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Concerning those who struggle to make themselves worthy of God’s acceptance…

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Concerning those who struggle to make themselves worthy of Elohim’s mercy and grace…

It is NOT you or your work or your efforts that engender acceptance by the Father but it is the work and faithfulness of Jesus and His selfless love for the Father and for YOU demonstrated at the Cross that makes you worthy, acceptable, when you trust in Jesus as your Messiah because the perfection – beauty – holiness – righteousness of Jesus is GIFTED YOU by grace (unmerited favor you cannot earn through human effort) through faith-trust-belief in Jesus as your Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21) and the Father, by New Covenant promise, declares you “not guilty” (Hebrews 8:12) and the Father makes the affirmative decision to only see His dear Son IN YOU not your sin, not your frailty, not your wretchedness, but HIS SON’S PURITY and you are welcomed as a result of this imputed-gifted righteousness into the Family of Elohim and you subsequently belong to Him eternally, you are Elohim’s beloved child and nothing, no one, will ever snatch you out of His hand, forever (John 10:28-30). This is the truth, simplicity and veracity of the Gospel of Jesus our Messiah. Only Jesus is the Way and the Truth and the Life-eternal that paves the Path to Life in Eternity, the New Jerusalem (John 14:6).

New Covenant Salvation, Works & James’ confusing admonition – “faith without works is dead”

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Concerning New Covenant Salvation, Works and the Apostle James’ confusing admonition…

James 2.26 “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

Christian explanation,

Faith (noun) (belief – trust) that is true, confessed and sincerely placed in Messiah Jesus as our Lord engendering New Covenant relationship with the Father is not “dead” but alive, active, through the indwelling Holy Spirit and the veracity, reality, of this active faith is the production of divine fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) via the anointing and leadership of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16). Saving faith initiates behavior (fruit) that is pleasing to the Father (John 15:8) but behavior does not initiate New Covenant relationship; all things in their divine order – faith (noun) first then obedience that pleases the Father because that obedience is the resultant of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is ONLY given to those who have “believed” by faith that Jesus is Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).

You cannot put the cart before the horse and expect results. Faith first…obedience follows; otherwise, our work is interpreted as a “filthy garment” in Elohim’s nose (Isaiah 64:6) and our Lord Jesus will declare “Depart from me you workers of iniquity, I never knew you” if you seek the Kingdom by your own efforts and deny the work performed for you by Messiah at Golgotha (Matthew 7:21-23).

Relationship FIRST by faith (noun) in the Son, Jesus our Messiah – righteous behavior follows via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; Ezekiel 36:27).

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.

Why is the “law of conscience” in the New Covenant vastly-infinitely superior to Sinai or Moses?

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Why is the “law of conscience” (Romans 2:14-15) as arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant vastly-infinitely superior to Sinai’s Commandments or Moses’ 603 edicts scratched upon parchment?

Discussion,

The law written upon the heart is extant concerning moral edicts that are employed by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant to address every moral scenario confronted by the Christian, daily…every second of every day.

This is why the law as written upon the heart and arbitrated by the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant is eternally and vastly superior to Sinai or Moses’ codified-written laws as Sinai and Moses’ written code is subject to various interpretations, obfuscation, justification, rationalization, by the sin-nature but NOT SO with the law as written upon the heart and arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit in the New Covenant as even the most minute of conflict concerning a daily moral encounter or scenario is immediately addressed by the Spirit within the Christian…the conscience is immediately given direction toward righteousness…there is no equivocation…there is no doubt about what is the “right thing” to do in any given moral encounter even though the individual is free to choose good or evil; in this way, the Christian learns over time that the right thing is to always choose good and honor the Father through obedience because the redeemed conscience controlled by the Spirit demands it and if and when the Christian sins by rejecting the Spirit’s guidance, their conscience becomes beleaguered; their conscience is plagued by guilt and consequently, intimacy with our Creator is disrupted until we repent of our disobedience and ask forgiveness to restore intimacy (1 John 1:9); intimacy with our Creator being the greatest gift to humanity through faith.

This intuitive work of the Spirit through the conscience of the redeemed in Jesus is why the law of conscience, extant from eternity past as an arbiter of free will, is infinitely superior to a written-codified code weakened by the sin-nature (Romans 8; 1-3).

Concerning “Perfect Faith” through works…what is the Truth?

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Concerning “perfected faith” through works…what is the Truth?

Discussion,

To those legalists who mock my position of salvation by grace through faith (noun) apart from works, you’re theologically corrupted. 

No need to be “sorry”…just get your theology squared away and trust fully in Jesus and His suffering on your account for salvation, not yourself or your works. There is no “perfected faith” in humanity other than that faith which engenders New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith (noun) in the Son and the “perfection” of faith is only relevant due the Father’s grace who accepts our flawed faith as perfect faith for His eschatological purposes.  

