Three major things the legalistic Pharisees didn't recognize.
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[SUP]Exodus 20:24-26
24 [/SUP]An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Key spiritual "judgments" highlighted in red.
What do hewn stones represent?
What does ones nakedness represent?
24 [/SUP]An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Key spiritual "judgments" highlighted in red.
What do hewn stones represent?
What does ones nakedness represent?
[SUP]Exodus 21:2-6
2 [/SUP]If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
in the seventh = the spiritual completeness of the Father's perfection.
a wife = the bride belongs to the Master (His church)
the (faithful) servant = Christ Jesus
his ear = the sign of the covenant
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; Revelation 2:17
This is "Faith" revealed in the law that the hypocritical Pharisees omitted by only focusing on the physical self righteous acts.
2 [/SUP]If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
in the seventh = the spiritual completeness of the Father's perfection.
a wife = the bride belongs to the Master (His church)
the (faithful) servant = Christ Jesus
his ear = the sign of the covenant
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; Revelation 2:17
This is "Faith" revealed in the law that the hypocritical Pharisees omitted by only focusing on the physical self righteous acts.
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Let me put some ideas around this concept. We sin because we inherit the fallen nature from Adam. Not biblical. Because Adam fell, we all fall, biblical. Because Adam was separated from God by sin, we are all born into this separation.
Another way of expressing this separation is being alone, feeling abandoned, shut out. So this is not unbiblical, it is using different language to describe emotionally the state we are born into.
Now when we are born again we come into communion with the Lord, we are one with the Father, we are comforted, all our thoughts are understood, we are comforted, we are friends with God. So we are not alone, we are not shut out from love, we are healed, in a sense we are eternal, born into the Kingdom. Again 100% biblical.
Now how is after years of seminary training you are blind to these emotional realities. Maybe because the language is stripped of emotional involvement, the Abba Father is taken out, and all that is left is intellectual ideas. That is a very dry place for a place full of love and acceptance, sensitivity and care.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.Psalm 23:4
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:2
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.
Psalm 27:5
Love never fails.
1 cor 13:8
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age
Matt 28:20
that all of them may be one
John 17:21
So saving people from their sins is just a sacrament, with single defined language, with no consequences or emotional perspectives.
I love x because ......... Each entry in the list does not preclude any other entry. I am dictated to that I can only come with this verse or that expression, anything else is wrong.
Have you ever fallen in love? There are a flow of words to express how you feel.
I love Jesus because he is beyond imagination, He is creator King, He is the word made flesh, He works through all of creation his love message to all of creation without pride or end or limitations. I love Jesus because He first loved me, I love Jesus because he found me worthy of His love and breathed live into me.
Is a theologian meant to say unless the exact phrase is in the bible it is heresy or wrong? If you do, I know you are a book worm bound by the words and not the meaning or the reality. The bible is not the complete work of salvation, just its testimony, a pointer to the disciple of where to go and what to listen to and the words to contemplate. As the apostles said if all Jesus said was written down, there are not enough books to cover it.
So no matter how you take this I celebrate what the Lord has done and the words I share. They are all 100% biblical. The trouble is in the attempt to separate humanism from faith, you have thrown away some of the reality Jesus is bringing.
Another way of expressing this separation is being alone, feeling abandoned, shut out. So this is not unbiblical, it is using different language to describe emotionally the state we are born into.
Now when we are born again we come into communion with the Lord, we are one with the Father, we are comforted, all our thoughts are understood, we are comforted, we are friends with God. So we are not alone, we are not shut out from love, we are healed, in a sense we are eternal, born into the Kingdom. Again 100% biblical.
Now how is after years of seminary training you are blind to these emotional realities. Maybe because the language is stripped of emotional involvement, the Abba Father is taken out, and all that is left is intellectual ideas. That is a very dry place for a place full of love and acceptance, sensitivity and care.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.Psalm 23:4
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:2
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.
Psalm 27:5
Love never fails.
1 cor 13:8
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age
Matt 28:20
that all of them may be one
John 17:21
So saving people from their sins is just a sacrament, with single defined language, with no consequences or emotional perspectives.
I love x because ......... Each entry in the list does not preclude any other entry. I am dictated to that I can only come with this verse or that expression, anything else is wrong.
Have you ever fallen in love? There are a flow of words to express how you feel.
I love Jesus because he is beyond imagination, He is creator King, He is the word made flesh, He works through all of creation his love message to all of creation without pride or end or limitations. I love Jesus because He first loved me, I love Jesus because he found me worthy of His love and breathed live into me.
Is a theologian meant to say unless the exact phrase is in the bible it is heresy or wrong? If you do, I know you are a book worm bound by the words and not the meaning or the reality. The bible is not the complete work of salvation, just its testimony, a pointer to the disciple of where to go and what to listen to and the words to contemplate. As the apostles said if all Jesus said was written down, there are not enough books to cover it.
So no matter how you take this I celebrate what the Lord has done and the words I share. They are all 100% biblical. The trouble is in the attempt to separate humanism from faith, you have thrown away some of the reality Jesus is bringing.
