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How To Fireproof the Soul
...of Christ? None. In clothing Adam and Eve, God took away all their past sin and covered them with Christ’s righteousness symbolically in the form of the coats. Their tainted life was substituted wife the perfect life of Christ. God is so good. When God then looked at Adam and Eve, what did He see? He saw Christ’s life. The covering is really a covering of the heart. Jesus says “I have clothed you with my righteousness, now live righteously.” We keep sinning and think Jesus will still clothe us with His righteousness. Righteousness is our only protection from hell, God’s destruction of the wicked. Example of God’s destruction of the wicked: • Genesis 18:1-19: Abraham receives Christ and two angels and washes their feet. Abraham washed their feet himself even though he had hundreds of servants. • Genesis 18:19: Abraham’s house was run by the Law of God. God knew him. • Genesis 18:23 There are only two groups in the world. The righteous and the wicked. • Jude 7: God was going to destroy the cities of the plain and not just Sodom and Gomorrah. • Genesis 18:25: The right thing for God to do is to save the righteous and destroy the wicked. • Genesis 18: 26: “I will spare the whole place for their sake” How good is God? He was to destroy the cities of the plain for their wickedness. Righteousness is so powerful it protects not only the person covered with the righteousness of Christ, in some way it protects even those who are close to righteous people. God has not yet destroyed the earth because there are still righteous people on the earth. • What has God done for anyone for your sake? • Are people blessed because of you or cursed? • Matt 5:13-14: Jesus said, “Ye are the light and the salt of the earth.” People should be enlightened and preserved because of our being covered with Christ’s righteousness. You can be covered with the very righteousness that covered Adam and Eve. God is more eager to save than to destroy: • Gen 18:25: Abraham told God that He could not destroy the righteous with the wicked and God agreed. God is a good and just God Righteousness is the way to fire-proof your soul. It is the righteousness of Christ that covers you. The righteousness of Christ is the very life of Christ. • John 14:6: Jesus said He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Jesus had life within himself, but He said He is Life. To receive life you must receive Christ completely. . • Heb 11: 4: Even dead people can influence others by the live they lived. The life of Abel and his faith has influenced others throughout the ages. If Abel’s life has that kind of influence, what about the life of Christ? The power of Christ’s life is what changes us and fireproofs our soul. The greatest gift is the universe is the gift of the righteousness of Christ. What does it cost you? The cost to you is your sins. Bring your heart full of sin to God. As God takes your sins