Forgiveness Pt.3
PSALM 103:1-5
1 ¶ A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
(Notice - forgiveness and healing are placed together)
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
HEBREWS 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Forgiveness Pt.3
Subject - The Second Time Without Sin unto Salvation
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E-61 …Forgive our sin of unbelief, which is the original and only sin.
Unbelief of the word of God is the only sin – it was the original sin and is still the only sin – all the manifestations of sickness and evil and death come from the root cause of unbelief of the word.
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E-26 …But look. But in the phase we got today, the best doctors we ever had. Do you believe that? We got the best hospitals we ever had. Have we? We got the best drugs we ever practiced with, haven't we? And we got more sickness than we ever had, haven't we? Because we got more unbelief that we ever had, haven't we?
Notice – Physical sickness and mental sickness is directly connected to unbelief of the word, and sin is also connected to unforgiveness – “forgive us our sins AS we forgive those that trespass against us”, in other word, our sins remain if we do not forgive others. The way we forgive others is the same way that God will forgive us. That is why that when we forgive others, it brings healing to ourselves.
But if we don’t forgive others, then our sin remains and our sickness also remains because sin is what causes sickness.
MATTHEW 9:1-7
1 ¶ And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.
2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
7 And he arose, and departed to his house.
This same account is also told in Mark and Luke – it is showing us that forgiveness and healing of the body are connected together.
**We showed last week in the story of the man that was forgiven of ten thousand talents (Nine billion dollars, or 160,000 years of working with no holidays), that act of forgiveness toward him should have affected him in such a way that it should have put an empathy into his character that would have caused him to have the same feeling for his fellow man that owed him money. But because he lacked that inward character, he ended up back under the same bondage of debt that he had before he had been forgiven of the 10,000 talents, all because he lacked the character and failed to have empathy and forgive his fellow man in the same way that he was forgiven.
MATTHEW 18:35
35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
This is very a serious reality. We must forgive in order to be forgiven, because these things are all connected with our own deliverance or bondage.
COLOSSIANS 2:13
13 ¶ And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
God has forgiven us of all our sin debt, and that should put an appreciation in us and cause us to also forgive others.
Opening scripture
PSALM 103:1-5
1 ¶ A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Pulpit Commentary on PSALM 103:5
….The meaning is, not "is renewed as an eagle's youth is," for an eagle's youth is not renewed; but "so that thy youth is renewed, and is become in its strength like an eagle."
We know that the eagle is what represents this end time age anointing which is the spirit of revelation of the word under an end time prophetic ministry.
So we are living in the eagle age with an eagle strength revelation, and we know that it is this higher level of revelation and faith that will bring about the full redemption of our bodies and literally turn us back young again.
**After the visitation of God in the form of human flesh to Abraham, we find that the secret to bring about the promise to them was that Abraham and Sarah’s youth was to be renewed.
That is showing us that in this day after the visitation of God appearing to us in the form of human flesh though the ministry of a prophet (a son of man {William Branham} revealing thee son of man {Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever}), after that visitation, we also have the promise of God to be restored back to our youth again – When? After his appearing the second time, not at his first coming but at his second coming.
HEBREWS 9:7
7 But into the second (that’s the inner room of the Holiest of Holies) went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
On the surface, it appears that the high priest goes into the Holiest of Holies only one time on that day for both himself and for the sins of the people, but he actually goes in twice - once for himself the first time, and the second time for the sins of the people, and so it is on his second appearance that his work is completed.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
By "once in the year" we must of course understand on one day of the year, viz., the tenth day of Tisri. On that day, according to Leviticus 16, it was the duty of the high priest to enter the Holy of Holies twice: (1) with the incense and with the blood of the bullock, his own sin-offering (Leviticus 16:12-14); (2) with the blood of the same bullock and that of the goat, the sin-offering for the people (Hebrews 9:15-19).
