As it is between you and God, so it is between God and me. If I desire to adhere to God's complete word who gave the Holy Spirit I'm convinced.
As you will stand by yourself before God some day, so will I. It's not my judgment call to know whether you are filled with the Holy Spirit any more than it is my obligation to know that about you. Your question therefore has no validity.
Now, as I have asked others, and now you, Where can we find judgment, mercy and faith identified in the law, as Jesus clearly pointed out that those are definitely there?
I cannot understand the side stepping accompanied by rebuttals when I am clearly exposing the hypocrisy that Jesus revealed within the actions of the hypocrites. According to Jesus exhortations, I believe we should take note of what Jesus said unlike the Pharisees. In the OP I politely asked
I have seen very little respect for Jesus' words written in Matthew 23:23 up to this point.
no just-me...you see, the Holy Spirit is what makes us all one in Christ and we are to be subject to one another...so, it is incorrect to believe that in some way God has fashionned an island out of you!
No, I do not stand now or at any time in the future before my God all Alone...I am sealed by HIS Spirit as are ALL believers IN Christ and God will see Christ in my stead and declare me righteous as He has already declared me righteous...praise God...lately every time I write or think such things I find myself bubbling up inside and I know this is God's Spirit affirming the truth of His words as testimony and witness to what He reveals from God Himself!
You see, the Holy Spirit does not speak for Himself and He never forces and He does abide in those who are God's. He speaks what is of God only
You should indeed be concerned if I am filled with the Spirit of God, because if I am not, then what does that make me?
You cannot judge spiritual things by your flesh and that is where you fail in every attempt to judge those who disagree with you by calling us pharisees
We are not pharisees, but see, judge yourself, that you not be found a castaway as was even Paul's concern...now there is a sobering thought...see, as you judge, so are you judged
Do you judge righteously or do you judge by human reasoning?
Those in Christ are not found wanting in any manner, so your judgement becomes as nothing
It actually IS nothing...nothing at all!
I cannot understand the side stepping accompanied by rebuttals when I am clearly exposing the hypocrisy that Jesus revealed within the actions of the hypocrites. According to Jesus exhortations, I believe we should take note of what Jesus said unlike the Pharisees
It is actually yourself that has done the cha cha more than any other person responding in this thread. You have created a total aversion to questions and attempted to reprimand us all by referring to a religious sect that none of us have entered into and yet you persist that this is the comparison when Christ said nothing of the kind! this is truly all just of your own making!
I have seen very little respect for Jesus' words written in Matthew 23:23 up to this point.
well now, let's take a look at that verse:
23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
I am filled with the Holy Spirit and, as is in the original language, I am being being filled...that is, the action is constant
Again, you are creating a false dichtonomy and attempting to divert from the truth of what we are trying to get across to you by crying WOLF! WOLF! where there is no wolf and no pharisee