NatalieJan777
Humbled before GOD
I listen to it and categorize based on its weightiness apply in order of priority and relevance to said situation . Since Jesus said there were weightier matters to the law and Paul taught that the fruit of the Spirit surpass the law and love fulfills it . i am applying the scriptures according to what they say about themselves .
regarding the wolves verse here is another one to chew on . don't yell at me "it is written:"
Jeremiah 8:8
8 " 'How can you say, "We are wise,
for we have the law of the LORD,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?
All it means is: the western rationalist approach to interpreting texts is not compatible with a text originally interpreted by different socio-philosophical apparatii . it still is what it says of itself .
Jeremiah was a prophet that came well after Moses. It is true that Isreal and it's leaders changedss the laws and lived by the changes. But we are not talking about the changes they made, we are talking about the Law handed down by GOD through Moses specifically those written in the Torah (the first 5 books of the Old Testament). Jeremiah was sent by GOD to try to turn HIS people back to HIM and away from following thier own ways.
I am sorry if you feel I am yelling, that is not my intent.
Read the prophet Hosea 13 & 14. It talks all about the wrongs done by Isreal and the wrong was not obedience to the LAW. It also talks about the comming Messiah. But something must happen first before forgiveness and that is repentance. Our fruitfulness comes from GOD through our repentance and obedience to HIM (HIS WAYS).
Hosea 14:9 Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
The rebellious stumble in them because they don't look at the law from a righteous point of view (ie our Heavenly Fathers), they zero in on the punishment and think it is unfair and it blinds them from doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
Read Ezekiel 18 "Repent and Live"
Read Luke 13 where Jesus himself says "But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
Even though HIS laws are written on the hearts of man, HE is patient with man to come to repentance. HE knows how thick headed we are and even when Moses read to the people from the tablets that GOD HIMSELF handed down, it was told to them to "Learn them and be sure to follow them". GOD even suggested that they wore colored tassles on their garments to help remind them of these commandments.
These commandments are important and sacred, they were carried in the Ark of the Covenant (which many Christians don't even know what that is), but it is with our Heavenly Father right now.
The easiest way to repent is to give your life to GOD, follow in HIS SON's footsteps and learn of and from HIM. Study scripture and you will find that Jesus taught nothing different from the Torah. HE was a Jew, you know? But you must study with the help of the Holy Spirit, for only HE will guide you correctly to all truth. Left to our own devices we will decieve ourselves into believing something that is not truth.
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