Did Jesus teach conformity to Law or grace and mercy through faith? Should we teach others to conform to Law or the Spirit?

Jesus entered Time under Law (Galatians 4:4) and came to proselytize those under Law in the freedom of grace and mercy through faith (John 3). If the Law was the path to righteousness and holiness, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die for our sin (Galatians 2:21).

The Law Covenant is NOTHING but a definer of sin and culpability (Romans 3:20) and a Tutor to point the children of Israel to their need for a Messiah and once Messiah came and fulfilled the righteous mandates of the Law for us, we are no longer under Law but under grace through faith in Jesus via the Holy Spirit (Galatians 3:24; Romans 6:14).

People intuitively know the law as it is written upon their heart by our Creator at conception (Romans 2:14-15; Genesis 1:26-28); therefore, what people actually need in their life is redemption by faith in Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit guiding them in God’s will, the moral law, through the conscience via sanctification; therefore, our efforts as servants of God the Father must be to point others NOT to conformity to Law in legalism but faith in Jesus and allow the anointing of the Holy Spirit to create in them the New Man and the New Woman seeking obedience to the Father’s will out of love for God through sanctification and NOT in fear of law and punishment.

Deterrence via fear through legalistic law keeping is easily rationalized away by the sin-nature as evidenced by Israel’s repeated failures to please the Father through law keeping; Israel’s repeated rejection of the Father’s grace through faith are examples of legalistic futility; therefore, Jesus provides the only Way (John 14:6) to the Father’s heart (John 6:29); that is, trusting in Jesus as Lord (John 3); receive the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14); receive the “new nature” integral with the “new birth” (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:17) and walk in intimacy with the Father via obedience to the Spirit via the conscience via sanctification as the Spirit prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). This is God’s will for your life as you become His family, His child, His beloved, forever, through faith in the Son as your Messiah via covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12).

Vain attempts at conformity to letters kills the soul but obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit provided the redeemed in Jesus is life and peace, forever (2 Corinthians 3:6).

The Law of the Spirit? (Romans 8:2) Torah Law or Moral Law of Conscience?

Elohim gave the moral law first to the angels as an arbiter of free will and this law judged Satan of covetousness and the one-third of the angelic creation that followed Satan in the rebellion ultimately leading to the creation of matter, Time, our Universe, our genome as a temporary repository for this destructive war.

Elohim then infused the moral law of conscience into the human genome on the 6th-Day as He created human kind in His spiritual image (Genesis 1:26-28) and imparted certain communicable attributes of Elohim into humanity, one being the moral law which was to act as an arbiter of free will and a bulwark against societal implosion via unrestrained narcissism (Romans 2:14-15); second; the moral law will be used to ensure due process at the Judgment of the Condemned manifesting subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15) as all of humanity will be “without excuse” (Romans 1:20).

This moral law of conscience, given humanity thousands of years before Sinai, judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement and Elohim judged all but eight to death in water. This same moral law was foundational to the creation of man’s law such as the Code of Hammurabi.

When Elohim set apart a people group for His eschatological purposes via Abraham-Isaac-Jacob (Israel), He etched into stone and led Moses to scratch upon parchment certain specific laws that are nothing more than a reiteration of the moral law of conscience with some specificity concerning Jacob’s children and their conduct among pagan tribes serving pagan gods that relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise.

The Law Covenant and the Torah Law was and IS relevant ONLY to a very minuscule fragment of societal totality and that Torah Law is nothing more than a reiteration of the moral law of conscience with specificity. The Law Covenant and Torah Law are NOT the Law of the Spirit but the moral law of conscience, extant from the creation of the angels, is the law written upon our heart and arbitrated by the Holy Spirit via the conscience via sanctification which is a far superior form of behavioral modification seeing that the anointing of the Spirit works with the New Creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) to form the new-man who is indwelt by God as opposed to the Torah Law etched in cold, unyielding stone and scratched upon parchment condemning the old sin-nature void the Spirit that inevitably led to failure and condemnation because of compromise; therefore, the letter kills but the Spirit gives life (2 Corinthians 3:6).

Torah Law is NOT on the heart and mind of most Christians as they walk in sanctification but the Spirit walks them methodically in the moral law that is infinitely more expansive and relevant to every thought of the human mind and in the New Covenant, Messiah enhanced the law to include mens rea or the thought life (Matthew 5:27-28) and now even our thoughts are judged and are liable, culpable, before God; therefore, walking in the anointing of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16; 1 John 2:27) with the New Nature loving God is the only way to please the Father and prepare for life in the New Jerusalem.

Did Jesus teach conformity to Law or grace and mercy through faith? Should we teach others to conform to Law or the Spirit?

Jesus entered Time under Law (Galatians 4:4) and came to proselytize those under Law in the freedom of grace and mercy through faith (John 3). If the Law was the path to righteousness and holiness, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die for our sin (Galatians 2:21).

The Law is NOTHING but a definer of sin and culpability (Romans 3:20) and a Tutor to point the children of Israel to their need for a Messiah and once Messiah came and fulfilled the righteous mandates of the Law for us, we are no longer under Law but under grace through faith in Jesus via the Holy Spirit (Galatians 3:24; Romans 6:14).

