What does the Law REALLY say?
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Have I not said that God WROTE the Law UPON our mind? Does not Scripture say the same? So, no. The Law is not our conscious, but our conscious testifies to the fact that the Law is indeed written in our mind. By which, we have the 'to desire' to do that which is good. And what is that which is good to God? Has He not told us what is good?
And by Christ, we have been given the 'to accomplish that which is good' by God having given to us His Spirit.
By the Spirit and the Law within, we fulfill God's Will which has always been love.
And by Christ, we have been given the 'to accomplish that which is good' by God having given to us His Spirit.
By the Spirit and the Law within, we fulfill God's Will which has always been love.
As Paul said, I am dead and buried with Christ. So it is not I but Christ who lives in me, who loves me and strengthens me.
If you have the Spirit of Christ, then we are two united in the same cause. I would rather fight with the Spirit man and the words of truth than to keep having to work for people who can care less about how your children survive, as long as the bottom line is met.
I do not seek Him over there or here or out in the sky. If the kingdom is within me, then where is The Lord?
If you have the Spirit of Christ, then we are two united in the same cause. I would rather fight with the Spirit man and the words of truth than to keep having to work for people who can care less about how your children survive, as long as the bottom line is met.
I do not seek Him over there or here or out in the sky. If the kingdom is within me, then where is The Lord?
C
Within.
But, I look for Him in the sky coming with the angels and then He, and He alone, will bring in His kingdom and His rule and all the blessings which come with that.
Who am I, but a man in need of a King. Dare I build His heavenly Kingdom for Him? Will it not come with Him?
Until then, my Brother, do as you are commanded and love with what He has given you to love with.
But, I look for Him in the sky coming with the angels and then He, and He alone, will bring in His kingdom and His rule and all the blessings which come with that.
Who am I, but a man in need of a King. Dare I build His heavenly Kingdom for Him? Will it not come with Him?
Until then, my Brother, do as you are commanded and love with what He has given you to love with.
You must also realize what love is. It is first and for most undefinable. Keeping the commandments is love, but what does this mean?
Jesus said to love one another as He loved us, as His Father does by sending the sun to shine on the good and the bad. Thou shalt not's are not commandments written in the heart, but an added commandment because the law (love) was transgressed. You can only kill out of hate, which is defined by our world and what we see.
The law, or all those "thou shalt not's" is for the lawless or those that without them, would do them more. Or because of it, they exploit or take advantage of those who cannot for whatever reason live up to as mush of it as them. Mischief is truly framed on the law.
Jesus said to love one another as He loved us, as His Father does by sending the sun to shine on the good and the bad. Thou shalt not's are not commandments written in the heart, but an added commandment because the law (love) was transgressed. You can only kill out of hate, which is defined by our world and what we see.
The law, or all those "thou shalt not's" is for the lawless or those that without them, would do them more. Or because of it, they exploit or take advantage of those who cannot for whatever reason live up to as mush of it as them. Mischief is truly framed on the law.
If I tell you what that meant, you may be mad at me. But I leave you with this verse. May we be accounted worthy.
Obadiah 1:20-21
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Obadiah 1:20-21
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
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As I said, rhetorically, you are saying the written law is the same one God put in our hearts? A flawed law that is impossible for us to keep? You really have no clue what the perfect law of liberty is. That is sad, folks that don't understand things trying to teach them.
The law is the old covenant. Why is that so hard to see?
You really don't understand much of what you talk about.
The law is the old covenant. Why is that so hard to see?
You really don't understand much of what you talk about.
C
'Thou shalt not' defines Love. Love does not kill. Love does not steal. Love does no harm.
'Thou shalt not' defines God's essence: Love. Love for God will cause one not to have another god or use His name in vain.
But, do I say, we follow the written Law? Nay! Do I say we follow God's Law, which was Love all along, with the mind? Yes.
How many times have I said this? How many times have I said that the Lord's command is Love?
Yet, people only see me pointing to the written Law and not to the Law written upon our hearts and minds, the Law which fulfills God's will: Love.
By love, we fulfill those 'thou shalt nots' not by the flesh, but by our spirit. And this is the reason we are told to die to the flesh so that we can become alive to our spirit, seeing that the spirit tends to the things of the Spirit. And those things of the Spirit is fulfilling God's Will, just as our Lord did and requires of us through Love by the spirit, and not through Law by the flesh.
