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Ärende: Understanding Scripture
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From: Frank@familynet-international.net

From: "Frank" <roines@mindspring.com>

Christ is the key to understanding Scripture. At the Last Supper, Jesus told
his disciples that they were not then ready for the truths that he had for his
people, but that he would show those truths after he returned to heaven:

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. (John
16:12 KJV)

Jesus would show those truths from heaven thru the Spirit:

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all
truth:
for he shall not speak of himself;
but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak:
and he will show you things to come. (verse 13)

The Spirit would show the truth of the Gospel so that the Gospel could be shown
to the world:

And when he is come,
he will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me;
(verses 8-9)

Christ gave the Gospel by revelation to Paul to preach to the nations of the
earth:

But I certify you, brethren,
that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither
received it of man,
neither was I taught it,
but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (Galatians 1:11-12)

The core of that Gospel is
Christ imputing his righteousness to us to give us eternal life:

Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: (Romans
3:22)

Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, (Romans 4:6)

Jesus spoke of the time to come
when his emphasis would be
on his righteousness shown to the world:

Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; (John
16:10)

Christ placed that emphasis
on his righteousness imputed to us
for our salvation thru the Gospel,
when he showed Luther
the meaning of the phrase in Romans 1:17, the righteousness of God, in order to
enable the Protestant Reformation:

For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:17)

As Jesus foretold in John 16 that he would show: Christ is the righteousness
for salvation (verse 10), our Righteous Substitute who reckons his own
victorious righteousness to us as though our own, so that we have eternal life:

Christ is thus the way of salvation, the key to understanding the Gospel and to
understanding the Scriptures, and why people must believe on him in order to be
without sin (verse 9), and why he regards those who believe to have the victory
over evil (verses 11, 33), and why only those that he brings to believe
understand the truth of the Gospel (verse 13), and why he is glorified in the
Gospel (verses 14-16).

Those who do not believe
that Christ saves us by imputing his righteousness to us, do not understand the
way of salvation, the real Gospel, or the Scriptures, or faith, righteousness,
or victory, or Christ himself.
Their interpretation of Scripture
is false, a private interpretation, rather than that given by Christ from
heaven.

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