Moses Law serves as a tool (stone/target) which to aim, to separate and distinguish whose are His through Obedience and Faith

Sin does not exist without the Law.

The Law is not sin, but it gives life to it, by defining what sin is. 

Romans 4:15

Because the Law Works Wrath: for where No Law is, there is no transgression.

A Law does not take effect until transgressed or broken.

When it is transgressed, it workswrath and Debt.

Matthew 15 : What Defiles a Man

18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.  19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,  adulteries,  fornications,  thefts,  false witness,  blasphemies:  20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not a man.

 

 

• The sting of death is sin;  The strength of sin is the Law.

 

 

For as many as are under the works of the Law are under the curse: (Alchemist)

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Faith is the Means by which we are Saved.

• Christ is the End of the Law for Righteousness to anyone that believes.
• The Cause: Grace and Mercy (a free gift)
• The Effect : Salvation (saved from the wrath of the Law) by being declared Justified/Righteous through Faith 

Just as following the Law does not make you justified, neither does discipline, but is an expression of the fact that you have been reconciled to Him.

 

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Jesus came to save and redeem, God comes to judge.

Those who are not covered with the blood of the lamb will receive the judgement Christ took on the cross for us. 

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The Covenant established with Abraham was Circumcision of the Flesh.

11“And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12“And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants. 13“A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14“But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

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The New Covenant established with Christ was the Circumcision of the Heart.

If we haven’t allowed the Holy Spirit to circumcise our heart, then we have broken the covenant.

 Romans 2 : The Jews and the Law  

28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 8 : No Condemnation in Christ

1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

 Control by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26)

9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ  (Genesis 21:1-8; Galatians 4:1-7)

12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Future Glory  (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)

18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

26Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

 COLOSSIANS 2 : BUILT UP IN CHRIST

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Numbers 5 : The Adultery Test

11And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come on him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: 15Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse: 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse: 20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband: 21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; 22And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled; 30Or when the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

The ordinances in Numbers 5 were written on the scroll that were contrary to us or against us and that were washed off the scroll into the cup,  Then nailed to the cross & Jesus.

• He had to drink as prescribed in the law for the wife accused of adultery.  
• Jesus died not only so he could remarry his divorced bride, but he took the place of her judgement, Nailing that judgement to the cross. 
• He enabled his wife to be wiped clean of her guilt and be remarried at the same time.  
• She can now be justified.  Justified – declared or made righteous in the sight of God.
• Just-if-I’d never done it .
• He came to redeem His people so they could come back into covenant relationship with Him.

NUMBERS 5

21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people,

MATTHEW 27:39  

Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads.

  when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; 

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The thigh is representative a person’s word or credibility, or even authority. Used in matters of keeping one’s word. This is why we see oath’s given why a man’s hand was under the others thigh. 

GENESIS 24   

9And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning this matter.

GENESIS 47   

29And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt;

 The thigh wasting away was representative of ones credibility being useless. 

When Jesus did not give the crowds proof of being the Son of God, His credibility meant nothing., if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God 

MATTHEW 27 

40and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41In like manner also the chief priests mocking him , with the scribes and elders, said, 42He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. 43He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now 

The strongest muscle of the body is usually said to be the quadriceps located in the thigh. Though on the cross his strength appeared as weakness, there will be no question to His strength at His second coming. Though a spiritual understanding of the thigh is enough to get one’s attention, how did his thigh physically waste away while on the cross?

It was the thighs that one used in raising themselves up in order to breath when being crucified. After all his suffering and torture that happened before ever seeing the cross, and then after several hours of constantly lifting himself up on the cross just to struggle to breath, His thighs finally “wasted away”

This supports the many who contend that He actually suffocated after saying, “It is finished,” because, truly, His thighs could lift Him no more. There was no strength left. He suffocated as a result of His thighs wasting away. This is why the two thieves next to Yeshua had their legs broken. It was so they could push themselves up no more and  would indeed suffocate.

He held no credibility with them.  Yet there will be no mistaking his word, credibility, or authority, at his second coming.  His thigh will make it very clear.  

REVELATION 19

 15 Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS

But what of His abdomen? For it says…NUM 5 and thy abdomen to swell;

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Our lungs expand towards the least resistance given.  In a relaxed state, that expansion is downward.  Our Savior had been up all night in a mock trial, plus we know he was stressed because his sweat was mixed with blood, the night of praying in the garden.   Luke 22:44

He didn’t enter this day on a good night’s sleep, on a nice mattress. So he has been up over 24 hours,after being smacked around by the Pharisees, and having his beard pulled, he gets beat up by the Roman soldiers, then presented to his people, with a crown of thorns. Then he gets flogged to the point of hardly having human recognition. 

