When people are attempting to show someone else as a sinner, whether they claim they are testing them, or exposing sin, if they do it indirectly, they are tempting them. When people attempt to indirectly test, as to showing someone a sinner, or to expose sin, doing either indirectly, they are usurping the other person. And this is how God says:
Psalm 75:7
God is the Judge:
He puts down one,
And exalts another
One main characteristic of Jezebel, is the way she usurps, just as she killed Nabath, and also as she spoke to Jehu. In her usurping, she acts as judge, putting one down, and exalting herself, possibly including someone else as well.
Another interpretation of the tabernacle, is how the Law of Moses was given to expose sin, and not to give perfection to man. And thus, the temple of Solomon was given to show the other side of the spectrum, as God can make man perfect. Along with this, it was God who gave Moses the exact directions for building the tabernacle, while it was David who received the instructions for the temple. In this we can see how before the Law of Moses, there was no law in regards to the flesh, there was only the truth concerning whether or not someone worshiped God. Therefore, as David spoke in Psalm 95 regarding entering into His rest, and as this was after Joshua had already entered into the Promised Land, David revealed how the Law was to lead man into knowing that God can make him perfect.
The largest quality of the sorrow that leads to death, is that it leads people into confessing that they are sinners. In this aspect we may know that what is commonly called 'the sinner's prayer' is not actually written or given in the Bible. This is also the context in which John writes in 1 John, concerning those who are abiding in God, and are saved, and who are born again in Him, as he says that they no longer sin. And thus those who no longer sin, are not sinners. That verse does not mean that after coming to Christ, that our goal is to have good works which prove that we are not sinners. But that verse firstly shows how in believing and confessing Christ, that we are no longer sinners. This takes away both of the lies that are found in the sayings: "we sin because we are sinners," and "we are sinners because we sin." Thus in the new covenant, sin sins, and we are born again in Christ perfect, sinless, and incorruptible. Our confession of sin has nothing to do with our present tense condition, as if we are sinful, because we are made to already be inwardly without sin, and that life is given into the mortal flesh, while the corruption in the mortal flesh is blown away, as with Isaiah 40, just as Isaiah 40 is also about repentance. If we sin, as John speaks about in 1 John 2, it is sin that is sinning in our flesh, and through the new birth, and His true conviction, we still repent through confessing that we sinned in the past tense, and that we are saved in the past, present, and future tense, and thus are made wholly perfect. And as I have said before, we can not even truly confess sin, unless we already have the perfection by which we know sin to be sin, and this is how John writes in 1 John 2 regarding us being as children.
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