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Says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: But if you refuse and rebel, (then) you shall be devoured with the Sword, for the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it. (Isaiah 1 verse 18 thru 20.) Research shows that both Adolph Hitler and Al Capone were formally water baptized in their infancy as Roman Catholics. Joseph Stalin was baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith, and as a young man studied for the priesthood. If the baptism of these three murderous men is true, then how do you judge the true relational Promises of Yahweh God, without genuine repentance of the adult one who was baptized as a babe? Benito Mussolini was baptized a Roman Catholic later in his life, and what was the fruit of his water baptism? Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die. (Proverbs 15 verse 10.) 9 Know therefore that the Lord Yahweh thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations; 10 And He repays them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates Him, He will repay him to his face. Let us stress, that a person's initial baptism into the cleansing waters of new life, should have been through their repentance toward Yahweh God, as a person of age and not as an infant child. The Almighty God of Eternity, seeing a person's beginning faith in His Salvation Gift In Christ Jesus, that washes them through the Water of His Holy Spirit Who is one with the Water and Blood of Jesus Christ. This is the necessary first step of Yahweh God's Gift of Salvation faith, into God's New Covenant that is sealed in the Blood of Jesus Christ. But, if the darkness of sin continues to be cultivated in one's life, then the perfunctory Water Baptism into Yahweh God's New Covenant, with the initial washing of past sins through the cleansing Water of the Word of Yahweh God's Only Begotten Son, then the darkness of present sin muddies the Water that is to reveal the Light of God. Understand, that without true repentance and the Cleansing LIFE Giving Blood of Jesus Christ, then destruction is in the waiting wings. (See 1st Corinthians 3 verse 16 thru 18 and 1st Corinthians 6 verse 19 thru 20.) Yahweh God's beginning Covenant Word began before the creation of the world when His Perfect Lamb was promised to provide His people His Mercy to repentant believers. His Covenant was confirmed in the Garden of Eden to Adam and Ishshah, when God established His Word of the Covenant with His shedding of the life blood of an innocent lamb, and then clothing the nakedness of Adam and Ishshah/Eve with the hide of the slain lamb. The law of sin and death, which came later, requires that nearly everything is to be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of the unclean. (Hebrews 9 verse 22: (See also Leviticus 17 verse 11.) The Mosaic Covenant, for that matter, was established by Yahweh God to reveal that an innocent lamb was needed for the remission of mankind's sin. The required works of the Levitical priesthood with their continuous shedding of the blood of sacrificial lambs and other specified animal, could never assuage the sins of Yahweh's people. (See Hebrews 10 verse 11.) Yahweh God's desired purpose in the original blood Covenant with the children of Abraham, failed to produce chased people in the Holy Likeness of their Yahweh God. Surely they would understand His merciful Sacrifice when He sent His Only Begotten Son, His Perfect Lamb prepared before the foundation of the world. Yahweh's Perfect Lamb would be conceived by Yahweh God's Spirit in the Seed of Woman/Ishshah/Eve, to be born the Son of Man/Adam. Now as Man, the last Adam would IN Yahweh God's mercy atone for the sins of the world, and all of the repentant mankind that would come to Him in the fullness of His New Covenant WORD, would find new birth in the LIFE giving Blood of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. Behold the LAMB of GOD, Who takes away the sin of the world. (John 1 verse 29.) The whole of the Torah was to safe guard the Israelites and keep them in Yahweh God's Covenant Promise to Abraham. God's Salvation seed of Woman/Ishshah/Eve, would come through the loins of the circumcised Israelites, who from a true heart were to reverence Yahweh God and honor His Covenant Word. But the lust of the flesh of Israel caused them to fail in faithfully keeping God's Covenant of Promise: But the Infinite God in His Faithfulness and Foreknowledge of all things in time, kept His Covenant Word of Promise. At the right moments, in His creation of the fabric of time, the only Lord God Almighty would bring His Covenant WORD to pass, for the pure genetic seed of Ishshah/Woman, would exist within an ovary of a Hebrew virgin woman. Mary's ovary would contain an ovum with an X chromosome of Elohim's Promised seed of Woman, which would be conceived by Father God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, and in the birth of Holy God's only Begotten Son, Yeshua/Jesus the Promised Messiah became the last Adam, and as the Son of Man, Jesus/ Yeshua haMashiach died for the sin of the world. Jesus/Yeshua is Father Yahweh God's only Begotten Son, and as the conceived WORD of Yahweh God, is the unchangeable TRUTH and Yahweh God with us IN the Body of Christ. Isaiah speaking to Israel declares: Except the Lord of Hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. Hear the Word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the Law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. (See