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Are you a Christian?

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Are you a Christian? What are two “signs” of a true Christian and disciple of Jesus?

If you’re truly “born again” (John 3:3), the Holy Spirit that indwells you and is your Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) will daily guide you in sanctification (a setting apart) from the World system of demonic rebellion (Galatians 5:16). This is but one sign that you are truly “born again” and belong to Jesus…YOU WILL produce divine fruit that glorifies the Father and confirms your eternal status as Jesus’ disciple; therefore, if you hold yourself out to be a Christian but this divine fruit is not present (Galatians 5:16-23), you have every right and obligation to reconsider the veracity of your relationship with the Father…no fruit, no desire for fruit? You’re not in divine relationship.

Remember, we don’t “work” or produce divine fruit to be saved or earn our salvation BUT we produce divine fruit because we are saved by grace through faith and the Spirit produces fruit through us via daily sanctification (Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9).

The second sign of true New Covenant relationship is your response to this question: Is Jesus God/Elohim/Eternally who became flesh to provide you blood atonement for your sin? If your answer is yes, the Holy Spirit indwells you; if your answer is NO, you belong to the Devil and you are Satan’s servant, NOT the servant of Jesus and you’re absent the Holy Spirit (John 8:24).

How is a Gentile “grafted” into Israel? (Romans 11)

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How is the Gentile “grafted” into Israel and what is the relevance of this “grafting?” (Romans 11)

The Christian’s “grafting” concerning Israel is relevant initially and primarily due to the promises Elohim made to Israel through Abraham (a Gentile); that is, through Abraham would come One who would be a blessing to every family of the Earth (Genesis 12:3); both Jew (Israelite) and Gentile.

The blessings promised Israel through Moses’ inspired writings (Torah) were, in large part, contingent upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28); unfortunately, Israel failed Elohim; Israel conspired to murder their Messiah upon a tree and rejected the New Covenant, the Gospel, the Great Commission thus blaspheming the Holy Spirit and insulting the Father; therefore, Israel has fallen under divine judgment (Romans 11:25); consequently, only a mere “remnant” of Israel’s children will escape destruction in Hell due their rejection of Messiah (then and now) and their ancestors insistence that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27; Matthew 27:27).

The promises and covenants relevant to Israel and the “grafting” of the Gentile into those promises and covenants are ALL fulfilled in Jesus and their divine fulfillment is realized in the life of a Christian ONLY by faith in Jesus as Messiah and the daily work of sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit as promised in the New Covenant spoken of by both Jeremiah and Ezekiel; therefore, the only true “grafting” has manifest through the Messiah and the promises made to Israel have been realized through faith via the Gospel; this, having little to do with one’s identification with Israel but ONLY through the Messiah who emanated through Israel’s child, Judah. I am NOT saved from Hell by Israel or his children, I am saved and grafted into the promises of Elohim through faith in Messiah Jesus who chose to enter Time through Israel’s offspring…this is my “grafting” as a Christian.

What is the “true” grafting?

The true, divine, grafting is the imputation-gifting of Jesus’ divine perfection over my life by faith in Jesus as LORD by which I am declared “not guilty” by my Heavenly Father and consequently welcomed into the family of Elohim as His child (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Spiritual Ignorance: Satan’s Victory – Humanity’s Defeat

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Spiritual Ignorance: Satan’s Victory – Humanity’s Defeat

Somehow and for some reason, perhaps innate narcissism due the Adamic Fall, humanity considers itself far more relevant and important than same actually is. You think yourself something special in the grand scheme of things concerning our Creator, His creation narrative, Elohim’s eschatological will concerning the current war between good v. evil that rages around us and permeates our very existence. YOU ARE NOT!!!

You were born into war for a specific purpose; you were born in Time because of war and you will die in Time and your body will rot away due WAR and its consequences; you might NOT like it, you obviously don’t understand it or believe it but the reality of this Spiritual War exists and that war has been relegated to Time and physics (Genesis 3:15; 1 John 3:8b); fact is, you’re fading away by the minute like a vapor breathed upon a mirror on a cold winters morning (James 4:14) – YOU ARE IRRELEVANT in the grand scheme of things as Elohim restores order and peace to His Kingdom as a result of the hate and rebellion and death and destruction of the god you serve in your foolish atheism, nihilism, unbelief; your god’s name is Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4).

