Sinai – Christianity – Covenant – Eternity…

If Commandment Keeping were possible sufficiently to please the Father, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place (Galatians 2:21). The Christian is not under Law, Commandments, Edicts, ceremonies, days, dietary restrictions, but the redeemed in Christ are under grace (unmerited favor – a gift unattainable via human effort) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus as Lord (Romans 6:14; Colossians 2:16); therefore, the Christian does not worship Sinai or Law but the Christian is redeemed through faith and subsequent establishing covenant relationship, receiving the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14), Christian obedience naturally follows redemption via the Holy Spirit via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16).

The futility of self-righteousness through Law,

Striving for obedience relevant to earning salvation is futility (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16; 3:10); obedience subsequent salvation is a natural outflow of the new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) via the Spirit via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16).

Fruit of the Spirit – A superior form of behavioral modification,

You will know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-20); that is, the one who is in covenant relationship with the Father naturally demonstrates the “fruit of the Spirit” via the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) which is a spiritual form of behavioral modification far superior to codified laws etched in stone or scratched upon parchment as these laws, their condemnation for sin, are easily rationalized away via subjectivity by the sin-nature; therefore, you will not enter into covenant relationship with the Father through your vain works of law keeping as you’re inherently a sinner by nature and the law mandates absolute perfection (Romans 3:23; Romans 8:1-2; James 2:10) but only by humbling yourself and trusting wholly in the righteousness of Jesus to save you by faith will you receive the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness over your life and be declared “not guilty” by the Father, forever, via covenant promise (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). There is no other Way (John 14:6).

Israel’s children and eternal judgment: A lesson to humanity…

The Israel of the OT is the same Israel of the NT but now under a superior Covenant of Grace through Faith (Matthew 26:28) in the New Testament (Hebrews 8:12; Hebrews 10) that replaced the inferior Law Covenant of the Old Testament (Hebrews 8:7; Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:10); and yes, Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of Israel to proselytize them in the New Covenant Gospel (Matthew 15:24), the Gospel ordained before Time began and fulfill Yahweh’s promise to Abraham concerning “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 12:3b); unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Israel rejected their Messiah; Israel rejected the Gospel message of the New Covenant; Israel murdered their Messiah upon a tree and exclaimed that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, the Gospel that was ordained for Israel to bless the World via the Great Commission (Matthew 28) was taken from Israel and given to the Gentiles until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom (Romans 11:25); consequently, Israel was hardened, blinded, placed under judgment (Romans 9); therefore, only a “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); that remnant primarily relevant to those Jews and Israelite’s who are sanctified and redeemed during the Tribulation era and enter the Millennial Kingdom with Yeshua (Revelation; Zechariah 12:10).

Yahweh has honored the “free will” choice of Israel to die in Hell due their unbelief (Romans 10) as Israel is obsessed with law-keeping in self-righteousness with a false aura of superiority and pride (Romans 2:11; Galatians 3:28). If Elohim has not spared the “Apple of His eye” (Zechariah 2:8) but relegated them to eternal judgement for rejecting Messiah Yeshua, fear and trembling should engulf every human being living in rejection of the Father’s will; that is, belief in the Son sent into the World to provide blood atonement for our sin (John 3; John 6:29).

The Deception of Charismata – Full Gospel doctrines…Baptism of the Holy Spirit? Tongues?

When you place your faith in Jesus as your Lord, you receive every ounce of the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life that you will ever receive. There is no subsequent “baptism in the Holy Spirit” but faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and receiving the Holy Spirit as your Guarantor and Seal of covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14). Water baptism, as demonstrated by and commanded by Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:19), is a work of obedience “subsequent” salvation and has absolutely nothing to do with receiving anything from our Lord other than pleasing acknowledgement from the Father for one’s faithfulness.

Accessing the power of the Spirit?

The power and strength and influence of the Spirit’s work in your life subsequent salvation is wholly contingent upon how much of yourself you commit to serving, how much of yourself you surrender in obedience to the Spirit’s call on your life in accordance with the spiritual gifts He has granted you by authority.

Deception defined,

Tragically, far too many are inundated with the nonsense of charismata…full-gospel nonsense such as tongues and baptism of/in the Holy Spirit and they will not listen yet continue to affiliate and compromise with paganism having slithered its way into the Body of Christ. It’s your life and your walk; therefore, if you choose to babble in incoherent gibberish bringing confusion into the Lord’s House and you pretend that the Holy Spirit is somehow parceled out by some form of baptism, that’s your business but this paganism does NOT glorify the Father or the Son or the Spirit, only yourself and those involved in the pagan works doctrines of Full-Gospel Charismata. Our God is NOT a God of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33).

The Deception of Charismata – Full Gospel doctrines…Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

When you place your faith in Jesus as your Lord, you receive every ounce of the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life that you will ever receive. There is no “baptism in the Holy Spirit” but faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and receiving the Holy Spirit as your Guarantor and Seal of covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14).

The power and strength and influence of the Spirit’s work in your life subsequent salvation is wholly contingent upon how much of yourself you commit to serving, how much of yourself you surrender in obedience to the Spirit’s call on your life in accordance with the spiritual gifts He has granted you by authority.

