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Intro to Covenant Studies in the Book of Hebrews
Pat that boy down
Let’s find out who has a hand inside Pat Robertson. That Christ denier will say anything like a ventriloquist-puppet invention. He might as well be a mannequin. All the cute sounding nonsense he has spewed over what has passed for Christian lifestyle does not even measure up as common nobility. Vox.com reports that Pat Robertson was doubling down on his support for a corrupt arms deal and we take note of his silence on the freedom of people like journalists who know how to discover and publish dirt on America’s paper heroes.
Evangelical leader chooses silence over brutal murder to keep arms deal with a despotic government
I have watched this preacher turn into a deadly fly, pollinating the airwaves with the lowest possible interpretations of the gospel. For a person assumed to be informed Pat just showed the world how much of a mindless coward he is.
I have seen him chasing due and go to heaven immediately, miracles, pontificating about morality based on Sinai and a host of Christless vanities including Holy Land ventures, capital punishment, pursuing the absurdity of (America as) a Christian nation, and a so-called alliance with the Jewish State.
This thief has bought the right to blow a lot of hot air publicly, and the law affords him the freedom to call a bigot like potus45 great, and now he sides with weapons corruption and a brutal murder.
Every observer without a paycheck to consider must be wondering how many missing people are like Jamal: journalists themselves or neighbours who know where the bodies of people who have information about the illegitimate children, the crimes and misdemeanors of those in power?
Pat Robertson and his cronies had better get this piece straight. Noone in government today who has blood on their hands can demand any respect of Believers. At least not this believer. David was not allowed to build the temple for God because he had been involved in bloodshed – not just the murder of a man’s wife but all bloodshed.
Does not Pat Robertson know what the Islamic law says about people who are infidels and how people who misbehave or protest are treated? Does he not know that the Ten Commandments also demands the same thing for Sabbath violation and gluttony (evangelicals, like Pat, say the 1st day is now the seventh).
- I call them out them for crude merchandising.
- I call them out for following Satan.
- I call them out for savouring mammon over righteousness
Pat’s poor aim (sin) is a huge problem. There is too much Christ denial in this evaluation of government business.
Murder in supposedly secret places
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; Psalms 10:8
The wickedness of Simeon and Levi
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Genesis 49:6
Life and death: straight priorities
We all know Christians who seem to be in a great hurry to get themselves right with God and broadcast their righteousness apart from the atoning sacrifice and life of Christ. The dilemma comes from our common poverty of innate eligibility and our abundance of unprincipled and unreliable solutions. All our work falls short. Neither the work we did before receiving our share of eternal life and the work we do now commends or accuses us to God. Christ pardoned us and gave us new occupations with reference to his great love. The work of faith, believing in Christ, is full and complete credit designed to bring us life.
Dead or alive?
The Christian is right with God. We are alive. We must reckon ourselves so. Christ’s death and resurrection are written to our account. To use the Passover imagery, we can say the destroying angel passes over our house the moment God sees our faith in the Lamb he provided.
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. Rom 6:10, So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Rom 6:11
Minor or mature
When one is a child one takes the easiest, nearest, and obvious path in line with our natural tendencies. The dilemma of our estrangement from God confronts us and the best we could do was cover with a vegetable parts. The solution God offered involved the life of a living entity whose skin serves to cover our open contradiction (private was public).
Since a regulation was violated in Eden one may think that regulations may correct the problem and give a sense of security, but there were no guarantees of perfect human compliance. God did not tell Adam and Eve what to do: he gave them coats. If one can convince oneself that all God wants is perfectly obedient servant-creatures or permanently juvenile children then it is easy to pick a set of rules and commit oneself to it. That, in any scenario, is not salvation, and it is not God’s highest initiative. Salvation means life from the dead for all humans, including the followers of Moses. No one gets away with following a few rules – from any source – and claiming to be whole.
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. Galatians 3:21
Sometimes we zig
The days when we are allowed to come before God with corruptible things are over. Gold, silver, pots and pans, animal blood, food and drink belong to yesterday.
Zig here
The human body is a living sacrifice for witness and service. Christ’s body was a priceless and spotless sacrifice.
Zag here
Jews can say with certainty that they’re first. Muslims cannot. They can only claim to be the revision of ancient revelation, often taken from cunningly devised myths and traditions, and taken to abominable and terrifying levels.
Zig more
Our works, no matter how noble, do not erase our debt of gratitude for the grace that rescued us and keeps us anchored in God.
Zag less
How did we become a temple for the Holy Spirit in the first place? Did Paul, who introduced the body as temple, know that the exercise and diet were gospel? Were they really or is the health and diet movement a 19th century invention?
Can the following (Exodus 15:26) be a global recipe for a healthy population? Was that health explosion all together or one at a time?
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
The Sinai covenant produced neither physical fitness nor spiritual rightness. There is much to be said for the discipline of prohibited tasting and touching and there is certain justice for crossing the material lines of food, drink, personal interaction, ritual processes, priestly ministry.
All is vanity but some things are deliberately futile. Vanity – emptiness – is not an indication of active sin.
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Romans 8:19-20
Empty spots in life are the bedrock of hope. Zigging and zagging are natural to all creatures. Since none our ancestors, physical or spiritual, were natural owners of faith in God or fully complied with rudiments of the world let’s zig and zag our way with patience, full of hope
Let’s have a myth dump-ling
Myth dump[ling] A
When Yeshua says “Keep commandments, he means subject yourself to the law.
Since the only way to please God is faith and the law does not belong with faith pride in the law of God is a dark cave.
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them”. Galatians 3:12
This cannot fit under any rug.
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, Galatians 3:23-25
From prison to liberty
Saying that the guardian law is only ceremonial (irrelevant food and drink and festivals) is an inconvenient cover for the condemning prohibitions of the covenant.
God’s righteousness does not come with ties to the law. The law and the prophets affirm this fact.
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— Romans 3:21
Spit that dumpling out
The Saudi and gaudy friend and foe
Genius in the shadows Kushner, fix this.
As the pervert 45 shows his dark alleyways to hidden coins in Russia, Saudi Arabia, the DPRK and China, murder in the kingdom points to an American green light to racist and despotic actors and the orange menace in the White House keeps his tax return out of sight the friends show their true colours.
Cardiac sinless secret
There is only one way to bring an end to sin. Law – word, testimony, statutes, judgments, and commandments – are sin helpers as long as they do not say on request “I pardon you“.
The delusory saying in Psalm 119:11 is responsible for the emptiness of Jewish life and is now a convenient fig leaf for Christians.
Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.
Perhaps we have not noticed that Christ, as word living in the heart, does not stop sin.
Hang on
It would be worth nothing if all went well because we had turned back to the elementary practices of world: carnal ordinances, food, drink, and festivals.
Salvation is worth more than all other things combined. Let us hang on. Let us hold fast. The confession “Yeshua is Lord from the deaf” saved our lives. There is no deeper truth anywhere. This is the majesty and glory of God. Hang on.
Life is Fun, But Not a Joke 