Thursday, November 5, 2009
To all my Friends:
I have been saved for 5 years now, and out of those 5 years, about 4 and a half of them I was trying to find the truth because of what I was feeling in my heart and what I was seeing in the word was not lining up with what I was hearing. So I found myself crying out to the Lord to show me the truth through His Holy Spirit. As the Bible says seek Me and you shall find Me and I found Him. And when you find Him you find nothing but truth. As many of you know I come from a life of bondage so I knew when I am in it I found no freedom in what I was haring but the lord show me a verse Hebrews . 6:1 and through this I saw where I miss it see if you don’t divide the word in it correct context between law & grace you will be in bondage The New Testament in the Book of Hebrews instructs the Church (or those who have tasted Divine Grace) to "leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ" and go on unto perfection.What were the principles of the doctrine of Christ? What is going on to perfection? Here are a few examples.Jesus was circumcised the eight day according to Law.Jesus taught the Law of Moses and had to teach the Law... or sin against God.Jesus was 30 years old before He first taught in the Temple...according to the Law.Jesus was baptized of John (a Levite) at the age of thirty according to Law.Jesus in His great Sermon on the Mount was the best example I know of in the Bible that teaches the holiness of the Torah (The Law of Moses). Matthew chapters 5-7. When Jesus healed the leper...after that miraculous healing Jesus instructed the leper to go and do as Moses commanded which was offering sacrifice to God according to Law.The teachings of Christ were "all" under the Law...and remember the Holy Spirit had not been given nor had the Church, the spiritual body of Christ been birthed. There is a vast distinction between what Jesus taught...and what the Apostles taught after the death of Christ...in the Grace Dispensation that we "the Church" now live under. That's why the Apostle called the Grace Covenant the "fullness of times". All of Jesus' teachings were directly related to to teaching Law to the lost sheep of Israel. Law given to Israel was the"principles" of the teachings of Christ. Perfection is getting into the Grace covenant where refuge and security is found in the Church, the spirtual body of Christ. The is Church is where Christ is the head of many members. The Holy Spirits presence governs that body and changes the moral make-up of fallen man when he becomes a member of the body of Christ.The teachings of the Law were given to Israel only. Jesus came to His own (Israel) and they received him not. John 1:11 Jesus taught the holiness of the Law and it convicted some to an acceptance of His Messiahship ...but He had not been glorified yet! Jesus had to teach the Law or sin against God. The Church had not been birthed, nor had the Grace Covenant came into existence...nor had the omnipresence of the Spirit in the Church came to pass as it is under Grace. Perfection under the New Testament had not yet come into play during Christ's earthly ministry "under Law".
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