The World and the Word

                                     The Difference between Sin and Evil

The sin offerings of the priests symbolizes God's higher form of salvation which is by His grace. All living humans who will trust in the shed blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross to cleanse them of all sins while they are still alive in the flesh will receive God's forgiveness and an immediate new birth into the family of God. John 5:24; John 3:3. God will give them the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself, wash them in His blood and recreate their souls and spirits, and make them joint-heirs with Christ so that they can live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:21; I Corinthians 6:11; Romans 8:14-17. But God does not, at the time of their salvation, completely cleanse and recreate their physical lives. Sins of weakness will still adhere to their fleshly nature which means they must confess and repent of them every day to be cleansed by the water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. John 13:1-17; I John 1:9. The Holy Spirit transforms the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross into a spiritual power that can cleanse and forgive the believer saved by grace. John 6:63; I Corinthians 6:11.

God will thoroughly cleanse His Church with the water of His Word, and He will bring created, spiritual bodies with Him to give His Church at the Rapture. Ephesians 5:25-27; II Corinthians 5:1-5. God has left His Church in the world until the Rapture as a witness of His gospel so that others may get saved by hearing the gospel. Romans 10:17. The Holy Spirit preaches the gospel to every human who ever lived, but God allows His Church to participate in carrying the Holy Spirit's message so that He can give His Church great rewards in Heaven for its obedience. Acts 1:8; Matthew 5:10-12.

Believers saved by grace never lose their higher form of salvation. Romans 11:29; Numbers 23:19. But believers who backslide on God and refrain from confessing and repenting of their sins every day, upon their physical deaths God will temporarily cast them into the bottomless pit to punish them until they thoroughly repent. After they repent, Christ will raise them, thoroughly cleanse them with the water of His Word and restore them to His Church in Heaven. Matthew 25:30; Matthew 24:48-51; Matthew 5:23-26.

God will cleanse and forgive all sins of weakness upon repentance and faith in the sacrifice of Christ, but God has a different requirement for presumptuous sins. Numbers 15:30-36. These willful and deliberate sins come straight from the evil, spiritual nature of humans, and God never forgives them because they never repent. Matthew 12:31-32. The Holy Spirit calls on every living human who ever lived to repent and believe in the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ for their salvation whether alive in the flesh or confined to the regions of death. John 1:9; Colossians 1:23. God annuls the spiritual deaths of all believers saved by grace the moment they believe. John 5:24. God will also use His fiery wrath to extract the dead and evil natures from all living humans confined to the regions of death upon their repentance and faith in the Lamb of God as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Numbers 21:8-9; John 11:25. God will cast only the extracted, dead and evil natures of humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8.

Numbers 15:32-36 records that the people arrested a man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath, and Moses put him in a holding tent until he could be tried. This man had plenty of time to ask that the priests offer a sacrifice for him for his forgiveness, but he did not ask. He committed that which people would consider to be a slight sin, but because it became a presumptuous sin in that he refused to repent, God ordered that he be put to death. This man's story symbolizes the fact that God will extract the evil, spiritual deaths of all humans from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15. God will cleanse and forgive even the worst sins that any human can commit because His Love and compassion will be opened to their repentance and faith and their desire to be reconciled with Him. Colossians 1:20-23. But God will not cleanse and forgive the least sins of humans if they refuse to repent and believe. Those sins adhere to the evil, spiritual deaths of humans which God will separate from them for Him to cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15; Revelation 21:8; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 13:47-50. The tares and the bad fish are thoroughly evil and useless.