Posted on 05/27/2015 8:11:33 AM PDT by Jedediah
Many of my children are still clinging to the law of Moses(mercy) usurping My Law ~ "The Law of GRACE".
Did I not enter the Sheep's Gate and was there not one healed by The Law of Grace hanging from My Veil of Virtue ?!
Then why the struggle My children ? Come! Cling to Me(Jesus) and be found at the feet of True Humility for I have already suffered all for you and Grace "IS" yours for The Victory "IS" MINE ! ! !
John 5
5 Later on there was a Jewish festival (feast) for which "Jesus went up to Jerusalem".
2 Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the "Sheep Gate". This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda(MERCY), having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways).
Luke 8:43-48
43 a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone, 44 came up behind him and touched the tzitzit(WORD OF GOD) on his robe; instantly her hemorrhaging stopped. 45 Yeshua asked, “Who touched ME(GRACE)?” When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, “Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!” 46 But Yeshua said, “Someone did touch me, because I felt power(Virtue) go out of me.” 47 Seeing she could not escape notice, the woman, quaking with fear, threw herself down before him and confessed in front of everyone why she had touched him(GRACE) and how she had been instantly healed. 48 He said to her, “My daughter, your trust has saved you; go in peace.”
Jeremiah 17:13
13 O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be put to shame. They who depart from You and me [Your prophet] shall [disappear like] "writing upon the ground", because they have forsaken the Lord, the Fountain of living waters.
Galatians 2:16,21,
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Matthew 22:36-40 Complete Jewish Bible
36 “Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” 37 He told him, “‘You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’ 38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 39 And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift. 9 You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.
Matthew 5:17-20
Christ Came to "Fulfill the Law"
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Galatians 5:1
5 In [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].
Good point. The Mosaic covenant was never expected to save. It served (1) as an illustration and instruction in holiness and (2) as a test that no sinner could pass. At Sinai, Moses warned the Hebrew people that they could not keep the law. (They disagreed, but it’s curious to speculate what would have happened had they agreed. Perhaps God would have told them that they deserved to die for their sin, but the Savior would have then been presented at that point to save them from that fate. At any rate, events did not go down a road like that. Instead, a proud people who never could keep the Law was shown for millennia that, yes, they were sinners.)
Our dirty secret (not really a secret, but we keep it from ourselves too often) is that we are sinners too.
God has only one answer to save sinners and that is grace. The problem with our receiving grace is not on God’s end. He provided His Son for that purpose. The problem is on our end. We cling to pride and refuse it.
Yes sooo true And there is therefore no condemnation through Jesus Christ that is Why I love Zechariah 3
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