OVER COMING STRESS (Part 1)

Bible Study For 3/3/2014

OVER COMING STRESS (Part 1)

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We seem to have stress in our lives and is hard to deal with at times. Stress can come in many forms. It can be due to family situations, over a death of a loved one, it can be caused by the breaking down of our vehicles, it can be caused by our jobs, it could be caused by money problems, it is most of the time caused by living in sin. Satan is the ruler of stress. We can over come any and all stress problems, if we just take it to the Cross and give it too God and, not just your sins, but your stress can and will be covered by the Blood of Jesus Christ. In order to do away with your stress, you need to understand about the Cross and what Jesus Christ did for sin and stress. God does not want to see any of His children suffer. As we go through scripture, be sure to speak up about thoughts and questions as we go through this. This study has been put together, with the Expositor Study Bible and with the Notes, to help explain what the Scriptures are talking about, to help you understand what you are reading. Lets get started.

 OVER COMING STRESS (Part 1)

John 14:27 (KJV)

Peace I leave with you (Sanctifying Peace), My peace I give unto you (there is a vast difference in “Peace with God,” which all Believers have, and “The Peace of God” of which Jesus speaks here): not as the world gives, give I unto you (the peace of the world is but surface; that given by Christ is in the heart). Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (“The Peace of God”) heals the troubled heart, and takes away fear.

Matthew  11:28-30 (KJV)

28 Come unto Me (is meant by Jesus to reveal Himself as the Giver of Salvation), all you who labor and are heavy laden (trying to earn Salvation by works), and I will give you rest (this “rest”  can only be found by placing one’s Faith in Christ and what He has done for us at the Cross [Galatians 5:1-6]). 29 Take My yoke upon you (the “yoke” of the “Cross” [Luke 9:23]), and learn of Me (learn of His sacrifice [Romans 6:3-5); for I am meek and lowly in heart (the only thing that our Lord Personally said of Himself): and ye shall find rest unto your souls (the soul can find rest only in Christ).  30 For my yoke is easy, and My burden is light (what He requires of us is very little, just to have Faith in Him, and His Sacrificial Atoning work).

Galatians 5:1-6 (KJV)

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free (we were made free, and refers to freedom to live a Holy life by evidencing Faith in Christ and the Cross), and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (To abandon the Cross and go under Law of any kind guarantees bondage once again to the sin nature.) 2 Behold (“mark my words”), I Paul say unto you (presents the Apostle’s authority regarding the Message he brings), that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. (If the Believer goes back into Law, and Law of any kind, what Christ did at the Cross on our behalf will profit us nothing. One cannot have it two ways.) 3 For I testify again to every man who is circumcised (some of the Galatian Gentiles were being pressured by false teachers to embrace the Law of Moses, which meant they would have to forsake Christ and the Cross, for it’s not towed the two; as well, it’s not possible to wed any Law to Grace), that he is a debtor to do the whole law which of course is impossible; and besides, (the Law contained no Salvation). 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you (this is a chilling statement, and refers to anyone who makes anything other than Christ and the Cross the Object of his Faith), whosoever of you are justified by the Law (seek to be justified by the Law); you are fallen from Grace (fallen from the position of Grace, which means the Believer is trusting in something other than the Cross; it actually means “to apostatize”). 5 For we through the Spirit (the Holy Spirit works exclusively within the parameters of the Sacrifice of Christ; consequently, He demands that we place our Faith exclusively in the Cross of Christ) wait for the hope of righteousness (which is guaranteed to ultimately come [Romans 6:14]) by Faith (refers to Faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross). 6 For in Jesus Christ neither Circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision (has no spiritual bearing on anything); but Faith which works by Love. (The evidence of true Faith is the fact of the Love which emanates from such Faith.)

Romans 6:14 (KJV)

 For sin shall not have dominion over you (the sinful nature will not have dominion over us if we as Believers continue to exercise Faith in the cross of Christ; otherwise, the sin nature most definitely will have dominion over the Believer): for you are not under the Law (means that if we try to live this life by any type of law, no matter how good that law might be in its own right, we will conclude by the sin nature having dominion over us), but under Grace (the Grace of God flows to the Believer on an unending basis only as long as the Believer exercises Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross; Grace merely the Goodness of God exercised by and through the Holy Spirit, and given to undeserving Saints).

Luke 9:23 (KJV)

23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me (the criteria for Discipleship), let him deny himself (not asceticism as many think of but rather that one denies ones own willpower, self-will, strength, and ability depending totally on Christ), and take up his cross (the benefits of the Cross, looking exclusively to what Jesus did there to meet our every need) daily (this is so important, our looking to the Cross; that we must renew our Faith in what Christ has done for us, even on a daily basis, for Satan will even try to move us away from the Cross as the Object of our Faith, which always spells disaster), and follow me (Christ can be followed only by the Believer looking to the Cross, understanding what it accomplished, and by that means alone [Rom. 6:3-5, 11, 14; 8:1-2, 11; 1 Cor. 1:17-18, 21, 23; 2:2; Gal. 6:14;  Eph. 2:13-18; Col. 2:14-15]).

Colossians 2:14-15 (KJV)

14 Blotting out the handwriting of Ordinances that was against us (pertains to the Law of Moses, which was God’s Standard of Righteousness that man could not reach), which was contrary to us (Law is against us, simply because we are unable to keep its precepts, no matter how hard we try), and took it out of the way (refers to the penalty of the Law being removed), nailing it to His Cross (the Law with its decrees was abolished in Christ’s Death, as if Crucified with Him); 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers Satan and all of his henchmen were defeated at the Cross by Christ Atoning for all sin; sin was the legal right Satan had to hold man in captivity: with all sin atoned, he has no more legal right to hold anyone in bondage, He (Christ) made, a show of them openly (what Jesus did at the Cross was in the face of the whole universe), triumphing over them in it. (The triumph is complete and it was all done for us, meaning we can walk in power and perpetual Victory due to the Cross.)

Romans 6:11, 14 (KJV)

11 Likewise reckon (account) you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto (the) sin (while the sin nature is not dead, we are dead unto the sin nature by virtue of the Cross and our Faith in that Sacrifice, but only as long as our Faith continues in the Cross), but alive unto God (living the Resurrection Life) through Jesus Christ our Lord (refers to what He did at the Cross, which is the means of this Resurrection Life).  14 For sin shall not have dominion over you (the sin nature will not have dominion over us if we as Believers continue to Exercise Faith in the Cross of Christ; otherwise, the sin nature most definitely will have dominion over the Believer): for you are not under the law (means that if we try to live this life by any type of Law no matter how good that Law might be in its own right, we will conclude by the sin nature having dominion over us), but under grace (the Grace of God flows to the Believer on an unending basis only as long as the Believer exercises Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross; Grace is merely the goodness of God exercised by and through the Holy Spirit, and given to undeserving Saints).

Romans 8:1-2 (KJV) 

1 There is therefore now no conversation (guilt) to them which are in Christ Jesus (refers back to Rom. 6:3-5 and our being baptized into His Death, which speaks of the Crucifixion), who walk not after the flesh (depending on one's personal strength and ability or great religious efforts in order to overcome sin), but after the Spirit (the Holy Spirit works exclusively within the legal confines of the Finished Work of Christ; our Faith in that Finished Work, i.e., “the Cross,” guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit, which guarantees Victory). 2 For the law (that which we are about to give is a Law of God, devised by the Godhead in eternity past [1 Pet. 1:18-20]; this Law, in fact, is “God’s Prescribed Order of Victory”) of the Spirit (Holy Spirit, i.e., “the way the Spirit works”) of life (all life comes from Christ, but through the Holy Spirit [Jn. 16:13-14]) in Christ Jesus (any time Paul uses this term or one of its derivatives, he is, without fail, referring to what Christ did at the Cross, which makes this “life” possible) has made me free (given me total Victory) from the law of sin and death (these are the two most powerful Laws in the Universe; the “Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus” alone is stronger than the “Law of Sin and Death”; this means that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any manner other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, he is doomed for failure).

