The Weightier Matters Of The Law

Mr. M · Mar 18, 2021

pasifika said:
Okay thanks, first it directed towards us (individually ) then to one another....
In order to know how to do good to others is to know how to do good first to our Father...

Is that what you're asking?

Yes. Also, I started a new thread to address our witness to the world. Our relationship with one
another is a witness testimony against the world at large that knows not God. So Yes, we serve
the Lord by serving one another for His Name Sake, and as a Light to the World. Good Points.
We should fully understand the Righteousness and Judgment of the Throne of God, that we can
stand at the Judgment as Witnesses. As Paul wrote in Romans 11:22, we acknowledge both the
goodness and the severity of God.

pasifika · Mar 18, 2021

Minister Monardo said:
Yes. Also, I started a new thread to address our witness to the world. Our relationship with one
another is a witness testimony against the world at large that knows not God. So Yes, we serve
the Lord by serving one another for His Name Sake, and as a Light to the World. Good Points.
We should fully understand the Righteousness and Judgment of the Throne of God, that we can
stand at the Judgment as Witnesses. As Paul wrote in Romans 11:22, we acknowledge both the
goodness and the severity of God.

Yes agreed 100%

Studyman · Mar 19, 2021

BrotherJJ said:
Matt 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Mint = A garden herb, known for it's its agreeable flavor. Sprinkled on floors in their houses & synagogues to produce a pleasant fragrance.

Anise = Dill, It has a fine aromatic smell, and is used by confectioners and perfumers.

Cummin = Also a herb. The law of Moses required a tithe on the “fruits of the earth,” Deut 14:22. It said nothing, however, about herbs.

Yet, Pharisees maintained the claim that they to should be tithed on. Christ said, honest judgment, mercy, faith & love are what is truly important.

Actually HE didn't say that at all. "These you should have done, and not to leave the other undone."

Had they loved the stranger and had mercy and justice as defined by God's Law, but rejected the Command regarding Tithes, they still would have been "hypocrites".

"Man shall live by Every Word which proceeds from the mouth of God", not just the instructions which may be popular in the religions of the land at the time.

Mr. M · Mar 19, 2021

Minister Monardo said:
Equity in judging others impartially, and showing God's Mercy.

1 Peter 1:
17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each
one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay in fear;
18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold,
from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in
these last times for you.
21 Who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory,
so that your faith and hope are in God.

Clare73 · Mar 19, 2021

pasifika said:
I see...well, the law written in our hearts is in reference to Christ being formed within us...(Christ is the end of the law for Righteousness )

He is the end of the law for righteousness because the law was unable to give righteousness due to man's inability to keep it.
The law "written on our hearts" is the New Covenant enabling power of the Holy Spirit to please God.

Our inner transformation begins at the time you accepted the Gospel...it ends when God send the Spirit of His Son into our hearts...(the fullness of God in Christ ).

If our inner transformation is completed when God sends the Spirit of his son into our hearts, at the new birth, why does the NT present so many exhortations to grow in holiness; e.g., 2 Peter 1:5-9, Romans 6:19; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 2 Thessalonians 1:3?

At the second coming, the revelation of our inner being with its "new body"... (old wine in old
wineskin and new wine into new wineskin)

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 19, 2021

^^^ If our inner transformation is completed when God sends the Spirit of his son into our hearts, at the new birth, why does the NT present so many exhortations to grow in holiness;

((At the second coming, the revelation of our inner being with its "new body"... (old wine in old wineskin and new wine into new wineskin))

The adoption of the body is the physical transformation not the spiritual transformation in the essence of the children conforming to His death. (something flesh can never do) The new wine is enjoyed in fellowship at commencing rebirth. New wine teaching is what Jesus brought that gives new life that the old wine could never accomplish. hth

Studyman · Mar 19, 2021

~Cassia~ said:
The adoption of the body is the physical transformation not the spiritual transformation in the essence of the children conforming to His death. (something flesh can never do) The new wine is enjoyed in fellowship at commencing rebirth. New wine teaching is what Jesus brought that gives new life that the old wine could never accomplish. hth

Can you show scriptures to support this teaching?

Mr. M · Mar 19, 2021

Studyman said:
Can you show scriptures to support this teaching?

This is going to require an in depth study in sanctification, and maybe another thread.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A possible start in the Law
For Sin, And For Uncleanness

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 19, 2021

Studyman said:
Can you show scriptures to support this teaching?

