John 19:30 – A CLOSER LOOK with Dwane Karr

It Is Finished

A dangerous false gospel is being propagated on the streets of America by confused and Biblically ignorant well-known and highly esteemed Official  Street Preachers.  This gospel is a combination of the Kingdom Gospel and the Gospel of the Grace of God. This false Gospel states that when God saves you He forgives your past ...sins and after that it is “Go and sin no more”. God’s salvation does not cover any present or future sins in this gospel, for there is no imputed righteousness in it.
This is the sticking point….they do not believe God would declare you “Righteous” (Justification) permanently in His court when you receive His Son.
They refuse to believe that when I received His Son,(John 1:12), I was put into His Son (1 Cor.12:13), and from that point on viewed as His Son (1 John 4:17) thus having THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST (2 Cor.5:21, Phil.3:9).
*They WILL NOT believe that God will choose to view His new son ( the believer) as sinless*

Yet God has shown us in the OT that He will view His son as righteous (even if their actual conduct is not) if He wants to. After all He is God!

Now Note this. In the OT God did not Adopt individual sons like He does with us today in the Church Age. God chose the “Nation” of Israel as His collective son.

Ex.4:22 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:”

Thus in Numbers 22-24 Balak tries to get Balaam to curse Israel. He can’t do it because God has “Imputed Righteousness” to His son, the Nation of Israel!
Here is why Balaam said he could not curse God’s son Israel: Num.23:21 ” He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.” GOD SAID THEY LOOK SINLESS TO ME!
Balak goes berserk because he knows God has been dropping them left and right because of their sins. (Read Num.14:1-4, 28-45, 15:31-36, 16:35,16:44-49, 21:4-9 etc.). This is a perfect picture of the Imputed Righteousness God gives to a man who trusts Jesus Christ as his Saviour today.
This is what they can not understand. This situation in Numbers shows a case of “Imputed Righteousness”, where sin is not imputed to a nation which is corporately God’s son,( although the individuals in that nation still have to pay for their sins). The purveyors of this false gospel do not understand the difference between standing and state.

As a Born Again son of God (the believer)  in the Body of Christ, Spiritually Circumcised, Redeemed, and Adopted by God my “Standing” is sinless perfection, (1 John 4:17) ” because AS HE IS, SO ARE WE in this world.” My “State” is my current level of closeness in fellowship with my Saviour. That is the Justification God gives us and when God slams His gavel down, declaring a man righteous, “In His Son”(John 19:30) IT IS FINISHED!