Food for thought

CorrectiveLens · Aug 27, 2023

Isaiah 63: 9-10 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit; therefore, He was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
In this scripture Isaiah is stating that the Holy Spirit is the angel of God's (the Father's) presence. Where His Holy Spirit is, the Father is. The Father speaks, communicates, empowers, and gives authority through His Holy Spirit.
Jesus states that the words He spoke were not His words but the words of He who sent Him (the Father). After Jesus died and then rose again, He told His apostles to wait in Jerusalem because He was going to the Father to get glorified and then He was going to send the Comforter (the Holy Spirit of the Father). When Jesus went back to get glorified, He was given a spiritual body full of the Holy Spirit of the Father so that both the Father and Son would be able to communicate, speak through, empower, and give authority to those that the Father chooses. All that are in heaven are there in the Father's name. That means that they are baptized in the name of the Father and are sealed with His Holy Spirit. It is the Father who gives Christ all that He has, including the title of God, the power of God, His spiritual body (made up of born again believers in the truth) , His righteousness, and the love that they share.
There is only one baptism, and that is the baptism in the name of the Father (being predetermined, predestined, chosen, elected, or written in the Book of Life before the world was). The baptism in the name of the Son will be sure to follow through the preaching about forgiveness of sins through Jesus, who will then baptize in the name of the Holy Spirit of the Father and Son (the angel of their presence) to create a new being (John 1: 13 Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God.)
Both the Father and Son communicate with and fill the hearts of the recipients with the same divine Love that they share so that the recipients would be perfected by obeying the Spirit of the Law which is to love God first with all your heart, mind, and soul , and second, to love everyone else as you love yourself. Sharing the Holy Spirit of the Father makes both Jesus and us one with the Father.

CorrectiveLens · Sep 28, 2023

You make disciples through preaching and it is through preaching that people get baptized by the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is they who do the baptizing, not us.
Acts 9: 17-18 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight, and arose, and was baptized.
In verse 10-16 Ananias has a vision of the Lord telling him that Saul in his praying also had a vision of Ananias putting his hand on him and getting his vision back. When it actually happened, Saul believed and was baptized immediately.
We are baptized in the name of the Father when we recognize that we are sinners and He grants the repentance that causes us to turn to Him for forgiveness. We get baptized in the name of the Son when we trust in the Father's plan for the forgiveness of sins committed through Jesus Christ, and then Christ baptizes us in the name of the Holy Spirit when we get filled with the Holy Spirit of the Father and Son who perfect us by filling our hearts with divine love for God first and and everyone else second as the motivation for every thought and action. John said that he baptized with water, but there will be someone who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

CorrectiveLens · Oct 2, 2023

John 10: 30, 38 I and my Father are one. But if I do (the works of my Father), though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in Him. Col 1:15-16 Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers--all things were created by Him, and for Him; And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the Church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence.
The Father is the invisible God and Christ is the image of the Father because the Father operates His will through His image. An image is not the original in the sense that an offspring is formed from the parent to form a different being but of the same type. Christ is the perfect Son because, although He has His own will, He lives to do the Father's will. The Father communicates His will and empowers Christ through His Holy Spirit which fills Christ's being. The first-born of all creation means that He came into existence before anything was created and that is because it was He who created all things by the will and power of the Father. Christ is the first living soul to rise from the dead, and as such, all who are members of His Spiritual body will become alive with Him. Members of His body are united (one) because we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit of the Father and Son.

CorrectiveLens · Oct 2, 2023

Oneness
John 10: 30,38 I and my Father are One. But if I do (the works of my Father), though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Eph 2: 18 For through Him we both have access by One Spirit unto the Father. Eph 4: 4-6 There is One body (the body of Christ), and One Spirit (the Spirit of the Father), even (that is) as ye are called in One hope of your calling (given to those called); One Lord (Christ), One faith (believing and trusting in Christ), One baptism (in the name of the Father because He chooses by granting repentance), One God and Father of all (including Jesus Christ), who is above all (including Christ), and through all (because our reality is in the mind of the Father), and in you all (when we receive the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son). John 17: 17: 20- 24 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be One , as thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also, may be One in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory (Holy Spirit of the Father), which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be One, even (that is) as we are One; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17: 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name (Baptism in the name of the Father) those whom thou hast given me (the Father chooses) , that they may be one, as we are. John 8: 29 And He that sent me is with me (because the Son is filled with the Father's Holy Spirit which in Isaiah 63: 9-10 is referred to as the "angel of His presence". Where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is). That Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him. The Father communicates, empowers, and speaks through those who are indwelled with His Spirit.
John 14: 6-9 Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been such a long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
No one comes to the Father but by Jesus as a member of His body. Jesus is so full of the Father's Spirit that the Father talks to Philip directly.
John 12: 49-50 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father, who sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
In these verses Jesus is explaining that the words that He speaks are not His but belong to the Father. Throughout the Bible people who received the Father's Holy Spirit were able to communicate with Him. They would then relay His message to the people. These people are called prophets. Jesus was explaining that He was a prophet of the Father and obeying the Father's Spirit means eternal life.
John 3: 34-35 For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand.