Many are inundated with the nonsense of charismata…full-gospel nonsense such as tongues and baptism of/in the Holy Spirit and they won’t listen. It’s your life and your walk…if you choose to babble in incoherent gibberish and pretend that the Holy Spirit is somehow parceled out by some form of baptism…that’s your business.

Righteousness in the Hebrew Scriptures…

Righteousness (a right standing) with the Father in the Hebrew Scriptures was attained just as it is in the New Covenant, by “faith” (Hebrews 11; Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:3; Genesis 5:24). That right standing with the Father in no way suggested a man or woman was “holy” or “perfect” or sufficiently “righteous” to enter the Kingdom and the presence of Elohim but only that those who placed faith in Elohim had pleased Him and were acceptable to Him yet they could not enter His presence due to their sin that had not received the atonement, a blood atonement first pictured in Genesis 3:21, foreshadowed by the animal blood sacrifices under Law and clearly articulated in Leviticus 17:11; ultimately, fulfilled by Messiah Jesus at Golgotha initiating the New Covenant in His blood (Matthew 26:28); therefore, those who attained a right standing with the Father by faith in the Hebrew Scriptures, upon death of their body in Time, were detained in Sheol/Hades-Paradise (Abraham’s bosom – Luke 16; Psalm 16:10) and remained there until the acceptable blood atonement for sin was performed by Messiah at Golgotha.

Messiah’s blood atonement for the remission of sin is essential for both the “righteous” in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as nothing impure is permitted to enter the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27) and only the purity of Messiah’s blood redeems humanity from the stain of sin (Isaiah 1:18; Hebrews 10). Subsequent Messiah’s atoning sacrifice, those who die in body having placed their faith in Jesus as Lord and enter the Spiritual Realm, these are ushered into the presence of our Lord instantaneously as Hades-Sheol/Paradise is no longer relevant as the acceptable atonement has been performed by our High Priest, Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:8).

Today, by covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12), those who place their faith in Messiah Jesus as Lord receive the perfection of Messiah Jesus over their life via an imputed righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21) and are declared “not guilty” by the Father; this too is an imputed “righteousness” and “holiness” not earned, not deserved, but gifted by grace (unmerited favor unattainable through human effort) through faith (trusting-believing) in Jesus as Lord, Messiah who paid our sin-debt owed the Father for us. It is by faith, alone, in Jesus, alone, that mankind can experience peace with the Father, forever, whether they existed BC or AD (Romans 5:1).

The Christian and Holiness…

The only “holiness” any Christian possesses is imputed by faith; that is, in our flesh, our righteousness, our holiness, is gifted us/imputed by faith in Jesus who died to provide us HIS Holiness and HIS Righteousness by covenant promise (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). Though every Spirit-filled Christian should desire holiness, those born of Adam will not attain same on this Earth other than receiving that holiness from Jesus by faith via the new birth (John 3).

Intrinsically, internally, no one born of Adam’s seed is truly “holy” while encapsulated by a body of sinful flesh but the Father has agreed via covenant promise that the one who sincerely believes that the Son, Jesus Christ, died to pay their sin-debt for them…a sin-debt they could never pay them self…the Father declares that person “not guilty” and the Father “chooses” by grace through faith to not see the sin of the one in covenant with Him but the Father only sees the righteousness, purity, of His dear Son at Golgotha; this, while the precious Holy Spirit works in the Christian daily to progressively conform them to the Father’s will, the obedient image of Jesus Christ via the conscience via the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; John 16:13).

Christian, beware of “entire sanctification” doctrines or “holiness – sinlessness” doctrines that teach a Christian, while constrained by a body of flesh, can become sinless and perfectly holy as this is error.

Debating the Atheist – a Pursuit of Futility

The parties involved in a debate must be willing to seriously consider the opposition’s premise. A Christian cannot prove the existence of God-Elohim (Genesis 1:1) to an atheist as the atheist denies the existence of the Spiritual Realm and they’re not willing to see or pursue the Truth of a God who is Spirit (John 4:24). Elohim must be experienced by “faith” which is the KEY to knowing Him and discovering His unsearchable truths through the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27).

Until such time an atheist is willing to sit quietly, read with a receptive heart the “Gospel of John” and earnestly seek our Lord with their whole heart, they will never find Hope or Life or Peace as only by faith and trust in Jesus Christ as Messiah will the Father fully reveal Himself to them by covenant promise via the daily process of sanctification (Hebrews 8:12); therefore, the stubbornly rebellious atheist will remain unredeemed in spiritual ignorance and die in sin and Hell “without excuse” (John 3; Romans 1:18-32; John 8:24; Revelation 20:10-15).

Jesus never commanded that we argue the Gospel but that we teach and tell and urge and those who reject the Gospel will reap what they sow but we’re to shake the sands of rejection from our sandals and move forward in battle leaving the enemy of God and the enemy of our soul to their chosen eternal destiny (Matthew 10:14). Christians are not responsible for the outcome of the spiritual battle but we are responsible to tell and teach others about what the Father has done through the Son, Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit (Matthew 28; Matthew 15:14).