Isaiah 1 verse 1 thru 11.) The people of Judah and Jerusalem did not follow after the WORD of God, and because of their licentiousness wickedness, the Lord sold them to Babylon. Nevertheless, after the seventy years of the Jewish diasporas, Yahweh God would take a people from the remnant seed of Judah, and with His own Word of Power, He would bring forth the Messiah of His Salvation Promise that He gave bfore the foundation of the world. Now that the Christ of God has come in the flesh of Man/Adam, and with His Love and Obedience to His Holy Father, the Lord Jesus defeated sin and death for all people. Now with the call of God, the converted Paul contends with of the Jews’ and their rite of circumcision: For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. (See 2 Samuel 12verse 14, Isaiah 52 verse 5, Ezekiel 36 verse 23.) For circumcision truly profits, if thou keep the Law (Ten Commandments): but if thou be a breaker of the Law (Decalogue), thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the righteousness of the Law (Ten Commandments), shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the Law, judge thee, who by the (written) letter and circumcision dost transgress the Law? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart by the Spirit, and not in the (written Law) letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2 verse 23 thru 29.) Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a Great God, a mighty, and a terrible God, which regards not persons, nor takes reward: (Deuteronomy 10 verse 15 thru 17). (See Deuteronomy 30 verse 10 thru 18, as it relates to faith in Romans 10 verse 4 thru 12.) So then, with the same spiritual logic of Paul, let us reason together. If a person is initially baptized into repentance and remission for past sins with the outward sign of water, and then they stiffen their necks and through out their life they repeatedly transgress the Decalogue, and remain in their sin without repentance (the return to God), does not their original baptism in water, now become un-baptism? Are their harden souls yet clean from the filth of their continuing sin, because of a long ago infant sprinkling with water; or even as an adult, who was once totally immersed in a water baptism? (See again the reproof Romans 3 verse 24 thru 25, and 2nd Peter 1 verse 4 through 10,) No, not before the Eyes of the all-knowing Holy Yahweh God! For in the Eyes of the immutable God, just as circumcision of the genitals of the Jewish males was not only a covenant sign of the outer flesh, but was to signify a change in the heart (the inward part) of man towards God; so then likewise, water baptism of the outer flesh, is a token of the initial repentance, and the cleansing (sanctification of the heart) that in the humility of faith would continue to take place within the inner man/core/heart of that person. If it is not in the command of circumcision that one is a Jew, then neither can it be that through the rite of water baptism only, that one is a bona fide Christian and a follower of the TRUTH and Christ's WAY of the cross of denial. In both cases, the Covenant distinctions are clarified in the heart and spirit of the person of faith, who is yielded to the Spirit of God, and whose praise is of the Eternal Holy God Almighty. (See Deuteronomy 10 verse 16.) Not by power nor by mighty but by My Spirit says the Lord of Host. (Zechariah 4 verse 6.) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Review Romans 8 verse 1 thru 14.) Then again, what if the water baptized sinner remembering the Covenant Graces of God the Father, repents from their sin with its life in the pig sty, and returns hopefully to the Lord seeking forgiveness? Now then, what is the Covenant agent that cleanses, and absolves the repentant person of their confessed transgressions? Is it another baptism into water, or the remembrance of a baptism from long ago, such as a baby sprinkled with water who would have no remembrance of the moment? Of course not: Even the early church fathers agree on this matter, and have their own works of clarification, which appear to be good, but do not necessarily agree with the following work of God. Scripture declares that God’s righteous Covenant is in the Blood of His Son Yeshua, shed for the remission of sin! The Lord Jesus Commands that all of His disciples are to partake of His Life Provisions at His New Passover Table in His Blood: Do this in remembrance of Me. For I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE of Man: No one comes to the Father but by Me. The Prodigal Son At this time, let us remember the lesson of the father and his two sons. (See Luke 15 verse 11 thru 32.) The younger son, demanded his portion of his father's estate. His portion was less than his older brother, but having received his inheritance before its time, he leaves his father's home to spend the father's gratuitous gift on the pleasures of the world. The son's lascivious choices in living, leaves him completely bankrupt at a time when a famine devours the land. Without a penny to buy a morsel of food to satisfy his hunger, he forces himself upon a citizen of the country, who sends the wayward lad into the landowners fields to care for the pigs. Then the hungry man upon seeing the pigs eating of the cobs that he would eat, remembered the graces in his father's house, for even the servants had more than enough to eat. The young man repents of his folly and leaves his own pig sty to begin