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Today, I thought we would explore some verses that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out.
Many overlook the power of just how powerful this verse is.
I mean, it literally cancels out a sundry of verses.
And our hope is that this study will help someone step away from religianity and come to terms with the fact that in this current dispensation, there is no such thing as conditional forgiveness.
There's no such thing going on with God today.
His forgiveness is not conditional, nor is it future.
His forgiveness was without condition and is past tense.
On the authority of 2nd Corinthians 5:19, we can confidently say that.
No one's sins stand between them and God because he stopped charging them to the world at Christ's expense.
God's Riches At Christ's Expense.
That's GRACE.
God the Father charged our sins to the account of His Son, but the reason some still remain religious is no one ever told them about this good news.
Sure, they may reject it anyway, but they can't reject what they've never heard.
2 Corinthians 5:19, now watch this, 2 Corinthians 5:19 totally cancels out 1 John 1:9.
Watch here how what Paul wrote counteracts what John wrote.
1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The implication here is that confession is needed first before God forgives.
Conditional forgiveness is what this is.
Forgiveness based upon the condition of confessing.
That's not grace.
Grace comes without a condition and gives us nothing to do to merit forgiveness.
And this is something we find extremely sad that those with a religianity mindset just can't seem to grasp this.
No one told them that 2nd Corinthians 5:19 also cancels out Acts 2:38, one of the most popular verses among Christianity today.
Addressing the Acts 2:14, Ye men of Judaea, and all the that dwelleth at Jerusalem, Peter, he said, Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Why, Peter?
For the remission of sins.
If Peter popped up preaching this today, he'd be out of order.
He'd be a part of the some that trouble you that Paul mentioned in Galatians 1:7.
Those who pervert the gospel of Christ.
That's what Peter would be doing.
Now he's not because he didn't preach.
He's not here preaching this today.
This is not a but now, time-present message.
Peter wasn't out of order because he preached this in time past when it was relevant.
The apostle Peter preached the perfect gospel for his audience.
His audience was not Paul's audience.
You and I are not the ye men of Judea and all that dwell at Jerusalem. And Brother Paul tells us that those sins Peter wanted to put in remission aren't even being imputed anymore.
It's amazing what rightly dividing will do for us.
No one bothered to tell modern-day religianity that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Psalm 32:5.
Here we read, I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Once again, conditional forgiveness.
David doing something, followed by him receiving forgiveness.
Conditional forgiveness based on his doing.
Not our mail.
No one told modern-day religianity that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Mark 1:4.
In Mark 1:4, John did baptize in the wilderness, and he preached the baptism of repentance for what?
Same thing Peter did in Acts 2, for the remission of sins.
See, in time past, water baptism wasn't conditional, but mandatory for forgiveness.
2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Matthew 6:12 and verses 14 and 15.
Matthew 6:12, And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
Now the we here is not you.
It's not me.
This was an earthly kingdom principle.
To receive forgiveness, they had to first give it.
That's conditional.
2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out Acts 3:19 and Acts 10:43.
Acts 10:43, check this out, To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
When we just pay attention to grammar, we notice that this is straight-up conditional forgiveness, clearly based on the condition of having to believe first.
Another one of the many verses that 2 Corinthians 5:19 cancels out.
This is extraordinary.
2 Corinthians 5:19 tells us that God stopped imputing sins unconditionally and doesn't require our belief.
No need to dodge these verses.
Just open the book and face them head-on.
How do you do that?
You learn to rightly divide the word of truth.
What about the ever-so-popular, 2 Chronicles 7:14?
A very popular verse used every year at the annual National Day of Prayer.
It's an event that happens all across the country.
2 Chronicles 7:14, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Now, why would we have to pray, Seek his face and turn from our sins for future forgiveness?
When Paul says our sins are not being charged, not being imputed.
Just what non-charged, non-imputed sins, can God forgive?
I submit that the answer is none.
Not one non-imputed sin can God forgive.
That makes zero sense.
The psalmist David wrote in Psalm 86:5, For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive.
On this side of the cross, my friend, on this side of the cross, and in line with what was revealed to our Apostle Paul, concerning forgiveness, the Lord is not ready to forgive anything.
I can promise you that.
It's impossible to forgive what he's not imputing.
Please get that established in your thinking.
This non-imputing the world's sins mystery, wasn't known by the psalmist David, nor was it known by the prophet Isaiah.
And that's why in Isaiah chapter 55, he wrote, Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
How do we know this isn't for us today?
It's impossible for the Lord to pardon a sin he's not charging.
We can't emphasize this enough.
Either our Bible makes sense, or it contradicts itself.
Grab James, grab James chapter 5.
James chapter 5.
Here we are today, putting forth an abundance of verses, all proving that forgiveness of sins is no longer conditional and future, but rather unconditional and past.
James 5:15, And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.
