I woke this morning and opened to here in my Bible.
It Speaks into this, and of The New Covenant In HIS Blood, and of those who will believe something of themselves in The Body Of CHRIST, Which Is HIS Church, when they are nothing.
Written to those who know The Truth; and are Of The Truth; who are dying to sin that they may live to Righteousness; who suffer all things for HIS Names’ Sake.
CHRIST Is All.
To me, this is absolutely Beautiful,
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we Received Mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating The Word Of GOD, but by Manifestation Of The Truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience In The Sight Of GOD.
And even if our Gospel is veiled, It is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see The Light Of The Gospel Of The Glory Of CHRIST, WHO Is The Image Of GOD.
For we do not preach ourselves but CHRIST JESUS As LORD, and ourselves as your bond-servants for JESUS’ Sake.
For GOD, WHO Said, “Light shall shine out of the darkness”, Is The ONE WHO Has Shone in our hearts to Give The Light Of The Knowledge Of The Glory Of GOD In The Face Of CHRIST.
But we have This Treasure in earthen vessels, that The Surpassing Greatness Of The Power may be Of GOD and not from ourselves;
afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying about in the body the Dying Of JESUS, that The Life Of JESUS also may be Manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for JESUS’ Sake, that The Life Of JESUS also may be Manifested in our mortal flesh.
So death works in us, but Life in you.
But having the same spirit of faith, according to What Is Written,
“I believed, therefore I spoke”,
we also believe, therefore also we speak;
knowing that HE WHO Raised The LORD JESUS Will Raise us also With JESUS and will Present us also with you.
For all things for your sakes, that The Grace Which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to The Glory Of GOD.
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being Renewed day by day.
For momentary light affliction is Producing for us an Eternal Weight Of Glory far beyond comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things Which are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but The Things Which are not seen are Eternal.
2 Corinthians 4.
John 16:8-11 and the blindness of the blind who profess to see
Agape does no wrong to a neighbour, Agape therefore is the fulfilment of The Law. Romans 13:10.
As I posted here not many days ago, recently I was introduced to a teaching which I had not heard of before.
A teaching which professes and leads professing believers in CHRIST to an adherence to things written in The Law of Moses as works to do them.
On a link given to me by the one who introduced me to this teaching I posted a reply in its comments, from Scripture, and with the post a link to the letter which I had written and sent to the one who had introduced me to this teaching.
Now when I, using my laptop, go to this video link, I see the post which I made. But when I go to this video link by another device, my post on the comments does not appear there.
This is what I posted on the comments,
“Living observing from The Law, as opposed to living fulfilling The Law, there is a difference, the former conflicts with The Glorious Gospel Of The Blessed GOD.
Observing The Law as works to do them is not of The Law Of faith. ...because by the works of The Law no flesh will be Justified In HIS Sight; for through The Law comes the knowledge of sin. Romans 3:20.
...Therefore The Law has become our Tutor to CHRIST, that we may be Justified by faith. But now that faith has come we are no longer under a Tutor… Galatians 3:24-25.
There is now neither Jew nor Gentile, for all are One In CHRIST. So why teach others to live as a Jew in observing from The Law as works to do them?
Here, through this link, this teaching, and others like it; which teach a different gospel, which is really not another, is shown for the error it is, which leaves those who will follow them, as opposed to living truly believing in JESUS CHRIST; in accordance with The GOD Breathed Word, as those who are devoted to Destruction. Galatians 1:6-12.
The Apostle Paul testified of The Kingdom Of GOD, trying to persuade concerning JESUS, from both The Law of Moses and the Prophets.
Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 49:1-13. MESSIAH JESUS Is HE WHO Brings Justification to those who believe in HIM. HE Is The Covenant To the nations, the New Covenant In HIS Blood.
