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Experience: (1) Jesus is LORD, Messiah (2) Husband of a beautiful wife (40-years); Father of three-beautiful children. (3) United States Marine Corps 1/1 - 0311 - NCO (4) Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Patrol-Motorcycle Officer-Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot) (5) Education: Master's Degree/University of Houston at Clear Lake

COVID is a Political FARCE!

COVID is CONTROL…it’s a flu variant manufactured by Globalists/Elites to CONTROL YOU and masks/vaccines are just tools/a means to an end. Canada/Australia are Socialist strongholds and America is next…we’re there…it’s time for war, it’s time to fight and live or die free! God blessed America…don’t surrendered it to the Communists in our Oval Office, Senate, House, SCOTUS, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Globalists.

Pelosi and democratic supporters – not concerned about COVID…they know the truth: https://twitter.com/i/status/1429496477638750208

Works v. Faith (Justification?)

Works v. Faith (Justification?)

Far too many participating in these religious oriented groups continue to live a lie of the devil that will result in death in Hell by believing that they can somehow honor God and find life, relationship, with the Father through obedience to a Law or being a good person, seeking to live a moral, honest, life of integrity. This is the Devil’s deceit and his strategy aimed at taking your eyes off of Messiah Jesus and His sole sufficiency to save you from your sin by grace (unmerited favor you cannot earn) through faith (believing-trusting) in Jesus’ blood atonement at the Cross, alone. ONLY by receiving the imputed righteousness of Jesus by faith in Him as Messiah earned for you at the Cross will you find favor, blessing and relationship with God the Father (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6).

What about our good works?

Faith alone in Jesus manifests in Covenant relationship with the Father and once that Covenant relationship has been sealed and guaranteed by the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13-14), the new life, the born again life (2 Corinthians 5:17), lived in the Spirit through sanctification (Galatians 5:16) validates one’s faith as true and legitimate…but…works, behavior, obedience to a Law, does NOT establish Covenant relationship…you cannot “work” yourself into God’s favor…ONLY by believing in what God did for you through Jesus Christ will you find life in eternity. It is your obedience to the Holy Spirit SUBSEQUENT to FIRST establishing Covenant relationship with the Father that is credited as good works and those good works will be judged for authenticity at the BEMA Judgment of believers works (2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:10; Psalm 62:12; Matthew 16:27; Ephesians 6:8; 1 Corinthians 3:10,12,13).

Your works, the Law, your obedience, cannot supplement or supplant the work of Jesus at Golgotha…you’re a sinner (Romans 3:23) condemned to death in Hell by the very Law you worship yet that Law is completely void atonement (Romans 3:20). I do hope that at least some of you will stop pleasing the devil through your absence of faith in Jesus as Messiah; humble yourself, simply believe, trust, in Jesus as your Lord and Messiah who died in your place to pay a sin-debt you could NEVER pay yourself.

Religion v. Christianity

Religion v. Christianity

Religion is based upon works…that is, one must work and earn God’s favor i.e. Judaism-Islam-Catholicism-SDA-Mormonism-Jehovah’s Witnesses-SDA on and on…and these will die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell because by works no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20; Ephesians 2:8-9).

Christianity is based on the truism that God did the Work and destroyed the works of the devil for our benefit (1 John 3:8b) and that mankind can receive the perfection of God imputed into their life and enter into Covenant relationship by faith-believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Messiah who died to pay their sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3:16).The difference between religion and Christianity is eternal.

Romans 4,

3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

Why do so many reject Grace through Faith?

Why do so many cling to the Law and the Sabbath exuding vitriol for those who oppose them by advocating for grace through faith in Messiah Jesus, alone?

Christian response,

As one who loves and trusts Jesus Christ as my Messiah, I am dismayed at the plethora of men and women who obsessively defend the heresy of a works salvation and mandated allegiance to the Sabbath Day given only to the Hebrew Tribes during a specified dispensation; this, to the point of obsessive, compulsive, behavior – a spiritual illness to say the least.The reason so many cling to the Law of the Covenant and obsessively insist that the Sabbath Day must be honored in the New Covenant is that they’re absent faith; these spiritually deceived individuals simply don’t believe that Messiah Jesus’ life, death, burial, resurrection, are sufficient to completely and forever make atonement for sin; these sad and striving individuals believe that they must somehow earn, supplement or add to the formula God the Father has mandated for eternal life; that is, simple faith and trust in Jesus as Lord yet they emphatically insist faith must be supplemented by obedience to a Law or a Day that have ZERO relevance in the Covenant of Grace.

