Tuesday, July 31, 2012


Eph 2:1-3  "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind." 


You were walking around alive yet already dead to God's love and grace because of the path you walked. Straight away from the life found in God, following straight after the spirit of anti-christ, anti-love, into the deception of Satan. Disobedient to the ways of God, following your own passions, not the passionate Absolute Love of God. Your were walking straight into the wrath of God, your very nature was anti-God!
God saw you in your rebellion and disobedience and because He is Absolute Love, abounding in grace, mercy, forgiveness and steadfast love, this love poured over in abundance to you. His love is so great He loved us even when we were against Him. So by pure gracious gift He made you come alive to His love in being united to Jesus Christ by grace through faith. You are now also in the same exalted position in God the Fathers eyes as Jesus is seated right next to Him as His only begotten Son. Now throughout eternity and all the coming ages His immeasurable grace that has no end will be shown to you as you are taken into the life of Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah, He is Absolute Love. He is Yahweh. 


Eph 2:4-7  "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."



Exo 34:5-7  "The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty," 


Why did He do all this and why me? It was all a gift, nothing you have done to merit the love of God. He has given us the faith we have in His love, you cannot brag about being different or better, it is not us at all it is Jesus Christ working all of His Love for God and others into us. God even prepared all the good things we would do in His name before we do them. We just walk in the path He sets and they come to us as opportunities to let His love shine out.


Eph 2:8-10  "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,  not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." 


So it is important to remember how you once thought and acted, you didn't care at all about following God's commands. You had no connection to Christ, you were alienated from those who followed God's laws and you had no knowledge of God's covenantal promise. You didn't have the hope of living without fear of death and you had no connection to the Love of God.


Eph 2:11, 12  "Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands-- remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world." 


But now have been brought very close to God, in direct fellowship with Him by the sacrifice of Christ's death, shedding His blood for you on the cross. 


Eph 2:13  "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." 

Monday, July 30, 2012



Eph 1:11-13  "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory."In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory."


It is in the person of Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah that we gain the inheritance of becoming God's child. God determined to do this before He even decided to create the world. All things have been moving and pointing towards the gifts of grace He would give to us and the result is that God would be glorified. In believing, accepting and walking in His Absolute Love by His Spirit, you know possess it as a promise and are guaranteed to receive Him. It is not a means to boast or take credit for, it is all because of Him and He deserves the glory of what He has given you. 


It is because of what He is doing in your life, your faith growing stronger and stronger. Your relationship with the Lord Jesus is causing you to perform loving acts towards everyone. In this I am thanking God all the time for what He is doing in you. 
I pray that your wisdom in living, that comes from knowing Jesus Christ more and more intimately, might open your hearts sight to the tremendous gift of God within you. I pray that this continues to build up hope in the future richness of life you will have when you inherit a place in the presence of God, with Jesus. He is there now at the Fathers right hand, full of Absolute Love. 
His love is so powerful that for those who believe in it provides the same loving power in you that raised Jesus Christ from death. This same power that gave Christ kingship over everything is the power you have to live in faith and obedience. 
The power of God's Absolute love is so far above and beyond the power of any one who would challenge this love and hate grace. There is no one past or future who could stand a chance of surpassing the glory of Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Absolute Love. He is Yahweh. 


Eph 1:15-21  "For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,  having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might  that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come."


He is the beginning and end, alpha and omega. All things are under His control and HE is above all others who would claim control. He is the fullness and the fulfillment of all things that God has intended and planned. Most amazingly He accomplishes all of this through His people like you and I that He has called and set apart to bring His light and love to the world. 


Eph 1:22, 23  "And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."

