Topic: The differences between salvation, justification, and sanctification.
When one enters into New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in Jesus, they are saved (receive a divine pardon – salvation) from the “second death” in Hell (John 3); they are “justified” (Romans 5:1) through the imputation, gifting, of Jesus’ righteousness over their life and are therefore declared “not guilty” by the Father via New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12; 2 Corinthians 5:21); they are sanctified or “set apart” from the World via the new birth by the indwelling Holy Spirit who anoints them with power from on High in order to walk daily in obedience via Christian sanctification relevant to producing divine fruit that fulfills all law and honors the Father while proving one to be a disciple of Jesus (John 17:17; Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
Christians and the Sabbath Observance, what is Truth?
Jesus is the fulfillment of all the Sabbath edict foreshadowed (Colossians 2:16).
Acknowledging, believing, that Jesus is Messiah who died for you is fulfilling the intent of the Sabbath edict (Matthew 11:28) given solely to Israel’s children and those gentiles who sought the benefits of that Theocracy.
Christian’s don’t pursue laws-days-diets-traditions, Christian’s walk by the tutelage and anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit and produce fruit that honors the Father (John 15:8; Galatians 5:16-23).
With that said, if you want to keep or observe a day or a diet or a tradition as a Christian, that’s OK as long as you understand that your observance does NOT ingratiate yourself with the Father or the Son or the Spirit…if your observance makes you feel closer to Elohim, more spiritual, and binds you with Him and His purposes, definitely partake in the observance knowing that your works or observance are NOT integral with New Covenant promise but that only your faith and trust in Jesus as Messiah and the work of the Spirit through you are relevant to your relationship with the Father via New Covenant promise (Galatians 2:16).
Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. Romans 14:5-6 ESV .
Happy 250th Birthday America but… (Letter to Lee County, FL Commissioners and Sheriff Marceno)
Dear Lee County Commissioners,
I have begged, for years, for your intercession concerning enforcement relevant to unlawfully LOUD motor vehicles operating on the public roadways of Lee County, you and Sheriff Marceno do NOTHING to enforce the OEM/factory installed muffler mandates of Florida’s Motor Vehicle Muffler Statute. I called the Lee County Sheriff’s Department on July 4th, 2026, begging for intercession relevant to unruly, disrespectful, neighbors exploding fireworks near my home and within the Sun Diet Community in Bokeelia, Pine Island. I was informed by the clerk that fire works were lawful on the July 4th Holiday and the police would do NOTHING to intercede on behalf of my Wife who was preparing for surgery and needed her rest prior to anesthesia. Lee County and its law enforcement “community” is impotent as are the local law enforcement communities of Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
Fireworks in our communities is insanity,
I hate fireworks in our communities almost as much as I do the relentless illegal, intrusive, NOISE from illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motor vehicles operating unencumbered by law enforcement on our public roadways. Fireworks exploding in our communities robs the citizenry of quality of life, it’s disrespectful and harmful to our veterans and law enforcement officers, first responders, the autistic, especially relevant are those who have been in life and death scenarios where unwanted exposure to this intrusive, unnecessary, selfish, explosive noise causes a visceral form of trauma (PTSD), it horrifies our pets, wildlife, as well. It is insane that municipal, county, state, officials allow individuals to lawfully purchase explosives – fireworks and transport them into our communities around the United States to destroy the daily and nightly quality of life of their neighbors…men, women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, unlawfully traumatized by this unnecessary, physiologically injurious, NOISE nonsense, those physiologically and psychologically offended and harmed but who are too timid, too fearful, too cowardly, to stand for their rights concerning domestic tranquility and law enforcement intercession.
Why are individuals in Lee County, Florida, allowed to legally purchase explosives from a licensed vendor then take those explosives home, into our communities, and explode them, discharge them, all day, all night, without care or concern for the health and welfare of the families living in those communities? Why do these narcissistic morons receive police protection as they engage in this quality of life destroying behavior? Why are vehicular NOISE bullies with illegally modified, illegally LOUD aftermarket racing exhausts, allowed to bully and abuse Lee County’s most innocent while Sheriff Marceno and his Politically Correct deputies, Cape Coral PD, Fort Myers PD, DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? This is WOKE incompetence.
