[Chapter 5-1] Introduction to Romans Chapter 5
The Doctrine of Justification is not the truth
Paul
proclaims by faith in this chapter that only those who believe in God’s
righteousness “have peace with God.” The reason for this is because
Father God made Christ get baptized for us and even made Him shed blood
on the Cross.
However,
we often witness that most Christians today are unable to have peace
with God because they do not have the slightest bit of knowledge on
God’s righteousness. This is the reality of those who believe in today’s
Christianity. Therefore, the Doctrine of Justification is not right
before God.
Obtaining
God’s righteousness by having faith in it is more proper than to
believe in the Doctrine of Justification. Father God did not say that He
would call the believers in Jesus His people even though they possessed
sin in their hearts. God does not accept sinners as His children. God
is not such a Being. He is the Savior who never regards a person
possessing sin in his/her heart as one of His people. The God we believe
in is Almighty. Wouldn’t the omnipotent and omniscient God know about
anyone’s false faith correctly? We should then know and believe that He
does not call a Christian-sinner, who has a false faith, as one of His
people.
Everyone
should be truthful before God. The Doctrine of Justification, which
people falsely know and believe in, is something that ridicules God.
Therefore, we should believe in Jesus as our Savior after correctly
understanding the truth about God’s righteousness. Father God doesn’t
say it’s all right for one to possess sin, regardless of the fact
whether one believes in Jesus or not. He is a Being who definitely
judges a sinner for his/her sin.
Therefore,
in order for you to get your problems of sin solved, you need to know
and believe in God’s righteousness. God will see our faiths in Jesus’
baptism and blood on the Cross and absolve our sins. Because we believe
in God’s righteousness, God calls us His people, embraces us and even
blesses us. Father God acknowledges that our faiths in His righteousness
are right.
God is not an earthly judge
The
faith believing in God’s righteousness is based on the faith of
Abraham, who purely believed in God’s words. Most Christians
misunderstand about the Doctrine of Justification, and thus we need to
have clear understanding of it at this point. You surely know that there
is no such thing as a perfectly correct or right judgment made in any
court in this world. You need to keep in mind that a judge of this world
can always make mistakes in his/her decisions.
The
reason for this is because all human judges are insufficient and even
ignorant of God’s righteousness, which is the absolute criterion of good
and evil. Most Christians are apt to misunderstand God’s righteousness
that judges us “righteous by our faiths” (Romans chapter 5), because
they think His judgment uses the same logic as a sentence passed onto a
sinner by a judge.
The
Doctrine of Justification is a doctrine of misjudgment. It is because
this doctrine was created based on human thought. People are good at
making misjudgments because they are not almighty. Therefore, they
falsely believe in God, who has actually made them righteous, with their
thoughts based on the Doctrine of Justification. This leads them to
believe that God says, “I regard you as sinless because you somehow
believe in me.”
However,
God can never do something like this. People often believe that even
though they possess sin, God still acknowledges them as His people
because they somehow believe in Jesus. This is something based on their
own thoughts and nothing more than a false faith, which is the result of
having been deceived by a demon.
Therefore,
they should rebuild their houses of faith on their faiths in God’s
righteousness. How could the holy and Almighty God judge one who
possesses sin in his/her heart as sinless? Does God decide that those
who possess sin in their hearts are sinless? Thinking and believing that
something like this could be true is nothing more than one’s own human
thought. God is the God of truth and never misjudges. How could God, who
is the Truth itself, make errors in His judgments just as humans do?
This can never happen. God is the righteous God who judges those who
believe in His righteousness as sinless, based on His righteousness.
Do
you know about God’s righteousness? Do you know and believe in His
righteousness? This righteousness can fully be found in the words of the
gospel of the water and the Spirit. In order to comprehend God’s
righteousness talked about in Romans, you should understand and believe
in the gospel of water and the Spirit. You can never comprehend God’s
righteousness without doing so. Everyone should realize this truth. One
who understands God’s righteousness is one who correctly understands the
truth that made him/her righteous.
We
should all believe in God’s righteousness that is revealed in the
Bible, otherwise, your faiths will go astray based on false human
judgments and thought. If you have had this kind of false faith so far,
you should believe according to the words of God’s righteousness from
now on.
Most
Christians have learned the Doctrine of Justification from theology and
have thought it to be true until now. However, you should now return to
the true faith by believing in God’s righteousness. God’s righteousness
is clearly revealed through the faith in the baptism Jesus received
from John and His blood on the Cross.