For we Through The SPIRIT, by faith, are waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness. Galatians 5:5.”
https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/a-letter-to-one-being-led-astray-by-false-teaching
These blind guides of the blind seem to be self censoring the comments so that whatever is posted in reply to their preaching, and which will contradict it, they themselves do not permit it to be seen by those who follow them.
This is dangerous for many different reasons, both for themselves and for those taken in by them.
This practice goes against Scripture in the conduct and actions of a professing believer in CHRIST JESUS,
...“He who believes In HIM is not Judged (for sin; Hebrews 9:27-28); he who does not believe has been Judged already, because he has not believed in The Name Of The Only Begotten SON Of GOD.
“And This Is The Judgement, that The Light Is Come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than The Light; for their deeds were evil.
“For everyone who does evil hates The Light, and does not come to The Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
“But he who practices The Truth comes to The Light, that his deeds may be Manifested as having been Wrought In GOD.” John 3:18-21.
Those who will do such things as to refuse to align all they practice and preach in HIS Name with Scripture alone, and refuse to even examine when another attempts to show to them an error, from Scripture alone, and then to make sure none of their followers hear of it, are not those who truly have a heart after GODS Own Heart.
They deceive both themselves and the hearts of the unsuspecting.
And apart from repentance they will bear their own load. See Luke 17:1-4.
They live also in contradiction to the Scripture, ...and be subject to one another in the fear Of CHRIST (GOD). Ephesians 5:21. See also Philippians 2:3-5, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Peter 2:14-19, Proverbs 24:21-22.
They certainly do not live believing In JESUS CHRIST; they do not live truly professing HIS Name, where to believe In HIM actually means to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust; reliance upon, not mere credence.
Credence; something giving a claim to belief or confidence; belief as to the truth of something.
It is why the Apostles Of our LORD JESUS CHRIST admonish true believers to test the spirits (the sentient element in men) to see whether they are From GOD (1 John 4:1-6), so as not to quench, that is, extinguish The HOLY SPIRIT; so as not to treat as contemptible and set as nought that which is Of GOD, but to examine everything in order to hold fast to that which is Good in refraining from all that is evil (1 Thessalonians 5:19-24, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 6:16, 2 Peter 2:1-3).
Those who will do these things, contrary to the conduct of a follower Of CHRIST; a Christian as contained in The Holy Scriptures, whoever they are and whatever they are preaching, this Scripture is true of them also;
“You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting The HOLY SPIRIT; you are doing just as your fathers did.
“Which one of the Prophets did your fathers not persecute?
And they killed those who had previously announced The Coming Of The Righteous ONE, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become; you who received The Law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep It. Acts 7:51-53.
There are many today, who pledge before the many their allegiance to GOD, professing HIS Word, professing as though they have Received, but both in word and deed they are as though they have not Received.
We must never forget. We must ever forget. We have absolutely no adequacy in ourselves in matters pertaining to GOD. All we have that we can give to HIM is our heart.
We are absolutely dependant upon HIM for all things, for all understanding.
The Apostle Paul, a great man Of GOD (and this I say in praise of and to GOD’S Glory, not the Apostle Paul’s) wrote to The Church at Corinth,
...But thanks be to GOD, WHO Always Leads us In HIS Triumph In CHRIST, And Manifests Through us the Sweet Aroma Of The Knowledge Of HIM in every place.
For we are a Fragrance Of CHRIST to GOD among those who are being Saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an Aroma from death to Death, to the other an Aroma from life to Life.
And who is adequate for These Things?
For we are not like many, peddling (corrupting) The Word Of GOD, but as from sincerity, but as From GOD, we speak In CHRIST In The Sight Of GOD.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?
Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
You are our letter, Written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being Manifested that you are A Letter Of CHRIST, cared for by us, Written not with ink, but With The SPIRIT Of The Living GOD, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
And such confidence we have Through CHRIST toward GOD.
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is From GOD, WHO Also Made us adequate servants Of a New Covenant, not of The Letter (of The Law), but Of The SPIRIT; for The Letter kills, but The SPIRIT Gives Life… 2 Corinthians 2:14 – 3:6.
