25 whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;]/quote]
Propitiation was worked by Christ's blood, Christ's death on the cross. His suffering as our substitute satisfies the wrath of God and renders God favorably disposed towards those whom Christ represented on the cross (all men).
through faith
But the appropriate of the atonement for each man waits for that man to exercise faith, to trust the Savior. We are to trust Him as Savior, not "chance-giver."
to show his righteousness
The trust you speak about sounds more like faith without works...you cannot exercise faith without works
God is righteous and just. How can God be righteous & just, yet fail to punish sin, fail to carry out His decree that the soul that sins, it shall die? sHe is shown to be righteous & just in that his wrath was exercised, the death did take place, but it took place in our substitute. God Himself became a man, and God's infinite being exhausted his great wrath within a few hours on the cross. Only God Himself could suffer enough to cover an eternity of the Lake of Fire on every sinner.
to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season:
not a substitute but a sin offering....
Hebrews 10:10
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
(sanctify, literally means "to set apart" for special use or purpose, that is, to make
holy or sacred.)
The scripture says we are created unto good works....
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
[SUP]17 [/SUP]If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Two periods of time are delineated in the passage:
1) aforetime,
2) this present season.
Aforetime contrasts with "this present season." So what time period is meant in the term aforetime? It cont Does aforetime mean something different for every Christian? Does aforetime mean the time before the Christian was saved? If so, then it means a different time period for every Christian. And does "this present season" mean the time period after being saved, different for every Christian? I don't think so. It appears to me in context ("in His blood") refers to the cross. Thus the aforetime is before the cross, and the "this present season" is the time after the cross. Thus the "passing over of the sins done aforetime" would be sins done before the cross, which has nothing to do with Christians living in this present time.
But whatever the time periods are, the fact that God passed over sins done aforetime in His forebearance -- that fact does not imply anything about sins done in this present time. If God forgave sins in the past, that does not imply anything about future sins one way or the other. Moreover, the passage does not say "forgiveness," it says, "passing over."
So while you ponder the passage, it hardly negates the security of the believer.
[SUP]38 [/SUP]Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
[SUP]39 [/SUP]For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
2 Peter 1:9
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was
purged from his old sins.
Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
scripture teaches we have forgiveness of past sins, we are created new, if we have fellowship with Christ and continue in him his blood keeps us clean from sin.