"Bless you and Alan. I covet the prayers of you both. I must admit I have very little understanding of this problem Emile keeps bringing up, but I am confused by his posts. Please help me by responding to the scripture he wrote me this evening. I am waiting on the Lord to make things clear to me."
Donald, the Holy Spirit is working on your heart to give you humility and brokeness. This is not weakness but strength!
Stop and pray and think. You were led by the Markoff's and others to arrogantly call me names and disregard the spiritual warnings and Scritpures I have been giving you for days. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God is stopping you dead in your track and giving you a spirit of honesty and humility.
I will tell you bluntly that you have been mislead by Judaizers and heretics. It does not mean that they are not saved, but it does mean that they are possessed by evil spirits. I am all for Jews of Jesus and other so called "messianic" orgnizations that are winning Jews to Jesus. But if these Jews are brought to Messiah and taught a false Gospel, what good will it do them? When you posted that false statement saying that "the old covenant had been renewed", I knew for a certainty that someone was teaching you horrible heresy and even antichristian doctrines.
Here are important Scriptures from Galaitians that define your position perfectly.
Chapter: Gal.3
1: O foolish Galatians(you could put your name hear Donals), who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?(Which is it Donald)
3: Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
5: He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?(Where were you saved Donald and how did you receive the Holy Spirit--by doing Judaizing works or by faith)
6: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7: Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:(Do you want to put you and your family under a curse by putting on the Judaizing laws?) for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15: Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17: And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18: For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham bypromise.
19: Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20: Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21: Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
22: But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe.
23: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25: But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Donald my brother,
May the Holy Spirit open your eyes to the truth and may he lead you into the full will of God our Father.
Always love the Jewish people but hate those religions and systems that oppose the Gospel of our LOrd Jesus Christ.
There is no salvation outside of Christ.
Love
Emile |
