Tuesday, March 19, 2019

CORRECTION FOR THE ROMANS


My Dear Precious Child,
    Paul always referred to the life, the ministry, the death and the resurrection of Christ Jesus as the only Good News.  It is Good News because the lives of My children who live in the world are filled with suffering and pain because of the evil that is in the world.  Yet, there were prophesies through the prophets that there would be a better event coming when I came to earth to live inside of My children, giving them the power of My Holy Spirit to bring goodness into their lives with the promise that death would be overcome and they would live with Me eternally.  Yes, that is Good News instead of the prevailing thought that life in the earth is only sin and death.
    As he always wrote, Paul told them that he never failed to mention the believers in his prayers where he ministered.  He encouraged all of the churches that he would be coming to bring the real Good News to them again.  His confession was that he was never ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because it is My power unto salvation, to the Jews first but also to the Greek pagans.  He wrote that faith always should lead to more faith because an upright man finds a consistent good life through faith.
    Paul was angry at the depravity and lack of piety of people and so he felt My anger that is aimed at the devil and his demons, whom I threw out of My heaven for their rebellion, was shared by the people who do the devil's will.  The demons' endeavors to seek vengeance on My children in order to cause grief in Me is what caused Paul to point the finger of judgment at the cause behind sin, which is the devil.  He was also perplexed at people, that they did not see My works of goodness in the world in nature.  He said that humans have no excuse for not seeing Me in the good things in the earth.  He did not understand how people could make idols out of other men, birds, reptiles and four legged animals instead of worshiping Me as the only True God as revealed in nature.  (Romans 1:18-27) 
    After Paul's magnificent conversion in his meeting with the resurrected Christ Jesus on the road to Damascus, he began to see spiritual things clearly and laid aside his unbelief and his persecution and killing of believers in Christ Jesus.  So he was including himself in his being perplexed about people not recognizing My majesty in nature.  He wrote that because people did not recognize My marvelous works in creating the earth, they yielded to the devil and began to be depraved, rotten, filled with greed and malice, addicted to envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite.  He included libel, slander, rudeness, arrogance, boasting, sin and rebellion to parents as the results of the devil's works in people, identifying them as sin, saying that people were void of honor, love and pity.  Paul said that humans who do such things are subject to My judgment which has already been My judgment placed on the devil.  People who are bound to the devil by doing his will  receive My judgment because of their unity with the devil instead of their being in unity with Me.  It is judgment by association.  (Romans 1:28-32)
   But Paul made it clear to the Romans that if they judged other people that they condemn themselves also because they do the same things for which they judge other people. He told the Romans not to abuse My abundant goodness, patience and toleration, making sure that the people to whom he wrote the letter knew that it is My goodness that brings a person to repentance.  He knew that they would inherit the My judgment for the devil if they continued to do the devil's will; because when they did his will, they worshiped him.  He reminded the Romans that pain and suffering will come upon everyone who does evil, the Jew and the pagan Greeks.  He also reminded them that honor and peace comes upon everyone who does good, Jews and Greeks as well, because I have no favorites.
   In Paul's reference to the religious laws of Moses, he told them that it is not in just listening to the reading of the Law which made Jews holy, but it was keeping the Law which made them holy because the Law was given to identify the devil and his demons as the instigators of evil.   He told the Romans that there are people who never heard of the religious Law but still they have an instinct for doing good works which comes from keeping the Law, and so they do what is good.  They can claim that the Law is written on their hearts or they have a conscience that spurs them to only do good things.
   Then he contrasted the Jews who trust in the religious Law as being a way to salvation, pretending that they are a guide for the blind, a beacon to the people in darkness, claiming to teach the ignorant and instruct the people in darkness. Paul asked them why don't they teach themselves because they preach against stealing but they steal, they forbid adultery yet they commit adultery, they despise idols yet they rob their own temples.  He said that by boasting about their Law and then disobeying it, they are bringing My name into contempt to other people.  It was already written in scripture that it was their fault that My name is blasphemed among pagans. 
   Paul launched into the real reason for his letter to them which was about circumcision.  He told them that it's okay to be circumcised if they obey the Law; but if they break the Law they might as well have stayed uncircumcised.  He was referring to hypocrisy.  Jesus Christ said that no person can obey all of the Law.  He said that a man who is not circumcised yet he keeps the religious Law, even though he has not been circumcised he is a living condemnation of the way the others disobey the Law in spite of being circumcised.  (Romans 2:25-27)  Paul said that circumcision according to the Law is merely a physical operation.   He told the Jews in Rome that real circumcision is of the heart when a person turns away from religious Laws and embraces Christ Jesus who removes the demonic veil over their minds that separates them from Me. 
   Circumcision is not physical but is spiritual.  (Romans 2:29) A Jew who is uncircumcised physically but who has been born of My Holy Spirit will be praised by Me because the demonic veil that separated us has been removed from his mind by Christ Jesus and He will be able to have true communion with Me, a one-on-one relationship as Father and child, eager to hear My personal instructions of guidance to him or her. 
    In Paul explaining that truth, he was countering against the apostles who had convinced some born again pagans that they needed to be circumcised according to old covenant Law in addition to being born of My Holy Spirit.  There was no need, because physical circumcision was merely a religious ceremony prophesying the circumcision of the mind when the veil of the devil is removed from the mind of a person by Christ Jesus when a person is born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  As Paul said in a letter to another church, if a person goes back to religious Law after he or she is born of My Holy Spirit, he or she is returning to his own vomit.  When a person becomes born again in Christ Jesus and baptized in My Holy Spirit, he regurgitates the rules and regulations that promised to make him or her holy because keeping all of the rules and regulations of the Law is impossible.  In returning to the old Law after tasting My freedom from the curses of the Law, those people are making the sacrifice of Jesus Christ of no effect in his or her life, a useless event instead of it being the greatest event in the history of the world because My Son died for the sins of the whole world so that I could come to live in humans in the person of My Holy Spirit.  (Acts 1:1-10; Acts 2:1-4 and 16-36)
   Paul was trying to entice the people who had been deceived by false prophets to return to the real Good News that had made them joyful, peaceful and filled with love when they were born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  
His admonitions rescued some people but others continued to try to mix light and darkness and darkness won in their lives.  My Holy Spirit through Paul was trying to rescue the perishing, but some people refused to be rescued.
   There are many people in your world who are trying to mix light and darkness.  Light has the power to win over darkness, but very often My children choose darkness because darkness is familiar to them.  The darkness of sin produced garbage in their lives but it is familiar garbage to them.  The valuable gold that I offer is unfamiliar to them so they go back to the familiar garbage in the pigpen of life.
    The devil only has death and destruction for his children.  For My children who choose My light over darkness, I said that I am able to do in their lives super abundantly more, far over and above all that they dare ask or think or imagine, infinitely more than their highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams, according to the power of My Holy Spirit in their lives.  (Ephesians 3:20) That is what I do for My children.  
   Your Father of Light And Life
                 

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