Peace in Christ.
The kingdom/government of God is within our hearts and minds.
It does not come from “observation”….the observation of external writings. Luke 17:20-21 .
Our God is our Judge and we are to do His commandments that are written in our inward parts. Do not let a man bring you into the bondage of the keeping and serving of the commandments of men who judge others according to their church handwriting of ordinances. They are servants of the sin by doing so.
We are in His kingdom/government when we keep and DO His commandments from the heart and mind where they are written. We are no longer under the government of natural men under heaven but we are in the kingdom/government of heaven above instead which supersedes the outside governments of man. He takes us out of the bondage of “Egypt”…the outside world.
We are dead with Christ from the “rudiments” (fundamental principles contained in handwritings) of the world.
We are dead to the world's “constitutions” by which they govern and judge themselves by. These governmental documents are the “gods” of the nations about us that we are not to copy them and place in our gatherings of our worship of God to keep and serve. God has given the nations to serve them (for now)...but we as His people are not to do the same as them and come up with governing documents (statements of faith, church constitutions, church by-laws, statutes, creeds, etc) to be placed in our gatherings in the worship of God. We are not to bring these abominations into His house.
Col 2:20-22 KJV
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
We PERISH in our mortal bodies for the keeping and serving of the commandments and doctrines of men which are put down in their handwritings.
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
We are to have no “other gods”…other “judges” (handwritings of ordinances) before Him. The world (“Egypt”) serves their “gods”….their governmental documents by which they judge themselves with. He has delivered us out of their bondage.
I am the “LORD our God” = He is our Living JUDGE. God=elohim= Judge. A scribe’s handwriting of ordinances is not living and not our judges. They are “dead works” that have no life in them by the keeping and serving of them.
He is the LORD our God (Judge) which has brought us out of the land of Egypt...out of the house of bondage. The keeping and serving of church handwritings of ordinances ("other gods") DO NOT bring us out of it.
Exo 20:1-4 KJV
(1) And God spake all these words, saying,
(2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
A “graven image” is the handwriting graven by the pen of church scribes. Men have crept into the churches unawares and want to bring us into their bondage of keeping their church handwritings of ordinances….their doctrines and commandments of men. We are not to make these handwritings like the outside nations which have their “images”…their governmental handwritings…to bow down to and serve in our churches.
(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
The LORD our God....our Living Judge has brought us out of the land of Egypt. We are not to be their (the outside world’s) bondmen.
Lev 26:13 KJV
(13) I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Let us not forsake the LORD and serve “strange gods”….
Jos 24:20 KJV
(20) If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
If we hear His voice and observe and do all of His commandments (which are within us), then the LORD our God (Judge) will set us on high ABOVE ALL NATIONS of the earth.
Deu 28:1-2 KJV
(1) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
(2) And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
We must do HIS COMMANDMENTS of the LORD our God (Judge) and not go after "other gods" (the church handwritings of ordinances) to serve them. He shall make us the head and not the tail in this earth. If we serve "other gods", then we shall be the tail and not the head in this earth. The people of the outside world will rule over us....as we see today. We are under the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and not the blessings.
Deu 28:13-14 KJV
(13) And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
(14) And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
We must turn from "idols"....the images...the handwritings of men...and confess our sin....and the sin of our church fathers who came up with these handwritings for us to keep and serve. He will forgive us. He will remember His covenant...
Lev 26:40-42 KJV
(40) If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
(41) And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
(42) Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
God is not the product of our own hands. He is not our handwritings…man's device...the images/idols/other gods. They are “other gods” that we are not to have before Him....the only LORD our God (the Living Judge). The fabrication of man's hand....the church scribes' handwritings...are not living words nor are the living judges like our Judge who is Living.
Act 17:29 KJV
(29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
We did service to “other gods” before we knew Him. We served the handwritings of men. By nature, they are “no gods”.
Gal 4:8-9 KJV
(8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Now that we have known God (our Judge), do we now want to return to the keeping of the “weak and beggarly elements (fundamental principles written in handwritings)?
Do we desire again to be in bondage to the keeping and serving of a handwriting of ordinances? Do we want to be put back under the handwritings of men to govern and judge us?
(9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (rudiments...fundamental principles contained in handwritings), whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
God judges them that are outside (of the church) in this world. 1 Corinthians 5:13 .