Romans 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Luke 5:34-39
Jesus said to them, “You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’”

The wedding Christ attended served the best last because of the first miracle.

Galatians 3:19-28
19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator. 20 Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.
21 Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law. 22 But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Mr. M · Mar 19, 2021

~Cassia~ said:
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

And while we are waiting...
Ephesians 2:
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, by grace
you have been saved,
6 and raised up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.

How is it we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ?
2 Corinthians 5:
1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God,
a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but
further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit
as a guarantee.

To what avail is it to have a heavenly body? We have access!
Romans 5:
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

How to we utilize this access by faith?
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you.
Matthew 21:22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
James 1:
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven
and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. But the people answered him not a word.

Do you ask, or do research, learn new languages, read commentaries and study historical
writings and ecumenical councils? What do you think Baal represents?

2 Corinthians 3:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves,
but our sufficiency is from God,
6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of
the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

An asking child, or a man of letters?

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 19, 2021

How is it we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ?
2 Corinthians 5:
1

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For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God,
a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but
further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit
as a guarantee.

I don’t think that explains seated with Christ now, but explains why the body needs redeeming after death. The following passage is not future.

Alive with Christ
…5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.…

Mr. M · Mar 19, 2021

~Cassia~ said:
I don’t think that explains seated with Christ now, but explains why the body needs redeeming after death. The following passage is not future.

I did not place it in the future. The scripture says we have access.

Minister Monardo said:
Romans 5:
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

You may not have read through the entire post if you were looking at an email. I was in
agreement with what you are saying...pretty sure at least.

Minister Monardo said:
How to be utilize this access by faith?
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you.
Matthew 21:22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
James 1:
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven
and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 19, 2021

Minister Monardo said:
I did not place it in the future. The scripture says we have access.

You may not have read through the entire post if you were looking at an email. I was in
agreement with what you are saying...pretty sure at least.

I read the whole post but that scripture seemed misplaced. I think we agree otherwise.

Mr. M · Mar 19, 2021

~Cassia~ said:
I read the whole post but that scripture seemed misplaced. I think we agree otherwise.

Okay, I can see a lack of certainty there. I was proposing the tabernacle in heaven we are
waiting to be clothed in as a possibility. I normally include this in regards to access:
Hebrews 12:
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God
the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 20, 2021

Minister Monardo said:
Okay, I can see a lack of certainty there. I was proposing the tabernacle in heaven we are
waiting to be clothed in as a possibility. I normally include this in regards to access:

I suppose that’s what I would refer to as the adoption of the body at the last resurrection.

Hebrews 12:
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
to an innumerable company of angels,
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God
the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.

Otoh Mt Zion would be the spiritual city as the matured Mt Sinia, Genesis to Revelation, law to grace, thru the mirror a look at glory, maybe thru the eyes of the witnesses of the clouds of angels, principalities in heavenly places revealed by the church. Ephesians 3:10

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 20, 2021

That seems to place it more in the now that is also sadly lacking in teachings.

LoveGodsWord · Mar 20, 2021

Clare73 said:
Those ways are already written on our hearts.

If I love my neighbor, I don't need a written law to tell me
not to bear false witness against him,
not to kill him,
not to steal from him,
not to violate his marriage relationship,
and much more. . .not to tear up his yard, nor to be unkind to him, nor to disrespect him, nor to gossip about him, nor to unknowingly take advantage of him, etc., etc., etc.

I don't need a written code for that, it's already written on my heart.
All I have to do is choose to obey it. I'm not perfect, so chances of me keeping it perfectly are pretty slim.

Good answer for our duty of love to our fellow man. How then to we love God?

LoveGodsWord · Mar 20, 2021

Clare73 said:
We can never be perfect in anything relating to God--in our love for him or our neighbor, in our obedience to him, in our trust of him, in our knowledge of him, in our holiness, in our worship of him, etc., etc., etc., because we cannot be sinless.

Why not? What does Hebrews 13:20-31; Matthew 5:48; Romans 12:2; 1 John 3:6-9; John 8:31-36 and Revelation 14:12 mean? What are those who have faith saved from?

Studyman · Mar 20, 2021

~Cassia~ said:
Romans 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The redemption of the body has always been what the Faithful in the Holy Scriptures waited for.

Gen. 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Ps. 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Rom. 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

David understood this.

