new covenant of grace was supplanting the old covenant of law. Yet, it was not just a matter of new terms being prescribed. Rather, a Person was being given, and He Himself would be the sum and substance of the covenant. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . . full of grace and truth" John 1:14.

    This new covenant of grace that God has for His people is all related to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. He Himself is the embodiment of all that the new covenant promises. In the new covenant, the Lord promises righteousness. This righteousness is found in a Person. " 'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS' " Jeremiah 23:5-6. Peace is promised in this covenant of grace. This peace is also found in a Person. "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace" Ephesians 2:13-14. Yes, all that the Lord promises by grace is entered into initially, and continually, by a humble, dependent relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.


1Timothy 3:16 Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
glory. (El, Adonai, Yeshua, Immanuel, Jesus Christ, Son of man, Son of God)



    The following is taken in part from a daily devotional by Pastor Bob Hoekstra, the KVJ Bible, Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek and Thayer’s Greek definitions, with the leading of the Holy Spirit who put it all together for me. There is of course much more that can be said in regards to the new covenant and our part in it. Like what is required of us to become partakers of it blessings of promise, and how to avoid the warnings of destruction for those who disobey it.

Redemption, part I

    The purpose of this paper is to help clear the air about what is meant by redemption and salvation and to come to a true Biblical understanding of both terms. To gain an understanding of what was lost that required redemption we must go back to the book of beginnings or the Book of Genesis. In Genesis are found the keys for unlocking our understanding of the whole of scripture, in Genesis is the pattern for the rest of scriptures unveiling; Genesis is the book of first principles in the way that God deals with man and the temporary state that all creation is now in known as sin and under a curse.



    Then the nation of Israel as His chosen people is to become a nation of priests onto God and to the world they are the chosen because Christ is to return through them. From Genesis chapter twelve into Acts chapter nine we learn Gods methods and means of training and dealing with a rebellious, hardhearted and unbelieving people as earthy man with some or a few exceptions, those who become righteous or spiritual. From this point God changes the program by turning to the Gentiles or nations and the birthing of the spiritual nature back into mankind as Israel refused it.


   We’ll see as we go along God’s dealing with man, Israel and mankind again but in different ways an in what He calls dispensations which are no more than time periods and ways of dealing or dispensings, like a druggist dispenses out your prescription. Each has its own does and do not’s or limits when these are met all goes well for everyone. Many of today mix the Old Testament up with the New which is based on better promises paid for by the blood of Christ and which He warns everyone not to do in His earthly ministry to Israel during His first advent [see Matthew 9:16-17 and Mark 2:21-22 Also the two thieves that were hung with the Lord point toward this.].


    We’ll see mankind is no longer in the period during which God was dealing with the nation of Israel only, but are now under the age of God’s dealing with mankind again under His Gospel of Grace which was kept hidden in the mind of God as a mystery. This is a stumbling block for the religious Jew in that he still believes that he is set apart from the Gentile as they were under the Old Testament. God changed the rules and the game play in Acts chapters 6, 7 and 8, when Israel refused the Kingdom of Heaven that was promised them by the stoning of Stephen. He even changed the chief leader from Peter to Saul of Tarsus whose name He also changes to Paul to indicate the change. Paul then begins the ministry that the risen Lord calls him to as He also called Moses to minister to Israel and bring them out of Egypt, but Paul is sent not to Israel again but to the Gentiles. This is where we are in this day an age of the church, a waiting the taking away of the mystical Body of Christ, some 2000 years after Christ’s first advent suffering, crucifixion-death, burial, resurrection and ascension in salvation to the right hand of God the Father into His Kingdom. In this Gospel of Gods Grace are revealed the mysteries and promises for our learning and understanding and the perfecting of our regenerated spirit. The Spirit of Christ in us again as He was in the beginning and the redemption and salvation for those who will come to this revelation knowledge by faith.


    So why does mankind need a redeemer and what was lost and by whom was it lost? What is man that God places such a high value on him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen, dead man? I shall look at these questions in this paper and answer them. First things first let us go to Genesis to see what may be revealed to us, we’ll need to look with open eyes to see and open ears to hear what the Spirit tells us and not through rose colored glasses. A thought just came to me about salvation and now where does it fit and how does it work in mans redemption? In other words what actually is salvation?


    Remember that this is intended to be a Bible study therefore there is a lot of scripture used or referenced so if you are one that gets easily confused in the use of the word, follow along as this will train you how to read and come to an understanding of it. First things first PRAY for the understanding in all wisdom and truth, and then star the study.

