“WHAT IS SIMUL IUSTUS ET PECCATOR?”
“WHAT IS
SIMUL IUSTUS ET PECCATOR?”
“simultaneously
just yet sinful”
translated
in full means
“A
criminal, indeed, a law breaker, can, simultaneously,
that is, at the same time, be declared right before the law, with the
penalty
of his crime paid for, but still remain a sinner”
Can a man
be declared righteous while still being
internally sinful?
A prisoner
is sentenced to death for murder.
The law
demands death.
The judge
declares the man not guilty saying “I
will go to the gas chamber instead of the murderer.”
So the
judge pays the penalty instead.
Is this
legal?
Of course
it is.
Is the
prisoner free? Legally, technically and
forensically before the law … Yes.
Has the
law been satisfied? … Yes.
The
prisoner then commits another murder … and the
same process is repeated with another judge.
Is the
prisoner free? Yes.
This again
happens for the third, fourth … and
tenth time … with other judges.
The repeat
offender commits the same crime again
and again … and gets off scot-free … without suffering any punishment
or
injury.
So Dear
Reader, can you see the problem for the D.O.G.
… Doctrines Of Grace believer aka the Calvinist …
there has
been no internal change in the prisoner … he still wants to
murder.
The
ex-prisoner has not been internally
renovated or regenerated … as the D.O.G.S say ‘born again’ …
he has had no
character change … he has not been made righteous before the
law.
But this
is what the Jesus Christ did for sinful
man.
Under the
Old Testament, the law demanded blood for
the sin past (Romans 3:25) and this could go on ‘ad infinitum’ … which
it did.
Under the
New Testament, Christ’s blood has paid
for all future sins … such that there remains no more sacrifice for
sins (Hebrews
10:26)
Yes, Dear
Reader, as a Christian you can sin your
head off and still go home to heaven … with the proviso, you will get
weak and
sickly and eventually die (1 Corinthians 11:30) depending on how the
Lord sees
things.
But here’s
the difference between the Old Testament
and the New … when a man is declared righteous … there is a spiritual
circumcision whereby the sins attached to the flesh are cut away form
the soul
… such that the soul gets saved being paced into Jesus Christ … who is
seated
in heaven. (1 Corinthians 12:13; Colossians 2:11).
Yes, the
sinful flesh rots into the ground and the
real you, your soul, is in Christ, in heaven … eternally saved.
So Dear
Reader, when a man gets saved, he is declared
righteous but he is still sinful … he has not been made
righteous.
This means
Christ’s blood declares, not makes,
us free … it has been external, legalforensic
… and while
we remain sinners.
The saved
sinner … you and me … if you are a
Christian … have been given a new heart such that we do not want to
murder or
sin … but the flesh has other ideas.
…. yes Dear Reader … till the day we die … we are righteous yet sinful at the same time … simul iustus et peccator.
Harley
Hitchcock
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