The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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can claim that he has a more difficult battle to fight<br />
than Jesus had. Since He knows the full force of<br />
our deepest, most alluring temptations, He can save<br />
to the uttermost those who are captives of Satan.<br />
Both Jones and Waggoner taught that the idea<br />
that Christ took the sinless nature of Adam before<br />
the fall is a legacy of Roman Catholicism, for them<br />
a fulfillment of the warning the apostle John writes<br />
in 1 John 4:1-3 about Antichrist. <strong>The</strong> only flesh<br />
there is in this world that Christ could "take" is the<br />
same fallen, sinful flesh that all of us possess by<br />
nature. Short of being a fraud, He could not be<br />
"exempt" from any aspect of our genetic<br />
inheritance from Adam.<br />
Christ's perfect righteousness which He lived in<br />
our fallen, sinful flesh was therefore by faith. Thus<br />
He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. When<br />
the church as a body truly receives the same faith<br />
that motivated Jesus, the result will be<br />
righteousness manifested in His people that will<br />
honor Christ before the world and the universe.<br />
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