The Law

 

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The Law

   A long time before ‘Laws’ were recognised on an International scale, each tribe/area, were verbally handed down their own Laws. Thus punishment was severed out by the Tribal leaders, or Priests~Pharisees~Sadducees, etc.

   In the History of the Law, when you look back, it was Yahweh God, was the great initiator~creator of the Law. God made everything, in/on the World, in the Garden of Eden, and for Him it was good … Genesis 1:12 “And God saw that it was good” … to know the Law is to know what is good & bad, right from wrong, what you can & cannot do, so to do 80mph/kmh in the town centre is just wrong and dangerous, as you know the limit is you only 30mph/kmh.

   God made everything in ‘The Garden of Eden’ [see Genesis chapters 1 ~ 3]. The tree of Knowledge was the only one in the whole garden, that God told them they were NOT to touch, eat from.

Genesis 2:15/17 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

   As Laws go, it could not have been any simpler, no wokeness, grey areas leading to misinterpretation. The Tree of Knowledge was good, the Law was good, but as it turned out it was not good for man, due to his inability to keep, abide by, one very simple Law. Some people think that live Holy, and we must teach people the knowledge of Good & Evil, it shows on so many levels how, because of Godless society we live in, in fact to are already heading to hell in a hand cart.

Genesis 3:7 “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves“

   The day this happened, was when Adam & Eve ate from the Tree, their conscience was also opened. In just a moment, you’ll hear how that they sewed Fig leaves, this happened first, then God being frustrated with them sewed them, clothes from goat skins. . . [Genesis 3:20] “Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them” . . . Before embarking on their sinful lives, because now they can see sin, know good from evil, so understanding right from wrong. They did not have all these ‘Worries’ before hand, due to being blind to these problems & sins. They were still able to, in spite of their disobedience, speak to and see God, How merciful a Heavenly Father we have.

Be Honest when answering the following…

Do you want your mind to be ruled by the Law ..

OR

Do you want your mind ruled by Jesus Christ?

   For me, to be ruled by Jesus Christ, is to gain far more than can ever be conceived. Surely a perfect conscience would know we have been delivered from ‘The Law’, this alone has to make us confident in our Lord God, especially when considering that there are over 1800 different Laws in Bible.

Matthew 5:17/19 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”

   So having already said that Jesus came not to abolish, do away with the Law, but He only came to .. “full fill the Law”, for some had wanted away with the Law, surly then only anarchy & lawlessness would ensue. OK, coming back on topic before I go down a different rabbit hole, lol.

Hebrews 7:17 “For it is declared: You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek”

   Now speaking of Jesus being a ‘Royal Priest’ for ever and ever to come. Where there is no curses, only now just ‘Blessings’. V8 .. Tells us that the Law was no longer any good for man, and from hence faith is canceled. Once man has shown his total disregard to Gods Law for us, we have a fleshly weakness.

Hebrews 7:18 “The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless”

Hebrews 8:6 “But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises”

We should be encouraged, that from this moment new and better promises on promises. But it took the old Covenant to be replaced, I wonder sometimes, how many times has God moved the goal posts to accommodate our ineptitude? In the time of Jesus there were those who were so called ‘Lawyers’. The were nothing like the ‘injury-lawyers-for-you’, as these ‘Lawyers’, studied nothing else but for the ‘Moses Laws’. So if you, in the eyes of the Pharisees were caught doing something they felt was wrong, you went before the ‘Lawyers’, and they judged you ...

Matthew 22:34/40 “But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment” Then Jesus finished by saying … “39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law” … these two commandments alone should be pinned to your fridge door as you're reminded, of such simplicity. I’m sure the Sadducees must have had egg on their faces.

