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AMEN to that......it is pure idiocy to think that Paul's words are not of equal weight and or value to the words of JESUS......Why do I say this....BECAUSE JESUS TAUGHT PAUL BY DIRECT REVELATION AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD INSPIRED PAUL TO PEN WHAT WAS PENNED......IT is equally OBVIOUS that the MANY things JESUS had to say to his disciples, but they were NOT YET READY to "hear" it, ARE FOUND IN THE BOOKS THAT PAUL WROTE....
ANOTHER ABSOLUTE TRUTH that gets denied, swept under the rug, rejected, thrown in the trash etc....is the SIMPLE TRUTH that JESUS was born, lived and DIED under the LAW which RATIFIED the NEW COVENANT that is EXPOUNDED by PAUL UNDER INSPIRATION.....THE WORDS of JESUS must be understood in the LIGHT of this truth.....
ANOTHER ABSOLUTE TRUTH that gets denied, swept under the rug, rejected, thrown in the trash etc....is the SIMPLE TRUTH that JESUS was born, lived and DIED under the LAW which RATIFIED the NEW COVENANT that is EXPOUNDED by PAUL UNDER INSPIRATION.....THE WORDS of JESUS must be understood in the LIGHT of this truth.....
No one, saved or otherwise is equipped to judge God's laws or cammandments. All are invited to learn of Jesus Christ how they are to be understood and applied.
Yet we have folks judging His wisdom, for His law is wisdom. To judge His law is judging Him, and that is a bad place to be.
Jesus explains all, as I have passed on before many times, how to approach the law, what the three principles are to be applied and how the commandments are to be obeyed, even under grace.
Several people here are posting hyper-grace doctrines created by flesh giving interpretations sto a line here and a line there with no regard to our Teacher's teaching......
Yet we have folks judging His wisdom, for His law is wisdom. To judge His law is judging Him, and that is a bad place to be.
Jesus explains all, as I have passed on before many times, how to approach the law, what the three principles are to be applied and how the commandments are to be obeyed, even under grace.
Several people here are posting hyper-grace doctrines created by flesh giving interpretations sto a line here and a line there with no regard to our Teacher's teaching......
Exactly. I'm not sure how anyone can even consider Paul's words are not coming straight from Jesus Himself. The Bible is like no other book on the planet and God took care to establish and keep it for allllll these years.
Many people also think that the words in "red" in the Bible are more important than the other words in the Bible. And there is no way to try to talk a person out of this. It takes a "change of mind" to start to see this after one has been believing a certain way for years.
Just because other Christians we respect and have learned from have thought this for years doesn't make it true. Somehow people put more weight on other people's opinions than the "one on one" teaching the Holy Spirit desires to do in each of us as we read the Bible ourselves and live out our lives in and through Him.
It's not something anyone else can do for us. Repentance means getting a change of mind from our way of thinking to God's way of thinking. Then repentance will = the mind of Christ. We're to be seeking to have the mind of Christ in all matters of life. Even if our old ways are full of warm and cozy traditions that sustained our families for years..... we will find that Jesus ways are much more warm and cozy giving us the true security we thirst for each day., than anything we ever had before.
[FONT="]The scriptures declare again and again that faith has nothing in common with law, and living under one nullifies the other. So what is Paul saying here? Is he contradicting himself when he says faith establishes the law? Here’s the same verse in another translation:[/FONT]
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Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law. (Rom 3:31 , NASB)[/FONT]
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We agree with Paul who said the law is holy, righteous and good (Rom 7:12). And we also agree with him when he says the law is not for the righteous but the sinner and ungodly (1 Tim 1:9). The law is a signpost to Jesus (Gal 3:24).[/FONT]
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Paul says again and again that we are to live by faith, not law, but living by faith does not make one anti-law. On the contrary, it is by faith that we establish or support the law.[/FONT]
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How do we establish or uphold the law? By trusting in Jesus who kept the law perfectly and by whose perfect sacrifice we are made righteous:[/FONT]
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So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. (Gal 3:24-25, TNIV)[/FONT]
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Those who trust in their law-keeping performance may scorn those of us who are walking by grace, but the fact is we are 100% lawful while they are the lawbreakers.[/FONT]
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You do NOT establish the law by:[/FONT]
You DO uphold the law by putting your faith in the One who fulfilled all the righteous requirements of the law on your behalf and who offers you his perfect righteousness as a gift.[/FONT]
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Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (Rom 10:4)[/FONT]
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Romans 3:31 says we uphold the law by faith. Period. If you’re not convinced, it may help to look at the verse in context:[/FONT]
The Jews were misusing the law. They thought it made them righteous and pleasing to God. Paul wrote to correct this:[/FONT]
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No one is righteous. All have sinned and fall short – even the law-loving Jews. The law doesn’t make you righteous; it makes you conscious of sin so that you may be justified freely by grace. (my paraphrase of Romans 3)[/FONT]
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Live by the law and you dishonor both it and Jesus. According to Romans 7, living by the law is spiritual adultery. It’s cheating on the One who died to set you free from the law’s heavy demands .[/FONT]
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The law points to Jesus. If you are relying on Christ and his perfect work, then you uphold the law and honor the reason for which it was given.
