Servitude to our Creator, Elohim (Genesis 1:1) or Servitude to that which is created (John 8:44; Romans 1:25-26), your free will choice…
Concerning the atheist/secular humanist/religionist,
All life, including yours, falls under the divine sovereignty of our Creator, Elohim (Genesis 1:1) and He is free to do with life, including yours, as He pleases; this, for His eschatological purposes going forward as the war between your father, Satan (John 8:44), and Elohim progresses along a planned eschatological timeline to a foreordained conclusion where victory belongs to Messiah Jesus and those who endure with Him through faith (Revelation 5:5).
Elohim is NOT bound by due process, man’s perceived “rights” nor is Elohim encumbered by any obligations to you or the angels; again, Elohim is divinely sovereign and the only hope humanity has for survival in this life and in the life to come is in the divine attribute of LOVE that defines our Creator’s Divinity (1 John 4:8).
You possess the free will option to humble yourself and come to terms with your helpless and lowly position in this life constrained by Time and physics and consequently seek the wisdom and discernment and intercession of our Creator by faith in Jesus and find life and victory therein or you can continue in your servitude to Satan and you will perish like the billions, including babies, that succumbed to the perils of a spiritual war, a war of infinitely greater magnitude than your atheistically impotent 3-pound brain can comprehend; again, the choice is yours, seek Elohim in Jesus as your Messiah by faith and LIVE eternally with understanding and purpose (John 3) or kick against goads in self-righteous atheistic spiritual ignorance and arrogance and perish in Hell with the “many” (Matthew 7:13-14)…the free will choice is YOURS!
Concerning the facade of the atheist/secular humanist/religionist who is aghast at the death of millions of babies in the Biblical record that Elohim took-back unto Himself due His sovereign authority; these children, as are the mentally handicapped/cognitively impaired, are eternally secure in Elohim as He chooses to not hold accountable those absent the ability to fully cognitively comprehend His will and His authority over their individual lives (Romans 5:13; 4:15; Matthew 19:14) with that said, if you possess the cognitive acuity to read and understand what has been written in this brief statement, you are wholly liable and accountable to our Holy and Righteous Creator and His sovereign will and authority over YOUR life and it is wholly irrelevant what you think about it or your opinions concerning the matter (Romans 1:18-32).
Why is the Sabbath edict (Genesis 2 and Exodus 16) irrelevant in the New Covenant?
Because both the Genesis Sabbath and the Sabbath edict given Israel beginning in Exodus 16 foreshadowed the “rest” that Messiah would bring to humanity (Matthew 11:28) as He, alone, bridged the sin-chasm existing between humanity and the Father (1 Peter 1:18-19)…Jesus bridged that chasm through His faithfulness at Golgotha and the blood atonement He provided thereby making the imputation of His righteousness over our life possible by “faith” (2 Corinthians 5:21) thereby instituting the New Covenant promise of absolution from sin (Hebrews 8:12), eternally, for the one who believes Jesus is Messiah (John 3:16).
The Sabbath has been fulfilled in Jesus as all Law has been fulfilled in Jesus (Matthew 5:17) and we no longer walk by the letter in condemnation (Romans 8:1-4) but Christians walk by the Spirit in freedom (Romans 6:14; Galatians 5:16; Romans 7:6). We are no longer enslaved to Sinai, Moses, days, diets, fabrics, festivals, (Colossians 2:16; Romans 14; Hebrews 4) but we have peace with the Father through faith in the Son (Romans 5:1) as we walk in daily sanctification through the Holy Spirit who produces divine “fruit” through us that fulfills all Law and honors the Father, eternally (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
In closing,
You are free to honor the Sabbath or any day of your choosing in accordance with the Holy Spirit’s anointing in YOUR life but do NOT believe that your obedience to a day or a diet somehow enhances your salvation or your intimacy with our Creator, a salvation and divine intimacy that are the resultant of faith, not works (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9).
Concerning the Anti-Trinity Religionist’ who professes to be a Christian but unfortunately exists in deadly deception…know this…
First of all, Jesus has clearly articulated that Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is One-Deity expressed in Three-distinct Persons identified as Father, Son, Spirit (Matthew 28:19; John 14:6; John 10:28-30) and these Three are coequal concerning all Deific attributes.
Father – Administrator
Son – Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge
Holy Spirit – Logistics
Second of all, The Holy Spirit has clearly told you that Jesus is our Creator – Elohim (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).
