Deuteronomy 8:3

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Mark 9:43-50 KJV
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. [Lev 2:13]
50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

The following is the only place in the Torah where the commandment to salt every sacrifice-offering is given.

Leviticus 2:13 KJV
13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Therefore your statement concerning "the Levitical sacrifices and purification laws" having been made obsolete is merely your own testimony against what the Master himself teaches.

Paul teaches the same.......

In the Matthew companion passage for Mark 9:43-50 we find the word for members, and this is a key word which Paul then also employs in his epostles to teach much about the same doctrine, for example the phrase "mortify your members", (KJV, mortify, meaning to put them to death or to sleep, (being in a figurative sense)).

Matthew 5:29-30 KJV
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Rom 7:14-25, Rom 8:13, Rom 12:1, Col 3:5 ...

Romans 7:14-23 KJV
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:13 KJV
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Romans 12:1 KJV
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Colossians 3:5 KJV
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Peter also teaches the same by/through the Master, (1 Pet 2:5 re: Mrk 9:43-50), speaking of spiritual sacrifices, (and also quoting from Exo 19:6 and Exo 23:22 LXX), no doubt meaning that he learned the doctrine directly by way of the Testimony of the Master which is now recorded for us in the Gospel accounts.

1 Peter 2:5-9 KJV
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

 

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To deny the NT word of God which renders the Levitical sacrificial and purification laws obsolete (Heb 8:13) is to deny Christ's atonement once for all (Ro 6:10, Heb 9:12, 26, 28, 10:10, 1 Pe 3:18).

Therefore your statement concerning "the Levitical sacrifices and purification laws" having been made obsolete is merely your own testimony against what the Master himself teaches.

Unless you are saying type has meant anti-type No Daq.
Heb 7 and 9 show us the Levitical priesthood and therefore their ministry of sacrificial and purification laws are done away with in and through Christ's priesthood and those who are part of it. For they could never take away sin. The priesthood being transferred to Jesus and us there is made of necessity a transferal also of the law from parchment and stone to the fleshly tables of our hearts. Hence no need for the Levitical priesthood now because by it the people received the Law also. Hence why John wrote, ye have an unction from the Holy One... the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Us in Him, He in us that the world might believe.


However, @Clare73 has taken those text in Heb 8 out of context. If the new Covenant is the Law in our hearts and minds. Then we are not suppose to be sinning because those laws are in our hearts. It has become part or who we are. For His Word, both written and spoken is in our minds and mouths that we do it. The Law. that which was on stone and parchment is now part of who we are in and through Christ. The Law on stone and parchment is for sinners. So as long as sin is in the world the Law on stone and parchment, that which reveals sin has not vanished away but is ready to.

And what about those naming and claiming the name of Meshiah who choose not to receive or believe the Logos and logic in what he says and teaches in places like Mark 9:43-50? which expounds the Levitical sacrifices in the way that is pleasing to the Father? Paul teaches the same but apparently the namers and claimers who deny the Testimony in the Mark passage are oblivious to Paul's teaching on the same matter.

This we do through Christ. For we who have been baptized into Christ and are in likeness of His death are buried and risen with Him. For we who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. But we are dead But living. Yet not us, but Christ lives in us. And the Life we now live in the flesh we live by the Faith of the Son of God who gave Himself for us. The faith that the Just live by that establishes the Law.

In the Matthew companion passage for Mark 9:43-50 we find the word for members, and this is a key word which Paul then also employs in his epostles to teach much about the same doctrine, for example the phrase "mortify your members", (KJV, mortify, meaning to put them to death or to sleep, (being in a figurative sense)).

Matthew 5:29-30 KJV
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Rom 7:14-25, Rom 8:13, Rom 12:1, Col 3:5 ...

Romans 7:14-23 KJV
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:13 KJV
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Romans 12:1 KJV
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Colossians 3:5 KJV
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Peter also teaches the same by/through the Master, (1 Pet 2:5 re: Mrk 9:43-50), speaking of spiritual sacrifices, (and also quoting from Exo 19:6 and Exo 23:22 LXX), no doubt meaning that he learned the doctrine directly by way of the Testimony of the Master which is now recorded for us in the Gospel accounts.

