We begin with us, we look into the mirror of the Ten Commandment Law of God. We measure ourselves by the Word, and no one else, nothing else. We are to be God’s witnesses. God shows us our own heart that we know it and see and know our need of Christ. We give up governing ourselves to God—that He rule and govern us. He came that we be saved not lost. He only has victory, He never fails, He is never overcome but He is an overcomer. If He be in us, we shall overcome. By faith, in all we eat, drink, and in all we do—We are to glorify God. Then we can teach and preach with our lives and tongue the Gospel of Jesus: The power of God unto salvation: Righteousness by faith.
God is clear that His commandments are to be kept by His people. Now if one says God’s commandments are for the Jews/abolished/etc… you are calling God a liar. (Please know who the Jews or Israel is, and know who they that are grafted-in are.
God says He does not lie, His Word cannot be reversed, not one jot or tittle in no wise pass from the law. God says He did not come to destroy the law but to fulfill. So how can He destroy that which He said He came to fulfill and not destroy not abolish—God establishes His law. To fulfill is He lived His law and example unto us. Christ lived His Father’s character He was obedient to God, to His Father’s every word. Christ the Word—He always obeyed His Father. Christ fulfilled giving us example that the same Power by which He obeyed God the Father; so have we the same access to this same Power to obey Him, His Father by faith and by the Holy Spirit.
God is clear that keeping His commandments is how we know Him, how we know we love Him; how we know we love one another—if we keep His commandments. His promised blessings unto His children are conditional, we have to meet the condition to every promised blessing of God—Not just ask for it claiming it. God requires exact, strict obedience to His word.
God says: “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”
Revelation 22:14 KJV
God says over and over and over throughout His word to keep His commandments and over and over and over again He repeats in the New Testament—He is clear that His Righteous, His Saints keep His commandments and they are not grievous, but are a delight.
God is clear in teaching that His commandments are His love, they are true, they are truth, they are righteousness, they are holy, they are perfect. God’s word is His doctrine, His culture which becomes our new culture if we are new creatures living, abiding in Christ.
One cannot and will not have the love of God without keeping His commandments, no one not keeping them will enter into the gates in heaven—only they who keep the commandments have right to the tree of life.
They who say there are only two commandments and not Ten—these err in the scriptures and have not the understanding of the Holy Spirit. These do not understand that the two are magnified in the ten, the two are the summary of the ten. God says on these Two (love God and love one another) hang all Ten. God says these two are not new but they are they which we have from the beginning.
God’s name, character, glory are all synonymous of who God is, His character—His commandments are the handwriting in our minds our DNA if you will—they show the fruit proving whose fruit we are of. The holy 7th Day Sabbath of God being the identifying mark of DNA in which the commandments are manifested.
God gave us His love in His commandments for us a blessing that we know Him and love Him, therefore, we love one another. God gave us His commandments a blueprint of the blessing unto us and they are not grievous but a delight to those who love His law.
God’s Ten Commandment Law is His law of love, His law of liberty of freedom from slavery, from bondage to Satan to sin.
The law of God is only a burden, grievous to them who are under the law—condemned by the law, for they live transgressing the law of God. The law only condemns those who are against God at enmity with God having no love for God holding on to sin giving into the temptations (temptation is not sin—giving in to the temptation, surrendering to that which you are tempted is sin). These live self-righteousness, their way. These obey self, self-perceptions based on their own will, ways, words, wants. These are self pleasers, and can also be men-pleasers—compromising God’s principles to please others. They live by the world’s standards or their own. To these the law points out their dirt and filth in, or on them—the law of God a mirror showing to the one looking in it the true state of their character, the true spiritual state of their minds. These have the characteristics of Satan the Devil.
Christ said our righteousness must exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees. The Pharisees did not obey the commandments of God. They obeyed the commandments of men, and their own traditions. Remember that.
The covenant that God said He writes in our hearts (mind) is the law of God, they are one and the same. The venue is what changed, and it’s still Christ in us through the Holy Spirit, that we by faith having surrendered daily our will to the will of God, that we can keep all of God’s commandments.
See, the works of faith involve believing in God that He is God. The works of faith prove in who the soul believes and that believing is the life reflecting the ways of God whom the soul loves—which is obeying God, by faith living by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God by the power of the Holy Spirit working in the soul—The Holy Spirit gives us both the will and to do God’s good pleasure.
The faith of works is obedience which is love. Faith and works cannot be separated and are a reflection of love unto obedience to God. Faith, works. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. We are saved by grace through faith. Without faith, there is no grace. This grace is both God’s merit and His Power—the Holy Spirit He puts in us—ask, knock, and receive.
Though you may have faith to remove mountains, you are nothing if you do not have Agape (the love of God). The Holy Spirit is the One Who works this in the willing cooperative soul. God does not force. So if one wants to hold on to even the tiniest, minute sin; God will allow the soul his, or her choice. Do not believe the lie Satan whispers in the ear in one’s own voice “thou shalt not surely die”, disobedience to the law of God to the word of God, is sin. Sin is transgression of the law of God. The wages of sin is death. Just because you do not feel it, or do not experience symptoms right away it is not that you will not die; and it is not that the law is abolished. Period.
The Word of God is true. What He says He does. What He has spoken comes to pass. That is what every living creature can count on for sure and know that it is true—the word of God which His children are to live: to live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
We are to take heed of God’s warnings and seek Him that we receive His grace (His Power) to meet the conditions to receive His blessings as we live in this earth—being His witnesses that He is God, and glorifying God.
Justification is only the beginning of the surrendered life to God. There is the soul’s daily walk. Christ blood makes it possible that when we confess our sins to Him, He forgives and cleanses us from all unrighteousness right there, right then. We all are already saved: saved from the PENALTY of sin: Christ died the second death for us that we will not have to. But, if your choice is to hold on to the old you, the old ways, hold on to sin; God will allow your choice, one will die the second death themselves—suffer the penalty of sin themselves.
We confess, surrender to God being justified accepting His gift; then we must go on in being new creatures in Christ putting away the old man. We are to die to self daily and take up our cross and follow Jesus. We choose by the faith that God has given us to daily give up self, surrender up to God our will to His will and know and trust it is by His Power—by the Holy Spirit in us that we can abide in God and His word abide in us—Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.
Christ in you (us), the hope of glory.
I am available for Bible Study late afternoon, and on Sundays after 2pm but before 6.pm EST. Bible study is no longer than an hour unless the Holy Spirit moves otherwise. Come let us reason one with another in the holy scriptures led of the Holy Spirit of God, not debating nor arguing.
God’s word defines and explains itself—precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Maranatha