Friday, July 9, 2021

BLESSINGS IN STERN GUIDANCE

 My Dear Precious Child,
    When Paul wrote his letter to the Galatians, he minced no words.  He spoke truth and then explained in full why he warned them about the Judeo-Christians who couldn't stand that the Galatians were free of every religious law and each person was subject only to My Holy Spirit's personal guidance for himself or herself.  They were subject to the civil laws of the land, but as far as religious laws, only My personal words were spiritually advantageous to them.  In teaching them the difference between being subject to Mosaic laws and being subject to the voice of My Holy Spirit, Paul explained the difference perfectly.
     Paul called the Galatian believers "Brothers" and wrote to them that as long as as a perosn is heir to his father's goods but is not mature, being a juvenile, he or she is not maturely equipped to handle the inheritance because of his or her immaturity, so the person is subject to guardians until he or she reaches maturity and can wisely handle the responsibilities.  He wrote that Jews are subject to the Law as their guardians, similar to being slaves, with the Law indicating to them that evil temptations were all around them, and the Law indicates which temptations were to be avoided.  But when the Jews reach spiritual maturity and can hear My personal guidance they are no longer subject to written religious laws but they become in unity and in tune with Me and they can follow My personal words of guidance.   That is possible because, in the fullness of time, I sent My Son, born of a woman so He was born under the Mosaic Law in order for Him to deliver from the Law everybody who was subject to the Law.  He accomplished it by dying on the cross, sending My Holy Spirit to live inside of them, and then whoever believed in his ministry also became children of Mine.  The proof to them is that I sent My Holy Spirit into their hearts and they profess Me as Abba, meaning Father; and they, as believers, are no longer slaves to the Law, but they are My children. (Galatians 4:1-7)
     He told the Galatians that in the past they did not acknowledge Me but served as slaves to gods who were not really divine because of the Law.  He asked them that now that they had come to know Me, and to be known by Me, how could they return to powerless, worthless, earthly elements to which they were willing to enslave themselves again?  He told them that they were, once again, returning to ceremonial observances of days and months, seasons and years, which were prophetic of things to come, trusting in them to save them from evil instead of My Holy Spirit being their Guide and Protector.  Paul wrote that he was afraid for them that all of his efforts for them  had been wasted.  
    To make his words even more stinging, Paul wrote that that he had wanted them  to become like him, even though he had had a bodily ailment that first made it possible for him to bring the Gospel to them.  He complimented them for their having received him as an angel, even as Christ Jesus, himself.   He asked them what had happened to their kind hearts and open spirits?  He asked if he had become their enemy where before they would have plucked out their eyes and given them to him.  
    Paul was genuinely wounded in spirit that some of the Galatians had been fooled into being deceived into uniting with the Law and trusting in it for salvation, having been mesmerized into believing the Law needed to be added to their miraculous life of being born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit which had brought My kingdom of heaven into their lives.  He asked if he had become their enemy just because he told them the truth? (Galatians 4:12-16)
    Again, the truth of the teaching of Jesus Christ relating to putting new wine into old wine bottles applies to the foolishness of the Galatians in their trying to put the truths of My new covenant with humanity into the bottles of the old covenant which broke the bottles and made the power of My new covenant null and void.   They left aside a spiritual, supernatural world of miracles which purified them and they had returned to a powerless, foolish world of human spiritual ignorance which cursed their lives.  Paul was right in his stern exhortation to them.  His stern attitude resulted in some people being enlightened to their having been  manipulated with lies which caused them to leave My truth.
     Your Heavenly Father of Liberating Spiritual Truths  
    

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