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To: Iscool; thesaleboat; metmom; CynicalBear; boatbums
I can't take this.

"I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him forming a cohort of victim souls."

Don't you understand HE IS RISEN? He is NOT a "VICTIM". He is the "VICTOR". "It is finished" means exactly what it says. His sacrificial work of redemption was done. Christ presented the sacrifice of His life to the Father ONLY ONCE. He "entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption". (Heb. 9:12).

How do we KNOW that God accepted Christ's finished work? "Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." Matt. 27:51.

The next and greatest example of the Father's acceptance of Christ's sacrifice happened three days later, the resurrection. Jesus "was raised because of our justification" Rom. 4:25. His work now being FINISHED and ACCEPTED by the Father, He is now sitting at the right hand of God. There is NO more "victimhood" of Jesus Christ. And as believers, we are in Christ. We are partakers of His death, burial and resurrection. We are no longer "victims" of sin and death.

Mary hasn't "intervened" in ANY part of man's redemption. Or to "appease the wrath of the Father." Nor has she "prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the Cross..." THe offering was made by Christ to the Father at Calvary. And accepted. As we have PROOF, by His resurrection.

214 posted on 11/24/2011 6:52:24 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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To: smvoice
The next and greatest example of the Father's acceptance of Christ's sacrifice happened three days later, the resurrection. Jesus "was raised because of our justification" Rom. 4:25. His work now being FINISHED and ACCEPTED by the Father, He is now sitting at the right hand of God. There is NO more "victimhood" of Jesus Christ. And as believers, we are in Christ. We are partakers of His death, burial and resurrection. We are no longer "victims" of sin and death.

Romans 8:31-39 31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,

"For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

224 posted on 11/24/2011 8:15:41 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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