 Then he has to carry the weight of his own cross.  Every breath he took on the cross was in weakness, not strength. His lungs filled with fluids while hanging on the cross why in the hands of the Romans.   The shear weight of the lungs would have been enough to push down on the abdomen and push it out.  His stomach  was pushed out just like in the curse given to the unfaithful wife in Numbers 5:21.  

 

NUMBERS 5:27

And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

 He was brought before the Sanhedrin just like the woman was to be brought before the priest. No witnesses for proof with Pilate, and Pilate found no fault and declared it.

LUKE 23

4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

Thus the need for Him to drink the cup – to prove the guilt

 He endured the bitter suffering on the cross and the punishment of the unfaithful spouse who was defiled.  He took the curse mentioned in :

NUMBERS 5

23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness 

and nailed it to the cross, just like it was mentioned in

 COLOSSIANS 2

14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross

GALATIANS 3 : CHRIST REDEEMED US 

13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.   

LUKE 22 : JESUS PRAYS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 

39And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. 40And when he was at the place, he said to them, Pray that you enter not into temptation. 41And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done. 43And there appeared an angel to him from heaven, strengthening him. 44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.45And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, 46And said to them, Why sleep you? rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.  

This was the cup Jesus drank in the Garden of Gethsemene.

He had to drink from the cup, the cup of bitter water, that was to given to the wife, accused of adultery, as prescribed by the law

He knew what the outcome of the cup would bring,  therefore he prayed for it be taken away, while in the Garden of Gethsemane… Matthew 26:39

 Romans 7 : Released from the Law (Continued)

4Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

 

His Righteousness was ascribed to us.

Our Sin was ascribed to Him.

Ephraim = “double fruit”

Ephraim was referred to as the Northern Kingdom of Israel

Ephraim was the son of Joseph born to him in Egypt.  

He was named Ephraim because He was fruitful in the land of the affliction.

The Holy Spirit allows us to produce the 2nd (double) portion of the fruit.

6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

God’s Law is Holy

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Struggling with Sin

13Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. 17Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 3 : Justified by Faith

21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God has 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; 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.

27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. 28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish the law.

Propitiation

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Where the sacrificial animal (innocent lamb) comes under God’s Wrath as it is killed.

Through Faith in his Blood, we are now Justified (declared Righteous) in Christ, 

Jesus received God’s Wrath on the Cross and our Faith in him counts the Debt and Wrath of the Law satisfied. 

We gain Pardon and Acquittal (forgiveness) from Judgement  

He Redeemed us from the Curse of the Law, being made a Curse for us. (Numbers 5)

Not because we deserved it, through adherence to the Law, but through our Faith in the one who did fulfill all Righteousness on our behalf.

We are Reconciled to God, and brought back into Covenant relationship with Him, and can take part in the Promises which is our Hope. 

Colossians 3 : Put on the New Man

1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which you also walked some time, when you lived in them. 8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Our Old Man, Adam, is baptized into death, and we are raised into newness of life in him.

He came as the word, to die in our place.  

He divorced Israel because of Adultery

2 Kings 17 : Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry

5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.  7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

•  8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
•  9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 
• 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 
  • 11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and worked wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 
• 12For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 
• 13Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
•  14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
•  15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 
• 16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 
• 17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 
• 18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

The only way the old covenant could be annulled was through death of either partner.  

This was his goal, to die as the Son of God, to restore that which was lost, his Sheep, the Northern Kingdom of Israel, whom God Divorced after years of rebellion.

He considered Israel His Bride.

This was a great mystery to all the priests and rabbis.  

They wondered how can He remarry the very one He divorced and declared to have given herself over to prostitution.  

God can not break the very righteous laws that define his own Righteousness.  

Breaking the law of God is Sin, the law defines sin according to God’s own words.  

God cannot Sin.  How then can God remarry the lost sheep of Israel without breaking His own Law?

 Romans 7 : Released from the Law(Galatians 3:15-25)

1Know you not, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 

Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it stays alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. 

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He took the bitter curse of the Adulterous Woman on the cross in our place so we could be reconciled to Him.

For as many as are Under the Works of the Law are Under the Curse: (Alchemist)

• Since we are Alive in Him we are in Debt now ( – ) 
  • to Crucify the Works of the Flesh (the old Man, Adam)
    • Adultery
      • Fornication
      • Uncleanness
      • Lasciviousness
      • Idolatry
      • Hatred
      • Variance
      • Emulations
      • Witchcraft
      • Wrath
      • Strife
      • Seditions
      • Heresies
      • Envyings
      • Murder
      • Drunkenness
      • Revellings

so we can live and be led by the Spirit.

