Tuesday, July 24, 2012



Gal 5:1-6  "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love." 


Jesus Christ has set us free to be free from ritual and rules to be free to live in Love towards God and others. So if you go back to rules and ritual as means for attempting to gain God's favor you walk out of God's love as a free gift of grace. You will be hopeless and lost because you can never keep God's Law without His love and grace. Eagerly waiting for the hope of being fully righteous before God in Christ Jesus is the only way to be truly free. 
Here is the central message of all that the Word of God has declared from Adam until now- Rituals and rules don't mean anything unless they point you to faith in Christ and not only belief but a faith that is worked out through love.
For Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah He is love. He is Yahweh, the Absolute Love.
So if anyone persuades you to take up the captivity of rule keeping again- that message is not from the love of God that called you to Himself. 
This person will bear the penalty of the law, in fact I wish he would truly go all the way and finish mutilating His flesh. Only the mutilation of Christs death on the cross counts for righteousness to anyone.


Gal 5:7-12  "You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.  I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!" 


So walk in the freedom of love to which you were called. This is the summary of all that was meant by God in the giving of the law. Love your neighbor like you love yourself. 


Gal 5:13, 14  "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 


If you go on fighting and claiming rights, rules and regulations you will end up consuming one another and walking away from God's love. 
This is not walking in the Spirit of God's love, God gives you the freedom to bypass temporary gratification of what is passing away so that you can by the Spirit look beyond the temporary to endless fulfilling love in God's presence through Christ.
These temporary desires won't satisfy they are a trap and destroy your fellowship with the Spirit of God. But if you look to the spirits leading and fellowship you will be delivered from captivity of rules and regulations and free to love and be loved by God.


Gal 5:15-18  "But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law." 


It is evident to everyone what the flesh demands and what a tra p it is that ensnares you when you live with your sexual appetites being impure, only viewing love as sensual gratification, living for the false gods of this world and being at war with God and others around you. You live for getting drunk, meaningless sexual gratification that never is satiated. 
Those caught up in these traps show they are against God and walk outside of His freedom of grace and love. They have forsaken relationship with the eternal God for temporary unfulfilled pleasure.


Gal 5:19- 21 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,  idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." 


Walking in the Spirit of the Love of God looks very different. Truly love looks like deep satisfaction and calm, waiting patiently for the fullness of walking with God in His presence. Loving kindness, grace, goodness towards others and walking faithfully in the commands of God. Gently and with self-control moving towards the goal of being in Christ and becoming like Christ. He is Absolute Love. 
If you belong to Him in His crucifixion you have died to the temporal and passions that lead away from focusing on the desire to become closer and closer to fellowship with God in His Spirit. 


Gal 5:22- 24  "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." 



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