Hebrews 7:19/21 “for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. Greatness of the New Priest 20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 21(for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn And will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”

V20 … Here we can see how God tells Christ Jesus that He (Jesus) made this Oath before Melchizedek, that from hence forth and foreever more, would be the High Priest. God has no need to swear on or about anything. Maybe God must have had conversations with them both and they were difference of opinions and Melchizedek was not happy with this, that’s why God swore. When God makes an oath/promise with you, it will come to pass. After Melchizedek there will be blessings after blessings, after blessings ... Hebrews 7:22 “by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant”… Now because of Jesus, we have been given an ultimate guarantor of this new and wonderful Covenant/Testament that is ‘fail-proof’, and as much ‘fool-proof’. The simplicity is such that a 5 year old child could not only grasp it, but follow it also.

   Such is the simplicity a fool could have all the blessings in Gods store. All God wants is for us to believe in Him, Then He sent Son to full fill the Laws. For you see God has guaranteed it. Now everything depends on God how great this is, it had been Gods guarantee, and not Man’, as we are too weak and feeble to guarantee such as an important thing as this.

   Under the old Law it was God’s reaction that was dependant on man’s actions, to the old Laws. Now everything has changed, it’s now in reverse ‘Man's-reactions’ are determined upon Gods Actions. As it is who you are. God say to us we not need bring anything, like the slaughtering of animals, instead just come as you are, just show up, no appointment needed, no fancy clothing, you can be an unemployed punk rocker, or the richest person in the World, the Queen of the UK or a beggar on the street. As in God’s eyes we are ALL, Equal. Come on in, it’s all good, redemption is free to everyone.

# It’s all on God #

In the New Covenant, all we need to do is believe & have faith in God, and to thank Him.

Hebrews 8:6 “But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises”

   I’m sure there must been controversy over what they saw as the removal of the 10 Commandments. The Pharisees & Sadducee’s must have thought how can this man remove them? What they could not understand was that it was noi man, when in stead it was the Son of God. The things is the commandments are good and perfect, the only problem was, an age old one that went all the way back to Adam & Eve, the problem was and is us Humans.

Hebrews 8:8/12 “Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbour, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more”

   In these verses, especially V8 is where God talks of how the covenant will no longer be based upon anything from the houses of Judah & Israel. All because, although God did His part (kept His promises to us), Man being weak and easily tempted by the first thing ~ Woman ~ Man, all to easily failed God...

Hebrews:10

1. I will make with the house of Israel

2. I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts

3. I will be their God, and they shall be My people

… how can God be more emphatic in one verse .. I Will .. I Will .. and again I Will. There will be no more having to try and show people that God is the best way to live your life. As God will, from that point hence forth as God said ‘I Will’, make His word known to every Man ~ Woman & Child. God is going to tell us only the things we need to do, as in Matthew 22:34/40.

   When it’s to do with the covenant, you need to find out what’s ‘entailed’, I.E. ~The terms ~ The Causes & The Agreements, to that covenant in order to benefit from it..

• The Garden of Eden was ‘Don’t eat from the tree, and blessings will flow
• With Moses, he was told to ‘Keep & Abide with the 10 Commandments. If not you’re to make a sacrifice, and I’ll keep the blessings coming.
• Because of man’s ineptitude under the new covenant all we have to do in order for God to ‘I Will ~ I Will ~ I Will’, is now simply to believe in the one true living God.

Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more”

   What can change this Verse at the very start, In most translated versions like King James Version .. New Living Translation .. New International Version .. or even New King James, the verse starts with “For”. Translated back in to the original Greek version, the word “For” is actually “Because”. Now reading the Verse changing out the words, the verse starts with “Because I will forgive ..”. God is saying despite of their sinning I will forgive. How a gracious God we have. Just imagine a close best friend kept steeling from you, lying to you, deceiving you, saying he made me do it. How long , really how long would put up with it, telling them sure look it's’ OK? I guessing not very long?

   God needs for us to trust in Him, all be it in what we can’t see ~ smell ~ touch. When in actual fact, God wants us to trust in Him more than we could ever trust in ourselves, I know this is going to be the hardest thing you will ever do. Trust me, I know this from personal experience He will come through for you, Try Him.