Third, Jesus has clearly told you that unless you believe He is “I AM” (Exodus 3:14) “you will die in your sin” (John 8:24). The Holy Spirit teaches us that the one who is truly redeemed by faith in Jesus, the one who is truly “born again” by faith in Jesus as their Messiah (John 3) will know and testify that Jesus is Elohim (Genesis 1:1) (God). The one who is truly redeemed by faith will KNOW that Jesus is our Creator and will openly, publicly, testify to same without reservation.
Sincere warning,
Though it is not absolutely essential that one seeking redemption from sin and death in Hell through repentance and faith in Jesus as Messiah also confess that Jesus is Deity, it is a divine truism that the one who HAS BEEN redeemed by faith in Jesus as Messiah has, by New Covenant promise, also received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and the redeemed in Jesus, by the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit, will know and confess that Jesus is our Creator, Elohim.
Therefore, if one professes to know Jesus as Messiah; if one truly believes they are redeemed by faith but they don’t see the necessity for Messiah’s Deity or they openly deny Messiah’s Deity, they are an apostate; they are self-deceived; they are Satan’s representative in the Realm of Time; they do NOT possess the indwelling Holy Spirit nor are they a child of the Father entitled to New Covenant promise of forgiveness through redemption via Messiah’s blood atonement (Hebrews 8:12).
In closing,
The signs that one is truly born again by faith is a changed life seeking righteousness and holiness (2 Corinthians 5:17), the production of divine fruit motivated by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23) and the knowledge and testimony that Jesus is Elohim, our Creator – divine Deity (John 8:24; John 14:8-11; John 10:30).
Torah Law is the “law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2) as it mandates perfection (James 2:10) to attain righteousness through it while humanity is under the condemnation of sin and death via the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 3:23; 5:12); therefore, anyone seeking righteousness through Torah is cursed (Galatians 3:10).
Righteousness (a right standing with Elohim) only manifests via the imputation – gifting of Messiah’s righteousness over our life by faith in Jesus as Messiah who died for us (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
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.
Those trapped in religion – Torah – Moses – Judaism – Messianic Judaism – Hebrew Roots fanaticism – Legalism, are aghast at the idea of pure grace (unmerited favor) through faith, alone, as the KEY to Elohim’s heart and eternal life via the forgiveness of sin…let me explain and please, hear me out?
A brief history,
The Gospel of Grace, the New Covenant of Peace, as introduced through Messiah was ordained as a divine battle strategy by Elohim “to destroy the works of the Devil” via Messiah’s blood atonement provided at Golgotha outside the gates of the Old City some 2000-years ago and this Gospel was foreordained as the Father’s divine will “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
The Adamic-Noahic generations were ordained as progenitors of the Messiah; unfortunately, these generations defiled themselves with unconscionable compromise, perversion, with the demonic – paganism and nullified their divine ordination and so great was their corruption of the human genome that Elohim destroyed all but eight via water (Genesis 6:5).
Elohim’s 2nd-Attempt,
Elohim began anew with Noah and Noah’s family and through Noah’s son, Shem, Elohim brought forth the Patriarchy of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and through Jacob’s son, Judah, Elohim introduced His Messiah to the World. Please understand that Torah; specifically, details concerning Sinai, Moses, Law, Ordinances, blood sacrifices, Sabbaths, these things were simply a temporary roadmap leading to the Messiah and the Gospel, Torah was NEVER intended to be the destination (Galatians 3:24).
Why Sinai?
Sinai and Moses and Ordinances and Sabbaths were given specifically to Israel’s children in a Covenant of Law for sanctification (a setting apart from paganism) and eschatological purposes. Never were these aspects of Torah to be considered relevant for the Gentile lest said Gentile was seeking refuge in the protective confines of Israel’s theocracy.
Also, understand the reasoning for Elohim’s “giving of the Sinai Law” to Israel as Elohim’s motive relevant to Sinai was a response to His dreadful concerns over a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their compromise with the demonic i.e., paganism that thwarted their ordination as progenitors of Messiah; therefore, Sinai’s motives were to detail Israel’s proper protocol with Elohim (1-4) and Israel’s proper protocol sociologically between the Tribes (5-10); these edicts were to be obeyed meticulously as Israel’s children were commanded to be holy as Elohim is Holy (Leviticus 21:8; Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 1:16); in fact, Israel’s covenant relationship with Elohim was completely based upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28). This strict obedience through adherence to codified laws was intended to thwart Israel’s compromise with the pagan tribes surrounding them, defiled, sexually perverse, murderous, infanticide, that relentlessly sought Israel’s compromise with the pagan gods of Baal and Molech.