1 Peter 2:5-9 KJV
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

If the blood of bulls and goats and ashes of a heifer sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who offered Himself without spot, purge our conscience, who we are from dead works, sin; to serve the living God. For all vessels of the ministry, the heavenly things, the Temple of the Living God, us are purged with better things, Christ Jesus. For it was not possible for those sacrifices they offered year by year to take away sin, purge us. For if they had, would they not have ceased to be offered. But in those sacrifices there was a remembrance of sin year after year. But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Jesus Christ our Lord. He taketh away the first that He may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified, purged through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once. Who being the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. And this perfection the Holy Ghost is also a wittness to us. For He saith before. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them

 

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Unless you are saying type has meant anti-type No Daq.
Heb 7 and 9 show us the Levitical priesthood and therefore their ministry of sacrificial and purification laws are done away with in and through Christ's priesthood and those who are part of it. For they could never take away sin. The priesthood being transferred to Jesus and us there is made of necessity a transferal also of the law from parchment and stone to the fleshly tables of our hearts. Hence no need for the Levitical priesthood now because by it the people received the Law also. Hence why John wrote, ye have an unction from the Holy One... the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Us in Him, He in us that the world might believe.


However, @Clare73 has taken those text in Heb 8 out of context. If the new Covenant is the Law in our hearts and minds. Then we are not suppose to be sinning because those laws are in our hearts. It has become part or who we are. For His Word, both written and spoken is in our minds and mouths that we do it. The Law. that which was on stone and parchment is now part of who we are in and through Christ. The Law on stone and parchment is for sinners. So as long as sin is in the world the Law on stone and parchment, that which reveals sin has not vanished away but is ready to.





This we do through Christ. For we who have been baptized into Christ and are in likeness of His death are buried and risen with Him. For we who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. But we are dead But living. Yet not us, but Christ lives in us. And the Life we now live in the flesh we live by the Faith of the Son of God who gave Himself for us. The faith that the Just live by that establishes the Law.




If the blood of bulls and goats and ashes of a heifer sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who offered Himself without spot, purge our conscience, who we are from dead works, sin; to serve the living God. For all vessels of the ministry, the heavenly things, the Temple of the Living God, us are purged with better things, Christ Jesus. For it was not possible for those sacrifices they offered year by year to take away sin, purge us. For if they had, would they not have ceased to be offered. But in those sacrifices there was a remembrance of sin year after year. But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Jesus Christ our Lord. He taketh away the first that He may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified, purged through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once. Who being the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. And this perfection the Holy Ghost is also a wittness to us. For He saith before. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them

By faith-belief the Gentiles are grafted into the olive tree of the all Yisrael of the Father:
1) Isa 23:17-18, Mat 15:21-28, Acts 21:3-5.
2) Rom 11:1-36, (re: Jer 11:16-17), Eph 2:11-22.

By faith-belief the heart is circumcised and in this manner one becomes a true Yhudi:
1) Esther 8:17, Rom 2:28-29, (re: Dt 10:16, Dt 30:6).
2) This also changes the meaning of Rev 2:9 and Rev 3:9.

Kohanim and Leviim are therefore no different because the tribe of Levi was taken unto the Father in the place of all the firstborn of the people of Yisrael, according to the Torah, and they therefore represent the firstborn of all Yisrael. Because of these facts Peter can therefore quote from the two passages mentioned previously, Exo 19:6 and Exo 23:22 OG LXX, and apply those statements to the great congregation of the all Yisrael of the Father, His olive tree.

1) 1Pet 2:5 re: Mrk 9:43-50, Exo 19:6, Exo 23:22 OG LXX), Reply#41.
2) Mrk 9:43-50, Isa 66:19-24, (especially Isa 66:21 quoted and highlighted in Reply#7).