But first we have to acquire some word knowledge.

Redeem: To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.

Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) to release on receipt of ransom

2) to redeem, liberate by payment of ransom

2a) to liberate

2b) to cause to be released to one’s self by payment of a ransom

2c) to redeem

2d) to deliver: from evils of every kind, internal and external

Part of Speech: verb

Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) the price for redeeming, ransom

1a) paid for slaves, captives

1b) for the ransom of life

2) to liberate many from misery and the penalty of their sins

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Thayer's Definition: redemption

1) to redeem

1a) by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off

1b) metaphorically of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death

2) to buy up, to buy up for one’s self, for one’s use

2a) to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own

Part of Speech: verb

Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Redemption: Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. The deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or from forfeiture either by money, labor or other means. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.


Redeeming: Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.

Kingdom: Of God the government or universal dominion, the power of supreme administration, without limitations reaches into the known universe and beyond. It does not touch that which is evil but does rule or preside over Satan’s realm. The governmental rule; supreme administration as the Kingdom of Heaven will have with Christ as He reigns as its federal King and the nation of Israel its primary ruling people. Also in nature’s history, as it is in division; as the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms as they had their beginning in creation.


Elohim: Hebrew for the triune God Head of the, Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost


Yeshua is Hebrew for the Son of God, angel of the Lord [Old Testament], means ever present one and progressive revelation, the ever revealing one, the Word of God, LORD, who is Immanuel, Yeshua or Jesus of Nazareth the Messieh, Christ [New Testament also revealed in creation], LORD, the Lord Jesus Christ and Head of the Body.


Church: 1.The worshipers of  the true God [El, Elohim, Yeshua Messieh, Jesus Christ]; as the Jewish church also called a synagogue or temple, in Acts the first Jews, Hebrew believers were called “Christians”.

2. The followers are believers of Christ in that they believe that He was a prophet or the Son of God, they are followers only.

3. The disciples in that they have learned the discipline of the cross and the mysteries of Christ assembled for worship in a particular place, as in a private house.

[Here we have three meanings for one word which has lead to the twisting of the scriptures because the word is not rightly divided or understood by natural men and his application of that word.]



Thayer's Definition: church or God’s family where qualified

1) a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly

1a) an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating

1b) the assembly of the Israelites

1c) any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously

1d) in a Christian sense

1d1) an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting usually in a synagogue

1d2) a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order’s sake, which followed their Jewish roots or order of worship and government

1d3) those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body

1d4) the whole body of Jewish Christians scattered throughout the earth

1d5) the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven

Part of Speech: noun feminine



Thayer's Definition: church

1) the body both of men or animals

1a) a dead body or corpse

1b) the living body

1b1) of animals

2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)

3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body

3a) so in the NT of the church

4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself

Part of Speech: noun neuter


Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction

1a) one (from injury or peril)

1a1) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

1b1) to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue

1b) to save in the technical biblical sense

1b1) negatively

1b1a) to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment

1b1b) to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

Part of Speech: verb


Thayer's Definition: family

1) lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry

2) a nation or tribe

2a) a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin

2b) the Israelites which distributed into twelve tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, these were divided into families which were divided into houses

3) family, in a wider sense, nation, people

Part of Speech: noun feminine


Thayer's Definition: savor

1) generator or male ancestor

1a) either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents

1b) a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David

1b1) fathers, i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation

1c) one advanced in years, a senior

2) metaphorically

2a) the originator and transmitter of anything

2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2b) one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way

2c) a title of honor

2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

3) God is called the Father

3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men

3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

3d1) by Jesus Christ himself

3d2) by the apostles

Part of Speech: noun masculine


Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Salvation: The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity, the taking out of harms way. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage to the sin nature and liability or penalty of eternal death caused by that sin nature, and the conferring on him everlasting life and happiness. This is the great salvation. (Taken from the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)


Thayer's Definition: salvation

1) deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation

1a) deliverance from the molestation of enemies

1b) in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation

1b1) of Messianic salvation

2) salvation as the present possession of all true Christians

3) future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.