People intuitively know the law…it’s on their heart (Romans 2:14-15)…what people need is redemption by faith in Jesus and the indwelling Holy Spirit guiding them in God’s will through the conscience via sanctification; therefore, our efforts as servants of God the Father must be to point others NOT to conformity to Law but faith in Jesus and allow the anointing of the Holy Spirit to create in them the New man and the New woman seeking obedience out of love for God not in fear of law and punishment.

Man’s perversion of Matthew 7:21-23 to justify self-righteousness through Law…

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [s]miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB)

You err in your interpretation of Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus, in this discourse, is approached by those who cite their worthiness via their good works done in the Name of our Lord yet Jesus rejects them and tells them He never knew them…how can this be?

These people, in their self-righteousness, relied upon their works to please the Father and earn their own way into the Kingdom and Jesus plainly tells them that they NEVER entered into covenant relationship with Him or the Father by faith as they never acquiesced to the Father’s will; that is, “to believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for sin (John 6:29); therefore, Jesus said I don’t know you…depart from me you who work iniquity.

Those works that are done apart from covenant relationship by faith in Jesus are equated by the Father as filthy rags (a bloody menstrual cloth in the Hebrew)…they mean NOTHING (Isaiah 64:6) until such time an individual trusts in Jesus and establishes covenant relationship and receives the indwelling Holy Spirit and ONLY those works done by and through the Spirit please the Father and validate one’s faith as legitimate. It is by faith, alone, in Jesus, alone, that the Father is pleased (1 John 2:23).

Anyone born from Adam forward up to Messiah’s 1st-Advent found righteousness (a right standing) with the Father by “faith” (see Hebrews 11). A problem existed for the Old Testament saints as their sin had not received the acceptable blood atonement as first pictured in Genesis 3:21; therefore, they awaited Messiah’s atoning sacrifice in Sheol as nothing impure is permitted to enter the Kingdom (Revelation 21:27).

The Holy Spirit tells us that while the body of Jesus laid in the tomb, Jesus entered Sheol (Hades in the Greek) and preached liberty to the captives there and escorted them into the Kingdom (Ephesians 4:7-10) and from Messiah’s blood atonement forward, those who trust in Jesus no longer enter Sheol or Hades but are translated instantaneously into the presence of our Lord awaiting the resurrection of the righteous and service in the New Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21).

Confusion abounds: Did Jesus nullify the Law?

No; the point is this, Jesus is the END OF THE LAW CONCERNING “RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Romans 10:4); that is, because of what Jesus did for you and me at the Cross through His sinless perfection, we no longer strive through human effort to be worthy to the Father in a vain attempt to earn our own salvation via law keeping (Galatians 2:16) i.e. self-righteousness but Jesus kept the Law in sinless perfection and gave Himself as an atoning sacrifice for our sin and by covenant promise, the Father agrees to impute the perfection – righteousness of Jesus over your life by faith in Jesus as your Lord and you are therefore declared “not guilty” when you trust-believe that Jesus is Lord and that Jesus died to pay your sin-debt owed the Father (Hebrews 8:12; 2 Corinthians 5:21). The Father accepts the perfection – the sinless sacrifice of Jesus, the spotless Lamb of God, as payment for your sin-debt and NOTHING else will supplement or supplant Jesus as our substitutionary death for our sin (John 14:6)…NO LAW…NO WORK…NO RELIGION!

Once you are redeemed-saved-justified-family by faith in Jesus and covenant relationship is guaranteed by the Gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) you are then led by the Spirit in the daily process of sanctification where the Spirit begins a good work in you and through you via the conscience; you are methodically led in obedience to the Father’s will for your life via the moral law of conscience written upon your heart and arbitrated by the Spirit; you no longer strive in vain after the written law – self-righteousness but the intent of the law is methodically fulfilled by the Spirit’s work through you as you have been forgiven by grace (unmerited favor from the Father) through faith-trusting in Jesus as your Lord and you naturally seek obedience because you love God and you’re now HIS child, His family, forever (John 3; Galatians 5:16).

The Holy Spirit tells us in the The Genesis Narrative that our Creator created with rapidity for cause and He uses the Hebrew “Yom” to designate “day”…a study of the Hebrew use of “yom” indicates that whenever yom is used in conjunction with a specific time frame such as “first day” and “an evening and a morning” it always designates a literal 24-hour day.

Also, the Holy Spirit explains to us from the Genesis forward that our creation in Time is in response to an unfathomable coup d’état having manifest in the Kingdom and our Universe, the Earth, was created in response to that rebellion as a repository for same in order to remove the destruction of the rebellion from the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Revelation 21:27); therefore, the creation of Time and matter and physics finds its origin in the unseen Spiritual World and our creation was created with rapidity for cause.

In addition, the Holy Spirit provides us a time-line of the Earth’s age as Jesus tells us that “in the Beginning Elohim created them male and female” (Mark 10:6) so we know that the human genome was created “in the Beginning” (Genesis 1:26-28); furthermore, the Holy Spirit uses the genealogy of Messiah through Mary (Gospel of Luke, Chapter 3) extending back to Adam to date the Earth at approximately 6000-years.

