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You can dedicate your entire life to the Law Covenant and works of righteousness and die in Hell…how can this be?
You can obey the Laws and edicts of God and man to the very best of your ability and work your fingers to the bone in philanthropy and die in Hell as your works, on your best day, are equated to a bloody menstrual cloth in God’s nose (Isaiah 64:6).
Not until such time you have FIRST established covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as your Lord (John 3) and you’ve received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14) will your works done in the Spirit be received by the Father as validation of the authenticity of your faith, but if Jesus is not your Lord, neither your prayers or your works of righteousness mean anything of eternal relevance to the Father (John 9:31).
You must FIRST do the will of God for your life; that is, BELIEVE in the One the Father has sent into the World to provide blood atonement for your sin (John 6:29). Until you’ve humbled yourself before the Father, acknowledged the truism that you’re a sinner in need of a Redeemer and sincerely believed in Jesus as your Messiah, Lord, Savior, you have no relationship with the Father (1 John 2:23) and you are an alien to the promise of the Father and you will ultimately perish in your sin and in Perdition (John 8:24; Galatians 2:16).
Where is the evidence in the Hebrew Scriptures of “righteousness” (a right standing with God) apart from the works of the Law?
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12:3b concerning a “blessing to all the families of the Earth” and those who receive that promise by faith in Jesus as Lord are also considered children of Abraham whether they’re Gentiles or Jacob’s children (Jew or Israelite) as our father having received the promise by faith; that is, Abraham, was a Gentile, not a Jew or Israelite; therefore, the promise of eternal life through the forgiveness of sin is not through the Law of the Covenant or Israel but of faith as demonstrated by Abraham who “believed” God 430-years before the giving of the Law at Sinai (Genesis 15:6; Galatians 3:17).
It is written,
“Thus Abraham “believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.”
17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.
Galatians 3
In closing,
The Law of the Covenant, a reiteration of the moral law extant from the creation of the angels, given Jacob’s children 430-years subsequent to the promise, was simply a school-master or tutor to point Israel to their need for a Redeemer; but now, in the New Covenant, the fulfillment of what the Law foreshadowed has come to fruition in Jesus Christ; therefore, we are no longer in need of a tutor as its reality has manifest in Time and performed that which the Law could only point to but not accomplish due to the weakness of the flesh (Romans 8:1-4); that is, faith in Messiah Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and eternal life through the promised covenant established first by God with Abraham, our father through the promise by faith. Again, it is written,
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void and the promise is nullified; 15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.
16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 (as it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that do not exist. Romans 4 (NASB)
Why the vastness of our Universe? Why the “speck” called Earth?
God the Father commissioned the Son (John 3:35), Jesus Christ, to create Time, the Universe, our Earth, our Genome, for cause with rapidity (Genesis 1; John 1, Hebrews 1, Colossians 1; 1 John 3:8b).
Jesus Christ, in response to the Father’s will (John 6:38), proceeded to take unseen elements composing the Spiritual Realm and fashion those elements into matter that can been apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3). This Universe was formed with rapidity as a repository for the destructive war that raged within the Spiritual Realm and the Father elected to move that conflict into another realm partially constrained by Time – physics as the Father is presently dealing with those warring against Him while simultaneously restoring peace and order to His Kingdom and simultaneously maintaining volitional love and relationship with those angels that did not follow the Evil One in the rebellion (Luke 10:18; Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28:11+; 1 John 3:8b).
The Battle – a strategy,
Elohim’s battle strategy (Genesis 3:15; 3:21), the Gospel of Jesus Christ, was ordained for this purpose before Time was initiated (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Elohim’s strategy to destroy the works of the Evil One and maintain volitional love with His angelic creation is based upon selfless love first demonstrated in Genesis 3:21 through the shedding of innocent blood to clothe humanity in an imputed robe of righteousness provided by Elohim, Himself, apart from the works of man’s efforts (demonstrated by the fig-leaves that were rejected by Elohim as Adam attempted to cover his own sin through human effort) (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 2:8-9); to this end, the Son of God entered the Realm of Time four-thousand years subsequent to Genesis 3:21 for one specific purpose; that is, “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) and this was accomplished by Messiah Jesus at Golgotha with the words “It is finished” (John 19:30).
