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Experience: (Jesus is LORD, Messiah) Husband of a beautiful wife (41-years and counting); Father of three-beautiful children and a handsome grandson Professional Experience: ---United States Marine Corps 1/1 - 0311 - NCO ---Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Uniformed Patrol/Motorcycle Officer/Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot ---Education: Master's Degree/University of Houston at Clear Lake

New Covenant Gospel manifest in one’s daily life?

New Covenant Gospel manifest in one’s daily life?

When one is born again by faith in Yeshua as their Messiah and they receive the Holy Spirit as the Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship with the Father (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14), they become a “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the Holy Spirit begins a work of redemption, sanctification, in their life via the redeemed conscience.

The Christian does not walk daily thinking about law, ordinances, food, days, customs, but their conscience is captured and controlled, their moral decisions arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit and their discernment is guided in the ways of holiness and righteousness through the “fruit” that the Spirit produces within the inner man; therefore, they’re not enslaved to law but walk in peace with the Father through the Spirit (Romans 5:1; Galatians 5). This is the New Covenant Gospel employed by grace through faith.

Law of the Spirit of Life v. Law of Sin and Death (Romans 8:2)

Concerning the stubbornness, blindness, deception, of the Jew, the Israelite, the Hebrew Roots fanatic, the legalist, who incessantly insists that “commandment keeping” is the path to life and covenant…

YES, Jesus did say that if you love Him you will keep HIS commandments, but who keeps those commandments and how is this accomplished, through self-righteousness or obedience to the Holy Spirit? (John 14:15).

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Simply put, you don’t understand the working of the New Covenant and how obedience to the Father’s will is manifest NOT through law keeping but obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:20; Romans 7:6).

You refuse to see the eternal superiority of the Gospel of Grace through Faith, the Gospel’s work through the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) as opposed to the written code given Israel as Sinai, a written code that demanded obedience from an unredeemed sin-nature doomed to failure (Romans 8:1-11).

Unfortunately, and partially due the judgment on the House of Israel for unbelief and rejection of Messiah’s Gospel (Romans 11:25), you will not listen, you will not think, you will not consider anything outside the box of Sinai and Moses and self-righteousness through law.

Law of the Spirit of Life, His superiority in all things…

Those redeemed by faith in Jesus Christ as their Messiah who died for them and was resurrected for their justification leading to enteral life, these are “not under Law but under grace” (Romans 6:14). This means that the redeemed in Jesus who have approached the Father by faith-trust-belief in the Son are made “positionally right” NOT by works of the Law but by “GRACE” (a gift of imputed righteousness) through faith in Messiah’s righteousness earned for us at Golgotha (2 Corinthians 5:21). Subsequent this covenant relationship with the Father having been established by GRACE through FAITH, the indwelling Holy Spirit, given as a Guarantor of that covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14), begins a work of righteousness in the inner man of the redeemed; this work by the Spirit is done solely through the redeemed conscience; that is, the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) where the emphasis is NOT the written code or conformity to same but the emphasis is the producing of “fruit” and against this “fruit of the Spirit” there is no LAW or written code as all law, the Father’s perfect will, is fulfilled completely and eternally by this “fruit” in one’s life (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20).

Christians don’t live their daily life pursuing a written code of laws-ordinances-mandates as given Israel but they listen attentively to the indwelling Holy Spirit working through their redeemed conscience via the “law of conscience” written upon their heart (Romans 2:14-15); this law of conscience is arbitrated by the Spirit working through the redeemed conscience and is therefore attentive to the moral decisions of the redeemed, instantaneously provides divine wisdom and guidance in EVERY MORAL DECISION MADE EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY AND NIGHT, FOREVER.

It is the instantaneous, divine intercession of the Holy Spirit working through the conscience that makes the Law of the Spirit of Life infinitely superior to the Law of Sin and Death (Romans 8:1-3) as the Law of Sin and Death is subject to a seared conscience; subject to obfuscation and compromise via the sin-nature but the Law of the Spirit works with the redeemed conscience producing fruit that actually pleases the Father, eternally.

Christians who understand their place in the Kingdom of God through covenant, a covenant established by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, weary of your constant and unrelenting insistence that the law of ordinances you worship is the path to the Father’s heart when that law is your condemnation and it will ultimately curse you to death in Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; 1 Timothy 1:9; Galatians 2:16).

