New Testament Clarity

[Behold]

Saint, 

 

Let me offer something that will really help a new Christian, and hopefully be a nice tune up for a pre-existing believer in Yeshua.

 

So, if you want Light from God,  then you have to get this revelation inside you, first, that im going to show you.

This one.....

You have to get this one....in the beginning of your walk with Christ... ..You absolutely must get this revelation of the Grace of God, or you will never 

be able to move deeper into the Light of the  word of God as found in the New Testament.

 

Questions :::

Have you ever wondered why there are a gazillion denominations, that all use a Bible, yet none of them agree?

Have you ever wondered why there is no "unity" in the Body of Christ, no "same mind", within the worldwide world of all believers?

Do you want to know why?

Its because this verse posted next,  is not known to most believers, and until it is known, and followed by ALL,  there will never be any total unity between Christians in the world, on a forum, or between 2 Churches that are on the same STREET.

 

The verse : Hebrews 13:9 :

 

 """"" Be not carried away with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. """

 

This verse teaches and explains what happened to the Body Of Christ, regarding why you have a ridiculous number of denominations that all disagree regarding "church doctrine".

Its simple..... you have to get the foundation LAID PROPERLY< before you can build the HOUSE correctly, so that there is harmony and unity between all Believers in Yeshua

Now notice that this verse teaches that "diverse/strange doctrines, and meats", are all the same idea....... And the verse explains what will happen if your heart, (eyes of your understanding).. that receives the light of Revelation", ) is not FIRST ESTABLISHED with GRACE.. = (The understanding regarding  God's freely given Righteousness.)

What happens is that all who are not established within their Heart by GRACE, will be carried away, caught up, confused by, and lost inside of HERESY.... Which is "divers and STRANGE Doctrine/meats", and there as so many of these around.   So many churches built upon them... Millions of Believers caught up in them....  And only because they were not grounded in GRACE, early in their Christian Beginnings.

Now, i recognize that some of you are already yawning, as you are an expert in Grace, regarding understanding this central principal of the redemptive work of Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross, and THANK YOU JESUS< that many of you, long ago, "got the revelation".      However, and for the benefit of those who didnt and have lived their entire born again lives, so far, trying to earn God's approval by self effort...(Legalism)..> Let me show you why you are already Approved By God,  so that  you can stop trying to become what you have already become, that God's Grace has already MADE YOU.

As you read your bible, you will run across this phrase a lot.   "made unto you", and this is a Key Phrase that will help you understand that everything that God has done for you, Thru the Blood of Jesus, has been "made unto you" when you were born again......That is to say... God has REMADE YOU TO BE.    Got it?   See, Salvation is to be Literally and Spiritually  "made into" something BY GOD,  that you were not before.    Many NT Verses explain this as being "translated from darkness to Light".  becoming a "child of the Light".   "as Jesus is So are WE on this Earth",  " heir with God"... "joint heir with Christ".  "New CREATION in Christ",  "bone of Jesus bones and flesh of Jesus's flesh"...and on and on.   So, you have to  see that you have become something by NEW BIRTH that you were not before you were born again, as this is the eternal effect of God's 'made unto you" CHANGE from "Lost" to "saved" , from Christ rejector to "Child of God", from "damned" to "Saint".

 

Now, lets get an understanding of where you go to get what you need to know...

You have to know where to look to find what you need to learn.

You dont just flip open a New Testament and hope for the best, as that is a waste of time.

So,  this means we must go to where you find all the info, the doctrinal info, that God wants you to study.

Read a paperback.   Study a bible.

Books are for entertainment.

Bibles are for gaining God's Knowledge.

The Bible is full of Light.  Study is how you turn on the Light for Life.  Its the "ON" switch.

To do this, you run directly to Paul's epistles.   And the reason?   Its because Paul's pen, is the direct descendant of the doctrinal information that came straight from the mouth of Jesus The Christ. Paul is the only disciple and the only Apostle whom Jesus personally took aside for a long time, and instructed into him regarding  the "first hand" information that rightly divides the Word.

