Hebrews 8:3-6 "For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises."
Our Mediator (Jesus Christ) did not arise from the earth. If He had He could not have been a priest; He was from the Tribe of Judah. Only men from the Tribe of Levi could be priests under the law.
But here's the kicker and the reason I quoted the scripture above: Faith is the substance of things 'hoped for'; it's the evidence of things we do not yet see. But hope arises, faith arises, by hearing. And the word that comes that produces faith, the thing that you once hoped for, eventually becomes the reality in the earth. If we do not receive that messenger when he comes, then we're not receiving the thing God has sent. The old thing, then, becomes desolate because something new, namely the reality that God intended, has replaced the type and the shadow. God will not at the same time, do two separate or distinct things that relate to the same matter; either God is working on the type and the shadow or God is working on the reality. He will not simultaneously produce both the copy of the real thing and the real thing itself.
If you're still trying to maintain type and shadow when the reality has come, then you are out of the will of God and out of the economy of God. He will only sustain what He is doing, not what He has done. When He moves on from what He does, if you do not change when the season changes, then you're out of the will of God, even though yesterday you were central in the will of God.
God sent Christ to finish the Law and to mediate the better covenant. While this was true from the advent of Christ, living in the reality of this truth required that the Holy Spirit empower the Apostles of the Lamb and other apostles to instill this message in the church. These men carried the grace, and even became the grace, to those who had given up their lives for Christ. The early church needed the apostles in order to know what heaven was doing and therefore what they ought to be doing. For example: The early apostles changed the Jewish mindset to understand that God was now speaking to the Gentiles and the church needed to change. Without apostles the church cannot stay current with the will of God and the faith that is supposed to direct you will not be available to you and therefore you'll continue perhaps where God was but you will not know to where God has moved.
2 Timothy 3:16 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."
This is Paul writing to his son in the Lord regarding the utility of scripture. Now, who do you think will do the reproof, correction, and instruction? Do we think a believer, errant in his ways and thinking, will be drawn to the scriptures to change his ways? No, he'll keep believing what he believes, interpreting the scriptures as he thinks they ought to be understood (this forum puts exactly this point on display). So who does the correcting? The one who was sent to the believer. Ask yourself: How did Timothy know that what Paul wrote was true? It is likely because he was subject to the same reproof, correction, and instruction from the scriptures through the careful watch of Paul. He also, being raised by Paul in the Lord, knew that Paul desired to only do what he saw the Lord doing; he would not be careless in his words.
More on this later. I keep using the terms "son" and "father" in ways that are not familiar to the evangelical/Protestant church. It's not because these terms are not used that way in the scriptures (they are) it is to provide an opening to my next post.
Until then.
Grace to you,
Aaron56
Our Mediator (Jesus Christ) did not arise from the earth. If He had He could not have been a priest; He was from the Tribe of Judah. Only men from the Tribe of Levi could be priests under the law.
But here's the kicker and the reason I quoted the scripture above: Faith is the substance of things 'hoped for'; it's the evidence of things we do not yet see. But hope arises, faith arises, by hearing. And the word that comes that produces faith, the thing that you once hoped for, eventually becomes the reality in the earth. If we do not receive that messenger when he comes, then we're not receiving the thing God has sent. The old thing, then, becomes desolate because something new, namely the reality that God intended, has replaced the type and the shadow. God will not at the same time, do two separate or distinct things that relate to the same matter; either God is working on the type and the shadow or God is working on the reality. He will not simultaneously produce both the copy of the real thing and the real thing itself.
If you're still trying to maintain type and shadow when the reality has come, then you are out of the will of God and out of the economy of God. He will only sustain what He is doing, not what He has done. When He moves on from what He does, if you do not change when the season changes, then you're out of the will of God, even though yesterday you were central in the will of God.
God sent Christ to finish the Law and to mediate the better covenant. While this was true from the advent of Christ, living in the reality of this truth required that the Holy Spirit empower the Apostles of the Lamb and other apostles to instill this message in the church. These men carried the grace, and even became the grace, to those who had given up their lives for Christ. The early church needed the apostles in order to know what heaven was doing and therefore what they ought to be doing. For example: The early apostles changed the Jewish mindset to understand that God was now speaking to the Gentiles and the church needed to change. Without apostles the church cannot stay current with the will of God and the faith that is supposed to direct you will not be available to you and therefore you'll continue perhaps where God was but you will not know to where God has moved.
2 Timothy 3:16 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."
This is Paul writing to his son in the Lord regarding the utility of scripture. Now, who do you think will do the reproof, correction, and instruction? Do we think a believer, errant in his ways and thinking, will be drawn to the scriptures to change his ways? No, he'll keep believing what he believes, interpreting the scriptures as he thinks they ought to be understood (this forum puts exactly this point on display). So who does the correcting? The one who was sent to the believer. Ask yourself: How did Timothy know that what Paul wrote was true? It is likely because he was subject to the same reproof, correction, and instruction from the scriptures through the careful watch of Paul. He also, being raised by Paul in the Lord, knew that Paul desired to only do what he saw the Lord doing; he would not be careless in his words.
More on this later. I keep using the terms "son" and "father" in ways that are not familiar to the evangelical/Protestant church. It's not because these terms are not used that way in the scriptures (they are) it is to provide an opening to my next post.
Until then.
Grace to you,
Aaron56
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