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Law in the New Covenant?

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Law in the New Covenant?

Discussion,

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Jeremiah 31:33

“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.” Hebrews 8:10

It is historically tragic but Israel rejected the New Covenant (Matthew 23:37); Israel rejected their Messiah sent to them specifically to proselytize them in the New Covenant as ministers of the Gospel and the Great Commission (Matthew 15:24); therefore, the Gentile has received the Commission – Ordination to preach the Gospel (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:46) but what “law” is now extant in the New Covenant subsequent the Law Covenant given Israel at Sinai through Moses?

Law in the New Covenant,

The free will/volition of the Gentile has always been arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the human heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2; 7;6), infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation as human kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim (Genesis 1:26-28) and possesses certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim; one such divine attribute is the spiritual law essential relevant to Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward as the spiritual law also acts as a bulwark against unrestrained narcissism that would inevitably culminate in societal implosion thus thwarting Messiah’s primary mission concerning “the destruction of the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).

I find it interesting that Elohim employs that same spiritual law, written upon the heart, in His New Covenant (Hebrews 10:16; 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33) except that it has been enlivened/made applicable in the life of the Christian through the redeemed conscience/the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and it is the Holy Spirit who employs the spiritual law and the redeemed conscience to produce divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) in the life of the Christian during daily sanctification and this divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) fulfills all law; after all, Jesus did say, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).

Christians – Death of the natural body – prayers…

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Christians – Death of the natural body – prayers…

Prayers of the Christian don’t negate the Adamic curse concerning the natural body and its destiny in decay, degradation, death of the flesh (1 Corinthians 15:22)…the prayers of the Christian are intimacy with our Creator who died for us that we can live eternally with Him (John 3:16; John 11:25)…not in this body of decay and sin and suffering but in a resurrected body fashioned like His glorified body (Philippians 3:21); therefore, death for the Christian, irrespective of causation, is freedom from the encumbrance of sin, disease, pain, sorrow…death is swallowed up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:54).

Concerning Jews-Israelite’s and eternal life…

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Concerning Jews-Israelite’s and eternal life,

Jews, Israelite’s, have no special salvation dispensation as they too, like every Gentile, must pass through the blood of Jesus in order to find righteousness (right standing) with the Father. If you deny Jesus as your blood atonement for sin by faith in Him as your Messiah (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19) you will die the “second death” in Hell irrespective of race, ethnicity, skin color, religious affiliation (Rev 20:11-15).

Why is Jesus the only WAY to the Father and Eternal Life? (John 14:6) – Why did Elohim create?

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Why is Jesus the only Way to the Father and eternal life? (John 14:6)

Jesus is the only Way to the Father because this Path to eternal life for humanity, the defeat of Satan, the restoration of order and holiness to the Kingdom, the maintenance of volitional love between the Father and the faithful angelic creation, was ordained “before Time began” via a Gospel, a divine battle strategy (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21); this, as Jesus entered the Realm of Time “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15) which is the eschatological foundation for the creation of Time and physics, this temporary Earth, as a repository for a Kingdom War that was removed from the Kingdom and placed partially within the constraints of Time and physics as were the participants of that war (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12); this, while Messiah Jesus is the KEY to victory over death, Hell, the grave and Satan in this Spiritual War.

This spiritual strategic battle strategy is the Father’s will as the Father endeavors to maintain volitional love with His faithful angelic creation while dealing with a rebellious charismatic cherub angel and one-third of the angelic creation that allied with the Evil One (Ezekiel 28:11+); this is why Jesus has been given all authority over all things spiritual and physical and all things relevant to the defeat of Satan have been placed in Jesus’ hands as Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge (John 3:35; Matthew 28:18) and this is why Jesus is the ONLY Way to the Father because the Father’s eschatological will has ordained same…period!

Jesus is the KEY figure in Heaven and on Earth as Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge, King over the Millennial Kingdom and LORD over the New Jerusalem. Without Jesus as your Intercessor between you and the Father, you will die in Hell and NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom because your alliance with Satan via your unbelief, rejection of Jesus as Messiah for the forgiveness of sin, will NOT be tolerated in the Kingdom once order and holiness has been fully resorted/restored; this, as “NOTHING IMPURE” will enter the Kingdom (Rev. 21:7); therefore, the imputed-gifted righteousness of Jesus over your life by faith in Him in exchange for your sin-debt owed the Father is absolutely MANDATED and critically NECESSARY if you desire eternal life in the New Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3; Acts 4:12).