Your only hope for life in the Kingdom of God is faith in Yeshua, Jesus Christ, as your Messiah (John 14:6).

Keep in Step with the Spirit

16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:16-24 (ESV)

Israel’s Children and their rejection of the New Covenant…

Israel’s children, as exemplified in these debate forums, continue to stubbornly reject and deny the New Covenant, why?

The New Covenant, established and ratified in the sinless blood of Messiah (Matthew 26:28), was prophesied under the Law Covenant by Ezekiel and Jeremiah (Ezekiel 36; Jeremiah 31). This New Covenant involving Israel’s children was contingent, predicated upon, National obedience (Deuteronomy 28).

Yahweh’s eschatological plan through Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah, was that through the Tribe of Judah, Messiah and Israel’s children would be “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b); this, through the Great Commission (Matthew 28) via the Gospel of Messiah, a New Covenant of Grace through Faith offering a fallen World reconciliation with the Father via forgiveness of sin by faith through the work of the Son at Golgotha via the Holy Spirit (Genesis 3:21; John 3:16).

To fulfill this eschatological plan concerning the destruction of the works of the Devil via the Gospel (1 John 3:8b), Messiah came specifically to “the lost sheep of Israel” (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel as Israel’s children were foreordained to be ministers of the Good News thereby becoming “a blessing to all the families of the Earth;” unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected the New Covenant message and obstinately clung to self-righteousness through Torah Law; Israel’s children angrily rejected their Messiah and denied His deity; Israel’s children blasphemed the Holy Spirit: Israel’s children conspired with the Roman authorities to murder their Messiah upon a tree for the false accusation/allegation of “blasphemy;” this, while demanding that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, the Father removed the New Covenant from Israel’s children and gave same to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of God (Romans 11:25); additionally, in response to Israel’s rejection of Messiah, Israel’s children were hardened, their mind and eyes blinded to the Gospel; therefore, if you have Israel’s blood in your veins, you are under judgment, you are spiritually blind, your heart is hard and your wisdom/discernment is skewed; you’re blinded by religious pride and arrogance and you will not see and you will not listen to what I am telling you.

You are dead spiritually and dying in self-righteousness through Law (Romans 10) and your only hope is repentance and faith in Yeshua as your Messiah (John 14:6) but you’re too stubborn, too self-righteous to listen; therefore, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in the Lake of Fire due to UNBELIEF (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Pray that you not follow Israel’s example in apostasy and unbelief but repent of your sin and trust in Yeshua as your Messiah by faith and LIVE eternally in peace with the Father (Romans 5:1)!!!

Judaism v. Law of the Spirit: a discussion concerning eternal life…

Adherents to Judaism insist that the only hope for repentant sinners is the Law of Yahweh. This is a demonically rooted lie, allow me to explain.

There is no salvation in Law, only cursing and condemnation as the Law defines sin but provides no form of atonement or potential covenant (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10) as the Law mandates absolute perfection (James 2:10) and humanity is already cursed by the law due to the sin-nature inherited from Adam (Galatians 3:10; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12); therefore, the Father did for us what “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-8) could not do as the law was weakened by the sin-nature; that is, the Father sent His Son to provide humanity blood atonement for sin and all who believe in what Jesus did for them receives the sinless perfection of Jesus, who kept the law in perfection, imputed-gifted into and over their life by faith (Galatians 2:16; Romans 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21).


Remember this…on our very best day our very best obedience to Law, works, are considered a filthy garment = Hebrew: a bloody menstrual cloth in the nose of Elohim; therefore, Law does not please the Father, only faith in Jesus and His work at Golgotha find approval unto eternal life (Isaiah 64:6)

Mankind is not saved from death in Hell nor does mankind establish an eternal covenant with the Father by self-righteousness through law-keeping (Torah – The Tanakh) but mankind establishes life-saving covenant with the Father by faith in Jesus Christ as Messiah (The Gospel) who kept the law for us in sinless perfection (John 3:16; Matthew 5:17; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

If you seek covenant with the Father through self-righteousness in law-keeping (the Torah) you will perish in your sin and you will not see life in the Kingdom of God irrespective of your heritage (Isaiah 64:6; John 8:24; Galatians 2:16; John 8:24).