Romans 6:3-5 (KJV)

3 Know you not, that so many of us as were into Jesus Christ (plainly says that this Baptism is into Christ and Not Water [1 Cor. 1:17; 12:13; Gal. 3:27; Eph. 4:5; Col. 2:11-13]) were baptized into his death? (When Christ died on the Cross, in the Mind of God, we died with Him; in other words, He became our Substitute, and our identification with Him in His Death gives us all the benefits for which He died; the idea is that He did it all for us!) 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death (not only did we die with Him, but we were buried with Him as well, which means that all the sins and transgressions of the past were buried; when they put Him in the Tomb, they put all our sins into the Tomb as well): that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (we died with Him, we were buried with him, and His Resurrection was our Resurrection to a “Newness of Life”). 5 For if we have been planted together (with Christ) in the likeness of his death (Paul proclaims the Cross as the Instrument through which all Blessings come; consequently, the Cross must ever be the Object of our Faith, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives), we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection (we can have the “likeness of His Resurrection,” i .e., “live this Resurrection Life,” only as long as we understand the “likeness of His Death,” which refers to the Cross as the Means by which all of this is done):

1 Corinthians 1:17-18, 21 (KJV) 

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize (presents to us a Cardinal Truth), but to preach the gospel (the manner in which one may be Saved from sin): not with wisdom of words (intellectualism is not the Gospel), lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. (This tells us in no uncertain terms that the Cross of Christ must always be the emphasis of the Message.) 18  For the preaching (Message) of the cross is to them that perish foolishness (Spiritual things cannot be discerned by unredeemed people, but that doesn’t matter; the Cross must be preached just the same, even as we shall see); but unto us who are Saved it is the Power of God. (The Cross is the power of God simply because it was there that the total sin debt was paid, giving the Holy Spirit, in Whom the Power resides, latitude to work mightily within our lives.) 21 For after that in the Wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God (man’s puny wisdom, even the best he has to offer, cannot come to know God in any manner), it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching (preaching the Cross) to save them who believe. (Paul is not dealing with the art of preaching here, but with what is preached.)

1 Corinthians 2:2 (KJV)

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you (with the purpose and design, Paul did not resort to the knowledge or philosophy of the  world regarding the preaching of the Gospel), save Jesus Christ, and him Crucified (that and that alone is the Message, which will save the sinner, set the captive free, and give the Believer perpetual Victory).

Galatians 6:14 (KJV)

But God forbid that I should glory (boast), save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (what the opponents of Paul sought to escape at the price of insincerity is the Apostle’s only basis of exultation), by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (The only way we can overcome the world, and I mean the only way, is by placing our Faith exclusively in the Cross of and keeping it there.)

Ephesians 2:13-18 (KJV)

But now in Christ Jesus (proclaims the basis of all Salvation) you who sometimes (times past) were far off (far from Salvation) are made nigh (near) by the blood of Christ. (The Sacrificial Atoning Death of Jesus Christ transformed the relations of God with mankind. In Christ, God reconciled not a nation, but “a world” to Himself [II Corinthians 5:19].) 14 For He (Christ) is our peace (through Christ and what He did at the Cross, we have peace with God), Who has made both one (Jews and Gentiles), and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us (between Jews and Gentiles); 15 Having abolished in His Flesh (speaking of His Death on the Cross, by which He Redeemed humanity, which also means He didn’t die spiritually, as some claim) the enmity (the hatred between God and man, caused by sin), even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances (pertains to the Law of Moses, and more particularly the Ten Commandments); for to make in Himself of twain (of Jews and Gentiles) one new man, so making peace (which again was accomplished by the Cross); 16 And that He (Christ) might reconcile both (Jews and Gentiles) unto God in one body (the Church) by the Cross (it is by the Atonement only that men ever become reconciled to God), having slain the enmity thereby (removed the barrier between God and sinful man): 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off (proclaims the Gospel going to the Gentiles), and to them that were nigh. (This refers to the Jews. It is the same Message for both.) 18 For through Him (through Christ) we both (Jews and Gentiles) have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (If the sinner comes by the Cross, the Holy Spirit opens the door, otherwise it is barred [John 10:1].)

II Corinthians 5:19 (KJV)

To wit, that God was in Christ (by the agency of Christ), reconciling the world unto himself (represents the Atonement as the work of the Blessed Trinity and the result of love, not of wrath), not imputing their trespasses unto them (refers to the fact that the penalty for these trespasses was imputed to Christ instead); and has committed unto us the Word of reconciliation. (All Believers are to Preach the Cross in one way or another or the other [1Corinthians 1:18.)

John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He who enters not by the door into the sheepfold (proclaims to us that there is a “door,” and, in fact, only one “door!”), but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber (using a “way” other than Christ; He Alone is the door).

1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJV) 

For by one Spirit (the Holy Spirit alone does this) are we all baptized into one body (at Salvation, the Holy Spirit Baptizes the Believing sinner into the Body of Christ, which is the Born-Again experience; it doesn’t refer to Water Baptism), whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free (all must come in the same manner, “by and through Jesus Christ and what He did at the Cross”); and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (The Holy Spirit is the agent Who affects the work of Redemption carried out in our lives, which is made possible by the Death, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Exaltation of Christ.)

Galatians 3:27 (KJV) 

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ (refers to the Baptism into His Death and Calvary [Rom. 6:3-5]; the reference is not to Water Baptism) have put on Christ (means to be clothed with Him [Jn. 14:20]).

John 14:20 (KJV) 

20 At that day (after the Resurrection, and the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost) you shall know that I am in my Father (speaks of Deity; Jesus is God!), and you in me (has to do with our Salvation by Faith), and I in you (enables us to live a victorious life [Gal. 2:20]).

Galatians 2:20 (KJV) 

20 I am crucified with Christ (as the Foundation of all Victory; Paul, here, takes us back to [Rom. 6:3-5]): nevertheless I live (have new life); yet not I (not by my own strength and ability), but Christ lives in me (by virtue of me dying with Him on the Cross, and being raised with Him in Newness of Life): and the life which I now live in the flesh (my daily walk before God) I live by the faith of the Son of God (the Cross is ever the Object of my Faith), who loved me, and gave himself for me (which is the only way that I could be Saved).

Ephesians 4:5 (KJV) 

One Lord (Jesus Christ), one faith (what He did at the Cross), one baptism (our Salvation, referring to Believers Baptized into Christ, which was done at the Cross; it has nothing to do with Water Baptism [Rom. 6:3-5]),

Colossians 2:11-13 (KJV) 

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands (that which is brought about by the Cross [Rom. 6:3-5]), in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ (refers to the old carnal nature that is defeated by the Believer placing his Faith totally in the Cross, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work): 12 Buried with him in baptism (does not refer to Water Baptism, but rather to the Believer baptized into the death of Christ, which refers to the Crucifixion and Christ as our substitute [Rom. 6:3-4]), wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. (This does not refer to our future physical Resurrection, but to that spiritual Resurrection from a sinful state into Divine Life. We died with Him [Rom. 6:3-5], and herein lies the secret to all Spiritual Victory.) 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh (speaks of spiritual death [i.e., “separation from God”], which sin does!), hath he quickened together with him (refers to being made spiritually alive, which is done through being “Born-Again”), having forgiven you all trespasses (the Cross made it possible for all manner of sins to be forgiven and taken away);

Romans 8:31 - What shall we then say to these things? (This refers to the suffering presently endured [Vss. 17 - 18] in comparison to “the Glory which shall be revealed in us.") If God be for us (should be translated, “since God is for us”), who can be against us? (It is who can be against us that will really matter.)

Romans 8:17-18 (KJV)

17 And if children (Children of God), then heirs (a privilege); heirs of God (the highest enrichment of all), and joint-heirs with Christ (everything that belongs to Christ belongs to us through the Cross); if so be that we suffer with him (doesn’t pertain to mere suffering “with Him” referring to His Suffering at the Cross, which brought us total Victory), that we may be also glorified together (He has been glorified, and we shall be glorified; all made possible by the Cross). 18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time (speaks of the world and its condition because of the Fall) are not worthy to be compared with the glory (the glory of the coming future time will bear no relation to the misery of this present time) which shall be revealed in us (our Glory will be a reflective Glory, coming from Christ).

Psalms 119:71 (KJV 

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your Statutes. (Chastening and discipline make the Bible precious and the life more fruitful. They are helpful Bible teachers.)

Luke 10:41-42 (KJV)

41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha (is said in pitying love), thou are careful and troubled about many things (concerned things which were important, but not the most important): 42 But one thing is needful (proclaims to us the Mind of God, and tells us where all victory is): and Mary has chosen that good part (means that this is a “choice”), which shall not be taken away from her (the greatest thing is communion with Christ).