his journey home. Repentance is the first step in the necessary beginning of the journey home to the Father's house. The father upon seeing at a distance his returning son, runs to his repentant son, and embraces him, and upon hearing of his son's repentance, the father says to his servants: Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill, (that is sacrifice it); and let us eat, and rejoice: For this my son, was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to rejoice. (Luke 15 verse 18 thru 24.) We see in the parable that the father, who loves his willful son, was waiting patiently, to see if his son would return home. Now with his son's complete change of mind and his full return to his father's household, then the father orders that the life of the fatted calf be sacrificed, to commemorate the return of the father's beloved child. The love of the father for his absent son never changed, but it was incumbent upon his son to make his own decision to return to the order of his father's house. For the son to experience the love of his father, it is conditional upon his repentance from his willful independent, and to begin his journey home to his true place of living. With the son's return to the goodness of his father's household, then the father rejoiced in his love for his son that was dead and in his return home was found to be alive. Except for the one judgmental older son, all of the servants and family members, were in one accord with the father, and equally participated in the meal of rejoicing that was provided by the rejoicing father. The angry son stood without the home, and when the father came out to see him, his son then vented his frustrations upon his father's forgiveness of the younger son. However the father of the two sons, told the angry son that he was ever with him and all that the father had to give was there for his son to receive. The father provided a festive meal of rejoicing for a dead son's return to life, and the same meal was there for the elder son to also rejoice in his father's house of Life over death. Please consider that Jesus Christ, after His resurrection from the dead, He tells His disciples to preach in His Name repentance and remission of sins. (See Luke 24 verse 47.) How much more rejoicing is there with God, when one sinner repents in their heart, and returns to live in one accord with the Father? (See Luke 15 verse 10.) For Father God, in His Love for mankind, has already provided the Perfect Sacrifice of His only begotten Son Jesus/Yeshua, and His constant Love remains open, for the return of all of the prodigals and for all of God's family members too rejoice in the Household of His Love. That Sacrifice of Love is in God's New Covenant, that is already established in the Shed LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ alone. The only requirement for our return, is a person's repentance in true humility, in conjunction with God's Provisions of the Feast of Life being made manifest by the Word of God, Jesus Christ: For the TRUTH of our Salvation says: Take and eat; This is My Body given for you; And then Jesus took the wine after dinner and giving thanks to His Father God said to His disciples: Drink of this all of you: For this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. The One Holy Spirit that is One with the Father and the Son, is present in Holy Communion, and administers the TRUTH to those gathered in one accord to receive Father God's renewing Covenant of Life in the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Communion should be received within the inner heart of the spirit of the person of faith, thereby clearing their conscience of confessed sin, and the promise to repair in the willing heart any breach in the relationship with Father God and with each other. It is written by John: If we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, then we have Fellowship (Communion, Koinonia) one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the TRUTH is not in us. If we confess our sins, He (the TRUTH) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1st John 6 thru 10.) And how does God cleanse us from all unrighteousness? John, in the beginning of the same passage, makes the Word of God clearly active, as he declares: "and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His WORD (the TRUTH) is not in us". Just like our natural blood is in accord with the genetics of our body, and fights everything that is foreign to the welfare of the natural body; so then likewise, the Righteous Holy Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, fights and destroys everything that is foreign to the Love of God, and God's Righteousness. Sin does not come into Holy God's Presence, and neither does the flesh of man, for our flesh is laden with self idolatrous sin. Faith in the only Lord God Almighty and His Eternal Word, begins with our humble acknowledgment and repentance from our own slavery to sin. We can not love our sin more than we love the Almighty God. Nay! Even more than that, we cannot both love God and our sin too. You will either love the one and hate the other. God's new Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, allows the fallen nature of selfish flesh, to come together in a meeting place, to worship God in His Spirit of TRUTH. God's Spirit of Grace attends to all believers who partake from Father God's Communion Table of His Word of sanctified Provisions in the Body and Blood of His only Begotten Son. In our