It is said that tribulation produces perseverance
It
is written in Romans 5:3-4 that, “And not only that, but we also glory
in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and
perseverance, character; and character, hope.” All born-again Christians
have the hope that God will surely save them from all kinds of
tribulations. This hope produces perseverance and perseverance produces
character. Therefore, the righteous, who believe in God’s righteousness,
rejoice even in times of tribulations.
Paul
said that the faith in God’s righteousness hopes for God’s Kingdom and
it does not disappoint the hope. What kind of hope does the righteous
have? They have the hope by which they can enter and live in the Kingdom
of God. Where does this kind of faith come from? It comes from
believing in the righteousness of Jesus Christ through Father God’s
love.
The Lord is saying that we used to be ungodly
“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6).
From
the time before we were conceived, or when we were in our mother’s
wombs, or when we were born but did not know the Lord, we had no other
choice than to commit sins throughout our lives till death and
eventually end up in hell.
When
our ancestors Adam and Eve had sinned, God promised to send us the
Savior saying, “He shall bruise your head, and you (the serpent) shall
bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). According to this promise, Jesus Christ
came to this world, even before we sinned, and saved us from all our
sins. He got baptized by John to take over the sins of the world, and
blotted them out by shedding His blood on the Cross. He eliminated our
sins by His resurrection from death. The Lord took over the sins of
mankind and the sins of the ungodly, such as you and I, through His
baptism and saved believers from all their sins by dying on the Cross.
Are
we godly? A godly person is one who stands in awe of God and keeps
him/herself away from sin. It was the perfect righteousness of God that
allowed Jesus to be baptized for you and I, the ungodly, and was
crucified and then resurrected. It was also God’s love that saved us
when we were still without strength.
Just
like the Israelites’ one-year’s-worth of sins that were passed on to
the sin offering by the imposition of the High Priest’s hands in the Old
Testament (Leviticus 16:20-21), Jesus Christ not only took over all the
sins of mankind at once by getting baptized by John the Baptist, but He
also went to the Cross to be crucified because He was carrying the sins
of the world in the New Testament. God’s righteousness refers to the
fact that Jesus Christ washed away all the sins of sinners by getting
baptized and shedding His blood.
Are
you and I godly? Didn’t the Lord come to save us sinners because we are
ungodly? God knows very well that we are all ungodly. We are ungodly
because we cannot help but to commit sins from the day we are born until
we die. However, by getting baptized by John and shedding His blood on
the Cross, Christ demonstrated His love for us when we were still
sinners.
Jesus has changed our destiny
We
should think about what kind of fate we as humans face, starting from
the day of birth. What were our fates from the day we were born? We were
destined to go to hell. Then how was it possible for you and I to be
saved from this fate of going to hell? Our fates changed because we
believed in God’s righteousness. The truth that changed our fates is the
gospel of the water and the Spirit. Our fates became blessed because we
believed in Jesus Christ, who had completed God’s righteousness.
You
may know the famous verses of the following hymn, “♪Amazing grace! How
sweet the sound, ♫That saved a wretch like me! ♫I once was lost, but now
am found, ♫Was blind, but now I see.♪” God’s mercy and righteousness is
the truth that testifies our salvation. Anyone can get all the sin in
his/her heart forgiven and enjoy heavenly peace when he/she knows and
believes in God’s righteousness. Now everyone in this world who still
possesses sin in their hearts, even though they believe in Jesus should
return to the gospel of the water and the Spirit in order to know God’s
righteousness.
In
fact, Christians who do not know the gospel of the water and the Spirit
are also unaware that their sins have been passed over to Jesus.
Therefore, they are unable to obtain God’s righteousness. Though they
believe that Jesus came to this world and saved them from their sins by
dying on the Cross, they are not sure of their salvation. Thus, they
just feel relieved by vaguely conjecturing that God has probably chosen
them before the creation of the world. In other words, they believe in
Christianity only as if it were merely another religion in the world.
Verse
11 states, “And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation.” Who reconciled us, the sinners, with God? Jesus Christ
reconciled us with the Father. How? By coming to this world Himself,
getting baptized by John the Baptist at the age of 30, being crucified,
then resurrecting from death, thereby completing the work that has
fulfilled all of God’s righteousness. Jesus became our Savior, for
believers in God’s righteousness, by coming to this world as the
heavenly High Priest and taking over the sins of mankind. By getting
baptized by John the Baptist, the earthly High Priest, shedding blood on
the Cross and then resurrecting from death, Christ became our Savior.