The Book of Leviticus cannot be sidelined, or made obsolete, or done away with:
1) Lev 19:18, Mat 19:19, Mat 22:36-40, Mrk 12:39-31, (the second of the two great commandments).
2) Mrk 9:43-50 quoting from Lev 2:13 and expounding the true meaning of the sacrifices, (Leviticus).
3) The kingdom of Elohim is within you, (Luk 17:20-21), therefore "have salt in yourselves", (Mrk 9:49-50).
4) The words of the Father are Spirit, as He Himself is Spirit, (Jhn 4:23-24).
5) The words of the Master are Spirit and Life because they come from the Father, (Jhn 6:63, Jhn 12:49-50).
6) The natural mind cannot please Elohim because it cannot be subject to His Torah, (Rom 8:1-9).
7) The natural mind cannot be subject to the Torah because it cannot perceive spiritual things, and that is especially true when it comes to food, particularly the sacrificial offerings.

However the Testimony of the Master and likewise that of his apostles, as well as the Torah and the Prophets and the Psalms, teach us that the sacrificial offerings are spiritual offerings:

Mat 5:29-30, Mrk 9:43-50, Rom 7:14-25, Rom 8:13, Rom 12:1, Col 3:5, 1Pet 2:5-9.

All it really takes to begin understanding such things is an open heart and a faithful enduring willingness to be grafted into the olive tree of the all Yisrael of the Father.

 

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By faith-belief the Gentiles are grafted into the olive tree of the all Yisrael of the Father:
1) Isa 23:17-18, Mat 15:21-28, Acts 21:3-5.
2) Rom 11:1-36, (re: Jer 11:16-17), Eph 2:11-22.

Amen. He that has been baptized into Christ to put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor gentle, male or female bond or freeman. We are all one in Christ, the temple of God. And it is God’s spirit., through which His word, his law moves in us both to Will and do his good pleasure.

By faith-belief the heart is circumcised and in this manner one becomes a true Yhudi:
1) Esther 8:17, Rom 2:28-29, (re: Dt 10:16, Dt 30:6).
2) This also changes the meaning of Rev 2:9 and Rev 3:9.

Amen, circumcised by the circumcision that is made without hands. Sanctified, cutting off the sins of the flesh. For God has said, I will circumcise the hearts and make them Vessels made fit for holy use. To be perfected. So say not in our heart who shall bring the word down from above or up from the deep. But say this, the word, his commandments and statutes contained in the book of the law are in our hearts, and in our mouths, and in our hands That we do it. For the Spirit also saith, I will put my Laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them, I will give them a new spirit and will cause them to walk in my statutes and judgements. I will be to them their God. And they shall be to me a people. Deuteronomy 30:6, 10 -14.

The Book of Leviticus cannot be sidelined, or made obsolete, or done away with:

The Law is for sinners which we are not to be through Christ and the gift of His resurrection.

 

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The Book of Leviticus cannot be sidelined, or made obsolete, or done away with:

The Law is for sinners which we are not to be through Christ and the gift of His resurrection.

And who among mortal men is without sin? Therefore, because sin dwells in the flesh, (Rom 7:18, Reply#41), causing a war in my members against my mind, which would rather do that which is upright and true, I find that Paul's doctrine in this passage is exactly in line with what the Master himself teaches us in the Mrk 9:43-50 passage concerning the salting of every sacrifice and oblation in Lev 2:13, (Reply#5).

And therefore, just as Paul likewise says, I thank Elohim through Meshiah our Master: for it is only by way of his holy Testimony in the Gospel accounts that I am able to understand these things and walk in them: so then, with the mind I serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh (I serve) the Torah of the sin-offering.

Romans 7:23 KJV
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:23 T/R (KJV)
23 βλεπω δε ετερον νομον εν τοις μελεσι μου αντιστρατευομενον τω νομω του νοος μου και αιχμαλωτιζοντα με τω νομω της αμαρτιας τω οντι εν τοις μελεσι μου

Leviticus 6:25a Brenton LXX
25a Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin-offering;

Leviticus 6:25a OG LXX
25 λαλησον ααρων και τοις υιοις αυτου λεγων ουτος ο νομος της αμαρτιας [Rom 7:23]

Leviticus 6:25 TS2009 (Hebrew Text)
25 “Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the Torah of the sin offering:

Romans 7:23
23 But I see another torah in my members, warring against the torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the torah of the sin-offering for what is in my members.

