Different Types of Salvation
All is of grace and all is of faith.
I've had other people on other Forums try to justify themselves by quoting the sins of the Old Testament. Saying, mostly David, was a murderer, and committed fornication.
What they did not realize, that these people, the OT Saints had a harder job to try to keep from sinning than those that are 'born again' because they did not have the Holy Ghost
DWELLING in them. Because the Holy Ghost as we know it today
had not yet been given.
One lady told me that the OT Saints got saved the very same way that people do today. Meaning grace and faith.
Well we know that it takes Faith, as well as Obedience, and then by God's Grace (it's not our grace) we are saved.
Noah believed God and because he was also Obedient, built the Ark,
Abraham, believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness. But not only did he believe, but was obedient, even to sacrificing his son, if it had been necessary. These were saved by Faith and Obedience. Without Obedience they would not have been saved.
Moses believed and brought Israel out of Egypt, because he was obedient. Then delivered to them the Law. After that, the only way to be saved, was to have faith and be obedient to the Law. Which was impossible Because,
One---they were not born again.
Two---The Priests added so many
MAN-MADE LAWS, that it was impossible to keep them.
The Law was the only means of salvation until the Cross.
What about those that believed John and Jesus during the 3.5 yrs. of Jesus's ministry? We'll get to that later.
Jesus didn't come to destroy the Law, but to fulfill it.
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Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled
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When was it fulfilled? When Jesus cried with a loud voice,
IT IS FINISHED. The Law was finished. We are told, when He cried, the Temple Vial was torn from top to bottom. History tells us that the Priests knew the meaning of the Vial being torn at the same time that Jesus cried out and at the same time that He died. And quickly sewed the Vial back together and tried to hush it up and continued on as if nothing had happened.
Any sacrifice after that was a slap in the face to Jesus. The sacrifices And Rituals of the Law were no longer in effect. There is only one mode of Salvation at a time.
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Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second
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At the same time that Jesus took away the first, The Law, because He fulfilled it, by becoming the Lamb slain, the last sacrifice, He established the Second---the New Covenant.
TO BE CONTINUED
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