If you belong to Jesus by faith, the Law of the Covenant does NOT pertain to you! Walk in that freedom with JOY!

The Law of the Covenant is divided into moral and civil-ceremonial-dietary laws…the ceremonial-civil laws are NOT moral laws but edicts given specifically to Israel’s children as they were set-apart as a people group for God’s eschatological purposes and they were to be holy as God is Holy and shun the pagan traditions (diet-worship protocol) of the Nations that surrounded them.

The ceremonial laws are NOT moral laws and have NO bearing on mankind’s eternal relationship with God or his fellowman. The 4th-Commandment is also a ceremonial law given specifically to Israel beginning in Exodus 16 and its purpose and intent was fulfilled in Messiah Jesus (Colossians 2:16; Hebrews 4; Romans 14); therefore, no Gentile or Messianic Jew belonging to Jesus by faith is under the Law of the Covenant pertaining to ceremonial laws while the moral law, extant from the creation of the angels as an arbiter of free will (Romans 2:14-15), was incorporated into the New Covenant through Messiah’s Commandments articulated within His ministry while Jesus walked this Earth proclaiming the Truth of the Gospel.

Do not allow a cult, a sect, a Jew, an Israelite, a Jewish Roots deceiver, to take your joy and freedom earned for you by Jesus Christ at Golgotha. Walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit within you and live in peace with God, forever (Romans 5:1; Galatians 5:16).

Non-believer or skeptic suggests that Christians are fearful of works of righteousness for salvation. Is this true?

If you were a Christian you would know that your eternity is secure in the covenant promise of the Father for anyone who believes and trusts and places their faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord for the mediation of sin (John 3:16-18) and once you’ve trusted in Jesus and established covenant relationship with the Father, that relationship is SEALED and Guaranteed by the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who takes-up residence within you and becomes your Tutor-your Guide-your Lord-your Wisdom (Galatians 5:16; John 14:16) and the Spirit leads you into good works of obedience that glorify the Father as the Spirit prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem.

The Christian is not fearful of good works but the Christian understands that any work done prior to having established covenant relationship with the Father is futile, nihilistic, as the Father is NOT glorified by your works of self-righteousness as those works are equated to a filthy, bloody, menstrual cloth in His nose (Isaiah 64:6; Ephesians 2:8-9). It is the works done SUBSEQUENT to covenant relationship by the Spirit through faith in Jesus that are accounted as works of righteousness to be judged at the BEMA Judgment of Christ as those works of righteousness validate and authenticate the faith that initially established covenant relationship.

Does God predestine some to LIFE and many to death in Hell?

Predestination is completely antithetical to the nature and attributes of our Biblical God. God is defined as “love” in its perfection – AGAPE. Throughout the Scriptures, we see God’s greatest desire is relationship-fellowship-intimacy with His created beings, both human and angelic. It is illogical and beyond reason that our God of Love possesses the capacity to predestine those He loves to death in Hell or life in the Kingdom, why? Because perfect love and perfect justice cannot exist absent free will, why? Because in order for one to love with authenticity and purity, they must possess the volition – freedom to “choose” to engage in that relationship with a sincere heart and desire; otherwise, the love, the relationship, is robotic or coerced and thus the relationship is impotent and empty and unfulfilling.

All of human kind possesses the free will to “choose” their eternal destiny and those Scriptures that you believe suggest that God predestines many to Hell and some to Life is simply a misunderstanding on your part as God desires that all men and women be saved and come to a knowledge of the Truth…Calvin got it wrong! If predestination were true, why the suffering and death of Jesus our God and Messiah?

What did Jesus accomplish on the Cross?

Jesus’ death is the propitiation (atonement – substitutionary death) for YOUR sin; Jesus is sinless, Jesus is God (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) who took YOUR sin upon Himself at the Cross and in exchange Jesus imputes HIS righteousness into your life by faith in HIM as your Messiah IF you will believe that Jesus died for you (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10); in response to your faith in Jesus as Lord the Father then declares you “not guilty” and welcomes you into the family of God and seals this Covenant relationship with the Gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who takes-up residence within you and He teaches you and methodically guides you in God’s will as the Spirit prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). This is the Father’s Plan of victory over the Devil (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:9-10; 1 John 3:8b).

The Cross v. The Sabbath Day

Jesus fulfilled what the Sabbath edict foreshadowed. The Sabbath pointed the children of Israel to their Messiah who would free them from slavery to an arduous Law Covenant that only defined their sin, their culpability before God, but provided no atonement (Romans 3:20); a Law Covenant that only cursed and condemned the one seeking righteousness with God through obedience (Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26) because the Law, in order to attain righteousness through it, mandated absolute perfection (James 2:10) and all of mankind is under the condemnation of sin (Romans 3:23); therefore, the Law condemned without hope – but – God the Father did not leave mankind in a hopeless condition but sent the Son into the World to provide blood atonement for sin as per Leviticus 17:11 as the Son kept the Law in perfection (Matthew 5:17) and shed His innocent blood upon the sands of Golgotha as payment for the sins of the whole World (Matthew 28:26; 1 John 2:2) and anyone who trusts-believes that Jesus is Lord who died to pay their sin-debt is released from the curse of the Law of sin and death (Romans 7:6; 8:1-2) and the righteousness of Jesus is imputed in the life of the one who believes in exchange for their sin (2 Corinthians 5:21); therefore, Jesus provides an eternal rest that the Jewish Sabbath only foreshadowed but could never accomplish due to the sin-nature of mankind (Hebrews 4); therefore, the Sabbath Rest given Israel’s children as a sign between God and Israel (Exodus 16; Exodus 20:12; 31:13) was fulfilled by Messiah Jesus who is now our Sabbath in the New Covenant…NOT a Day but God Himself in Jesus as Lord who was resurrected on the third-day by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11-13) for our justification and our peace…a peace with God that the Sabbath edict could never provide (Romans 5:1); therefore, those who live by faith in Jesus are not obligated to a Day or a Festival or any form of ceremonial law as Jesus is our Sabbath and the fulfillment of what the ceremonial-civil law foreshadowed (Colossians 2:16).