Part of Speech: noun feminine


Thayer's Definition: salvation

1) saving, bringing salvation

2) he who embodies this salvation, or through whom God is about to achieve it

3) the hope of (future) salvation



Before we get into our study what many do not grab hold of is that there have already been three of four redemptions these are:

Adam lost and redeemed, Genesis 3:7 lost, Genesis 3:21 redeemed;

Israel lost and redeemed, lost in Genesis 37:26-28; 46; redeemed in Exodus 12; and 14:13; then again in Luke 1:67-78;

Humanity or Man kind lost in Genesis 3:7, redeemed in Romans 3:19-25, 26; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, Galatians 1:11-12 (Galatians 3:10-12, 13 warning here);

Earth lost in Genesis 3:7 and is yet to be redeemed Revelations 16.

Many in our church economy or dispensation of this day are operating in the warning of Galatians 3:10-12 and they are not aware of it because they stay away from the scriptures that we are covering in this study.



Why a Redeemer

    We will be looking only at those scriptures dealing with man here in Genesis chapters one through three as our material of interest in this study will only be dealing with man kind or humanity as a whole.

    What was lost? Who lost it? How was it lost? What is man that that God is mindful of him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen man, who is in truth a dead man because his spirit is separated from God?



In The Beginning

Gen 1:26-28 God [Elohim] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created Man in His image, in the image of God  created He him; male and female created He them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moves on the earth. God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.


[Man or Adam is created in Christ with Christ in him as a divine creature made of the Elements of Spirit [light, fire and Spirit] eternal. Made a little lower than God, and crowned with glory and honor from the elements of the earth; earth and other materials, fire, and water. Man has in himself the ability to reproduce other like beings [see Matthew 1:14-23; Luke 1:26-35, 37-38] and is given authority over all of this renewed creation put over it to keep it under his feet, to subdue it and have dominion over it. He walks with God as a divine spirit being a true son of God a mirror image of Elohim in bodily form. He has eyes that see only the spiritual things of his creator in a marriage of eternal being. This is added to in Genesis 2:7-9]


[John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that has been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. [fallen man]


Col 1:15-17 He who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through [in] Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.



Eph 1:4-6 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through [in] Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.



Eph 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The names for the Word are; Yeshua, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Immanuel, Jesus the Messieh, Jesus Christ and many others. EHYEH-asher-EHYEH means progressive revelation or the ever revealing one, found in Exodus 3:13-15.]



Gen 2:7-9 God, Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward and there put Man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

(see also Genesis 1:26-28 above as these two are the same time frame of creation one has more information than the other. In this one the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is added as it was not in the first.)



[The Life force, the vary Divine nature and character, is composed of portions of the trinity each contributing a part of Himself so man is a mirror image of his creator. The Grace of God in Christ this new creation man a spirit being in which are life, love, and light, living in the glory and the Kingdom of God that is within him and that is the vary realm of his divine being, immortal. A love creature created to respond to God in love in perfect perfection. Man is born into the Divine life; he has the position of being in both heaven and earth a marriage union unlike any other. A spirit being, with a free will, made a little lower than the angels who also have a will made out of the earth in whom was breathed the breath of lives, in order to multiply and bring forth sons of like nature of perfection. Who has contact with his creator in heaven and on earth in perfect worship. The elements of the earth are wind, earth, water and fire. The materials of the earth are darkness, fire, death, wrath, sickness, and thickness. These relate to pride, selfishness, wrath, envy, and murder and all manor of evil. Nature is broken off from God because it contains all the materials and elements and is in its self self producing after its own likeness. All this was caused by the fallen angels of the rebellion when they hit the crystal sea. Producing earth and took possession of it by being increased within its thickness and darkness within its center, in eternity past. When the earth was still apart of the Kingdom of God in the Light a fluid nature like the crystal sea of Revelation 4:6, 22:1 to which it will return 2 Peter 3:12 .]



Gen 2:15 The Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

[This is heaven on earth, in the goodness, and pleasure of the Kingdom of God.]



Gen 2:16-17 Elohim commanded man, saying, “of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will certainly die.” (: or ; is a time period break in many scriptures, so there was a time period between the two statements though some translations have removed this marking and thereby changing the meaning of scripture.)



