The Reason for Forgiveness

     Is.59:1-2(Amp) says, "Behold, the Lord's Hand is not shortened at all, that it cannot save, nor His ear dull with deafness, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear you."

     We were not sinners, because of what we did.  We were sinners, because of our birth.  When Adam fell, he took all were born of his seed (all of mankind) with him.  The seed of Adam polluted everyone, because of his transgression, causing us to be born into sin and death.  God had to have a new Seed, in order to produce a new creation.

     Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense), death reigned through that one, much more surely with those who receive God's overflowing Grace (unmerited favor), and the FREE GIFT of righteousness (putting them in right standing with Himself), reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."  We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're new creations by the Word of God.  2Cor.5:17,19(Amp) tells us, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ, the Messiah, he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual creation has passed away. BEHOLD, THE FRESH AND NEW HAS COME."  Verse 9 goes on, "It was God Personally present in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against men their trespasses, but cancelling them and committing to us the Message of reconciliation (the restoration to favor)."

     With the new creation man, comes the Gift of God to be reconciled back to Himself, as though we never existed before we were saved.  Most of us believed that when we were saved, we were cleansed of sin, which means we're going to Heaven when we die.  This is Truth, and a wonderful Truth, but that's not all we have received in our new birth.

     John3:16(Amp) tells us there's more about this new birth, than we've been taught. Thus it says, "For God so greatly Loved and greatly prized the world that He even gave up His Only Begotten, Unique Son, so that whosoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him, shall not perish (come to destruction), be lost, but shall have Eternal, Everlasting Life."  For most of us, this means just that we'll live forever with God, but Jesus explains what Eternal Life is in John17:3(Amp), saying, "And this is Eternal Life, it means to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the real God, and likewise, to know Him, Jesus, as the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent."

     We remember Adam mostly for his great transgression in the Garden, that put all of us outside of a relationship with God. One of the great things about Adam was that he "knew" God and walked with Him every day.  How long did Adam walk with God, before satan talked him into transgressing?  We don't know how long he lived in the Garden, before losing dominion or even why he transgressed.

     I'd like to believe that Adam did so, because of his love for Eve.  Adam was after all, born out of the Love of God and this might have been his motive.  Adam didn't taste of the "forbidden fruit" out of deception.  1Tim.2:14(Amp) tells us that Eve was deceived, but Adam wasn't.  Thus it says, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression."

     Adam and Eve walked with and knew intimately knew God as their Father, before their transgression.  The didn't have to read about Him, because they knew Him as Father.  The greatest thing about the new birth has been missed by so many of God's children.  We've been restored back to our own Heaven Father, in such a way as to know Him and to know Jesus.  We can now come into His Presence through a personal relationship.  He can now come into our presence, because sin can't hold Him back from us.

     Prior to Jesus, if all of God's Holiness and Righteousness, came into contact with the sin of fallen man, it would have completely destroyed mankind.  God was so intent to have His family back, but He needed to do it in such a way that wouldn't destroy them.  Jesus paid for our sins and death by His Sacrifice, so now anyone who accepts Him as our payment, will be restored to the innocence Adam and Eve had before the fall.  We have the privilege, honor and God-given right to once again know Him.

     We can now enter into the Holy of Hollies, coming face to face and spirit to Spirit, as His Own children.  We've been restored to His family.  There's no barrier or sin to hold Him back or to hold us back.  This isn't true just in prayer, but in actual fellowship and in conversation and Revelation of His will and knowledge.  We can walk hand in Hand with our Heavenly Father, as His children.  Religion has separated us again, but Truth is being revealed, so we're returning with boldness and confidence, to knowing Him as Father.