Saturday, July 10, 2021

BLESSINGS MULTIPLY WITH WISE CORRECTIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
     Paul warned the Galatians about the Judeo-Christians who had enticed some of the Galatians to put new wine into old wine bottles by incorporating the old covenant of obeying Mosaic Law along with their newly miraculous faith that came from being born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Holy Spirit.  He warned them that the men who manipulated them by courting their favor were not doing it for a generous, loving reason.  He wrote in his letter to them that what those men really wanted to do was exclude the Galatians from being fully molded into the image of Christ so that they could, themselves, exclude them because of their complete devotion to Christ and the blessings that followed that union.  Paul said that their being manipulated for the right reasons, for their straining toward winning the prize of the high calling of Christ, that was what he had enticed them to do while he was with them.  Yet, he wrote that their yielding to the evil bewitching of the false prophets had caused Paul to be put in labor pains again until Christ was formed in them, which was impossible when they had embraced the Law again as a way to gain salvation.  He wrote to the Galatians that they had made him at a complete loss to understand their foolish motivation.
     In his letter Paul asked the Galatians if they really wanted to be subject as slaves to obeying the Law again?  If so, he told them that they must look again at what the Law said, that Abraham had two sons, one of Hagar, the slave girl and one of Sarah, his legal wife.  He explained that the son of the slave girl had been born of human sexual desires, but that the son of the free wife had been born because of a promise from Me.  Paul told them that it's an allegory with the two women standing for two covenants; one who brought forth children for slavery, being Hagar of human motivation and representing the human Jerusalem of that time, and the other covenant being one from My heavenly Jerusalem with freedom for all of My children of promise; and he wrote that it is she that is the real mother of My children, the new Jerusalem that comes down from Me when the children of promise are born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  He reiterated that the Galations were children of promise until they chose to return to obeying the Law of Moses for their salvation, but there never was any salvation under the Mosaic Law, only curses.  He wrote that the children of the Law persecute My children of promise just like the Jews had persecuted, harassed and even killed Jesus because they can't stand to see people who are completely free from curses and so they pursue new Christians in order to bewitch them into incorporating the Law in with their newly found freedom, fooling the new Christians into believing that the Law was necessary for the completion of their walks of freedom under My grace and favor.  Paul stressed that the actions of the false prophets who were Judeo-Christians was all a trick to cause the Galatians to return to the curses of the Law.   He stressed that the Galatians were not children of the slave girl, meaning the Law, but they were My children of the mother who is free, being My New Jerusalem, which is spiritual, with all of My promises pertaining to them.
    Paul had personally taken the "falling away" of his converts as a failure on his part, which was one of the reasons for the false prophets pursing the Galatians, because they couldn't stand the Galatians to be free, so their reintroduction to slavery to the Law was accomplished by the false prophets bringing some of the newly converted Galatians into again becoming slaves under the Law, their having once enjoyed complete freedom from the curses of the law.
   The devil is constantly endeavoring to bring My children back under slavery to him by sending false prophets to them to bewitch and manipulate them to return to the Law by their  counting on it to be a shortcut to being molded into the image of Christ.  It only molds people into being slaves to sin and its curses. 
    Your Father of Complete Freedom  

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