Since
Jesus Christ has already eliminated all of our sins, we were able to
obtain God’s righteousness through our faiths. Anyone who believes that
Jesus has absolutely saved us from all our sins will rejoice in God.
Anyone with even the slightest bit of sin in his/her heart is not a
child of God.
You
brethren probably already know that people of this world think the
Doctrine of Justification and the Doctrine of Sanctification are true.
Is it right if God rules that we are sinless if we only say that we
believe in Jesus, even though we have sins in our hearts? Or is it even
more correct to be referred to as God’s people because we just identify
ourselves as Christians?
We
say, “Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name,” in the
Lord’s Prayer. This phrase means that those who possess sins in their
hearts cannot possibly call God ‘Our Father.’ Should we still believe in
the Doctrine of Justification? Can a person who is currently a sinner
call the Lord his/her Savior? He/she may call to the Lord for a couple
of years, but will eventually leave the Lord because he/she
conscientiously feels ashamed to be a Christian. Therefore, you should
know that the Doctrine of Justification will separate you from God’s
righteousness.
The
Doctrine of Sanctification is also wrong. This doctrine says that we
can gradually go through changes until we become perfectly holy at the
last moment before we die and thus, we can meet God as a holy person. Do
you think you can gradually become holy for yourself enough to meet God
without your sins? No way. The truth tells us that one can only enter
God’s Kingdom by knowing and believing in God’s righteousness.
Even though through one man sin entered the world!
Let’s
now read verse 12. “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the
world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because
all sinned.” Through whom did sin enter the hearts of all people and
through how many people did sin enter the world? The Scripture says,
“Through one man sin entered the world.”
In
other words, it is said that sin came to exist because of one man,
Adam, and we are all his descendents. Then through whom did the sins of
the world disappear? It can be said that it happened in the same way sin
first entered the world.
The
sins of mankind came to exist because a man did not believe in the law
God had established. Even now, one who does not believe in God’s words
will remain sinful and end up in hell.
Therefore,
we should know the following. We are not sinners due to our own sins,
but due to our ancestors who possessed sin. You should know that the
reason people sin is because they are weak and have sin in their hearts.
The sin people commit are called iniquities. The reason they sin is
because they are born into this world possessing sin. Because everyone
is deficient and born into this world bearing sin, he/she cannot help
but to commit sins.
We
originally became sinners, the seeds of sin, because we inherited all
the sins from our ancestors. However, you should know that anyone can
become a holy and righteous being at once by believing in God’s
righteousness.
When did sin first start to exist in man?
“For
until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there
is no law” (Romans 5:13). Was there sin before we came to know the law
of God? Before we knew the God’s law, we didn’t understand what was
condemned as a sinful act before God. God told us, “You shall have no
other gods before Me, you shall not make for yourself a carved image─any
likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down
to them nor serve them, you shall not take the name of the Lord your
God in vain, and remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Before
recognizing such laws of God and the 613 clauses of commandments that
tell us what we ‘shall and shall not do,’ we really didn’t know of our
sins.
Therefore,
“For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when
there is no law.” Because we Gentiles did not have the law and thus did
not know it, we committed sins without being aware of it. Most Koreans
have been praying to a rock, thinking it is Buddha, yet they still don’t
realize that they are serving a carved image. They didn’t know that
bowing to other gods was a sin before God.
However,
before the law came about, sin already existed in the world. God gave
us the law about 2,500 years after He created Adam. Even though God gave
the law to the Israelites through Moses approximately 1,450 B.C., sin
had already entered the world through one man, Adam, and came to exist
in the hearts of all people from the beginning, even before the law
came.
Jesus is the Savior of His people
Did
Jesus Christ eliminate all the sins of the world by Himself alone? Yes.
Here in verse 14, it is said that death reigned over those who had not
sinned or committed offenses according to the likeness of Adam’s
transgression. Therefore, Adam was a type of Him who was to come.
Mankind became sinners through one man. Likewise, Jesus Christ came to
this world and saved us from all our sins through the gospel of the
water and the Spirit.
Jesus
became the Savior who saved His people from their sins. There is only
one Savior who saved us, descendents of Adam, from sin. “Nor is there
salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given
among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). His name is Jesus
Christ, our eternal Savior.
We
must understand that we automatically became sinners through one man,
Adam. Do you know that Jesus Christ is the Savior who eliminated the
sins of the world at once? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the
Savior who blotted out all the sins of the world by His baptism and
bloodshed on the Cross all at once? Do you believe that Jesus became the
true Savior of all humanity by eliminating the sins of this world, just
as Adam became the source all sins by committing one transgression?
