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4 For it is impossible as regards those who have once for all
been enlightened, and who have tasted the heavenly free gift, and who have
become partakers of holy spirit,
5 and who have tasted the fine word of God and
powers of the coming system of things,
6 but who have fallen away, to revive them
again to repentance, because they impale the Son of God afresh for themselves
and expose him to public shame (Hebrews 6).
Baptism in holy spirit is a once only process, like fleshly circumcision. It is always performed by men or angels who have been men, and enables clean reproduction (further spirit baptism). The reference to impaling the Son of God afresh is a prophecy to be sure, but also an exposition of the judgement on those who are sanctified but fail to be sealed with holy spirit. Likewise referring to the first and the second Judas's, Jesus said:
24 Woe to the man through whom the son of man is betrayed! It would have been finer for him if that man had not been born (Matthew 26).
Judas was born from blood, i.e. sanctified, his judicial life was mediated to him, but he deviated and was therefore consigned to the sinbin, having busted his baptism. This puts him in a worse position than the man who is unrighteous in spirit, who was never sanctified, because this man at least can attain to a fleshly resurrection into the kingdom of God.
Now Adam, since he did not live in the post flood system or the post fire system to come (Matthew 12:32), did not, in the mercy of God, permanently lose his judicial life when he sinned against the holy spirit, his actions in eating the fruit, were speaking against it, and amounting to a blasphemy. But nevertheless we can deduce that since he was condemned in spirit, albeit temporarily, by his sin, he would have been justified or declared righteous in spirit had he resisted his fleshly act. In fact had he done so then rather than sticking to the fleshly woman, his wife, he would have become stuck to the heavenly woman, the holy spirit, forever.
Actually the account in Genesis does point to this because it says:
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And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: From
every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction.
17 But as for the tree of the
knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from
it you will positively die (Genesis 2).
So Adam was permitted to eat from the tree of life to satisfaction, and satisfaction as regards life is everlasting life. So had he not been evicted from the garden, then he would have continued eating from the tree of life until he was fully satisfied. This state of affairs symbolically says that the priesthood of the tree is able to give everlasting life.
11 As regards any man or woman that comes in to the king at the inner courtyard, who is not called, his one law is to have him put to death, only in the case the king holds out to him the golden sceptre, he will also certainly stay alive (Esther 4).
22 Let us approach with true hearts in the full assurance of faith, having had our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies bathed with clean water (Hebrews 10).
14 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled sanctifies to the extent of cleanness of the flesh, how much more will the blood of the Christ, who through an everlasting spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleans our consciences from dead works, that we may render sacred service to the living God. So that is why he is a mediator of a new covenant, in order that because a death has occurred, for their release by ransom from the transgressions under the former covenant, the ones who have been called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance (Hebrews 9).
7 Happy are those whose lawless deeds have been pardoned, and
whose sins have been covered.
8 Happy is the man whose sin Jehovah will by no
means take into account (Romans 4).
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Happy is the one whose revolt is pardoned, whose sin is
covered.
2 Happy is the man to whose account Jehovah does not put error, and in
whose spirit there is no deceit (Psalm 32).
The first man is happy because he is clean in the flesh, his dead works of the past are forgiven, his sins that he has already physically committed are wiped out. The second man is happy because all his sins in the past and for an indefinite period in the future are forgiven and pre-forgiven, for God has given him a clean conscience, so that he has no consciousness of sin. Paul explains this cryptically:
4 For I am not conscious of anything against myself. Yet by this I am not proved righteous, but he that examines me is Jehovah (1 Corinthians 4).
The literal meaning was that Paul was not aware of any sin which he had committed which would be sufficiently grave that there should be an accusation brought against him which would have disqualified him from being an elder. He did not mean that he was a sinless man. For he himself admits:
19 For the good that I wish, I do not do, but the bad that I do not wish is what I practice (Romans 7).
But cryptically and unwittingly, for these words are inspired, Paul is saying that the one who is washed clean in the blood of Jesus has a clean conscience, actually from all sin, for he knows that although he does sin, Jehovah has already discounted this in his case. However this does not mean that he will be declared righteous, which is the baptism into the name of the holy spirit, for this is his sealing, and he may never progress to this point if he loses faith whilst under test, like Adam did. If he does keep his faith however, then he will be sealed, which is the permanent forgiveness of all future sin. This is the love of God, for he is saying to such a man: OK, I am taking you on, and I will never expel you from my school, and in my school you will have your spirit trained and trained until you become a sinless man as was the Christ, until you have the Christ-like character with your own peculiar personality of course. Furthermore however long it takes in your case, that is how long I will continue the training for you. That is true love.