(Matthew 20: 17-28)

And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.  Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.  And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.  But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.  And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.  But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.(Matthew 20: 17-28)

 
Even though Jesus said He was crucified and lived in three days, the disciples were arguing, "Who is the best?" The disciples did not know the meaning of the cup Jesus would drink. The purpose of the Son of Man was to give as a ransom for many. A ransom means redemption. Redemption is the concept of paying and buying a slave. God buys those under Satan's control at the blood of Jesus.

『Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 』 (Romans 3: 25-26) Applying these words to the ransomed. It applies to those who are in Christ Jesus. The price of sin is death. God makes his son die and justifies the believer.

God allowed Satan to rule the world. Luke 4: 5-7 tells us that. Jesus speaks before Pontius Pilate, "My kingdom is not this world." God created the world, which he rented to Satan for some time. All human beings in Satan's world are servants of Satan. Satan controls this world. But God pays Satan for those who repent and return, and buys servants from Satan. Its price is the blood shed on the cross of Jesus Christ. The end of Satan's rights in this world is the time of Jesus' second coming. Satan will then be put in prison

Salvation means that God makes sinners his children. God buys servants from Satan and makes them His children. To do this, he had to sacrifice his son. This work was done on the cross. This is the manifestation of God's righteousness. God does not forgive sinners. The sinner must die. This is God's righteousness. So Hananmi's son died in exchange for the sinner. So those who are in Christ are saved. No one is justified. Only those who repent and wear the new man are justified by faith. In the New Testament epistles, Paul is writing to those who repent and wear new clothes. The Bible explains what it is like to be righteous. Rather than explaining to those who do not know what it is to be born again at the beginning of the Church, he is explaining and explaining what God's righteousness is to the born again. God buys those who repent and return. This is redemption.

God paid the price, so that sinners also repent and return to the kingdom of God. Thus, those who repent by God's grace gain free righteousness. The price the sinner has to pay for repentance is to take off the clothes of the old man. So when you become a repentant (a change of clothes), you gain righteousness. Repentance pays the price of sacrifice. And the repentant gets righteousness. But today people try to apply the word that they have no repentance and receive righteousness freely. Did those who said to repent take off their old clothes? To take off the clothes of the old man is to bury with Jesus and to deny self. Getting righteousness from God is not the first, but burial of the old is preceded.

But many church people try to do the opposite. They say that if they believe first, they are justified, and then they kill the old man. So they continue their fruitless lives.
In Romans 3:25『Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 』 Here, the subject is God. This Jesus is a sinner who buys sinners with blood. And so must enter into Christ Jesus. To be in Christ is like the Hebrews entering Canaan. That is redemption. So the people get the land. ”Have been established as a peace offering through faith “

The peace offering is also found in Hebrews 9: 5.『And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.』 Here, the word "on it" means "on the ark of the covenant." On the Ark of the Covenant is a cover (atonement). Above them are cherub-group angels. Within the ark of the covenant are manna, Aaron's staff, and the tablet of the covenant. This atonement is the "peace offering" in Romans 3. The Covenant is the same word as the Ark.

No one enters the Most Holy Place. There, only the elected priest can enter the Day of Atonement (Yan Kipur) once a year. The apostle Paul referred to the "cover of sin" as a peace offering. The Bible says, "If a person touches this cover, he dies, but if he opens it, he dies." The cover is always covered. A cover covers the two tablets of the covenant. By covering, reconciliation takes place between God and sinners. If there is no cover, God will judge sinners according to the words engraved on the two tablets. But it is covered with a cover. The cover is Jesus Christ.

By the death of Jesus, God covered the cover. God told Noah's day to build an ark because he decided to judge. Thus the ark becomes God's grace in judgment. At the judgment, the cover is the grace of God. Without Christ, the cover, all sinners will be judged. The Ark or the Most Holy Ark are the same reason. The cover is described as atonement in Hebrews and a peace offering in Romans. The meaning of the Atonement is the hat (kipar) worn by the Jews. Those who entered the ark were the builders of the ark. Those who enter the Atonement must change their clothes. The high priest takes off gorgeous clothes and changes to white clothes. You cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you take off the clothes of the old man and only change the clothes of the new man. You must bury the clothes of the old man with the death of Jesus Christ who died on the cross. Those who do not wear robes cannot enter the king's wedding feast.

 

(Matthew 20: 29-34) And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.  And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.  And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.  And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?  They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.  So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
Two men are blind men, but spiritually, those who are confined in darkness. A person who is being oppressed by Satan. Matthew 4:16

 『The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. 』 When Jesus first began to preach, he quoted Isaiah's prophecy. The beginning of the gospel is not that people wash away dirt, but realize that they are in darkness. Many churches emphasize the forgiveness of sins. Even if a sinner is forgiven, he does not escape from darkness.

If the sinner is in darkness, he is still dead before God. Adam was afraid and hid in the darkness after his sin. If he is the master of the body, he is hiding in the darkness. He does not want his thoughts, his actions, to be revealed. He is just in the dirt, so he tries to wash the dirt. The first thing to realize is that you are in the dark, not the first to wash the dirt. The beginning of salvation is to realize that I am in darkness
  because we are in darkness, we do not know that God is dead.

The sinner must realize that he is in darkness, because God has pity on him, and God shines light on him. King Saul left the anointing of the Lord. As a proof, Samuel never again met King Saul. The Lord has forsaken King Saul into darkness. Nevertheless, Saul continued to act as king for some time. For 18 years, he won the war without God. There may be people today who are good in the world without living the word of God in the church. But you are not saved unless you are in Christ. To be in Christ is to deny self.

If they are in the church and think they are God's people without being born again, they will be nothing more unhappy than this. David also made the mistake of taking his subordinate's wife and killing his subordinate. He murdered, committed adultery, and lied, but was not aware because he was in the dark. Many people think that if they confess their sins, they are forgiven. The meaning of repentance is not confession of sin, but death from sin. "Freeing from sin" is repentance. You can only do this if you deny yourself. Would sin disappear by confessing thousands of sins, without abandoning or leaving sin?

"Freeing from sin" is salvation. Studying the truth does not free me from sin. The truth is Jesus Christ, who died on the cross. If you are in Jesus Christ, you are in truth. The subject must change "from me to truth." David committed adultery with Uriah's wife, and he lived in worship, but he did not abide in the truth. Thus, he loses his spiritual sense, and he does not realize that he is an evil being.

God had pity for David and shed His light. God sent the prophet Nathan to David to convict him of sin. If you do not understand the word of God today, then the spirit is dead. Little greed is the beginning of sin. Even if there is knowledge of sin, it is destroyed before little covetousness. Even if you fill and worship the word of God, a small covetous person drives you into the slave of sin. One of David's small greeds was driven by tremendous sin. Nevertheless, David did not realize that he was a sinner to die. This is the dark.

When people realize that they are in the dark and cry out to God, God approaches him. This is repentance. So God delivers sinners from darkness. We must enter into Jesus Christ to be free from darkness.