Sunday, July 29, 2012


"It is sufficient to my present purpose to say, It is that motive, which, as it stands in view of the mind, is the strongest, that determines the will. But may be necessary that I should a little explain my meaning. By motive I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly. Many particular things may concur, and unite their strength, to induce the mind; and when it is so, all together are as one complex motive. And when I speak of the strongest motive, I have respect to the strength of the whole that operates to induce a particular act of volition, whether that be the strength of one thing alone, or of many together. Whatever is objectively a motive, in this sense, must, be something that is extant in the view or apprehension of the understanding, or perceiving faculty. Nothing can induce or invite the mind to will or act any thing, any further than it is perceived, or is some way or other in the mind’s view; for what is wholly unperceived and perfectly out of the mind’s view, cannot affect the mind at all. It is most evident, that nothing is in the mind, or reaches it, or takes any hold of it, any otherwise than as it is perceived or thought of. And I think it must also be allowed by all, that every thing that is properly called a motive, excitement, or inducement to a perceiving, willing agent, has some sort and degree of tendency, or advantage to move or excite the Will, previous to the effect, or to the act of the will excited. This previous tendency of the motive is what I call the strength of the motive. That motive which has a less degree of previous advantage, or tendency to move the Will, or which appears less inviting, as it stands in the view of the mind, is What I call a weaker motive. On the contrary, that which appears most inviting, and has, by what appearsconcerning it to the understanding or apprehension, the greatest degree of previous tendency to excite and induce the choice, is what I call the strongest motive. And in this sense, I suppose the will is always determined by the strongest motive."

Edwards, Johnathan (2010-07-26). Freedom of the Will - Enhanced Version (pp. 3-4). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012


"Love will dispose to walk humbly amongst men; for a real and true love will incline us to high thoughts of others, and to think them better than ourselves. It will dispose men to honour one another, for all are naturally inclined to think highly of those they love, and to give them honour; so that by love are fulfilled those precepts, 1 Pet. xi. 17- "Honour all men," and Phil. ii. 3 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." Love will dispose to contentment in the sphere in which God hath placed US, without. coveting any things that our neighbor possesses, or envying him on account of any good thing that he has. It will dispose men to meekness and gentleness in their carriage toward their neighbours, and not to treat them with passion or violence or heat of spirit, but with moderation and calmness and kindness. It will check and restrain everything like a bitter spirit; for love has no bitterness in it, but is a gentle and sweet disposition and affection of the soul. It will prevent broils and quarrels, and will dispose men to peaceableness, and to forgive injurious treatment received from others; as it is said in Proverbs x. 12, "Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins."   Love will dispose men to all acts of mercy toward their neighbours when they are under any affliction or calamity, for we are naturally disposed to pity those that we love, when they are afflicted. It will dispose men to give to the poor, to bear one another's burdens, and to weep with those that weep, as well as to rejoice with those that do rejoice. It will dispose men to the duties they owe to one another in their several places and relations. It will dispose a people to all the duties they owe to their rulers, and to give them all that honour and subjection which are their due. And it will dispose rulers to rule the people over whom they are set, justly, seriously, and faithfully, seeking their good, and not any by ends of their own. It will dispose a people to all proper duty to their ministers, to hearken to their counsels and instructions, and to submit to them in the house of God, and to support and sympathize with and pray for them, as those that watch for their souls; and it will dispose ministers faithfully and ceaselessly to seek the good of the souls of their people, watching for them as those that must give account. Love e will dispose to suitable carriage between superiors and inferiors: it will ill dispose children to honour their parents, and servants to be obedient to their masters, not with eyeservice, but in singleness of heart; and it will dispose masters to exercise gentleness and goodness toward their servants."


Edwards, Jonathan (2011-06-22). Charity and Its Fruits: Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life (pp. 11-12). Great Plains Press. Kindle Edition.

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Friday, July 27, 2012


Eph 1:1,2   "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." 


It was by the determination of God's choosing that I am a messenger of Christ Jesus, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Yahweh. He is the Absolute Love. To you who have been made holy by your faithful following of Jesus, you have received a gracious gift and are at peace with God the Father and Yahweh, the Lord Jesus Christ.
God is so happy in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, He has set Him up as King of all things. He has been so happy in the Sons sacrifice that all the happiness of heaven has been given to you in your spirit. Though you don't see it now and didn't see it coming He chose you to receive the happiness of the fellowship the Father and Son share before He even made this world. You now are holy and without guilt before Him. 
It was His Absolute Love that decided to set His purpose in all that He did so that you would become His child. God will accomplish all that He decides will happen! In making all of this a gift of His grace, mercy and love it only pours back praise and glory to Him. He was so happy to do this in His infinite, eternal pleasure that He has in His beloved Son, Jesus Christ.