Arguing with these individuals is as fruitful as spitting into the wind, they have opted for the curse rather than the blessing of peace in Jesus as Lord. They angrily reject the truism that Messiah’s Laws are written upon our heart in the New Covenant and those Laws are administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit in sanctification. They cling to the Old that could never redeem; they reject the New that provides life through Messiah; they refuse to believe in God the Father’s New Covenant; they refuse to trust in Jesus, alone; they refuse the peace and joy of intimacy with God through faith and joy in the Holy Spirit’s love. A tragedy that transcends Time and Eternity and a tragedy for which Messiah wept. The Devil is victorious in their life.

An Eternal Error concerning “begotten” referencing Jesus our Lord…

An eternal error/misunderstanding of “begotten” as it refers to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ: “The word “BEGOTTEN” is a function of lower animal of sex. How can someone attribute such function of lower animal of sex to God?”

Christian response,

only begotten” (monogenés) (John 3:16) is used to express the unique, only one of its kind, person of Jesus Christ and His relationship with the Father as Jesus is the EXACT representation of our God in flesh as God is a Spirit (John 4:24). Jesus is the embodiment of our Creator (John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) and He appeared within the realm of Time “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) as all of human kind are players/participants in an unfathomable cosmic struggle that manifest in the Kingdom of God before the beginning of Time; in fact, it is this cosmic struggle between good and evil within the Kingdom, where nothing impure is permitted to enter (Rev 21:27), that initiated the development of interactive “matter” taken from elements in the unseen Spiritual Realm and those elements were formed into matter that can be apprehended by life constrained by Time and physics (Hebrews 11:3).

It was essential that our God take the form/flesh of human kind through the hypostatic union (Philippians 2) and defeat the Devil apart from the Kingdom (for the sake of the Kingdom) and this was first prophesied in Genesis 3:15, the battle strategy for Messiah’s victory was pictured in Genesis 3:21 and the fruition of said strategy was announced/proclaimed as completed with the words “It is finished” (or “completed”) at Golgotha (John 19:30). Jesus is the exact representation of our God who is Spirit (Colossians 1:15-18). Jesus is our Warrior, Messiah, Mediator, Judge and appeared within the Realm of Time to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b), the works of evil and display God’s selfless love through the Cross; this display of power/omnipotence through selfless love was essential in maintaining volitional love with the faithful angelic creation that did not follow Satan in the rebellion.

Jesus told us that His Kingdom is not of this World as Jesus is the unique, the one and only, Son of God having manifest in flesh for a specific purpose and cause far beyond human intellect yet the Holy Spirit teaches/reveals these things to those who truly love God and desire to know Him (1 John 2:27).

Law Keeper falsely accuses Christians. A response…

Law Keeper falsely accuses Christians:“Jesus STATED: ‘I did not come to Abolish, Nulify, Void, Replace, Remove the Torah!’ So why [are] some of you lying about me?” Matthew 5:17-19

Christian response to the Law Keeper living in hopelessness and bondage,

Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil by fulfilling the Torah (1 John 3:8b; Matthew 5:17) and He is the only One (via the hypostatic union of God and man – Philippians 2:6-11) who could do so and it is through and by His fulfillment of the Torah that He made Himself the ONLY sinless, acceptable, sacrifice for your sin (2 Corinthians 5:21).

The Law only condemned mankind void atonement (Romans 3:20;) but Jesus did for us what the Law could not do (Romans 8:1-11) as Jesus conquered the Law’s condemnation by keeping it in mandated perfection (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10) and Jesus offers you His perfection, His righteousness, when you trust in Him, alone, as your Lord and Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus did this for you because you are under the condemnation of sin as you are sinner (Romans 3:23) and the Law only defines your culpability void hope of redemption (Romans 3:20).

The New Covenant established in Messiah’s blood (Matthew 26:28) is NOT about LAW KEEPING; the New Covenant is completely about freedom from Law’s condemnation, it’s about love, joy, peace, enjoyed via a “relationship” with God the Father by faith in what Jesus did for you at the Cross (John 3:16-18) and thereby receiving Messiah’s righteousness imputed into and over your life, forever, and then walking daily in sanctification; that is, obedience to the Holy Spirit who takes-up residence within you (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16) and brings to your memory all that Jesus taught (John 14:26) as the Law of Messiah is written upon your heart (Hebrews 10:16) and administered by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16); it is the Spirit that keeps you intimately close to the Father and prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem.

The Torah, concerning righteousness, offers nothing but culpability and condemnation (Romans 3:20) while Jesus offers freedom, life, peace, joy, redemption, through faith in Him as Messiah and the Holy Spirit as your Guarantor of relationship with the Father, forever (Matthew 11:28; Ephesians 1:13-14).

Jesus said,

“27 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls”.… Matthew 11:27-29

So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

Why Sunday and not Saturday in the New Covenant?

Why Sunday and not Saturday in the New Covenant?