Ps. 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

You say Jesus brought a "New Wine" or as you called it "New Wine Teaching" as if this teaching didn't exist until Jesus was born. Then how is it David and Jacob both said the same things as Paul regarding Salvation, waiting and Hope?

Luke 5:34-39
Jesus said to them, “You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’” The wedding Christ attended served the best last because of the first miracle.

Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

What good is it to fill a sinner (Old Wine skin) with Good Teaching? Shall the Sinner not first "Repent", and the old man crucified, so that it no longer reigns in your mortal body? Then the New Man, the New Wine Skin, can hold the New wine and both are preserved. The New Wine isn't "NEW" as if it never existed before. The Righteous have already found the Physician, they already have been given the New Wine. (See examples of Faith in Heb. 11, Psalms 14, and also Zacharias in Luke 1)

Galatians 3:19-28
19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.

What Law is Paul speaking to here? What LAW was "ADDED" 430 years after Abraham "Gen. 26:5 Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

What was this "LAW" ADDED too? What was "Transgressed" that Prompted God to "ADD" this Law, but only "Till the Seed should come"?

It is widely taught in the religions of the land that this Law is referring to All the Instructions God gave Moses. But if a man studies the Holy Scriptures for himself, it becomes clear that this "ADDED" Law was the Levitical Priesthood Abraham didn't have. A Temporary Priesthood that provided for the cleansing and atonement of God's People "Till the Seed should Come". The Jews were "Bewitching" the Galatians by telling them they couldn't be cleansed, or "made righteous", without the Sacrificial, Ceremonial "Works" of this Law "added" 430 years after Abraham.

20 Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.
21 Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.

What Law was given "Till the Seed should come" that was to make transgressors clean, atoned for, forgiven?

Did the "LAW" say "If a man sins, he shall Love his Neighbor as himself and his sins shall be forgiven? No!!!

Did the "Law" say "if a man sins, he shall Keep the Sabbath Holy and his sin is forgiven? No!!!

But there was a "LAW", ADDED 430 years after Abraham obeyed, because of Transgressions, that did promise atonement/forgiveness.

Lev. 4:28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. 31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

This is the LAW Abraham didn't have as Levi wasn't even born yet. This is the "LAW" the Jews were still promoting as they didn't believe the Christ was our new High Priest. This is the LAW that was ADDED because of Transgressions.

22 But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed.

Faith in what? That the Sacrificial "works of the Law" for atonement actually foreshadowed the Christ's own Sacrifice? That is was never the "works of the law" of atonement that covered our sins, but the Blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?

Zacharias and Simeon knew this before Jesus was even born. Truly, this Law led them to Christ.

24 Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

Not justified by "works" of a Levitical Priesthood Abraham never had.

25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.

So in Paul's time, the Temporary atonement Laws given by Covenant to Levi, have grown old and at this time were ready to disappear.

27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

There are only servants to whom we "Yield ourselves to obey"..

Rom. 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, (Dead) but under grace? (Alive) God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Whose Righteousness?

Galatians, and Paul himself is miss-represented by "many" as Prophesied. A good way to understand what Paul is truly saying, is to ask yourself the question "What LAW was "ADDED" because of Transgressions (Golden calf), what was this Law "ADDED" to, and what was being "Transgressed" that prompted God to "ADDED" it?

Citizen of the Kingdom · Mar 20, 2021

Studyman said:
The redemption of the body has always been what the Faithful in the Holy Scriptures waited for.

Gen. 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Ps. 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Rom. 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Hope of the glory not yet revealed. Hope is faith in that not yet revealed, yet we know that Christ in us and us in Christ has been revealed, but the hope we still have is the anchor to our souls.

the glory about to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

David understood this.

Ps. 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

David understood who the God of Glory was, no doubt about that. An anchor could be placed upon the bragging rights David had in knowing God.

You say Jesus brought a "New Wine" or as you called it "New Wine Teaching" as if this teaching didn't exist until Jesus was born. Then how is it David and Jacob both said the same things as Paul regarding Salvation, waiting and Hope?

The new wine teaching regarding Christ and the church wasn’t taught until Christ. Paul was quite adamant about that.

Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

What good is it to fill a sinner (Old Wine skin) with Good Teaching? Shall the Sinner not first "Repent", and the old man crucified, so that it no longer reigns in your mortal body?

Come on. If new birth is not a process of hearing then you have not been reading your bible, so enough gymnastics. Hearing is believing, if not then repentance never happened. If so then the old whine of law has become the new wine of identification with His death to legalities.

