Moses’ Law – Sinai have no place at the Table of Grace and Faith concerning the redeemed in Jesus…
The Christian is not under or enslaved to the Covenant of Law, Sinai, Moses (Romans 6:14), but the Christian honors the Spiritual Law that has been extant and relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels, forward (Romans 2:14-15).
It is that Spiritual Law that will endure throughout eternity as the Spiritual Law finds its origin in eternity and is the foundation for the written code given Israel’s children at Sinai; this, for a specific eschatological purpose having NOTHING to do with the Christian in the New Covenant.
If a Christian never observed Torah Law, Sinai’s Decalogue, Moses’ 603 civil-ceremonial laws, the Christian’s relationship with the Father by faith in Jesus would be undeterred as the Christian follows the Law of the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2) and not the Law of sin and death (Sinai, Romans 8:2).
The Law of the Spirit is written upon our heart at conception, infused within the human genome on Day-6, and in the New Covenant the Spiritual Law is enlivened (made applicable and relevant) by the indwelling Holy Spirit via the redeemed conscience via daily sanctification, the Holy Spirit who is given to the redeemed in Jesus as the Guarantor of Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, the Christian is NOT enslaved to letters but serves through newness of the Spirit who produces “fruit” in the life of the redeemed and against that fruit there is no Law (Romans 5).
Jesus said that you would know them (differentiate the lost from the redeemed) by their “fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20). Moses has no place at the table of the Redeemed in Jesus in Christianity as Israel’s written code is relegated to being a tutor to point Israel’s wayward children to their need for Messiah Yeshua by faith (Galatians 3:24).
Illegally LOUD biker thuggery has been around for many decades. In 1983, the US EPA, due to health concerns, restricted motorcycle noise emissions to a “total” motorcycle noise output of 83dB(A) and in response to continued testing, the US EPA then opted to reduce motorcycle noise output to 78dB(A) but Suzuki Motors complained that such restriction would be cost prohibitive; therefore, the EPA settled on a total motorcycle noise output of 80dB(A) in model year 1986 and every street-use motorcycle muffler going forward was and is mandated to conform to the strict testing requirements of the SAE J331a full-throttle motorcycle testing procedure where every make and model of street-use motorcycle manufactured in the United States was/is to be tested at full-brake horsepower at 42-feet on each side of the motorcycle; said motorcycle under noise output evaluation could NOT exceed 80dB(A) in order to be retailed and operated in the United States.
Once that motorcycle make and model passed the US EPA testing mandates, the factory muffler affixed to same was to be permanently and heavily embossed with a specific US EPA muffler label that was to be in plain view for inspection by authorities and attached to the frame of the motorcycle (usually the downtube on cruisers) is another US EPA label that matches that EPA-approved muffler to the motorcycle and clearly articulates that any modification to the muffler which would increase noise output is prohibited; also, that frame label designates at what RPM (max brake horsepower) the motorcycle was tested and met the 80dB(A) restriction.
Unfortunately, enforcement of the Federal Law concerning motorcycle noise was delegated to the States and the States and local municipalities, their Governors and Mayors and Law Enforcement Community, have been abysmal failures and illegal motorcycle noise, illegal manufacturing of “not for road use” aftermarket exhausts for retail, the operation of illegally loud motorcycles on our public roadways, has grown exponentially and 80%+ of every narcissistic thug operating a large displacement motorcycle in the United States rides with an illegal aftermarket exhaust that emits in multiples (logarithmic) the total, legal, 80dB(A) as these hedonistic thugs abuse our children, the elderly, our handicapped, veterans suffering PTSD, our families, with illegally LOUD, dangerously intrusive, motorcycle noise; this, as our police are too compromised and too cowardly to stand in the gap for the abused citizenry and cite these NOISE thugs, incarcerate them if necessary, and impound the illegally LOUD piece of vibrating junk until it is returned to OEM-factory noise levels. This abuse is permitted by those sworn to protect us from same.
Is God’s LOVE “unconditional” or “unfailing” or both?
Sitting in Church this morning the Pastor uttered words that, without fail, disturb me spiritually every time I hear them – “God’s love is unconditional.” Shaking my head in disagreement, I understand these words are a prevailing theme in Christianity but like far too many doctrines of men, these words are theological error. When one suggests God’s love is unconditional they are saying that God’s words are error, that God is not perfectly Holy, Just, Righteous, as unconditional love requires that God love irrespective of another’s behavior, attitude, disobedience, willful defilement; they are suggesting that God’s immutability incorporates compromise.
