Eph 6:10  "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might." 

The first and last thing on your mind needs to be resting in the Lord's strength. His might in surrounding you and flowing into you is the beginning and end of what you need. He is the alpha and omega, creator and sustain-er  of all things. 

In order to be protected against the attacks of evil in this world you need the protection of God. You can't stand on your own! These evil spirits and rebellious angels don't fight fair. They use false claims, dark promises and claim illegitimate authority. 

Eph 6:11, 12  "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." 

So take up all the protection of walking in the presence of God. You need to take hold of God and abide in Him then after you have put yourself fully in His hands you will be able to stand. 

Eph 6:13  "Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm." 

Here are the weapons of God that will keep you focused in the midst of the battle. Place truth around yourself at all times, don't hold onto things that are false. As you move forward always focus on what is right and pure. Walk into the battle with peace in your heart and minister peace to those you encounter. People aren't your enemy, the liar and destroyer is the real enemy. In everything you do walk in faith and cover your head with thoughts of the salvation Jesus has accomplished for you. If your going to try to slay and conquer remember that it is the Spirit of God who must carry the fight. His Word is able to accomplish what He purposes. 


Heb 4:9-13  "So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.  For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account."

If you are going to wield His Word make sure it is done with consulting Him asking for all grace and truth to be spoken through you as an instrument in His hands. 


Eph 6:14-18  "Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication." 

To that end of being used mightily by God stay alert and persevere, always seeking God. Share with one another you needs, your desires and struggles so you can be encouraged and you can encourage others. 

Eph 6:18-22 "To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,  for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.  I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts." 

Peace and love that comes from faith be with you. God is Love. He is Absolute Love. His love is pure and incorruptible poured out to you by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph 6:23, 24  "Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible." 

Eph 5:21  "submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ."

Submitting to one another is not an easy thing to do. You must keep your focus on what Jesus Christ did for you. He submitted Himself to mockery, abuse, hatred, undeserved punishment and the most horrible death for you. Enduring that He has poured His absolute love into your heart that you might have faith, be saved and become obedient to the life giving decrees of God. Out of  sheer amazement and respect submit yourself to others.

To begin with you know as children that you should submit to your parents commands. This is one of the original paths of grace that God gave. It is command, but it is grace, because it comes with the promise of things going well for you. It is only right to obey parents who are following God in love. 


Eph 6:1-3  "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." 

Yet, you parents in your attempts to teach your children of the grace and discipline of following the LORD, don't make the burden too heavy. Especially you Fathers remember the forgiveness and grace of God in loving you. Mercy and grace go farther to soften the heart and make it pliable, only a little bit of displeasure in punishment gets the attention then turn to instruction and promise.

Eph 6:4  "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." 

If you are in a legally binding attachment or voluntarily you have put yourself under servitude. If you are employed. If serving another is your livelihood, do all your service with a an eye toward serving Jesus Christ. He has purchased us and we are His servants. 
If you have someone in employ as one who serves you, don't be a boss, be a leader to them. Your threats won't motivate them to serve and love you. You won't be as productive and they won't be as willing to serve if you don't lead in the way God leads. He is Absolute Love and it is His grace and loving provision that causes us all to want to serve Him. He doesn't look at a persons parents or social strata, He doesn't care where you are from or how much personal possessions you have. He gives grace to you regardless of your outer appearance. 

Eph 6:5-9  "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,  not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him." 

My final thoughts lead me to say you need a defense against the scheming wiles of Satan. He is the hater, the liar and the destroyer. You won't stand on your own, you need the mighty strength of God's love coursing through you heart. 
Your wrestling with this idea of submission and obedience is not something that is just arguing with or persuading others about. Satan and all the dark forces of his followers will come against this idea. They will challenge you to believe in God's love and goodness. They will say God doesn't really mean you have to obey. He will say; "you really don't need to be submissive, assert your rights". He will whisper; "your obedience isn't important, did God really mean that you needed to forgo that desire". Evil beings hate the light of God's truth, they will come against it. They are filled with contempt for God and all His ways. They are against all who follow after the Absolute Love of God. 

Eph 6:10-12  "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." 