Eph 1:3-6  "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved." 


In Christ Jesus we have been redeemed from the death penalty hanging over us. In Isa Al Masih God has forgiven our sinful rebellion against God. This forgiveness is not a concession, it is a treasure possessed and lavishly provided through the might and wisdom of God's plan, held for a long time as a mystery of His delayed judgement, it came to fruition when Yeshua the messiah came and fulfilled the plan. This plan culminating in the victorious resurrection of Christ now ends up reuniting God to everything in the universe.


Eph 1:7-10  "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight  making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ  as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth." 


This uniting is a part of the inheritance that has always been planned by God. Everything is according to His choice and counsel, so that you and I might have hope in Christ and that all thanks and praise would be to the glory of God. 


Eph 1:11, 12  "In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory." 


Even more you have a secure guarantee of what you are promised to inherit in Jesus Christ. When you heard of this marvelous plan and the inheritance of Christ, you believed. In your belief you were given the gracious gift of the Spirit of God. He now possesses you until you finally take possession of the inheritance. 
Again this is so that it is all of God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit; One in Three and Three in One, might receive all of the praise and glory. He is God. He is the Absolute Love. He is worthy of your trust and obedience, your praise and thanksgiving. 


Eph 1:13, 14  "In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory." 



Thursday, July 26, 2012


Gal 6:7  "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap." 


The center of the deception is the same as in the beginning; "Did God really mean that?", "You will not surely die."

Gen 3:1  "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?" 
Gen 3:4,5  "But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.  For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 
You think you know better than God. You think you can do what ever you want and a "good", "loving" God won't reign over you in judgement. What a stupor of deception you are under. 
Whatever you do whether in following your own desires or walking in the Spirit Of God's love and His desires for you there is consequence. All your actions lead to either life or death. Some of it is garbage produced by your own desires, only the actions done in the strength and leading of God's Spirit lead to a lasting, abundant life.



Gal 6:8  "For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. "


So don't give up your going to get the reward, only you cannot give up. Continue to do good loving things to everyone but especially those who follow the Spirit of God's love. He is Absolute Love. 


Gal 6:9, 10  "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith." 


I am not a sample of anything great in relationship to man's way of thinking. I can't even hardly see to write this letter. Yet I know where to boast, it is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only way to life and fulfilling love in relationship to God. 
These people who are super religious, relying on their own keeping of rules and regulations as a way to say they are better than others, they cannot even keep the law of God for they do not love or have love for others, they only love themselves and the praise of other people. 
If you really want to live in love you have to crucify your fleshly desires for a place of prominence in this world and die to your own pride. You need to throw all your confidence and faith upon Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Yahweh. He is Absolute Love. You know who I mean He was killed on a cross and is risen again. He is coming back again to redeem and to judge.


Gal 6:11-14  "See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.  For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." 


For when He comes again, it won't matter all these rules and rituals. What will matter are you a new creation in the Spirit of God's Love.


Gal 6:15  "For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation." 


All of you who walk by the rule of God's perfect law of love, you are at peace with God now and His mercy overshadows you. You who walk by the Spirit you are the true Israel of God. Grace is now the the touch of your life by your relationship of faith in Christ and as the Spirit of God interacts personally with your spirit. "WORD"  brothers!


Gal 6:16-18  "And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen." 

Wednesday, July 25, 2012


Gal 5:24  "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." 


Here is the thing, Christ's crucifixion to His own comfort and life, is what you walk into if you really decide to belong to Him. You walk into His life, through dying to yourself. Your current passions and desires need to be laid to rest to follow after the Absolute Love of Christ.


Gal 5:25, 26  "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Gal 6:1  Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted." 