Jesus
came to this world to save all those who had become sinners due to the
one man, Adam, and took over all the sins of mankind by getting baptized
by John, receiving judgment for the sins on the Cross by shedding His
blood, and fulfilling all of God’s righteousness, which eliminated all
our sins. He thereby became our perfect Savior.
We
did not obtain salvation by believing in the Doctrine of Justification
or the Doctrine of Sanctification after believing in Jesus. Jesus gave
us eternal salvation at once. Jesus said that only those who have been
born again of the water and the Spirit could enter and see God’s
Kingdom.
What
is the fixed idea that exists in the bottom of the human conscience? It
is the principle of causality. They think that deep down in their
thoughts, their efforts and endeavors will work toward salvation
somehow. However, everyone receives true salvation from sin only by
having faith all at once when he/she believes in the gospel of the water
and the Spirit. Moreover, Jesus came to this world and was crucified to
save us from sin. He became the Savior of all those who believe in the
true gospel.
Free
yourself from the unreasonable thought that one can reach
sanctification and eventually become righteous through prayers of
repentance. In the Bible, one Man, Jesus Christ, came to this world, got
baptized to take over all our sins and fulfilled all of our salvation
through His atonement of sins on the Cross.
Jesus gave us the eternal remission of sin that was not like our offenses
Verse 15 states,
“But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s
offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace
of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded too many.”
Have
the sins of you and I been passed onto Jesus when He was baptized? They
have. Jesus went to the Cross carrying the sins of the world and
received judgment for those sins in our place.
God’s salvation is a free gift and it is said to be different from the offense.
Jesus
has saved us, who cannot help but to commit sins throughout our whole
lives, through His baptism and blood on the Cross during His 33 years of
life. Even after we obtain salvation by believing in the remission of
sin that was fulfilled at once, our flesh may continue to sin because it
is insufficient and fragile. Although our flesh still continues to sin,
we can still obtain the eternal remission of sin if we believe in the
fact that Jesus took over all our sins at once by getting baptized and
that He has fulfilled all of God’s righteousness by shedding His blood.
The
gift of salvation of the remission of sin is not like Adam’s offense.
God’s gift of the remission of sin is not granted daily, like the daily
sins people commit. The truth of the remission of sin says that the Lord
has already saved us from all our sins at once by getting baptized and
shedding His blood about 2000 years ago.
God’s
gift of salvation that saved us from all our sins is the righteousness
that was fulfilled at once by Jesus’ baptism and blood on the Cross. The
eternal remission of sins is not like the daily pardoning through
prayers of repentance, which most Christians seek nowadays. This truth
says that the Lord has foreseen that we would sin everyday and has
therefore taken over all the sins of this world at once when He got
baptized. Therefore, Father God fulfilled all of His righteousness by
the Son’s baptism and crucifixion. All of God’s righteousness has been
completed because Jesus got baptized, shed blood on the Cross and was
resurrected.
Nowadays
most Christians believe that their sins get remitted when they offer
prayers of repentance. Is this really true? Certainly not. A person who
thinks that he/she can get his/her sins atoned after murdering someone
by offering prayers of repentance is wrong. This way of thinking is
nothing more than human thought. In order to eliminate the sins on God’s
side, one always needs to pay the wages of the sin. In order to do so,
God made His Son Jesus get baptized by John and He blotted out all the
sins by shedding blood on the Cross. The sins of humanity can be washed
away and eliminated by believing in Jesus’ baptism and blood on the
Cross; not by offering prayers of repentance.
Therefore,
the Bible says, “For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more
the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ,
abounded to many.” God’s gift of salvation overflows. Just as water
overflows when the tap is left running all night, no matter what sins we
have committed, His salvation overflows enough to save us from all our
sins.
Jesus
has taken over all the sins of the world by getting baptized. Also,
because God’s salvation is much greater than the iniquities we have
committed, His salvation is in abundance even after we have been saved.
Is this clear?
Through the one Man, Jesus Christ
Verses 16 and 17 state,
“And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned.
For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation,
but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in
justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the
one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”
Death
has reigned over all of humanity through one man’s offense. This
indicates that a sin of one man, Adam, caused all to be sinners and due
to that sin, everyone needs to face God’s curse. Anyone who has sinned
had to die and go to hell. In a similar sense, God’s righteousness
reigns in life due to the One, Jesus Christ. Those who have received the
overflowing gift of grace and righteousness are those who have been
granted the gift of salvation for their faiths in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. They receive a much greater grace from God, and
will reign in life.