CorrectiveLens · Oct 2, 2023

CorrectiveLens said:

Oneness
John 10: 30,38 I and my Father are One. But if I do (the works of my Father), though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Eph 2: 18 For through Him we both have access by One Spirit unto the Father. Eph 4: 4-6 There is One body (the body of Christ), and One Spirit (the Spirit of the Father), even (that is) as ye are called in One hope of your calling (given to those called); One Lord (Christ), One faith (believing and trusting in Christ), One baptism (in the name of the Father because He chooses by granting repentance), One God and Father of all (including Jesus Christ), who is above all (including Christ), and through all (because our reality is in the mind of the Father), and in you all (when we receive the Holy Spirit of the Father and the Son). John 17: 17: 20- 24 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be One , as thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, that they also, may be One in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory (Holy Spirit of the Father), which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be One, even (that is) as we are One; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17: 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name (Baptism in the name of the Father) those whom thou hast given me (the Father chooses) , that they may be one, as we are. John 8: 29 And He that sent me is with me (because the Son is filled with the Father's Holy Spirit which in Isaiah 63: 9-10 is referred to as the "angel of His presence". Where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is). That Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him. The Father communicates, empowers, and speaks through those who are indwelled with His Spirit.
John 14: 6-9 Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been such a long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
No one comes to the Father but by Jesus as a member of His body. Jesus is so full of the Father's Spirit that the Father talks to Philip directly.
John 12: 49-50 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father, who sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak, therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
In these verses Jesus is explaining that the words that He speaks are not His but belong to the Father. Throughout the Bible people who received the Father's Holy Spirit were able to communicate with Him. They would then relay His message to the people. These people are called prophets. Jesus was explaining that He was a prophet of the Father and obeying the Father's Spirit means eternal life.
John 3: 34-35 For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand.

John 14: 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me. Christ is Lord of all creation and all creation is created for Him by His Father (the invisible God). Christ is our Lord, Savior, and God, but the Father is the Father and God of all (including Jesus Christ).
John 14: 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

CorrectiveLens · Oct 17, 2023

John 17: 20-24 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory (Holy Spirit) which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
The Son is the temple of the Father, and because we are part of the spiritual body of Christ, we are also the temple of the Father and the Son. The Father glorified Jesus when He ascended into heaven by giving Him a spiritual body composed of souls who have received the Father's Holy Spirit through belief in His Son. It is the Father that gives us to Christ and we become one with the Father and Son because it is through their Spirit that our lives are directed and swayed by them. That is how man is made in the image of God (through their Holy Spirit). We have to remember that the Father and Son transcend time, meaning that they can see, be in, and traverse the whole history of humanity. In Gen 1: 26 where God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness", He wasn't talking about just during the time of creation, but throughout all humanity.

CorrectiveLens · Oct 18, 2023

1 John 4: 6-7 By this know we the Spirit of Truth, and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
When you have that love, you know it, and feel it in you.
1 John 4: 16-21 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement, because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If a man says, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. Everyone should be asking themselves, "does my love extend beyond myself, my family, and my friends and how deep is my love? If you love God, you will also love all who he loves.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 19, 2023

Understanding is not for Everyone

Matt 13: 10-11, 13, 23 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand. But he that received seed in the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it, who also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundred-fold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matt 7: 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, who is in heaven.
In order to do the Father's will, you have to know what His will is in your life. That happens when you are filled with His Holy Spirit through which both Father and Son reside, communicates, empowers, and fills with divine love for God first and everyone else as one loves himself. We are obeying His will when all our motivation for every thought and action is this love. We are perfected because we will then be obeying the Spirit of the Law as described by Jesus when asked about the greatest commandment.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 20, 2023

Hi, Jaumel. I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your positive reactions on my posts. It's good to know that some of my posts have not gone through blind eyes and deaf ears. I pray that God will reward you with more understanding so that you can form your own opinion of what scripture is saying and not rely on other people's interpretation. That includes me. I'm not saying that is what you're doing. You have to take all interpretations under consideration and then decide which fits in all the narratives of the Bible and makes sense. Pray to the Father and Son for guidance and you'll get it. Blessings to you, Brother.

JaumeJ · Nov 20, 2023

CorrectiveLens said:

Hi, Jaumel. I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your positive reactions on my posts. It's good to know that some of my posts have not gone through blind eyes and deaf ears. I pray that God will reward you with more understanding so that you can form your own opinion of what scripture is saying and not rely on other people's interpretation. That includes me. I'm not saying that is what you're doing. You have to take all interpretations under consideration and then decide which fits in all the narratives of the Bible and makes sense. Pray to the Father and Son for guidance and you'll get it. Blessings to you, Brother.

Thank you and may God bless you and all of your works for Him. I like your posts in general, and your screen name choice.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 27, 2023

John 3: 5-8 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it cometh, and where it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
What John is saying is that in order to enter into the kingdom of God, you have to be born twice. Once of water (the amniotic fluid which consists of water and the baby's urine) and the second time born of the Holy Spirit. Also, just like the wind that bloweth where it willeth, the Holy Spirit indwells whomever the Father wills.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 27, 2023

John 17: 20-24 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory (Holy Spirit) which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
The Son is the temple of the Father, and because we are part of the spiritual body of Christ, we are also the temple of the Father and the Son. The Father glorified Jesus when He ascended into heaven by giving Him a spiritual body composed of souls who have received the Father's Holy Spirit through belief in His Son. It is the Father that gives us to Christ and we become one with the Father and Son because it is through their Spirit that our lives are directed and swayed by them. That is how man is made in the image of God (through their Holy Spirit). We who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit are distinct from the Father and Son because we have our own consciousness. Christ, who is the temple of the invisible God the Father, is distinct from the Father because they each have their own consciousness. Our reality is in the mind of the Father. The Father is an intelligence who before the foundation of our universe gave birth to another intelligence (the Son) through whom and for whom our reality was created. The Father communicates with and empowers the Son through His presence in the form of the Holy Spirit (His Glory) of which the Son is filled with. The Father loves the Son and the Son loves the Father. Together they create our reality. The Father directs and empowers the Son to create all things that are created and makes His Son God and Lord of all creation. The Father, however, is the God and Father of all (including His Son).

CorrectiveLens · Nov 27, 2023

Heb 1 :5-7 For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again , I will be to him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son? And again, when He bringeth in the first-begotteen into the world, He saith, " And let all the angels of God worship Him. And of the angels He saith , Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.
Christ's existence emanated from the Father's essence from which all things exist. Christ is the first living spiritual being that came from the Father. That is why He is the Father's Son. Just like the Father, Christ has His own mind, heart, and soul. Because the Father's essence completely fills Christ's being, Christ, with His free will, chooses to love and obey Him. That is why He sits at the Father's right hand (to do the Father's will). The Father communicates His will to the Son through His essence (His Holy Spirit). The Father and Son are One in that whatever the Father wants, the Son wants also. The Son's will might differ from the Father, but the Son gladly acquiesces to the will of the Father. When Christ became a man, the essence ( Holy Spirit) of God the Father, through which Mary's seed was fertilized, again resulted in Christ being born but this time as a human. The Father and Son relationship occurs a second time.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 30, 2023

Col 1: 26-27, 29 Even (that is) the mystery which hath been hidden from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints, to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory (Holy Spirit) of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory; For this I also labor, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.
The key to understanding the mystery of what really is going on in the Bible is understanding the Holy Spirit. The problem is that only those that have received the Holy Spirit can fully understand the Holy Spirit. Since understanding is a work in progress, my goal is to facilitate this understanding for those that are able.
Isaiah 63: 9-10 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them; and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit; therefore, He was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
In this scripture Isaiah is stating that the Holy Spirit is the angel of God's (the Father's) presence. Where His Holy Spirit is, the Father is.
1Cor 3: 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Christ is the image of the invisible God (the Father) because Christ is filled (without measure) with the Holy Spirit of the Father. Our reality is in the mind of the Father. That is why the Father knows everything, is everywhere, can do anything, transcends time, etc. The Father has a mind, will, and heart and is loving and just. The Father creates an image of Himself (Christ) with his own mind, heart, and will and together they created our reality. That is when the beginning started for us. The Father interacts with our reality through His Son for whom and by whom our reality was created. He does this by being present in Christ's being in order to reveal His will and to empower Him to fulfill it. The Son sits on the right hand of the Father because the Son obeys the Father's will in our reality. Christ is the temple of the Father, but is not the Father. The Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father because they share the same Spirit of the Father. That is why Christ is One with the Father. When we receive the Holy Spirit of the Father, we become One with the Father and the Son.
Eph 1: 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory (Holy Spirit), may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
It is the Father who is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and who is the Father of Glory (His Holy Spirit) because it is through His Holy Spirit that the Father communicates and empowers.
Matt 10: 19-20 But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in the same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you.
The Father speaks through those who are indwelled with His Holy Spirit.
Mark 2: 5-7 When Jesus saw their faith, He said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God only? This is another example of the Father speaking through Jesus.
John 14: 10-11 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John 14: 23-26 Jesus answered, and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being present with you. But the Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your rememberance, whatever I have said unto you.
Acts 10: 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit, and with power; who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 30, 2023

