What is wrong? They
have placed themselves by how they think regarding their relationship with
God, under a curse, due to wrong information about grace and law, again,
Galatians
3:10; 2Peter 2:20.
Promise keeping is great.(in
fact, there is a group out there called 'Promise Keepers').
One should keep his word:.Proverbs
25:19. It is the one thing you can give and still keep. If
you care, share!
One binds
his soul with his words, but you can also change words you may have
been thinking, as long as it causes no hurt or loss to another. Otherwise,
better to see it through and just be more careful next time with what you
say. Being in haste is never
good.
Besides kindness,
caring and concern, other things you can give, even if you don't have
a dime:
The Gift of Helping
Help those needing it when
you are able to.
The Gift of Listening
But you must really listen.
Don't interrupt, don't daydream and don't plan your response. Just listen.
The Gift of Affection
Be generous with appropriate
hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate
the love you have for family and friends.
The Gift of Laughter
Clip cartoons. Share articles
and funny stories and jokes. Your gift will say,
"I love to laugh with you.".Romans
12:15.
The Gift of Solitude
There are times when we
want nothing better than to be left alone. Be sensitive to those times
and give the gift of solitude
to others as well:.Proverbs
25:17.
The Gift of a Favor
Every day, go out of your
way to do something kind.
Good deeds are cool. Surprise someone with something, even if it's just
your presence.
The Gift of a Written Note
It can be a simple "Thanks
for your help" note or a longer expression of your appreciation for that
individual being in your life. A brief handwritten note may be remembered
for a lifetime.
The Gift of a Compliment
A simple and sincere, "You
look great in red," "You did a super job" or "That was a wonderful meal"
can make someone's day.
The Gift of a Cheerful Disposition
The easiest way to feel
good is to extend a kind word to someone.....above,
all from Phil Evans, peoplestuff.com.au
And more
you can give if you have no physical means to help another or others.
Only the finished
faith
of Christ in you is worth anything in that regard, because He chalked
up the points for you, completing you by Him being in you:.Colossians
2:10. What else do you need but Him!
In part of the Mosaic Law
were instructions for keeping one's word. This now abolished law with its
penalties, rules and regulations, along with the commandments. It's all
gonenow replaced with what Christ brought:.Matthew
22:36-40. This encompasses all the good of the ancient twelve
commandments. We now have been
adopted
into His family,.not
by use of any ancient Mosaic Law rules, etc., but through
the
Mediator, Emmanuel the Christ.
Having been taught to keep
the commandments and to "trust God for the faith to do so", many have a
deadly mix which amplifies sin and heartaches in their life:.1Corinthians
15:56.
Sin's strength is in the
law and the more you are into the Old Testament Mosaic Law, the more problem
you will have with sin.
Sin will have dominion over
you if you are under the Mosaic Law or any of its parts:.Romans
6:14.
That is what
the law was supposed to do:.Romans
8:3 "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned.(original
means 'to put it asunder',
'to separate').sin
in the flesh."
The law was to show man that
there is a better way:.Romans
8:3;.Ephesians
5:18 ".....be filled with the Spirit.".Hebrews
11:40 "God having provided some better thing for us.(why?),
that they without us should not be made perfect."1Peter
2:21 "For even hereunto were you called; because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow.his.steps.(note
'follow.'His'.
steps',
not the steps of the now defunct
Mosaic Law).".Hebrews
10:4 "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should
take away sins.".Hebrews
7:22 "By so much was Emmanuel made a surety of a
better testament."
The law has dominion over
a man as long as he lives. That is why the Infinite One, in Christ.(the
same nature of love is in both), took
it away.(more
on why God made the law in the first place).and
why you are now dead in Him.
Paul here shows this with an analogy:.Romans
7:1-4,6,7.
Yet many today have been
told to keep the commandments; so that God would be pleased with them;
so that life would go better for them; so that God would
give
them more of His Holy Nature, and so that they would be more like God.
They have been told a deadly alternate gospel.
Paul
says that the fruit of the Spirit is many other things, but never mentions
commandment law keeping.(Galatians
5:22,23).as
a fruit of having the very Holy Nature of
God within you.
In Christ.(what
does that mean?).the
thing that matters is
faith which works by love:.Galatians
5:6. It is by faith in Emmanuel
the Christ, which means believing what He came to Earth to do and believing
that it is true what state we are now in because of what He did and that
is, that we are the children of God.(Galatians
3:26).thanks
to what he did:.Isaiah
52:14.