[Here is mans first test of obedience to the voice of God and for us the word written of God, do we trust God? Can we hear God’s voice in His word printed with ink and pen? Or are we so in tune with ourselves and the spirit of the world? That we tune out the voice of God, when heard through His word or His voice spoken in our inner man? This is a spiritual separation from the nature and character, which reveals to us the Grace of God, who God really is. This is separation from Christ both inward and outward. This putting man on the level of the animal life: fleshly, carnal, earthy, reasoning, natural with the animals fearing man and man having the bestial nature or having the nature of all that is evil. The exchange of the divine nature and character of Christ (the separating of the conjoined divine being) to that of his free will and choice to having the eyes of man opened, from the heavenly things to which man is now blind, to the flesh and blood a son of man and the nature of the natural life that all the rest of creation experiences or lives in. We here see the first commandment with a promise or a law placed into effect that covers the earth and the entire human race and even reaches into nature or the natural order of things until it is removed or broken.]



[1Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, “Has God as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of God? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”

Col 2:8-12 Take heed lest there shall be any one that makes spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him you are made full (having the fullness of the Godhead), who is the head of all principality and power (the head of the mystical Body of Christ): in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ (the opening of the mystical seed hidden in man); having been buried with Him in baptism, wherein you were also raised with Him (John12:24) through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Rom 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

Rom 7:4-6 Wherefore, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law in commandment, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from that law of commandment, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not the oldness of the letter.]



Gen 2:19-20 The Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.



[Adams first signs of craving or desiring through reasoning or an interest in worldly intelligence the nature of the creature, something more within himself, the spirit of the world is given seed causing a strong draw on him in his flesh, than his normal relationship with God and His love. Here then is a mystery as to the power of mans will and the desire for intelligence or knowledge that caused the tree of knowledge of good and evil to grow. This desire is a flaw of mans will and proves to become his down fall, just as it did the fallen angels who’s evil nature covers the earth in the form of dust. The animals have no ignorance of what concerns them, they have a sensible intuitive knowledge of everything that is required for food, shelter, protection and reproduction and Adam desired this knowledge. It is better known as the knowledge of the world or the spirit of the world. For all natural man sin and death. For the entire animal kingdom, plant kingdom and all nature carries this death of corruption and decay and material breakdown.]



Gen 2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like to himself.



[Woman is mans first line of redemption, for Adams turning from God and His love, to desiring what he saw in the animal kingdom and nature, in the pairs and in the plant life. Woman is mans completion or help meet, being taken from Adam to carry the seed. As man is Christ’s help meet being taken from Him and will be reunited within Him again and the two shall become one flesh.] (Here there is another example of a change in the placement of scriptures, though it does not seem to be much it to does alter our understanding.]



Gen 2:21-23 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.


[Rule of the first is seen here in that He, Elohim, had created man a complete being in himself and therefore is required to take from that which was created to create again, a mystery hid in scripture. A thing that the fallen angels can not do, they are not able to reproduce or regenerate themselves. It is also during this operation that the mystery seed of Christ’s image and likeness is placed dormant within man as it will be required at some future time or epoch. Few of the gentiles and Hebrew children will energize this seed and they will be known as “righteous” men throughout the scriptures. ]



Gen 3:1-7 The serpent was more crafty (subtle, cunning) than any animal of the field which Elohim had made. It said to the woman, is it even so, that God has said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die. The serpent said to the woman, you will not certainly die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as god, knowing good and evil. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.



[The chief angel, Satan, also called the dragon and the beast, that lead the rebellion, who took with him his regiment when thrown out of heaven and fell into the earth. He is the spirit of the world that corrupts everything on it and in it. Questioning the vary word of God and causing doubt, and reasoning [unbelief] that birthed lust in the mind of the woman. The seed of self-will self-love the desire or lust for the things of the bestial nature is given root in mans divine nature again. The eyes of the flesh will be opened and the eyes of the spirit or soul will be closed or veiled in man. Adams free will choice separates him from being a little below the angles, a spiritual being, that God had made him to be, and turns him into the bestial nature of the serpent. He takes on the animal nature of life, temporary as it is in its life to death, in corruption, and is now subject to the worldly spirit and all manor of evil, demonic and makes him a slave to that nature. The nature and character of God and the glory of God dies and becomes a seed within man, this seed then is passed on through woman. The blood is defiled, for the life of man is in the blood. This seed contains all the nature and likeness of God in Christ but requires the operation of God’s power in the fire, light and love, the work of the Holy Spirit and the death of the bestial nature for this seed to come to life again. An action of mans free will of choice, that allows the light of God contained in the word and the Spirit to give life to this seed. As a seed of grain has to have the out ward husk die an break open, this is the evil that sealed the good of God inside of it, it has to die before the ovule can bring forth new life, God in Christ in man again in regeneration. This seed when properly feed on the word of God grows into a large tree that is drawing it’s nourishment from the root which is also Christ held in a mystery. ]



