Sunday, February 20, 2022
BLESSED BY NEW COVENANT WISDOM WHICH CREATE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE
My Dear Precious Child,
"For the law (words) of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made Me free from the law (words) of sin and death. " (Romans 8:2) The apostle Paul, who had a close one-on-one relationship with Me through the Holy Spirit, had originally been a dedicated student of Jewish law, to which he referred as the law of sin and death. When he met Christ on the road to Damascus and spend almost three years becoming a dedicated student of My new covenant which I had instituted through My Holy Spirit with humanity, Paul was enthralled with the benefits and rewards that I promised to the believers who embrace My Holy Spirit and His Words of Life. While Paul had been a dedicated student of Jewish Law, his mind was blinded to the prophesies in the old covenant of sin and death that concerned the eventual coming into the earth of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit where I came to live inside of humans and made their bodies My temple of the Spirit in the earth. However, when Paul spent those three years in the dessert with only Me, he allowed Me to open his mind to the truths that were contained in the prophesies spoken by the old covenant prophets. After his conversion of being born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit, after Paul experienced 100% of the benefits of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit, he realized the bondage that the old covenant had held on him. So Paul's warnings to the believers about avoiding false prophets were very often very emphatic because of his having experienced exchanging My freedom in the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus for the bondage of the old covenant of sin and death. He had experienced the results which followed from obeying both covenants, and he knew the advantages of knowing Christ Jesus and His covenant of Life.
When Paul wrote, "There is, therefore, now no condemnation" -- no having been adjudged guilty of wrong -- "for those who are in Christ Jesus who live not after the dictates of the flesh, but instead live after the dictates of the Holy Spirit," he was speaking from experience, not merely from theories derived from the teachings of somebody else. (Romans 8:1; John 3:16-18) For over 30 years previously he had trusted in the law of sin and death for his salvation from evil but found that it was not possible. When He met Christ on the road to Damascus and spent three years only with Him and My Holy Spirit, consulting no other human being, Paul experienced real freedom, love and joy and therefore has been able to project the truths of the new covenant to My children.
His warnings were strong and bold to Roman believers concerning false prophets and their reliance on the law of sin and death which they were teaching to the new Christian believers because he remembered the condemning bondage that had controlled his own thoughts when he was previously committed to the law of sin and death when his CONSCIENCE had condemned him for not being able to obey all of the religious laws. He wrote to the Romans believers that as a good teacher he spoke Truth in Christ, not lying, because his good conscience was confirmed by the Holy Spirit. In other words, his conscience spoke thoughts to him that brought freedom to him from Me instead of his thoughts condemning him for not being able to keep all of the laws of sin and death, as had happened when he was loyal to the old covenant of sin and death. (Romans 9:1)
Paul wrote that they must be subject to the civil laws of their country because obeying civil laws keep them out of prison. However, religious instructions must come from Me through the Holy Spirit so that My children are not condemned by laws that were supposed to be civil laws but instead had become religious laws, which is what the Jewish laws had become and therefore they were fleshly instead of spiritual. (Romans 13:5) So the civil laws were supposed to have the authority to keep peace among people, but they were punitive, always insisting on punishment instead of forgiveness. But Paul said that civil laws also have the power to condemn instead of having the power to rehabilitate through forgiveness like My words from the Holy Spirit which come from spiritual truths.
He wrote that there is no condemnation for My children who follow My guidance from the Holy Spirit who lives inside of them. He is the One Who speaks Truth and Forgiveness instead of speaking condemnation and guilt in your thoughts. Guilt and condemnation from the devil kill people but My words from My Holy Spirit bring Life. Paul vehemently objected to false prophets placing new believers in his churches under the laws of sin and death from which he knew they would experience bondage when the laws condemned them instead of freeing them. Paul did not want the believers to whom he ministered to become cursed in their lives from having a guilty conscience which brings death. He wanted the believers to hear from My Holy Spirit who speaks Life and peace to their mind. (I Thessalonians 5:23)
Your Father of Truth and Guidance
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