Thursday, July 8, 2021

BLESSINGS EVEN IN CORRECTION EXHORTATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    The gift of exhortation was abundant in the life of Paul, the apostle.  After the people in the church of Galatians had listened to and obeyed the false prophets from Jerusalem and had incorporated circumcision for men into their religious lives, which was an ordinance in the Law of Moses, Paul wrote a stern letter to them calling them foolish, senseless Galatians.  He asked them who had cast a spell over them, the very people who had seen Jesus Christ die on the cross.  He increased the scorn by asking them if they had received the Holy Spirit by obeying the Law of Moses or through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ?  He asked them in the letter how they could have been so stupid to have begun their walk with Me in the Spirit but ended up in the flesh? (Galatians 3: 1-4)
    Paul let all of his disgust and disappointment flow in the letter to the Galatians.  He asked them in the letter if they had such a marvelous experience with My Spirit for no real purpose, if the experiences were actually purposeless?  He asked them if it was because of their observing the Law or because they had faith in Me that I had lavished My Holy Spirit on them and had done works of wonder in their midst?   He reminded them of Abraham who had merely had faith in Me and it was accounted to him as being righteous.  Scriptures made it clear in advance that My way of justifying Gentiles would be through faith, as having foretold that Good News through Abraham.  (Galatians 3:5-9) I foretold through prophets that the entire world would be blessed through Abraham's descendant, His being Jesus Christ,  who would also be a Man of Faith.
    Paul was very precise in his condemnation of anyone who counted on the Law of Moses to justify himself.  He wrote in his letter that it was written in the Law that anyone who did not keep ALL of the Law were under curses because the devil uses the Law to condemn people.   The Law does not depend upon faith in Me.  It depends upon your own faculties.  He wrote that Christ delivered us from the power of the Law's curse by Himself becoming a curse for us when He hung on the cross so that through Jesus Christ the blessing bestowed on Abraham might descend on the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, making it possible for us to receive the promised Holy Spirit  through faith in Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:10-18) 
      He went further in his letter of exhortation to the Galatians when he explained further that nothing can be added to a man's will after it has been declared valid.  He explained that My promises were spoken to Abraham and his Descendant, that being a single Descendant, that being Christ.   Therefore any promise made by Me, like as to Abraham, is not set aside or nullified when laws come years later, like the Law came through Moses.  If your spiritual inheritance came through your obedience to the Law, then it was no longer conferred upon you by My promise, but was conferred by your obedience to new laws.  That was impossible.  It was by the way of My promise that the Holy Spirit was given through faith in Jesus Christ and not by obeying any laws, especially ones that carried a curse if even one law was broken.  Paul's explanation was thorough and clear.  
    In his letter of explanation and revelation, Paul wrote that the reason for the Law was to highlight the works of evil in the world, not to institute a way of salvation.  The Law being given only as a way for My children to identify the devil's evil temptations in their mind, it was only a mediator until Abraham's Descendant emerged in the earth about whom the promise had been given.  Now in the age of My New Covenant of the Holy Spirit, there is no mediator when I am the Person involved.   I am One and My promise was for you and all of My created children, all of whom had yielded to evil.  (Galatians 3:19-22)
    Paul wanted the Galatians to realize that My way of salvation does not mean that the Law is evil or opposed to My promises.  He wrote that that idea was unthinkable.  If the Law was given so that it would impart life, then justice would come from obeying the Law, but it is impossible to obey all of the Law so My way of salvation is limited to faith in the Holy Spirit and His power that I impart to you when you are baptized in My Holy Spirit.  Now that faith is possible to be imparted to My children, then you are no longer trained by the Law but you are trained and tutored by My Holy Spirit.  Each person is My child because of his or her faith in Christ Jesus.  I wrote through Paul that in Me there are no male and female, Jew and Gentile, slave or free man, but all people are one in Christ Jesus.  He wrote that, furthermore, the believers in Galatia who belong to Christ were descendants of Abraham, inheritors of all of My promises. (Galatians 3:23-29)
      My way of salvation from evil was clearly described by Paul in his letter to the Galatians, of which many had been deceived and had been influenced by Judeo-Christians to depend upon obedience to the Law for salvation.  It can't happen by obedience to any law because it's impossible to keep all of the Law that was introduced by Moses.  Depending upon religious Law after having been given a new life by My Holy Spirit nullifies the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Paul wrote, in order to entice the foolish people who had been deceived to repent of their dependence upon observance of the Law instead of their faith in Jesus Christ.(Galatians 3:15-29)
     Paul was stern, but it was necessary because the false prophets were relentless in their desire to return the Galatians to the Law in order to enslave them to the devil.  The false prophets were jealous of the freedom of the Galatians so they wanted them to be brought back under the curses of the Law.  Paul set them straight in his letter to them.
     Your Father of Prophesied New Beginnings          

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