My leaving thought for you is …

If your going to abide in the Law, you can’t cherry pick, you have to keep all of them.

Intercessory Prayer....

Intercessory Prayer

Nehemiah 1 4/11   “. .Why have they never known the way before? Why hundreds stand outside the mercies? I

know not; but I ask, dear Lord, thou would

lead them now . .”

   Prayer is one of the greatest privileges and one of the mightiest forces with which man can have to do. Through prayer Elijah turned off the rain of Heaven for 3 ½ years . .

James 5 17   “. . Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it

did not rain on the land for three years

and six months . .”

 . .and Peter was delivered from the prison in answered prayer having made prayers unto God a Kingdom of priests.

 Revelation 5 10   “. . And have made us kings and 

priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.

   It’s in our Heavenly calling to make to make intercession for others. In these words of Nehemiah we think we see Characteristics of prevailing prayer. These are . .

·       Earnestness

·       Knowledge

·       Importunity

·       Confession

·       Faith

·       Consecration

   

 Earnestness

   We wept – Mourned – Fasted (v4). But, Why do we fast? Fasting & praying help us to focus, removing all temptation & distraction that will cause our minds to wonder. The main times, it seems, is when there is a disaster, like earth slides, or a plane crash where many people have been killed. For instance the recent terror attack to place in Paris, or the crude homemade bombs in New York.    

   We all can pay lip-service, i.e, a quick ‘Oh my Lord may your grace be upon them. Then you give them not another thought!

   As God loves a cheerful giver and those who send heart felt prayers. He hates those who draw near in prayer, but those whose heart is somewhere else. This makes mockery of their whole prayers. In fact it’s better not to have prayed in the first place.

Knowledge

   It was Nehemiah’s closeness to God that he had freedom of prayer, he could he could pray this . .

V6  “.I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, 

the great and terrible God, that keeps covenant and 

mercy for them that love him. .”

   Because of Nehemiah’s belief in Gods greatness. .

-        His Terribleness

-        His Faithfulness

-        His Mercifulness

. . .all of this is great, but, when drawing near to Him (God) we must believe that He is the warder of them that diligently seek Him.

Hebrews 11 6   “. . But without faith it is impossible to please 

him: for he that comes to God must believe 

that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that 

diligently seek him. .”

   To know such a god in such a fashion is to ask much and expect much. Thus those of us that do know we do this with much importunity.

Importunity

(. .is when you go do something, like a girl asking ‘Please

take me to the Mall’ where she ask once. Whereas

Importunate is (objective), a plea that is so persistent,

or demanding that it becomes annoying. .)

   I have never heard of the word being used, or have known about the word. That said it seems this word has been used a lot down the years.

Luke 11 8   “. .  I say unto you, Though he will not rise

and give him, because he is his friend, yet because

of his importunity he will rise and give him as many

as he needs. .”

   It is of belief that some say you only have to pray once, because God is not deaf. So is a waste of time and your breath? Sure who knows what is in your hearts and minds. But, home much does it mean to that family member/friend saved or someone healed? Are we to say to them yeah sure, I’ll pray, then forget about them, after only praying for them once.

Daniel 11 32   “. . And such as do wickedly against the covenant

 shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know

their God shall be strong, and do exploits. .”

   Those truly know their God will know that it pleases god to see us pray, and not just the once, but continually. Many have asked how often are you supposed to pray and for how long? Well, a lot throughout the day. I give thanks to the Lord in prayer, for every green light, find parking close to where going and free, for good Weather. In fact I give thanks to the Lord for everything. Just because I would pray with my eyes open, which is a pre-requisite when driving, does not lessen my prayers.

V6 “. . which I pray before thee now, day and night. .”  It was because of the widows continual coming (never giving up because it became hard/difficult). The lessen our Lord is trying to teach here is found in the parable from Luke, is of the man begging from his friend that comes at mid-night.