The Christian will say “Well, we’re all sinners but God loves us anyway irrespective of our sin, our conduct, our behavior, our compromise with evil.” – “God hates the sin but loves the sinner.” If God’s love is unconditional concerning those who are not in covenant with Him by faith in His Son (Hebrews 8:12), why the need for blood atonement (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28); why the need for repentance (Luke 13:3); why the need for the Gospel, grace, faith; why the unconscionable suffering of Jesus Christ? Does unconditional love mandate a Judgment resulting in the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15)?
Does Jesus teach unconditional love?
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:5-7 (ESV)
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. John 3:16-19 (ESV)
Does the Father or the Holy Spirit teach unconditional love?
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. John 9:31 (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (ESV)
God’s LOVE is “unfailing” but NOT “unconditional,”
“Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever” (Psalm 136:26)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
“For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Conclusion,
Though God’s love, forgiveness of sin, eternal life, are predicated upon faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as one’s Messiah, God’s love and offer of eternal life endures, is unfailing, and is available to humanity till our last exhalation within the Realm of Time; then, only Judgment remains for those who deny the Father’s will (Hebrews 9:27); the Father’s will is this, “to believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for the forgiveness of sin and covenant relationship with the Father, forever; that is, Jesus our Messiah (John 6:29; John 3:16).
Purpose for Law (Spiritual & Written-Codified) Which is eternal?
The Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15)
Spiritual Law (law of conscience) has been extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels and that same law, which convicted Satan of covetousness and under girded his extrication from Kingdom, was infused within the human genome on Day-6 as human kind was created in the spiritual image of Elohim; that Spiritual Law was given as a bulwark against societal implosion/extinction from unrestrained narcissism and the Spiritual Law also judged the Adamic and Noahic generations of unconscionable defilement where all but eight perished in judgement via water; that same Spiritual Law or “law of conscience” was also introduced into the Realm of Time to further Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning the destruction of Satan’s works via the Gospel via the coming Messiah (Genesis 3:15-21; 1 John 3:8b).
The Written Law (Sinai)
The “Written Law,” (10-etched in stone/603 scratched upon parchment) given solely to Israel and sojourners that accompanied them at Sinai, is NOTHING new or novel but like the “Code of Hammurabi,” Sinai was simply a reiteration of the Spiritual Law with some specificity relevant to the sanctification (a setting apart) of the Hebrew Tribes as they were inundated by paganism serving pagan gods; this, of course, if allowed to infiltrate the Hebrew Tribes, would have stymied Elohim’s eschatological purposes concerning Israel’s children; that is, the introduction of Messiah through Judah and the ultimate eschatological purposes for Israel as proselytizers of the Gospel through the Great Commission via Messiah’s New Covenant; this ordination of Israel’s children as proselytizers of the New Covenant’s promised salvation by Grace through Faith through Messiah was; unfortunately, ultimately rejected by Israel.
Written Law – Spiritual Law – Relevance today,
The Written Law – Sinai’s only relevance today is as a tutor to point Israel’s wayward children to their need for Messiah by faith (Galatians 3:24) but concerning Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward, it is the Spiritual Law that remains extant and relevant in the New Covenant; this, via the indwelling Holy Spirit via the human conscience redeemed by faith in Messiah Jesus (Galatians 5:16).
Though the Written Law will receive some glorification in the Millennial Kingdom for the sake of “remembrance” concerning Yahweh’s work through Israel’s children, it is the Spiritual Law having arbitrated the thoughts, intent and motives of 99% of all humanity throughout the Realm of Time that will remain extant throughout Eternity as free will remains extant by necessity relevant to love, intimacy and reciprocal, authentic relationships in the Kingdom.
Concerning Biblical Eschatology, Ukraine, Russia, China, Islam, America…Messiah Jesus
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, invaded the politically, ethically, morally, corrupt Country of Ukraine due to national security concerns relevant to the encroachment of NATO and the timing of the invasion was in response to the weakness, ineptitude, graft – compromise with China, Ukraine, Romania – influence peddling by President Biden and his corrupt family members; this, in conjunction with Biden’s embarrassing retreat from Afghanistan and Biden’s, Clinton’s, Progressives, Democrats, relentless false accusations, insults, against Putin concerning election interference relevant to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and the stolen – coup – 2020-Presidential election; this, in conjunction with the moral, ethical, decline of the American people and their compromise with the WOKE perversion and racial hatred fostered by demonically motivated Progressives in combination with impotent, incompetent, WOKE, demonically inspired, bureaucrats in Washington DC who are the major players, puppeteers, of those “elected” by our once honorable “Constitutional Republic;” this, as America’s Progressive-Socialists-Communists (the virtue-signaling “do-gooders”) have opened America’s borders to illegal entry by Chinese Communists; Mexican drug cartels pushing Chinese based fentanyl to American youth who are dying by the hundreds-of-thousands due to fentanyl poisoning; a literal invasion of America by international criminal elements, the identity of which escape American authorities as these evade border check-points; this, as America’s youth, for the previous five-decades, have been methodically brainwashed, morphed, into American Hating socialist-atheists via Darwin-evolution, Marx, Lenin, CRT, 1619, gender confusion-LGBTQ cultism forced into America’s classrooms by demonically under girded teachers unions, Globalists, Progressives, Democrat-Communists.