Other reasons for the vastness of our Universe,
Elohim also created the vastness of the Universe as testimony of His reality, His sovereignty, His power, His glory, His strength, His omnipotence, so that all of creation intuitively knows of His reality and those who reject Him and deny Him will be “without excuse” in the coming Judgment of the Condemned (Romans 1:20; Revelation 20:11-15). What we see is temporary and will be destroyed by fire (2 Peter 3:10; Matthew 5:18)…but God’s Plan is cleansing and restoration of all that is Holy and Pure.
In addition, the horror that rages around us and that same horror of sin and death that has raged for the previous six-thousand years as the resultant of sin-rebellion-self righteousness-narcissism, evil partially constrained by the Holy Spirit (2 Thessalonians 2:7), demonstrates the pure evilness of the defiled cherub angel we know as Satan, the Devil, the Serpent, and this evil not only confirms the necessity for Satan’s confinement in Hell, forever (Rev. 20:10) but the evil demonstrated by Satan will act as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom of God where free will remains extant by necessity.
Mankind, by God’s mercy, has been extended an opportunity to war with God and ultimately celebrate His victory over evil through the faithfulness of the Son, Jesus Christ. Anyone who allies with the Father by faith in the Son as their Lord and Savior will become servants of the Living God not only within the Realm of Time but for Eternity within a New Heaven and a New Earth where the Son will be King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s, forever (Revelation 20-22).
The Holy Spirit is first introduced in Genesis 1:2 and He is God…not an “it.” The Holy Spirit is the Author of all Scripture; the Holy Spirit is the power and work of God in Time; the Holy Spirit is the Guarantor of covenant relationship with God by faith in Jesus as Lord (Ephesians 1:13-14); without the Holy Spirit, there would be no salvation and mankind would be destined to death in Hell.
It is the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:11) and it is the Holy Spirit who becomes our best Friend when we trust in Jesus Christ as Lord as the Spirit takes-up residence within us and teaches us, guides us, leads us, comforts us, in God’s will for our life through the life-long process of sanctification (1 John 2:27; Galatians 5:16; John 16:13).
When all of the World might abandoned you and you have no one on your side it is the Holy Spirit who is there within you and will never leave you alone or forsake you (Proverbs 18:24). The Holy Spirit intercedes for you during prayer and takes your needs to the Father even when you’re unaware of that need (Romans 8:26).
It is the Holy Spirit that enlivens the mind and spirit of man to understand our need for God in Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 2:14) and it is the Holy Spirit that makes life tolerable through internal joy and peace as we exist in a fallen World, the majority of which is headed to death in Hell through compromise with the Devil via the rejection of Jesus Christ as Lord (Matthew 7:13-14).
Concerning God’s Sovereignty – Predestination – Free will – Love
Free will is absolutely essential for love to manifest in an environment of purity and authenticity. God is defined as perfect LOVE (1 John 4:7-21) and consequently He desires love – relationship (with intimacy) from both His angelic and human creation; therefore, mankind, having been created in God’s spiritual image (Genesis 1:26-28), is endowed by God with the communicable attribute of love, both in verb and noun form.
True love cannot be predestined, coerced nor can true love exist in an environment of fear; therefore, God desires a pure love from His created beings and God entered the Realm of Time, constrained by flesh and physics (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1; Philippians 2), and gave Himself via selfless-love at Golgotha to demonstrate His personal love for His created beings and desires that we reciprocate by giving ourselves, mind-body-spirit, to Him by trusting in Him as our Lord, God, Savior, Mediator; this, made possible by faith – trusting in Jesus Christ as our Lord who died for us (Matthew 22:37; John 3:16-17).
Those who suggest my Lord predestines some to life and some to death in Hell are void the Holy Spirit’s wisdom and these do not know the Living God and His eschatological plan for Time and Eternity and causation for the creation narrative that is founded upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 1:9-10); furthermore, God desires that all men and women come to a knowledge of the Truth and find life in Jesus Christ as their Lord for the mediation of sin (1 Timothy 2:4); furthermore, God does NOT desire that any perish in the “second death” in Hell but God gave Himself for us in Jesus Christ that we can live in Him, forever, by trusting in Jesus as our Lord who died for us (2 Peter 3:9; Ephesians 5:2).