For all intents and purposes, you are a byproduct, a divinely ordained pawn, in a Kingdom War that rages around us and through us as human beings (Ephesians 6); therefore, it is critically important relevant to whom you serve during your brief existence within the temporary Realm of Time; Satan or Elohim…the free will choice is yours to make (Joshua 24:14-15).

New Covenant, foreordained as Israel’s property, what happened?

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The New Covenant, foreordained by Elohim as belonging solely to Israel’s children, is now in custody of the Gentile, what happened?

Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36 and Hebrews 10 and 2 Corinthians 3 articulate a “New Covenant” that was foreordained as the sole property of Jacob’s children and Messiah Jesus came specifically to them for this purpose (Matthew 15:24); this, as Israel’s children would fulfill Elohim’s promise to Abraham concerning Abram’s seed as “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b); this, through Messiah and the New Covenant Gospel and the Great Commission; unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected their Messiah and conspired with Rome to murder Messiah Jesus upon a tree while exclaiming that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25); therefore, Elohim honored Israel’s free will choice as they rejected their Messiah, the Gospel, the Great Commission and Elohim gave these eschatological imperatives to the Gentile and the Gentile will remain in custody of the New Covenant’s Gospel until their fullness has entered the Kingdom of Elohim through faith in Messiah Jesus (Romans 11:25). Elohim’s eschatological plan will not be thwarted by the unfaithfulness of mankind.

“So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)

God’s Immutability v. Free will of Humanity

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In response to the evidence of dramatic, eternal, differences between the Old Covenant v. New Covenant priorities, someone said “God does not change” suggesting the Old remains valid irrespective of the New. What is the truth?

Christian response,

Elohim’s attributes are immutable (Malachi 3:6) but His eschatological will and His plan for humanity is directly subject to free will infused within the Human Genome on Day-6 as human kind is created in the spiritual image of Elohim possessing certain divine communicable attributes of Elohim, free will being one such communicable attribute (Genesis 1:26-28).

The codified law, a central theme of the Old Covenant (Sinai – Moses), was NEVER intended to be a path to righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim but was given Israel for sanctification-eschatological purposes; ultimately, the codified law, concerning Sinai and Moses, has become a tutor to point Israel to their need for Messiah (Galatians 3:24); this, while the Gospel of Messiah (The New Covenant) that provides eternal life through Messiah’s blood atonement via faith was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21) and that Gospel is the battle strategy foreordained “to destroy the works of the devil” via Messiah (1 John 3:8b; Genesis 3:15).

Elohim’s immutable divine attributes have not changed but Elohim has adapted His immutable eschatological plan in accordance with free will given humanity and where the Adamic/Noahic generations failed (Romans 1:18-32); where Israel failed (Matthew 27:25), the Gentile was ordained to carry-on concerning the New Covenant (Romans 11:25). Elohim, in His divine omnipotence, is perfectly capable of working through and around sinful humanity’s free will choices to accomplish His divine eschatological will.

Elohim’s eschatological plan and His immutable will concerning the Tribulation – the Millennial Kingdom – the Judgment of Satan and the rebellious angels – the Judgment of rebellious humanity – the purification of this Earth by fire – the creation of a New Heaven and New Earth – the divine placement of the New Jerusalem and the servitude of the redeemed resurrected in Jesus…these are foreordained and they will come to pass irrespective of mankind’s free will and human kind’s decisions made in accordance with the Adamic sin-nature.

As a Christian, my daily walk is NOT focused upon Sinai-Moses-Torah-Letters-Days-Diets…

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As a Christian, my daily walk is not focused upon Sinai or Moses or Torah or letters or days or diets…

Discussion,

Jesus was under Law (Galatians 4:4-5) and came specifically to those under the Law (Matthew 15:24) to proselytize them in the New Covenant’s Gospel of Grace and prepare them for ministry concerning Israel’s ordination as ministers of the Great Commission; this, in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:3b); unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected both their Messiah and the Gospel and ultimately, the Great Commission (Matthew 23:37). Sinai-Moses-the Law Covenant were never the destination but a path to that Destination which is Jesus our Messiah and the Gospel of Grace (Galatians 3:24).