The only viable option,
The most viable option concerning fireworks for celebrations is an organized event within a municipality or county and invite those interested in exposure to the dangerous, quality of life altering, decibels of exploding fireworks the opportunity to enjoy the fanfare in a contained, centralized, location while sparing the peace loving members of society from unwanted, unwelcomed, exposure to the dangerous explosive noise intrusion. Stop allowing the retail of explosives to a society of narcissistic misfits, a society that is faltering in moral relativism, arrogance, selfishness, narcissism!
This is NOT a difficult concept, protect the innocent from unlawful, unwanted, destruction of domestic tranquility initiated by narcissistic NOISE morons within our society who are essentially careless bullies who care NOTHING for the health and welfare, the daily quality of life, of their neighbors.
In conclusion,
I moved to Florida five-years ago under the “impression” that Florida was a “law and order State” replete with patriotic conservatism but what I’ve found is a State replete with men and women who believe “freedom” is actually moral relativism and they’re free to do what is right in their own eyes…a skewed and warped ideology rooted in selfish narcissism. It is law enforcement’s duty to protect our true “freedoms” from these selfish bullies…Lee County and most of Florida’s law enforcement community has embarrassingly failed to protect. I will leave Florida in the rearview if my home receives a fair offer for retail. I’m sure this will please all concerned. This State is inundated with selfish narcissists and Florida provides little to no protection from the same.
Here is but one example of a fireworks, loud vehicle, vulgar, moron in my community I confronted on July 4, 2026 subsequent a failed promise of police intervention…these people are not well psychologically, they do not deserve the opportunity to destroy the daily quality of life of Lee County’s citizens: https://youtu.be/_hJUNDT-66A
The Sinai Commandments were but a mere fraction of Elohim’s moral law, a Spiritual Law that was infused within Adam on Day 6 of creation as Adam was created in the spiritual image of our divine Law Giver, Jesus Christ (Genesis 1:26-28; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1). The Sinai Commandments were given specifically to Israel’s children and those who sought refuge in that Theocracy. The Commandments were codified in stone by Elohim for Israel in preparation for their journey through pagan lands inundated with pagan tribes, demonically rooted pagan tribes who would make every attempt to turn Israel’s children away from Elohim’s prophetic plan concerning the Nation of Israel and the prophesied Messiah, Messiah Jesus who would ultimately emanate from the Trible of Judah.
There were other written codes and texts prior to the Mosaic Law such as the “Code of Hammurabi” that provided laws and structure for adjudicative order in a society of Adam’s descendants.
All moral and ethical law that has been codified by human kind from Adam forward finds their origin in the divine Spiritual Law that is written upon the heart of every human being at conception (Romans 2:14-15). The Spiritual Law is essential as a bulwark against societal implosion in unrestrained narcissism and it is the divine gift of the human conscience, wisdom, discernment, that arbitrates the Spiritual Law within the heart of human kind.
The Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by Elohim within the human species created in His own spiritual image is also eternally essential as an arbiter of free will and arbiter of divine judgment as “where there is no law there is no sin” (Romans 4:15; 5:13); in other words, there exists no culpability in the absence of law, nor does culpability exist among a transgressor where insufficient cognitive ability to understand the repercussions of violating a law or edict exists, insufficient cognitive acuity due immaturity or retardation, mental illness.
The Spiritual Law is eternal and essential for Elohim’s righteousness to be defined and judgment to be adjudicated fairly and responsibly in that Day (Revelation 20:11-15). It is the divine Spiritual Law that judged unto death and extinction save eight the Adamic and Noahic generations via The Flood. It is also notable that the eternal Spiritual Law judged Satan of covetousness and initiated Satan’s extrication from the Kingdom thereby initiating the Genesis creation narrative, the Gospel, Golgotha; in fact, it is Satan’s defiance of the Spiritual Law that initiated Messiah’s introduction into the temporary, created, Realm of Time as Messiah’s primary objective was “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b); that is, destroy the works of Satan as a demonic evil seeking to deceive all of humanity through the enticement to violate the Spiritual Law of Elohim.