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Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law. (Rom 3:31 , NASB)[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paul was slandered as someone who spoke against the law. He was labeled with the dreaded A-word: antinomian, meaning anti- or against the law. This is his response to that baseless accusation.
We agree with Paul who said the law is holy, righteous and good (Rom 7:12). And we also agree with him when he says the law is not for the righteous but the sinner and ungodly (1 Tim 1:9). The law is a signpost to Jesus (Gal 3:24).[/FONT]
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Paul says again and again that we are to live by faith, not law, but living by faith does not make one anti-law. On the contrary, it is by faith that we establish or support the law.[/FONT]
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How do we establish or uphold the law? By trusting in Jesus who kept the law perfectly and by whose perfect sacrifice we are made righteous:[/FONT]
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So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. (Gal 3:24-25, TNIV)[/FONT]
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Those who trust in their law-keeping performance may scorn those of us who are walking by grace, but the fact is we are 100% lawful while they are the lawbreakers.[/FONT]
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You do NOT establish the law by:[/FONT]
- trying to keep it (you can’t)
- adopting it as a standard for holy living (it’s a recipe for inferior living, see Heb 10:1)
- mixing it with grace (you’ll end up lukewarm and alienated from Christ)
- thinking your rule-keeping pleases the Lord (trusting in your flesh never pleases him)
- posting it on your Sunday School wall (it’s a ministry that condemns!)
- telling yourself “it’s part of our Christian heritage” (it never was!)
You DO uphold the law by putting your faith in the One who fulfilled all the righteous requirements of the law on your behalf and who offers you his perfect righteousness as a gift.[/FONT]
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Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (Rom 10:4)[/FONT]
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Romans 3:31 says we uphold the law by faith. Period. If you’re not convinced, it may help to look at the verse in context:[/FONT]
- verse 28: You are justified by faith, not by law
- verse 29: In any case only one nation received the law, yet God is God of all
- verse 30: God will justify both the Jew and non-Jew by faith
- verse 31: Does that mean God’s gift to the Jews was wasted? Not at all! As long as you end up with Jesus, then you uphold the law
The Jews were misusing the law. They thought it made them righteous and pleasing to God. Paul wrote to correct this:[/FONT]
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No one is righteous. All have sinned and fall short – even the law-loving Jews. The law doesn’t make you righteous; it makes you conscious of sin so that you may be justified freely by grace. (my paraphrase of Romans 3)[/FONT]
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Live by the law and you dishonor both it and Jesus. According to Romans 7, living by the law is spiritual adultery. It’s cheating on the One who died to set you free from the law’s heavy demands .[/FONT]
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The law points to Jesus. If you are relying on Christ and his perfect work, then you uphold the law and honor the reason for which it was given.
(Taken from Bible commentary posts)[/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Yahanan /John 2:3-7, “And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands. The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Yah has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked. Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the Word which you heard from the beginning.”[/FONT]
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Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Yah and possessing the witness of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Messiah."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Revelation 14:12-13, “Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]and the belief of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]. And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they rest from their labors, and their works follow with them.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Yahanan /John 2:3-7, “And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands. The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Yah has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked. Beloved, I write no fresh command to you, but an old command which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the Word which you heard from the beginning.”[/FONT]
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Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Yah and possessing the witness of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Messiah."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Revelation 14:12-13, “Here is the endurance of the set-apart ones, here are those guarding the commands of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]and the belief of [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהושע[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]. And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, in order that they rest from their labors, and their works follow with them.”[/FONT]
I must point out that in Romans you will read from Paul that faith establishes the law. Now, what is established is not dead but confirmed.