If you are living by your receiving the Holy Spirit, stop relying on yourself and your status before other people, begin to live in a way that reflects the life of the Holy Spirit within you. Thinking that you are the center of everything, trying to get ahead of everyone else and having your chief concern be what others have that you don't his is not the way to open your life to God's Spirit.
Here is the application of love, watch out for your own heart in being tempted to do things on your own, but also watch out for others who might stumble, pick them up and help them get back on track in relying on the Spirit. 
Be careful to not try to get them to rely on you, but point them to the Love of God and walking in the strength that His Spirit supplies. 
God is Absolute Love, so if you want to walk in the Spirit's strength it will look like bearing the burdens of others in love, this is the entirety of the law of Christ's commands. He is Absolute Love. He bears all of our burdens through His death on the cross and His reign now forever interceding for us in our weakness. He is Yahweh, the Absolute Love.


Gal 6:2  "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." 


You are out of touch with reality if you think you are something without the Love of Christ and the presence of the Spirit. He is life, health, breath and strength to everyone who lives. You cannot do anything without Him allowing it or producing it in you. 
So you will have to give an account of what your works have produced. On your own they will produce only judgement and wrath. In the Spirit you will produce the righteousness of God's love.
You will have to bear the burden of the direction you took.


Gal 6:3-5  "For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.  But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load."


So share the good results of listening to God's commands and following after them. 
Do not be fooled yourself, you cannot fool God or put things past Him. If your only doing what you think will earn you favor, your heart is not filled with love for God and your obedience is not of faith, your not going to reap fullness of life and God's grace. 
God's grace comes as gift in the Spirit. Pursue life in Him not your own sense of self worth. Worth comes only from relationship to God in the grace of the gift of Jesus Christ. So keep on the path, it is difficult, but never give up and you will find abundant, fulfilling eternal life in the love of God's presence.


Gal 6:6-9  "One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." 

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." 



Monday, July 23, 2012


Gal 4:20, 21 "I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.  Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?" 

It would be easier to gain understanding and agreement if we could discuss this face to face, so we could really get at the core of the confusion. Why do you want to be put under a system of rituals and rules when you haven't heard or understood the reason they came about?
You see Abraham had two biological sons one from a free woman and one from a woman that was a servant. In a comparison the descendants of Abraham were not all children of promise, but you like Isaac are of the promise, because of the gift of faith given by grace. It is becoming a child of God by God's decision to give you grace to bring you to faith that He is your Father.

Gal 4:22-28 "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.  But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.  But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.  For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband."  Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise." 

In the same way that Hagar's children hated the place of promise relegated to Isaac, now those who hold on to ritual and keeping of rules, hate the offering of grace. These slaves are bound to the captivity of trying to gain God's favor by keeping the rules. Don't give any place for these teachers or the things they teach. 
You are set free to follow Christ now, He is Absolute Love. Love brings freedom and following after Him in love becomes a way to gain freedom from sin. You don't need the rules and ritual to show you the way, you know the way in your hearts. So don't give up grace for rule keeping, it is captivity and death, because if you rely on rule keeping falling short in just one thing brings you under judgement.

Gal 4:29-5:!  "But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman." For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." 


The result of relying on rules and ritual rather that a loving relationship with God through Jesus Christ is you lose the connection to God's love. He is Absolute Love. So these rules and ritual can never be kept to the satisfaction of God, because they become disconnected from the Love of God and cut off from truly loving others as God loves. These rituals become an futile obligation that can never fulfill or set free. Only Jesus Christ sets free, He is Yahweh, He is Absolute Love. 

Gal 5:2-4  "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." 


Sunday, July 22, 2012


"Love to God will dispose a man to honour him, to worship and adore him, and heartily to acknowledge his greatness and glory and dominion. And so it will dispose to all acts of obedience to God; for the servant that loves his master, and the subject that loves his sovereign, will be disposed to proper subjection and obedience. Love will dispose the Christian to behave toward God, as a child to a father; amid difficulties, to resort to him for help, and put all his trust in him; just as it is natural for us, in case of need or affliction, to go to one that we love for pity and help. It will lead us, too, to give credit to his word, and to put confidence in him; for we are not apt to suspect the veracity of those we have entire friendship for. It will dispose us to praise God for the mercies we receive from him, just as we are disposed to gratitude for any kindness we receive from our {allowmen that we love. Love, again, will dispose our hearts to submission to the will of God, for we are more willing that the will of those we love should be done, than of others. We naturally desire that those we love should be suited, and that we should be agreeable to them; and true affection and love to God will dispose the heart to acknowledge God's right to govern, and that he is worthy to do it, and so will dispose to submission. Love to God will dispose us to walk humbly with him, for he that loves God will be disposed to acknowledge the vast distance between God and himself. It will be agreeable to such an one, to exalt God, and set him on high above all, and to lie low before him. A true Christian delights to have God exalted on his own abasement, because he loves him. He is willing to own that God is worthy of this, and it is with delight that he casts himself in the dust before the Most High, from his sincere love to him."