You say that God's Law is for the lawless ones. Why then did He write it upon our hearts?
Not one will say that Jesus was lawless, but by fulfilling the Law, He was found righteous before God.
He who knew no sin....What is sin? Does it not say that sin is the transgression of the Law? He loved (went not against God's will), even to death.
the Law is God's definition of what Love is. Love will not offend (sin). Love will cause no harm (evil).
If love will not sin or do evil, then really, is not that fulfilling the Law which God spoke?
So then, does not Romans 7 tells us to die to the Law as our husband and become married to Another so that we can SERVE God's Law.......through love?
'Thou shalt not' defines God's essence: Love. Love for God will cause one not to have another god or use His name in vain.
But, do I say, we follow the written Law? Nay! Do I say we follow God's Law, which was Love all along, with the mind? Yes.
How many times have I said this? How many times have I said that the Lord's command is Love?
Yet, people only see me pointing to the written Law and not to the Law written upon our hearts and minds, the Law which fulfills God's will: Love.
By love, we fulfill those 'thou shalt nots' not by the flesh, but by our spirit. And this is the reason we are told to die to the flesh so that we can become alive to our spirit, seeing that the spirit tends to the things of the Spirit. And those things of the Spirit is fulfilling God's Will, just as our Lord did and requires of us through Love by the spirit, and not through Law by the flesh.
You say that God's Law is for the lawless ones. Why then did He write it upon our hearts?
Not one will say that Jesus was lawless, but by fulfilling the Law, He was found righteous before God.
He who knew no sin....What is sin? Does it not say that sin is the transgression of the Law? He loved (went not against God's will), even to death.
the Law is God's definition of what Love is. Love will not offend (sin). Love will cause no harm (evil).
If love will not sin or do evil, then really, is not that fulfilling the Law which God spoke?
So then, does not Romans 7 tells us to die to the Law as our husband and become married to Another so that we can SERVE God's Law.......through love?
C
Edited so that it might sound like adults talking......
What I am saying is that God's will is the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow. It has never changed. His will: Love.
Obedience to the Law by the flesh is the Old Covenant way. Obedience to God's Will, which is eternal, under the New Covenant is done spiritual, with the Law and the Spirit implanted so that we may have the desire and the will do serve God's Law (Romans 7) which is fulfilled by Love.
What I am saying is that God's will is the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow. It has never changed. His will: Love.
Obedience to the Law by the flesh is the Old Covenant way. Obedience to God's Will, which is eternal, under the New Covenant is done spiritual, with the Law and the Spirit implanted so that we may have the desire and the will do serve God's Law (Romans 7) which is fulfilled by Love.
C
Why has God said, do not kill? Because it harms. Does Love harm? So, I will do as my Lord commands and love.
Why has God said, do not steal? Because it harms. Does Love harm? So, I will do as my Lord commands and love.
God's Law is good, it does not give rise to sin. But sin, taking an opportunity through a law, deceives and slays. Has that which is good, that which came from God Himself, been made death for me? God forbid....it is sin working death in me.... So then, the Law is good.
Oh, my Lord, I seek your path....short and narrow is that path, because few finds it...Why? Is there any room for those not following the dictates of their new Husband?
Why has God said, do not steal? Because it harms. Does Love harm? So, I will do as my Lord commands and love.
God's Law is good, it does not give rise to sin. But sin, taking an opportunity through a law, deceives and slays. Has that which is good, that which came from God Himself, been made death for me? God forbid....it is sin working death in me.... So then, the Law is good.
Oh, my Lord, I seek your path....short and narrow is that path, because few finds it...Why? Is there any room for those not following the dictates of their new Husband?
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And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. [SUP] [/SUP]And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
the New Testament command
Luke 22:1 (KJV)
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called (the Passover).
Matthew 26:17 (KJV)
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him,
Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Mark 14:12 (KJV)
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him,
Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
22And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said,
Take, eat: this is my body.
23And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Acts 12:3 (KJV)
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also.
(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Acts 20:6 (KJV)
And we sailed away from Philippi after (the days of unleavened bread),
and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
1 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV)
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Is this commanded to be done once a year at apointed time,
or anytime churches feel like it ?
