Good afternoon, Grace Accepted.
Really now CF. This is a metaphor. Vs 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers:
even as I received of My Father.
Revelation 2:26
Now the vast bulk of what you teach is self centric, in other words it is about self and what one must perform to keep the law and how they must perform it. Your teaching is about self.
While I am just showing what my Lord says in the written word,
you are just showing how wicked and lost I am for doing so.
But be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:22
Notice though that in this teaching from Christ the deciding factor is not what laws the sheep kept or what ceremonies they did. In fact, the law is not even mentioned as a deciding factor.
Did you not read in the law about offering ourselves up to Him our rams and our goats.
Else how and when does the Lord judge the nations, and our beasts within?
It is their character and the way it caused them to behave.
Yes, now you are getting it.
It was not said of them: for ye kept 3 Sabbaths a year and ye obeyed my law, well, at least ye tried earnestly, ye metaphorically did all that I commanded in the Old and New Testament, therefore ye will metaphorically inherit the Kingdom of God, metaphorically prepared for you.
Yes it is. Look in Leviticus 23, at the instructions for keeping the sabbaths, which are the feasts of the Lord.
A ram in the morning and a ram in the evening, for the duration of our fast. At the very least.
But not farm animals.
No, this is the basis of their judgement.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
This behaviour was flowed from a clean heart and was so much a part of their characters that they were unaware of what they had done. God's glory in their lives consistently out shone any good deeds they had done.
O that there were such an heart in them,
that they would fear Me, and keep all My commandments always,
that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 5:29
It was not the Lord. If it was, it would agree with His scriptures. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Is 8:20
You are working so hard to turn us all away from the law, calling it "Legalism" (and only in my imagination),
then you give me this verse?
You do tickle my sense of humour.
And this is the condemnation,
that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved.
John 3:19-20
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs 6:23
Do you think Jesus knew this proverb, or not,
when He defined the condemnation?
Metaphorical interpretations is not speaking according to the word.
I have stood in His feasts, whether you can believe it or not,
and I offer up the interpretations He gave me.
And you can kill my bull, or investigate. It is up to you.
We do not own our sin any longer. Your heart is set on the things of God rather than God Himself. Christians desire the owner of the things and not the things themselves.
You have no cloak for your sin.
Many who come by can see your nakedness and contend your hard speeches.
But you do mostly gainsay over them with your oppressive manner.
For few have the full armour of God, and are not serpent handlers.
You are thinking in terms of gain rather than relationship. Salvation is not about gain, it is about loss. Loss of self, loss of glory, loss of pride, loss of friends, loss of loved ones. Loss until you are peeled and pared down to nothing and then you find your only value is what the Lord gives. Loss until you look up and utter, "What do I have that I have not received."
You want us to gain the grace of God, don't you?
And you would like us to believe you have gained the spirit of grace.
Whatsoever we ask in Jesus' name, He does it for us.
People who have allowed the lord to put their inequity and sins upon the head of Christ who then bore them in his body to death, the death of the cross.
I repent for my sins, not put them upon Him.
I try to bless Jesus in every way I can, not dump my crap on Him.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is 53:6
I, like a suckling lamb, come to Him.
Not to put my sin upon Him, but to drink at His well,
that I might learn to put my sin, and my iniquity, away.
Yes, He did take out some main Philistine Lords for me, that was His salvation, and my deliverance,
but He left many nations to prove me by.
And I had to learn war, and how to cast out my own devils.
For as you aught know, they can come back, and with seven more worse than that one.
You must get rid of your inequity before you can even imagine living in and walking in his word. How is it just that you do not receive the wages of your sin. Justice demand her price for your sins and sin. If someone murdered your loved one and the judge simply said, alright will you stop murdering and live right, if you agree I will expunge your record. Would that be justice?
Labour for meat, and reap the fruits of everlasting life,
and at the ingathering of your harvest, offer your fruits to Him.
That is the best to not receive the wages of sin
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
I am not one who is perishing.
Preach the gospel of the kingdom, and then shall the end come.
Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.1 Cor 1:18-25
Yes, where are the teachers of the law.
I could not find one.
And whence then cometh wisdom?
and where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof.
For He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
To make the weight for the winds; and He weigheth the waters by measure.
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Then did He see it, and declare it;
He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
And unto man He said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job 28:20-28
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Matthew 11:25
This was speaking of the Pharisees and by extension to all those who try to earn their salvation. Let us kill Christ from our lives that we might be the captains of our own salvation.
Pray the Lord that He send labourers for the harvest.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth,
but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you:
for Him hath God the Father sealed.
John 6:27
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15
I am not offering these scriptures to contend the scriptures you offered,
for I do also believe those,
but I offered these to add light to those scriptures.
I believe we must read scripture in context with the rest of scripture,
and not to read scripture to justify ourselves in not keeping other scriptures.
