Tuesday, August 31, 2021

BLESSINGS COME FROM FREEDOM FROM RELIGIOUS LAWS

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul used a marriage union to explain the Roman Christians, and your, being delivered from religious Law and enjoying freedom from the works of evil by the power of My Holy Spirit. He explained that religious Laws have power over a person until he dies. As a example he said that a married woman is bound to her husband only as long as he lives, but when he dies she is released from being bound to him regarding what the Law says about husbands. While he is alive and she does not commit adultery she is bound to the Laws about marriage. Paul wrote that, in the same way, as long as you were alive in the flesh and dead spiritually, you were subject to religious Laws. But when you died to the flesh and were born of the Holy Spirit, you became dead to religious Laws because you became bound to something greater than religious Laws, My Holy Spirit. When you were alert to the passion in the flesh and subject to the demonic passions from hell, religious Laws pointed out your sin to you and even condemned you. But now that you are alive with My Holy Spirit's power, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, you are dead to religious laws which were the reason for the devil's guilt in your mind. You are dead to what bound you and you are alive to what gave you a new Life, My Holy Spirit. (Romans 7:1-6) He wrote to the Roman Christians that he was not saying that the law was the same as sin. Yet, it was only through the Law that the demons from the devil became known as the temptation behind all sins. You would not have known not to covet if there was not a law that told you not to covet. So the devil used the Law to rouse in you every temptation and evil desire. Without the Law, sin is dead because there is nothing by which to tempt you to do evil deeds. So when the Law came, sin came to life and you died in the flesh by yielding to the temptations of the devil. My commandments in the Law were used by the devil as a legal reason to condemn you of being a worthless sinner and then to kill you with the guilt. However, the Law and its commandments are holy, just and good. (Romans 7:7-12) It's how the devil uses the Laws to make you guilty and to condemn you that are evil. Did the Law become death for you? No. The devil, in order for his temptations to become sin, used what was good, that being the Law, to bring about your spiritual death by misusing the commandments and condemning you with them. You know that the Law is spiritual, whereas your flesh is weak, being sold by the devil into bondage to sin and death. Instead of doing only what you know that you need to do, you do what the demons through temptations compel you to do. Paul said, "I do what I hate." That indicates that it is not you who do the evil deeds, but instead it is the devil and his demons who do the dastardly deeds through you. When you do what you don't want to do, that is an indication that it is not you but the devil, or sin, who resides in you. No good thing dwells in your flesh, The desire to do right is there, but unless you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, the power is not there to do good. That means that if you always do what you don't want to do, a law that leads to wrong-doing is always ready in your flesh. Your inner self, your spirit where My Holy Spirit dwells, is at war with your flesh and your flesh is at war with My Spirit who lives in your flesh. (Romans 7:13-23) Paul wrote that he was a wretched man because of the war between the demons in the flesh and the Holy Spirit in his spirit. He asked who could free him from his body which was under the power of death. He answered himself by proclaiming that, Praise God, as he wrote, with the flesh he often served the devil but with His Spirit he served Me.(Romans 7:24-25) At that time Paul was conflicted in his war against the devil in his flesh. When he conquered the condemnation from the devil, My Spirit of Life took over his flesh as well as his spirit. Learn from Paul about the war between the flesh and the Spirit. Choose the Holy Spirit's and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh that are sent as temptations from the devil to kill you. Your Father of Spiritual Power

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