-commandment keeping: One does not have a relationship with our Creator by trying to please Him with commandment keeping:.Hebrews 7:19,22,25.

Hebrews 7:28 talks of what was since the law, yet many follow those who tell them that the way to God is by keeping the commandments. Many Christians lack the strong consolation and sureness of their stance with God and focus instead, on their weaknesses:.Hebrews 6:17-19.

Do we know the Creator because we keep the commandments, tithe, etc. or because He is merciful to us and made sin to no longer count against us?:.Hebrews 8:8-10,12.

When you're into the parts of the ancient and now abolished Mosaic Law, whether it be the commandments or whatever, you are into looking to the blood of bulls and goats and not the blood of Emmanuel for redemption, as you can not separate any part of this old covenant to use it with any efficacy in one's relationship with God under the new covenant.

Hebrews 10:1:.why would one be interested in a 'shadow' when the reality is available?

The choice for those intent upon a relationship with their Creator is to live by faith or draw back to physical obedience to a law that the Creator abolished.

What I mean by physical obedience is: the law never did have anything to do with the perfectness of the Spirit:.Hebrews 7:19. That realm belongs only to Christ:.1John 4:15-17; Hebrews 2:10.

Since it's belief that saves the soul.(Hebrews 10:39; Luke 8:12; Acts 15:11; 16:31; Romans 10:9), why take a step backward into anything else?

What was it that caused those in times past to obtain a good report? Was it commandment keeping, tithing, church attendance, having the minister and his family over for chicken dinner or was it faith?.Hebrews 11:1,2.

-dispensation: The method or scheme or plan according to which the Creator carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation.(dispensing His plan of worldly affairs as humanity goes through time). There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish.(example Hebrews 9:10).and the Christian.

The dispensation of the fullness of times mentioned in Ephesians 1:10 has to do with the overall plan the Great Infinite One has for all His creation and is being dispensed as humanity moves toward that end. How does humanity move toward that end if not by growing spiritually?.2Peter 1:2; 3:18.

The culmination of the periods of man's existence necessary for completing this plan for man, the key point here being that of the presence of Christ on Earth:.Galatians 4:4; Hebrews 1:2; 9:10; Acts 3:20,21.

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