Peace in Christ.
The kingdom (the reign of the King) of God comes NOT WITH OBSERVATION….that is, it does not come from the scrupulous observation of man’s written outward rules (their codified church handwritings).
Luk 17:20-21 KJV
(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
(21) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
The reign of God our King is WITHIN us for it is God who works IN us to both want to do His will and to do of His good pleasure. It has nothing to do with the outward observation…the careful doing of the church handwritings which only destroy us in the fire of God’s wrath.
Php 2:13 KJV
(13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
We are to serve and worship our God who is our King and not their “king”…their handwritings of ordinances…. that the denominational churches serve and worship. We are to keep God’s commandments, statutes, and judgments and not theirs.
The “rudiments of the world” are the outside world’s codified handwritings of their “founding principles” of which they self-govern themselves rather than be under God’s government. We are “dead with Christ” from those “rudiments of the world”. The world's governments are structured around their "constitutions" , by-laws, statutes, etc.
But religious institutions have copied those worldly documents and have brought them in and established them in their gatherings where God is supposedly worshipped. They seek to “self-govern” themselves also just like the outside nations do by observing their handwritings rather than be under the government of God.
Col 2:20 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,
We are to beware of their “preachers” who seek to seduce us into going in and keeping their church handwritings of ordinances that they have patterned after the world’s handwritings….after the “traditions” or TRANSMISSIONS of men...and not after Christ.
Col 2:8 KJV
(8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Yet, we find that many have been brought back into the bondage of the keeping of man’s handwritings….the keeping of church ordinances/dogmas…. where they are being used as standards to JUDGE others with which is against the holy commandment: to have love for each other.
If we judge others, then we are not doing the "law" of Christ who commanded us to have love for one another. But they promise us "liberty" from doing what Christ had commanded us to do.
2Pe 2:19-21 KJV
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
We have been set free from the world’s written principles (the pollutions of the world):
If, then, you did die with the Christ from the rudiments/elementary principles of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to ordinances?
Why be entangled back into the keeping of church ordinances and overcome? Why be SUBJECT to them? Why “solemnly and humbly submit” (the language that appears in many church "constitution" preambles) to their writings?
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Their handwritings only turn us away from the truth. They turn us away from the Way of Righteousness. They turn us away from the keeping of the Holy Commandment to have love for one another that the Lord delivered to us as many use them to JUDGE each others with.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
We have escaped the “pollutions of the world”…..we have escaped “Egypt”.
We have crossed the “Red Sea”….that is, the REED SEA. We have escaped the world and it's "sea" of Reed PENS ...their sea of their handwritings.
The “REED” sea is symbolic of the many handwritings of the world (the "sea" of nations) as the ancient Egyptian SCRIBES used the REED for a PEN to write.
We are indeed “dead with Christ” from the handwritings of the world. Now after knowing that, why would we then go to “church” and keep the handwritings that the church scribes have written?
They say that the law of the LORD is with them yet they have nullified it via the lying pen of the church scribes. What wisdom is in their “wise” men and their church handwritings?
Jer 8:8-9 KJV
(8) How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
(9) The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
The keeping of the commandments and doctrines of men have a “show of wisdom”. We want to appear wise and go and keep their handwritings. We see ourselves as wise and go and willingly submit ourselves to the keeping of their handwritings (the “will worship”).
Col 2:20-23 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;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
As the Israelites were fleeing from Egypt, having just crossed the Reed Sea, the “Amaleks”….meaning: “the people who lick”…come to attack.
These are the false prophets today who come and use their flattering tongues (the people who lick) to deceive us just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world….Egypt.
They use their great swelling words of vanity (the people who lick us with the flattering tongue) to bring us into the bondage of the keeping of their handwritings. They promise us “liberty” from the keeping of the Holy Commandment as they think that God approves of their judging others with their handwritings.
2Pe 2:18 KJV
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
“Amalek” comes forth to meet us in the Way of Righteousness in order to cut us off from going in the Way that leads to life.
They come to cut off the “feeble”…those who have just escaped from the pollutions of the world. They cut off the “faint and weary”…..those who become “weary” in well doing.
Deu 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Do not be “weary” in well doing for in due season, (if we FAINT NOT), we shall reap life everlasting.
Beware of the "Amalekites" for they come forth to deceive with the flattering tongues and bring us into their bondage ....the keeping of their church handwritings which cuts us off from the Way of righteousness that leads to everlasting life in the here-and-now.
