There is absolutely nothing wrong with teaching another to obey and honor Elohim’s Old Covenant Law as long as the student understands that obedience to laws does not equate to salvation from the “second death” in Hell nor does keeping laws, rules, edicts, equate to establishing righteousness (a right standing) with the Father (Galatians 5:16; Romans 3:20-23).
One can only find life, salvation, redemption, the rebirth, forgiveness of sin, by believing, trusting, in Jesus as Messiah/Savior who died on the Cross as blood atonement for our sin (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28; John 14:6; John 3).
Also know that in the New Covenant, the pursuit of letters/laws/edicts/traditions, though honorable, doesn’t please the Father concerning righteousness (Isaiah 64:6) but it is the production of divine fruit, obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit, that glorifies the Father and proves one to be a disciple of Jesus (John 15:8). Through the production of divine fruit, every jot and tittle of the Law is fulfilled (Galatians 5:16-26).
Why did Jesus insist that His Disciples wait on the appearance of the Holy Spirit before beginning their ministry concerning the Gospel? Acts 1:1-11
Jesus’ introduction into Time through the virgin birth (Luke 1) and His entire ministry (John 1:33; Luke 4:1) was wholly reliant upon the work and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Jesus had laid aside certain deific attributes in order to take-on flesh and humble Himself as a “man” (Philippians 2:5-11); therefore, Jesus relied on the Holy Spirit’s anointing to defeat Satan (1 John 3:8b), to perform signs, wonders, miracles, and Jesus knew that void the Spirit’s presence and full anointing in the lives of the Disciples, they would be like sheep headed to the slaughter.
This is why Jesus said that those in His presence who had attributed His miracles of healing and exorcism to works of the Devil would NEVER be forgiven for the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit because it was the Holy Spirit who anointed Jesus to comply with the Father’s will in all things (Matthew 12:32).
Can a Christian walk according to the flesh rather than according to the Spirit?
Won’t happen. If one is truly “born again” by faith in Jesus and the Holy Spirit is their Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (John 3:3-5; Ephesians 1:13-14), they can’t compromise with the World void a crippling accusatory conscience; in other words, a true Christian cannot function day-to-day living in sinful compromise with the World; the Spirit will NOT allow it.
The greatest gift Jesus provides us along with eternal life in the Kingdom is a life of peace, contentment, joy, fellowship, through the Holy Spirit…once these gifts are tasted and internalized, there is nothing that satisfies the Christian but intimacy with the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit. NOTHING in the World can replace or substitute the JOY of the Spirit’s anointing with peace and contentment irrespective of the World’s allure. If one can walk according to the World they don’t belong Jesus, they are NOT a Christian; therefore, it’s an oxymoron…a continually compromising Christian is a contradiction in terms.
Subsequent His atonement for sin and resurrection, why didn’t Jesus remain on Earth and rule? Why allow this present chaos?
There is an eschatological plan in-play; that plan was announced in Genesis 3:15 and the battle strategy for victory declared in Genesis 3:21. Jesus tells you that His Kingdom is NOT of this World and His servants that fight for Him are of a different Realm than this temporary Realm of Time and physics.
Jesus has been granted complete dominance over Time and Eternity (John 3:35) and He IS in complete control but the purposes for the creation of Time are playing-out according a specific eschatological strategy and what might seem like chaos in the World to you is actually a battle strategy that will stymie rebellion in the New Jerusalem, an eternal Kingdom replete with “free will” to manifest subsequent the destruction of Time, Earth, this temporary Universe.
Does God forgive a person of sin after knowing the truth of sin and God’s will for our life? Does God forgive a Christian who sins? Hebrews 10:26
First of all, “Knowing” the Truth and “Acknowledging” the Truth that initiates New Covenant relationship are two-different things. Does God forgive the Christian who sins? A true Christian does not find pleasure in sin and seeks to avoid sin at all cost; therefore, no Christian willfully continues to live in sin and rebellion, a life of willful sin runs contrary to a life seeking intimacy with our Creator (2 Corinthians 5:17). With that said, every Christian sins in word, thought or deed due the old Adamic sin-nature that is integral with the flesh (Romans 7).
The Christian has been forgiven of past, present, future, sin via New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); hence, the inclusion of 1 John 1:9 given the Christian to “restore intimacy” with our Lord when we compromise with our old sin nature…we ask forgiveness not to restore divine relationship which is secure in Jesus and Guaranteed by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), but we ask forgiveness to restore intimacy and fellowship much like we apologize to a good friend for wronging them…the relationship is secure but we can offend our friend and that offense creates a chasm…we apologize to our friend to restore intimacy, no different with our God. The relationship between the Christian and the Father is secure by New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 8:12) but intimacy is realized through obedience, the production of divine fruit (John 15:8; Galatians 5:16-23).
Christianity, theologically speaking, is NOT a religion but a divine relationship with our Creator granted us by grace (unmerited favor we cannot earn) through faith (trusting-believing with a sincere heart) that Jesus is Messiah, God, Elohim, who became flesh to provide me blood atonement for my sin, a sin-debt owed the Father that I could NEVER pay myself due my Adamic sin-nature.
Religions, theologically speaking, teach that it is possible for sinful mankind to strive, work, labor, to do good, to please our Creator by the work and labor of our hands and will and IF we work sufficiently, do enough good things, be sufficiently “good” by keeping laws-rules-edicts, we can possibly “earn” God’s favor and find life with God in Eternity. This is a lie of religion, a lie of Satan, a lie of religious cults, a path to a life of heartache and futility, path to the second death in Hell.
What does it mean to “blaspheme the Holy Spirit” today?