Eph 5:11-14  "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.  For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 

Fruit cannot be born to life without the light of day. The plant has to be fed by light in order to be of any use for nourishment and provision to give life. The same is true of your life, don't go about hiding in darkness and shame. If you want the love of God to shine into your life and make you gloriously and abundantly useful you have to stop hiding things you are ashamed to talk about. 
So the essence of wisdom is to discover what God's will is and understand that following the will of God is the way to find meaning, purpose and love in your life. 

Eph 5:15 - 17 "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,  making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is." 

So don't try to escape from life through drugs and alcohol, you won't find pleasure there. You will just find another way to corruption and destruction. The Spirit of God fills you with song and a happy singing heart that is filled with gratefulness. In this way you will find your heart demonstrates that you are happily subjected to Jesus Christ and in submitting to Him you can easily submit to others.

Eph 5:18 - 21 "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,  addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ." 

If you are married to one another you know what submission is about. You both need to learn how to give more and more. Marriage is a picture of the relationship of Jesus Christ to the people of God. 

Wives in this picture representation look to their husbands as their servant who gives himself to her, yet in submission you allow him to serve as a leader, to you. Your submission to your husband is a glad acceptance of His sacrificial love towards you.

Eph 5:22 - 24 "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands." 

Husbands are a picture representation to the world of Christ sacrificial love to their wife. You give yourself up to provide her a way to be fully set apart to you in joy. You make everything about her, so she can become the glory and delight of your life. Keeping your relationship with her one of giving and provision, highlighting her beauty and purity. 
If you love your wife like Christ loves, you are truly loving yourself, for you are made one flesh in Christ. 

Eph 5:25 - 30 "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body." 

You can now see marriage is not a matter of something we enter into with another person. Marriage is a sacred relationship created by in the power of Gods absolute love. Marriage in Christs' presence sanctioned and established by God is a mysterious union. It is a picture of Christ and the people He has chosen for Himself. It is a melding of two into one, unified and in harmony. 
It is built with love and respect and holds together by these unifying principles.  

Eph 5:31- 33  "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband." 

Eph 4:32 - 5:2 "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." 

If you are to become what you were created to be, an image and reflection of who God is, you will be kind, pliable and able to be remolded like clay in God's hands. You will always forgive just as God continues to forgive you. God is Absolute Love so here is what love looks like, giving up your place in line for comfort and recognition and putting others before you in humility. Dying in other peoples place and lifting up your life as a sacrifice to offer yourself to God's service.
Love never looks like sexual impurity or using others for your own bodies gratification. Defiling others and coveting fulfillment in your bodies sensual passion instead of finding your fulfillment in God. This is futility and you will never be satiated. 
Crude or filthy talk and jokes will not bring real joy and satisfaction, only thankful submission to the ways of God's love will satisfy completely. You are never going to find the way back to God, into Absolute love by cravings that are banned from the Kingdom of God and Christ. Only pure, unadulterated absolute love will be part of that inheritance. You cannot be subject to anything or anyone other than God in that kingdom.

Eph 5:3-5  "But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.  Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.  For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." 

Don't let anyone deceive you into thinking something that has no substance or relation to God's Word. You have seen and He has told you that only the obedience that comes from faith and love of Him is accepted. Disobedience brings wrath and eventual complete separation from love. His love is absolute, uncompromising, pure and just.

Eph 5:6  "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience." 

Eph 5:7-10  "Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord." 

So don't take part in anything you don't want to be brought to light. Expose your sin and shame and expose the shameful things around you. If you will bring things into the light they can be dealt with and disposed of by the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ, through His sacrificial bearing of that shame. 

Eph 5:11-14  "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.  For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 
1Jn 1:5-10  "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." 

1Jn 2:9 - 11 "Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.  Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes."

 Joh 1:1 - 5 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

 Joh 3:19- 21  "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.  But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God." 

Joh 8:12  "Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." 

Eph 4:15-17  "Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds."


Instead of backbiting and gossip, lovingly be truthful and move toward unity in the fullness of Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth and the life. He is Absolute Love. He is Yahweh. All the other philosophies and religious promises that you can get there this way or that, they all lead to futility, emptiness-destruction.


