WHAT DO YOU CELEBRATE IN CHRISTMAS SEASON? - A MESSAGE OF CHRIST'S INCARNATION

By : Bishop Albert B. Gran

AN EXPOSITION OF ROMANS 8:1-4

Romans 8 King James Version (KJV)

8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

How many of us contemplated the essence of our present position before God as free from condemnation due to the fact as we were declared "IN CHRIST JESUS". Had you not also contemplated as to the sense TO THEM "which are" instead of "who are" IN CHRIST JESUS. Paul here has pointed out a particular group or collective body of believers which are in placed under God's recent plan in the dispensation of grace, the called out Body of Christ members. It is good to understand however, that being in Christ, our present relative status as collective Body of believers "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" is not something  WE DID OR WE WANT TO DO TO OBTAIN, but it's something AFTER THE SPIRIT which indicate a truth to be known about the things of the Spirit of God for our spirit. Those that which categorically belonged to the BOC had known over the information as to the essence of God's plan regarding Christ's redemptive work:    

"God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:"

As recipient of today's spiritual blessings of God in heavenly places (who were Gentiles by nature as called to be) our understanding of Christ's relative purpose in coming to earth in view of our application in attaining blessedness is a kind of mystery because it specializes a very special purpose how a sinner today both Jew and Gentile fight against his lost condition by simply believing the knowledge of Christ's incarnation which intensify to SOLVE SIN ISSUE. Our being blessed today in Christ's incarnation is not something how Christ fulfill the prophecy in accordance to the law and the prophets but significant to GOD'S PLAN FOR SIN WHICH THE LAW COULD NOT DO IN TIME PAST. Condemning sin through His death, burial, and resurrection emancipates justification and freedom from condemnation. In the prophetic truth of God's plan over the ages, he himself also declared Israel's salvation through His death however it's relative salvation for their hope in the earthly kingdom and for atonement of sins. They only found atonement of sins when they reside in the kingdom of God while we today, in the present dispensation of grace had this truth:

Romans 5:11King James Version (KJV)

11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE ATONEMENT.

It is after the closing of the dispensation of the grace when God shall restore national Israel and turn away the ungodliness of Jacob as relative to national salvation for the establishment and restoration of the kingdom. This is where the accounts of the book of Hebrews- Revelation take place.

 Romans 11:25-26King James Version (KJV)

25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER, and SHALL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB:

While the Body of Christ members today joy with our atonement through the GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD, the national Israel shall wait the SOLUTION OF THEIR SIN ISSUE or THE UNGODLINESS OF JACOB (denoting national Israel) after this DISPENSATION OF GRACE.

When you connect yourself to who Christ is for the nation of Israel and claims your blessedness intended for their promised blessing, then relatively you missed the essence of your recent benefit supposed that you should and supposedly know through rightly dividing the word of truth.

To intensify the relative purpose of Christ's incarnation in application for us today, it is expressed in simple understanding: IT'S ALL ABOUT SIN ISSUE FOR ALL LOST PEOPLE TODAY WITHOUT DISTINCTIONS.
 

2 Cor. 5:21
21 For he hath MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, who knew no sin; that WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.
  
WHAT INDICATES A BELIEF OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS?

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
What every lost person in this world must recognize is TO KNOW WHAT IS THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. The SPIRIT OF LIFE in other words can only be found in Christ Jesus. It is a SPIRIT OF LIFE because IT'S NOT ABOUT OUR FLESH OR SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS HOW TO HAVE A GOOD ETERNAL LIFE. It is SPIRIT because it is about a knowledge or an information prepared by God for our benefit which he delivered to us today through the GOSPEL specifically delivered by Paul for us. This gospel absolutely solve our sin-nature, as being condemned and eternally lost.

Self-righteousness is against the principle of God's giving of the Spirit of life. It's simply battling against God when having dependence of your own act of meritorious effort. Your resources are spent to unthinkably do a dung thing against the wholesome plan of God for providing you a gift of the LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS. Having made so, instead of finding solution of your sin by THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, indeed you do a dung thing to resolve it by THE LAW OF THE FLESH.    

A CONCLUSION TO TUNE IN TO THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS

Perfect and sublime faith comes only believing GOD'S PLAN OF SALVATION. What effort man needs to do is to study God's word and believe the purpose of Christ's incarnation today which is to REDEEM US FROM ALL OUR SINS.

3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Grace and Peace!