Gal 6:8-10 KJV
(8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
(10) As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
The kingdom (the reign of the King) of God comes NOT WITH OBSERVATION….that is, it does not come from the scrupulous observation of man’s written outward rules (their codified church handwritings).
Luk 17:20-21 KJV
(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
(21) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
The reign of God our King is WITHIN us for it is God who works IN us to both want to do His will and to do of His good pleasure. It has nothing to do with the outward observation…the careful doing of the church handwritings which only destroy us in the fire of God’s wrath.
Php 2:13 KJV
(13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
We are to serve and worship our God who is our King and not their “king”…their handwritings of ordinances…. that the denominational churches serve and worship. We are to keep God’s commandments, statutes, and judgments and not theirs.
The “rudiments of the world” are the outside world’s codified handwritings of their “founding principles” of which they self-govern themselves rather than be under God’s government. We are “dead with Christ” from those “rudiments of the world”. The world's governments are structured around their "constitutions" , by-laws, statutes, etc.
But religious institutions have copied those worldly documents and have brought them in and established them in their gatherings where God is supposedly worshipped. They seek to “self-govern” themselves also just like the outside nations do by observing their handwritings rather than be under the government of God.
Col 2:20 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,
We are to beware of their “preachers” who seek to seduce us into going in and keeping their church handwritings of ordinances that they have patterned after the world’s handwritings….after the “traditions” or TRANSMISSIONS of men...and not after Christ.
Col 2:8 KJV
(8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Yet, we find that many have been brought back into the bondage of the keeping of man’s handwritings….the keeping of church ordinances/dogmas…. where they are being used as standards to JUDGE others with which is against the holy commandment: to have love for each other.
If we judge others, then we are not doing the "law" of Christ who commanded us to have love for one another. But they promise us "liberty" from doing what Christ had commanded us to do.
2Pe 2:19-21 KJV
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
We have been set free from the world’s written principles (the pollutions of the world):
If, then, you did die with the Christ from the rudiments/elementary principles of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to ordinances?
Why be entangled back into the keeping of church ordinances and overcome? Why be SUBJECT to them? Why “solemnly and humbly submit” (the language that appears in many church "constitution" preambles) to their writings?
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Their handwritings only turn us away from the truth. They turn us away from the Way of Righteousness. They turn us away from the keeping of the Holy Commandment to have love for one another that the Lord delivered to us as many use them to JUDGE each others with.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
We have escaped the “pollutions of the world”…..we have escaped “Egypt”.
We have crossed the “Red Sea”….that is, the REED SEA. We have escaped the world and it's "sea" of Reed PENS ...their sea of their handwritings.
The “REED” sea is symbolic of the many handwritings of the world (the "sea" of nations) as the ancient Egyptian SCRIBES used the REED for a PEN to write.
We are indeed “dead with Christ” from the handwritings of the world. Now after knowing that, why would we then go to “church” and keep the handwritings that the church scribes have written?
They say that the law of the LORD is with them yet they have nullified it via the lying pen of the church scribes. What wisdom is in their “wise” men and their church handwritings?
Jer 8:8-9 KJV
(8) How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
(9) The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
The keeping of the commandments and doctrines of men have a “show of wisdom”. We want to appear wise and go and keep their handwritings. We see ourselves as wise and go and willingly submit ourselves to the keeping of their handwritings (the “will worship”).
Col 2:20-23 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;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
As the Israelites were fleeing from Egypt, having just crossed the Reed Sea, the “Amaleks”….meaning: “the people who lick”…come to attack.
These are the false prophets today who come and use their flattering tongues (the people who lick) to deceive us just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world….Egypt.
They use their great swelling words of vanity (the people who lick us with the flattering tongue) to bring us into the bondage of the keeping of their handwritings. They promise us “liberty” from the keeping of the Holy Commandment as they think that God approves of their judging others with their handwritings.
2Pe 2:18 KJV
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
“Amalek” comes forth to meet us in the Way of Righteousness in order to cut us off from going in the Way that leads to life.
They come to cut off the “feeble”…those who have just escaped from the pollutions of the world. They cut off the “faint and weary”…..those who become “weary” in well doing.
Deu 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Do not be “weary” in well doing for in due season, (if we FAINT NOT), we shall reap life everlasting.
Beware of the "Amalekites" for they come forth to deceive with the flattering tongues and bring us into their bondage ....the keeping of their church handwritings which cuts us off from the Way of righteousness that leads to everlasting life in the here-and-now.
Gal 6:8-10 KJV
(8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
(10) As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
