Keep the law or the Law Acts 15:23,24 - And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: This Sunday a couple of boys whom I have been ministering in the knowledge of the Kingdom of God met me and shared an experience they went through that day which made me soo glad. They had gone to a church with regards some music equipment for a worship session and when they reached there a person told them to wait for the people there would like to speak to them, so these young lads waited. Soon a team of people started talking to them and they realized this was a church whose top agenda was to celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday. When the first team failed to convince them, they went back and updated another set of people and that team met the boys. This church had a strong congregation of 300 people. Soon after any teams tried they got tired trying to convince the boys and let them off. The people there were quoted mostly the Old Testament and the boys quoted mostly the New Testament. They stated the law of Sabbath and said we should worship God on the Sabbath which falls on Saturday and the boys asked them if worshipping God on other days was against the Law of God. As they quoted scriptures from the Old Testament the boys quoted from the New. Todays message a group of people who broke away from the Apostles and went out to the people in different cities and started commanding them to keep the law of Moses and this started troubling the people. The fact these people broke away from the Apostles meant that the understanding they carried did not go alone the understanding the Apostles had. We know the Apostles understanding of scriptures was more true than the understanding other people had during that time. Even today the letters of the Apostles are unquestionable. We see today many people who believe in Jesus Christ but have not being baptized in the Holy Spirit or have not surrendered to His Spirit land up becoming religious people for they try to serve God in the flesh. This happens because their spirit is suppressed by their love for this world or things of this world. They try to fit God and this world in the same box. They will say God, God but will not want to give up things of the world even if these things go against the Kingdom of God. To fool themselves and others they take up religious rituals and foolish points and put them high up their agenda and console themselves since they religiously keep them. Understand any and everything thats connected to the Kingdom of God is from within or spiritual. Even a good thing like praying can be misused. For instance if I say a thousand words and sit for hours praying but if not one of these words come from within me then this praying will take me away from God instead of building a better relationship with God, the same with fasting or going to Church service. Our God is Spirit and He desires we worship Him in Spirit and in understanding. If we make our worship a ritual this same good thing starts to anger Him. So it is better to respect God and do not do anything if it is not done from within. People who talk of Sabbath, clean and unclean food, religious prayer timetable, religious fasting timetable etc. show their spiritual immaturity and how far they are from the Kingdom of God. If we are new in the Lord and do them it is excusable and may be necessary but if we are years in the Lord or have great grace over us and yet continue doing them then we are heading towards destruction. [Prayer Starter] Lord God You are Spirit and your Kingdom is not of this world. Our flesh is temporary and will perish to dust but the person within has hope to live eternally in You. We are called to be your Sons therefore are led by the Spirit and not by the flesh. Lord we pray we overcome the flesh and stop fooling ourselves by works of the flesh but do the works of faith, works of the Spirit... This prayer we make in Jesuss Name, Amen. [Reference Scriptures] John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? John 7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill [full fill - make complete]. Hebrew 7:15-19 15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. Romans 8:2-8 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 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 sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 03:58:08 +0000