Chapter Sixteen

 

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Jesus reminded His disciples that after He went away He would send the Comforter to His Church to teach them and to guide them. Jesus promised His Church that His Spirit would always be with them just as He had been with His followers in bodily form. Hebrews 13:5. Jesus also taught His disciples that the Holy Spirit would be better for them than Himself because His Spirit would dwell in their hearts.

 

Jesus then began to teach His disciples about not only the ministry of the Comforter to His Church, but also of His ministry to the world. Jesus taught that the Comforter would convince mankind through the messages from His Church of those basic truths of His Word that they really need to know. The Holy Spirit rebukes the sins of the world so that humans will know that they need to repent and put their faith in Christ. The Holy Spirit convinces the world that the righteousness of God still exists in His Word and in His Church so that humans will know that they can possess Christ's righteousness as a free gift that will make them wholly right with God if they repent and put their faith in Jesus. John 3:16; II Corinthians 5:21.

 

Jesus then taught His disciples about His judgment that He would make as He hung on the cross. Jesus had formerly taught His disciples that He would judge no human while He was in the world, but He would reserve all of His final judgments of humanity to the end of the world. John 12:44-50. Believers in Christ can come out of the darkness of sin and evil into the light of salvation by His grace if they repent and believe while still alive in the flesh, but believers can also come out of the darkness of the regions of death when they repent and believe in the Lamb of God when He appears to them in a great worship service near the end of the world. John 5:24; John 11:25-26; Revelation 5:11-14; John 12:46; Psalm 107:8-16.Therefore, Christ judged no living human as He hung on the cross. Christ came to save all of humanity from sin, evil, and eternal spiritual death. John 12:47. God judged only the Devil and all of his evil works as Jesus hung on the cross, and His Spirit will draw all living humans to repentance and faith in Christ so that God can save them all. John 12:31-32. Jesus came to cast out the Devil, spiritual death, and all sin and evil from all living humans. He did not come to cast out living humans whom He creates and loves. Hebrews 2:9-17; I John 3:8; Luke 20:38; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13. God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8.

 

Near the end of the world and Jesus' final judgment, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human system confined to the regions of death in order to melt them to separate their repentant living souls and spirits from their spiritual deaths so that He can save their living souls and spirits, and He can cast their dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Matthew 13:36-43. Living humans become saved by grace by being cleansed by the blood and water that flowed from Jesus on the cross. The living souls and spirits of the rest of humanity will be saved by God's fiery wrath against evil. The Old Testament sin offering symbolized salvation by grace, but the Old Testament burnt offering symbolized God's salvation of the rest of humanity by the use of His fiery wrath against evil in order to dissolve their systems to separate their living natures from their dead natures. Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:5-10; Psalm 75:3. Jesus prophesied that He will judge those who finally reject Him and His Word by His Word in the end of the world. John 12:48. Any final rejection of Christ and the Holy Spirit constitutes total evil and spiritual death that Christ will cast into the lake of fire. Matthew 12:31-32. Jesus will fulfill this prophecy in His final judgment when He raises all repentant, living humans from the regions of death for Him to recreate to live of His new earth, and He will cast all of their separated, spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire which is the second death from spiritual death. John 12:48; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 13:36-43; I Timothy 4:10; I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 4:1; John 11:25; Acts 24:15; Colossians 1:15-23; Isaiah 66:22-24.

 

The very fact that God has said that all humans are always alive to Him and that Christ will destroy only death itself can only mean that Christ will forever save all living humans that He creates and loves from eternal spiritual death. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:26; Revelation 1:17-18. No verse in the entire Bible (KJB) states that if a living human rejects Christ's salvation by grace until his physical death, then Christ will cast that living human into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that Christ will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire.