Religion/law or faith? Love or knowledge? From which source are you speaking to others?

What the law cocernces, i personaly think that the whole law is impossible to fullfill, we are in the new testament and Holy spirit is the one who convicts us. The law is ingraved in our hearts (not like in the old testament, they had scriptures and prophets, outside messages). And besides love is the fullfillement of the law. As long as you walk in the spirit and not after the flesh, in the love of God and not the love of yourself or of the world, you are on the good path. Sanctification of our soul is a step by step process and it lasts our whole life. If we would try to fullfill all the law iin every moment i think we will fall apart. Every day of every second to be good, right, righteous etc...it is impossible. Thats why we have the Holy spirit (combined with the word from the Old testament and New testament) to lead us through that process and thank God that He is patient with us and He has not only forgiven us but also erased all our sins in advance on the Cross and we are His righteousness in Christ Jesus. He looks at us like we have never sinned and like we would never sin. YES, THATS TRUE, NO MATTER IF YOU BELIVE IT OR NOT. Every person who is the son of God wants to follow Jesus and His commmandements, but is impossible to fullfill all the law even in one day, but Holy spirit works with every one of us in a different tempo and different way because we have different issues and backgrounds (generational and enviroonemental and personal issues).
Jesus is the beginning and the end of all. And He gave His life for God to forgive us all, every sin that we have commited in the past in the present and in the future. We cannot achieve our righteousness and credit with our own efforts and successes. As we are weak He is strong. And nothing will change that. The only effort we should put in our lives is to set time with God apart and He will lead us and change us and bless us. Saw in the spirit, not in the flesh.
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A good check if you are working in your own efforts is when you boast with your successes and put down others because they have not achieved something. You can even check out your own thoughts and see if you feel that you are better then other people because of something you achieved or some of your qualities, or you have doctors degreee, or you are a counselor, or you are very holy, or you want to build 100 churches and other dont....or if you are jelous or envious of someone. In this moment you are OUT of the righteousness of God and you are becoming self righteous, you are not under the grace but under the law, forgetting that God gave you everything that you need for life and godliness IT IS NOT BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, SO THAT NOBODY COULD BOAST that you are in the place where you are right now, successfull or less successful. This is the difference between THE LEGALISM/RELIGION (changes from the outside) and REAL FAITH that saves and changes us from the inside out. Jesus is the beginner and finisher of our faith not you. So dont act like you are the one who started and finished some persons faith (because Jesus did it). Rely on the Holy spirit. Not your mind, not your opinions, not your strong mindedness. Let not your knowledge and your greatness, your experience, your spirituality...to be the rock upon people would stumble. Dont fight and discuss about your opinons, love your brothers and sisters, listen what the Holy spirit has to say to you personaly and to both of you. Dont be stubborn. Let people think about Jesus and His unconditional love after you speak with them and not thinking about YOU. Dont be so self centered.

Also check out if your priority is to straigthen people out. Love is the first and only commandement, so check out how people feel after you speak to them. Every word you say may leave trace forever good or bad. You may even saw seeds of witchcraft forcing people to be or do something leaving them in confusion. You are doing wrong to them and to the kingdom of God. Be motivated by the love and by the spirit, try to see where is the person in the spirit and then speak out. Dont put burdens on people with whom they will not know what to do. Remove burdens. JESUS WAS THE BURDEN REMOVING AND YOKE DESTROYING GUY. It is not important your knowledge and what you know about this person. It is important that you speak the word that is love and that changes people for good and not kill them. Amen.
God bless you all

 

[Intercessor]

Hello, Natasha, excellent encouragement to be motivated by love, Jesus’ summary of the Law and the Prophets (Matt 22:37-40). Really well written and right on in it’s content, spirit and delivery.

I have often found it interesting that Jesus actually used The Scripture to inculcate and teach the priority of these two greatest commandments, loving God and loving our neighbor...

If we read the end of Matt 22 carefully, He uses Scripture after Scripture to show the religious leaders of Israel and the teachers of the Scriptures that they didn’t actually understand the Scriptures.

I have often noticed that the most zealous of all the Pharisees, Saul of Taursus, who, after encountering Jesus, became Paul the Apostle, actually fulfilled a massive prophesy given by Jesus in the Scriptures...

Jesus said, “Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:19). Later Jesus also reinforced that truth: “And he said to them, ‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matt 13:52).

It’s amazing to me that Paul the Apostle who wrote 1 Corinthians 13, The Chapter on Love, actually taught (through the Law and the Prophets) that Jesus was the Messiah. He truly is called great in the Kingdom of Heaven!

I was wondering, therefore, how we might fit a Scripture of Massive Significance into what you wrote above in your blog?

2 Timothy 3:16
New Living Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

English Standard Version
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Berean Study Bible
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

New American Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

King James Bible
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Christian Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

Contemporary English Version
Everything in the Scriptures is God's Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live.

Good News Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults...

Could it be that as we walk in love and study the Scriptures (John 8:31-32) we actually become better disciples of The Lord and are able to do the works he did and even greater works (John 14:12)?

Here is the part at the end of Matthew that I mentioned before where Jesus uses Scripture after Scripture to both show that the teachers of the Scripture didn’t understand what they were teaching AND that Jesus was, in fact, The Messiah... (Matt 22:29)...

“Jesus answered, ‘You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angelsb in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: 32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”’

33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

The Greatest Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Mark 12:28-34)
34And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: 36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’d 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Whose Son is the Christ?
(Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44)
41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?”

“David’s,” they answered.

43Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord? For he says:

44‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
until I put Your enemies
under Your feet.”’f
45So if David calls Him Lord, how can He be David’s son?”

46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

I think The Holy Spirit summarizes what I am trying to say in Paul’s first letter to his spiritual son, Timothy, the young pastor whom Paul had mentored and who Paul loved and wanted him to be successful...

“They want to be teachers of the Law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert. 8Now we know that the Law is good, if one uses it legitimately.…” Again, verse 7b, “but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert” (1 Tim 1:7-8, 7b, reiterated).

I think it is Ecclesiastes 7:18 again: It is good to take hold of one thing (LOVE) without letting go of the other (SCRIPTURAL EDIFICATION). “But let all things be done for edification” (1 Corinthians 14:26).

We are lifetime students of the Word of God, “Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you are remaining in my word, then you are truly becoming my disciples. And you will be knowing the truth and the Truth shall be making you free” (John 8:31-32, continous tense in the Greek emphasized).

May the Word of The Lord spread rapidly and be glorified, even as it did (in Thessolonica), and may The Lord protect us from evil people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thes 3:1-3).

 

[Ellisworth]

I will bless the Lord and give Him all the glory and all the honor and all the praise. For His word is true. He want us all to be holy and pure before Him and before others. Let us all give Him all the praise and honor Him all the days of our life till He call us home to heaven.

 

[Olgah]

Obey the Ten Commandments. Serve the Lord with gladness. Give and it shall be given unto you.

 

[natasha2]

Obey the Ten Commandments. Serve the Lord with gladness. Give and it shall be given unto you.

Olgah. I said in my post, it is impossible to follow to 10 commandements even in one day. I thiink every person in the Bible made the mistake and God saw that, and He sent a son, a living word to correct us daily. You have the word and the Holy spirit to correct you. If you would only listen to ten commandements you will put yourself under pressure and then others to. Also you will feel guilt because you have not been able to execute 10 commandements. it is not good to live under pressure and guilt, not useful to the kingdom of God. Jesus came to releive us from that pressure of 10 commandements. Why do you think He sent Jesus. Because He saw people are not able to listen to 10 commandements. The law is only good to check out on yourself and for the unsaved ones. The word of God is much deeper, like DONT KILL means also dont kill people with your words and deeds, not only to take someones life. Do you get it now? We are not under the law but under the GRACE. This is the word of God. We are privileged to live in the time of the new testament/new law. In the old testament you were punished for your transgressions, now you have new mercies every day, every morning you can repent and everything wil be ok. In the old testament God has killed or strongly punished kings who were disobedient. Only sometimes he would spare them. Now, to his mercy and forgiveness there is no end because of Jesus sacrifice. Get it now?

 

[natasha2]

Hello, Natasha, excellent encouragement to be motivated by love, Jesus’ summary of the Law and the Prophets (Matt 22:37-40). Really well written and right on in it’s content, spirit and delivery.

I have often found it interesting that Jesus actually used The Scripture to inculcate and teach the priority of these two greatest commandments, loving God and loving our neighbor...

If we read the end of Matt 22 carefully, He uses Scripture after Scripture to show the religious leaders of Israel and the teachers of the Scriptures that they didn’t actually understand the Scriptures.

I have often noticed that the most zealous of all the Pharisees, Saul of Taursus, who, after encountering Jesus, became Paul the Apostle, actually fulfilled a massive prophesy given by Jesus in the Scriptures...

Jesus said, “Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:19). Later Jesus also reinforced that truth: “And he said to them, ‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matt 13:52).

It’s amazing to me that Paul the Apostle who wrote 1 Corinthians 13, The Chapter on Love, actually taught (through the Law and the Prophets) that Jesus was the Messiah. He truly is called great in the Kingdom of Heaven!

I was wondering, therefore, how we might fit a Scripture of Massive Significance into what you wrote above in your blog?

2 Timothy 3:16
New Living Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

English Standard Version
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Berean Study Bible
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

New American Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

King James Bible
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Christian Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

Contemporary English Version
Everything in the Scriptures is God's Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live.

Good News Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults...

Could it be that as we walk in love and study the Scriptures (John 8:31-32) we actually become better disciples of The Lord and are able to do the works he did and even greater works (John 14:12)?

Here is the part at the end of Matthew that I mentioned before where Jesus uses Scripture after Scripture to both show that the teachers of the Scripture didn’t understand what they were teaching AND that Jesus was, in fact, The Messiah... (Matt 22:29)...

“Jesus answered, ‘You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angelsb in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: 32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”’

33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

The Greatest Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Mark 12:28-34)
34And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: 36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’d 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Whose Son is the Christ?
(Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44)
41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?”

“David’s,” they answered.

43Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord? For he says:

44‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
until I put Your enemies
under Your feet.”’f
45So if David calls Him Lord, how can He be David’s son?”

46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

I think The Holy Spirit summarizes what I am trying to say in Paul’s first letter to his spiritual son, Timothy, the young pastor whom Paul had mentored and who Paul loved and wanted him to be successful...

“They want to be teachers of the Law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert. 8Now we know that the Law is good, if one uses it legitimately.…” Again, verse 7b, “but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert” (1 Tim 1:7-8, 7b, reiterated).

I think it is Ecclesiastes 7:18 again: It is good to take hold of one thing (LOVE) without letting go of the other (SCRIPTURAL EDIFICATION). “But let all things be done for edification” (1 Corinthians 14:26).

We are lifetime students of the Word of God, “Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you are remaining in my word, then you are truly becoming my disciples. And you will be knowing the truth and the Truth shall be making you free” (John 8:31-32, continous tense in the Greek emphasized).

May the Word of The Lord spread rapidly and be glorified, even as it did (in Thessolonica), and may The Lord protect us from evil people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thes 3:1-3).

well

Hello, Natasha, excellent encouragement to be motivated by love, Jesus’ summary of the Law and the Prophets (Matt 22:37-40). Really well written and right on in it’s content, spirit and delivery.

I have often found it interesting that Jesus actually used The Scripture to inculcate and teach the priority of these two greatest commandments, loving God and loving our neighbor...

If we read the end of Matt 22 carefully, He uses Scripture after Scripture to show the religious leaders of Israel and the teachers of the Scriptures that they didn’t actually understand the Scriptures.

I have often noticed that the most zealous of all the Pharisees, Saul of Taursus, who, after encountering Jesus, became Paul the Apostle, actually fulfilled a massive prophesy given by Jesus in the Scriptures...

Jesus said, “Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:19). Later Jesus also reinforced that truth: “And he said to them, ‘Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matt 13:52).

It’s amazing to me that Paul the Apostle who wrote 1 Corinthians 13, The Chapter on Love, actually taught (through the Law and the Prophets) that Jesus was the Messiah. He truly is called great in the Kingdom of Heaven!

I was wondering, therefore, how we might fit a Scripture of Massive Significance into what you wrote above in your blog?

2 Timothy 3:16
New Living Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right.

English Standard Version
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Berean Study Bible
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

New American Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

King James Bible
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Christian Standard Bible
All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

Contemporary English Version
Everything in the Scriptures is God's Word. All of it is useful for teaching and helping people and for correcting them and showing them how to live.

Good News Translation
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the truth, rebuking error, correcting faults...

Could it be that as we walk in love and study the Scriptures (John 8:31-32) we actually become better disciples of The Lord and are able to do the works he did and even greater works (John 14:12)?

Here is the part at the end of Matthew that I mentioned before where Jesus uses Scripture after Scripture to both show that the teachers of the Scripture didn’t understand what they were teaching AND that Jesus was, in fact, The Messiah... (Matt 22:29)...

“Jesus answered, ‘You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angelsb in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: 32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”’

33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

The Greatest Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:1-19; Mark 12:28-34)
34And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with a question: 36“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?”

37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’d 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Whose Son is the Christ?
(Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44)
41While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?”

“David’s,” they answered.

43Jesus said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him Lord? For he says:

44‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
until I put Your enemies
under Your feet.”’f
45So if David calls Him Lord, how can He be David’s son?”

46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

I think The Holy Spirit summarizes what I am trying to say in Paul’s first letter to his spiritual son, Timothy, the young pastor whom Paul had mentored and who Paul loved and wanted him to be successful...

“They want to be teachers of the Law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert. 8Now we know that the Law is good, if one uses it legitimately.…” Again, verse 7b, “but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert” (1 Tim 1:7-8, 7b, reiterated).

I think it is Ecclesiastes 7:18 again: It is good to take hold of one thing (LOVE) without letting go of the other (SCRIPTURAL EDIFICATION). “But let all things be done for edification” (1 Corinthians 14:26).

We are lifetime students of the Word of God, “Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you are remaining in my word, then you are truly becoming my disciples. And you will be knowing the truth and the Truth shall be making you free” (John 8:31-32, continous tense in the Greek emphasized).

May the Word of The Lord spread rapidly and be glorified, even as it did (in Thessolonica), and may The Lord protect us from evil people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thes 3:1-3).

Thank you Intercessor for your compliment, if its from your mouth who knows scriptures so well, then i must have been straight to the point. I am glad i did it, because i had enough of religion.

I like the most following scriptures you mention (it touches my spirit and i think its most connected to my post):

1) Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’d 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

2) We are lifetime students of the Word of God, “Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you are remaining in my word, then you are truly becoming my disciples. And you will be knowing the truth and the Truth shall be making you free” (John 8:31-32, continous tense in the Greek emphasized).

Thank you for taking the time to elaborate on my blog, i believe it took time! I am honored.

I would only like to add, that Kingdom of God is like some kind of secret and the word of God and the revelation of God is like hidden. Hidden treasure in the field. Nobody can see and understand it without Holy spirit. There are also layers on the word of God. The Holy spirit is speaking to every person differently. Every sentence can trigger in persons heart and mind some other picture and inspiration or correction. Thats how God speaks. Not only through the DEAD written word. .....They are not blind, but they cannot see etc....Can you please find the scripture that relate to all of those statements? If you have time and if you are willing.....

 

[Intercessor]

well



Thank you Intercessor for your compliment, if its from your mouth who knows scriptures so well, then i must have been straight to the point. I am glad i did it, because i had enough of religion.

I like the most following scriptures you mention (it touches my spirit and i think its most connected to my post):

1) Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’d 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’e 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

2) We are lifetime students of the Word of God, “Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you are remaining in my word, then you are truly becoming my disciples. And you will be knowing the truth and the Truth shall be making you free” (John 8:31-32, continous tense in the Greek emphasized).

Thank you for taking the time to elaborate on my blog, i believe it took time! I am honored.

I would only like to add, that Kingdom of God is like some kind of secret and the word of God and the revelation of God is like hidden. Hidden treasure in the field. Nobody can see and understand it without Holy spirit. There are also layers on the word of God. The Holy spirit is speaking to every person differently. Every sentence can trigger in persons heart and mind some other picture and inspiration or correction. Thats how God speaks. Not only through the DEAD written word. .....They are not blind, but they cannot see etc....Can you please find the scripture that relate to all of those statements? If you have time and if you are willing.....

Welcome, Natasha — I’ll try in brief and elecidate and clarify it when I have a little more time... it’s one of those both AND topics “it is good to take hold of one thing without letting go of the other. The one who is wise will come forth with both of them“ (Ecc 7:18). Scripture says, “They (The Jewish people) received living oracles from God” in Acts and also, “They were stewards of the oracles and mysteries of God.” So the Oracles were and are inspired.

Much of this can be unpacked by understanding there was a “shift” in the way scholars started regarding the Word of God around the mid 1800s. There are those who still today believe that “For everything that was written in the former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4). That all Scripture is inspired, i.e. — the Written Word of God. In that case, whatever God says is still required of Christians (other than sacrifices and such that Jesus fulfilled as “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World” [John 1:29], as Jesus said, “unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom” (Matt 5:20). This puts us in a dilemma, but of course, our Father has a particular solution....

Catch this point: God has actually given us some things required of us that we cannot do! In this case, “The Law was a tutor or schoolmaster to lead us to Christ” (Galatians). So the Law and the Prophets were actually to help all of Israel remain dependent on God, even the height of all the Law and the Prophets, “To love the Lord (Our) God with all our heart, soul mind and strength, and to (perfectly, consistantly, always and only) love our neighbor as (ourselves) is IMPOSSIBLE to fulfill! Let’s be honest! Do I always love God with everything in my being 24/7 365? There is a saying “it takes God to love God,” meaning, we are always in need of God’s grace and mercy this side of eternity.

Even in the New Testament there are statements such as, “therefore you shall be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt 5:48), there are also several places where everyone falls short - – we were all commanded to go preach the gospel to everyone, Matthew 28, Mark 16, then to make disciples of the nations, etc. There are many places where we are commanded to pray without ceasing – – literally to pray in the spirit at all times (See Luke 18, 1 Thes 5:16-20, Eph 6:18-20, Luke about Anna night and day offering prayers and supplications with fasting, etc)...

Therefore all the scripture is required for us, and there are certain things that we should schedule into our days, our weeks and months in such a way that we are able to at least keep them on the radar, as the big word is today. Let me see clearly but here that I am not talking about face and celebrations and all those things, for they are clearly thought that they were things that found her for foreman in Jesus – – now during the millennium they may be held again and I know that some people that are Jewish feel a very strong right to observe them, which conscience gives full legitimacy to and or not to be under mind, but they are not required of the Gentile believers as Acts 15 clearly says...

But getting back to the point — We do need to not only ask for daily bread but daily forgiveness not only for the sins of Commission but the sins of ommission as well - – what we have fallen short up, which if we read the word is a lot. In fact we have sinned and fallen short of The Glory or Image of God that at one time we walked in without sin or shame before the serpent deceived us specifically about whether the Word of God was necessary to obey or not “Did God REALLY say?” Is still the devil’s favorite...

Now the verse you were looking for in Galatians where Paul says, “for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life” – – that verse is saying the same thing. That I cannot do it in my flesh, for in this flesh dwells no good thing, but all things are possible to him who believes, with God all things are possible, and the Spirit is the author and giver of life, “the Spirit gives life” Jesus said in John 6, “the flesh profits nothing —- the words I speak to you are Spirit and life.”

Therefore the word of God is never to be set on the shelf and not read because it’s too hard to understand or its requirements too lofty, but rather to be read and understood that when we read something the Holy Spirit empowers us to be able to do it! It is the most excellent novel ever written by the most excellent author ever, the Holy Spirit, that has a massive thread through it of redemption from the very beginning in Genesis to the very end for, “the Lamb of God,” of which I’ve spoken, “was slain before the foundation of the World” (Rev 13:8).

There is a newer error that crept in around mid 1800s that started saying that not the written word, but our interpretation of the written word of God is what is inspired. Now this lie is quickly exposed when Jesus quoted “it is written” Matthew 4:4, Mark 4:4 and I believe 22 other times in the Gospel accounts, “It is written.”

Where there are levels of understanding of the Word of God, it’s still the same Word of God. And those things that are so clear that can’t be denied, that’s the place were many peoples’ “interpretation“ seems to be twisted to suit their own interests rather than the overall interest and clarity that the Word of God puts forth.

Again this is a newer error that is scripted to the church and started actually with the mixing of other religions in the 1800s specifically through the German philosophers and many others that muddy the waters in the mid-1800s. This is nothing that surprised God, for he said clearly that in the last days there would be vain philosophies an empty deceivers who having a form of cabinets tonight’s power. See to it that no one takes you captive by empty philosophies in hollow deception. “We tear down every lofty thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” 2 Corinthians.

Lastly, there are a lot of people that sit around waiting for God to speak to them, which I have had no problem hearing God speak to me while I was active at work, or driving or reading the word or preaching, or taking out the trash or doing some other work like feeding the poor or giving, etc... I like the phrase, “when we read the Word of God, God speaks, when we pray God listens.”

Again the influx of other religions, New Age, even yoga and other transcendental meditation and etc. has really crept into the church to such a degree that there is rarely a single soul that actually has a daily reading plan to go systematically through the Bible anymore, Genesis through Revelation. This was common for most believers since the reformation onward to have their own printed Bible (which Luther labored for so hard and translated into the common language and so many others are trying to get the Scriptures out to everyone in every language. Why would there have been such a thrust to do this if it were not totally necessary? In fact the whole of the New Testament would’ve been unnecessary if we could just hear God and hear the Holy Spirit. But of course it was necessary, and of course there are apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers for the equipping of the church for service, and for the building up of the Body of Christ, until we all attain the unity and stature and maturity of the Son of God Himself, which clearly has not happened, so we will clearly need all of these people and the Vitamines of Scripture to help things until then. But “the foundation is the apostles and prophets” and the “treasures from both new and old” of The Holy Scriptures, are in fact the foundation of understanding everything — from creation, to the serpent didregarding God’s command and depriciating the Scripture, to our fall, fallen nature, humanity, the prophecies of The Seed of Woman, that He’d be from Israel, a Ruler, from Judah, from Bethlehem, innocent, charged as gulty on our behalf as a God-human, that He’d suffer for our sakes, rise from the dead for our justification and He would be our Teacher, The Messiah.

That’s my brief answers this more of a dissertation or an essay : )

 

[Intercessor]

I will add Jesus’ two favorite Scriptures from The Prophets, which voice to text would mess up into a jarbled heap, but they are the best summary of our position to God, which is to “do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God” I think is Micah 5:8, as well as another He quoted more than once (hint, hint), “but if you would have understood what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent” (Jesus quiting Hosea, I believe).

 

[natasha2]

Welcome, Natasha — I’ll try in brief and elecidate and clarify it when I have a little more time... it’s one of those both AND topics “it is good to take hold of one thing without letting go of the other. The one who is wise will come forth with both of them“ (Ecc 7:18). Scripture says, “They (The Jewish people) received living oracles from God” in Acts and also, “They were stewards of the oracles and mysteries of God.” So the Oracles were and are inspired.

Much of this can be unpacked by understanding there was a “shift” in the way scholars started regarding the Word of God around the mid 1800s. There are those who still today believe that “For everything that was written in the former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4). That all Scripture is inspired, i.e. — the Written Word of God. In that case, whatever God says is still required of Christians (other than sacrifices and such that Jesus fulfilled as “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World” [John 1:29], as Jesus said, “unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom” (Matt 5:20). This puts us in a dilemma, but of course, our Father has a particular solution....

Catch this point: God has actually given us some things required of us that we cannot do! In this case, “The Law was a tutor or schoolmaster to lead us to Christ” (Galatians). So the Law and the Prophets were actually to help all of Israel remain dependent on God, even the height of all the Law and the Prophets, “To love the Lord (Our) God with all our heart, soul mind and strength, and to (perfectly, consistantly, always and only) love our neighbor as (ourselves) is IMPOSSIBLE to fulfill! Let’s be honest! Do I always love God with everything in my being 24/7 365? There is a saying “it takes God to love God,” meaning, we are always in need of God’s grace and mercy this side of eternity.

Even in the New Testament there are statements such as, “therefore you shall be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matt 5:48), there are also several places where everyone falls short - – we were all commanded to go preach the gospel to everyone, Matthew 28, Mark 16, then to make disciples of the nations, etc. There are many places where we are commanded to pray without ceasing – – literally to pray in the spirit at all times (See Luke 18, 1 Thes 5:16-20, Eph 6:18-20, Luke about Anna night and day offering prayers and supplications with fasting, etc)...

Therefore all the scripture is required for us, and there are certain things that we should schedule into our days, our weeks and months in such a way that we are able to at least keep them on the radar, as the big word is today. Let me see clearly but here that I am not talking about face and celebrations and all those things, for they are clearly thought that they were things that found her for foreman in Jesus – – now during the millennium they may be held again and I know that some people that are Jewish feel a very strong right to observe them, which conscience gives full legitimacy to and or not to be under mind, but they are not required of the Gentile believers as Acts 15 clearly says...

But getting back to the point — We do need to not only ask for daily bread but daily forgiveness not only for the sins of Commission but the sins of ommission as well - – what we have fallen short up, which if we read the word is a lot. In fact we have sinned and fallen short of The Glory or Image of God that at one time we walked in without sin or shame before the serpent deceived us specifically about whether the Word of God was necessary to obey or not “Did God REALLY say?” Is still the devil’s favorite...

Now the verse you were looking for in Galatians where Paul says, “for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life” – – that verse is saying the same thing. That I cannot do it in my flesh, for in this flesh dwells no good thing, but all things are possible to him who believes, with God all things are possible, and the Spirit is the author and giver of life, “the Spirit gives life” Jesus said in John 6, “the flesh profits nothing —- the words I speak to you are Spirit and life.”

Therefore the word of God is never to be set on the shelf and not read because it’s too hard to understand or its requirements too lofty, but rather to be read and understood that when we read something the Holy Spirit empowers us to be able to do it! It is the most excellent novel ever written by the most excellent author ever, the Holy Spirit, that has a massive thread through it of redemption from the very beginning in Genesis to the very end for, “the Lamb of God,” of which I’ve spoken, “was slain before the foundation of the World” (Rev 13:8).

There is a newer error that crept in around mid 1800s that started saying that not the written word, but our interpretation of the written word of God is what is inspired. Now this lie is quickly exposed when Jesus quoted “it is written” Matthew 4:4, Mark 4:4 and I believe 22 other times in the Gospel accounts, “It is written.”

Where there are levels of understanding of the Word of God, it’s still the same Word of God. And those things that are so clear that can’t be denied, that’s the place were many peoples’ “interpretation“ seems to be twisted to suit their own interests rather than the overall interest and clarity that the Word of God puts forth.

Again this is a newer error that is scripted to the church and started actually with the mixing of other religions in the 1800s specifically through the German philosophers and many others that muddy the waters in the mid-1800s. This is nothing that surprised God, for he said clearly that in the last days there would be vain philosophies an empty deceivers who having a form of cabinets tonight’s power. See to it that no one takes you captive by empty philosophies in hollow deception. “We tear down every lofty thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” 2 Corinthians.