Then the New Man, the New Wine Skin, can hold the New wine and both are preserved. The New Wine isn't "NEW" as if it never existed before. The Righteous have already found the Physician, they already have been given the New Wine. (See examples of Faith in Heb. 11, Psalms 14, and also Zacharias in Luke 1)

The OT saints had not received the new wine until Christ. First-fruit offerings had first to be accepted by God before being renewed for a year. Christ’s first fruit offering, accepted, was for all time, past present and future.

What Law is Paul speaking to here? What LAW was "ADDED" 430 years after Abraham "Gen. 26:5 Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Obeyed His Voice to not sacrifice another, He would provide. . . but now a better Voice is to be obeyed, your reasoning is the greater sacrifice Romans 12:1-3. It’s not about the flesh any more, the NT is according to the mind of Christ. That doesn’t even bring it to the level of spiritual yet, which is also in effect.

What was this "LAW" ADDED too? What was "Transgressed" that Prompted God to "ADD" this Law, but only "Till the Seed should come”?

Oh I don’t know, mostly appeasements to men’s beastly traits. Divorce which even God took advantage of, and Persian law gaining NT access when men became heads of the homes according to the book of Esther. Paul took complete advantage of that writing to form his analogies from of what Christ and the church look like.

It is widely taught in the religions of the land that this Law is referring to All the Instructions God gave Moses. But if a man studies the Holy Scriptures for himself, it becomes clear that this "ADDED" Law was the Levitical Priesthood Abraham didn't have. A Temporary Priesthood that provided for the cleansing and atonement of God's People "Till the Seed should Come". The Jews were "Bewitching" the Galatians by telling them they couldn't be cleansed, or "made righteous", without the Sacrificial, Ceremonial "Works" of this Law "added" 430 years after Abraham.

Exactly. That was done away with at Shiloh. Levitical is done away with at the book of Hebrews, predating to Christ’s death.

What Law was given "Till the Seed should come" that was to make transgressors clean, atoned for, forgiven?

Temporary ritualistic cleansing.

Did the "LAW" say "If a man sins, he shall Love his Neighbor as himself and his sins shall be forgiven? No!!!

Did the "Law" say "if a man sins, he shall Keep the Sabbath Holy and his sin is forgiven? No!!!

But there was a "LAW", ADDED 430 years after Abraham obeyed, because of Transgressions, that did promise atonement/forgiveness.

Lev. 4:28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. 31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

So now we have the mediator in the heavenlies that places all others obsolete, and forgiveness can be found no where else.

This is the LAW Abraham didn't have as Levi wasn't even born yet. This is the "LAW" the Jews were still promoting as they didn't believe the Christ was our new High Priest. This is the LAW that was ADDED because of Transgressions.

That is what was in the loins of Abraham as he stood opposite Melchezedec, to Whom all believers now have access with Him, seated with Him. All those other things are passed away.

Faith in what? That the Sacrificial "works of the Law" for atonement actually foreshadowed the Christ's own Sacrifice? That is was never the "works of the law" of atonement that covered our sins, but the Blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?

Zacharias and Simeon knew this before Jesus was even born. Truly, this Law led them to Christ.

At-one-ment. Not much use for the shadow when the substance is present.

Not justified by "works" of a Levitical Priesthood Abraham never had.
So in Paul's time, the Temporary atonement Laws given by Covenant to Levi, have grown old and at this time were ready to disappear.

Ready to? Long overdue.

(27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.)There are only servants to whom we "Yield ourselves to obey"..

Rom. 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, (Dead) but under grace? (Alive) God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Whose Righteousness?

Righteousness is the breastplate, His righteousness. Be sure to not neglect the rest of the armour, the belt of truth, the gospel message of shoes that bring good news, His helmet of salvation ( very important because it contains the mind of Christ) the sword of the word of God, can’t forget that since it’s the only weapon that Christians have and that satan wants to rob from.

Galatians, and Paul himself is miss-represented by "many" as Prophesied. A good way to understand what Paul is truly saying, is to ask yourself the question "What LAW was "ADDED" because of Transgressions (Golden calf), what was this Law "ADDED" to, and what was being "Transgressed" that prompted God to "ADDED" it?

A good way to understand Paul is to ask “is this pointing to law or grace” because Paul only uses shadows to express the light.

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