Just as you cannot be Justified by the Works of the Law

• neither can you be Justified by Discipline
  • but is an expression of the fact that you have been Reconciled to Him.

The Law was Added  +  because of Transgressions,

The Law is Not Sin, but it gives Life to it, by defining what Sin is.  

SIN is an Archers term for “missing the mark”

If there was no mark or target, there would be no way of distinguishing if they were aiming (going) in the right direction

God gave us a Scope to look throughso we don’t miss and fall short 

Sin aka Missing the Mark / Target / The Bulls Eye:  Which is Righteousness through Faith

He is the Finisher of our Faith:

He already Hit the mark / target for us which is Righteousness and Holiness, by fulfilling the requirements of the Law

We just have to follow the same path he carved for us on the Cross

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• by abiding in Him through His Holy Spirit which dwells in our hearts and circumcises it from the reproach of the flesh
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• and works to kill the works of the flesh
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We know longer are in bondage to serve dead works.

We are old self is dead in Christ and we are born again through His spirit so we can serve the Living God.

Alchemy is the “Dark Art” which came from Egypt, where God called His people out of.

It stems from trying to accomplish personal redemption through their own own works.

• “The Cross”
  • is the Alchemical symbol for “the 4 Elements” 
• “Bulls Eye” / “Target”
  • is the Alchemical symbol for “the Sun”

 Galatians 4 : Sons and Heirs (Genesis 21:1-8; Romans 8:12-17)
3Even so we, when we were children,

• were in bondage under the elements of the world:
  • 4But when the fullness of the time was come,
    • God sent forth his Son,
      • made of a woman,
      • made under the law, 
    • 5To redeem them that were under the law,
      • that we might receive the adoption of sons. 
    • 6And because you are sons,
    • God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son
      • into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
• 7Why you are no more a servant,
  • but a son;
  • and if a son,
    • then an heir of God through Christ.

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8However, then, when you knew not God,

• you did service to them which by nature are no gods. 

9But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God,

• how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements,
• whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?   

19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

. 9 And the LORD said unto Joshua,

This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.

Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. 

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• Not through a picture, artwork, or a graven image.

Jesus (the Light) made in God’s Righteous Image

• Gave the Law and Instructions for the Tabernacle to Moses
  • The Law and Tabernacle were
    • Shadows of good things to come
      • but not the very image
    • a shadow
      • is an sketch/outline cast by an object and representing the form of that object
      • It is shade caused by interception of light
        • The Light was intercepted by Sin which lives in the flesh
        • which cast the shadow and made the Law weak 

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Tabernacle	New Temple
Moreover Moses sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.   the table of bread the golden lampstand

Hebrews 9 : The Earthly Tabernacle  (Exodus 25:1-9; Exodus 40:1-33)

1Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 2For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the show bread; which is called the sanctuary. 3And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

6Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Redemption through His Blood

11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: 14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives. 18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined to you. 21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.27And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation.Hebrews 7 : Melchizedek and Abraham  (Genesis 14:17-24)

1For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 2To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like to the Son of God; stays a priest continually.

4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 5And truly they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: 6But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. 7And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. 8And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives. 9And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. 10For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

Jesus a Priest Like Melchizedek

11If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there rises another priest, 16Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

17For he testifies, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

18For there is truly a cancellation of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near to God. 20And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

21(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25Why he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for ever more.

 

The Word who became flesh had his flesh torn and His blood shed and body broken on the cross.

He came in Sinful flesh and yet lived without sin and became the sacrificial lamb without blemish.

His flesh represented the vail being torn in the temple

^[h5632]  פֹּרֶכֶת pôreketh, po-reh’-keth;  25 in 23   a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen:—vail.

Hebrews 10 : Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All  (Psalm 147:1-20; Romans 3:1-8)

1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5Why when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:

6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.

7Then said I, See, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.

8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, See, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

 A Call to Persevere  (Jude 1:17-23)

19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21And having an high priest over the house of God; 22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24And let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works: 25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

26For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, said the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;33Partly, whilst you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used. 34For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. 36For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

 The Radicle

the first thing that emerges from the seed and the embryonic root that grows downward into the soil. 

 The Cross

 

 

Romans 6 : Dead to Sin, Alive to God (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)

1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

 Deuteronomy 6 : The Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:34-40; Mark 12:28-34)

1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it: 2That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey. 4Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. 6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9And you shall write them on the posts of your house, and on your gates.    

Many churches today say we should not fear and that Jesus told us not to fear. This is true but they don’t preach the other side of the paradox which has led to hypocrisy and contradictions.