The First-Century Church set the precedent for Sunday worship as God separated Light from darkness on the First-Day; Jesus was raised from the dead by the Spirit on the First-Day; the Holy Spirit initiated the New Covenant Church on the First-Day at Pentecost; the New Covenant is superior to the Old, it’s NEW and mandated a separation from that which is Old and could never provide salvation, only condemnation (Romans 3:20).

6 Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. Hebrews 8

What’s the Problem with the Torah?

Jewish woman wants to know: What’s the problem with the Torah, it’s sweet as honey?

The problem is R—…the Law is used by many in an attempt to attain righteousness (a right standing) with the Father…a works salvation by attempting to keep a Law that has already condemned them (Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Romans 3:20); the problem is R—, anyone who seeks righteousness through Law is condemned and cursed and Elohim first demonstrated this by rejecting Adam’s attempt to cover and conceal His shame and sin with fig-leaves as far back as Genesis 3:21.

This very same problem is practiced by Jacob’s children to the is very day and this, in combination with their rejection/murder of the their Messiah, is why only the remnant of Israel will avoid the “second death” in Hell (Romans 9:27). The Law given the Hebrew Tribes was never meant to save anyone but it simply defined God’s holiness and pointed the Hebrew tribes to their need for an Intercessor; the Law was a schoolmaster or tutor for the children of Jacob (Galatians 3:24-26)…nothing more, nothing less as the moral law has been extant since the creation of the angels; the Torah is simply codification of the moral law that has governed the Adamic generation forward to this very day. R—, the New Covenant is NOT about the Torah…it’s about intimate relationship with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as our Messiah and Mediator for our sin and receiving the Holy Spirit and walking in peace and grace and mercy with our God via the Spirit via sanctification.

Your obsession with Law is baseless and does NOTHING for you but enslave you to a standard you cannot keep as you’re a sinner and the Law requires perfection if righteousness is to be attained through it (James 2:10; Romans 3:23). If you seek God’s acceptance by trying to keep the Torah…you will die in sin and die in Hell (John 8:24).

Purpose for God’s Moral Law?

The Purpose of/for God’s Moral Law,

The Law was given with the creation of the angels as free will required a bulwark, a standard, by which the living, all created beings, could survive in community and life be sustained with order and peace. The Law defines God’s holiness and His righteous requirements. The moral law was extant before the beginning of Time and accused the Devil of covetousness and motivated his extrication from God’s Kingdom and initiated the creation of matter, Time, the Heavens and the Earth, our genome; these, as a repository and method of dealing with sin apart from the Kingdom where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Rev 21:27); in fact, the primary reason the Son of God appeared within the Realm of Time was to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:b).

The moral Law is NOTHING new; the Torah is NEW as it was given to a specific people for a specific dispensation to codify God’s righteous requirements and prepare the way for Messiah. As a Christian, I am not under Law but under Grace in my Lord Jesus. If you desire to be under Law…that’s your prerogative but the Law will not provide you righteousness (a right standing) with God the Father as you are a sinner (Romans 3:23) and the Law only defines your sin void atonement (Romans 3:20). Righteousness with the Father will ONLY manifest by grace (a gift you cannot earn) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus as your Messiah who died to pay your sin-debt; again, those who have trusted in Jesus as Lord are not under Law but under God’s grace and these alone will enter the Kingdom of God.

God’s Plan/Purpose for the Torah-Sabbath in the New Covenant?

God’s plan and purpose relevant to the Torah, the Sabbath, in the New Covenant,

Nothing about the Law or ordinances or dietary mandates or days or festivals wins favor or righteousness with God the Father…these were a shadow of the Messiah that was to come (Colossians 2:16). When Jesus entered Time, His primary goal was to destroy the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b) and provide victory over sin, death, Hell, the grave, through grace and faith for those who believe in Him as Messiah. Also, Jesus came to free mankind from an arduous and condemnative Law that defined culpability void atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10).

The Law of the Covenant, the Torah, was a sign-post indicating mankind’s inability to please a Holy and Righteous God through works and self-righteousness as this was first demonstrated in Genesis 3:21 via the fig leaves used in an futile attempt to mask sin. In the New Covenant, the primary focus is upon “relationship”…not Law or days or ordinances or diet…but love and intimacy with God the Father by grace through faith in Jesus as Lord and receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as the SEAL and Guarantor of that relationship, forever.

The New Covenant is about a Sabbath fulfilled in Jesus as our REST and our PEACE through the Spirit. The Law in the New Covenant is for the defiled and defines their culpability before God while God’s desire for His children in the New Covenant is intimacy/relationship with Him through sanctification via the Holy Spirit given to all who believe in Jesus as Messiah > the One who suffered and died to pay our sin-debt – a debt we could not pay ourselves.