Why would anyone ever want to be forgiven, which means to be found guilty of the crime and then pardoned. When they could have instead justification, which means you are declared not guilty, no crime committed. When the meaning of biblical words are confused, or they are considered equal with each other, the glorious gospel truths are made a mystery to the masses.
This crime is further perpetrated in the words belief and faith. Belief is not faith, and faith is not belief. Faith is the gift of God. It is seeing Christ Jesus and the finished works, and you and him finished and made whole. Faith is the byproduct of the word of God, and the byproduct of faith is belief.
When one understands the original intention that was spoken by Elohim in the very beginning (The Logos), they have been given faith. When faith comes into one’s soul, the conception of belief is made. Belief is the response to faith. Belief and faith are not the same thing.
Let’s look at another Christian word receive and the false concepts that surround it. Many believe that when they receive faith and salvation it is about work out of their own-selves. In other words, THEY out of their own choice receive. This is not only prideful, but it is a very devious error.
Let me give you an example. I can receive something without choice. Let’s take the organs of my body, did I choose to receive my heart and lungs? No, I received them without a choice. Some would have us believe that we need to receive Jesus by our choice in order for salvation to be effective. This is not true. Salvation is effective because we receive Jesus Christ as a gift of God, just like our organs are a gift of God.
As long as these errors are prevalent within the body, many will falsely believe that they have to obtain their own salvation. When salvation was obtained by Jesus Christ’s faith in the righteousness of his father. It is in this faith that we are contained, and have our salvation. It is in Jesus Christ’s that we give glory to God, and make no effect the self-righteousness of the Christian religion‘s idea of self salvation for Jesus Christ is the author – which means originator, and the finisher – which means the one who completed, our faith.
By Apostle G Maitland
www.hisimageministry. org
The Scripture:
“Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God is manifest (being attested by the law and the prophets), yet a righteousness of God through Jesus Christ’s faith, for all, and on all who are believing, for there is no distinction, for all sinned and are wanting of the glory of God. 24 Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus” Roman 3:21-23
“Now to the worker, the wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as a debt. Yet to him who is not working, yet is believing on Him Who is justifying the irreverent, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.” Romans 4:5
For if Abraham was justified by his acts, he has something to boast in, but not toward God. For what is the Scripture saying? `Now Abraham believes God and it is reckoned to him for righteousness’” (Rom.4:2,3).
“Now the Scriptures perceiving before that God is justifying the nations by faith, preached an evangel to Abraham before, that `In you shall all the nations be blessed.’ So that those of faith are being blessed together with believing Abraham” (Gal.3:8,9).
“Being justified gratuitously by His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus (Whom God purposed for a Propitiatory, through faith in His blood, for a display of His righteousness because of the passing over of the penalty of sins which occurred before in the forbearance of God) toward the display of His righteousness in the Current era, for Him to be just and the Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus” (Rom.3:24-26).
“Being, then, justified by faith, we may be having peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we have had the access, also, in faith, into this grace in which we stand, and may be glorying in expectation of the glory of God” (Rom.5:1,2).
Therefore it is of faith that it may accord with grace, for the promise to be confirmed to the entire seed, not to those of the law only, but to those also of the faith of Abraham, who is father of us all, 17 according as it is written that, A father of many nations have I appointed you ‐‐ facing which, he believes it of the God Who is vivifying the dead and calling what is not as if it were ‐‐ Romans 4:16-17
“One knowing no sin, He makes sin for our sakes that we should be becoming God’s righteousness in Him” (2 Cor.5:21)
“Now the just by faith shall live” (Rom.1:17)
