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Here, Jesus has become our once for all sacrifice.

What Paul called the mystery of the gospel is the most

amazing, powerful thing in all of human history. This is WHY Satan

wants to blind our minds and hearts from it. This is WHY Satan

wants God’s preachers to keep preaching the LAW week after week,
month after month, and year after year:

The more sin-conscious we are

the more we live in guilt and condemnation

and in the law of sin and death.

Satan does not want the revelation of the GOSPEL to impact

our hearts. He does not want us to know who we are in Jesus: our

authority and power in this life. He doesn’t want us to come into the

revelation of I John 4:16: “As Jesus is, so are WE in this world.”

This verse also tells us that we should have confidence and
boldness in the day of judgment. If we are living in sin-consciousness

we don’t have boldness and confidence but we instead live in fear.

Elsewhere, Paul says we experience ‘the terror of the Lord.’

The gospel gives us confidence, not fear and terror.

You talk about spiritual warfare. Satan will do anything to keep

Christians from coming into the knowledge of the gospel. That’s why

Paul says, “God would have all men to be saved — AND to come into

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