There are so many pharisees of today posing as scholars of just about everything. Many will say all we need in order to obey the law is to love, and this is true, if those who convey this message would only do and not just say this very important truth.
Another thing said is that all we need is to live Christ crucified for our sins, and this too is true, and when practiced in sincerity, of course this is all we need.
However since Yeshua ascended tot he Right Han of Power, and even before, people have worked to distort His teachings, and they have paganized just about all who believe with notions Jesus would never have taught.
You think you know what Judaizing is and you think you fight it by paganizing. So deaf and blind are you, hypocrites.
truly the distorters of the Gospel given By Jesus Christ, are why the judaizers were wrong. while the distorters of today have went the other way they arent judaizing the gospel, they are teaching that the Gospel is some new version 2 of the Law therefore its irrelevant to us because were "dead to the law" anyone who will not believe the word of Jesus Christ on any matter and take that as the authority over any christian, infact the authority of the entirety of Heaven and earth, has missed it.
the gog has gone the other way from judaizers, claiming the opposite end of the spectrum, that the gospel really isny the gospel when you really look into what they are saying, no need to follow the Law, no need to follow the Gospel, Just only believe Jesus died for you. another thing thats essential and what Need, is the words teachings and commands of Jesus along with His death and resurrection and His ascention. thats all we need But His words spoken before His sacrifice, those arent something we can live without, just as much as the knowledge that He died and rose and ascended and Lives as our advocate now and the One mediator , the High priest.
the cross is the start of the war its our suit of armor, our shield of faith, Our battle plan though, that is found in the words of Jesus. its all relevant all important and all true all necassary. with that said were accountable for what we learn not what another person has learned. we grow, and so does our role in the battle the more we grow in understanding the more we act upon that understanding. notice this that paul wrote about the spirit and the flesh and remember that He is writing it to the church after He has explained about being baptized into Jesus death, being dead to the moisaic Law, and being made new ect.
romans 8:
That 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 ye 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 dwelleth in you.12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
see how paul is talking to the " brethren? and How recieving the spirit isnt the victory but minding the spirit, following the spirit being led by the spirit is where victory comes in, Notice How hes speaking straight to the church explaining we are debtors not to the flesh but to the spirit, for to mind the flesh is death but if you kill the deeds of the flesh you will live?
when we receive the spirit it is the power to overcome, the way to overcome is to follow that spirit, and that spirit will always refer to Jesus teachings and commands His words, everything He taught in the gospel. when we receive the spirit its the start of an inner war we can follow the flesh spirit of adam, or the spirit of God that comes from Jesus. Notice the conflict
galatians 5:16-21 "This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, 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.
again this is no different from the first quote there Paul istalking to people who have received the spirit, yet He is still explaining and warning that we have to repent and if we live in the ways of the flesh described there, we do not have any inheritance in Gods Kingdom of eternal Life. receiving the spirit is the power to be children of God, to be children of God and find security we have the duty as debtors to Christ, to put those old things of sin to death in our life, just another way to say " repent of our sins" or another way to say it is to stop commiting those things we know are sinful as we are taught, we repent as we grow in undrstanding, more repentance comes to our duty. its the beginning of the war for our Lives, were equipped for victory, but to deny our place in the battle being equipped and refuse to go to war with the flesh by following the battle cry of the spirit, well be left dead on the battle field. Jesus crucified is essential but so is all the rest. Jesus words have every bit of importance because He shed His blood and rose again. just like were taught about the armor of God and guarding against the enemies attacks. were told of our equipment for the war for a reason, were warned of the devil who goes about like a roaring Lion looking to devour whoever he can for a reason were warned again and again for a reason, because were in a battle for life and death.
