I know you're trying to help and I appreciate it, really. What you write is superfluous to me however. I have said over and over "The works of the law does not bring righteousness or justification." But all people seem to see that when I write is something about the law they pick a fight about something that I didn’t say about the law, like “you want to be under it” or something of that nature.
What I am endorsing is that God has given faith, plus the law, and many other things that are beneficial to us when used in the way He originally intended. I just would like Christians to understand that whatever God gives His children is important in their proper place, according to God’s will, and His love for us.
Is it really true that Christians are denying certain things that God has given us, to exemplify other things He has given because that’s what we desire, and prefer? Everything we have is from God. Rhetorically, why do we fight to negate some of those things?
All of what God has given is important in it proper place. His creation all works in coordination with other aspects of creation, just like everything else concerning believing in Him. Do we really not understand this?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (KJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
[SUP]17 [/SUP]that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Proverbs 11:1 (KJV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP]A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 16:11 (KJV)
[SUP]11 [/SUP]A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Proverbs 20:23 (KJV)
[SUP]23 [/SUP]Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Actually, I was not trying to help you, I was trying to show the difference between works of the law and works of faith.
I was more trying to put works of faith in its proper perspective. I have found most Christians have little understanding of what faith really is. This has been a life long pursuit of mine, to learn what God's kind of faith is, that I might walk as Jesus did, healing the sick, casting out demons, raising the dead, and the like.
Fulfilling the law is the beginning of the Christian walk in Christ Jesus. We should strive to go to new heights, and we can't do that if we are stuck on the law. I'm not saying it's not important, only that it's for babes in Christ, the beginning of the walk. There is more to the Christian walk, and the covenant of God, than obedience to, and fulfillment of, the law, there are promises to believe and act upon.
Heb_8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Luk 7:1 Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
Luk 7:2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
Luk 7:3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.
Luk 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
Luk 7:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.
Mat 8:6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Mat 8:7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
Luk 7:6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luk 7:7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee:
but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.
Luk 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Luk 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you,
I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Mat 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,
Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Mat 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and
as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.
And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
What was this great faith the centurion displayed that made even Jesus marvel? This is the kind of faith that gets things done and the kind the devil respects and cannot stop. If Jesus commanded His disciples to; Mat_10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give
, then these are the things God is against and the very things Jesus suffered and died for.
1Jn_3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. God is not a hypocrite! He did not send Jesus to destroy the works of the devil only to put on you the very thing He came to destroy. WAKE UP PEOPLE OF GOD!!! Stop making excuses for the devil and start defending God's work on the Cross! It was not done in vain to them that believe.