Faith, in the Word of God, those set apart Provisions have become for us through His Holy Spirit of unmitigated Grace the unseen, and the unknowable dimensions of the real Flesh and sanctifying Blood of Jesus Christ. In so doing, we maintain our place of unity in the Body of the risen Christ Jesus. The fullness of faith, in the Spirit of TRUTH in Holy Communion, is absolutely necessary for the Church to remain as One in the Spirit of fellowship with God and each other. That fellowship, in the love of God, is made possible through the fullness of God's Covenant in the Blood of His Son, which cleanses His Body members from all of our confessed lovelessness for God and man. We are accepted in the Beloved, not because we are good, but only because of God's Spirit of Grace that He gives to us in the wholeness of our faith in God’s New Covenant of Love in Christ Jesus that He gave on the Cross for our sin. True worship of God is predicated upon the cleansing Life Blood of God’s Loving and obedient Son, Jesus Christ. It is at God's Altar Table of Thanksgiving, where worship of God takes place in God's Spirit of TRUTH that is One with the Blood of Jesus Christ that covers our idolatrous flesh. In our fellowship, we are to come into remembrance that Jesus Christ died for us selfish sinners with His selfless Love and obedience to His Father God. This is a Love that is not natural to mankind, and may be yet missing in our hearts. We say then with Paul: Walk in the Spirit and the power of His Love, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. But then again, if we should fail, as we will, then know that we have an advocate before the Father, Jesus the Righteous One, Whose Blood, through the His Holy Spirit of Grace, cleanses us from all confessed unrighteousness of the known and unknown sins. ( 1st John 2 verse 1 thru 3.) Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the TRUTH and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. (2nd Timothy 4 verse 2 thru 5 NIV.) However, from the time of Peter's epistle until the present, people have sought out teachers, who have introduced damnable heresies to satisfy the lust of the flesh, verily denying the Lord Jesus Christ, Who has set forth for the world the purchase price for sin and death with His Holy Life Blood. These teachers and followers of the way of perdition, have forsaken the sound doctrine in the WAY of the Cross, and believed the lie from the prince of death. In the end, the ramifications of the heresies that give license to the flesh, are catastrophic to all who agree with the false teachers. He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just; both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. (Proverbs 17 verse 13 thru 15 (NKJV.) It is not just the teachers that have come under God's condemnation, but anyone who justifies the false doctrines of the wicked with their affirming complicity. It is guilt by association and affirmation; for the Scripture says: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what Communion has Light with darkness? And what concord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he that believes with an infidel? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. After this admonition, it is thought that Paul continues with His use of Scripture from the latter part of Exodus 29: Come out from among them and be you separate; and touch not the unclean thing, then I will receive you and be a Father unto you, and you shall be My sons and daughters. (2nd Corinthians 6 verse 14 thru 18.) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is Holy, which temple you are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in (the ways of) this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (1st Corinthians 3 verse 16 thru 18.) If you are the temple of the Holy Spirit of God's Grace, then the truly wise would adhere to the Commands of the living God Almighty. St. Peter writes, “Among the Epistles of Paul, some things are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, pervert as they do all other Scriptures unto their own destruction.” (2nd Peter 3 verse 16.) Because of the antinomian thought derived from loose interpretations of Paul’s scripture writings, then the apostate teachers, not knowing of God’s Holy Love within His Holy Righteousness, give license to the unschooled, to continue their practice of gross sin, thereby adding sin to further confusion and condemnation. And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the TRUTH comes to the Light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God." (John 3 verse 19 thru 21.) Make no mistake, this Perfect Love in Christ is the antithesis of sin, for Perfect Love does not think or work or rejoice in evil. (1st Corinthians 13 verse 4 thru 10.) John speaks with a clear heart as he says: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1st John 2 verse 15 thru 16.) When the disruption of willful sin was conceived in the heart of Adam, sin displaced the love for God the Father, and so it is with the corrupted heart of all of man kind. That corruption of the mind says; If we are to have a god, we will have a god on our own terms of understanding. Again we witness Peter in his second epistle, giving encouragement to the reader, and at the end giving a warning against the antinomianism of his day, Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness Sacrificial Love. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. (2nd Peter 1 verse 2 thru 9.)