I understand that those who adhere to Darwin’s “theory” and the offshoot of that theory such as “abiogenesis” and “descent with modification” lean toward an old Earth ideology as millions or billions of years are mandated for the radical “speciation” of a simple cell into the complexity of life we see around us…I guess it all depends upon whom you believe, the Holy Spirit or Darwin’s followers.

Furthermore, the matter that forms the constituent elements of our world, our cells, was taken from elements found only in the unseen Spiritual Realm and fashioned into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time (Hebrews 11:3); therefore, mankind, scientists, astrophysicists, will never define our origin, the date of the Earth through radiocarbon dating, potassium–argon dating and uranium–lead dating. Also, our Creator created a “mature” Earth and a “mature” Sun and light just like He created a mature Adam and Eve…these things are beyond human understanding and man’s calculations concerning “The Genesis.” I therefore believe what the Holy Spirit has provided me in His words.

Christ is the end of the Law…an explanation…

Jesus is the end of the Law concerning righteousness (Romans 10:4); in other words, the Law cannot and never could impart righteousness (a right standing) with the Father because the Law only defined sin void atonement (Romans 3:20) and the Law mandated perfection (James 2:10) and man is a sinner (Romans 3:23); therefore, cursed is the one who seeks righteousness (a right standing with the Father) through Law (Galatians 3:10); therefore, the only righteousness available to human kind is the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ over our life by faith in Him as Lord, a righteousness earned for us by Jesus at Golgotha via His sinless perfection (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6; Matthew 26:28).

Concerning the Millennial Kingdom and those who deny what the Holy Spirit has said…

Messiah’s Kingdom has NOT been established upon this Earth at this time but this Earth is currently under the sway of the Devil (2 Corinthians 4:4) and will remain so until Messiah’s 2nd-Advent and the establishment of His Millennial Kingdom where the Evil One is bound for 1000-years.

All things have been given-over into the hands of the Son concerning the Father’s eschatological will (John 3:35) but the Evil One’s dominion in Time is part of the Father’s eschatological plan in that Satan is currently used as a sifter dividing wheat from chaff; sheep from goats; righteous from unrighteous, and this sifting will continue until the fullness of the Gentiles has come to fruition (Romans 11:25). At the conclusion of the Millennial Kingdom the Evil One will be released to deceive the nations once again and our Lord will destroy His enemies via His omnipotent power.

Where you lack understanding is the reasoning for the Millennial Kingdom which provides Messiah the Kingdom denied Him at His first advent but more importantly, the Millennial Kingdom is an “object lesson” as it provides a stark differentiation between the previous 6000-years of horror that resulted from the Evil One running amuck and the 1000-years of complete peace while the Evil One is confined; this differentiation between good and evil provides undeniable proof to the faithful angelic creation that their former boss, an anointed but rebellious cherub angel, is indeed the culprit for all horror and sin and he does deserve punishment in Hell forever (Rev 20:10) and the angelic creation will see and affirm that the Father was correct and righteous in extricating the rebellious angels from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) and it will be abundantly clear that the Father’s way is the ONLY way to peace with permanence and the object lesson of the Millennial Kingdom will act as a bulwark against future rebellion in the New Jerusalem where free will remains extant by necessity; all of this, while the Father maintains volitional love with His angelic creation through defeating the Evil One via selfless love (1 John 3:8b; John 3:16). All praise and glory will be focused upon the Father, Son and Spirit.

Messiah’s Millennial Reign does NOT culminate in failure but in eschatological fulfillment for cause. I don’t adhere to any sense of dispensationalism…I tell you what the Holy Spirit tells me and you’re free to listen or deny.

to me, Kevin

Mr. Holtsclaw

Please find below information we received from our inquiry re your emails.  Again, we thank you for your emails and concerns.

Pamela Smith, MMC

District 1 – Lee BoCC

On behalf of Commissioner Kevin Ruane

From: Smith, Abbi <AJSmith@sheriffleefl.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 9:22 AM
To: Dist1, Kevin Ruane <DIST1@leegov.com>
Cc: Holloway, John <jholloway@sheriffleefl.org>
Subject: Motorcycle Noise Review Response from LCSO Legal

Good morning Commissioner,

My staff has reviewed the complaint regarding after-market exhaust on LCSO motorcycles, specifically the noise they create.

While we do appreciate the testing of the sound level and presumed compliance with the sound level limits under Florida Statute 316.293; the Cobra system is not recommended for further use by LCSO.

For your review:

Florida Statutes

316.293(5)(a)- No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or any other noise-abatement device of a motor vehicle operated or to be operated upon the highways of this state in such a manner that the noise emitted by motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured &

316.293(5)(b)- No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon the highways of the state with an exhaust system or noise abatement device so modified,

And the exception for emergency vehicles –

316.072(5)(a) –the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call, when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to a fire alarm.

The exception would not apply as a blanket permission to drive the motorcycle with a modified exhaust system.

As such, the Legal Bureau has recommended that patrol motorcycles be restored back to the original manufactured exhaust system.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns,

Abbi