Edwards, Jonathan (2011-06-22). Charity and Its Fruits: Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life (pp. 10-11). Great Plains Press. Kindle Edition.

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Saturday, July 21, 2012


"The effects of grace are according to its nature. Taken as a whole, it is the recreative principle sent forth from God for the recovery of man from his slavery to sin, and for his reformation in the divine image. Considered as to the time of its giving, it is either operating or co-operating grace, i.e., either the grace that first enables the will to choose the good, or the grace that co-operates with the already enabled will to do the good; and it is, therefore, also called either prevenient or subsequent grace. It is not to be conceived of as a series of disconnected divine gifts, but as a constant efflux from God; but we may look upon it in the various steps of its operation in men, as bringing forgiveness of sins, faith, which is the beginning of all good, love to God, progressive power of good working, and perseverance to the end. In any case, and in all its operations alike, just because it is power from on high and the living spring of a new and re-created life, it is irresistible and indefectible. Those on whom the Lord bestows the gift of faith working from within, not from without, of course, have faith, and cannot help believing. Those to whom perseverance to the end is given must persevere to the end. It is not to be objected to this, that many seem to begin well who do not persevere: this also is of God, who has in such cases given great blessings indeed, but not this blessing, of perseverance to the end. Whatever of good men have, that God has given; and what they have not, why, of course, God has not given it. Nor can it be objected, that this leaves all uncertain: it is only unknown to us, but this is not uncertainty; we cannot know that we are to have any gift which God sovereignly gives, of course, until it is given, and we therefore cannot know that we have perseverance unto the end until we actually persevere to the end; but who would call what God does, and knows He is to do, uncertain, and what man is to do certain? Nor will it do to say that thus nothing is left for us to do: no doubt, all things are in God's hands, and we should praise God that this is so, but we must co-operate with Him; and it is just because it is He that is working in us the willing and the doing, that it is worth our while to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. God has not determined the end without determining the appointed means."


B. B. Warfield. Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy (Kindle Locations 1671-1686). Monergism Books.

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Friday, July 20, 2012


Gal 3:27-29  "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." 


In your accepting the Absolute Love of God into your life and demonstrated dying and being raised to life by your act of being baptized, you now have the covering of the nature of Christ. You are not identified by nationality, position, gender or other societal restraints you are all unified ,brought together and reconciled to God in Christ Jesus, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Absolute Love.
It is like this your being a child of God was established by God but you had not received the inheritance until the Father decided to give it to you. It is all by grace. God is the Sovereign giver.



Gal 4:1, 2  "I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father." 


It is the same way that happened to us and to you, we were captive to the to ignorance and immaturity until God the Father sent the man Jesus, God in the flesh, place under the same restraints,so we could be redeemed to become like Him as a child of God. We are adopted into God's family because Jesus Christ came in Absolute Love and humility to give us that inheritance.


Gal 4:3-5  "In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,  to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 


Because you have been adopted as God's child, made in His likeness by His Spirit coming into our hearts. Our hearts now beat in rhythmic tones that end up causing us to love to do what God commands. So as God's child you are an heir to all that God has to give. Yes, that means everything. 


Gal 4:6, 7  "And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God." 


So you didn't know God, you were trapped in your ignorance and inability to follow after the purposes of God, now it is not that you only know God, but He has an intimate relationship with you built upon his relationship with his Son, Jesus. 
How could you turn your back on that inheritance, belonging to the family of God, and go back to weakness and being unworthy, acting in ways that lead to futility and frustration. 