Verse 18 states,
“Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the
free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.”
Here,
we need to ask a question and answer it: “Is it true to think that by
one person’s sin, we have all become sinners?” Have you become sinners
from your own sins, or on account of your ancestor Adam’s offense
against God? If we all have become sinners due to Adam’s offense, then
those who believe in the righteous act Jesus Christ performed to save us
from our sins, become righteous. If one believes in God’s
righteousness, does his/her sin truly get eliminated? ─Yes.─ He/she
becomes sinless.
“Through
Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in
justification of life.” Receiving the free gift of God’s righteousness
does not mean that one has to offer prayers of repentance every day to
reach sanctification, after somehow being saved by believing in Jesus.
Never! Neither does it mean a so-called Christian doctrine of ‘acquiring
justification by faith’ when Paul the Apostle talked about ‘having been
justified by faith.’
Most
Christians have sin in their hearts because they only believe in Jesus’
blood on the Cross. Therefore, they accept and support the Doctrine of
Justification in order to hide the sins in their hearts, while
comforting themselves, “Although there are sins in our hearts, He
considers us to be sinless.” However, this doctrine is preposterous and
shall be cursed.
Verse 19 states, “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.”
Here
appears one who disobeyed and another who obeyed. One was Adam, and the
other One was mankind’s Savior, Jesus Christ. Adam’s disobedience made
all of mankind sinners, and therefore Jesus obeyed His Father’s will to
reconcile people with God by receiving baptism from John, dying on the
Cross for the sins of the world, and resurrecting to save us from our
sins. God the Father made all the believers in Jesus absolutely
righteous through His righteousness.
Verse 20 states, “Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.”
It
is said that the law entered to add to our iniquities. As a descendant
of Adam, people are originally born with sin, yet they haven’t known of
sin even while sinning. Without the law, one does not realize a sin to
be a sin at all, and only through God’s law one came to see his/her
sins. However, when we came to know the law, we started realizing our
sins more and more. Even though people were originally full of sins,
they didn’t know about their sinfulness until they came to gradually
realize their sinful deeds after receiving the law. Therefore the Bible
states, “The law entered that the offense might abound.”
“But
where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” This means that through
God’s law, one realizes his/her sins and becomes His child by believing
in His righteousness. Mankind can realize God’s grace through the true
gospel that contains God’s righteousness only when they become aware of
their shortcomings and sinfulness through the law. Those who are well
aware of their sins before the law acknowledge that they are meant to
end up in hell, and therefore, with greater gratitude, believe in Jesus,
who has saved them through His baptism and death on the Cross. The more
we realize our sinfulness through the law, the more grateful we become
for the establishment of such a great salvation by God’s righteousness.
Verse 21 states,
“So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through
righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
It
is said in the Bible that sin reigned in death. However, God’s grace
that consists of the water and blood of Jesus is of His righteousness.
Because His righteousness has completely saved us from all our sins, we
have become God’s children.
The
Doctrine of Sanctification and the Doctrine of Justification are
nonsensical hypotheses that were made of human logic and created by
those who ignore God’s words. It is not too much to say that such
doctrines are no more than the sophistries of philosopher-theologians,
which can never be unraveled. God’s truths are clear and solid.
We
are saved from the sins of the world by believing in the fact that
Jesus, who is God in the likeness of human flesh, has saved us from all
our sins. Those who have faith in Him are saved. Do you believe in this?
─Yes.─
If
you believe in God’s righteousness, you are saved. You are definitely
delivered and saved from all your sins. If you insist that endlessly
offering prayers of repentance and living a flawless life to reach
sanctification can save you, then you are stubbornly persisting that you
can be saved without Jesus. Jesus is the only gateway towards
salvation, no matter what deceptions the Doctrine of Sanctification
teaches about being able to be saved by one’s own deeds and efforts,
regardless of the truth.
Being
unable to carry out even 0.1% of the law is the same as being unable to
carry out 100%. God tells us that we are unable to obey even 0.1% of
His laws. Those who think they are carrying out approximately 5% of the
law and plan to raise it to 10% in the course of time are completely
ignorant of their own abilities, and are standing against God’s
righteousness. Do not try to understand God’s righteousness with your
own conception and logic. His righteousness has saved us from our sins
and awaits us to believe in it so that we can become His children.
God
is almighty and merciful, so He has saved us with His righteousness at
once. We give thanks to God for Jesus’ baptism and blood on the Cross,
which absolutely saved us from all our sins.
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