Lastly, there are a lot of people that sit around waiting for God to speak to them, which I have had no problem hearing God speak to me while I was active at work, or driving or reading the word or preaching, or taking out the trash or doing some other work like feeding the poor or giving, etc... I like the phrase, “when we read the Word of God, God speaks, when we pray God listens.”

Again the influx of other religions, New Age, even yoga and other transcendental meditation and etc. has really crept into the church to such a degree that there is rarely a single soul that actually has a daily reading plan to go systematically through the Bible anymore, Genesis through Revelation. This was common for most believers since the reformation onward to have their own printed Bible (which Luther labored for so hard and translated into the common language and so many others are trying to get the Scriptures out to everyone in every language. Why would there have been such a thrust to do this if it were not totally necessary? In fact the whole of the New Testament would’ve been unnecessary if we could just hear God and hear the Holy Spirit. But of course it was necessary, and of course there are apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers for the equipping of the church for service, and for the building up of the Body of Christ, until we all attain the unity and stature and maturity of the Son of God Himself, which clearly has not happened, so we will clearly need all of these people and the Vitamines of Scripture to help things until then. But “the foundation is the apostles and prophets” and the “treasures from both new and old” of The Holy Scriptures, are in fact the foundation of understanding everything — from creation, to the serpent didregarding God’s command and depriciating the Scripture, to our fall, fallen nature, humanity, the prophecies of The Seed of Woman, that He’d be from Israel, a Ruler, from Judah, from Bethlehem, innocent, charged as gulty on our behalf as a God-human, that He’d suffer for our sakes, rise from the dead for our justification and He would be our Teacher, The Messiah.

That’s my brief answers this more of a dissertation or an essay : )

Thank you so much for your answer. I am so sorry that i cannot read it now. I want to take time to study your post. Your way of writing is not just simple, so have understanding. I will try to reply....thank you and God bless you...

 

[Intercessor]

Thank you so much for your answer. I am so sorry that i cannot read it now. I want to take time to study your post. Your way of writing is not just simple, so have understanding. I will try to reply....thank you and God bless you...

It may be a little long but I assure you it is an easy read and if you read it briefly, the points are clear. To summarize, 1) Jesus quoted the Old Testament throughout His eartly ministry and said we were still required to not detract even a jot or tittle from it.

2) He knew this would drive us to Him and make us rely on the Holy Spirit, “ for the things impossible with man are possible with God.

3) He even used “beyond” statements saying “unless our righteousness goes beyond that of the Scribes and Pharisees, we would by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matt 5:20) and gave us commands like, “therefore you shall be perfect as Your Father in Heaven is perfect” (Matt 5:48). He was making sure everyone knew they would need a Savior. Remember we were greated to show what God is like, “an image should look like the original — falling short of the reason we were created is why “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). When we see and admit this, we can now receive and trust in His Righteous life which fulfilled all of the “great and glorious” requirements of The Torah. See Isaiah 42:21).

4) The New Testament gives us God’s new vision for our lives, “to be ministers of The New Covenant.” In this way, “the letter kills (us), but the Spirit gives life (2 Cor 3:6). We can only be renewed when we admit we can’t do what we are required, and draw strength from the one who fulfilled the requirements perfectly.

5) We are called to far beyond what even the prophets of the Old Testament did, “for among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist, but the one who is least in the Kingdom of heavenis greater than John” (Luke 7:28). That is why Jesus saus, “The one who believes in me shall do the same works that I am doing, and even greater works than these shall that one do because I have gone to the Father” ( John 14:12). We need to seek Jesus for the power to fulfill this.

6) The main point is to both ask for understanding of the Scriptures (Luke 24:45) and systematically read through a chapter or two of the Old Testament each day (with a bookmark where you left off, like You would read a novel). Pray about what you read and underline and take notes. Then read through a chapter of the Nee Testament the same way. In this way you can know “The whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27).

God bless (2 Thes 3:1-3).