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We were all “born again” when our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead; not when we prayed some vain “sinner’s prayer”! Self-righteousness includes, and promotes… “self-healing”; then why would we ever need God, The Lamb Provided? Our Lord Jesus Christ did not come to heal us, or to fix us; because we were un-“fix”-able, and un-“heal”-able. He came to put us all to death in Himself… lovingly, mercifully and graciously. The wages of sin was death, not healing or “self-healing”; yet the modern-day “gospel” remains nothing more than glorified behavior modification… futilely, yet ceaselessly attempting to please some “angry, heavenly pharaoh” through endless applications of the dead letter of scripture!
1 Peter 1: 3, 4 (KJV)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again [*hence, "born again"!] unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
2 Corinthians 5: 14, 15 (KJV)
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for [*as] all, then were all dead [*when that One Man died!]:
15 And that he died for [*as] all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for [*as] them, and rose again.
Luke 4: 23 (KJV)
23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal [*save] thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Matthew 27: 40-42 (KJV)
40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save [*heal] thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
42 He saved [*healed] others; himself he cannot save [*heal]. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
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