Teaching through Omission

Teaching through Omission

Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon

It is interesting that “sanctification” is absent in the doctines in Romans 8:28-29. where we can find predestination, calling, justification and glorification in that order.

If anything, it should appear between justification and glorification. That is if we understand it as a life long progressive sanctification which is what is mostly preached and taught in churches.

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

But it appears in other scriptures, this time after "being washed"
in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. Here Paul is talking about positional sanctification.

 "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," Revelation 1:5

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

Alive with Christ

…But because of his great love for us , God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.… Ephesians 2:4,5.

This is why it is of the utmost importance to read the whole counsel of God from cover to cover, from Genesis to Revelation.

Are there other examples where one side of the coin is hidden from the other side. Can we see the dark side of the moon?

But the Lord helps us understand the completeness of His word if we seek wisdom and the illumination of the Holy Spirit to help us in our search for the truth. Is the word rapture written in the Bible. Does it prove that such a doctrine doesn´t exist?

Let´s talk about appearance and how tricky it is.

“Abstain from all appearance of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:22

What about the other side of the coin?

If there is true righteousness, the righteousness of Christ that is imputed to us, is there a false righeousness or the appearance of good as demonstrated in the hypocrisy of the Pharisees? For further reading on the subject click on https://lightnseed.blogspot.com/2019/06/false-righteousness-and-true.html

These 2 concepts are not included in the same sentence because of the specific context.

The few examples cited above illustrate a certain type of attitudes that tends to exclude and judge others whose understanding are different from theirs.

I like the saying:it is better to dig a well 100 feet deep than dig 100 wells 1 foot deep.

It reminds me of Jesus teaching the parable of the wise and the foolish men.

The House on the Rock
…47I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them: 48He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”…