Gal 4:8, 9  "Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.  But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?" 


You turn life giving fellowship with God into worthless superstition and the drudgery of futile rituals. Your actions scare me to death. It is not lie you as you first received me and stood by me defending the message of freedom in Christ.


Gal 4:10- 15  "You observe days and months and seasons and years!  I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,  and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me." 


So don't turn truth into your enemy. Others want you to shut the message out so that you can make much of your works. They want pride in self to rule rather than the humility of Jesus Christ. It might be good to receive praise for doing good, that good is that character of Christ is fully formed in you. It is like being born again and again until it really grabs hold of you and changes your life.


Gal 4:16-19  "Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?  They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.  It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!" 


Thursday, July 19, 2012



Gal 3:7-9  "Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith." 


If anything is sure it is that the children of Abraham are born of faith, not of flesh and blood. And God's Word knew before; (He is Yahweh, Jesus Christ) he proclaimed this to Abraham before He came to fulfill what He proclaimed. So we know for sure that it is not only Jews who are part of God's family by faith, but everyone who believes and follows Christ Jesus, is Abraham's child. 



Gen 12:1-3  "Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.  And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." 


Everyone who relies on their keeping of the law as a way to please God and earn His love, forfeits God's love. They get a curse because their faith is in themselves and not in God. 
So the commandment and the requirements of God' commands have and always will be believe in my grace, goodness and love and you will be led into life abundant. On the other hand mere law keeping to prove you are good enough or better than others is an empty activity that is not able to be sustained. That kind of law keeping dies out in the end because God's heart, His Absolute Love is not in the action.


Gal 3:10-12  "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them." Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."  But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them." 


So Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah, Yahweh; gave back to us what we had forfeited. He forfeited His eternal place of unbroken fellowship with the Father, that as God's Son, He could win life and faith back for us in our dead hearts. He could place the very heart of God, by the presence of the Holy Spirit of God being accepted into our hearts.


Gal 3:13, 14  "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"-- so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith." 


The human example is a covenant, no one from outside can annul or add to it once accepted by both parties. Now the two parties here were Jesus Christ (Yahweh) and Abraham. All who follow after are a part of whom the Lord Jesus Christ adds.


Gal 3:15, 16  "To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ." 


So this is what I mean when I say the law did not alter the promise of faith given by the grace of the Lord. The law wasn't a different covenant nor did it void the covenant of faith. For the inheritance of becoming a child of God never came from law keeping, the adoption to God's family was only ever by grace through faith. 
No the law was added because of rebellion and offense of God's royal commandment to love. It was an intermediary of God's presence until administered through God's messengers until God's one and only begotten Son came.


Gal 3:17-18  "This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary." 


Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God, His Son and the Spirit are one. One in three and three in one. They all agree with the law and the law points to their absolute love, justice and holiness. The mere keeping of the law could not give life, the heart of God's Absolute love had to be added by grace through faith.
So God's law imprisoned everyone in disobedience,so that faith in God's Absolute Love could be given by grace to those who believe.


Gal 3:20-22 "Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.  "Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.  But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe." 


Before faith came into our hearts, I Paul know this first hand, we were captive to the law. The law was a type of guardian identifying to us our need to be justified by faith. It kept pointing us to something and that something was Jesus Christ, when He came the guardian fulfilled the intended mission. The guardian revealed our sin and need for a savior and pointed to the savior Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice of God's Absolute Love and justice.


Gal 3:23, 24  "Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith." 


Now the faith in us doesn't nullify the work of the guardian, but the ritual and ceremonial portion of the law no longer has the purpose of calling us to God's pathway to life. The pathway is in our hearts as children of the Father, He is Absolute Love. If you have died to self and risen to life in he power of Christ, as signified by baptism, you have put on the nature of Christ and now in faith love the commands of God. For in them you find life. 


Gal 3:25-27  "But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." 

Wednesday, July 18, 2012


Gal 2:15-17  "We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!" 