The Cross of Jesus Christ – its relevance to the Christian and Christianity…
The Cross is Elohim’s tool of victory over the Devil…we don’t glorify implements of war but they are respected for what they are and what they accomplish when implemented with righteous hands and motives. The Cross is the tool used by the Father to redeem you from your sin and neutralize the Devil’s power through deception e.g. death, Hell, the grave, and give you victory through selfless love demonstrated by Jesus at Golgotha.
The Cross is a war implement of remembrance concerning what God has done for those who will trust in Jesus as their Lord. I believe the Cross will be on display in the New Jerusalem as a visual bulwark guiding free will and constraining future rebellion in the Kingdom. Christian’s don’t worship the Cross, we worship the One who hung there and died for our redemption from sin and the “second death” in Hell.
If people would listen…God is pleading with them for their love in a healthy and loving relationship with Him where their heart is His and His peace through the Holy Spirit is theirs and goodness and joy flows through those who love Him in the Son, Jesus Christ, who made relationship with the Father possible through reconciliation at the Cross (John 3). Elohim is in the process of righting a wrong that manifest in His Kingdom before Time began and Elohim has ordained the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the battle strategy, the methodology, by which He has defeated the works of the Devil (2 Timothy 1:9-10; 1 John 3:8b). Elohim chose human flesh, bone, blood, through which He would restore peace to His Kingdom through selfless love yet mankind steadfastly insists that his own self-righteousness has a relevant role to play in God’s eschatological plan.
Why must man insist that knowing God is riddled with rules, regulations, customs, traditions, religions, strife, heritage…when knowing God is knowing peace through simple faith and trust in what God has done for us as He first loved us and gave Himself for us so that we could be His children, forever? Concerning Elohim, it’s all about RELATIONSHIP through faith and love…not LAW, not self-righteousness, not work and striving after that which is not attainable through human effort.
Elohim is victorious through the faithfulness of those who love Him and trust in Him in Jesus Christ our Lord, God, Creator, Warrior. We are victors with our God when we come along side Him and love Him, trust Him, honor Him with faith and obedience to His Holy Spirit who guides the faithful in sanctification as the Spirit prepares the faithful for eternal service in the New Jerusalem.
The Law Covenant – Israel’s deadly error – Elohim’s displeasure – the KEY to Elohim’s heart…
The “moral law” that governs behavior, thoughts, attitudes, of the created concerning our Creator has been extant from the creation of the angels as that moral law is an arbiter of free will by necessity. God’s moral law is infused within every human creation at conception and is governed by the conscience (Romans 2:14-15).
Our Creator, Elohim, has ordained that those created beings created in His spiritual image possessing certain communicable attributes particular to God Himself possess free will in order that love and relationship with our Creator can manifest with purity and authenticity. True love cannot be predestined, coerced, mandated, manipulated…true love must be a matter of the heart with volition and purity under girded by trust.
The moral law that governs the behavior of the angelic creation and the human creation is rooted in God’s holiness and purity and the moral law acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism thereby preventing societal implosion and that same moral law, governed by the conscience (Romans 2:14-15), is, by necessity, the vehicle by which God’s justice through due process will manifest at the Great Judgment of the Condemned (Rev 20:11-15).
Concerning Israel’s error and arrogance,
Israel’s children dedicate themselves to a false sense of security in their Law Covenant believing that what they worship and serve through self-righteousness is KEY to God’s heart and that the Law of Works they worship in place of faith is unique and given them specifically – this is the Jewish error and causation concerning why an overwhelming number of Israel’s children will perish in Hell in the “second death” (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Luke 13:28).
The Moral Law and the Decalogue/Commandments…
Nine of the Ten Commandments are moral laws, they are NOTHING new or novel but simply a reiteration of the moral law extant from the creation of the angels yet the Decalogue does articulate with specificity certain sins especially abhorrent to Elohim and attention to same was necessary as the laws codified in stone were essential in separating Israel from the paganism that surrounded them as God would use Israel’s children for His eschatological purposes through whom Elohim would enter Time and physics through flesh and bone and blood to destroy the works of His nemesis via selfless love (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1; Philippians 2; 1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15-21).
Law v. Faith (what pleases Elohim?)