Was there Law before the Commandments given at Sinai?

The Commandments, the Decalogue, were simply a reiteration, with some specificity via codification, of the moral law of conscience (Romans 2:14-15) that has been extant as an arbiter of free will since the creation of the angels; after all, it is this moral law that judged the sin of Satan and that same moral law judged the sin of the Noahic generation where all but eight were destroyed by water.

All of humanity is created with God’s basic moral law infused within them and that moral law is arbitrated by the conscience. In the New Covenant, that same moral law is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit through the conscience for those who have trusted in Jesus as Lord (Galatians 5:16). Those who die apart from the Law Covenant will be judged by the moral law of conscience; those who die under the Law Covenant, will be judged by the Law of the Covenant (Romans 2). Those who die in Jesus as their Lord will NOT be judged by law as Messiah is the end of the Law for those who believe as Messiah’s righteousness has been imputed in the life of the redeemed by grace (Romans 6:14; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

The Law of the Covenant concerning morality was nothing novel or new but simply codified in writing certain specific behaviors as particularly abhorrent to God as the Law Covenant, given specifically to the Hebrew Tribes, reflected God’s holiness and the holiness expected of Israel’s children as they were set-apart for God’s purposes within the Realm of Time and a people group through whom God would introduce His Messiah to the World (Leviticus 21:8); essentially, the Law Covenant was a school-master or tutor pointing Jacob’s children to their need for Messiah’s atonement by faith as the Law defined sin void atonement (Galatians 3:24; Romans 3:20).

Confusion concerning Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:32)

32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit spoken of by Messiah was ONLY relevant to those who accused Jesus of casting-out demons by the power of the Devil thus equating the work of the Holy Spirit with the work of the Devil…this was only possible while Messiah walked upon this Earth performing signs and wonders by the power of the Holy Spirit in the presence of humanity.

Some theologians rightly suggest that blasphemy against the Spirit today is “unbelief”…that is, rejecting the call of the Spirit to repent and trust in Jesus as Lord; therefore, to die in “unbelief” is the only sin that is beyond God’s grace for if one dies in unbelief they will die in their sin and therefore not enter the Kingdom of God where nothing impure is permitted to enter therein (Revelation 21:27).

What makes Christianity different – don’t Christian’s sin like everyone else?

All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory and His righteous standard i.e. perfection (Romans 3:23), but as a Christian, born again by faith in Jesus as my Lord and having received the Holy Spirit as my Tutor, Teacher, Wisdom (John 3), I no longer run after or pursue sin but actively seek to eschew it, avoid it, because the Holy Spirit guides me in the ways of God’s will for my life via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16) and Jesus’ blood and His imputed righteousness covers my sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8:12); therefore, I have peace with God because He loves me, God gave Himself for me and I love Him more than life itself and this intimate relationship is greater than anything a man or woman might desire from this World that is passing away in nihilism and futility (1 John 2:15).

Was “Jesus the Messiah” Created?

Jesus was NOT “created”…Jesus is Spirit, Jesus is Elohim (John 4:24) and Jesus is God eternal, immortal, everlasting (Psalm 90:2; John 1; Hebrews 1). Elohim told you as early as Genesis 3:15 that He would enter the Realm of Time through the virgin womb in order to circumvent the curse on Adam’s seed, a genomic curse resulting in the sin-nature that condemns all of humanity (those having attained an age of reason/accountability) to death in Hell (Romans 5:12); then, Elohim provided you a word picture in Genesis 3:21 concerning His strategy to destroy the works of the Devil and defeat the power of sin, death, Hell, the grave, through the Gospel ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:9-10); that battle strategy comprised of the shedding of innocent blood by God Himself to cover the sin of humanity in an imputed robe of righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) while rejecting the work of man’s self-righteousness to cover sin as pictured by the fig leaves Adam used to cover his own sin and shame.

Jesus is, was always, will always be, God (Hebrews 13:8); Jesus Christ is Elohim who entered the Realm of Time in a body like ours, void the sin-nature, to make known the true and Living God (Philippians 2:5-11; John 14:9) and ultimately give Himself as blood atonement (Matthew 26:28) as per the mandates of Leviticus 17:11, Hebrews 9:22, and subsequently provide humanity a pathway to eternal life through the forgiveness of sin (John 14:6; John 3:16-18) while simultaneously defeating His nemesis, the origin of sin and evil, Satan (1 John 3:8b).

Salvation, Eternal Life. Eternal Security. Performance-based or Faith-based?

Your salvation is a Gift (John 3:16-18) granted you by faith in the Son, Jesus (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 10:9-10); you are then sealed by Covenant (Matthew 26:28) by the Holy Spirit who is the “Guarantor” of relationship, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14). Your salvation does not depend upon your performance, if it did, you would never escape Hell (Romans 8; Romans 3:20). If you belong to the Father through Jesus as your Lord, you will endure to the end and the Spirit will ensure that by promise and walk you daily in sanctification in God’s will as He prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:15; Jude 1:24; 1 John 2:27). No one will snatch the faithful in Jesus out of God’s hand irrespective of our trials, tribulations, failures, and there is peace in this Truth. We know we belong to God and are secure in Him as the Spirit testifies with our spirit that God is our Father, forever (Romans 8:16).