Now watch, And if he have committed sins, shall be forgiven him.
Starting to get this?
Find that in Paul's epistles.
You can't.
Paul has zero verses explaining how to get sins forgiven.
Zero.
For those who claim that James wrote doctrine to the church, the body of Christ, riddle me this.
How can God forgive non-imputed sins?
Just what does that look like?
Draw me a picture please.
2 Corinthians 5:19, now that's our mail.
That's in our mailbox.
That's addressed to us.
It cancels out the need for the Catholic sacrament of reconciliation.
Yes, it does.
No need to visit a priest in that dark confessional booth.
Right?
If God stopped imputing sins, then that also cancels out another verse.
It cancels out the Lord's prayer, the so-called Lord's prayer.
In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, After this manner, therefore pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us, (this is future), forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Future forgiveness because he hasn't died for the sins of the world.
No, he's standing there before them.
He's very much alive.
He hasn't shed his blood on the cross, and this mystery hasn't been revealed to our apostle, the apostle Paul.
Therefore, their forgiveness is conditional and it is future.
Yours is neither.
This cannot be, if you're thinking with a sound mind, this cannot be
what your forgiveness hinges on.
On how well you do at forgiving your debtors.
Jesus wasn't talking to us and he doesn't address us until he does so through Paul.
God, having stopped imputing sins to the world, cancels out Luke 6:37, Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. Condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
Future.
Conditional.
Conditional on you forgiving.
Forgive and ye shall be forgiven is not written to you.
Can't be.
Shall be forgiven should not be in the vocabulary of anyone daring to call themselves a mid-acts grace teacher.
Shall be forgiven, can be forgiven, may be forgiven.
None of these belong in your mailbox.
God's not forgiving sins during the current dispensation of his grace, and I can't believe.
Sometimes it's just really, it just really baffles me of how hard this is for some to get.
2 Corinthians 5:19 totally cancels out Mark 11:25, And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any, that your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.
Hebrews.
Let's go there.
Let's go there and get chapter 8.
Chapter 8, the book of Hebrews.
Look at verse 12, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
See the future lingo here.
The future tenses.
This is not your Pauline mid-acts dispensational good news.
This is God making Israel a promise to forgive their sins in time future when he establishes a new covenant with them.
Has nothing to do with you.
And it's why the next verse says, A new covenant.
He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Shall be forgiven, can be forgiven, may be forgiven, I will forgive.
None apply to you and I.
Future grace, future new covenant, future born again, future forgiveness, enduring unto the end.
These all belong to the little flock of Israel, and the quicker you submit to this truth, the quicker you can start enjoying your grace life.
As you've heard me say before, it's not what can wash away my sins, it's what has washed away my sins.
It's not he forgives and forgets, it's he forgave and he forgot.
We cannot continue to look through the limited lenses of men.
We have to see ourselves, we have to see our condition as God sees us.
Regardless of what limited forgivers teach, forgiveness doesn't occur when we do something.
No, Romans 5:10 clears this up for us.
Watch, For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son.
Is that hard?
When did God reconcile us?
When we were enemies.
God doesn't wait until we become part of the family of God to forgive us.
He stopped imputing our sins when we were yet his enemies.
Now that's an awesome God.
Future conditional forgiveness is common protocol for religianity.
Making it future keeps you in that circular reasoning bubble, keeps you there on the treadmill seeking something you already have.
That's what keeps folks living in a constant state of instability.
Religianity never offers assurance or certainty about your forgiveness.
It's the old dangling the carrot routine, where they offer a way to obtain the unattainable.
A method to keep you coming back to them.
But the dangling carrot is always just a little out of your reach.
You never know if you've done enough.
Did I ask enough?
Did I confess enough?
Did I ask the right way?
Did I say the right words?
Do I believe enough?
Here's a passage, here's another passage in Romans chapter 5 that should make it easy for us all.
Listen, verse 12, Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned.
Verse 13, watch, For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed.
Catch that.
Sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Is there law today?
There's your answer.
Have you ever heard anything more wonderful?
Sin is not imputed when there is no law.
And Paul says there is no law.
Romans 6:14.
Which means, sin is not imputed.
Pretty simple, huh?
So if you die and wind up in hell, you can't blame God for being there.
He took away the law, which took away the sin that would have sent you to hell.
Given you every advantage he possibly can to spend all eternity with him.
He reconciled himself to the world, but because of unbelief, some have failed to reconcile themselves to him.
If you haven't already, this may be a great time to step away from religianity and come to terms with, there is no such thing as conditional future forgiveness in this dispensation.
Rest your faith in him by believing the gospel.
At this very moment, you can make a conscious, intentional decision to believe that God made Christ to be sin for you.
He died for your sins, he was buried, and he resurrected.
Believe this, and God will give you the righteousness that will justify you.
Grace and peace.
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