Jesus fulfilled the righteous mandates of the Law for us (Matthew 5:17) as He is the only One qualified via the virgin birth to fulfill the Law but Jesus ordained Paul to preach “a righteousness apart from the works of the Law” (Romans 3:20-21; Galatians 5:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 7:6; Romans 8:1-9; Galatians 2:21); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to Sinai or Moses or Torah or Days or Diets, but the Christian lives and walks and obeys via the indwelling Holy Spirit who enlivens the comprehensive eternal Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Romans 2:14-15; Hebrews 10:16; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36) and mates that Spiritual Law with the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) to produce “fruits of righteousness” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this divine fruit fulfills all law, both codified and spiritual. Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20); therefore, all that Jesus taught is fulfilled through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit given to all who believe that Jesus is Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16); therefore, Christians don’t chase after fragmented, incomplete Sinai or Moses’ irrelevant civil and ceremonial laws but Christians serve through the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 7:6).

In closing,

As a Gentile, I was never given Sinai or the Laws of Moses…I was NEVER under a Law Covenant-Torah but the Law I observe is infinitely superior to fragmented Sinai because the Law I observe is from the Spirit who is omnipotent and is able to intercede, discern, tutor, me in every moral decision made daily; this, during daily sanctification. I don’t live my life in letters or ordinances or days or diets…I live and thrive by the Spirit who is my Law and my Peace (Romans 5:1; John 14:16; John 16:13).

Did Jesus’ death atone for only past sins or all sin? What law is relevant in the New Covenant concerning sin?

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Did Jesus’ death only atone for past sins or all sin, past-present-future? What law is relevant in the New Covenant defining sin and Elohim’s expectations concerning obedience?

Discussion,

Jesus died for all sin, past-present-future (Hebrews 8-10; 1 John 2:2); otherwise, Jesus would be subject to repeated crucifixion as the bygone Law Covenant required repetitive blood sacrifices for the sins of Israel’s children; this, because the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:1-4).

Concerning Sinai and Moses, their purposes and the temporary, inferior, nature of codification…

The Ten-Commandments are but a mere fraction of Elohim’s comprehensive spiritual law; therefore, Sinai and Moses are wholly inadequate sources concerning righteousness with the Father. Sinai and Moses were given specifically to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes in order to thwart Israel’s compromise with paganism; specifically, compromise with Baal and Molech; this, as Elohim did not desire a repeat of the demonically based failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations, two-generations who were governed solely by the spiritual law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15) void the Holy Spirit as a relevant arbiter, a spiritual law that was negated, made impotent, by a seared conscience of a people group sold into demonic slavery and defilement via spiritual compromise (Romans 1:18-32).

Sinai was not given the Gentile lest same sought inclusion into Israel’s theocracy. Sinai was fragmented, codified, temporal, instructions to a people group through whom Elohim would endeavor to introduce His Messiah and His Gospel into the World to fulfill His promise to Abraham relevant to “a blessing to every family of the Earth” (Genesis 12:3b). Sinai’s intent was sanctification (a setting apart) of Israel’s children for Elohim’s eschatological purposes (“you shall be holy as I AM holy”) and Sinai was temporary, inadequate, as a purveyor of true righteousness as neither Sinai or Moses as codified laws could adequately address the totality of moral deterrence concerning human and angelic behavior required for true holiness and righteousness; hence, the eternal superiority of the Spiritual Law arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a New Covenant.

Therefore,

The New Covenant is NOT regulated by Sinai or Moses or Days or Diets or Traditions or codified laws, but the man or woman who trusts in Messiah Jesus as LORD is redeemed by an imputed-gifted righteousness not their own (2 Corinthians 5:21; Genesis 3:21); that is, a divinely gifted righteousness earned for us by Messiah Jesus and fulfilled at Golgotha via blood atonement (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19); therefore, the Christian is not enslaved to letters, laws, diets, days, traditions of a bygone Covenant of Law (Romans 6:14; 7:6; Hebrews 8:7), but the Christian serves through the tutelage of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Galatians 5:16) and the enlivened Spiritual Law written upon the heart (Hebrews 10:16), a Spiritual Law which is arbitrated by a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) producing fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5:22-23) against which there is no law as these divine fruits fulfill all law, both codified and spiritual (Galatians 5:16-23).

Can New Covenant relationship with God be motivated through a fear of Hell?

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Can New Covenant relationship with Elohim be motivated through a fear of Hell and a perception of Elohim as a God of anger and retribution?