Gen 3:9-13 The Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you Adam? He said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said to him: And who has told you that you are naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? Adam said: “the woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” The Lord God said to the woman: “Why have you done this?” She answered: “the serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”



[The results of mans eating now having the inward knowledge of good and evil and the ability to see Gods hand in all of the creation or nature around him, his spiritual eyes are now closed. All mankind is without excuse for all is revealed to him by nature itself. The second encounter with deception and again the choice is turned to self will above that which was commanded the vary thing that caused Satan to fall in the first place. Now man is the slave of the bestial nature and all of its ugly components, the thing that the earth is made up of; darkness, fire, thickness, death, wrath, disease and all the offspring of them.]



[Eph 2:4-9 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together within Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up within Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. By grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 1Cor 15:22 In Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.



[It should be noted that had Christ not been in all things from the beginning He could not have been allowed to do the works of righteousness in bring redemption to mankind. To redeem or buy back that which was lost of mankind and the earths rule and dominion and taking of the title deed from Satan which is now awaiting the seals to be broken that keep it sealed. Revelations 5:1-9]



Gen 3:14-20 The Lord God said to the serpent: “because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon your breast, belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.” To the woman he said: “I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.” To Adam he said: “because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return.” Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. [now for six thousand years +/-]



[The seed of the devil that is at work in merchandising worldliness and its passions of self will and their evil offspring. The establishing of this covenant and the placement of the seed of redemption to reestablish the Kingdom of God in the soul of man, the way is made for the death of mans selfish will and slavery to all evil in his fallen nature which requires its being dealt with. The promise of a coming redemption for all mankind that will destroy the evil nature that is at work in and through fallen man. God is setting up for the wrath to come in the enmity of the two natures now found in man. One a physical, fleshly, earthy life in sorrow and shame under the lordship of a heavy task master the fear of death and the sting of that death. Man no more having the dominion over creation having lost that to the enemy of God and man, Satan called the dragon and beast. The curse reveals the fallen nature of all created creatures and nature, which has been broken off of God. All have only this consuming fire, which is a part of God, contained in them which are wrath and darkness because the presence of God is removed from them. Adam put out the life light and love of God and put man into the natural nature of the fallen angels and the creatures in this fallen nature, temporary as it is. Man is now the carrier of the seed in his/her soul that will be the destroyer of the power of darkness mans eternal separation from the love and light of God who will bring the truth, the way and the life back into fallen man, his redeemer. Man now carries the spiritual torch awaiting the flame to reignite the fire of eternal life the promise of mans redemption to a spirit being again and the future salvation in which we now hope for.]



[Mat 4:8-10 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'"



2Cor 4:3-5 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.



2Thes 2:7-12 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.



Rom 3:9-11 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.



Rom 3:21-26 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.



The following is Paul’s explanation of the law of sin that is at work in mans flesh, and the requirement of death for the flesh for the awakening of mans spirit and the redemption of the same.



Rom 7:5-25 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members (physical body) to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (the Old Testament and Levitical Law with its ordinances of men). What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet.

    But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. (The Gentiles were out side the law given to Israel but not the commandment of God given to a man in Genesis 2:16-17 as seen above.) For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, (Spoken to Adam and the serpent) which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (How? In Christ on the tree both laws were destroyed and ended in the flesh of the son of man, by revelation.)

    Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (This is the Mosaic Law) Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (The Law of Moses gave no place or room for neither repentance nor forgiveness it required death for disobedience.)

    For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (covet or lust) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

    I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (The Royal Law of loving God with all our soul, body, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves.) but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Here is where he is released from the law of sin and death through his seeing himself in Christ on the tree as it was revealed to him by the Lord. This is found in Galatians 2:19-21: For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.) Here we see another interesting phrase; faith in “the Son of God”, Paul uses this phrase many times in his letters but how did the Lord refer to Himself during His ministry? He used the phrase “Son of man,” this phrase was also used by the Prophets; Job, Daniel, and Ezekiel probably more than all the rest. This can be traced to reference Adam after he sinned. It is this nature “son of man” that was put to death on the cross in the flesh of Christ and in us when we see ourselves on that tree within Christ, as He was within the first man before his fall into the bestial nature. The term is used as a common reference by Christ Jesus to His relationship to natural man while He was in the flesh of man, as the Prophet Ezekiel used it when referring to himself.