Don't walk like those who don't know the commandments of God and the steadfast love of God. Their minds are not opened to truth, they don't even understand the meaning of love. They don't know what it is they reject and they are hardened to the acceptance of living any other way but in the way their sense lead them. They have a callous heart full of greed and they are mixed up. They are all dirtied up inside because they don't want to come clean with themselves or with God. You were the same way until the light of God's truth began to shine in, by the Holy Spirit, revealing the love and grace of God in Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. 


Eph 4:18-20  "They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.  But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- "


I am only assuming that when you were shown the way to God's love in Jesus Christ you were taught that to come to Jesus means you change your life, repent and walk away from following your own desires to follow after Jesus. Coming to Jesus is a lifelong process of being renewed to become more and more molded to the image of God, you were created for this very purpose. To become separated to God, pure, clean and loving.


Eph 4:21-24  "assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,  and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."


So learn to put away the things that are false, stop hiding behind whispers, gossip and slander. Be truthful with everyone around you for we are all connected by the fact that God is our Father.  


Eph 4:25  "Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another."


Now you can be angry but don't hold on to your anger so that you don't become bitter. Let go of your anger otherwise it becomes a snare against you to cause the accuser/destroyer to use it against you. Anger and bitterness are let go for your benefit- not because you are not justified in being angry. For your own benefit let go of it!


Eph 4:26,27  "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil."


People transformed by the Spirit of God stop stealing and work far beyond what is expected and or needed. They work in order to give and share from what is produced. Those who are transformed by God stop doing things that corrupt their own life and their relationships and build up others bringing peace and unity in their midst. Following after Jesus is offering grace to others because you have received an immeasurably great and gracious gift, the receiving overflows in love, just as God's love overflows from within. You recognize and respond to the Holy Spirit. 
Their is no malicious thoughts or actions that can be contemplated if you are full of God's Spirit. There is only kindness, compassion, forgiveness and love. He is Absolute Love. His love is full of grace and truth, mercy and justice.


Eph 4:28-32  "Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." 



Exo 34:4-6  "So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 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," 

"WHEN I think of all the struggles and difficulties and failures of which many complain, and know that many are trying to make a new effort to begin a holy life, their hearts fearing all the time that they would fail again, owing to so many difficulties and temptations and the natural weakness of their character, my heart longs to be able to tell them in words so simple that a little child could understand, What the secret is of the Christian life. glory? And can it be given to me to open their eyes to see that there is a Divine, Almighty Christ, who does actually come into the heart and who faithfully promises, "I will come and dwell with you, and I will never leave you?" No; my words cannot do that. But then I thought, my Lord Jesus can use me as a simple servant to take such feeble ones by the hand and encourage and help them; to say, Oh, come, come, come, into the presence of Jesus and wait on Him, and He will reveal Himself to thee. I pray God that He may use His precious Word. It is simply and joy. You know that when He was upon earth, He was present in bodily form with his disciples. They walked about together all day, and at night they went into the same house, and sometimes slept together and ate and drank together. They were continually together. It was the presence of Jesus that was the training school of His disciples. They were bound to Him by that wonderful intercourse of love during three long years, and in that intercourse they learned to know Christ, and Christ instructed and corrected them, and prepared them for what they were afterward you always—all the days—even unto the end of the world." What a promise! And just as really as Christ was with Peter in the boat, just as Christ sat with John at the table, as really can I have Christ with me. And more really, for they had their Christ in the body and He was to them a man, an individual separate from them, but I may have glorified Christ in the power of the throne of God, the omnipotent Christ, the omnipresent Christ. What a blessed Christ Jesus, with His loving, pierced heart; that blessed Jesus Christ, who lived upon earth; that same Christ glorified into the glory of God, can be in me and Can be with me all the days."

Murray, Andrew (2011-03-30). 'Jesus Himself' (pp. 11-12). Kindle Edition.