Luke 11 8  “. .I say unto you, though he will not

rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because

of his importunity he will rise . .”

   It was whilst Moses help up his hand that Israel prevailed “. . pray with ceasing . .” but, not weary in such well doing, for in the season to come you will reap all, if you don’t faint.

V 6& 7  “. .both I and my father's house have sinned. We have dealt very corruptly against thee . .”

    It has to be a sad state of affairs that large percentage of saved Christians think that “now I’m saved I can sit back and do nothing”, apart from keep seats warm. 

The sin of dealing with God is a

 b Very common one, and a very

Grievous one

    So many pay lip service. Pretend to believe in His word. Because of this some many ‘still’ live in fear and dread and doubt. Then they ask the Lord, for the things they don’t need to get, instead prevail with God in prayer if there is no confession made of their deceitfulness which has made their lives so baron to date.

   We can’t say for the Lord to come into our life, because I’m a sinner, but, I don’t want to change anything in my life and stop being a sinner. Then they get baptized, yet this meant nothing, because they carry on sinning. All the time they were lying God would you do this to your ‘Earthly Father? Would you? How can we expect to prevail with God when all we do is lie to Him! 

Faith

Our Faith lay hold of the spoken word of God

V 8 & 9  “. .Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commanded thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. .”

   Within our prayers that are built up by Faith on the promise of God cannot be over thrown. Turning to the Lord himself, Nehemiah fulfilled the condition of the blessing, the he took the place of the Lords, remembrance, saying “Remember . . the word”. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, that god wants an elaborate shows of Faith. Instead it please Him for us to have a child like that is infinitely pleasing to Him.

   God finds it very difficult to deny when He finds so much of Himself involved in such pleading. Instead God goes one step further and reminds us of His great works, in reminding us of his great power, “. .Power and strong hand. .” (V10). The audacity of Faith is astounding, it looks up into the face of God saying . .

“There is thy Word of promise, and there is redemption which is the evidence of thy mighty love and the strength of thy saving. .”

   Now do this thing for me, he that comes to God must believe and in doing so believing he must be rewarded.

Consecration

V11   “. .O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine

ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the

 prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name. .”

   “In our prayers we should a miss if we are not prepared to yield ourselves unto God and to live for the Gory of His Name.” (Jes 4 v3) With God we have 3 classes of servants. . .

1.    The Slave:  Who serves through ‘fear’.

2.  The Hireling  Who serves for ‘wages’

3.  The Son  Who serves for ‘Love’.

The Slave:  Who serves through ‘fear’.

   These people have been around for many-a-millennium They were forced to work long hours, for little shelter/rest or pay. Slaves had no say over to whom they should serve & Worship.

John 8 34

NKJ puts it ”. .Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. “

Although The Message puts it

“I tell you most solemnly that anyone who

chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life

and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who

can’t come and go at will. .”

The Hireling  Who serves for ‘wages’

   John 10 12/113

But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not

own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep

and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not

care about the sheep.

   John leaves no doubt as to the true meaning of these people. For if they had to stand at the pulpit teaching the Lord Gods word, was not paid. There would not, sad to say, be a large percentage of leaders/Preachers. To be one of these you must have a calling from God.

The Son  Who serves for ‘Love’.

   He should be one who looks to please his Father & Mother, and be bringing grief & strife. . .

Proverbs 10 1  “. .A wise son makes a glad father,
But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. .”

. .Instead he should be seeking that that only shows love & peace, because he is free to do so. Unlike the ‘Slave’ he needs not to be oppressed into showing this. His time & love cannot be bought as he willing/wants to show his parents, how much they mean to him, no so for the ‘Hireling’.

   It is the obedient and the devoted who expects to get the fullness of the Heavenly Father. It is those who present a living sacrifice unto God are able to show all that is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12 1& 2

“. .Those would prevail with God to give them the servants

portion, first of all must take the servants place. .”