Sermons have turned into self-help seminars about pursuing your passions, goals, and dreams. They have turned abundance into so material possessions and comfort. They have turned Jesus telling us not to fear, into meaning we should not fear whatever comes our way while pursuing our own pursuits.

Our churches are no longer based on The Law of God. The floods have come and left our churches desolate. We have been led by bad shepherds who have left us wondering around aimlessly. Our fruit has dried up. We are starving for truth. The joy has been sucked out of our lives leaving us tired and exhausted.

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We have been inundated with messages, that despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion…which is defined as a Paradox.  

Half truths.   Half truths = A Whole Lie  

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“Correction and chastening” in regards to doctrine and the gospel, is now deemed “judging, hatred, negativity, and division”.

Speaking of “God’s judgement” will get you labeled as a “fear monger”.       

They have turned “abundance” into meaning “worldy abundance” and possessions.

Psalm 25 : The Fear of the Lord

12 Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. 13 His soul will abide in prosperity, And his descendants will inherit the land.14 The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant.

Does the Bible contradict itself?  NO

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The Word of God is written Paradoxically

luke 12 : Fearing God Alone 

4And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, which after he has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him. 6Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? 7But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.

Jesus clearly stating this paradox here in Luke 12  

• The only way to not be fearful, is to fear :: You Cannot, Not Fear
• The only way to address fear, is with fear.

He tells us to:

• Fear God, so we will not be afraid.  
• Fear God, so we will not worry.
• Fear God, so we will not fear anything else.

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He did not say: Don’t worry, Be Happy

Again, this was established right after God gave Israel the 10 commandments on Mt. Sinai

Exodus 20 : 20

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Acts 28 : Paul Preaches at Rome

23And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,

26Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive: 27For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 

2 TIMOTHY 4 : PREACH THE WORD 

1I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables.5But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.  

The hypocrisy is now starting to be exposed and judgement is beginning.

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Ezekial 34 : Prophecy against Israel’s Shepherds

1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD to the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock. 4The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them. 5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 8As I live, said the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; 9Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; 10Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

 “Grace”  has been construed into meaning we don’t have to worry about sin anymore. 

They have perverted “hope” in Christ into “hope” that God will fulfill your every dream and desire here on earth. They have perverted “faith” in meaning that when your faith is strong in Him you will succeed in making your dreams come true.

Psalm 119 : 

49Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope. 50This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.   52I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law. 54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts.

Philippians 2: Shining as Stars (Matthew 5:13-16)

12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good pleasure.

Jesus said no one knows the Day or Hour, yet He also says repeatedly, “Watch so that day will not come upon us unaware.”

If we do not watch, we will not not know when He is coming, and He will appoint our portion with unbelievers.

LUKE 12 :  Be Ready for Service

35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; 36And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately. 37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching: truly I say to you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them 

43Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he comes shall find so doing. 44Of a truth I say to you, that he will make him ruler over all that he has.  45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with unbelievers. 47And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more

“Freedom” has been construed to “financial freedom” and possessions.

True Freedom only comes through being a slave to Christ. 

If we don’t make ourselves slaves to Christ, then we are slaves to the rulers of this world who God is about to bring His wrath upon.

 LUKE 12 : Do Not Worry

31But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added to you. 32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Phillipians 4:13 

. 13I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. 

This verse has been perverted by many in thinking He will help me accomplish everything I desire. When you look at it in context, Paul was speaking of Christ strengthening Him to be content in all things.  Wanting Nothing.

Philippian Generosity

10But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again; wherein you were also careful, but you lacked opportunity.11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

Luke 1

50 And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation. 

Psalm 119 : 

49Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope. 50This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law. 52I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law. 54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts.

Philippians 2 : Knowing Christ Above All Else

7But whatever was an asset to me, I count as loss for the sake of Christ. 8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death, 11so that I may somehow attain to the resurrection from the dead.

When we understand these paradoxes, both of sides of our sword will be razor sharp

 Our sword will be be able to slay all the enemies trying to attack us.  We from now won’t be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; Our lamp will be running over.  

Romans 5 : Faith Brings Peace and Joy  (John 14:27-31)

1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us. 

Luke 18 : Parable of the Persistent Widow

1And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. 4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. 7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them? 8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?

“Faith” in Greek is translated as : 

πίστις pístis, pis’-tis;

 moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; truth itself:—assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.

 Conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it

Matthew 11

 7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

“A reed shaken in the wind” is a metaphor for lack of conviction and easily swayed by public opinion.

The world has perverted “love” into “acceptance” of all things directly opposed to the bible.

Don’t confuse “unity” in Christ with “unity” with world.

