{"id":879,"date":"2020-05-17T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2020-05-17T14:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:27:52","slug":"the-way-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/17\/the-way-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way to God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cMy little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous<\/strong>\u201d
1 John 2:1 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following is an excerpt from \u201cThe Biblical Path of Life: Year One Quarter Two.<\/a>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGod has\nrevealed himself gradually through the years. Hebrews 1:1-2a: \u20181.\nGod, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the\nfathers by the prophets, 2a. Hath in these last days spoken unto us\nby his<\/em> Son \u2026<\/strong>\u2019 (remember that Hebrews 1:1 refers to the incremental\nand progressive manner in which God disclosed Himself up until the appearance\nof the Son. It was fragmentary and piece by piece, sort of like pieces of a\npuzzle). We see him as the God of creation in Genesis 1. We then see he is a\nGod who cannot look upon sinful man in Genesis 3. We see that there is a limit\nto his tolerance of sinful man in Genesis 6 (the flood that destroys the\nworld), yet we also see that God shows grace to those who continually seek him\n(Noah; Genesis 6:8). God then revealed himself to an individual man (Abraham;\nGenesis 12) and extended that revelation to his descendants (Exodus 3:15). God showed Himself mightily to His\npeople in the ten plagues and the exodus of His people from bondage (Exodus 7\u201314).\nHe then showed Himself as their provider (in the wilderness; Exodus 15\u201317). We\nsee He is a God who expects His people to hear His voice and obey Him (Exodus\n19\u201320). Once the people accomplish the great task of building a tabernacle\nwhere God\u2019s presence can dwell among His people (Exodus 40), He then reveals\njust what it takes to become a \u201cclean and forgiven\u201d people in the presence of a\nsinless, perfect God (Leviticus). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has mandated a blood sacrifice for man\u2019s sins since the\ngarden. When man sinned, God shed the blood of an animal to make a covering for\nman (for he was naked before God; his sins were exposed). When God made the\nclothes to \u201ccover\u201d Adam and Eve, it was a great picture of what the Old\nTestament sacrifices did for man. They covered mankind\u2019s sins for a season.\nThroughout the Old Testament, we see the shedding of blood (from an animal) to\ncover mankind\u2019s sins. It isn\u2019t until we come to Leviticus that God reveals the\nintricacies and details of the way it is required. The ritualistic sacrifices\n(explained in Leviticus) that must be fulfilled, completely and perfectly, are\nto show us the great sacrifice it would take to cleanse sinful man from his\nsins. It is to reveal to mankind the impossibility of entering into God\u2019s\npresence without the perfect<\/em>\nsacrifice, only found in Jesus. All throughout the books of the Law we see God\ngradually reveal Himself to mankind, only a piece at a time, through revelation\u2014only\nas much as we could handle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd he (Jesus) is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world\u201d (1 John 2:2). The word propitiation<\/em><\/strong> means \u201cthe means of putting away sin and establishing righteousness not by man\u2019s ability to appease God with an of his offerings, (for man is unable to offer anything to placate God), Jesus is presented as the righteous One; \u2026 reconciling us to God, allowing us to be acceptable for fellowship with God (see also Romans 3:25). The propitiation of Christ is very personal \u2013 the propitiation for our sins.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you asked Jesus to be your Advocate with God, the Father? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from \u201cThe Biblical Path of Life: Year One Quarter Two.\u201d \u201cGod has revealed himself gradually through the years. Hebrews 1:1-2a: \u20181. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2a. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,318],"tags":[452,249,453,80,37,113,371,146],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpt-from-the-biblical-path-of-life","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-advocate","tag-father","tag-hebrews","tag-jesus","tag-leviticus","tag-propitiation","tag-puzzle","tag-sacrifice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}