Speaking in Tongues – What is it?

Speaking in Tongues was a gift given certain anointed individuals in the early New Covenant Church that enabled them to speak and/or understand “languages” they had not studied or were not previously familiar with; this “spiritual gift” was granted by the Holy Spirit as a sign to unbelieving Jews and also to assist in the spreading of the Gospel to the known World as per the mandates of the Great Commission (Acts 2; Matthew 28). With the advent of the Canon of Scripture, the Muratorian Canon (Circa 180AD), tongues were no longer needed and faded away.

Today, speaking in an “unknown tongue” has manifest into a works oriented cult of self-righteousness and self aggrandizement in charismatic places of “worship” like Pentecostalism, Church of God, “Full Gospel” movements. The root of this “unknown tongue” finds its genesis in the pagan temple at Delphi adjacent Corinth in the First-Century. It was in Delphi that an intoxicated priestess setting atop a throne and inhaling intoxicating fumes from a burning substance beneath would exhort waiting patrons with oracles of prophecy and wisdom; oftentimes, the language of the priestess was unintelligible due to her intoxication; therefore, the waiting patrons left more confused than when they entered seeking wisdom.

This pagan-demonic practice ultimately carried-over into the Church at Corinth creating much confusion and much consternation for Paul which probably led to Paul’s command that women be silent in the Church proceedings (1 Corinthians 14:34). The deadly error relevant to “tongues” promulgated by charismatic cults today is the apostasy of mandating that one speak in a tongue, actually “demonic gibberish,” in order to validate their salvation and the presence of the Holy Spirit in their life; this is the Devil’s work that culminates in confusion, fear, doubt, feelings of inadequacy, in those who are seriously seeking the Father’s will via faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, yet they’re told unless they participate in the nonsense of speaking in tongues-gibberish they are not redeemed and are headed to Hell. Run away for the sake of your soul and your sanity!

WHO IS JESUS?

Jesus is the “only begotten” unique One of the Father…the exact representation of the Father’s nature…Elohim in flesh having entered Time specifically to destroy the works of Satan on your behalf (1 John 3:8b) in accord with the mandates of Leviticus 17:11…there is no more significant decision in your life in Time and Eternity. Who is Jesus? If you deny Him as your Messiah, your God, who died to pay your sin debt owed the Father, you will die in Hell (John 14:6).

Atheists: Who are they; What are they?

Atheism is a façade, a demonic religion, used to define men and women who deny the existence of God. Atheism does not exist logically, philosophically, theologically, spiritually, realistically, as every man and woman having attained an age of reason, cognitive acuity and maturity, sufficient to discern the World around them and differentiate between good and evil, right and wrong, sustainable v. not sustainable, intuitively know that a Creator exists and possesses dominion over our Created World, the Universe, their individual lives and eternal destiny (Romans 1:18-32).

Atheism is a ruse manifest through the demonic, the narcissistic, the hedonistic, self-righteousness, aberrant lust, obsessions with gratification of the flesh; obsessions with one’s penis or vulva respectively and gratification of same; a sexual obsession with the aberrant that mandates progressively intense violations of the natural law in order to achieve some semblance of erotic satiation; an obsession with one’s personal self-love. Atheists are over-represented in the Democrat-Progressive-Marxist Party of the United States of America.

Atheism finds its root in the demonic, the Satanic, and atheists are overwhelmingly represented in Liberalism, Progressivism, Marxism, Socialism, Secular Humanism, Darwinism, and are therefore representative of aberrant behaviors that are not sustainable in any healthy society seeking a right to pursue sustainable happiness through a love for Jesus Christ, morality and goodness and love for one’s neighbor and their Nation. Atheists are represented by abortionists, advocates for the murder of babies in and out of the womb; Atheists are over represented in the LGBTQ community, a perverse and destructive aberrant sexual community of gender confusion, genital mutilation, over representation in self-destructive behaviors including suicide; an aberrant community that seeks to impose its sexual perversion and defilement upon America’s children in grade school to the university; Atheists are over represented in Marxist strategies such as the 1619 project, Critical Race Theory, Affirmative Action, Black Lives Matter, which seek historical revisionism taught in America’s public schools with the agenda of morphing American children into God hating, America hating, Constitutional conservatism hating, Marxists-Socialists-Progressive enemies of the Republic. This is Satan’s work.

Atheists are fearful of the Canon of Scripture; Atheists are fearful of our omnipotent Creator who they see as an impediment to their perverse, narcissistic, self-righteous, lifestyle of sexual debauchery and other forms of aberrant antisocial behavior. In the Great Spiritual War that consumes humanity daily, Atheists have opted to side with Satan and pursue those satanic driven behaviors that glorify debauchery, personal defilement, death in Hell; therefore, if you are a Christian know that the atheist among us is your spiritual enemy and conduct yourself accordingly.

Personally, I hate evil (Psalms 97:10) and those who promulgate it seeking the destruction of our society, our family unit, everything that is sustainable, holy, good, beneficial, moral, praise worthy.