Luke 22:1 (KJV)
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called (the Passover).
Matthew 26:17 (KJV)
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him,
Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Mark 14:12 (KJV)
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him,
Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
22And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said,
Take, eat: this is my body.
23And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Acts 12:3 (KJV)
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also.
(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Acts 20:6 (KJV)
And we sailed away from Philippi after (the days of unleavened bread),
and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
1 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV)
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Is this commanded to be done once a year at apointed time,
or anytime churches feel like it ?
Jesus Christ's gospel teaches of the faith of Abraham. Paul speaks of the true Jew as he who is one inwardly. Again, Jesus Christ told the hypocrites, if you believe Moses and the prophets, you would believe me, for they wrote about me.
Anyone who loves in the holy manner when reading the Law knows by the teaching of Jesus Christ that there are laws with that indeed do fall under the heading of love, and these are the laws that should always be in effect. Study them, and throw out all that deal with sacrifice for there is no sacrifice after the only one for sin, our Lord's. Throw out any laws about what to eat or not eat except for Paul's stipulations on things strangled, blood, and things that have died of themselves because Jesus made all foods clean. And in keeping with the curse that was nailed to the cross, death, Jesus Christ teaches us all that mercy over rides punishment and death. We are to be merciful.
So stop being afraid of the instruction from the Father. Jesus said the laws are not abolished, but completed. He did this by His Example and personal teaching. Jesus Christ is the Word, and the written Word begins with Genesis, so read and believe it all, amen.
Anyone who loves in the holy manner when reading the Law knows by the teaching of Jesus Christ that there are laws with that indeed do fall under the heading of love, and these are the laws that should always be in effect. Study them, and throw out all that deal with sacrifice for there is no sacrifice after the only one for sin, our Lord's. Throw out any laws about what to eat or not eat except for Paul's stipulations on things strangled, blood, and things that have died of themselves because Jesus made all foods clean. And in keeping with the curse that was nailed to the cross, death, Jesus Christ teaches us all that mercy over rides punishment and death. We are to be merciful.
So stop being afraid of the instruction from the Father. Jesus said the laws are not abolished, but completed. He did this by His Example and personal teaching. Jesus Christ is the Word, and the written Word begins with Genesis, so read and believe it all, amen.
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The church that we have in this dispensation have believers who have trusted in the blood of Christ and have become new creatures, who have a new covenant ratified by that blood making the other old and obsolete. This new church is a body with members in particular who have the Spirit and are sealed with that Spirit until the day of redemption, who are not under the law but under grace and truth through the very nature of Christ. It is His righteousness that has been imputed unto each one when they believed in Him by faith through His death, burial and resurrection and not according to the law. The Holy Spirit that indwells the believer convicts the heart and supplies the grace that is needed to be warned against sin, to stop sin from continuing and to overcome the dominion of sin.
These are things that the law could not so. When a sinner believes upon Christ the blood cleanses the conscience, the Spirit brings light where there was no light. This light gently exposes the darkness of sin that the soul has been in bondage to with all of its effects of guilt in the conscience. Then grace is supplied abundantly to give the believer what is needed to be free from the root of sin and the condemnation of that sin. Old things are passed away and everything become new for the believer. God begins this good work and will perform it for the remainder of that believer's life so that the believer will recognize sin and respond to grace to grow up in Christ. Sin will no longer be desirable and if the believer sins they have an advocate, Christ, instead of the condemnation of the law.
These are things that the law could not so. When a sinner believes upon Christ the blood cleanses the conscience, the Spirit brings light where there was no light. This light gently exposes the darkness of sin that the soul has been in bondage to with all of its effects of guilt in the conscience. Then grace is supplied abundantly to give the believer what is needed to be free from the root of sin and the condemnation of that sin. Old things are passed away and everything become new for the believer. God begins this good work and will perform it for the remainder of that believer's life so that the believer will recognize sin and respond to grace to grow up in Christ. Sin will no longer be desirable and if the believer sins they have an advocate, Christ, instead of the condemnation of the law.
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Stop saying foolish things. I fear satan only.
