THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 2022-11-12Show more

THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)
THE FIRST RESURRECTION

(UNEDITED NOTES):
There are two great principles that govern mans relationship with God and His righteous dealings with us.  One principle is His gift of everlasting life in the rebirth of our spirit by grace through childlike faith, and the other principle is reward according to obedient works by grace through progressive maturing knowledge into adult (first born son) like loving faith unto the souls salvation in everlasting glory.

This most critical Truth of God’s Salvation Plan goes obscured and untold, that of immediate imputed righteousness based upon faith in another’s work verses a future wonderous bestowment for personal righteousness worked out by increasing loving overcoming faith,...when rightly understood the all important critical message enlightens, fearfully warns in all its “ifs” and inspires the sincere student and teacher of the Bible to strive like Paul, to work out their ‘soul’s’ salvation with fear and trembling, to get into the ‘race’ with the prize of attaining unto the heavenly calling, to seek early and late intimate sanctifying knowledge in the knowing of God through His given Word, unto attaining the prescribed necessity of God’s exclusive plan for those ‘saved’ who would be Raptured alive or caught up from among the dead at the First Resurrection; that is of worthiness.

This maturing process in loving obedience reaches out to grasp a hold of the fullness of the propitiation power of Christ’s salvation Atonement; that of a saved souls purpose becoming one with God’s purposes, that of the amazing privilege of becoming worthy of regal intimate oneness with Him (like that of a Wife or Firstborn Son) to rule over this world in the Age to follow. This is according to God’s desired revealed will, stated in Scripture, and that which should be understood, that which was determined by God from before the foundation of this world….the fullness of the Gospel pertains to the royal heavenly calling to rule in the place of fallen Lucifer. The attaining of this high calling hinges now entirely upon the heart response and free will of a ‘saved/born again’ man (for the calling to regal oneness can only be extended to the ‘saved’ not the unsaved). “Saved/born again” in the past tense meaning those who have been set apart having redemptions gift of everlasting life with renewed spirit and the love of God shed abroad in his heart. Those sanctified/set apart/saved in the past tense to be sanctified/set apart/saved in the present tense with faith’s view of a future salvation…another way to express the same thing would be; we are born again from above the first time in the spirit that we might be born again from above again the second time in the completeness of God’s Salvation Plan; in the soul.
Simply said this is the two principals stated above that comprise the marvelous Gospel of God.
This heavenly calling, being the greater part and purpose of the Gospel of Jesus Christ’s Atonement, once clealy seen by the born again believer, it will become that believers loving passion for attainment, as it was for Paul (phil3) .
This greater purpose of God has been so obscured by the religious leaven of ‘grace only’ meaning imputed righteousness without qualifying works accomplishes all God’s salvation plan for man … Packaged up in different ways, all false messages of a false security sadly prevalent in modern day Christendom.
When the scales of religious leaven are removed and this Truth of the Gospel’s two principals of God’s gracious dealings with man are revealed in Scripture; one with the unsaved, the subject on which relatively little is Written of in Scripture, and the other with the saved to be saved on which the vast majority of God’s documented dealings center … allows the seeker to reconcile or connect in perfect harmony with the meaning of all the seemingly contradictory Scriptures. In that some Scriptures are touted by this denomination to prove their doctrine of once saved always saved and then another denomination gathering certain Scriptures to prove their doctrine that the saved may lose their eternal salvation…as almost all differing doctrinal beliefs are centered around; ‘saved’ and ‘lost’,… those having eternal life and those having eternal death,… Heaven or Hell issues;…

The Truth understanding reveals what is imputed and what is the resulting ‘gift’ and what is rewarded according to faithful works by the saved. These works of righteousness are not the imputed righteousness of Christ, although only through a vital connection with Christ the works can be performed, (john15:5,rev19:7,8)…words in perfect harmony with “not by works of righteous we have done, but by grace, are we saved by faith, and that not of ourselves.” when properly viewed).
Scripture holds forth a time for Judgment, not just for the unsaved but much is Written about Judgment especially…..