DECEMBER 3 Forasmuch as you know that you were not Redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation (lifestyle) received by tradition from your fathers; But with the Precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you (I Pet. 1:18–20). These three Verses of Scripture proclaim to us the fact that the Doctrine or principal of the Cross of Christ is the oldest doctrine known to man. Through foreknowledge, God knew, in eternity past, that He would make man, and that man would fall. So it was deemed necessary by the Godhead that man would be redeemed by God becoming Man, going to the Cross, and thereby atoning for all sin, actually serving as man’s Substitute. All of this was decided before the foundation of the world. “Foreordained,” in the Greek Text, means “to designate beforehand” to a position or function. In the councils of the Triune God, the Lord Jesus was the Lamb marked out for Sacrifice. Before this Universe was created, the Lord Jesus had been foreordained to be the Saviour of lost sinners, and the Saints had been foreordained to become recipients of the Salvation He would procure for lost sinners at the Cross (Eph. 1:4; Rom. 8:29). Considering that the Cross of Christ was foreordained from before the foundation of the world to be the essential core principal of Salvation, this means that every other doctrine must be built squarely on the basis of the Cross of Christ. If it is not, at least in some manner or way, it will be specious. That, in fact, has been the problem from the very beginning. It began with Cain and Abel, even at the dawn of time. After the Fall, the First Family was given instructions by the Lord as to how sins could be forgiven and fellowship restored. It was by virtue of the slain lamb, which would be a symbol of the Coming Redeemer. Abel carried out the instructions of the Lord to the letter, but Cain substituted something else. The “something else” has been the problem from then until now. All false doctrine has its beginning through a misinterpretation, a lack of understanding, or a denial of the Cross of Christ. When the Church gets off track, or even the individual Believer, the Church or the Believer has to come back to the Cross before things can be made right. Even though the Cross of Christ was foreordained before the foundation of the world, still, it has been “manifest in these last times for me and you.” If we ignore what the Lord has done, there is no way we can go in the right direction. The foundation is the Cross of Christ, and it will always be the foundation. Paul labeled it “The Everlasting Covenant” (Heb. 13:20). Swaggart, Jimmy: The Expositors Word For Every Day. Baton Rouge, LA : World Evangelism Press, 2005, S. 812
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