The Sinai Commandments are but a portion of Elohim’s divine law that was codified for the children of Israel that they might know Elohim’s righteous decrees and desires for their individual and corporate lives as they were to sojourn among and through vile pagan tribes en route to the Promised Land and ultimately pave a path through the Tribe of Judah to the promised Messiah.
The Commandments were a good tutor to point Israel to their need for a perfect Savior as the law does not nor could it ever save the soul of Adam’s descendants from Hell (Galatians 2:16). In the New Covenant, the Mosaic Law is not taught as a path to righteousness but that faith in Jesus as our Law Giver and Keeper is the only Way to eternal life via imputed, gifted, righteousness (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21); individual obedience made possible through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit via daily Christian sanctification (Romans 7:6).
It is the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8) that actually honors the Father and there is no law arbitrating “the fruit of the Spirit” as same fulfills all law.
In the New Covenant, the faithful in Jesus don’t pursue laws, edicts, days, diets, but their “law” is spiritual and their obedience is to the Holy Spirit who produces divine “fruit” through the redeemed. It is this fruit that fulfills all law, spiritual and codified (Romans 2:14-15); therefore, when the redeemed in Jesus walk by the Spirit, they fulfill the letter of the law and its spiritual origin. Christians don’t walk in self righteousness defined by keeping laws, days, diets, rules, regulations, but Christians honor the Father by daily sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit.
What did the Apostle Paul mean by “works of the Law?”
Works of the law refers to the self righteous act of futility concerning trying to keep the law, rules, regulations, days, diets, sufficiently to please God and receive divine favor leading to forgiveness and eternal life, redemption. This heresy was first attempted by Adam in Eden through the donning of fig leaves to cover his sin and shame from Elohim (Genesis 3:21)…Elohim rejected same and shed innocent blood to acquire a robe of skins (an imputed robe of righteousness) to cover Adam and his wife. This is the first proclamation of the Gospel; that is, redemption, forgiveness, is only possible by faith in Jesus and His imputed righteousness earned for us via His shed blood on a Cross at Golgotha 2000-years ago.
The New Covenant is based solely in “faith;” that is, believing with a sincere heart that Jesus is Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt and by believing one is forgiven, redeemed, made a member of Elohim’s (Genesis 1:1) family via the imputation, gifting, of Jesus’ righteousness, perfection, over their life and they are thereby declared “not guilty” by the Father; they are accepted as a child of Elohim and their sins are remembered no more, forever (Hebrews 8:12); essentially, the Father agrees by New Covenant promise to only see His dear Son in the believer, no longer are sins held against the redeemed, but they are positionally perfect in the Father’s eyes as a result of what the Son, Jesus Christ, did for us at Golgotha; that is, shedding His innocent blood as payment for our sin (2 Corinthians 5:21; Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 8:12).
Atheists are angry, unhinged, because their spirit is not at peace as they serve Satan, the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4), who has blinded their minds and placed within them aberrant lust and desires combined with diminishing returns; therefore, the atheist and their lust for more can never be satiated…atheism is a life of destructive yearning misery, doubt, jealously, aberrant lust that can’t fulfill…yet Jesus waits with open arms and forgiveness and truth for anyone who believes in Him as Messiah who died for the forgiveness of their sin (Matthew 11:28).
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” What does this mean?
Biblical “perfection” is the product of the divine imputation of Jesus’ perfection over the life of the one who believes that Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21). Believers in the New Covenant are positionally “perfect” as a divine promise of the Father who chooses to not see the sin of the faithful but only sees the perfection of His dear Son over the life of the one who has surrendered their sin to the grace of Jesus’ work performed on the Cross at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28).
Though a Christian remains encumbered by a body of death in Adam (Romans 7), their “true self,” the spirit, is viewed as holy and perfect by the Father via New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12).
With that said, true, practical, daily perfection in word and deed is the ultimate goal of daily Christian sanctification as the Christian is transformed day-by-day via sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit into the “perfect,” obedient, image of Jesus…this work of sanctification is a life long goal of the Spirit subsequent redemption by faith (Galatians 5:16).
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