By Jimmy Swaggart
“By analogy, if Jesus became a serpent in nature as this erroneous teaching contends, then healing was provided by Satan, the serpent (Num. 21:4-9), not God.”
II CORINTHIANS 5:21 “FOR HE HAS MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, WHO KNEW NO SIN; THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.”
SIN OR SIN-OFFERING?
The Apostle Paul said, “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin” (II Cor. 5:21).
In the Hebrew language the term “chetta’t” is the same word used for both “sin” and “Sin-Offering.” A single Hebrew term translates both words. “Sin” and “Sin-Offering,” then, are one and the same, at least as it regards the Hebrew word. It was the context in which the term was used that expressed whether a person was speaking of “Sin-Offering” or “sin.”
By Jimmy Swaggart
“There is no way that one can properly love the Lord and at the same time, oppose that which is of the Lord.”
PHILIPPIANS 1:17 – “BUT THE OTHER OF LOVE, KNOWING THAT I AM SET FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE GOSPEL.”
These nobler Preachers recognize the Apostle’s sincerity and unselfishness, plus the Call of God on his life. They realized that his present circumstances were part of a larger Divine program and that he had never deviated from it. He had been “put here,” and I speak of his prison experience, not by his own miscalculations, nor by chance, but by the operation of God’s Sovereignty. God had brought him to this place and time “for the defence of the Gospel.”