The moral law judged Satan (John 16:11), the fallen angels; that same moral law of conscience judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement, sins that grieved the heart of Elohim (Genesis 6) and ultimately judged these generations by water where all perished save eight, yet Israel’s children consider their Law unique and have placed their Law and a facade of obedience to same as an eternal priority when the Law is NOT key to Elohim’s heart but Elohim is pleased with “faith” by the one who believes Him and trusts in Him fully (Hebrews 11:6).
Law does not please Elohim; Faith pleases Elohim as that FAITH engenders behaviors that please Elohim because those behaviors manifest from love not enslavement to letters because love saves the soul and letters condemn the soul to death (2 Corinthians 3:6). Israel’s children, those involved in religions, cults, sects, are dying in sin en mass in arrogance and self-righteousness.
My Lord has put me here to express His disdain for Israel’s self-righteousness and maddening arrogance as they have become servants of Elohim’s virulent enemy, Satan (Romans 10:1-4). The KEY to Elohim’s heart is to believe with faith in the One He has sent into the World to provide blood atonement for your sin, Jesus Christ our Lord (John 6:29). This pleases Elohim.
Sin is a violation of God’s moral law which has been extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will. You think you have righteousness with God through the Law Covenant when in reality the Law Covenant, the Decalogue, is nothing new or novel but simply a reiteration of the moral law extant from eternity past (Romans 2:14-15) with some specificity (sins especially abhorrent to God) for Israel as they were set-apart for God’s eschatological purposes while surrounded by pagan tribes serving pagan gods.
The Law has already condemned you to death in your sin and this void atonement. The Law mandates absolute perfection (James 2:10) but you’re a sinner condemned by the Law (Romans 3:20-23) and you live under a curse (Galatians 3:10) because you seek righteousness through that which only provides condemnation by defining your sin void atonement. Only Yeshua provides necessary “righteousness” as He earned that righteousness for you through His sinless perfection and making blood atonement for your sin at Golgotha and only by trusting-believing in Yeshua as your Messiah who died for you will you receive the righteousness of Yeshua imputed into your life and receive the benefits of forgiveness of sin and a right standing with the Father i.e. eternal life (John 3; Matthew 26:28; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Clarifying James’ admonition: Faith without works is dead… (James 2:26)
My point is this…it matters NOT how you work, strive, endeavor, to please God the Father through your human efforts UNTIL you have FIRST established covenant relationship with Him by complying with HIS WILL (John 6:29); that is, “believing in the One He has sent” into the World to make atonement for your sin.
Until such time you have FIRST established covenant relationship with the Father by grace (unmerited favor – a gift you cannot earn through human effort) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus Christ as your Lord, your works of goodness and righteousness are of NO ACCOUNT as they’re equated to a putrid, bloody, cloth in God’s nose (Isaiah 64:6 – menstrual cloth in Hebrew).
The confusion lies in cults, religions, sects, Hebrew Roots fanaticism, Sabbatarianism, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, believing that our behavior, our self-righteousness, pleases God and that we can earn His forgiveness by what we do…this is a lie of Satan and the Jewish error that culminates in the death of mind, body, soul, in Hell.
Jesus warned,
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ Matthew 7
What is the will of God for your life?
Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 6:29
Your works of righteousness will NOT be relevant concerning your eternal destiny, forgiveness of sin, until you have first surrendered your will for God’s will in Jesus Christ through faith in Jesus as Lord and having received the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Guarantor of that covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14); then…and only then…do your works of righteousness performed IN and BY the indwelling Holy Spirit honor God the Father as these good works serve to validate the authenticity of your faith in Jesus as your Lord, Messiah.
Jesus said,
20 So then, you will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7
Therefore, please don’t compromise the necessity of faith in Jesus FIRST with works of self-righteousness as a path to righteousness (a right standing) with the Father as only the righteousness of Jesus imputed into your life by faith in Jesus as your Lord is acceptable to the Father concerning your eternal destiny and relationship with Him, forever (2 Corinthians 5:21). Grace-Faith-FIRST – then – works of righteousness, obedience, will naturally follow as the Holy Spirit walks you daily in sanctification in accordance with God’s will for your life in preparation for service in the New Jerusalem.