You dont get the ultra-fine doctrinal details from Jude, or James, or Mark, or  Peter.  You get your Bible Doctrine, your Church Doctrine, your lifelong Theolgy from Paul, who received it directly from the Lord, himself.

So, what i teach, is what Paul would teach you.  As this is what any true Teacher of the Word of God is going to tell you, and teach you.

Now,  here is a golden nugget for you.   If you want to know exactly what Paul wants you to know, that Jesus taught Him,  then of course you read all his epistles.  Thats a no-brainer... But, and here is what your Pastor, Minister, Pope, and commentary never told you....If you want to know exactly what Paul is going to teach someone in person, a literal disciple of His, then you go and read Timothy 1 & 2, and Titus.. As they are both Paul's converts.   So, just become one of Paul's converts, ideally, by reading what he taught Timothy and Titus., as well as what he teaches the Church at large, in his Epistles.  As a matter of Fact, if you are called to Teach or Preach or Pastor, then you need to live inside Timothy and Titus and all of Paul's epistles for a while........like in, .......a lifetime.

So what does Paul teach about Grace?   Well, he teaches that Sin has separated us from God.  And this is an eternal problem for each of us, that if not solved, will cause us to end up after we die, separated from God in Eternity.  Currently, if you are not born again, you are separated from God by your sin.  However, as compared to ending up in Hell then the Lake of Fire, being alive down here and separated from God, is not quit the same level of consequence.

So, this problem that we are all born into, has been solved by God.   And its Paul who, in the New Testament,  teaches us best and most often about the wonderful love of God as expressed as The Grace of God.  Salvation, Eternal Life, Redemption, Jesus dying on the Cross, are all an extension of the Love of God as reflected in the Grace of God.

The central issue and subject of the New Testament, is RIGHTEOUSNESS.  And the central issue between a human being and God is their lack of righteousness and how to get it.

 God is often accused, falsely,  of "sending people to hell",   But in fact, its a lack of Righteousness that is the reason that a person will not live eternally where God lives.  Hell and Heaven are simply final destinations.  They are Eternal choices that someone is going to make, by receiving or by rejecting Christ.   One is the home for the Righteous and one is the place that maintains the unrighteous dead, until they meet their final destination.

So, this issue of how to get righteousness, is only a problem that God can solve.  Our New Testament says that we have all sinned and fallen short of God's righteousness. So, right there, ends any method or means of saving ourselves or keeping ourselves saved.  You've noted that on a Christian Forum you always find a busload of heretics trying to make you believe that you are in control of your righteousness, and that you can earn it, and keep it...otherwise you LOSE IT  The fact is, you have no Righteousness apart from Christ's because your sinning eliminated your righteousness long ago, and you can never have it again, unless someone gives you theirs.   Enter, God.   Enter, Jesus.   Enter, The Cross.  as all these have come to give you Righteousness.

ALL this im writing is simply what Paul teaches.  He is the Main NT teacher regarding the understanding of the Grace of God as the love of God given by God coming to this earth to meet all the requirements of the law and then die offering us HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, for our sin.  Jesus did more on the Cross then just suffer, bleed, and die.   He literally became your SIN. 2nd Corinthians 5:21... and If you are born again, then your sin was lifted from you, erased for you, and in its place, you have received "The Righteousness of Christ".  Salvation is Christ on a cross becoming your sin and bearing it, sacrificially, so that you will never be judged for it, in eternity. Being SAVED, means you are saved from being Judged in Eternity for your SIN...... Christ bore all your sin, by becoming your sin.... and you were given as a gift, His Righteousness.  Maybe sometime you can think about this... God came down from heaven, to become your sin as well as your sin bearer and in doing so He became your Savior.. Jesus said. "Father if possible, let this cup pass from me".. And that cup, is God's wrath, his eternal judgment, poured out on HIMSELF on your behalf.   And that my reader, is The Love of God as well as Amazing Grace.

 

 

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Edited November 1, 2019 by Behold