1 Sam 10: 6, 10 And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. And when they came there to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him, and he prophesied among them. To prophesy doesn't just mean to fortell the future. It means that you can also communicate with God and God with you and through you.
Psalms 139: 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
2 Sam 23: 2 The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and His word was in my tongue.
2 Chron 18: 13 And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, even (that is) what my God saith, that will I speak.
2 Chron 24: 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, the priest, who stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God: Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? Because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also foraken you.
Rev 21: 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God (Christ) is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God himself (the Father) shall be with them, and be their God. That's because Christ is filled with the Holy Spirit of the Father. Where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is. When Christ sits on the throne, so will the Father that is in Him.

wattie · Nov 30, 2023

'where two or three are gathered, there I am in the mids them '

From Matthew 18

First... The preceding and after verses are about a process of resolving sin issues in a congregation.

Second... It's related to the process in Deuteronomy the Israelites had to sort sin issues when they were in the wilderness.

So.. this is about church members gathered to resolve sin issues in a congregation. Jesus blesses this process by being 'in the midst' in a special way.

It often gets meant to be about Christians gathered anywhere, for any purpose..but that is not the situation of the Mathew 18 passage.

CorrectiveLens · Nov 30, 2023

wattie said:

'where two or three are gathered, there I am in the mids them '

From Matthew 18

First... The preceding and after verses are about a process of resolving sin issues in a congregation.

Second... It's related to the process in Deuteronomy the Israelites had to sort sin issues when they were in the wilderness.

So.. this is about church members gathered to resolve sin issues in a congregation. Jesus blesses this process by being 'in the midst' in a special way.

It often gets meant to be about Christians gathered anywhere, for any purpose..but that is not the situation of the Mathew 18 passage.

That's because each one is indwelt with His Holy Spirit.

glf · Dec 1, 2023

CorrectiveLens said:

Gal 3: 23 Before faith we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith that should afterwards be revealed.
The law of sin and death was added 430 yrs after the promise of faith due to transgressions. It was and is good holy just and spiritual. It contains the minimum standard of good behavior dealing with one's outward behavior, focusing on sin and comes with the curse of death till heaven and the earth passes. The law has no provision for one's conscience and ends when one comes to Christ by faith being replaced by the law of the Spirit of life which renews one to a higher standard based upon the heart's motivation as lead by the Holy Spirit. Such as eye for an eye becomes turn one's cheek, hate is murder, and lust is adultery for those who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The law of the Spirit of life or the New Covenant has no curse of death for every transgression and can purge one's conscience from dead works to serve the Lord with a pure heart.

CorrectiveLens · Dec 1, 2023

Eph 3: 5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
Enlightenment comes through the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8: 1, 4 There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Because Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (our conscience), we are all born with this knowledge which is a law to do good and avoid evil. The defect of all humans from birth is their motivation for living which is love of "self". The Letter of the Law includes the original ten commandments given to Moses as well as the hundreds of others that were later added on. Too many for us to follow which results in failure of the Jews as well as all to keep the Letter of the Law. Christ made it easy for us by filling our hearts with divine love from His and the Father's Holy Spirit. When Christ baptizes us with the Holy Spirit, our motivation changes from love of "self" to love for God first, and everyone else as we love ourselves. This is what happens when we are born again. There is no condemnation when the motivation for every thought and action is love for God first and everyone else second. That is how we obey the Spirit of the Law and are perfected in righteousness when presented to the Father.

CorrectiveLens · Dec 1, 2023

2 Cor 3: 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
When we receive the Holy Spirit of the Father, we also receive the Spirit of the Son ( the Lord) which changes us to His image as part of His body. Christ is the image of the Father and we are the image of the Son when our motivation for every thought and action is first, love for God and second, everyone else as we love ourselves.
John 3: 5-8 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it willeth, and thou hearest the sound of it, but canst not tell from where it cometh, and where it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
What John is saying is that in order to enter into the kingdom of God, you have to be born twice. Once of water (the amniotic fluid which consists of water and the baby's urine) and the second time born of the Holy Spirit.
Gal 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (belief in His Son).
Acts 1: 2, 5, 8 Until the day in which He was taken up, after He, through the Holy Spirit, had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen; For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. But ye shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
John baptized with water, but Christ will baptize with the Holy Spirit. The disciples of Christ were all Jews who followed the Jewish tradition of spiritual cleansing with water and celebrated different occurances in their history. We get cleansed through the blood of Jesus and not with water.
Matt 3: 16-17 And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water; and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. And, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
The Father communicates and empowers through His Holy Spirit. Where His Holy Spirit is, the Father is.

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