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“In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” – Colossians 1:14 LIGHT FOR NOW: God didn’t go soft on sin; He made the absolute overpayment with His blood. Apostle Peter, in his epistle explained that we were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold, but with the preciousContinueContinue reading “PAID IN FULL (2)”

“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin…” – Isaiah 53:10 LIGHT FOR NOW: it is not the confession of sin that saves a man. Colossians 2:13-14 (NIV) says, “He forgave us all our sin, having cancelled the chargeContinueContinue reading “PAID IN FULL (1)”

“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference”- Romans 3:21 LIGHT FOR NOW: The greatest miracle happens when aContinueContinue reading “EXPLAINING THE DOCTRINE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (7)”

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” – Hebrews 2:14 LIGHT FOR NOW: The greatest miracle happens when a man believes the Gospel. The wordContinueContinue reading “EXPLAINING THE DOCTRINE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (6)”

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in itContinueContinue reading “EXPLAINING THE DOCTRINE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (5)”

“Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed”- Galatians 3:7-8 LIGHT FOR NOW: Righteousness through faith was not an afterthought. AccordingContinueContinue reading “EXPLAINING THE DOCTRINE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (4)”