A guy told J.B. once that he enjoyed being in America where he had freedom to do whatever he wanted. J.B. tells the guy sure the Constitution and Bill of Rights give you freedom and liberty but that is to do what's right and if you violate someone else freedom to do what's right then you are no longer free to do as you please.
What about you? Are you saying to yourself, "I don't want to be under the law" as if it's a legalistic issue?
many christians twist this verse:
II Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Is that freedom to do whatever you want?
NO
It is freedom to do what is right!
Well how do we know what is right? Torah is where we find the answer.
II Corinthians 4:3
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: (the niv says perishing here)
Many hearts are hard and the Light can't get through to them.
I know for me this journey is one of really understanding that it's not just "New Testament" but also "Old Testament"
I just pray the veils will be removed and hearts would be softened and Y'Shua would reveal HIMself completely to my family and friends.
I'm sorry that there are hearts that are not open to accepting that the foundation on which they base their faith is not whole and they have been spoon fed lies.
II Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Many today are seeking preachers that will say what their itching ears want to hear. I know some in my own family who disagree with certain parts of the Bible and say they can believe/accept/follow all but those certain things. How sad.
I have a huge thirst/hunger for the WORD.
Even today I told someone near to me that I know a family and the dad wants nothing to do with churchianity anymore because he sees the world and a majority of the bad stuff is done by those who grew up in church and he wants to protect his children from that. SO my loved one says I agree you find the some of the worst people in church. I said me too I believe parents are first and foremost responsible for teaching Yah's way to the children HE has placed in their care and to stop telling themselves oh the pastor or children's pastor or youth pastor or sunday school teacher can teach these things to my kid and that parents can read the WORD to their own children. My loved one replied they agreed but that we shouldn't believe what other people say is how the WORD is to be interpreted. That one made me frown because no I don't believe you should just believe someone's word for what they think the WORD is saying. After reading it for yourself also, the Holy Spirit can interpret it for you but if you read just one portion without a working knowledge of all of it then you may believe a lie or think Scripture contradicts, when we know Scripture is always right. Also it is possible for us in our human minds to twist Scripture to make it say what we think it should and mean what we think it should.
In fact J.B. said tonight that after years of wondering if G-D even existed, he realized that he was having such a hard time because his pee-brained sized human mind is probably not even capable of understanding G-D and instead he should begin with just submitting, repenting, and obeying and in time G-D revealed more of HIMself to J.B.
He restated that many times obedience comes before change/understaning/break-through etc.
Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 7:10
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
What is this law of sin and death? It has nothing to do with the 10 Commandments. The law of sin and death was given in the Garden of Eden
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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