Luke 6:48 - He is like a man which built an house (we ought to grow in grace and knowledge), and digged deep (deep into the Word), and laid the foundation on a rock (that “Rock” is Christ and Him Crucified [1 Corinthians 1:21, 23]): and when the flood arose (problems will arise), the stream beat vehemently upon that house (Satan will try to destroy the house), and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock (once again, “that Rock”   is  “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified,” which must ever be the Object of our Faith).

1 Corinthians 1:21, 23 (KJV)

21 For after that in the Wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God (man’s puny wisdom, even the best he has to offer, cannot come to know God in any manner), it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching (preaching the Cross) to save them who believe. (Paul is not dealing with the art of preaching here, but with what is preached.) 23 But we preach Christ Crucified (this is the foundation of the Word of God and, thereby, of Salvation), unto the Jews a stumblingblock (the Cross was the stumblingblock), and unto the Greeks foolishness (both found it difficult to accept as God a dead Man hanging on a Cross, for such Christ was to them);

1 John 4:18 (KJV) 

There is no fear in love (the type of  “fear” spoken of here is not a godly fear or a filial reverence, but rather a slavish fear for a master or of a criminal before a Judge); but perfect love casts out fear (God has a Perfect Love for us, and if we have a perfect love for Him, which we surely can have, then we know He is going to sustain us, so there’s nothing then to fear): because fear has torment. (It is guilt that makes men fear what is to come.) He who fears is not made perfect in love. (If we do not properly understand the Cross, then are not made perfect in love.)

John 16:33 (KJV)

These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace (in effect, says to them, “Things may look dark, however, despite how they look, everything is under control; trust what I have said and believe Me!”). In the world you shall have tribulation (concerns the fundamental condition of Divine Life in this world; the world is totally opposed because its system is solely of Satan): but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (He did this through the Cross [Colossians 2:14-15], so may we overcome the world).

Introduction to the Book of Galatians Chpt 1

Bible Study For 01/20/2014

Introduction to the Book of Galatians Chpt 1

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God’s Church, which should be Preaching and Teaching the True Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is God, 3 in one, which is the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, “which is Jesus Christ”, and the Holy Ghost, but many Churches do not, some even covers the Cross, behind their pulpits, because they say that the Cross is old fashioned and they don’t want to offend anyone. That is Blasphemy to the Holy Ghost, God is not in those so called Churches. Many use other Bibles that is not a King James Bible, instead, they will mix their sermons, false doctrines of men, which would be like the following, Niv, New King James, New Living Translation, the Message Bible, the Amplified, and whatever else that is out there that is not a King James, teaches false Gospel and not of the Cross and Him Crucified. It is Blasphemy to use anything else than the King James, its the True Word of God and from my research, the King James is the only Bible that is closer to the real, original Transcripts. All the other versions are nothing more than counterfeits and perversions, that perverts the diety of Jesus Christ, the Cross and Him Crucified. Research it yourself, if you don’t believe me, it is Blasphemy. If the Word of God, the Cross and Him Crucified is not being Preached behind the pulpits, not to mention secular music being played in Worship and with the teen and youth groups, if the Cross is being covered and called old fashion, Jesus Christ, God almighty is not in those Churches, its demonic. Nothing has changed on this earth, ever since its been created. The only thing did change is the people, due to the great fall of Adam and Eve and Lucifer. Our country needs to get back to the Bible and the Cross of Calvary.

Galatians 1:1-24 (KJV)

1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) ( This means Paul did not submit the authority of his Apostleship to men, neither was it conferred on him by man.) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia (refers to all in that region): 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father (made Possible by the Cross), and from our Lord Jesus Christ (Who made it possible), 4 Who gave himself for our sins (the Cross), that he might deliver us from this present evil world (the Cross alone can set the captive free), according to the will of God and our Father (The standard of the entire process of Redemption): 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever (Divine Glory). Amen. 6 I marvel that you are so soon removed from him (the Holy Spirit) that called you into the grace of Christ (made possible by the Cross) unto another gospel (anything which doesn't have the Cross as its Object of Faith): 7 Which is not another (presents the fact that Satan's aim is not so much to deny the Gospel, which he can little do, as to corrupt it); but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ (once again, to make the object of Faith something other than the Cross). 8 But though we (Paul and his associates), or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified), let him be accursed (eternally condemned; the Holy Spirit speaks this through Paul, making this very serious). 9 As we said before, so say I now again (at some time past, he had said the same thing to them, making their defection even more serious) if any man preach any other gospel unto you (anything other than the Cross) than that ye have received (which Saved your souls), let him be accursed (“eternally condemned,” which means the loss of the soul). 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? (In essence, Paul is saying, “ Do I preach man’s doctrine, or God’s?”) or do I seek to please men? (This is what false apostles do.) for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (one cannot please both men and God at the same time). 11 But I certify you, brethren (make known), that the gospel which was preached of me (the Message of the Cross) is not after man. (Any Message other than the Cross is definitely devised by man.) 12 For I neither received it of man (Paul had not learned this great Truth from human teachers), neither was I taught it (he denies instruction from other men), but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (Revelation is the mighty Act of God whereby the Holy Spirit discloses to the human mind that which could not be understood without Divine Intervention.) 13 For you have heard of my conversation (way of life) in time past in the Jews' religion (the practice of Judaism), how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it (Acts 9:1-2): 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation (he outstripped his Jewish contemporaries in Jewish culture, etc.), being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers (a zeal from his very boyhood). 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb (presents the idea that God had set Paul apart, devoting him to a special purpose from before his birth), and called me by his grace (called, not because of any merit on his part, but rather because of the Grace of God), 16 To reveal his Son in me (the meaning of the New Covenant, which is the meaning of the Cross), that I might preach him among the heathen (Gentiles); immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood (his Commission and Message came to him from God, and neither was affected in any way by human intervention): 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me (did not get this Revelation from the original Twelve); but I went into Arabia (according to the Holy Spirit), and returned again unto Damascus. (There would not have been any Apostles in Damascus. There he Preached the Message of the Cross.) 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter (showing his independence from the Jerusalem Apostles), and abode with him fifteen days (when he, no doubt, revealed to Peter the Revelation of the Cross, which the Lord had given to him). 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. (James didn’t refer to himself as an Apostle, but Paul did.) 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ (head he been a Disciple of the Twelve, the Churches in Judaea would have known him): 23 But they had heard only (were constantly hearing), That he which persecuted us (Believers) in times past now preaches the faith which once he destroyed (Faith in Christ). 24 And they glorified God in me. (As he had “constantly persecuted,” and now was “constantly preaching,” they were “constantly glorifying.”)

Acts 9:1-2 (KJV)

1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord (presents Paul as the Leader of the persecution against the Early Church), went unto the high priest (if it was A.D. 35, Caiaphas was the High Priest; once again, we see the evil of religion), 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues (proclaims the persecution led by Paul branching out to other cities), that if he found any of this way (portrays the description of the Early Church [Jn. 14:6; Acts 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22]), whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem (refers to them appearing before the Sanhedrin, the same group the Crucified Christ).

John 14:6 (KJV)

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life (proclaims in no uncertain terms exactly Who and What Jesus is): no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (He declares positively that this idea of God as Father, this approach to God for every man is through Him -- through what He is and what He has done).

Acts 18:25-26 (KJV)

25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord (however, his knowledge was greatly limited respecting Grace and the Baptism with the Holy Spirit); and being fervent in the spirit (spoke of his own spirit and not the Holy Spirit), he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John (speaks of Repentance and Water Baptism). 26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard (presents that which was all in the providence of God), they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly (no doubt pertained to the full complement of Salvation by the Grace of God exclusively, correct Water Baptism, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking with other Tongues).

Acts 19:9, 23 (KJV)

9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude (they rebelled against the Gospel of Christ), he departed from them, and separated the disciples (proclaims the break with the Synagogue), disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus (is thought to be the Lecture Hall of a Greek Philosopher). 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way (“that Way” is the “Pentecostal Way,” which characterizes the entirety of the Book of Acts).

Acts 22:4 (KJV)

4 And I persecuted this way (the Way of the Lord Jesus Christ) unto the death (his persecution of Believers had resulted in the death of some), binding and delivering into prisons both men and women (proclaims that he showed no mercy).

