To pit the New Testament against the Old Testament, one gospel writer against another gospel writer, one truth against another truth is nothing short of an excuse to disobey God. Period.
For the time in history, the place geographically, the people nationally, the individual personally, God caused to be recorded EXACTLY what was needed to bring Him glory and to reveal to us His ways and His works. A true heart before God will rejoice to recognize how "detail-oriented" God is to every individual person. He gives to every person, time, place, people, nation, EXACTLY what is suitable at that moment!
We ARE of all previous peoples the most blessed!!
1. We have the completed Word of God!
2. We are excluded from the ritualistic observances required under Jewish law, through faith in Christ Jesus.
3. The blood of Jesus Christ has set our hearts free from looking into the scriptures for the "Thou Shalt"'s and the "Thou Shalt Not"'s to follow!
4. God has given to the believer in Christ the simplest, easiest, and most personal attachment to Himself. He has given His Holy Spirit to live within our hearts!!
Humbly submitting to what God has placed within our hearts by His Holy Spirit is what He's looking for, not gaining more intellectual knowledge as to why we think we should or shouldn't do something based on what He spoke in another time, to another person, or to His "earthly" people - nor even the early church in its "infancy." Isolating a Scripture, a Truth, a verse to serve as a platform to project our own likes or dislikes is extremely dangerous - if not "deadly" - for the one at whom it is aimed. Remember? We cannot keep "the law"??!! Not one person has the ability to do so!
But I believe this: How God directs our hearts TODAY will never be contrary to the principles He has spoken in His Word. Of that, I am CONVINCED!!
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Simple submission is the greatest witness to true humility and obedience.
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jfn - 5/18/2011
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