Concerning obedience to the Father’s will: Written Code v. Law of the Spirit…

Truth is, mankind can never please the Father sufficiently through vain attempts to keep the written code due to the weakness of the sin-nature (Romans 8:1-4; Isaiah 64:6); therefore, applicable and sustainable obedience that pleases the Father is only possible SUBSEQUENT to having established covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ; then, receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of Covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walking daily in obedience to the Holy Spirit’s teaching via the redeemed conscience (sanctification) thereby producing “fruit” against which there is no Law; in other words, it is the Holy Spirit working through the redeemed in Jesus that produces the “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5) and this fruit pleases the Father apart from the written code as the redeemed by faith are “not under Law but under grace” (Romans 6:14) and produce “fruit” as Messiah proclaimed that a man or woman’s heart, their integrity, their spiritual health, is known by the fruit they produced in their life (Matthew 7:15-20).

Predestination; Election void Volition – the Demonic in Theology…

The Demonic Roots of Predestination; The Demonic underpinnings of “election” void volition…

The defining divine attribute of Elohim is “love” (1 John 4:8) and Elohim introduces that love first in Genesis 3:21 and confirms, fulfills, same at Golgotha with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30; John 3:16).

I am completely baffled by the demonic doctrine of “election” void volition i.e. “predestination” and those exhibiting apparent intelligence and discernment espousing the demonic ideology that humanity is absent the ability to choose their eternal destiny.

Why do you deny Elohim’s omnipotent ability to work through, around, the personal choices of His created beings in order to fulfill His eschatological will for Time and Eternity?

Do you not understand the absurdity of predestination, the alleged absence of free will in creation and in our daily lives?

Please consider this,

How is it possible for genuine, reciprocal, intimacy-love-relationship, to manifest and be sustained for Time and Eternity void the free will to “choose” to love, void the free will to choose to engage in relationship and receive genuine and reciprocal intimacy lest one possesses the free will to willingly engage in that relationship or possess the free will to reject same?

How is Elohim’s relationship with His angelic creation, His human creation, made fulfilling, purposeful, relevant, reciprocally pleasing, lest both Elohim and the angels, lest both Elohim and every human being, possesses volition, free will, to engage in relationship? How does Elohim’s eschatological purposes in Time relevant to “destroying the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b) find meaning and relevance if the creatures involved are morally-ethically robotic thereby nullifying the need for FAITH and GRACE and COVENANT and LOVE?

Void free will, WHY THE SUFFERING OF MESSIAH?

What kind of tyrannical “God” denies free will?

What does it say about a supposed Creator who creates the unfathomably beautiful Angelic Creation and a Creator who meticulously collaborates on Day-6 to create the unfathomably complex human genome then proceeds to deny both the angelic creation and humanity the ability to choose love or hate, covenant or self-righteousness, life or death – eternally; then, this tyrannical “Creator” proceeds to arbitrarily punish one-third of the entire angelic creation in the fires of Hell, forever and ever for behavior they had no ability to control (Revelation 20:10) and send an untold “many” of humanity to the “second death” in Hell for sin, defilement, for which they had no ability to receive forgiveness, atonement, for by faith (Matthew 7:13-14); this, just because He is GOD? What “God” do you serve?

When one espouses the demonic doctrine of “predestination” or “election void volition,” they provide fodder for the demonic root of atheism and secular humanism. When one espouses predestination/election void volition, they do not serve Elohim, they are absent the Holy Spirit, they don’t know Elohim and are NOT in covenant as they serve the god of this World, Satan who has blinded their mind from the Truth of Elohim and His Gospel (2 Corinthians 4:4; John 3:16-18).

God is LOVE (1 John 4:8); therefore, how can Hell exist?

Elohim is LOVE (1 John 4:8); therefore, how can He find pleasure in the death of the wicked in Hell?