You have been provided an opportunity to enjoy victory over Satan through faith in Jesus and His death for your sin and shame and uselessness (John 3:16; 1 Peter 1:18-19). Because of Jesus’ faithfulness, you can be something of relevance in Eternity due what Jesus has done for you in this very temporary Realm of Time; otherwise, you will rot in nihilism (Revelation 20:11-15).

Those who reject Jesus as Messiah are a foolish stooge of deceit and lest one repent and find Truth in Jesus, they will rot in shame. Elohim’s Reality is NOT concerned about YOU or your pitiful life when that life is lived in servitude to Elohim’s enemy, Satan. True life and meaning are only possible through faith in Jesus and receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit as your Teacher, your Wisdom, your Discernment! You must be “born again” through faith in Jesus apart from this life of war and destruction; otherwise, you have no hope (John 3).

Possessing Volition to choose death or life…

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Possessing Volition to choose death or life…

It is a valid statement that you did not ask anyone to die for your sins. Neither did you ask anyone to be placed within the constraints of Time and physics in a body of flesh subject to decay and death but here you are!

There is much that you have absolutely no control over but what you do have authority over is your eternal destiny and that two-fold destiny, eternal life or eternal death, was made possible by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus our Messiah. You might not fully understand why Jesus died for you, why Jesus created you, your divine purpose within the temporary Realm of Time, but you do understand this one most relevant truism, Jesus is recorded in the Scriptures as paying the price for the sin of humanity via His shed blood (Matthew 26:28) and by trusting-believing in Jesus as your Messiah who died for you, you are able to escape the eternal penalty for sin, disobedience, against our Heavenly Father’s divine will (John 3:16). You possess the free will, volition, to choose Jesus and live eternally with Jesus in the New Jerusalem or reject Jesus and die in Hell in your sin (Revelation 20-22).

How does one “break the Sabbath” in the New Covenant?

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How does one “break the Sabbath” in the New Covenant?

The Genesis Sabbath (Genesis 2:3) and the Sabbaths given Israel’s children beginning in Exodus 16 all foreshadowed the divine “rest” that would be made available through the Messiah, Jesus our Lord and God/Elohim (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Hebrews 4; Colossians 1); therefore, Jesus is the fulfillment of all the Sabbaths foreshadowed (Colossians 2:16; Hebrews 4); therefore, in the New Covenant, one breaks the Sabbath by denying Jesus as Messiah, a denial of Jesus’ sacrifice for their sin, a sin-burden that weights man soul to the depths of Hell…a denial of divine rest from the condemnation of sin, a divine rest from self-righteousness/legalism, a sin that cannot be forgiven if one dies in body having rejected Jesus as Messiah by faith (John 3; John 8:24).

A Legalistic Misinterpretation of Matthew 7:21-23

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Concerning the Legalistic interpretation of Matthew 7:21-23,

Your theological summation of Matthew 7:21-23 is incorrect. None of the works performed by those rejected were “lawless” or sinful on their face…Matthew 7:21-23 is NOT about law keeping or works or human effort or quality of work done but Jesus is teaching the necessity of establishing divine, personal, intimate, RELATIONSHIP with the Father through faith in the Son…first.

First of all, what is the “will of the Father?” – the will of the Father “is to believe in the One He has sent into the World” (John 6:29).

Matthew 7:21-23 is about works done in the flesh, self-righteousness, void the Holy Spirit and these works are defined by the Father as a “filthy garment”…literally, in the Hebrew…”a bloody menstrual cloth” (Isaiah 64:6).

In Matthew 7, in context, Jesus is continuing His teaching on “fruit”…divine fruit…works-faithfulness-efforts of obedience that are done through the indwelling Holy Spirit given to all who trust in Jesus as Messiah (Galatians 5:16-23; Ephesians 1:13-14).

Jesus is teaching you that if you desire to please the Father through works of righteousness, FIRST establish New Covenant relationship with Him through faith in His Son, receive His Holy Spirit and walk by the Spirit, daily (Galatians 5:16), thereby producing fruits of righteousness that honor the Father as His child and thereby prove yourself to be an honorable disciple of Jesus (John 15:8) as you are a member of Elohim’s family through faith; this, lest your works of righteousness be in vain and you ultimately hear those tragic words, “Away from Me you workers of lawlessness, I NEVER KNEW YOU!”

What is the divine “imputation” that saves man’s soul from death in Hell?