Acts 24:14, 22 (KJV)

14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy (following Christ), so worship I the God of my fathers (places Christianity as the fulfillment of the great Promises and Predictions given to the “Fathers,” i.e., all the Old Testament Worthies), believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets (the entirety of the Old Testament): 22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way (Felix had greater knowledge of Christianity than Tertullus, and the Jews presents at that trial were willing to give him credit), he deferred them, and said (means simply that he refused to give a verdict at this time), When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter (he was trying to delay the matter, hoping it would defuse the situation; moreover, there is no record he ever sent for Lysias).

Any person who rejects the Cross and Jesus Christ, will be rejected from Heaven. Jesus Christ came to this world to attempt to Save the people from the enemy, the sad part is, many of you have and are rejecting Salvation that can Save you, which is the Blood of Jesus Christ. You need to keep your focus on the Cross, as a Reminder of what Jesus Christ did for you, which was to shed His Blood for you. I hear that many women wants a real man in their lives, that will save them or fight for them and to be strong for them. Many woman wants a man to put their arms around them and keep them safe. Guess what? You are Blinded in sin still, because there is who is doing all of that for you. His Name is Jesus Christ, who is God Almighty. God almighty has fought for all people in this world. There is only one way to be Saved and baptized by the Holy Ghost, and that is by believing and having Faith. Accepting Jesus Christ in your hearts, Faith in the Cross and Him Crucified, Repenting and laying your life down at the Cross. When you surrender at the foot of the Cross, your sins will be buried by the Almighty Powerful Blood of Jesus Christ. You are then Baptized by the Holy Ghost and you are then Saved. You then are Heaven bound my friends. Turn away from the sinful ways of living, Live right in the sight of God for the remainder of your lives. Sin is what separates us from Jesus Christ and sends your soul to hell. Lets close in Prayer. 

Book of Galatians Chpt 6 (Restoration) Part 6

Bible Study For 2/24/2014

Book of Galatians Chpt 6 (Restoration) Part 6

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Many of the Churches around the world, is placing their Faith’s and Belief’s in other things than the Cross. You have some Churches putting their Faith in water Baptism and not the Cross, you have some Churches, wait a minute, I am going to change the word Church to meeting house’s, because that is what it is, we are the Church, not a building, friends. Some people puts Faith in their meeting house’s and not the Cross, you have some placing their Faith in statues, prayer shawls, prayer blankets, and what ever else out their, that make idles out of. The point that I am trying to make here is, that all those things are “Blasphemy”, in the sight of God. Any person who makes anything the Object of their Faith, other than the Cross, is doomed for hell. i know that many of you are probably saying that I am being harsh and judging, thats fine, but you must realize that the Word of God has already placed the Judgment on sin and on you who is living in disobedience. You may not realized this, but If its in the Bible and God has already spoke the Law of Grace, I have every right to preach and share it. Guess what? Every Church that covers the Cross and calls the Cross old fashion, as “Blasphemed the Holy Spirit and already as rejected Jesus Christ, and approves of same sex relations and marriages and is considered, seeker sensitive and not only that, those meeting houses and on going sinners in those meeting houses, including the pastors for allowing it to go on, is doomed, and you know what that means. In case you have forgotten, go back through our last study in Chapter 5, to get your memory refreshed, not only that, we will see it again in this study as well. Lets get started with chapter 6.

Galatians 6:1-18 (KJV)

1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault (pertains to moral failure, and is brought about because one has ignorantly placed himself under Law; such a position guarantees failure), you who are spiritual (refers to those who understand God’s Prescribed Order of Victory, which is the Cross), restore such an one (tell him he failed because of reverting to Law, and that Victory can be his by placing his Faith totally in the Cross, Which then gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work, Who Alone can give the Victory) in the spirit of meekness (never with an overbearing, holier than thou attitude); considering thyself, lest you also be tempted (the implication is that if we do not handle such a case Scripturally we, thereby, open the door for Satan to attack us in the same manner as he did the failing brother). 2 Bear ye one another's burdens (refers to sharing the heartache and shame of one who has spiritually failed), and so fulfil the law of Christ (which is Love!). 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing (refers to a Believer who puts himself above the one who has failed in his own eyes), he deceives himself. (This presents the one who has conceited idea he is morally and spiritually superior to what he actually is.) 4 But let every man prove his own work (to put his Faith in the Cross to the test for the purpose of approving, which is done by seeing how well one obeys the Word of the Lord), and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone (the spiritual man sees himself as he really is, totally dependent on Christ and the Cross), and not in another. (He will not then be rejoicing over the other man’s failure.) 5 For every man shall bear his own burden. (When each Believer sees his own failings, which we all have, he will have no inclination to compare himself with others, at least as it regards a superior position.) 6 Let him that is taught in the word (refers to the act of receiving instruction) communicate unto him that teaches in all good things. (Let us not make the load of the God-called Teacher heavier by hindering him in some way, but rather let us encourage him.) 7 Be not deceived (refers to the fact that a Believer can definitely be deceived; Paul is speaking primarily of Believers allowing false teachers to move their Faith from the Cross to other things); God is not mocked (God, in fact, is mocked when we substitute something else in the place of the Cross): for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap (the Law of sowing and reaping, which will unfailingly come to pass). 8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption (those who make something else the object of their Faith, rather than the Cross, which means they are now depending on self-will); but he that sows to the Spirit (does so by trusting exclusively in Christ and what Christ did at the Cross) shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (God’s Prescribed Order of Victory). 9 And let us not be weary in well doing (Paul continues to speak of “sowing to the Spirit”): for in due season we shall reap (in God’s Time, our Faith in Christ and the Cross will not go unrewarded, but will bring forth exactly that which is Promised by the Lord), if we faint not. (Many start the race, but do not finish. They give up after a while, exclaiming that the “Cross” doesn’t work. Let all know and understand that we might fail, but the Cross never fails!) 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men (the Holy Spirit will help us do this, providing our Faith is ever in the Cross; otherwise, we will fail), especially unto them who are of the household of faith. (There are many who are of the Faith, but really do not understand the Faith, so they walk in defeat. We are to give them the Message of the Cross, in order that they may walk in perpetual Victory [Rom. 8:2].) 11 You see how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand. ( This refers to the fact that Paul had written the entirety of the Epistle to the Galatians himself, which he normally did not do. Scribes generally wrote as he dictated, with him writing the postscript and signing his name.) 12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised (the Judaizers were attempting to get the Galatians to embrace the Law along with Christ); only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. (The Message of the Cross brings forth persecution from both the world and the Church. It strikes at the very heart of all spiritual pride and self-righteousness.) 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law (engaging in the rite of Circumcision, which was the Seal of the Law of Moses, didn’t help anyone keep the Law); but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. (Many in the Church glory in self-effort, but few glory in the Cross because it puts self-effort in its proper place.) 14 But God forbid that I should glory (boast), save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (what the opponents of Paul sought to escape at the price of insincerity is Apostle’s only basis of exultation), by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (The only way we can overcome the world, and I mean the only way, is by placing our Faith exclusively in the Cross of Christ and keeping it there.) 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision (blows all of man’s religious ceremonies to pieces), but a new creature (new in every respect, which can only be brought about by trusting Christ and what He did for us at the Cross). 16 And as many as walk (to direct one’s life, to order one’s conduct) according to this rule (the principle of the Cross), peace be on them, and mercy (which comes only by means of the Cross), and upon the Israel of God. (This refers to all who look to the Cross for their Redemption. They alone are the true Israel.) 17 From henceforth let no man trouble me (don’t listen to these false teachers): for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. (This concerns the persecution he suffered because of the “offence of the Cross” [Gal. 5:11].) 18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (which comes by our Faith in the Cross) be with your spirit. (We worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth, and the Cross is that Truth.) Amen.

Romans 8:2 (KJV)

2 For the law (that which we are about to give is a Law of God, devised by the Godhead in eternity past [1 Pet. 1:18-20]; this Law, in fact, is “God’s Prescribed Order of Victory”) of the Spirit (Holy Spirit, i.e., “the way the Spirit works”) of life (all life comes from Christ, but through the Holy Spirit [Jn. 16:13-14]) in Christ Jesus (any time Paul uses this term or one of its derivatives, he is, without fail, referring to what Christ did at the Cross, which makes this “life” possible) hath made me free (given me total Victory) from the law of sin and death (these are the two most powerful Laws in the Universe; the “Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus” alone is stronger than the “Law of Sin and Death”; this means that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any manner other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, he is doomed for failure).

Galatians 5:11 (KJV)

11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? (Any message other than the Cross draws little opposition.) then is the offence of the cross ceased. (The Cross offends the world and most of the Church. So if the preacher ceases to preach the Cross as the Only way of Salvation and Victory, then opposition and persecution will cease. But so will Salvation!)

