If they had understood grace, they would have seen, They thought law was a means to salvation, and what made them holy, and seperate from the filthy sameritans and gentiles.
EG, God's Law taught Grace. And taught compassion for the "Stranger". It was their Law, not God's that caused them to separate themselves from the Gentiles.
Ex. 22:
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Ex. 23:
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Lev. 19:
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Ex. 33:
13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee,
that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation
is thy people.
14 And he said, My presence shall go
with thee, and
I will give thee rest.
Ez. 9:
7 Since the days of our fathers
have we
been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings,
and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as
it is this day.
8 And now for a little space
grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes,
and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Psalms 84:
11 For the LORD God
is a sun and shield:
the LORD will give grace and glory: no good
thing will he withhold from them th
at walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:
34 Surely he scorneth the scorners:
but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
You continue to preach that the Pharisees did not create their own Laws, rather, followed God's Laws. EG, this is a terrible lie I really wish you would stop preaching.
Had the Pharisees followed God's Instructions like Abraham and Zechariahs and Elizabeth they would have known all about the Grace God created for His People, that He showed to Abraham and Noah, and the compassion we are to have for the Gentile who may turn to God.
But the Biblical truth is the Pharisees were not following the instructions of God as did Abraham.
Gen. 26:
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Jesus said this about the Pharisees.
Matt. 15:
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Not God)
Yes, they claimed to be Abraham's Children, but Jesus said they were liars, satan's children. Why do you continue to preach the falsehood that satan's children try to earn salvation by keeping and preaching others to obey God as did Abraham? It's almost as if you know this but preach it anyway.
John 8:
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children,
ye would do the works of Abraham.
John 1:
17 For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
For the Levitical Priesthood "works of the Law" for remission of sins was given by Moses, but the Grace and Truth Noah, Abraham and the Gentiles and we all have access to is given by Jesus the Christ as Prophesied by the Law and Prophets
What about this post is not Biblically correct?