You know that I ,Paul, am a Jew by birth, born into the observance of the law, not into a home that didn't know or attempt to follow God's law. Even as a Jew I know that I was not justified before God by the law, but only forgiveness and justification come through faith in Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Yahweh come in the flesh. He is Absolute Love incarnate. No one can be justified by keeping the Law because we all fail. The royal law of love isn't kept by doing better at keeping the law than the next person.
For if I rebuild outwardly the ceremony and ritual of law while hating, killing and murdering others, I prove that I am a law breaker. For through my zealous following of the law I died to law keeping. It is only through being crucified and dying to myself, following after Christ that I now am alive to God and His love. Jesus Christ lives in me and the life I now live in obedient love and law keeping I live through Christ and by the faith I have in His love and sacrifice of Himself for me.


Gal 2:18-20  "For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." 


So I do not nullify grace nor do I forsake living righteously, for the law pointed to Christ Jesus and His death now establishes the righteousness of God in forgiving us. 
Jesus was crucified right in front of you and many of you saw Him rise again, but you received the Holy Spirit who established you in Christ by faith. You didn't receive the Holy Spirit of God by doing good but as a gift of God's grace. 
It would be foolish to now think you can proceed in keeping God's law by your own effort as a work. You must see that God works this kind of miracle in you and others by hearing the good news and coming to believe and have faith in God's love. It is just like Abraham the father of faith. He believed and the reult of faithful obedience He was counted as righteous before God.  


Gal 2:21-3:6  "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.  O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.  Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?  Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith--  just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? 


So remember this one thing, one thing you should always know, is that faith shows who are sons of Abraham and God's children. The Word of God proclaimed this in the blessing given to Abraham, all natons would be blessed in you, as they come to believe and have faith in my goodness and love. I am Absolute Love and all those who have faith in me are blessed in my steadfast love. 


Gal 3:7-9  "Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith." 

Tuesday, July 17, 2012


Gal 1:10  "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ." 


If I were trying to gain people's approval I wouldn't give my life to Jesus Christ. People are opposed to His claim of sovereignty over their lives. You cannot please God in His Absolute Love and peddle to people's desires.
So what I am telling you about the good news of repentance and forgiveness through the obedience that comes from faith is not something I received from men. (Not even from the great Gamaliel my Rabbi!) I received this in a direct revelation from Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. He is Yahweh. He is Absolute Love.


Gal 1:11  "For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ." liel was 


So you know how learned and zealous for the Law of God I was, far beyond in knowledge of the law than anyone else that Gamaliel was teaching. I persecuted Christ followers severely, violently- I tried to destroy the message of Jesus Christ. 
God had a different purpose for my love of the law. God chose me before I was even born to see the true meaning of obedience, humble loving obedience. He did this in and for me through His Son, Jesus. My eyes were opened literally and figuratively to change from preaching dead works in conforming to outward ritual; turning to Absolute Love and grace that transforms the heart to love God's ways. Preaching grace and peace through repentance and forgiveness. 


Gal 1:13-17  "For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus." 


I began preaching and didn't even consult with other leaders in the movement of grace, following after Christ Jesus. After three years I stayed with Peter and only spent time with James the earthly sibling of Jesus. 
I didn't preach at all in Judea, but they heard of me and my work for the Gospel and they glorified God because of what I was doing and who I had become.


Gal 1:18-24  "Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)  Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.  They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."  And they glorified God because of me." 


Act 15:1-19  "But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.  When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.  But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses." The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.  And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.  And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,  and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?  But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will."  And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.  After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.   And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,  "'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins,  and I will restore it,  that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,  says the Lord, who makes these things  known from of old.' Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."   Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,  with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.  Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,  it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.  For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:  that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell." 


So the ceremonial law and outward circumcision don't represent faith for forgiveness through Christ is a inward heart change that comes as a gift of faith. The heart is the key not the outward ritual. Keeping yourself inwardly pure through the knowledge of God's Absolute Love is what is important. A love that cares for others who are in need. 



Gal 2:1-10  "Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.  I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek."
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in--who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery-- to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)--those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),  and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do."