1 Peter 1:18-20 (KJV)

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold (presents the fact that the most precious commodities [silver and gold] could not redeem fallen man), from your vain conversation (vain lifestyle) received by tradition from your fathers (speaks of original sin that is passed on from father to child at conception); 19 But with the precious blood of Christ (presents the payment, which proclaims the poured out Life of Christ on behalf of the sinners), as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (speaks of the lambs offered as substitutes in the Old Jewish economy; the Death of Christ was not an execution or assassination, but rather a Sacrifice; the Offering of Himself presented a Perfect Sacrifice, for He was Perfect in Every Respect [ex12:5]): 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world ( refers to the fact that God,in His Omniscience, knew He would create man, man would fall, and man would be redeemed by Christ going to the Cross; this was all done before the Universe was created; this means the Cross of Christ is the Foundation Doctrine of all Doctrine, referring to the fact that all Doctrine must be built upon that Foundation, or else it is specious) , but was manifest in these last times for you (refers to the invisible God Who, in the Person of the Son, was made visible to human eyesight by assuming a human body and human limitations),

Exodus 12:5 (KJV)

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish (Christ was without blemish, Who the lamb represented, “holy, heartless, undefiled”  - - a “lamb without spot”  [1 Pet. 1:19]), a male of the first year (meant to portray the virtue manhood of Christ; in other words, He didn't die in the throes of old age, but rather in the prime of manhood): you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats (the “goats” then represented were different from our goats presently; then they were very similar to the sheep, actually, with their long flowing mane, even more beautiful than the sheep):

1 Peter 1:19 (KJV)

19 But with the precious blood of Christ (presents the payment, which proclaims the poured out Life of Christ on behalf of the sinners), as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (speaks of the lambs offered as substitutes in the Old Jewish economy; the Death of Christ was not an execution or assassination, but rather a Sacrifice; the Offering of Himself presented a Perfect Sacrifice, for He was Perfect in Every Respect [ex12:5]):

John 16:13-14 (KJV)

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come (which He did on the Day of Pentecost), he will guide you into all truth (if our Faith is properly placed in Christ and the Cross, the Holy Spirit can then bring forth Truth to us; He doesn’t guide into some truth, but rather “all Truth”): for he shall not speak of himself (tells us not only What He does, but Whom He represents); but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak (doesn’t refer to lack of knowledge, for the Holy Spirit is God, rather He will proclaim the Work of Christ Only): and he will shew you things to come (pertains to the New Covenant, which would shortly be given). 14 He shall glorify me (will portray Christ and what Christ did at the Cross for dying humanity): for he shall receive of mine (the benefits of the Cross), and shall shew it unto you (which He did, when He gave these Great Truths to the Apostle Paul [Rom., Chpts. 6-8, etc.])

The person who puts their Faith in something else, other than the Cross is doomed. I know of several t.v. evangelist’s that are doomed, I will not mention their names, but I am sure some of you know the Word of God and watches the corrupted network, can figure out who they are. I know of one who say’s that there are one Salvation for Christians and another way for Salvation for the “Jews”, meaning that he is saying that there are two ways of Salvation. That is Blasphemy, if he does not repent and turn away from that false doctrine, he is doomed. There are some on this network that I am talking about, says that gay’s and lesbians will go to Heaven, that is also “Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit”. If they do not repent, including the so called preacher’s, if they do not repent and turn away from the false doctrine and lies from Satan, they will be doomed. They all are placing their Faith in something else, instead of placing their Faith in the Cross. Friends, do you want to be Saved and make it to Heaven? You then need to deny yourselves, meaning to die to sin. That is the start of it. Come as you are, to the Cross. Here is what Saves, accept Jesus Christ into your hearts, believe in Jesus Christ, the Cross and Him Crucified, you then will be Baptized by the Holy Ghost. This is the reborn again experience. “You then are Saved and Heaven Bound”. Come to the Cross and get right with God today. Lets Pray.

Book of Galatians Chpt 5 (Bondage) Part 5

Bible Study for 2/17/2014

Book of Galatians Chpt 5 (Bondage) Part 5

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There are so much corruptions going on in the Church world today. Their congregations are being mislead by false doctrines of many devils. Most Churches are putting their Faiths in something other than the Cross and Him Crucified, instead most of them are putting their Faith in Water Baptism, for the means of Salvation and making Baptism the Object of their Faith. This is Dangerous and will lead, not just themselves, but the listeners and believers of this false doctrine, to hell as well. Salvation is through Jesus Christ, the Cross and Him Crucified. Not all Churches are Saved, like as they claim. Keep a watchful eye out for false doctrine, you will know them by their fruits. Any Church, any person who hangs onto Law and not Grace of God, will remain in “Bondage” of sin and will not make it to Heaven. You need to make the Cross the Object of your Faith, and do not make Water Baptism the Object of your Faith, it will destroy your soul. Lets get started in with what the Word of God has to say about this.

Galatians 5:1-26 (KJV)

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free (we were made free, and refers to freedom to live a Holy life by evidencing Faith in Christ and the Cross), and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (To abandon the Cross and go under Law of any kind guarantees Bondage once again to the sin nature.) 2 Behold (“mark my words!”), I Paul say unto you (presents the Apostle’s authority regarding the Message he brings), that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. (If the Believer goes back into Law, and Law of any kind, what Christ did at the Cross on our behalf will profit us nothing. One cannot have it two ways.) 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised (some of the Galatian Gentiles were being pressured by false teachers to embrace the Law of Moses, which meant they would have to forsake Christ and the Cross, for it’s not possible to wed the two; as well, it’s not possible to wed any Law to Grace), that he is a debtor to do the whole law (which of course is impossible; and besides, the Law contained no Salvation). 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you (this is a chilling statement, and refers to anyone who makes anything other than Christ and the Cross the Object of his Faith), whosoever of you are justified by the law (seek to be justified by the Law); you are fallen from grace (fallen from the position of Grace, which means the Believer is trusting in something other than the Cross; it actually means, “to apostatize”). 5 For we through the Spirit (the Holy Spirit works exclusively within the parameters of the Sacrifice of Christ; consequently, He demands that we place our Faith exclusively in the Cross of Christ) wait for the hope of righteousness (which is guaranteed to ultimately come [Rom. 6:14]) by faith (refers to Faith in Christ and what He did for us at the Cross). 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision (has no spiritual bearing on anything); but faith which works by love. (The evidence of true Faith is the fact of the Love which emanates from such Faith.) 7 You did run well (under the Ministry of Paul, the Galatians had begun well); who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? (Paul is referring to false teachers who were attempting to pull the Galatians away from the Cross to other things.) 8 This persuasion comes not of him (the Holy Spirit) that calls you. (What you are doing is not Biblical!) 9 A little leaven (corruption) leaveneth (corrupts) the whole lump. (The introduction of a small amount of false doctrine will ultimately consume the entirety of the belief system.) 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded (that the Galatians would not abandon the Cross for this is false doctrine): but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. (Judgment will ultimately come on those who attempt to present a way of Salvation other than Christ and the Cross.) 11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? (Any message other than the Cross draws little opposition.) then is the offence of the cross ceased. (The Cross offends the world and most of the Church. So if the preacher ceases to preach the Cross as the Only way of Salvation and Victory, then opposition and persecution will cease. But so will Salvation!) 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. (They might cease from the land, but unfortunately false teachers seem to ever plague the landscape.) 13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty (liberty from the Law, and to live a Holy life); only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh (because you are living under Grace, do not think sin is inconsequential), but by love serve one another. (This is Paul’s constant concern. How will you use your freedom? How will you live your new life?) 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this (presents the Apostle telling us how the Law is fulfilled in our lives); You shall love your neighbour as yourself. (In this, the whole Law stands fully obeyed. This can be done and, in fact, will be done, providing the Believer ever makes the Cross of Christ the Object of his Faith. Accordingly, the Holy Spirit will then provide the power for us to do what we should do.) 15 But if you bite and devour one another (which will be done if the Believer seeks to live under Law), take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (If Love absent, this tells us that the Cross is absent. Fighting and quarreling always follow the Law.) 16 This I say then, Walk (order your behavior) in the Spirit (we do so by placing our Faith exclusively in Christ and the Cross, through which the Spirit works exclusively [Rom. 8:1-2]), and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. (This proves the existence of the sin nature in the Believer. It declares the consciousness of corrupt desires. As stated, the only way to not fulfill the lust of the flesh is for our Faith to be placed exclusively in the Cross.) 17 For the flesh (in this case, evil desires) lusteth against the Spirit (is the opposite of the Holy Spirit), and the Spirit against the flesh (it is the Holy Spirit Alone, Who can subdue the flesh; He does so as we have repeatedly stated, by our Faith being placed exclusively in the Cross): and these are contrary the one to the other (these two can never harmonize; as Paul has stated, the old nature must be cast out, which the Holy Spirit Alone can do): so that you cannot do the things that you would. (Without the Holy Spirit, Who works by the Cross, the Believer cannot live a Holy life.) 18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. (One cannot follow the Spirit and the Law at the same time, but regrettably that’s what most modern Christians are attempting to do. Unless one properly understands the Cross as it regards Sanctification, one cannot be properly “led of the Spirit,” Who works exclusively within the framework of the Finished Work of Christ.) 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these (if one attempts to function by means of Law of any nature, the “works of the flesh” will be manifested in one’s life); Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like (if one is walking after the flesh [Rom. 8:1], one or more of these sins will manifest themselves in one’s life; the only way, and I mean the only, one can walk in perpetual Victory is to understand that everything we receive from God comes to us by means of the Cross; consequently, the Cross must ever be the Object of our Faith; this being the case, the Holy Spirit, Who works exclusively within the confines of the Sacrifice of Christ, will exert His mighty Power on our behalf, which will enable us to live a Holy life): of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past (refers to the fact that the Apostle was not afraid to name specific sins), that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (This tells us in no uncertain terms that if our Faith is not everlastingly in Christ and the Cross, we simply won’t make it. God doesn’t have two ways of Salvation and Victory, only one, and that is “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.”) 22 But the fruit of the Spirit (are not “fruits” but rather “Fruit”; they are to be looked at as a “whole,” which means they grow equally) is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Against such there doesn’t need to be a Law. But let the Reader understand that this “Fruit” is of the “Holy Spirit,” and not of man. It can only develop as we are “led of the Spirit.” And we can only be led by the Spirit by making the Cross the Object of our Faith.) 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (This can be done only by the Believer understanding it was carried out by Christ at the Cross, and our being “Baptized into His Death” [Rom. 6:3-5]. That being the case, and as repeatedly stated, the Cross must ever be the Object of our Faith, which alone will bring about will bring about these results.) 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit (“walk” refers to our lifestyle; this Passage declares both life and Holiness to be the Work of the Holy Spirit; He operates Salvation and He operates Sanctification; both are realized on the Principle of Faith, and that refers to the Cross ever being the Object of our Faith; many know they have received Spiritual Life, as it regards Salvation through Faith, but they think they can only secure Sanctification by works; this is a great error; it never brings victory; believing in Christ and the Cross for Sanctification, as well as for Justification, introduces one into a life of power and victory, which is the only way it can be accomplished.). 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory (which is a sign that one is functioning according to Law), provoking one another (self-righteousness), envying one another. (These are works of the flesh, and will manifest themselves if our Faith is in things other than the Cross.)