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"The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from him, and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority? - that your life is due to him? - that whatever you do ought to have reference to him? If so, it undoubtedly follows that your life is sadly corrupted, if it is not framed in obedience to him, since his will ought to be the law of our lives. On the other hand, your idea of his nature is not clear unless you acknowledge him to be the origin and fountain of all goodness. Hence would arise both confidence in him, and a desire of cleaving to him, did not the depravity of the human mind lead it away from the proper course of investigation. For, first of all, the pious mind does not devise for itself any kind of God, but looks alone to the one true God; nor does it feign for him any character it pleases, but is contented to have him in the character in which he manifests himself always guarding, with the utmost diligences against transgressing his will, and wandering, with daring presumptions from the right path. He by whom God is thus known perceiving how he governs all things, confides in him as his guardian and protector, and casts himself entirely upon his faithfulness, - perceiving him to be the source of every blessing, if he is in any strait or feels any want, he instantly recurs to his protection and trusts to his aid, - persuaded that he is good and merciful, he reclines upon him with sure confidence, and doubts not that, in the divine clemency, a remedy will be provided for his every time of need, - acknowledging him as his Father and his Lords he considers himself bound to have respect to his authority in all things, to reverence his majesty aim at the advancement of his glory, and obey his commands, - regarding him as a just judge, armed with severity to punish crimes, he keeps the Judgment-seat always in his view. Standing in awe of it, he curbs himself, and fears to provoke his anger. Nevertheless, he is not so terrified by an apprehension of Judgment as to wish he could withdraw himself, even if the means of escape lay before him; nay, he embraces him not less as the avenger of wickedness than as the rewarder of the righteous; because he perceives that it equally appertains to his glory to store up punishment for the one, and eternal life for the other. Besides, it is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains him from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honoring and obeying him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending him. Such is pure and genuine religion, namely, confidence in God coupled with serious fear - fear, which both includes in it willing reverence, and brings along with it such legitimate worship as is prescribed by the law."


Calvin, John (2008-04-03). Institutes of the Christian Religion (Kindle Locations 829-851). Signalman Publishing. Kindle Edition.

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Eph 3:20, 21 "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."All things are from God and all things given back to God are filled with His power, love, grace and purpose. He is Absolute Love. If you let Him have your life you could not even imagine the powerful renewal and transformation He will bring to you. He will call you into His family, adopt you as His child and you will eternally experience His glorious presence. Forever and filled with thanksgiving, joy and love. This is found by following after His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He is Yahweh, He is Absolute Love.If you begin to follow Him you will be captivated by His love and filled with the Holy Spirit. You will begin a change from arrogant rebellion to humble obedience. You will no longer be harsh and bitter, you will become gentle and kind in your relationships. You won't be in a constant battle with others, but you life with be known by patience and the bearing with and forgiving of others faults. This why I teach and bring the message of God's sacrifice and Absolute Love everywhere I am sent by God. I am eager to see the unified spirit of God's loving presence bring about togetherness and peace. Eph 4:1-3  "I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."There is only one body of people belonging to God and one Spirit of God that binds us together. He has called Jews and Non Jews- Rich and Poor, People from all ethnic groups to be called by His name, become their Lord and King, be baptized into His death. He is over all things, in all things and maintains their existence and all things continue through His power, purpose and love.Eph 4:4-6  "There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call--  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all."He gave each one a measure of grace according to His purpose and their need. All that we have is a gift given by Him. Eph 4:7  "But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift." Because of His grace and authority over all things He being raised to life from the dead, raised up a whole host of those that had been captured by the curse of death. Mat 27:50-53  "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.  The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many." Eph 4:8-10  "Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."  (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)"So each of us has our own station and task, you might teach, or lead or pastor or serve or pray or do whatever God has called you to do and given you the tools or position for accomplishing. This will be a lifelong task. It will take your lifetime until He is ready to take you to the finish line and you are brought into the fullness of Christ's presence. So let this process work itself in you as you keep your eyes on Him. Don't waver or look for a short cut. There are lots of other messages and detractors out there. They are cunning and deceitful so keep you eye on following Jesus Christ alone. He is Absolute Love.Eph 4:11-14  "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes."So speak truthfully to one another, but especially don't fool yourself into thinking that there is an easier way, a different way. Let Love be spoken into your heart by God and then be truthful and loving in the way you speak to others. Help others to grow up together with you as one piece that demonstrates the Absolute Love of God. Eph 4:15, 16  "Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love." 