I had to fight this out with Peter himself. He and others began acting differently toward believers who had come from outside of Judaism. Their hypocritical actions were clearly against the good news that Christ revealed to me, they knew that working to gain God's favor would never do anyone any good. It was a vain and worthless activity. Obeying the law of love through faith in God's Absolute Love and forgiveness was the message Christ Jesus personally taught to them. Birth into a certain race or religion was meaningless walking by faith in the commands of God that is what matters. 


Gal 2:11-16  "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.  But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?" We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified." 


Monday, July 16, 2012


Gal 1:1-5  "Paul, an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead-- and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,  to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen." 


I am a messenger of God's good news, not because I received this news from any man, I received it directly from Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. I was brought into His presence. Jesus is alive. God raised Him from the dead and He is with God The Father, He is Yahweh. He is Absolute Love. He gave this to me directly. 
I want you to receive His grace and peace, He will grant it to you. He Himself loved us so much that He gave Himself up as a sacrificial lamb to deliver us from our sin and this evil time in the world. It was the Fathers' will that He should be exalted and glorified in this way, His reign and glory are forever.
So it is a shock that you would forget about following Jesus and the Gospel of being set free from sin by grace, now turning to a different message of acceptance before God. Not that there is any other way to God but through the shed blood of Christ washing you clean and your walking toward holiness in the Spirit by faith. 
But there are some who want to distort the message.


Gal 1:6, 7  "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--  not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ." 


I tell by the authority of my place as a messenger given the message directly, that this different message is from someone who is out of the grace of God. They are walking into the destruction of the curse of sin. 


Gal 1:8, 9  "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed." 


I say this because I only want to please God and live or Christ. I can't be concerned with gaining the approval of men, I concern myself chiefly with serving Christ. 


Gal 1:10  "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ." 


So I want you to be clear about why I insist on this being correctly explained and followed, for it is a direct message revealed to me directly in the presence of the risen Jesus, He is Yeshua Messiah risen and glorified. He is Yahweh!


Gal 1:11, 12  "For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.  For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ."


Act 9:1-23  "But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" And he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do." The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.  Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.  Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord." And the Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,  and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight."  But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.  And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name." But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.  For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized; and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus. And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God." And all who heard him were amazed and said, "Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?"  But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ. When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him," 




Sunday, July 15, 2012


"This is the decisive word which marks the distinction between man in disunion and man in the origin. The word is love. There is a recognition of Christ, a powerful faith in Christ, and indeed a conviction and a devotion of love even unto death-all without love. That is the point. Without this "love" everything falls apart and everything is inacceptable, but in this love everything is united and everything is pleasing to God. What is this love? Everything that we have so far seen to be true excludes all those definitions which endeavour to represent the essence of love as a human attitude, as conviction, devotion, sacrifice, the will to fellowship, feeling, brotherhood, service or action. All these, without exception, can, as we have just heard, arise without "love." Everything that we are accustomed to call love, that which lives in the depths of the soul and in the visible deed, and even the brotherly service of one's neighbour which proceeds from a pious heart, all this can be without "love," not because there is always a "residue" of selfishness in all human conduct, entirely overshadowing love, but because love as a whole is something entirely different from what the word designates here. Nor is love the direct relationship between persons, the acceptance of the personal and the individual in contrast to the law of the objective and impersonal institution. Quite apart from this thoroughly unbiblical and abstract wrenching apart of the "personal" and the "objective" or "real," love here becomes an attitude of man, and only a partial one at that. "Love" now becomes the superior ethos of the personal, which perfects and completes the inferior ethos of the purely real and institutional. It is, for example, in accordance with this view that one regards love and truth as mutually conflicting and gives priority to love as the personal principle over truth as the impersonal principle, thereby coming into direct contradiction with St. Paul's saying that love "rejoiceth in the truth" (I Cor. 13.6). For indeed love knows nothing of the very conflict in terms of which one seeks to define it. On the contrary, it is of the essence of love that it should lie beyond all disunion. A love which violates or even merely neutralizes truth is called by Luther, with his clear biblical vision, an "accursed love," even though it may present itself in the most pious dress. A love which embraces only the sphere of personal human relations and which capitulates before the objective and real can never be the love of the New Testament."


Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ethics (pp. 52-53). Kindle Edition.

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