Breaking NEWS:

The creation of the Heavens and the Earth and the complex human genome do not find their relevance in humanity but in Elohim’s perfect eschatological will concerning the defeat of Satan and the fallen angles (1 John 3:8b); humanity is but a player in that struggle via the Gospel of Jesus Christ ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-9); therefore, know your lowly position in the Realm of Time and concede to the Father’s eschatological imperatives lest you become haughty and arrogant and self-righteous. 

You are filthy flesh who is offered imputed perfection by grace in response to faith (noun) in the PERFECT Messiah. You can’t earn it, you don’t deserve it, but Elohim’s grace is sufficient for the one willing to “believe” and “trust” in Jesus as blood atonement for sin.  

It is the “new creation” in Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:17) that walks by the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16) and allows the Spirit to work through them via the production of divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:22-23) which fulfills all law and all righteous works…this is NOT a work of the flesh but of the Spirit; a divine work that glorifies the Father, not ourselves (John 15:8).

Saved from death in Hell by faith (alone) or by works + faith?

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Someone said that “Faith alone did not save Noah, he also had to build the Ark.”

Question: Did Ark building save Noah or did Noah build the Ark because Noah was saved by Faith?

Was Abraham saved by faith in Genesis 15:6 or by his works in Genesis 26:5

Was the thief on the cross next to Jesus saved by works or by faith in Jesus as Lord (Luke 23:39-43)?

Christian response…

Grace through faith-belief (noun) ALONE saves the soul from death in Hell when that faith is placed in Jesus as one’s Messiah who died for them (John 3; Romans 4:4-5) . If that faith (noun) is true, legitimate, the individual will receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant promise with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, the redeemed man or woman will naturally produce good works (fruits of the Spirit – Galatians 5:22-23; John 15:8) that validate that saving faith.

It is a foolish argument and one that leads to dissension among the brethren when quoting James and faith and works (James 2:26) void prefacing a discussion of James and saving faith with an understanding of the true Gospel of Grace. If your works, human behavior, could save you, Jesus died in vain (Galatians 2:21).

Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

Why the repetitive strife between Islam (Muslim World) and Israel?

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Why the repetitive strife between Islam (the Muslim World) and Israel?

Islam is representative of Satan in Time and the spiritual war between Satan and Elohim that was initiated before Time was created. Islam is a product of adultery between Abraham and Hagar while the child of promise is Isaac through Sarah, not Ishmael through Hagar; therefore, the struggle between Israel (Jacob, the son of Isaac) and Ishmael’s descendants finds its genesis in unfaithfulness and strife i.e., sin. The entirety of Scripture details this war between Satan and Elohim and expounds upon why the Messiah appeared in Time; specifically, “to destroy the works of Satan” through the Gospel (1 John 3:8b), a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).

Israel is the eschatological Land of promise through which Elohim will sum-up all things through Messiah, the Millennial Kingdom, the judgement of Satan (Revelation 20:10) and the judgment of unrepentant humanity (Revelation 20:11-15), the creation of a New Earth and New Heaven and the establishment of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21-22); therefore, Israel will remain and will soon come under a nuclear attack initiated by the demonic coalition of Russia-China-Islam/Iran v. Jerusalem, Israel…this will initiate the 2nd-Advent of Messiah Jesus; therefore, Israel will remain irrespective of Allah’s (Satan’s) intent.

How were people in the Old Testament saved from death in Hell?

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How were people in the Old Testament saved from death in Hell?

Discussion,

All of humanity, from Adam to this very day, were and are saved by “faith,” alone (Hebrews 11). Faith internalized; that is, “believing” Elohim is the One true Creator and that Elohim is faithful to do all that He has promised.

It is written,

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? 2 If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. 3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Romans 4:1-3 (Genesis 15:6)

Why was Messiah Jesus necessary?

Jesus’ divine incarnation, the hypostatic union of deity and humanity (Philippians 2:5-11), was essential in order that mandated sinless blood atonement be made manifest for the purification of sin (Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 10; Matthew 26:28) thereby permitting access to the Kingdom subsequent death of the body in Time (2 Corinthians 5:8); that is, “nothing impure” will ever enter the Kingdom (Rev 21:27); therefore, those who perished in death of the body prior to Messiah’s sacrificial blood atonement, these Old Testament saints, having died in faith, awaited Messiah’s atoning sacrifice for the purification of sin while detained in Sheol-Paradise (Luke 16; Psalm 16:10). Subsequent Messiah’s blood sacrifice, these Old Testament saints were escorted out of Sheol-Paradise into the Kingdom (Ephesians 4:7-10; Luke 23:43).

Faith (noun) has always been the KEY to Elohim’s heart and personal intimacy, righteousness, with Him; this, relevant to all Old Testament and New Testament men and women having attained an age of accountability. Jesus is the divine “Door” (John 10:9-16) to the Kingdom for all who “believe” by “faith” that He, alone, is Messiah who died for the sins of the whole World (John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 John 2:1-2).

America’s Manifest Destiny?

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America’s Manifest Destiny?

Please don’t be naive or passively ignorant concerning America as a dying Constitutional Republic. America is on life-support and She will not survive as a Constitutional Republic because Her heart, Her children, their heart and mind and soul, have been methodically abducted by the demonic i.e., the Progressive – Marxist Agenda.