Discussion,

Those who seek to love our Creator and desire intimacy with Him, knowledge of Him, are not motivated by a fear of Hell but a desire to know and honor the One who gave them life and they seek knowledge of the who, what, where, when, why, how, concerning this temporary life constrained by a temporary Realm of Time and physics.

Personally, I was not motivated to honor Elohim in response to fear but in response to Truth that was absorbed during my first thorough reading of the New Testament approximately 33-years ago; in fact, approximately one-half way through the New Testament I looked up from the pages of Scriptures and asked “Where has this (Scriptural Truth) been all my life?” Hell was NOT on the radar or in the thought process…but an all-encompassing love and assurance resonated from the pages of Scripture and I could do NOTHING but respond in the affirmative to the Holy Spirit’s call upon my life…I BELIEVED what I had read and a change of heart immediately manifest!

In my humble opinion,

I don’t think a true intimate relationship with Elohim can manifest with purity and authenticity if FEAR is the motive for that relationship; this truism exists within human nature as well as true love and intimacy cannot exist in an atmosphere of fear or coercion; therefore, the one who sincerely enters into New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in the Son is one motivated by love and awe and joy in knowing the One who is Causation for life, the Elohim who possesses the knowledge of why we exist, how we exist, our purpose in this life and in the life to come; therefore, it is “divine relationship” initiated through knowledge and love that inspires “New Covenant relationship” and not fear. It is through the mysteries of nature (Romans 1:20) and internalizing the Word of Elohim with a heart willing to receive that initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father; this, by believing what the Father has said concerning the Son, a testimony provided by the Holy Spirit that is responded to in the affirmative out of love, trust, assurance through faith (Romans 10:17).

Why does the Scripture say committing one sin makes you guilty of all? James 2:10

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Someone asked: “Why does the Scripture say that committing one sin makes you guilty of all?” (James 2:10) What alternative exists that makes one “right” with our Holy Creator?

Comment,

James 2:10 is complimented by Galatians 3:10 where we learn that the codified law (Sinai – Moses), in order to attain righteousness (a right standing) with the Father through law-keeping, the law must be kept, obeyed, in absolute perfection (James 2:10) because Elohim is Perfect in Holiness and Righteousness and NOTHING impure will ever enter the Kingdom (Rev 21:27); herein lies the human conundrum, everyone born of Adam’s genome has sinned and fallen short of Elohim’s standard of perfection (Romans 5:12; 3:23).

Therefore, anyone who seeks eternal covenant relationship with Elohim through law-keeping is under a “curse” (Galatians 3:10) because the law only defines our culpability but provides no form of reconciliation with the Father through atonement as mandated by Leviticus 17:11 (Romans 3:20); therefore, the Father, in His mercy and compassion and grace, offers us the righteousness- sinless perfection of His Son, Jesus Christ; this righteousness apart from the law (Romans 3:21); a gifted/imputed righteousness earned for us by Jesus’ perfection is imputed-gifted into and over our lives by faith in Jesus as our Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21); a divine gifting of righteousness as first pictured in Genesis 3:21 which is an act of pure grace (unmerited favor we did NOT earn) actuated through the simplicity of faith-trust-belief that Jesus is Messiah who died to atone for our sin-debt owed the Father, a sin-debt we could never pay our self through vain acts of obedience to a law, rule, day or diet.

As a result of this gifted-imputed righteousness of Messiah Jesus over our life through faith in Jesus as our Messiah, the Father then agrees, by New Covenant promise, to forgive-forget our sin, eternally (Hebrews 8:12), thereby reconciling fallen humanity back to Himself as we are made “positionally right” with Elohim via New Covenant promise; then, the Father endows the faithful in Jesus with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) who continues a good work within the redeemed via daily sanctification (Galatians 5:16) where the Spirit enlivens the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart (Romans 2:14-15; 8:2) and mates that Spiritual Law with a redeemed conscience i.e. “the new creation” in Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that fulfills all law, both codified and spiritual; in this, there is eternal peace with Elohim (Romans 5:1).

Therefore, James 2:10 testifies that righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is not possible through the law or vain attempts to obey same but that righteousness with Elohim can only manifest through faith in the “Righteous One,” Jesus our Messiah, and this righteousness is gifted-imputed by New Covenant promise and said righteousness cannot be earned through self-righteousness and anyone who seeks covenant with Elohim through self-righteousness is “cursed” (Galatians 3:10).