He smites all of the “first born” (the mortal body is the first born) in the “land of Egypt”. The natural body is the “first” born and then the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46 .
The Living Judge executes judgment upon their “gods”…their handwritings by which they self-govern and self-judge themselves with rather than having God be their King and having His commandments to keep and serve. The people in the outside world are mortally perishing under His judgment. They are children of His wrath by nature.
Exo 12:12-13 KJV
(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
The blood of Christ saves us though. The blood of Christ cleanses us. He will pass over us so that the plague (death) shall not be upon us to destroy us (our mortal bodies are our earthly “houses”) like it does the inhabitants of the outside world….in the “land of Egypt.”
(13) And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
The blood of Christ purges our conscience from “dead works” (the dead works of the keeping and serving of handwritings of ordinances) to serve the living God….the living JUDGE.
Heb 9:14 KJV
(14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
We are forgiven for the keeping and serving of the church handwritings of ordinances. He nails it to His cross. We must turn from these “idols”…images…handwriting of ordinances. We make a show of them openly when we cease from keeping them….coming out of the churches of fleshly-minded men who keep and worship the product of their own hands.
Col 2:13-15 KJV
(13) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
We are to turn from “idols”…that is, IMAGES (the handwriting of ordinances) and serve the LIVING and TRUE God….the Living and True JUDGE. We are to keep and serve His commandments and statutes rather than man’s.
1Th 1:9
(9) For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols (image worship) to serve the living and true God;
The blood of Christ cleanses us from the dead works. He passes over our “houses”…our mortal bodies…so that we are delivered. He delivers our "houses"...our mortal bodies.
We shall not die like the outside world who is abiding under the wrath of God. The world and its lust passes away under His wrath. The “Egyptians” mortal bodies…those of the outside world who are serving their “gods”…are mortally perishing under His wrath.
Exo 12:27 KJV
(27) That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
We were once going to “church” and serving their handwritings. We were once the children of wrath (as those of the outside world) because of this.
But now we hear His voice and understand and we are to turn from “idols”…images…the handwritings of ordinances and unto the Living God…the Living Judge.
The kingdom/government of God is within our hearts and minds.
It does not come from “observation”….the observation of external writings. Luke 17:20-21 .
Our God is our Judge and we are to do His commandments that are written in our inward parts. Do not let a man bring you into the bondage of the keeping and serving of the commandments of men who judge others according to their church handwriting of ordinances. They are servants of the sin by doing so.
We are in His kingdom/government when we keep and DO His commandments from the heart and mind where they are written. We are no longer under the government of natural men under heaven but we are in the kingdom/government of heaven above instead which supersedes the outside governments of man. He takes us out of the bondage of “Egypt”…the outside world.
We are dead with Christ from the “rudiments” (fundamental principles contained in handwritings) of the world.
We are dead to the world's “constitutions” by which they govern and judge themselves by. These governmental documents are the “gods” of the nations about us that we are not to copy them and place in our gatherings of our worship of God to keep and serve. God has given the nations to serve them (for now)...but we as His people are not to do the same as them and come up with governing documents (statements of faith, church constitutions, church by-laws, statutes, creeds, etc) to be placed in our gatherings in the worship of God. We are not to bring these abominations into His house.
Col 2:20-22 KJV
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
We PERISH in our mortal bodies for the keeping and serving of the commandments and doctrines of men which are put down in their handwritings.
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
We are to have no “other gods”…other “judges” (handwritings of ordinances) before Him. The world (“Egypt”) serves their “gods”….their governmental documents by which they judge themselves with. He has delivered us out of their bondage.
I am the “LORD our God” = He is our Living JUDGE. God=elohim= Judge. A scribe’s handwriting of ordinances is not living and not our judges. They are “dead works” that have no life in them by the keeping and serving of them.
He is the LORD our God (Judge) which has brought us out of the land of Egypt...out of the house of bondage. The keeping and serving of church handwritings of ordinances ("other gods") DO NOT bring us out of it.
Exo 20:1-4 KJV
(1) And God spake all these words, saying,
(2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
A “graven image” is the handwriting graven by the pen of church scribes. Men have crept into the churches unawares and want to bring us into their bondage of keeping their church handwritings of ordinances….their doctrines and commandments of men. We are not to make these handwritings like the outside nations which have their “images”…their governmental handwritings…to bow down to and serve in our churches.