Romans 6:14 (KJV)

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you (the sin nature will not have dominion over us if we as Believers continue to exercise Faith in the Cross of Christ; otherwise, the sin nature most definitely will have dominion over the Believer): for you are not under the law (means that if we try to live this life by any type of law, no matter how good that law might be in It's own right, we will conclude by the sin nature having dominion over us), but under grace (the Grace of God flows to the Believer on an unending basis only as long as the Believer exercises Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross; Grace is merely the Goodness of God exercised by and through the Holy Spirit, and given to undeserving Saints).

Romans 8:1-2 (KJV)

1 There is therefore now no conversation (guilt) to them which are in Christ Jesus (refers back to Rom. 6:3-5 and our being baptized into His Death, which speaks of the Crucifixion), who walk not after the flesh (depending on one's personal strength and ability or great religious efforts in order to overcome sin), but after the Spirit (the Holy Spirit works exclusively within the legal confines of the Finished Work of Christ; our Faith in that Finished Work, i.e., “the Cross,” guarantees the help of the Holy Spirit, which guarantees Victory). 2 For the law (that which we are about to give is a Law of God, devised by the Godhead in eternity past [1 Pet. 1:18-20]; this Law, in fact, is “God’s Prescribed Order of Victory”) of the Spirit (Holy Spirit, i.e., “the way the Spirit works”) of life (all life comes from Christ, but through the Holy Spirit [Jn. 16:13-14]) in Christ Jesus (any time Paul uses this term or one of its derivatives, he is, without fail, referring to what Christ did at the Cross, which makes this “life” possible) hath made me free (given me total Victory) from the law of sin and death (these are the two most powerful Laws in the Universe; the “Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus” alone is stronger than the “Law of Sin and Death”; this means that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any manner other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, he is doomed for failure).

1 Peter 1:18-20 (KJV)

18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold (presents the fact that the most precious commodities [silver and gold] could not redeem fallen man), from your vain conversation (vain lifestyle) received by tradition from your fathers (speaks of original sin that is passed on from father to child at conception); 19 But with the precious blood of Christ (presents the payment, which proclaims the poured out Life of Christ on behalf of the sinners), as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (speaks of the lambs offered as substitutes in the Old Jewish economy; the Death of Christ was not an execution or assassination, but rather a Sacrifice; the Offering of Himself presented a Perfect Sacrifice, for He was Perfect in Every Respect [ex12:5]): 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world (refers to the fact that God,in His Omniscience, knew He would create man, man would fall, and man would be redeemed by Christ going to the Cross; this was all done before the Universe was created; this means the Cross of Christ is the Foundation Doctrine of all Doctrine, referring to the fact that all Doctrine must be built upon that Foundation, or else it is specious), but was manifest in these last times for you (refers to the invisible God Who, in the Person of the Son, was made visible to human eyesight by assuming a human body and human limitations),

John 16:13-14 (KJV)

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come (which He did on the Day of Pentecost), he will guide you into all truth (if our Faith is properly placed in Christ and the Cross, the Holy Spirit can then bring forth Truth to us; He doesn’t guide into some truth, but rather “all Truth”): for he shall not speak of himself (tells us not only What He does, but Whom He represents); but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak (doesn’t refer to lack of knowledge, for the Holy Spirit is God, rather He will proclaim the Work of Christ Only): and he will show you things to come (pertains to the New Covenant, which would shortly be given). 14 He shall glorify me (will portray Christ and what Christ did at the Cross for dying humanity): for he shall receive of mine (the benefits of the Cross), and shall show it unto you (which He did, when He gave these Great Truths to the Apostle Paul [Rom., Chpts. 6-8, etc.])

Romans 6:3-5 (KJV)

3 Know you not, that so many of us as were into Jesus Christ (plainly says that this Baptism is into Christ and Not Water [1 Cor. 1:17; 12:13; Gal. 3:27; Eph. 4:5; Col. 2:11-13]) were baptized into his death? (When Christ died on the Cross, in the Mind of God, we died with Him; in other words, He became our Substitute, and our identification with Him in His Death gives us all the benefits for which He died; the idea is that He did it all for us!) 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death (not only did we die with Him, but we were buried with Him as well, which means that all the sins and transgressions of the past were buried; when they put Him in the Tomb, they put all our sins into the Tomb as well): that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (we died with Him, we were buried with him, and His Resurrection was our Resurrection to a “Newness of Life”). 5 For if we have been planted together (with Christ) in the likeness of his death (Paul proclaims the Cross as the Instrument through which all Blessings come; consequently, the Cross must ever be the Object of our Faith, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives), we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection (we can have the “likeness of His Resurrection,” i .e., “live this Resurrection Life,” only as long as we understand the “likeness of His Death,” which refers to the Cross as the Means by which all of this is done):

1 Corinthians 1:17 (KJV) 

For Christ sent me not to baptize (presents to us a Cardinal Truth), but to preach the gospel (the manner in which one may be Saved from sin): not with wisdom of words (intellectualism is not the Gospel), lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. (This tells us in no uncertain terms that the Cross of Christ must always be the emphasis of the Message.)

1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJV) 

For by one Spirit (the Holy Spirit alone does this) are we all baptized into one body (at Salvation, the Holy Spirit Baptizes the Believing sinner into the Body of Christ, which is the Born-Again experience; it doesn’t refer to Water Baptism), whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free (all must come in the same manner, “by and through Jesus Christ and what He did at the Cross”); and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (The Holy Spirit is the agent Who affects the work of Redemption carried out in our lives, which is made possible by the Death, Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Exaltation of Christ.)