The natural resultant of American political, moral, ethical, Progressive, impotency,
Putin and CCP President Xi Jinping have allied with Islam in response to America’s wasteful spending and unyielding support of the failed Nation of Ukraine and Ukraine’s corrupt oligarch-dictator “President” Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Putin and the Russian military, contrary to liberal and neo-con analysis, possess the armament, strength, to destroy the Ukrainian military within a few-days if President Putin was so inclined but what we are witnessing is the collusion of Putin, Xi, Iran; an Axis of Evil strategizing to bankrupt America both financially and militarily as America whores itself to Zelensky’s demands for endless cash and implements of war which Biden has promised an endless supply “for as long as it takes;” this, on the heels of America’s destruction by Xi Jinping’s COVID attack on the World with specificity in the West.
The Communist Chinese released COVID with military strategic intent; consequently, the CCP successfully bled the American people dry through failed small business bankruptcy via forced closures, a bankrupt economy via printing money for votes, a divided populous, an irreparable chasm of distrust between the discerning American and the WOKE, compromised, perverted, demonically influenced, U.S. Federal Government and Big Pharma. Xi Jinping and Putin are, with glee and celebration, watching as America destroys its own economy through endless funding of a foreign war and compromise with the demonically insane “climate cult;” as America destroys its military through the implementation of WOKE-perverse policies, compromise with the LGBTQ cult and the endless shipment of military armament to Ukraine that is exhausting America’s strategic supplies; this, while the corrupt military industrial complex salivates over endless funding to resupply in vain; all of this, while America’s government has morphed into a communist police state of corruption, graft, moral-ethical defilement, embarrassing compromise with evil for Globalist profit; this, while Taiwan is dangling by a thread and Europe is facing bankruptcy due to climate insanity and WOKENESS; this, in the midst of rising antisemitism Worldwide.
Concerning the Christian,
Christian American, we are possibly witnessing the countdown to Armageddon; we are witnessing the coalescing of the Biblical alliance of Russia-China-Islam/Iran who will come against Jerusalem, Israel in a nuclear war which will trigger Messiah Jesus’ 2nd-Advent to Mt. Olivet prefacing Messiah’s Millennial Reign; therefore, as we see that Day approaching, as the “birth pangs” grow closer incrementally, continue to look-up as our redemption is drawing ever so near. It’s good to know Jesus as Messiah.
How Evil justifies itself through obfuscation and projection…
As American’s we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We have federal, state and local administrations in place to regulate banks and rail companies only the progressive-communist-liberal bureaucrats in DC, State houses, fail to do their job either by neglect or incompetency; on the other hand, America has a duty to protect children in the womb from murder as these children have a right to life as per the United States Constitution and sexual perverts have no business advertising their compromise with the Devil in the presence of innocent and impressionable children…this is child abuse.
“Righteousness” (a right standing with the Father) in Christianity is “imputed” or “gifted” righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) earned for us by Messiah’s sinless perfection as He kept the Law (Spiritual & Written Code) in perfection, honored the Father’s mandates concerning the “Spotless Lamb” (1 Peter 1:19) and subsequently provided blood atonement as per the mandates of Leviticus 17:11 (Matthew 5:17; John 8:46; Hebrews 10).
The Christian, “born again” by grace through faith in Messiah Jesus (John 3), does become a “new creation” by faith in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the conscience of the Christian is redeemed and transformed, the spiritual law written upon their heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15) is enlivened and made new with understanding, enlivened comprehension, and made applicable concerning holiness via the redeemed conscience, that redeemed conscience used by the indwelling Holy Spirit through the daily process of New Covenant sanctification to produce “fruit” that honors the Father and promotes His Kingdom work within the Realm of Time (Galatians 5); this, with eschatological ramifications concerning the restoration of holiness to His Kingdom through the destruction of Satan’s works via Messiah via the Gospel via Golgotha (Matthew 7:15-20; Galatians 5; 1 John 3:8b).