It is not in titles. It is not in the amount of followers any teacher may have. It is not in doctorates. But it is what is being Written on our hearts, whether it is Manifested (through GOD) as being as a Letter Of CHRIST.
We are to be alert as to these things, and not just accept any and what they say through the witness of themselves or of others, because The Witness Of GOD Is Greater.
“A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher. Luke 6:40.
And we, as believers in GOD Through JESUS CHRIST, have only ONE TEACHER (Matthew 23:8).
Written as we have portioned as John 16:8-11, our LORD JESUS CHRIST Says,
...“And HE, when HE Comes (The HOLY SPIRIT), will Convict the world concerning sin, and Righteousness, and Judgement;
concerning sin because they do not believe in ME;
and concerning Righteousness, because I Go To The FATHER, and you no longer behold ME;
and concerning Judgement, because the ruler of this world (satan, who is the devil) has been Judged…
Whatever is not of (The) faith is sin. It is only those who will live believing in JESUS CHRIST, as means according to Scripture to live believing In The LAMB Of GOD WHO Takes Away the sins of the world, who are those who shall not be Judged for sin.
Saved By The Blood Of The LAMB; Saved By Grace through faith.
The HOLY SPIRIT Is HE WHO Convicts the world concerning sin. Those who are of the world, even though they may profess The Name, will not know the Conviction leading to the repentance that Leads to Salvation, whilst being apart from GOD in refusing HIS Word: Which Is Given though men Moved By The HOLY SPIRIT Spoke From GOD (2 Peter 1:16 – 2:3), and it is only true believers who can & shall know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make them Free. See 1 John 2:18-29 (v27).
...JESUS therefore was Saying to those Jews who had believed in HIM, “If you abide in MY Word, you are truly Disciples Of MINE; and you shall know The Truth, and The Truth shall Make you Free.”
They answered HIM, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that YOU Say, ‘You shall become Free’?”
JESUS Answered them, “Truly, truly, I Say To you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
“And the slave does not remain in The House forever; the son does remain forever.
“If therefore The SON Shall Make you Free, you Shall be Free indeed.
“I Know that you are Abraham’s offspring; yet you seek to kill ME, because MY Word has no place in you.
“I Speak The Things Which I Have Seen With MY FATHER; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”
They answered and said to HIM, “Abraham is our father.”
JESUS Said To them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham (Galatians 3:6-9).
“But as it is, you are seeking to kill ME, A Man WHO Has Told you the Truth, Which I Heard From GOD; this Abraham did not do.
“You are doing the deeds of your father.”
They said to HIM, “We are not born of fornication; we have One Father, GOD.”
JESUS Said To them, “If GOD were you FATHER, you would love ME (John 14:21-24, 1 John 2:3-6); for I Proceed Forth And Have Come From GOD, for I have not even Come on MY Own Initiative, but HE Sent ME.
“Why do you not understand what I Am Saying? Because you cannot hear MY Word.
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in The Truth, because there is no Truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
“But because I Speak The Truth, you do not believe ME.
“Which one of you convicts ME of sin? If I Speak Truth, why do you not believe ME?
“He who Is Of GOD hears The Words Of GOD; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not Of GOD.”… John 8:31-47.
...For we Through The SPIRIT, by faith, are waiting for The Hope Of Righteousness. Galatians 5:5.
So then, Brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh – for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die;
but if By The SPIRIT you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For all who are being Led By The SPIRIT Of GOD, these are sons Of GOD.
For you have not Received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have Received A SPIRIT Of Adoption as sons By Which we cry out, “ABBA! FATHER!”
The SPIRIT HIMSELF Bears Witness With our spirit (our sentient element) that we are children Of GOD, and if children, Heirs also, Heirs Of GOD and fellow Heirs With CHRIST, if indeed we suffer with in order that we may also be Glorified with. Romans 8:12-17.