Do the commandments
set us in the way of God.(the
ways of love and compassion)?.Psalms
85:13
Does Jude,
one of the apostles, in writing to Christians, say to look to the commandments
to keep them in the love of God and into eternal
life?.Jude
1:21
Do the very last words in
the Bible tell us anything else but grace is important?.Revelation
22:21
Relying upon any of the promises
from God to come to you through law keeping is tantamount
to making the promises ineffective.
More:.Romans
4:4; 5:2.
In talking about being perfect
and measuring up to the utmost,
the spiritual stature of Christ, Paul says nothing about tithing, or any
part of the Mosaic Law including the commandments: Ephesians
4:5,13. Why
measure up?
The nature of the Great Infinite
One that Christ came to Earth to make personal to humanity, dwells in us
by faith, not, keeping the Mosaic Law's parts some religious persons today
feel we need keep to remain in a right relationship with God:.Ephesians
3:17; Galatians 3:2. It is only
through faith by the grace of God that we have access
to the Father and are saved. Nothing
else!.Ephesians
3:12; Ephesians 2:8; Romans
3:24 "Being.justified
freely.by
his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Emmanuel."
It took the One sent to Earth
named Emmanuel, to come in the absolute
perfection required by the law in order to fulfil it, to complete it, for
without this type of righteousness.(righteousness
is in consciousness).Christ's
righteousness, it was never complete and before the plan of God could progress
to where it was now at because of Emmanuel, the previous step to this had
to first become complete.
The Mosaic Law was heretofore
incomplete.
Without any deviation
whatsoever, it had to be kept. This was impossible for ego
controlled people. The whole Old
Testament was a record of what the ego, the natural man.(1Corinthians
2:14).does
for you, destruction.
The old
covenant throughout the Old
Testament and into Emmanuel's time in the New
Testament, was not at all a
higher spiritual way, the way of the new
covenant that Emmanuel came to reveal:.Matthew
5:17,18 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law.(some
people {Pharisees,
no doubt} of the multitudes He talked to, were thinking that He came to
wipe out, to destroy, their coveted law with all
its rules, regulations and traditions).or
the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
For verily.(or,
'in truth').I
say unto you, Till heaven and Earth pass, one
jot.(smallest
bit).or
one tittle.(the
minute point or stroke added to some letters of the Hebrew alphabet to
distinguish them from others which they resemble; hence, the very least
point; today, the dot over the i).shall
in no wise pass from the law,
till
all be fulfilled.".And
it was with the advent
of Christ:.Luke
16:16.
Are things passing from
the law now?.Galatians
3:24-26
The gift of
righteousness couldn't be given until 'someone' had it to give:.John
17:4; Romans 5:17-19.
Emmanuel talked of the law.
He was born and brought up under it:.Galatians
4:4. He had to comprehend what it was that He was to take us out from
obligation to:.Galatians
4:5.
Christians.(what's
the word 'Christian' mean?).keeping
the commandments today as a point of Godly obedience, are, in effect,
trying to be as righteous as Christ was, without, or perhaps, even after
accepting the gift of righteousness He made possible by His life and death.
This is tantamount
to rejecting Him.
Ephesians
1:7 and Matthew 26:28 show we
have
redemption from all sin
only
through
Emmanuel's.blood
and this as a gift. So never think that because you have done bad,
now you should do good, so that God will accept you again. It is through
Emmanuel's blood and nothing else that you are redeemed:.Hebrews
9:12; 1Peter 2:24; Isaiah
64:6. It is His gift to those who accept it.
To redeem
means to deem again,
to have a new opinion, to move from the opinions that have locked a person
into the ego level and into the much more beneficial higher consciousness
level..Matthew
Henry's Concise Commentary: "Deliverances
from misery and dangers by the divine power coming through the ransom of
the blood of Christ, in scripture,
are often called redemption."
Regarding a spiritual relationship
with God: In the new
covenant, only faith of Christ
in a person pleases God:.Hebrews
11:6.
Paul had the same concerns
in his day to deal with. See 'Alternate
Gospel'. The mix of New Testament faith and grace with Old Testament
laws is deadly to spiritual
life, splits the personality.(schizophrenia).and
is the main reason why 70% of those in mental institutions are, sadly,
'born again' Christians.
Having
done their utmost
to keep themselves right with God by keeping the commandments, church going,
tithing and the like, many become disillusioned
after experiencing heartache after heartache. Something is seriously
wrong. They have done their best, yet have
fallen
from grace into sin, which means 'missing the mark' of what Christ
came to ensure humanity has.
Disappointedly such are they
then who again have no other option but to rely
on the ego level as a life base.
The ego level is a heartache producing level. Headaches come from stress
and heartaches from a loss of love. If the body is fighting for proper
nutrition, stress is produced. If one's life is fighting for meaning, if
one's life is fighting to live better, stress is also produced. The
way out. The heart brain is capable of love while the head brain concerns
itself with ego and survival.
The true meaning of 'sin'
is 'missing the mark'. They have missed the mark of the free
gift of righteousness of the Infinite One, free, by faith and faith
alone and not their faith, but the faith of Christ, given as a gift, but
no matter who may give you a gift, you always have the option
to accept it or not. They have
never really been taught how
they can have the power of God that 'moves mountains'.(examples.1,
2),
the way that brings
fulfillment
into one's daily living.
They know they lack the identity
of connection with a source
of power to help them. They know they are missing the esteem that is
realized within a man or woman when they know their stance
in the universal scheme
of things.
Love of others as shown by
kindness and helpfulness is critical to mental health and emotional fulfilment.
Sociability
is important! Knowing that you are capable, worthy, loving and lovable
is the faith of Christ working
in you and you have the sureness of what you are.
Being capable to be of value
to others and indeed making a difference in others' lives is a mark of
maturing into the realm of spirituality, as the
early church was doing.
To have the power of the
Creator effectively working in you like that, there is a key. It's a key
false
ministers or ministers of the dark side, ministers of Satan.(2Peter
2:18;
Jude 1:16).avoid
either out of ignorance due to lack of guidance from God and that being
no light in them.(Isaiah
8:20).and
that due to lack of concern for others which would give them the intuition
to see what one could be in spiritual need of. Or it could be that they
are so deceived and confused themselves that they are 'totally out of it',
locked in the clutches
of
the dark side
and cut off from the connection
to inspiration and thus available to be held within the clutches of
evil as Paul was:.1John
5:18.
It's no wonder such people
have no power in their lives:.2Timothy
3:5; Proverbs
14:12; Isaiah 30:9-13;.Revelation
3:17; Ephesians
5:6.
Many Christians are not 'reigning
in life'.(Romans
5:17).because
they allow their hearts to be regulated by the expectations of.the
church, others and even self imposition
of erroneous.concepts.
In this they miss the 'abundance
of grace' to reign in life as the expression
of Emmanuel's nature as their unfolding character:.Romans
5:17. One thing that would help is to become more like the Bereans:.Acts
17:10,11.