LEVITICUS 16:11-15
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
HEBREWS 9:24-28
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
***When the high priest appeared the first time from the Holiest of Holies, that was the evidence that he was accepted and that the sacrifice had been accepted by God and that he could now act as a mediator for the sins of the people, then he goes in the second time again with blood and sprinkles the alter seven times (a type of the seven church ages), and this time it is for the sins of the ignorance of the people, and now when he appears the second time from the Holiest of Holies, his appearance is the evidence of the complete work and acceptance and salvation of the people.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
…the end of his first appearance was to obtain salvation for his people (remember that the high priest could not represent the people without first being accepted himself. When Jesus rose from the dead the 3rd day, that was his first appearance after the sacrifice had been made and the blood had been shed and accepted by God. His appearance the first time proved that he was accepted as our high priest to represent us on behalf of our sins), and he has obtained it, and there is a comfortable application of it made unto them by the Spirit of God; but the full possession of it will be hereafter, and into this will Christ put them, when he shall appear… the second time without sin unto salvation = to bring in completed salvation; redeeming then the body which is as yet subject to the bondage of corruption.
How is the body redeemed in this hour? – It is turned back young again.
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96-7 {194} John hadn't noticed this Lamb before, you know here. He hadn't been mentioned before. Nowhere had it been mentioned. John didn't see It all over the heavens as he's looking, but here It come forth. Notice, where It came forth... Where did It come from? It come from the Father's throne where He had been seated since He had been slain and raised again. He raised up and set on the right hand of God, ever living to make intercessions. Amen. Raised there today as an Intercessor with His own Blood to make intercession upon the ignorance of the people.
Notice that it was for the ignorance of the people… Now we can understand that all these Old Testament shadows and types and rituals were pointing us too, it was all revealing the future work of Christ, and it was all pointing to this hour, to his second appearing that has been unfolding to us since 1963.
ROMANS 8:34
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Luther sinned in ignorance when he was baptising in the titles of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Wesley did the same – but God winked at their ignorance because his prophet hadn’t come yet to restore the truth back again.
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112-2 {303} Talk about a happy time when them Seals broke... John must've looked in and seen a past the curtain of time and said, "There's John." Oh, he was so happy. He said, "Everything in heaven." He must've really cried out, didn't he? "Everything in heaven, everything in the earth, everything beneath the earth, every creature, and everything else, heard me saying, 'Amen, blessings and glory and wisdom, and power, and might, and riches belongs to him. Amen.'"
112-3 {305} Why? When the revelation come that the Lamb, the Redeemer, our Kinsman had come back from the throne of mediatorial and had walked out here to take His possession.
The first seven chapters of Leviticus deal with the five major Levitical sacrifices.
The Burnt offering
The Meal offering
The Peace offering
The Trespass offering
And the Sin offering
Each of these sacrifices were showing the one great sacrifice and atonement of the blood of Christ - they were all fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
LEVITICUS 4:1-3
1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
Commentary notes…
Unintentional and or unconscious sins (sins done in ignorance) were difficult to identify and could happen at any time, and therefore the priests worked closely as mediators with God and the people and were there to instruct the people as they sought the Lord.
In case any sins were not brought before the Lord and dealt with by these other sacrifices, there was the sin offering once a year that were offered for the high priest and for the entire people of the nation which covered them all in a collective way. On the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the high priest sprinkled blood on the mercy seat for his own sins first and then the second time for the sins of the nation.
HEBREWS 9:28
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
What is this appearing of Christ for in these last days? He has appeared the second time without sin unto salvation proving that we are completely accepted and that all of our sins have been forgiven and that the work is complete and now He can bring a full deliverance to wit the redemptions of our bodies by turning us (who have truly seen his appearing) back young again like God did with Abraham and Sarah after He appeared to them in the form of human flesh.
I THESSALONIANS 4:15-18
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord (His second appearing when he shall appear the second time without sin unto full deliverance of the redemption of our bodies) shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first (why? – because the work is now finished, redemption is complete):
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
PSALM 103:3-5
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.