The enormous problem it seems with so many is they do not consult Jesus Christ, His teaching, His elaborations, and most of all, His example.
If people wish to ignore Jesus Christ in favor of quoting Paul's letters to specific assemblies with specific problems being addressed, then, so be it, however much anguish ad uncertainty is completely and instaqntly alleviated when we learn from God, that is Jesus Christ Who has invited all who will to learn directly from Him. Paul did this.
The enormous problem it seems with so many is they do not consult Jesus Christ, His teaching, His elaborations, and most of all, His example.
If people wish to ignore Jesus Christ in favor of quoting Paul's letters to specific assemblies with specific problems being addressed, then, so be it, however much anguish ad uncertainty is completely and instaqntly alleviated when we learn from God, that is Jesus Christ Who has invited all who will to learn directly from Him. Paul did this.
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 5:18, "I say to you; Unless heaven and earth passes away, one yodh; the smallest of the letters will in no way pass from the Law, until all things are perfected."
Revelation 21:1, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 22:37-40, "Yahshua said to him: You must love YHWH your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deut 6:5) This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Lev 19:18) On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 24:35, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but My teachings will not pass away.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Luke 16:16-17, "The Law and the Prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of YHWH is preached, and every man is pressed to enter it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one yodh of the Law to fail." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Daniyl 7:25, "And he will speak great words against YHWH, and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the saints of YHWH, and think to change times and Laws…" [/FONT]
Revelation 21:1, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 22:37-40, "Yahshua said to him: You must love YHWH your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deut 6:5) This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Lev 19:18) On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Mat 24:35, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but My teachings will not pass away.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Luke 16:16-17, "The Law and the Prophets were until John, since that time the Kingdom of YHWH is preached, and every man is pressed to enter it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one yodh of the Law to fail." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Daniyl 7:25, "And he will speak great words against YHWH, and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the saints of YHWH, and think to change times and Laws…" [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I believe It is those that think Paul taught not to follow the Law of the Creator is what is causing the error…[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 24:14, "But I confess this to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so I worship the Father of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:25, "Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 21:24, "Take them, and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that those things they were informed about you (forsaking the Law), were lies, and that you (Paul), yourself, walk orderly, and keep the Law."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Corinthians 7:19, "For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of Yah?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:28, "For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:31, "Are we then doing away with the Law through the faith? By no means! Rather, we establish the Law!"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:7, Shall we therefore say that the Law is sin? No! By no means! But to the contrary, I did not know sin; transgression of the Law, except through the Law, for I did not know lust, unless the Law had said: Do not covet."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:12, "Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandments are holy, and just, and righteous."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ephesians 6:2-3, "Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with a promise: That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 24:14, "But I confess this to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so I worship the Father of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:25, "Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Acts 21:24, "Take them, and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that those things they were informed about you (forsaking the Law), were lies, and that you (Paul), yourself, walk orderly, and keep the Law."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1 Corinthians 7:19, "For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of Yah?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:28, "For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 3:31, "Are we then doing away with the Law through the faith? By no means! Rather, we establish the Law!"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 6:1-2, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:7, Shall we therefore say that the Law is sin? No! By no means! But to the contrary, I did not know sin; transgression of the Law, except through the Law, for I did not know lust, unless the Law had said: Do not covet."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Romans 7:12, "Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandments are holy, and just, and righteous."[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ephesians 6:2-3, "Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with a promise: That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."[/FONT]
None of the Christians here are saying do not obey. What IS being said is we obey through the righteousness of faith in Christ. Not the righteousness of faith in ourselves and the very works we do as we glorify the law given by Moses.
I suppose until a person actually sees how this is done in their lives., they can't understand that once the Holy Spirit is involved in our life., we see how weak and beggarly the works of obedience done before He took over were just wood hay and stubble. They were done in order to please God yet bypassed the righteousness of faith IN Christ and His finished work in us and for us.