Eph 3:6-10 "This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places." The mystery that has been hidden from the leaders of the angelic hosts, by God who created everything and everyone, is that God would unify all His followers in the promise of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He is Yahweh. He is Absolute Love. This is the good news of God's creative act, His presence with Adam, His relationship of faith to Abraham, His gift of freedom and law to Moses, His rule over His people in David and the coming of the Jesus Christ in love and redeeming sacrifice. Jesus Christ the King, Law, and gracious redemption of God's children gave me this good news directly; face to face. In His loving and gracious manner His power stopped me from murder and hatred and made me the messenger of His infinite, overflowing, perfect, absolute love. I was shown so much grace in Jesus Christ that I came to have a little understanding of the unsearchable, amazing, implausible and perfectly designed plan. That the entire world would come to hear of rich wisdom of God, in what would be provided to His children in The Son. He is Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah. This perfect timing and execution of the plan was not random, it was eternally in God's purposeful planning in eternity past the this person Jesus Christ, who is Yahweh incarnate, would fulfill the purpose of love and justice being united. Now you and I can be bold to come into The Presence of Absolute Love and have access to Him in faith. So don't lose heart in the tough times, He is ever present as strength and help. Eph 3:11-13 "This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory." This is why I continually am humbly pleading, for you and I, that we would as a united family: (I mean the entire creation of beings heavenly and earthly), would by His glorious power, be strengthened by His powerful love inside. I want for us all to be filled up with the presence of Christ. His presence is the root and ground of love, He is Absolute Love. If you have been filled up with His fullness, you will begin to have a comprehension of how immeasurably great His love is, it is beyond our thinking and imagination. It is absolutely fulfilling to your soul and spirit. It is being filled up with the presence of absolute eternal love in the presence of God.    Eph 3:14-19 "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." It brings me to the point of giving Him all praise and all glory, for there is nothing to satisfy our need for inner strength. All who He is calling out as His children will be giving Him glory forever. It will be through all generations and eternally a joy to turn to Him. "WORD"
Eph 3:20, 21 "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." 

Eph 2:13-16  "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility." 


You have been right into His presence by Jesus Christ and because Jesus fulfilled the part of the law that was just rituals to keep. In His coming as God's perfect sacrifice, abolishing the need for those sacrifices that were simply a picture pointing to His coming. Now everyone both Jews and non Jews can come close in Christ Jesus. He has torn down the veil of the Holy of Holies and we can come right into God's presence to receive forgiveness. He has made peace by satisfying the wrath of God, bringing full justice to those who put their trust in His sacrifice. He has made peace between God and all of us, we can become one people. All hostility between one race and another, one strata of society and another is wiped out in God's perfect Absolute Love.
His peace given in Jesus Christ, is proclaimed to both those who received the grace of the covenant and those who had no connection to the receiving of God's commands. We all have access to God through the Holy Spirit given as a gift by Jesus Christ.


Eph 2:17, 18  "And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father." 


So now you are no longer a different race not paying attention to any differences in one another, you are of the same house and country. You are all the children of God from His household, belonging to His governing. Citizens of heaven. Your foundation is Jesus Christ and in Him you are being built up into a holy gathering of praise to the LORD. In Jesus Christ, Isa Al Masih, Yeshua Messiah you are all the dwelling place of God's Spirit.


Eph 2:19-22 "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." 


Because of all of these things that God has accomplished in sending His Son Christ Jesus, He now has given me the great honor of serving those outside of the covenant of God. I think you have heard of how God stopped me in my tracks when I was persecuting the followers of Jesus, so that I could experience His grave and love. He revealed to me the mystery of true meaning of the law and how I was to bring the message of His grace to you non Jews.



Eph 3:1-3  "For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--  assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you,  how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly." 


When you read of what happened to me; Doctor Luke has kept an accounting of it, you will see how this is just being revealed through the people whom Jesus walked and talked with. Jesus gave me and the others whom He was closest to the message and He gave all of personally the privilege of bringing it to you. 
The mystery is that non Jews are also fellow heirs of God's promise, they are of the same race of men and can partake of God's grace through having faith in the good news of Jesus Christ. 


Eph 3:4-6  "When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,  which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.  This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel." 

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." 

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."

"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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"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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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." 

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." 

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." 

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." 

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."