Psalm 86

11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

WE AFFIRM that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God”

• Hundreds Of Christian Leaders Denounce Anti-LGBTQ ‘Nashville Statement’ 
  
• This headline says it all :: Christian Leaders denounce what it clearly states in the Bible.

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In regards to LGBTQ :

• God define’s it as a sin.
• Point Blank, no questions asked.
• In fact it’s an abomination to Him.

I will never say that the God I serve says it’s acceptable. Does that mean I am judging them? No. Am I a hate monger? No. I am a sinner. The sins I deal with, I pray and ask for forgiveness from. With every fiber of my being I try to turn from them. I probably break some piece of the law every day.  When I began to abide in Christ, it exposed more of the sin in my life which led to a deeper conviction. The conviction lead me turning from that sin. That is literally what the Holy Spirit is for. My obedience to Him is the #1 priority in my life now. This is what his “grace” and “mercy” is for. The danger comes when you take advantage of that grace by not seeking Him and trying to learn to walk in His ways.

The last thing I would ever do, is promote or act as if they should be celebrated. When you profess to say your a Christian and celebrate a lifestyle God calls an abomination, this is what is defined as Hypocrisy at the highest level.

It is no different than saying “lying to everyone” is the lifestyle I choose and it should be celebrated.

 

1 John 2 : Jesus is Our Advocate

3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. 4If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: 6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

PSALM 19

7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. 

They have turned the bible into a massive contradiction.   

James 4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Luke 13 : A Call to Repentance (Joel 1:13-20; Amos 5:4-15; Zephaniah 2:1-3)

1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.2And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose you that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelled in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

Jude 2 : A Call to Persevere(Hebrews 10:19-39)

17But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 

The Law defines what Sin is and the Law works wrath.

 

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Many people hold on to the lie that 9 billion, diverse and socially conscious people, can create a unified and all inclusive utopian environment,  where we will all live in peace and harmony one day.  

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This is the most dangerous and ignorant world view imaginable.

The moment you accept Christ into your life you have entered into a battleground.  

LUKE 12 : NOT PEACE, BUT DIVISION

51Suppose you that I am come to give PEACE on earth?   I tell you, No; but rather DIVISION:

The only appropriate response to God’s holiness is fear, which is essential to wisdom and true faith, as well as wholehearted devotion and obedience.

• It means that we should fear the consequences of not being obedient to what He commands us to do.
• To abide in Him is the only way to escape the wrath to come.
• Fear of Godleads to obedience, which sets our paths straight.
• Obedience leads to confidence and rightrelationship with Him.
• That confidence leads to comfort, peace, and joy.
• When we are obedient and walk in the ways He has set before us, He gives everything we need, and our lamps will be burning bright, running over.
• When we see the horrors that are coming on the earth now, we can take comfort in knowing that his wrath is coming on the disobedient and lawless ones.

Churches teach that the old testament no longer applies since Jesus came which is categorically not true.  

Everything in the Old Testament still applies.

Jesus came to fulfill the Law.  When we accept Him into our heart, he fills our heart with His Holy Spirit, which writes the Law on our hearts.   If we abide in Him and his commandments, we will be saved from the wrath to come.  

Romans 4

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

GALATIANS 5 : LIVING BY THE SPIRIT(Romans 8:9-11)

16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would. 18But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Contentions, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

22But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness  & temperance: against such there is no law.  24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

REVELATION 2 : TO THE CHURCH IN EPHESUS

4But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. 5Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

The will of God is to keep His commandments.   Jesus did everything in accordance to the Law and the will of the Father.  TO LOVE GOD IS TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS! This is what Jesus was referring to when speaking with the Church of Ephesus.

JOHN 14 : JESUS PROMISES THE HOLY SPIRIT

15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and He will be in you. 18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19In a little while, the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

So what is the difference between David and Solomon’s disobedience that lead to the Division of the Kingdom?  David was not perfect but He sought God with all his heart.  He was constantly striving to do God’s will and not his own.  He prayed that God would teach Him to learn to walk in His ways and asked God to show Him his heart.  Which is what we should be doing.  He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

  When David sinned with Beersheba, He had to deal with consequences, and suffered greatly for it.  

When I sinned greatly in respect to God’s Law concerning relationships outside of marriage, I suffered greatly for it.  Solomon, as well as the Northern Kingdom, continued to walk in their own ways and do what was right in their own eyes. Putting everything but God 1st.  

We, as the Northern Kingdom (Lost Sheep) have been in exile for 2730 years because of this very reason.  

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What was the 1st thing the Southern Kingdom did when returning from Babylonian Captivity?

Re-Read the LAW.

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