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What is the divine “IMPUTATION” that saves man’s soul from death in Hell?

Humanity IS certainly imperfect but the One who entered Time from Eternity and walked among us for 33.5-years was and IS perfect in His divinity and He gave Himself as blood atonement for your benefit in order that the mandates of forgiveness for sin could be made manifest in accordance with Leviticus 17:11 (1 Peter 1:18-19); this sacrifice provided you by Jesus initiates the IMPUTATION-gifting of the perfection of Jesus over your life and though YOU are not perfect in the flesh, our Heavenly Father declares you “perfect” – adjudicates you “not guilty” by New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); this, not because of your own self-righteousness or behavior or work or efforts, but on account of Jesus’ faithfulness and HIS perfection…this is why Jesus is our “propitiation” for sin…Jesus is our “substitute” in that Jesus took upon HIMSELF what was due us for our sin i.e., death; therefore, in response to the faithfulness of Jesus, the Father’s New Covenant promise is to remember your sins no more (Hebrews 8:12) and from the moment you acknowledge-believe-confess Jesus as your Messiah who died for you (John 3:16), when the Father sees YOU, He only sees His dear Son IN YOU…not your sin but His Son’s perfection (perfection in flesh and in divinity), forever. Jesus, who knew no sin, became the object of sin for our benefit that we might become the righteousness-perfection of God through Jesus…this a divine gift-promise of the Father that cannot be earned by humanity – a Gift that can only be acknowledged-received by faith-trust in Jesus as one’s Messiah (John 3).

God requires perfection – How can we be perfect?

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Perfection is required for salvation from death in Hell…How can we be “perfect?”

Our Heavenly Father requires absolute perfection in word, thought, deed, in order to enter His Kingdom; problem is, we’ve all failed (Romans 3:23) as we’re all sinners patterned after our first father, Adam (Romans 5:12)…but…the “good news (the Gospel) is…Jesus entered the Realm of Time and walked in perfection before the Father via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit and Jesus gave Himself as blood atonement for our sin and the Father has entered into a New Covenant agreement with all of human kind that anyone who trusts-believes in what Jesus did for us on a Roman Cross by dying for our sin in our place, the Father forgives them of all sin…past-present-future…and the Father declares them not guilty (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12) and the Father endows them with the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor and Seal of New Covenant relationship with Him (Ephesians 1:13-14); this is made possible through the promise of the “imputation” or gifting of Jesus’ perfection/righteousness over the life of the one who believes Jesus is our Messiah; that is, the Father agrees to only see the perfection of His dear Son in the one who believes Jesus is Messiah; therefore, we can be made “positionally right” with our Heavenly Father through faith in the Son, Jesus our Messiah, believing in what Jesus has done for us and not we can do for ourselves…this is the KEY, the right-to-passage into God’s presence, offered each of us who exists in a body of flesh within the temporary Realm of Time (John 3:16).

Therefore…

If you desire this forgiveness, anointing, and eternal life, sincerely “believe in your heart” and “confess with your mouth” (Romans 10:9-10) that Jesus is Messiah who died for you…carefully read the “Gospel of John” and begin an eternal relationship with our Heavenly Father and daily walk by the indwelling Holy Spirit and enjoy a life of peace, assurance, contentment, purpose, love. Jesus IS our “perfection”…trust in Jesus as your Messiah and honor-receive-enjoy the Father’s promises of eternal life, eternal peace, eternal assurance, eternal completion and contentment.

Pleasing God through works, behavior, obedience?

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Pleasing Elohim (Genesis 1:1) through works, behavior, obedience?

What is the KEY to pleasing our Creator and engendering New Covenant relationship with Him for Eternity?

Answer: RELATIONSHIP

The Biblical Truth is that mankind can strive, work, labor, to be sufficiently good, lawful, observant, and die in Hell in vain because until a man or woman initiates New Covenant RELATIONSHIP with the Father by faith in the Son (John 6:29), Jesus Christ, they are NOT family, they are not the recipient of New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12).

All that which humanity does and seeks and labors for concerning righteousness and appeasing the divine given conscience will ultimately culminate in vanity and chasing after the wind lest one becomes the Father’s child through faith, belief, in the Son and receives the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor and the Seal of New Covenant relationship (John 3:5; Ephesians 1:13-14).

How does man attain perfection in order to please our Heavenly Father? Matthew 5:48

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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).