Posted on 09/10/2023 7:50:37 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
Todays Sermon pulls from the 2nd Reading
of today from Romans.
The Sermon highlights the "Love side" of St. Paul's
Gospel he preached.
A contentious topic, to be sure.
14 min. YouTube video link below:
——>Is your name written in the book of Life?
Sure. Anyone who professes Christ and claims to serve Him is in the Book of Life.
If I were you, I’d be more concerned about how a name can be blotted out of the BOL, and what it means to believe.
I know that those who profess Christ yet forsake His law, will not be in the BOL. As will those who receive the MOTB, that you mock. They will not be in the BOL either.
Matthew 7:
21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’
Revelation 21:8But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Revelation 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Commandment keepers will be in heaven. Commandment breakers will not.
Here’s the best of both worlds for you, Elsie. The MOTB and commandment keepers.
Revelation 14:
6And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS. (Almost verbatim from the 4th commandment).
12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
(Profess Christ AND KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD)
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
Revelation 20:
11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
——>It was part of the OLD covenant and I want to know if you think it is still part of the NEW
God’s law is a reflection of His mind, nature and character. 10 commandments, written in fire, by the finger of preincarnate Jesus Christ and also so spoken. His law, given to “Israel”, of which we are a continuation of.
Matthew 5:
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
18For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
To my knowledge, heaven and earth has not passed. So, God’s moral, immutable 10 commandment law stands, binding to all those who profess his name, and that certainly includes His 7th-day-Sabbath. We will ALL be judged by the law. Those who hate God’s 10 commandment law will be removed from the BOL. It is the same as hating Christ Himself.
Uriah Smith says:
If the ten commandments constituted the old covenant, then they are forever gone; and no man need contend for their perpetuity or labor for their revival. But if they did not constitute the old covenant, then they have not been abolished, and no man need breathe a doubt in regard to their perpetuity and immutability. This therefore becomes a test question. It determines as definitely as any one subject can, the whole question of the perpetuity or abolition of the moral law.
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1417/info
It may be asked, then, how the ten commandments can be called “the covenant.” We answer, That is just where the people are misled. They are never called “the” covenant, referring to the first or old covenant. That the ten commandments are called “a” covenant, we admit; but what kind of a covenant? and in what sense are they so called? Please read again Ex. 19:5: “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant”. Then God had something which he called his covenant, which antedated the covenant made with Israel. It was already in existence, before any formal agreement whatever was made with that people. And this explains Deut. 4:13. Those who read that verse should be critical enough to observe that Moses does not call the ten commandments the covenant, nor a covenant, but his (God’s) covenant. “And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments.” These, then, are what God referred to in Ex. 19:5, in the words, my covenant; and these were already in existence when the covenant was made with Israel. It should be noticed, further, that the covenant of Deut. 4:23, is not a covenant made, but a covenant commanded; and surely any one can see the difference between an arrangement established upon this voluntary and mutual promises of two parties, and that which one party has power to enjoin with authority upon another party. But the covenant here mentioned, God did thus enjoin upon them without regard to any action on their part.
It is now easy to be seen why the ten commandments are called a covenant, and what kind of a covenant they were. They were simply the basis of that agreement recorded in Ex. 19:3-8. For the very first condition God proposed was, “If ye will keep my covenant.” In this sense, and in this only, are the ten commandments ever called a covenant.
And this brings us to the secondary definition of the term covenant; which is, “a writing containing the terms of agreement between parties.” Thus the conditions upon which an agreement or covenant rests, are in a secondary sense called also a covenant. This may be illustrated by the relation which all good citizens sustain to their respective States. They are all in covenant relation with the State. The State says, If you will obey the laws of this commonwealth, you shall be protected in your life, liberty, and property. The citizens respond, We will obey. This is the mutual agreement, the covenant, virtually existing everywhere between the citizen and the State. But when we speak of the State alone, its covenant would be its laws which it commands its citizens to perform. These are the conditions of the agreement, and hence may be called the covenant of the State, because upon obedience to these are suspended all the blessings which it proposes to confer. The laws of the State are their covenant. The Covenant of the State.
Such was the relation established between the Lord and his people. He had a law which the very circumstances of our existence bind us to keep; yet he graciously annexed a promise to the keeping of it. Obey my law, and I will secure you in the possession of certain blessings above all people. The people accepted the offer. The matter then stood thus: The people said, We will keep God’s law. God said, Then I will make you a kingdom of priests, a peculiar treasure unto myself. This was the agreement or covenant made between them. But so far as God was concerned his law was his covenant, because it was the basis of the whole arrangement, and upon the keeping of that by the people, all the blessings were suspended which he proposed to confer.