Thus the difference between our perspectives: the torah-teaching of the Spirit of Life in Meshiah, and surely in his Testimony, (such as here in this case, in Mark 9:43-50, for his Testimony is Spirit, John 6:63), has set me free from the false interpretations of the torah-teaching of the sin offering having been literal-physical sacrificial animals according to the Sanhedrin, Chief Priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Scribes, which teaching was and is blood-guilt for slaughtering innocent living souls for the sins of the guilty, (which is extortion, and therefore forbidden in the Torah).

Those not understanding find a need to do away with commandments they do not understand.

 

[HIM]

among mortal men is without sin? Therefore, because sin dwells in the flesh, (Rom 7:18, Reply#41), causing a war in my members against my

We been set free from the law of sin through the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus that the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us who walk after the spirit and not after the flesh

 

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We been set free from the law of sin through the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus that the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us who walk after the spirit and not after the flesh

Yes, and sacrificing literal-physical bulls, rams, lambs, and goats, is surely the fleshly, natural, and carnal minded way to walk in the Torah in a way that is not pleasing to the Father even according to His own words in and through the Prophets.

Isaiah 66:1-4 TS2009
1 Thus said יהוה, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?
2 “And all these My hand has made, and all these that exist,” declares יהוה. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.
3 “But whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.
4 “I shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.”

And regarding the torah-nomos-teaching of the Spirit of Life in Meshiah: the Spirit within him is the fullness of the Spirit of the Father, yet that is not the same as his Testimony which is the torah-instruction from the Spirit of Life which was and is in him, (meaning his Testimony is from the Father).

John 7:37-39 YLT
37 And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
38 he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
39 and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

John 7:37-39 SLT
37 In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
38 He believing in me, as said the writing, from his belly shall flow rivers of living waters.
39 (This spake he of the Spirit which they believing in him were about to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet; for Jesus was not yet honoured.)

If anyone desires to understand, do not add what is not there in any critical Greek text: for the Spirit referred to herein is the new Spirit of the Renewed Covenant which is foretold through Ezekiel the Prophet in Eze 11:19-20 and Eze 36:25-27. The Testimony of the Master is the new Spirit of the Renewed Covenant and that new Spirit was not yet complete until he himself says so in John 19:30, saying, "It is Finished".

His Testimony is tantamount to his blood because they killed him for his Testimony. To trample his Testimony is to trample his blood and do despite to the Spirit of Grace which is his Testimony. To ignore his Testimony is to ignore ones own atonement freely provided in his Testimony which he died for, the blood of our covenant, and likewise also it is to do despite to the Spirit of Grace.

Zechariah
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

John 6:63 KJV
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Hebrews 10:29 KJV
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

No one can walk in the Torah in uprightness and truth without the Spirit-Testimony of Meshiah. The promise in Ezekiel the Prophet is not that those who receive the new Spirit will walk in some of the commandments of their choosing, no, it concerns all of the commandments, statutes, ordinances, and judgments: for in the Spirit of the Testimony of the Master, the commandments are no longer burdensome, once truly understood according to his Testimony.

Ezekiel 11:19-20 KJV
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25-27 KJV
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

 

[HIM]

Yes, and sacrificing literal-physical bulls, rams, lambs, and goats, is surely the fleshly, natural, and carnal minded way to walk in the Torah in a way that is not pleasing to the Father even according to His own words in and through the Prophets.

Isaiah 66:1-4 TS2009
1 Thus said יהוה, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?
2 “And all these My hand has made, and all these that exist,” declares יהוה. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.
3 “But whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.
4 “I shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.”

And regarding the torah-nomos-teaching of the Spirit of Life in Meshiah: the Spirit within him is the fullness of the Spirit of the Father, yet that is not the same as his Testimony which is the torah-instruction from the Spirit of Life which was and is in him, (meaning his Testimony is from the Father).

