Sunday, July 11, 2021

BLESSINGS OF STEADFASTNESS

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's letter to the Galatian Christians who had been so easily manipulated by Judeo-Christians to add obedience to Mosaic Law to their miraculous and power filled faith of the Holy Spirit, his correction remained firm and stern because he knew the devil would curse their lives if they continued in trying to obey all of the Law.  He reminded them that it was for their own liberty that Christ freed them from the curses of the Law.  He admonished them to stand fast, therefore, in Christ's liberty and do not take on themselves the yoke of slavery a second time.
    In an effort to fully get their attention to the Truth, he wrote that if they allowed themselves to be circumcised under the Law that Christ was no use to them.  He put it again more clearly that to all who had become circumcised that they are bound to the Law in its entirety.  He wrote that to anyone who sought justification in the Law had severed themselves from Christ and had fallen from My favor.  More clearly he wrote that it's by My Holy Spirit that they receive justification, and that only faith can guarantee it.  In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it counts for anything, only faith in Christ Jesus which expresses itself in love justifies anyone. (Galatians 5:1-6)
     He complimented them in a way by telling them that they were doing so well when he left them and asked whoever had diverted them from the Truth?   Paul assured the Galatians that I am not the one who enticed them.  He told them that a little yeast can affect the whole dough.  He said that he trusted them not to take a different view from him.  Paul was so perturbed that he wrote that he wished condemnation upon whoever had diverted them from the truth and caused them to be unsettled.  In fact, Paul wrote, if circumcision was preached by him, then why do the men who bewitched the Galatians attack him?   He said that if he preached circumcision to them that the cross would be a stumbling block no longer to the Judeo-Christians.  Paul's anger was so serious that he wrote that he wished that the men who were troubling the Galatians with returning to the Law would go and castrate themselves.  
    It is impossible to once taste complete freedom from binding laws and then desire to return to them as a means of salvation.  There cannot be soul satisfaction to be under laws that condemn and rob a person of joy and peace.  Paul was right in his disgust for the false prophets whom he had warned not only the Galatians but all of the churches to whom he ministered not to allow the false prophets to come and minister in their midst.  He knew that certain disciples of Jesus Christ were people pleasers and would yield to the devil's temptation to return to ineffective laws which accomplished nothing for humans except curse their lives.
    My children of promise must always be alert, being constant watchmen who are keen on discernment so that their antennas are always alert in sniffing out false prophets, even ones who look like dedicated disciples of Jesus Christ.  His warnings to be on the alert to discern them as being from hell instead of from Me are still valid in your day in the earth. The devil cannot stand for you to be free from the bindings of the Law so that he can rain his curses down upon your life.  
    Your Father of Loving Warnings and Exhortations

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