Beginning with Progressive John Dewey, the Father of Modern Education, America’s children have been incrementally, methodically, brainwashed via public education to become faithful servants of Satan and Satan’s proteges, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Progressives via historical revisionism and evolutionary theory have destroyed the essential foundations of America’s Constitution via revisionist history and a rejection of Jesus as Messiah through evolutionary theory forced upon American students as a “biological science.” When you teach children that they are the descendants of apes while simultaneously mocking the Genesis narrative, why are we surprised when America’s citizens conduct themselves as apes via atheism, secular humanism?

The moral and ethical rot that flows freely from America’s institutions of “education” is just now bubbling to the surface for all to see but do not be naive, America is a rotting corpse and that odor that flows from a Democrat – a Progressive – a Marxist is the odor of Hell and our posterity is destined to suffer horribly.

Many place their faith in Donald Trump as the savior of our Constitutional Republic and I support President Trump’s valiant efforts as well but understand that even if President Trump is victorious over the demons of the Democrat Party in November of 2024, President Trump will only be a human “band-aid” on a hemorrhaging artery and a body of people who have sold their soul to Satan and that body is presently in an advanced state of decay and moral rot.

Again, America’s posterity will suffer horrifically and America’s “men” and the Christian Church have no one to blame but themselves for not eradicating the metastatic malignancy of demonic Progressivism before same abducted our children and molded them into servants of Satan.

What did Jesus mean when He said: “Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away”? Matthew 24:35

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What did Jesus mean when He said: “Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall never pass away”? Matthew 24:35

Discussion,

Heaven and Earth will pass away, they are temporary (2 Peter 3:7; Rev 21:1) but Elohim’s words, His spiritual law, has been relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels; therefore, Elohim’s words will NEVER pass away (Matthew 24:35) as Jesus is the divine Logos, Word of Elohim, Eternal (John 1) and free will remains extant in Eternity by necessity.

The Sinai Commandments, the codified law – Torah Law, were eschatological in motive and temporary in nature. Sinai was given Moses and Israel’s children due Elohim’s concerns relevant to a repeat of the failures likened to that of the Adamic and Noahic generations; two generations of wicked defilement, a demonically possessed people who thwarted their ordination as progenitors of the Messiah due their compromise with demonic paganism (Genesis 6:5); consequently, Elohim provided Israel’s children a codified edition of His spiritual law, a fragmented portion of the spiritual law etched in stone, scratched upon parchment, as divine instructions as to how Israel was to be holy as He is Holy (Exodus 19:6) and how Israel would shun the enticements of the pagan tribes around them who relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise with the pagan gods; namely, Baal and Molech (Exodus 20:3-5); a demonic compromise that would have also thwarted Israel’s ordination as progenitors of the Messiah as promised through Abraham (Genesis 12:3b).

Sinai was given specifically to Israel’s children and those who sought refuge in that theocracy under LAW. Sinai and Moses have passed…their intent is fulfilled in Messiah and Messiah’s defeat of Satan’s works at Golgotha via a Gospel that was ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:8-10); therefore, anyone who belongs to the Father via faith in the Son is NOT under Law but under Grace (Romans 6:14) and the Holy Spirit is the Christian’s “divine Law” through daily sanctification via “fruits of the Spirit” produced through the anointing of the Spirit’s work through the redeemed servants of Messiah (Galatians 5:16-23); in this, the Father is glorified (John 15:8).

Jesus fulfilled the Law – what does this mean for those who honor Him as Messiah?

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Jesus fulfilled the Law…so what does this mean for those who honor Him as Messiah?

Discussion,

Jesus fulfilled the Law just as He said in v.17 of Matthew 5…He is the only One genomically capable of accomplishing same as Jesus circumvented the Adamic sin-nature via the virgin birth (Romans 5:12; Matthew 1:23).

Jesus kept the Law for us, He fulfilled it and He offers us His righteousness, His perfection, gifted-imputed into our life when we trust in Him as our Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21) and consequently the Father deems us “not guilty” by New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12) and the Father guarantees this promise by Gifting the redeemed in Jesus with the Holy Spirit who is Guarantor of New Covenant promise, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14).

IT IS NOT our righteousness or servitude to Torah, Sinai, Moses, days or diets that makes us “right” with Elohim but it is by grace, a divine gift in response to faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), that engenders New Covenant with the Father (Hebrews 10) and we honor the Father subsequent faith in Messiah through obedience to the indwelling Spirit (Galatians 5:16) who enlivens the “spiritual law” written upon our heart; this, in combination with the “new creation” in Messiah; a “new creation” having manifest via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) and it is the indwelling Spirit who “works” and produces “fruit” through us, divine fruit – against which there is no Law (Galatians 5:22-23) as this divine fruit fulfills ALL LAW; both, Spiritual and Codified; consequently, this New Covenant reality has absolutely NOTHING to do with Sinai or Moses or Torah but is rooted in a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (Romans 6:14; 2 Timothy 1:8-10).