Sinai (codification) v. Spiritual Law,
Sinai and Moses’ related ordinances were but a MERE FRACTION of the comprehensive Spiritual Law that is written upon the human heart, the human genome by Elohim (Romans 2:14-15); in fact, the Spiritual Law has been relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the Angels. Sinai and Moses’ edicts, laws, ordinances, were NOT sufficient to engender righteousness with Elohim (Romans 3:20) but were simply a fragmented codification of the divine, infinitely superior, Spiritual Law that governed the conduct of and condemned the Adamic and Noahic generations of defilement.
Law in the New Covenant,
Also note that the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart by our Creator (Romans 2:14-15) is the very same Law that is applicable in the New Covenant promises (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36; Hebrews 10) as the Spiritual Law written upon the human heart was foreordained to be arbitrated by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:6) who mates the redeemed conscience of the faithful in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17) with the enlivened Spiritual Law as written upon the heart; this catalyst as employed by the indwelling Spirit forms the New Man in Messiah and consequently produces divine “fruit” through the redeemed in Jesus, fruit that fulfills ALL LAW and glorifies the Father (Galatians 5:16-23; John 15:8).
Christians are therefore NOT under Torah-Sinai-Moses (Romans 6:14) but Christians are under the “Law of the Spirit of Life” (Romans 8:2; Romans 7:6); in fact, a Christian who knows their position and responsibility toward the Father in the New Covenant does not go about their day consciously thinking about obedience to Torah, Sinai, Moses, Days, Diets, Clothing-Fabrics, Sabbaths, but they are intently tuned to the Spirit’s leadership in every aspect of their daily life and with the Spirit as one’s Teacher and Arbitrator, THERE IS PEACE with the Father via a good conscience (Romans 5:1).
The New Covenant is Unique,
The New Covenant is NEW, it is NOT a reiteration of the Old Covenant’s Law System (New wine in new wine skins); the New Covenant is NOT about keeping Sinai or Moses or Days or Ordinances or Diets but the New Covenant ordained “before Time began” via the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:8-10) is about divine PEACE with the Father through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, who provided humanity blood atonement that is acceptable by the Father which results in the New Covenant promise of absolution, forgiveness, for our sin by divine grace through faith in Jesus (Hebrews 8:12).
Enslavement to Law, Judaism, Hebrew Roots, Religion,
You are free to enslave yourself to religious works and days and diets and ordinances and Torah and Judaism and Messianic Judaism and Hebrew Roots fanaticism as long as you understand that your only Path to life and forgiveness of sin and Covenant relationship with Elohim is by faith in Jesus our Messiah trusting fully in Him as completely sufficient to redeem you and present you acceptable to the Father via the gifting, the imputation, of HIS righteousness over your life earned for us via Messiah’s blood atonement at Golgotha (John 14:6; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
Jesus and Commandments,
Jesus said, “If you love me you will keep my Commandments” (John 14:15-31) and Jesus’ Commandments are that we love Elohim above all else and that we love our neighbor as our self (Matthew 22:36-40) and this is why the Holy Spirit places “love” at the very top of His list of divine “fruit” that is manifest through the daily life of the redeemed in Jesus (Galatians 5:22-23); therefore, if one truly desires to honor Jesus’ commands, they must first be “born again” by faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 3) and subsequently “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) allowing the Spirit to produce fruit through them that fulfills ALL LAW.
The “law of sin and death” i.e., Torah-Sinai (Romans 8:2) could NEVER accomplish what the Spirit accomplishes in the life of the redeemed in Jesus as the “law of sin and death” was weakened by the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) and there was no indwelling Holy Spirit within the individual during the Law Covenant to arbitrate that sin-nature ingrained in the human genome.
In closing,
Therefore, if you desire intimate relationship with the Father, you must first “believe” in the Son, Jesus, your Messiah who died for you (John 3); then, receive the promised indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and walk by the Spirit in daily Christian sanctification as He prepares you for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). There is no other Way (John 14:6)!
How can I find Spiritual Truth? How can I be saved from death in Hell?
I know because I did. I would not tell you this lest I had experienced it personally. The KEY to life and hope and joy and peace is getting alone, acquiring a readable version of the Canon of Scriptures….my first read was the paraphrased version known as “The Living Bible” and sit quietly, simply ask the Father to show you what He desires you know…humbly ask the Father to give you a heart that is willing to receive…just humble yourself…try the Lord and ask Him…open your Bible to the “Gospel of John” and read every word with intent and a heart willing to accept the Father’s anointing and understanding…reflect on what you’re reading and ponder the possibilities…at least make an effort to find life in Jesus before dying in this fallen World and suffering Judgment that is wholly avoidable by faith in Jesus who died for you to pay your sin-debt owed the Father. JUST DO IT! (you have nothing to lose)
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).
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” (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).
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