Righteousness in the New Covenant is gifted by grace (unmerited favor) through faith to the one who believes in Messiah Jesus as their Lord who died for them (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21). This gifted righteousness provided by Messiah makes the Christian “positionally right” with the Father who agrees by New Covenant promise to forgive and forget the sin of the one so redeemed by faith in His Son (Hebrews 8:12) and through New Covenant promise, the Christian has eternal peace with the Father as a result of the Son’s obedience and work on the Cross; this, apart from the works of the Law or self-righteousness (Romans 5:1).
Premise: Law will be relevant for Eternity as Law finds its origin in Eternity.
Spiritual Law – Creation Narrative
The Spiritual Law (Romans 2:14-15) has been extant, relevant, as an arbiter of free will in conjunction with the creation of the angels forward and that same Spiritual Law judged Satan of covetousness and initiated his extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18; John 8:44).
In response to a mandated alternative for the spiritual war initiated by Satan in the Kingdom, the Spiritual Law was foundational to the initiation of the creation of Time, matter, this Universe, this Earth, as a temporary battle ground partially constrained by Time and physics.
That same Spiritual Law was written upon the human genome on Day-6 as humanity was created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28).
Additionally, the Spiritual Law was infused within humanity as a bulwark against societal extinction/implosion; this, accomplished by constraining man’s propensity for unencumbered narcissism that would thwart Elohim’s eschatological plan concerning restoration of holiness to His Kingdom through the destruction of Satan’s works via Messiah via the Gospel via selfless love displayed at Golgotha (2 Thessalonians 2:7; Genesis 3:21; 1 John 3:8b).
Spiritual Law – Judgment
The Spiritual Law judged both the Adamic and Noahic generations of unfathomable defilement where all but eight perished in water.
Spiritual Law & Written Code
The Spiritual Law under girded the Code of Hammurabi.
The Spiritual Law under girded Sinai’s Commandments etched in stone by Elohim and the 603-ordinances scratched upon parchment by Moses; therefore, the Spiritual Law is foundational to the “written code” provided Israel’s children for sanctification and holiness from paganism and idolatry; this, concerning Elohim’s eschatological plan through Messiah.
Spiritual Law & the New Covenant
That same Spiritual Law is used by the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach and guide the redeemed in Jesus in holiness via daily sanctification; this, relevant to preparing the redeemed in Messiah for service in the New Jerusalem.
That same Spiritual Law will be employed by Jesus for adjudication at the “Judgment of the Condemned” commencing subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign, Messiah’s 1000-year reign in Jerusalem, Israel where both the Spiritual Law and portions of the Written Code will be relevant (Revelation 20:11-15).
Spiritual Law & The New Jerusalem
That same Spiritual Law will be the arbiter of behavior, order and holiness in the New Jerusalem long after this World has been consumed by fire, remolded, purified and made fit for the Kingdom as free will remains extant in the New Jerusalem by necessity.
I don’t have an opinion on the life of those who profess faith in Jesus as Messiah as I know that those redeemed by faith are very imperfect creatures redeemed by grace, unmerited favor, imputed righteousness not their own, who are broken vessels that are daily under construction, in the process of being mended and fitted for the Father’s use; this, with eternal foresight.
We exist in the Realm of Time which is a bastion of WAR and Dissension…we are refugees in the spiritual war between Elohim and Satan…we are fodder on the battle ground of the Spiritual Realm…and the few who have trusted in Jesus as King will be ultimately victorious even though our defilement shadows victory presently. What is seen is NOT what will be.
The Holy Spirit, the Logistical Overseer of all things concerning the Realm of Time and One who is often under appreciated…
The Holy Spirit is our daily Intercessor; He is the logistical entity of the Trinity that has been left with us by design to internally prepare the redeemed for service in the New Jerusalem via daily sanctification.
The Holy Spirit has been intimately and intricately involved in the Realm of Time from Genesis 1:2 forward where He first introduces Himself as logistical overseer of the creation narrative.
The Holy Spirit worked intimately with holy men of old to provide humanity the Father’s eschatological plan for Time and Eternity via the divinely inspired Canon of Scripture.
The Holy Spirit fertilized Mary’s womb, preached the Gospel through Jesus, healed the sick, raised Jesus from the dead.
The Holy Spirit is our Guarantor of covenant relationship with the Father for all who have believed, trusted, in Jesus Christ as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).
Personally, my daily life and sense of purpose in Time would be nihilistic if not for the intimacy I share with the Holy Spirit as a resultant of faith in Jesus Christ as my Messiah. My deepest gratitude and love for the Spirit of Life forever, a love greater than life itself.
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
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