It would appear that the false teachers have justified this lawlessness with this Scripture; “Christ is the end of the Law”. Let us expand in TRUTH upon the end point of this Scripture: For Christ is the end (point or goal) of the law for righteousness, to every one that believeth. (Romans 10 verse 4.) The point of this passage in Scripture is focused on the subject matter, Jesus Christ and His Righteousness. Paul acknowledges that the Jews have a zeal for God in their trying to achieve righteousness through their keeping the Law by its works. The Jew or Gentile who try to justify themselves through self effort will always fall short of the Glory of God, for they do not understanding the absolute Righteousness of Holy Yahweh God Almighty. The Law is not done away in the death of Christ, but the we of Faith IN Christ's death and resurrection establish the good, holy, and just Law in Commandments to reveal the corrupting nature of sin. (See Romans 3 verse 29-31.) It is the condemnation of the Law In Commandments that is done away by Faith in the Supreme Righteousness of Christ. And this is the Name where by He shall be called "The Lord our Righteousness". (Jeremiah 23 verse 6.) False teachers are implying with their reasoning flesh that the moral law is done away with in Christ's death, and they can continue unabated with their sin, and non-compliance with the true Law of Love. Let them alone, Says the Lord, they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (Matthew 15 verse 14.) These teachers of the way of perdition, fail to respond properly to the end of the verse, which says “for righteousness, to every one that believes" in Jesus Christ's death for our sins, and in His resurrection, because of His Supreme Righteousness: For it is also written to the believer: Be you holy; for I AM holy. (1st Peter 1 verse 13 thru 19, Leviticus 19 verse 2.) For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 5 verse 17 thru 22.) Christ's Righteousness brings to an end of the Law to promote righteousness before Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty The Law of God in Commandments has not passed away, but even so, the absolute righteousness through the Law, never existed in the eyes of God. The Decalogue reveled sin. Unfortunately the Jews, may have thought to justify themselves through a wrong understanding of God's Covenant with them. The Torah was given by God to Israel through Moses, as a quarantining measure, to prevent the devastating results of sin that is terminal in the nature of mankind. The faith of Abraham, understood that through his genetic seed, and that of his family, there would come forth the Savoir of mankind, through the genetic seed of the first woman of God's creation of Man, male and female. Faith in God preceded the Law, but in the end, the stop signs of the Decalogue are all broken in self idolatry, for thou shall not have any god's before ME. Therefore the law of Commandments concludes that all of mankind, in their self idolatry, are guilty of sin, for all have fallen short of the glory and excellence of God. We have all failed, lacking in our flesh a perfect love and trusting obedience to our Holy Creator. Sin loves its self unconditionally, therefore by inheritance from the flesh of Adam, we all have cultivated within us the damming nature of sin and death. As discussed in the earlier chapter, the Law never could impute righteousness, for the Law was given by God to increase the knowing of sin, and sin kills unconditionally. The accusing goodness of the Law in Commandments brings curses of wrath because of disobedience, and sin will find us out. The free gift of righteousness and son-ship, which we have received by continuing faith in the Lord’s death and resurrection power over sin causing death, is infinitely greater than the keeping of any law could possibly impute. Self idolatry with its self justification stands in the way of God's righteousness. Just as the Word of God is living and active, so is the faith that is delivered or birthed into the soul of the new believer. God's faith is not inert, but this faith is to be active and alive in the mind of the believer, because of the active Word of Righteousness that is Jesus Christ. Therefore, because God is Love and One with His WORD of TRUTH, then God's Gift of His Spirit of Grace by faith gives rise to a more perfect love within the believer. (See Ephesians 2 verse 7 thru 9.) Even so, James has it right in his epistle! Yes, a man may say: You have faith, and I have works; show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith, by my works. You believe that there is one God; [in this] you do well: The devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? (James 2 verse 14 thru 29.) The justified, through God's Grace, shall live by a faith that is actively alive, exercising a loving trust in God because of Christ Jesus, God's only Begotten Son. The Perfect Love for His God, which existed within Christ Jesus as the Son of Man, far surpasses the Law that reveals failure, or any other form of human righteousness or justification before Holy God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our Righteousness, and in His Righteousness, is the perfect Love of God that works only for God's creation for the good. For a greater understanding of Godly faith that works through the Way of Jesus Christ, we have a parsed verse from Galatians 5 verse 6: “For in Jesus Christ faith works (or is manifested in labor) by love.” God, seeing the faith of the believer within His Son Jesus Christ, sees each member of the Lord's Body in the same Love and Righteousness of His Beloved Son. Those who turn away from their free gift of Righteousness in Jesus Christ, will perish in their unrighteousness. God and His Word have not changed; so hear and ponder His Word from Ezekiel: When a righteous man turns away from
his righteousness, and commits
iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall
he die. When I shall
say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
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not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he
shall die for it. Brethren, if any of you do err from the TRUTH, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. (James 5 verse 19 thru 20.) Hatred stirs up strife; but love covers all sins. (Proverbs 10 verse 12.) Both, a person's repentance from sin with the cleansing in Communion with the shed Blood of Jesus Christ is absolutely necessary for the members of the Body of Jesus Christ, to come into the Holy of Holies and into the presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. Without the sanctifying Holy Covenant Blood of Christ Jesus being manifested within our lives then God's Holy Spirit may not administer His Grace to the unbelieving. If we are not set apart from the world, then we are a part of the world that is perishing. To proceed to the next chapter, please click on False Security. mailto:excellent.valley@verizon.netRobert Glenn Pratten
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