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
You need to stop being afraid of the new covenant. Christ completed the law. Finished. For a believer, it has done its job. It is thru. The law is made for the lawless. Where there is no sin, there is no law. Christ said go and sin no more. I stopped sinning - I stopped making that choice, why don't you? There will be no sin allowed in heaven. Tell me, why don't you want to go to heaven?
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
You need to stop being afraid of the new covenant. Christ completed the law. Finished. For a believer, it has done its job. It is thru. The law is made for the lawless. Where there is no sin, there is no law. Christ said go and sin no more. I stopped sinning - I stopped making that choice, why don't you? There will be no sin allowed in heaven. Tell me, why don't you want to go to heaven?
No power can get through the Blood of Jesus Christ to harm anyone who believes Him. It is painful to see a believer is afraid of the Devil. Yes, we should all be on the alert for the enemy's nefarious devices, but with Jesus as our Hero, we have nothing to fear.
I have just done what you did. I have taken out part of what you posted and replied to it only. It is not an honest reply to a post is it? What I posted is a lot more than what you reply to.
Since the instant God put His Holy Spirit into me with the message that everything is going to be just fine, I have had no worries or fears as you have assuimed here.
I read all of the Word, and because of what Paul teaches, I will not say I belong to Paul, I belong to Jesus Christ. If I read less of Paul, it is only because his writings are less. By the way, I have been rereading in the Epistles now for several weeks in my daily study, and I should be continuing in them for a couple of months more. Now when I finish there, I will most likely begin again at Genesis. Now the Epistles are my present study object, however I read in several other parts of the Word daily.
Just how much credit do you believe a believer should take from Jesus Christ and give to Paul? Paul says none.
I have just done what you did. I have taken out part of what you posted and replied to it only. It is not an honest reply to a post is it? What I posted is a lot more than what you reply to.
Since the instant God put His Holy Spirit into me with the message that everything is going to be just fine, I have had no worries or fears as you have assuimed here.
I read all of the Word, and because of what Paul teaches, I will not say I belong to Paul, I belong to Jesus Christ. If I read less of Paul, it is only because his writings are less. By the way, I have been rereading in the Epistles now for several weeks in my daily study, and I should be continuing in them for a couple of months more. Now when I finish there, I will most likely begin again at Genesis. Now the Epistles are my present study object, however I read in several other parts of the Word daily.
Just how much credit do you believe a believer should take from Jesus Christ and give to Paul? Paul says none.
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JaumeJ, you do not under what Paul is teaching in (2 Cor chapter 3) and that is your downfall...
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
You can't do away with the glory associated with the ministration of death and condemnation (THE TORAH) without exceeding that glory with another, the ministration of righteousness through the Spirit and it is in that glory of the Lord that we behold and are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read (THE TORAH), the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it (THE HEART) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image (THAT EXCEEDS IN GLORY) from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (NOT BY THE TORAH).
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
You can't do away with the glory associated with the ministration of death and condemnation (THE TORAH) without exceeding that glory with another, the ministration of righteousness through the Spirit and it is in that glory of the Lord that we behold and are changed into the same image from glory to glory.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read (THE TORAH), the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it (THE HEART) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image (THAT EXCEEDS IN GLORY) from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (NOT BY THE TORAH).
C
Only God is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell (and they who are on His left will receive an everlasting destruction from His presence). Therefore, let us fear the Lord, seeing it is the beginning of wisdom.
The one who does not have the fear of the Lord before their eyes do not have a single eye.
The one who does not have the fear of the Lord before their eyes do not have a single eye.
C
Let's see what He said before He became flesh knowing that He changes not:
Deuteronomy 5:22 These are the commandments the Lord (the ten words) proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
He said His commandments are not difficult cf Deuteronomy 30:11-20 and Paul in turn quoted in his letter to the Romans.
But He indeed added more - because of transgressions He added sacrificial law which is the type for Christ.
Because of disobedience He gave them over to laws that are hard to keep cf Ezekiel 20:24-25 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols. So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live.
Deuteronomy 5:22 These are the commandments the Lord (the ten words) proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
He said His commandments are not difficult cf Deuteronomy 30:11-20 and Paul in turn quoted in his letter to the Romans.
But He indeed added more - because of transgressions He added sacrificial law which is the type for Christ.
Because of disobedience He gave them over to laws that are hard to keep cf Ezekiel 20:24-25 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols. So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live.