It may be asked, then, how the ten commandments can be called “the covenant.” We answer, That is just where the people are misled. They are never called “the” covenant, referring to the first or old covenant. That the ten commandments are called “a” covenant, we admit; but what kind of a covenant? and in what sense are they so called? Please read again Ex. 19:5: “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant”. Then God had something which he called his covenant, which antedated the covenant made with Israel. It was already in existence, before any formal agreement whatever was made with that people. And this explains Deut. 4:13. Those who read that verse should be critical enough to observe that Moses does not call the ten commandments the covenant, nor a covenant, but his (God’s) covenant. “And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments.” These, then, are what God referred to in Ex. 19:5, in the words, my covenant; and these were already in existence when the covenant was made with Israel. It should be noticed, further, that the covenant of Deut. 4:23, is not a covenant made, but a covenant commanded; and surely any one can see the difference between an arrangement established upon this voluntary and mutual promises of two parties, and that which one party has power to enjoin with authority upon another party. But the covenant here mentioned, God did thus enjoin upon them without regard to any action on their part.
It is now easy to be seen why the ten commandments are called a covenant, and what kind of a covenant they were. They were simply the basis of that agreement recorded in Ex. 19:3-8. For the very first condition God proposed was, “If ye will keep my covenant.” In this sense, and in this only, are the ten commandments ever called a covenant.
And this brings us to the secondary definition of the term covenant; which is, “a writing containing the terms of agreement between parties.” Thus the conditions upon which an agreement or covenant rests, are in a secondary sense called also a covenant. This may be illustrated by the relation which all good citizens sustain to their respective States. They are all in covenant relation with the State. The State says, If you will obey the laws of this commonwealth, you shall be protected in your life, liberty, and property. The citizens respond, We will obey. This is the mutual agreement, the covenant, virtually existing everywhere between the citizen and the State. But when we speak of the State alone, its covenant would be its laws which it commands its citizens to perform. These are the conditions of the agreement, and hence may be called the covenant of the State, because upon obedience to these are suspended all the blessings which it proposes to confer. The laws of the State are their covenant. The Covenant of the State.
Such was the relation established between the Lord and his people. He had a law which the very circumstances of our existence bind us to keep; yet he graciously annexed a promise to the keeping of it. Obey my law, and I will secure you in the possession of certain blessings above all people. The people accepted the offer. The matter then stood thus: The people said, We will keep God’s law. God said, Then I will make you a kingdom of priests, a peculiar treasure unto myself. This was the agreement or covenant made between them. But so far as God was concerned his law was his covenant, because it was the basis of the whole arrangement, and upon the keeping of that by the people, all the blessings were suspended which he proposed to confer.
Not sure why it’s double posting with one mouse click. Hopefully it doesn’t freak you out. LOL!
GOD GAVE THEM HIS LAW, which was the basis of THEIR covenant relationship.
You wanna chase it down?
Color me surprised.
Was this a Yes or a No?
then what the hell did!?
"..IF YOU EAT FROM IT YOU WILL DIE."
exact same time stamp; too.
Strange...
At the rate I am going, I’ll never get invited to join the Foolish Galatians club.
I don’t know why I keep getting so much of their stuff addressed to me.
ROMANS 3:20
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Sorry, Elsie, but I still have questions for you. Your shape-shifting has me confused. I need to get some more things clarified. The only way I can do that is with QUESTIONS.
No mention of MURDER at the Jerusalem Council. Am I to assume that Gentiles are free to MURDER?
Jeremiah 31:31-34 prophesied the “new covenant” for Israel and Judah as a national, non-universal covenant of election. However, it became universal soon after its ratification by Christ’s death on the cross (Heb 9:15-28; compare Matt 26:27-28; Lk 22:20; 1 Cor 11:25), when the Gospel was given directly to the Gentiles. Following the Jerusalem council, the Gentiles did not need to become Jewish (as attested by circumcision) in order to join the “new covenant” (Acts 15), although the apostles commanded them to keep the non-ceremonial, moral principles prohibiting idolatry, eating meat from which the blood is not drained at slaughter, and sexual immorality, which were required by Leviticus for non-Israelites (Acts 20-21, 28-29, referring to Lev 17-18).25 Notice that the apostles did not need to explicitly reaffirm weekly Sabbath observance, which in Exodus 20:10 and 23:12 was also for the benefit of the non-Israelite resident alien, because the discussion at Jerusalem recorded in Acts 15 concerned ritual matters related to circumcision (Lev 12:3), which are concentrated in Leviticus. From the Jerusalem council onward, a distinction between “ethnic Israel” and other people is no longer relevant for the overall dynamics of the “new covenant” community (see Gal 3:29). So Jews and Gentiles together may receive fulfilment of the “new covenant” promises as spiritual heirs of Abraham (Gal 3:26-29).
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3392&context=pubs
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What are you trying to hide? 😁
——>At the rate I am going, I’ll never get invited to join the Foolish Galatians club.
Are you sure you’re not the chapter president?
Did you ask for a YES or NO?
Could be my cheap Walmart mouse wearing out.
No mention of MURDER at the Jerusalem Council. Am I to assume that Gentiles are free to MURDER?
Yes or no.
If no, THEN TELL ME WHY.
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