Elohim does not find pleasure in the destruction of the wicked, that’s why He gave Himself to be crucified, bled and suffocated to death for your sin at Golgotha and offers you HIS imputed righteousness by faith in Him as your Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Elohim did not find pleasure in the drowning of the entire Adamic and Noahic generations save eight but did so because He refused to sanctify a people group from those wicked generations through whom He would introduce His Messiah to the World to provide forgiveness of sin and eternal life by grace through faith in conjunction with “destroying the works of the devil” through Messiah’s work at Golgotha (Genesis 6; 1 John 3:8b).

Elohim finds no pleasure in the death of the wicked but lest their sin has been atoned for by the blood of Messiah, they will NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom of God and NOTHING impure will enter therein (Revelations 21:27); therefore, the “second death” in Hell is the only other option remaining for the unrepentant sinner (Revelation 20:11-15).

Our entire creation is prefaced upon a rebellion in the Kingdom initiated by a rebellious cherub angel and Elohim has patiently endured and spent the previous 6000-years and suffered the unconscionable death of Yeshua to right that wrong and restore peace and holiness to His Kingdom; therefore, do NOT think for one moment that Elohim will wink at unrepentant, unredeemed, sin or compromise with same as free will remains extant in the Kingdom by necessity. Elohim has no intention of repeating the horror over the previous 6000-years manifesting from rebellion in His Kingdom and self-righteous attempts at usurping His authority and dominion.

Elohim will except NOTHING but the atoning blood sacrifice of the Son, Jesus Christ; that is, your faith in the Son as your Messiah, as payment for your sin, a debt owed the Father that you can never pay yourself (John 14:6). Unless Jesus Christ is your Mediator for sin before the Father, you will die the “second death” in Hell as no place in Eternity is fitted for your unrepentant, rebellious, unappreciative, self-righteousness.

Isaiah 66:16

For the Lord will execute judgment by fire

And by His sword on all flesh,

And those slain by the Lord will be many.

Concerning Israel’s children and Eternity, what happened?

Concerning Israel’s children: why will only a “remnant” (primarily those who survive the Tribulation Era) find life in the Kingdom of Elohim? Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27

The rebellious Jews of the First-Century murdered Jesus for His proclamation that He is I AM, Deity; this, under the false allegation of “blasphemy.”

What happened?

The Covenant Yahweh made with Israel’s children through Abraham (Genesis 12:3b) was to be fulfilled through the Tribe of Judah concerning Messiah’s introduction to the World and Messiah came specifically to the “lost sheep of Israel” (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize them in the New Covenant Gospel as Israel’s children were foreordained to be the ministers of the Great Commission (Matthew 28) and thereby be “a blessing to every family of the Earth” as per Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Israel’s children and their religious councils rejected the New Covenant of Grace; Israel rejected their Messiah and conspired with the Roman authorities to murder Messiah upon a tree while simultaneously demanding that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, the Father removed the Gospel and His Covenant of Grace in Messiah from Israel’s children and gave same to the Gentiles until “the fullness of the Gentiles” have entered the Kingdom of God (Romans 11:25); therefore, Israel’s children today don’t see, they don’t hear, they don’t believe, they are arrogant and self-righteous in their Judaism and secularism just as their forefathers; therefore, the words of LIFE in Yeshua are stubbornly rejected by them as they cling to self-righteousness through Law or secular apostasy; therefore, an overwhelming number of Jews and Israelite’s today will not be named among the remnant who enter the Kingdom and serve Yeshua, forever (Romans 10).

Concerning Hell, the Lake of Fire and humanity…

Concerning the Region of Hell, the Lake of Fire, Gehenna…

Hell, the Lake of Fire, was created specifically for Satan and his rebellious angels; this, before the creation of Time and humanity. Scripture suggests that the most vile of demons (fallen angels) are in confinement there presently (Jude 1:6). Hell will become relevant for fallen humanity subsequent the Judgment of the Condemned that will manifest subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15).

Hell was not created for humanity, men and women will enter Hell subsequent Judgment by choice; that is, rejecting Jesus as Messiah for the atonement of sin and covenant with the Father by faith.