John 7:37-39 YLT
37 And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 'If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
38 he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
39 and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

John 7:37-39 SLT
37 In the last day, the great one of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come to me, and drink.
38 He believing in me, as said the writing, from his belly shall flow rivers of living waters.
39 (This spake he of the Spirit which they believing in him were about to receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet; for Jesus was not yet honoured.)

If anyone desires to understand, do not add what is not there in any critical Greek text: for the Spirit referred to herein is the new Spirit of the Renewed Covenant which is foretold through Ezekiel the Prophet in Eze 11:19-20 and Eze 36:25-27. The Testimony of the Master is the new Spirit of the Renewed Covenant and that new Spirit was not yet complete until he himself says so in John 19:30, saying, "It is Finished".

His Testimony is tantamount to his blood because they killed him for his Testimony. To trample his Testimony is to trample his blood and do despite to the Spirit of Grace which is his Testimony. To ignore his Testimony is to ignore ones own atonement freely provided in his Testimony which he died for, the blood of our covenant, and likewise also it is to do despite to the Spirit of Grace.

Zechariah
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

John 6:63 KJV
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Hebrews 10:29 KJV
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

No one can walk in the Torah in uprightness and truth without the Spirit-Testimony of Meshiah. The promise in Ezekiel the Prophet is not that those who receive the new Spirit will walk in some of the commandments of their choosing, no, it concerns all of the commandments, statutes, ordinances, and judgments: for in the Spirit of the Testimony of the Master, the commandments are no longer burdensome, once truly understood according to his Testimony.

Ezekiel 11:19-20 KJV
19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:25-27 KJV
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

That’s a long post, my friend. I only read a couple sentence. But I will take the time to read it and I’ll get back to you. Thank you for your time.

 

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among mortal men is without sin? Therefore, because sin dwells in the flesh, (Rom 7:18, Reply#41), causing a war in my members against my

The sin in the flesh that Paul speaks of is what We been set free from and is called the law of sin. This through the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus we have been set free that the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us who walk after the spirit and not after the flesh

 

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The sin in the flesh that Paul speaks of is what We been set free from and is called the law of sin. This through the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus we have been set free that the righteousness of the law be fulfilled in us who walk after the spirit and not after the flesh

It has already been proven that the Mark 9:43-50 passage, as well as its companion passages, are speaking of cutting off sin in our members, and it is Paul's writings which were already employed to prove this fact.

Romans 6:7-13 KJV
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Romans 8:12-13 KJV
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

We are all indebted: part of our debt is to no more live and walk according to the flesh.

Colossians 3:1-10 KJV
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on [επι - concerning] the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon [επι - concerning] the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

These are the things that Paul says are our members upon the earth or concerning the earth, that is to say, concerning that which is of below, as juxtaposed with what he says in Col 3:1-2, (the things which are of above), and he even gives us a list of things that are all sins that need to be cut off, mortified, put to death, etc., etc., fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is idolatry, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth, and lying, (v. 9).

I do not believe the scriptures teach a Kierkegaardian type of faith/belief because it is essentially blind faith that ends up as a mere mental assent to a particular set of beliefs that then translate into salvation based on a simple confession of faith/belief in that particular set of beliefs deemed to be salvific, (search "true faith vs mental assent" in your favorite search engine).

Moreover, simply believing that Meshiah was a real person and that he was resurrected isn't enough: the demons believe, and tremble, and yet said belief makes no change in them because they cannot be rehabilitated. Faith without works/deeds is dead, (James 2:17-26). There must be a record of action based on said faith/belief, and one of the greatest forms of that record of action and change in the believer is the cutting off of sin from ourselves.

Does that faithful action of works or deeds save us? No, but our actions, works, and deeds testify that our faith/belief is indeed by way of the power and authority of Elohim to deliver His people by His Word, His Son, His Spirit. We do not get credit for cutting off sin: our loving Father through His Word has taught us these things, otherwise we would continue dead in our sins and die, and that includes not understanding His Torah-Instructions, which is now inexcusable because those instructions are expounded in the Gospel accounts and Testimony of His Son.