We go to God IN Christ. We do the works in and through the Holy Spirit who daily changes us into the image of Jesus each day. That's the Holy Spirit's job... to point us to Jesus (not ourselves)
He always gives us the power to do the obedience of faith and so live soberly., righteously and Godly in this present world. The very grace of God IN Christ teaches us this. Not the works of the law. It's the good news that Jesus brought. The law came by Mosses.,, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 1:16-18 specifically focus on verse 17....
For while the law was given through Moses, grace (unearned., undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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17 [/SUP]For while the Law was given through Moses, grace ([SUP][a][/SUP]unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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18 [/SUP]No man has ever seen God at any time; the only [SUP][b][/SUP]unique Son, or [SUP][c][/SUP]the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known].
It does take that initial stepping over and out of our learned way of living and doing for God and into the realm of the Spirit and how He teaches us how to do in the realm of faith. By the works of the law no flesh can be justified. Those who follow the law are seeking to please God but it doesn't please God. Faith pleases God. Without faith., it is impossible to please God. Faith in what? faith in HIS SON Jesus who did the works perfectly. And He even said greater works will we do when He leaves and sends His Holy Spirit. WOW
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you say all this yet in the Covenant ratified in the blood of Yahshua, YHWH says He will put it in our hearts to love and walk in His law.... I trust Him and am living proof of this.
Ezekiel 11:19-21, “And I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Strength. But to those whose hearts walk after the heart of their disgusting matters and their abominations, I shall recompense their deeds on their own heads,” declares the Master יהוה.”
Jeremiah 31:33, "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israyl: After those days, says YHWH: I will put My Law (Torah/Instructions) in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their Strength, and they will be My people."
Hebrews 10:16, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says YHWH: I will put My Law into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.”
Romans 7:25, “Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin.”
Ezekiel 11:19-21, “And I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Strength. But to those whose hearts walk after the heart of their disgusting matters and their abominations, I shall recompense their deeds on their own heads,” declares the Master יהוה.”
Jeremiah 31:33, "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israyl: After those days, says YHWH: I will put My Law (Torah/Instructions) in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and I will be their Strength, and they will be My people."
Hebrews 10:16, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says YHWH: I will put My Law into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.”
Romans 7:25, “Thanks be to YHWH, I have deliverance through Yahshua Messiah our King! So then, with this same mind, I myself serve the Law of YHWH, while in the flesh that is yet subject to the law of sin.”
I seriously think most of you guys are not reading the posts of others here at all. Although you keep posting verse after verse about the law and how it will not pass away..., you are missing what is being said about the law and about Jesus. And this makes the conversation fruitless because it's simply one way. You have to read what others are trying to say before you can judge what they are actually saying. If you would do this., you would see that the Bible is being upheld in it's truth 100%.
It's a living Word. It's like no other book. The Holy Spirit teaches us using it to lead and guide us through the world and it's situations. But it takes the Holy Spirit to show us how to rightly divide it and shine a light into the meanings making it alive. Heb.4:12 And this cannot be done without the Holy Spirit. The Bible is only alive and full of power through the activity of the HolySpirit. It takes Him to do this. It is HIM who makes it... active energizing...effective...sharper than any two edged sword... penetrating to the dividing line of soul and spirit.,joints and marrow of the deepest parts of our nature exposing and sifting analyzing and judging the very thoughts and intents and purposes of the heart
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Without the Holy Spirit doing this., it's just reading words on a page and any religious monk or priest or organization can do that.
It's a living Word. It's like no other book. The Holy Spirit teaches us using it to lead and guide us through the world and it's situations. But it takes the Holy Spirit to show us how to rightly divide it and shine a light into the meanings making it alive. Heb.4:12 And this cannot be done without the Holy Spirit. The Bible is only alive and full of power through the activity of the HolySpirit. It takes Him to do this. It is HIM who makes it... active energizing...effective...sharper than any two edged sword... penetrating to the dividing line of soul and spirit.,joints and marrow of the deepest parts of our nature exposing and sifting analyzing and judging the very thoughts and intents and purposes of the heart
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12 [/SUP]For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the [SUP][a][/SUP]breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Without the Holy Spirit doing this., it's just reading words on a page and any religious monk or priest or organization can do that.