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:16-18 (ESV)

35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 3:35-36 (ESV)

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8 (ESV)

Concerning the “Law of the Spirit of Life” – The Gospel of Jesus Christ…

Concerning the “Law of the Spirit of Life” – The Gospel of Jesus Christ…

The Gospel of Jesus Christ was ordained as Elohim’s battle strategy “to destroy the works of the Devil” by selfless love via Messiah at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b) “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). The moment iniquity was found in Elohim’s anointed cherub servant (Ezekiel 28:15 “11-15”), Elohim commissioned the Son to take elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashion same into matter that can be apprehended by “life” constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3); hence, the initiation of the creation of Time, matter, this Earth, the human genome as a repository for an impending, unfathomable, spiritual war (Genesis 1; Genesis 3; Genesis 3:21; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1; John 3:35; Matthew 28:18; Luke 10:18).

Law and the Gospel,

The “Law of the Spirit of Life” (Romans 8:2) is uniquely rooted in the Gospel of the New Covenant as it concerns the “law of conscience” (Romans 2:14-15) introduced into the human genome on Day-6 and that same law is written upon the heart, uniquely infused within the spirit, of every individual human being at conception; the “law of conscience” is Elohim’s arbiter of free will.

Concerning the Gospel, the “law of conscience” is enlivened, made applicable to the Christian life, by the redeemed conscience or the “new creation” in Christ subsequent salvation (2 Corinthians 5:17); therefore, the Christian does NOT labor after, is not enslaved by, the written code provided Israel at Sinai (Romans 6:14; 7;6) but the Christian walks daily in sanctification (a setting apart from the World for the Father’s eschatological purposes) by pursuing obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit who methodically sanctifies, teaches, intercedes for, the redeemed in Jesus Christ by faith; this is accomplished through the human conscience, not letters etched in stone or scratched upon parchment (Galatians 5:16). The work of the Spirit through the human conscience produces “fruit” that honors the Father and supports the Father’s eschatological Plan for Time and Eternity (Galatians 5:22-23; Matthew 7:15-20).

Conclusion,

Elohim has destroyed the works of the Devil (death-Hell-the grave) through the Son and His Gospel at Golgotha and concluded that victory with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30). Genesis 3:21, the shedding of innocent blood to provide humanity an imputed robe of righteousness apart from the works of the law or man’s labor in self-righteousness (fig leaves), was fulfilled by Messiah over 2000-years ago (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, walk in peace with Elohim as a result of His own selfless love and sacrifice made known through the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 5:1).

Water Baptism: A Work of Righteousness or Obedience to a Command following salvation?

Clarification: Water Baptism as a work v. Water Baptism as obedience (damnation v. glorification)

A response to a plethora of apostasy and false teaching,

Anyone who preaches, teaches, advocates for, participates in, Water Baptism as an element of salvation in order to supplement the sufficiency of Messiah Jesus’ blood to provide eternal atonement for one’s sin by faith, alone, has fallen from grace, they have rejected faith, they have nullified the Gospel Message, they have rejected grace and faith for works and they remain in their sin and on the Path to the “second death” in Hell as they are a member of a legalistic cult.

Those who contend and argue that Water Baptism is necessary for salvation are no different in their apostate theology than the legalistic Jews in the Galatian community that Paul condemned for their insistence that believing Gentiles must be circumcised in order to be saved.

What is the Truth?

Water Baptism is an act of obedience to Jesus’ command for all who have believed, trusted, in Him to be baptized, immersed in water as demonstrated by Jesus at the initiation of His Earthly ministry (Matthew 3:15; Matthew 28).

Water Baptism does NOT supplement the sole sufficiency of Jesus to atone for sin nor does Water Baptism add to the sufficiency of faith, alone, in Jesus, alone, to save your soul from Hell; therefore, DO NOT ALLOW THE LEGALIST, THE FALSE TEACHERS, to convince you that water baptism is anything other than an act of obedience that FOLLOWS salvation by grace through faith, alone!

Water Baptism in the New Covenant is an outward demonstration to a lost and dying World of what has previously manifest in the heart of the one being baptized. If you love Jesus Christ and desire to honor the Father and the Holy Spirit, participate in water baptism as commanded subsequent initiating covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ.

Enter into the Baptismal with a heart that understands, acknowledges, the truism that Jesus, alone, by faith, alone, is completely sufficient to save your soul from Hell and that your participation in baptismal water is your public acknowledgement that you plan to follow, obey and serve Jesus Christ as your Lord throughout Time and Eternity.