Galatians 3:27 (KJV) 

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ (refers to the Baptism into His Death and Calvary [Rom. 6:3-5]; the reference is not to Water Baptism) have put on Christ (means to be clothed with Him [Jn. 14:20]).

Ephesians 4:5 (KJV) 

One Lord (Jesus Christ), one faith (what He did at the Cross), one baptism (our Salvation, referring to Believers Baptized into Christ, which was done at the Cross; it has nothing to do with Water Baptism [Rom. 6:3-5]),

Colossians 2:11-13 (KJV) 

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands (that which is brought about by the Cross [Rom. 6:3-5]), in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ (refers to the old carnal nature that is defeated by the Believer placing his Faith totally in the Cross, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work): 12 Buried with him in baptism (does not refer to Water Baptism, but rather to the Believer baptized into the death of Christ, which refers to the Crucifixion and Christ as our substitute [Rom. 6:3-4]), wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. (This does not refer to our future physical Resurrection, but to that spiritual Resurrection from a sinful state into Divine Life. We died with Him [Rom. 6:3-5], and herein lies the secret to all Spiritual Victory.) 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh (speaks of spiritual death [i.e., “separation from God”], which sin does!), hath he quickened together with him (refers to being made spiritually alive, which is done through being “Born-Again”), having forgiven you all trespasses (the Cross made it possible for all manner of sins to be forgiven and taken away);

Have you changed your Faith away from "Bondage" of sin or are you still living by Law and not by Grace of God? Any person who is living under Law and not living by living under Grace, is in grave danger. As we close out in prayer, I am truly praying that you are taking this to heart and not lightly. God wants you to come to an understanding of His Truth. God's Truth, is the only thing that can set you free and become no longer in "Bondage", of sin, my friends. If you would like to be set free from "Bondage" and become reborn again and be Saved and make it to Heaven? Then accept Jesus Christ into your hearts, come as you are and allow the Holy Ghost of God, transform your life from within your hearts. The "Bondage", of your smoking habits, your "Bondage" of your alcoholic problems, your "Bondage" of cussing, your "Bondage" of drug addictions, your "Bondage" of worries, your "Bondage" of pornagrophy, your "Bondage of any kind of other abuses, all of your "Bondages", you can get free of them and become reborn again, with a bran new life style, brand new thinking and life. You can be Saved from all, if you give them all to God and turn away from the filth. This does for listening to false doctrine. One last thing to bring to your attention, if your listening to false doctrines, from false prophets? you then are supporting their false teachings and their wicked old ways of satan. If your are Saved, you then need to do what is right, follow the example of Jesus Christ and walk away from their programmings. Any person who is living in the "Bondage" lies, are not Saved. Lets Pray.

Book of Galatians Chpt 4 (Heirship Illustrated) Part 4

Bible Study For 2/10/2014

Book of Galatians Chpt 4 (Heirship Illustrated) Part 4

[Note to Blog Readers: Expositor’s Notes are in Bold Italic Font]

There is a war going on in many of our Churches, all around the world, not a physical war, but a spiritual war. We have some Churches, or like what I prefer to call them, meeting house’s, that are Saved and not Saved. We are the Church, the bodies that we live in, many are saved and there are those who are not, even though they claim to be. The one’s who are Saved, are the one’s who are living under the new Covenant Law, which is under Grace, meaning, once we accept Jesus Christ into our hearts, believe and have Faith in what Jesus Christ did on the Cross, Believe that He has shed His Blood for our sins, will be Baptized by the Holy Ghost and will be Saved, because of Faith and not works, which is water Baptism. We just went through that last week, that is where Law comes in at. Those who makes the Cross their object of Faith, will be Saved. Those who makes legalism, which is done by living by Law, which would be, Baptism by Water and it takes us back in time, replaces Jesus Christ back on the Cross, to die for sin again. There are some Churches that believes that a person should get married once, and no more. That is true, unless the other person is not a Christian. If a marriage, is destroyed, due to satan interfering with the couple and the wife, or husband leaves and falls away from God, you can tell by the bad fruits that may be flying out of their mouth’s, then they are not Saved, Biblically. If the man or woman, whatever the case maybe, if the man or woman that has been cast out from the marriage, because of the unbelieving spouse, and that man or woman, is a Christian and the other is a Christian, they have every right to get married, as long as they both are Christians, it would be wrong for a believer to get married with an unbeliever, what dose light have in common with darkness? They don’t have anything in common. For a Church to control their congregations, telling them to remain single and not to get married, making Baptism the object of Faith, to get into God’s Kingdom, in the means to getting Saved, is all legalism and is a sin. We are to live by Faith in Jesus Christ, what He did on the Cross, and Him Crucified, believing that the poring of His Blood has covered our sins, which still, do not give us any right to live in sin no more. That is living by Faith and not by Works and Law. Many Churches and Christians is in great Danger of hell fire for all eternity, because they live by Law and not by Grace. Law is the old Covenant and Grace is the New Covenant. If your living under Law, you better keep it and don’t break it, it will send you to hell. I rather live under the New Law, Grace. You are Saved by repenting to Jesus Christ, accepting Jesus Christ into your hearts, believing in the Cross and Him Crucified, what does it say in scripture?

Romans 10:11 For the Scripture says (combining parts of Isa.   28:16   with   49:23),
Whosoever believes on Him (proclaims the fact that Salvation is reachable by all) shall not be ashamed (in essence says, “shall not be out to shame,” but rather will receive what is promised).

Isa. 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a Foundation a Stone, a tried Stone, a precious Corner Stone, a sure Foundation: he who believes shall not make haste. (This Passage speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ.As Zion was not itself the Corner Stone, so the Church is not the Saviour. Christ is the “Stone,” but sadly almost the entirety of the world stumbles over this “tried stone.” Every “foundation” is not “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified” is built upon “lies” and “falsehood.”) Lets get started.