What really matters is:.2Peter
3:18 "But grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Emmanuel the Christ. To him
be glory both now and for ever. Amen.".Peter
does not say to grow in the knowledge of anything to do with this law,
because he knew it was gone forever.
This highly toxic combination
of grace and law that modern day religion has concocted,
alienates the mind from a spiritual relationship with the
God family, while all the while you think that you are doing the right
thing. These alternate gospel purveyors smilingly welcome you and your
money to disaster city.
We cannot separate the commandments
from the rest
of the Mosaic Law.(the
law the Creator delivered by Moses).to
make anything other than a man made.insidious
highly toxic spiritual fabrication of mixing
law and grace:.Galatians
2:21; Deuteronomy 4:2, 40,44,45;
6:17,24,25.
Note here in verse 25 that 'our' righteousness refers to the people's
righteousness:.Deuteronomy
6:25; 9:4,5. And this
because the Creator was always interested in the heart.(Deuteronomy
5:29), not the performance of humans:.Deuteronomy
7:11-14;
Romans 4:2.
The toxic combination of
grace
mixed with law
nullifies
grace. It is spiritually devastating, as it has to do with the Old Testament
law after Christ had replaced it with Himself to begin the new covenant.(a
covenant is an agreement). This poisonous
mixture brought with it a curse.
Note that in Deuteronomy
6:24 and
7:11-14 and
many other places as well, God promised them good, if they would follow
the covenant they agreed to:.Exodus
24:3; Deuteronomy 5:22-33.
So the Creator appeals to what was uppermost in their minds as carnal
people. And that was blessings and the protection necessary for enjoyment
of life, that we all want. The spiritual
relationship with God today concerns true spiritual individuals.
The entire Mosaic Law was
not to be deviated
from:.Deuteronomy
5:32,33;
31:16-20;
Joshua
1:7,8.(note
there 'all the law' and in verse 8 'the book of the law',
meant all of it); Hebrews
9:19,20.(note
here, that every precept {commandment, teaching} of this first covenant
was enjoined
upon them).
This Old Testament law had
blessings for obeying it and curses for not obeying it:.Leviticus
26:14-33; Deuteronomy 11:13-28;
Deuteronomy
28th chapter; Deuteronomy
chapter 30, specifically 30:1.
Yet it was more forgiving than most religious service goers feel is right
today.(*).(*).
And such is 'religion'.
The righteousness of this
OT law was in keeping all
of it:.Romans
10:5. The righteousness of the New
Testament is, it's a spiritual law, a law of the heart:.Romans
13:10.
If you keep the commandments
because you believe God requires it, you better
keep all of the Old Testament law; this one too:.Deuteronomy
21:18-22 "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that, when
they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them; then shall his father
and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his
city and unto the gate of his place and they shall say unto the elders
of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey
our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.(and
just why
would one or more in a good family be such as this?).
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. So
shall you put evil away from among you and all Israel
shall hear and fear."
Be sure you bring up good
sons and daughters. See children.
Hosea
6:6 "For I desired mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings."
Matthew
9:13 "But go and learn what this means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice,
for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Matthew
12:7 "But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy and not
sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless."
Back then evil was looked
after by the application of the Old Testament Mosaic Law. This had to be,
as most people then didn't
have the heart toward the much higher law
of love and most parents then had not much of an idea how
to bring up children to be good children.
If in your relationship with
God, you are going to keep part of the defunct
Mosaic Law, like say, just
the
commandments part, you better keep all of the entire 600+ rules,
regulations, etc., which is virtually impossible to do for a reason.
In Christ all the Old Testament law has not only been kept, but you are
also in what's called the
new covenant, taking you forward spiritually:.Ephesians
2:10. If in Christ
you are keeping all the commandments of God. But did you know there
are 12 of them?
Leaving Christ out of one's
life will eventually cause havoc:.James
2:10. Not only that, but you are effectively kicking Christ out of
your life.(Galatians
2:21 and 3:10,13).by
doing so, one is just like the people who did so in ancient times.(Jeremiah
44:16,17).and
this shows we've learned nothing from history and mostly because the cabal
has altered and even hidden it. All they do is lie about everything
always:.John
8:44.