(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
The LORD our God....our Living Judge has brought us out of the land of Egypt. We are not to be their (the outside world’s) bondmen.
Lev 26:13 KJV
(13) I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Let us not forsake the LORD and serve “strange gods”….
Jos 24:20 KJV
(20) If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
If we hear His voice and observe and do all of His commandments (which are within us), then the LORD our God (Judge) will set us on high ABOVE ALL NATIONS of the earth.
Deu 28:1-2 KJV
(1) And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
(2) And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
We must do HIS COMMANDMENTS of the LORD our God (Judge) and not go after "other gods" (the church handwritings of ordinances) to serve them. He shall make us the head and not the tail in this earth. If we serve "other gods", then we shall be the tail and not the head in this earth. The people of the outside world will rule over us....as we see today. We are under the curses of Deuteronomy 28 and not the blessings.
Deu 28:13-14 KJV
(13) And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
(14) And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
We must turn from "idols"....the images...the handwritings of men...and confess our sin....and the sin of our church fathers who came up with these handwritings for us to keep and serve. He will forgive us. He will remember His covenant...
Lev 26:40-42 KJV
(40) If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
(41) And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
(42) Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
God is not the product of our own hands. He is not our handwritings…man's device...the images/idols/other gods. They are “other gods” that we are not to have before Him....the only LORD our God (the Living Judge). The fabrication of man's hand....the church scribes' handwritings...are not living words nor are the living judges like our Judge who is Living.
Act 17:29 KJV
(29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
We did service to “other gods” before we knew Him. We served the handwritings of men. By nature, they are “no gods”.
Gal 4:8-9 KJV
(8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Now that we have known God (our Judge), do we now want to return to the keeping of the “weak and beggarly elements (fundamental principles written in handwritings)?
Do we desire again to be in bondage to the keeping and serving of a handwriting of ordinances? Do we want to be put back under the handwritings of men to govern and judge us?
(9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (rudiments...fundamental principles contained in handwritings), whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
God judges them that are outside (of the church) in this world. 1 Corinthians 5:13 .
He smites all of the “first born” (the mortal body is the first born) in the “land of Egypt”. The natural body is the “first” born and then the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46 .
The Living Judge executes judgment upon their “gods”…their handwritings by which they self-govern and self-judge themselves with rather than having God be their King and having His commandments to keep and serve. The people in the outside world are mortally perishing under His judgment. They are children of His wrath by nature.
Exo 12:12-13 KJV
(12) For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
The blood of Christ saves us though. The blood of Christ cleanses us. He will pass over us so that the plague (death) shall not be upon us to destroy us (our mortal bodies are our earthly “houses”) like it does the inhabitants of the outside world….in the “land of Egypt.”
(13) And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
The blood of Christ purges our conscience from “dead works” (the dead works of the keeping and serving of handwritings of ordinances) to serve the living God….the living JUDGE.
Heb 9:14 KJV
(14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
We are forgiven for the keeping and serving of the church handwritings of ordinances. He nails it to His cross. We must turn from these “idols”…images…handwriting of ordinances. We make a show of them openly when we cease from keeping them….coming out of the churches of fleshly-minded men who keep and worship the product of their own hands.
Col 2:13-15 KJV
(13) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
We are to turn from “idols”…that is, IMAGES (the handwriting of ordinances) and serve the LIVING and TRUE God….the Living and True JUDGE. We are to keep and serve His commandments and statutes rather than man’s.
1Th 1:9
(9) For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols (image worship) to serve the living and true God;
The blood of Christ cleanses us from the dead works. He passes over our “houses”…our mortal bodies…so that we are delivered. He delivers our "houses"...our mortal bodies.
We shall not die like the outside world who is abiding under the wrath of God. The world and its lust passes away under His wrath. The “Egyptians” mortal bodies…those of the outside world who are serving their “gods”…are mortally perishing under His wrath.
Exo 12:27 KJV
(27) That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
We were once going to “church” and serving their handwritings. We were once the children of wrath (as those of the outside world) because of this.
But now we hear His voice and understand and we are to turn from “idols”…images…the handwritings of ordinances and unto the Living God…the Living Judge.