In the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 3, the blasphemy that Jesus accused the Jewish leadership of committing involved their accusation that Jesus’ miracles were the result of demonic possession or that Jesus was performing these miracles by the power of Satan when Jesus was performing those miracles by the power and anointing of the divine Holy Spirit; therefore, they had blasphemed the Holy Spirit by calling Him Satan; consider this, it was these in the Jewish audience who had personally witnessed Messiah in the flesh and were eye witnesses of Messiah’s miracles and the work of the Spirit; therefore, they would NEVER be forgiven for this most atrocious demonically inspired accusation and insult.
It’s important to note that this eternal condemnation was directed ONLY at those in this unique context as Jesus walked upon this Earth in flesh and said eternal condemnation is NOT possible today as we are NOT in said Biblical context as Jesus is NOT among the masses performing, openly, the miracles He performed in that Day; therefore, blasphemy in the context of Mark 3 is NOT possible today.
Lastly, it’s important to note that the ONLY sin that will never be forgiven is rejecting the call of the Holy Spirit on one’s life to repent and believe the Gospel; that is, if one dies in an unrepentant state, they will NEVER be forgiven as Judgment/condemnation is their future. If one dies rejecting Jesus, they have blasphemed the Sprit by calling Him a liar concerning the precepts of the Gospel; therefore, in today’s context, blasphemy of the Spirit is “rejecting Jesus as Messiah.”
Dear Governor Ron DeSantis and Lee County, Florida, Commissioners,
As early as 1972 via the Congressional “Noise Control Act,” there has been an attempt to control the physiological and psychological damage done to the American populace by unregulated vehicular noise. As per the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, automobiles, light-medium duty trucks, motorcycles, operated on the public roadways of the United States are limited to a relatively quiet and safe 80dB(A). Motorcycles (1986 year model forward) to be retailed for operation on America’s public roadways are carefully evaluated for noise output via the SAE J331a full throttle testing procedure and said motorcycle cannot exceed a “total” noise emissions of 80dB(A) as measured at 42-feet on each side of said motorcycle as it’s accelerated to full brake horsepower; then, if the motorcycle passes the testing parameters, the mufflers to be installed on that brand of motorcycle is permanently embossed with a muffler label denoting its dB(A) restriction and the frame of said motorcycle is also labeled matching the muffler to the motorcycle. This is done for the safety and daily quality of life of the American citizen.
Why can’t those who operate a motorcycle on America’s public roadways honor and obey the protective intent of the Law, why must they needlessly modify or replace their quiet factory-installed muffler and proceed out onto a public roadway and offend, abuse, endanger, the citizens of their community and destroy the daily quality of life of millions? Why do men and women choose to offend and abuse their fellow citizens by illegally modifying their automobile, truck or motorcycle? Why not love and respect your neighbor and refrain from audibly abusing our most innocent harmed by illegal vehicular noise?
(5) NOISE ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT MODIFICATIONS.— Florida State Law
(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 the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.
This makes it illegal to use any aftermarket modifications louder than ones your vehicle is manufactured with. All devices producing excessive exhaust noise are not legal. There are exceptions which include emergency vehicles, vehicles used in races or similar events, agricultural equipment, and test vehicles.
Florida Motor Vehicle Muffler Statute mandates the quiet, factory-installed muffler as required by Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations i.e. 80dB(A) as per the J331a full-throttle testing procedure. This 80dB(A) total noise emissions mandate was enacted for the health, welfare, daily quality of life, of every American citizen and Florida’s muffler statute mirrors the protective intent of the Federal Law; therefore, why is Florida’s law enforcement refusing to enforce the law, why is Florida’s law enforcement failing to stop the bully behavior of the entitled NOISE thugs?
There exists NO greater probable cause for a stop and investigate than illegal motor vehicle noise as the very same thug-bully who abuses our most innocent with illegal vehicular NOISE is the very same antisocial personality-type that offends in other areas of the penal code where warrants and revocations and suspensions exist in abundance. Why is Florida’s law enforcement so very impotent?
(5) NOISE ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT MODIFICATIONS.— (Florida) (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 the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured. (b) No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon the highways of the state with an exhaust system or noise-abatement device so modified.
Anyone truly “born again” (John 3) by the Spirit will NOT walk away from their Lord. Yes, those born again possess “free will” but that will has been redirected-redeemed by faith through the Spirit’s anointing to desire the things of God, NOT the things of the World (2 Corinthians 5:17).
It is the one who endures to the end that has been truly saved. The steadfastness of the faithful is their testimony of true deliverance from Satan’s grasp. The one who is truly born again WILL ENDURE and no one will snatch the truly redeemed out of the hands of Jesus or the hands of the Father (John 10:28-30).
Those people who falsely believe that one can lose their salvation don’t understand the power and strength of the Gospel and the Spirit’s work in renewing a life by faith in those who truly believe nor do they differentiate between true redemption of the Saints and deceit of simply walking an isle or entering baptismal waters with a heart that is NOT truly repentant or believing.
You don’t understand the truism that anyone who lives in willful sin and rebellion “claiming” to have been redeemed is a liar and the Spirit does NOT indwell them. If one can live in willful sin void an all powerful self-condemnation and desire to repent and return, these were NEVER redeemed in the first place though they may have tasted of the Spirit’s goodness in a moment of elation, felt the flame of spiritual renewal through experiential relevance, they NEVER truly trusted in Jesus as Messiah by faith and they therefore NEVER experienced the New Birth by the Spirit’s indwelling!
I ask you this, seeing that we’re all sinners before and subsequent salvation; this, due the Adamic nature (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12), how much sin must one who is “born again” commit in order to lose their salvation and nullify the promises of God? At what point does the blood of Messiah Jesus fail to forgive sin (Hebrews 8:12; 10:17)? How does one find peace in Jesus while walking in fear of never truly knowing their eternal destination (1 John 5:13).
"RickeyD" Holtsclaw 