Galatians 4:1-31 (KJV)
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all (Paul continues the argument for the inferiority of the condition under Law using an illustration from contemporary life); 2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. (This refers to the fixed time when he would be of legal age and, therefore, able to accept the inheritance.) 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world (refer to passion and pride which enslave humanity): 4 But when the fulness of the time was come (which completed the time designated by God that should elapse before the Son of God would come), God sent forth his Son (it was God who acted; the Law required man to act; this requirement demonstrated man’s impotency; the Son of God requires nothing from man other than his confidence), made of a woman (pertains to the Incarnation, God becoming man), made under the law (refers to the Mosaic Law; Jesus was subject to the Jewish legal economy, which He had to-be, that is if He was to redeem fallen humanity; in other words, He had to keep the Law perfectly, which no human being had done, but He did), 5 To redeem them that were under the law (in effect, all of humanity is under the Law of God which man, due to his fallen condition, could not keep; but Jesus came and redeemed us by keeping the Law perfectly, and above all satisfying its penalty on the Cross, which was death), that we might receive the adoption of sons (that we could become the sons of God by adoption, which is carried out by Faith in Christ and what He did at the Cross). 6 And because you are sons (we now have many privileges), God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts (because we are sons, the Holy Spirit has been sent to take up His permanent residence in our hearts), crying, Abba, Father. (This means it is the Holy Spirit Who is doing the crying, and does so to the Father on our behalf.) 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son (refers to the standing one has in Christ because of one’s Faith in Christ); and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (This proclaims the fact that all the privileges, which belong to Christ, now belong to us as well.) 8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God (refers to the former unredeemed state), you did service unto them which by nature are no gods. (They were slaves to heathenistic superstition.) 9 But now, after that you have known God (refers to Saving Grace, Knowing God through the acceptance of Jesus Christ, which is the only way He can be known), or rather are known of God (refers to the Lord knowing us in a saving way), how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements (when the substance is reached and sonship established, going back to the “rudiments,” i.e., symbols and sacraments, is not progress, but ignorance), whereunto you desire again to be in bondage? (Bondage to the sin nature! It refers to leaving the Cross, and making other things the object of Faith.) 10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years. (The Judaizers were attempting to get the Galatians to go into Law-keeping in conjuction with Christ, which connot work.) 11 I am afraid of you (afraid for your spiritual welfare), lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. (If one leaves Faith in Christ and the Cross and embraces other things, which means to look to those other things for life and victory, the Holy Spirit will have bestowed upon such a person labor in vain.) 12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am (free from all the bondage of Salvation by works and sacraments, which is is no Salvation at all); for I am as you are (means that even though he is an Apostle, he is subject to the same Biblical Doctrines as they are): you have not injured me at all. (My motive is not one of personal complaint, but because of the great harm that could come to you.) 13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh (doesn’t say what it is) I preached the gospel unto you at the first (evidently, when these Church were first founded). 14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected (should have been translated, “my trial”; but once again, we do not know what it was, so speculation is useless); but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. (They accepted him and what he preached.) 15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? (This speaks of the wonderful prosperity of Salvation, which had come to them as a result of Paul bringing the Gospel to this region.) for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. (This doesn’t necessarily mean Paul had an eye disease, as some claim. This was an idiom used often to express extreme affliction.) 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (A real friend is one who will tell his friend the truth, even though it hurts.) 17 They zealously affect you (speaks of the Judaizers attempting to subvert the Galatians in order to win them over to themselves), but not well (not for your good); yes, they would exclude you (they would shut the Galatians out from the benefits of the Gospel of Grace), that you might affect them (means to be drawn to their side). 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing (Paul wanted the Galatians to be as zealous over Christ and the Cross as it seems they were tending to be over false doctrine), and not only when I am present with you. (Their zeal for the right thing should be present at all times.) 19 My little children (presents the language of deep affection and emotion), of whom I travail in birth again (deliver to you again the rudiments of the great Message of Christ and Him Crucified, as though you had never heard it to begin with) until Christ be formed in you (presents the work only the Holy Spirit can do, and does exclusively within the parameters of the Sacrifice of Christ, which must always be the Object of our Faith), 20 I desire to be present with you now (as a loving parent wants to be at the side of a sick child), and to change my voice (refers to the fact that his true love for them would more profitably come through were he only standing before them in person); for I stand in doubt of you. (The Apostle was perplexed as to how the Galatians could have forsaken the Holy Spirit, substituting in His Place the cold issues of dead Law. Any Christian who presently has his object of Faith anything but the Cross is following the same course as the Galatians of old.) 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law (the Law of Moses or any type of Law), do you not hear the law? (Do you actually know what the Law demands?) 22 For it is written (Gen. 16:15; 21:2-3), that Abraham had two sons (Ishmael and Isaac), the one by a bondmaid (Hagar), the other by a freewoman (Sarah). 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh (by the scheming of Abraham and Sarah); but he of the freewoman was by promise (by an action of the Holy Spirit). 24 Which things are an allegory (a figure of speech in which spiritual facts are presented in physical terms): for these are the two covenants (represents Law [Hagar] and Grace [Sarah]); the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. (This presents the Apostle plainly saying he is using Hagar as a symbol of the Law of Moses. As is obvious, it was given at Mt. Sinai.) 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is (refers to that city at the time of Paul; it was subject to Laws, rites and customs according to the Laws of Moses), and is in bondage with her children. (Israel was in bondage to sin because of having rejected Christ.) 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free (presents the origin of Salvation, which is Heaven, and proclaims its results, which are “freedom”), which is the mother of us all. (This refers to all who are true Christians, whether Jews or Gentiles.) 27 For it is written (Isa. 54:1), Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you who travail not (speaks of the Church, grafted in because of Grace, in the place of Israel which demanded Law and which God would not accept): for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband. (This pertains to Sarah who was barren which, in one sense of the word and the culture of that day, was the same as not having a husband, even though she was married to Abraham. It also refers to the Church, which, in effect, had no husband, as did Israel, i.e., “God.” The Church has many children than Israel ever had!) 28 Now we (Believers), brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. (The Promise is a picture of the Messiah, Who Came through the lineage of Isaac to grant deliverance to people bound in sin.) 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh (Ishmael) persecuted him that was born after the Spirit (Isaac), even so it is now. (Isaac  and Ishmael symbolized the new and the old nature in the Believer. Hagar and Sarah typified the two Covenants of works and Grace, of bondage and Liberty, even as Paul is explaining here.) 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? (Gen. 21:10-11) Cast out the bondwoman and her son (the birth of the new nature demands the expulsion of the old; it is impossible to improve the old nature demands the expulsion of the old; it is impossible to improve the old nature; it must be cast out, i.e., “placed in a dormant position”; this can only be done by the Believer evidencing constant Faith in the Cross, which then gives the Holy Spirit latitude to bring about this necessary work): for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. (Paul is giving a dramatic illustration of the irreconcilable conflict between Salvation by works and Salvation by Faith.) 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman (Hagar, Ishmael, and the Law), but of the free. (We are not children of the Law, but rather free children of Faith.)

Genesis 16:15 (KJV)
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. (Hagar, without doubt, related to Abraham all that had happened, placed herself under authority of Sarah, and Abraham was then careful to name the boy what the Lord had said-- “Ishmael.”)

Genesis 21:2-3 (KJV)
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Referring back to the past Chapter, if it be objected that this whole occurrence is incredible, because no heathen prince would desire to marry a woman upwards of ninety years of age, or to conceive such a passion for her that to secure her he would murder her husband -- the very fate which Abraham feared for himself -- it may be replied that God must have miraculously renewed her youth, so that she became sufficiently youthful in appearance to suitably be desirable. Three times in these first two verses, the clause points to the supernatural character of Isaac’s birth.) 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. (The name means “laughter.” It speaks of blessing, increase, healing, life and well- being [Jn. 10:10]. As Isaac was a type of Christ, it would not be wrong to say that one of the names of Christ is “laughter.”)

John 10:10 (KJV)
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy (speaks of Satan and his emissaries who peddle a false way of Salvation): I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (the Source of this “Life” is Christ; all true Believers have such; however, all true Believers enjoy such only by constant Faith in Christ and the Cross).

Isaiah 54:1 (KJV)
1 Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. (The singing of this Chapter will be the moral result of the weeping of the prior one. The Tribes of Israel, having wailed because of Him, will then sing because of Him. This is a great moral principle. Before the heart can taste the joy of God’s Salvation, there must be recognition and confession of its guilt and its rejection of Christ.

The “barren” woman, at least in this case, is Israel. Two periods of her  history are pointed to 1. As the married wife, i.e., when in official relationship with God and 2. When out of relationship as the “desolate” woman.

During the first period of her history, she gave birth to many sons; but during the second period, which is yet to come, she will give birth to a countless multitude.

As well, Paul quoted this very Passage, using it to prove that more will be saved under the New Covenant than under the Old [Gal. 4:27]. As such the Church has many more “children,” i.e., followers of the Lord than Israel of old! Moreover, the Gentiles, who were once “barren,” can now “sing,” because of having been included in the great Salvation plan [Jn. 3:16]. So in essence, this Passage, as given, has two meanings.)

John 3:16 (KJV)
16 For God so loved the world (presents the God kind of love), that he gave his only begotten Son (gave Him up to the Cross, for that’s what it took to redeem humanity), that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Genesis 21:10-11 (KJV)
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: (Isaac and Ishmael symbolize the new and old natures is the Believer. Hagar and Sarah typify the two Covenants of works and Grace, of bondage and liberty [Gal., Chpt. 4]. The birth of the new nature demands the expulsion of the old. It is impossible to improve the old nature. How foolish, therefore, appears the doctrine of moral evolution!) for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. (Allowed to remain, Ishmael would murder Isaac; allowed to remain, the flesh will murder the Spirit. The Divine way of holiness is to “put off the old man,” just as Abraham “put off” Ishmael. Man’s way of holiness is to improve the “old man,” that is to improve Ishmael. The effort is both foolish and hopeless.) 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. (It is always a struggle to cast out this element of bondage, that is salvation by works, of which this is a type. For legalism is dear to the heart. Ishmael was the fruit, and, to Abraham, the fair fruit of his own energy and planning, which God can never accept.)


Praise God Almighty that we are free Children of Faith. I pray and hope that you see the Truth, through the Word of God of what the difference is between living under the Law and living under Grace, there is a big difference and I hope that your Church will learn the Truth, if they haven’t already. Are you living under Law? No? Good, because no one can keep up with Law and many Churches and people are in grave danger by living that way. Thank God I am living under the Grace of God and I know, that I am born again and free, free from sin. are you? Accept Jesus Christ into your hearts, believe and have Faith in the Cross and Him Crucified and you will be Saved. Turn away from sin today. May God Bless you. Lets close in prayer.