Jesus commands that we be “perfect” (Matthew 5:48); therefore, how does a sinner attain perfection and thereby please the Father?
If man was capable of keeping the Law unto perfection, Jesus died needlessly (Galatians 2:21); therefore, the only “perfection” offered mankind is the sinless perfection of Jesus gifted-imputed into the life of the one who “believes” by faith that Jesus is Messiah who died for them (John 3; 2 Corinthians 5:21) thereby initiating New Covenant promise of forgiveness (Hebrews 8:12) and subsequently a life lived through the indwelling Holy Spirit via daily Christian sanctification (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16), a life producing divine “fruit” that honors the Father (John 15:8) and fruit that will endure the BEMA Judgment of Messiah (Galatians 5:16-23; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15).
Divine Perfection is NOT attainable in this life via human effort as we’re all sinners under condemnation (Romans 3:23; Romans 8:1+); therefore, Jesus offers us His perfection via His blood atonement if we will trust in Him as our “perfect” “sinless” Messiah (1 Peter 1:18-19) and thereby find peace with our Heavenly Father via what Jesus did for us at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28), not what we can do for ourselves through vain attempts to keep laws, days, diets, traditions (Galatians 2:16; Romans 5:1).
God’s will for your life? What pleases the Father, eternally?
If one desires to honor the will of Elohim our Father, they must first “believe in the One He has sent” into the World to provide humanity atonement for sin (John 6:29); then, receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); then, “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) thereby allowing the Spirit’s anointing to work through them producing divine “fruit” that actually honors the Father (John 15:8) and this “fruit” fulfills all law (Galatians 5:16-23); so then, if one is truly concerned about Commandments and Royal Law and obedience, the only Way to please the Father is to trust in Messiah Jesus, receive the Holy Spirit, walk daily in Christian sanctification thereby honoring the Father in word, thought, deed.
The New Covenant v. the Law Covenant,
The New Covenant is NOT about chasing obedience to letters, laws, days, diets, but about walking in the Spirit and producing fruit that endures the BEMA Judgment all of which is predicated upon first trusting-believing in Jesus as one’s Messiah who died for them (Galatians 2:16; Galatians 5:16-23; John 3; 15:8; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15).
Matthew 5:17-18 (KJV), Jesus said: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
How can you say that Torah Law-Sinai-Moses are not the focal point of New Covenant Law?
Discussion,
Jesus said that Torah Law, the codified law (jot-tittle) would not pass until all be fulfilled…Jesus fulfilled Torah perfectly via His sinless perfection (Matthew 5:17)…Torah has passed (Hebrews 8:7; 2 Corinthians 3), codified laws are subjective i.e., Sinai-Moses, rules, regulations, diets, days, could never engender righteousness with the Father…so what Law is relevant in the New Covenant and how is that New Covenant Law made applicable to the individual?
New Covenant “Law”
What is relevant in the New Covenant is the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by our Creator (Romans 2:14-15) which is arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant as the Spirit produces divine fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8) and fulfills all law.
You can chase after Sinai, Moses, Torah, Days, Diets, Fabrics, Traditions, Religion, till your dying exhalation but if you’ve not established New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in the Son, Jesus, as your Messiah, you will die in Hell in the “second death” (Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 2:16; Revelation 20:11-15).
Life in Time is NOT about subservience to rules and laws and ordinances but about personal, intimate, relationship with our Creator, Elohim, through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3) and our obedience then naturally manifests through adherence to the indwelling Spirit’s leadership gifted us by grace as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23); this, as the Spirit produces divine fruit through the redeemed that honors the Father (John 15:8); in fact, unless you have established New Covenant relationship with the Father first through faith in the Son, your works are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag” or a “bloody menstrual cloth” in the literal Hebrew (Isaiah 64:6).
In closing,
Chasing and clamoring for the Father’s approval by pursuing obedience to Sinai, Moses, Days, Diets, Traditions, Religious rules and edicts, is insulting to the Father as you have made the affirmative decision to earn your own righteousness and reject the ONLY righteousness that will pardon your sin and provide you life in Eternity, the perfect righteousness of Jesus earned for you through His perfect, sinless, life and His perfect, sinless, blood shed for you at Golgotha.
Your obedience to the Father’s will (John 6:29) will provide the foundation from which your faith will produce fruit via the indwelling Holy Spirit; divine fruit that glorifies the Father (John 15:8; Galatians 5:22-23). Faith and Covenant FIRST – obedience naturally follows from a pure heart via the Holy Spirit’s anointing (1 John 2:27).
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
It has been said that there exists some 1050 New Testament Commandments – what is the Christian to do concerning obedience that pleases Elohim?
Discussion,
Christians do NOT chase after letters whether those letters are etched in stone, scratched upon parchment or codified in the Old Covenant or the New Covenant…Christians don’t chase letters because the letter kills but the Spirit gives life; that is, Christians walk daily by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; John 14:26) and it is He, alone, who enlivens the “spiritual law” written upon the human heart and mates that enlivened spiritual law with the redeemed conscience, the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17), and this mating of spiritual law – the redeemed conscience forms a divine catalyst whereby the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this divine fruit fulfills every moral law whether they be codified or spiritual (Galatians 5:23); in fact, you cannot remember all that Jesus taught sufficiently to apply same when confronted with the myriad of moral decisions encounter daily; this work of the Holy Spirit through the redeemed is the ONLY way a man or woman pleases the Father through daily sanctification via obedience to the Holy Spirit, an anointing, divine work, of the Spirit, the Spirit’s work through you that prepares the Father’s children for service in the New Jerusalem. If you were capable of keeping letters sufficiently to please the Father, Jesus died needlessly (Galatians 2:21). It is the Spirit who is glorified through our obedience to His guidance and leadership.
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