OSAS
Once Saved Always Saved
Number One Doctrine of Devils to Undermine the Fear of God
IF IF IF IF - it is like a Stop sign in the Word of God. Most people are running those IF stop signs and feeling good on doctrines of devils. This makes them feel good on their Broadway to hell.
OSAS is the #1 doctrine of devils to destroy the foundation of the Fear of God. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Yeshua said you MUST be born again. MUST.
I see many church folk, from the pulpit to the back
door, who
are living in all sorts of unrepentant sin and iniquity who say
they are born again. I say are living proof of the OSAS Lie. OSAS
sells. Chances are you bought it. If you did I simply say, Yeshua
said you MUST be born again. When such say
they have been born again, then I say TODAY, if, IF IF,
you will hear His VOICE, harden not your heart. TODAY is the day
of salvation. NOW is the accepted time. TODAY yes, IF they will
TURN, and find His grace to REPENT, they may still TODAY be born
again, AGAIN. Gal 4:19, Rev 2:5, All of the Bible was written to
BELIEVERS, people who had been born again. Look at Rev 3:3,
3:14-22 and a thousand more verses. REPENT, Saints are redeemed repentant
sinners. The way of saints is the way of
repentance. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack
of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I
will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also
forget thy children.
WE DO NOT ARRIVE TILL WE GET THERE.
Phil 3:11 If
by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. IF IF IF IF - I
MIGHT attain - Expresses earnest desire TO BE found in
Christ; also his pressing on toward perfection; and recommends
his own example to other believers
Phil 3:12 Not as
though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I
follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am
apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Phil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things
which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before,
Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be
thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God
shall reveal even this unto you.
If Paul the Apostle at the END of his
ministry confessed that he had NOT already attained, that he was
already perfect - THEN WHO DO WE THINK THAT WE ARE THAT WE CANNOT
FALL????
The GJiGT teaches ONLY justification by
grace through faith. The GJiGT teaches faith based upon God Said So, line
upon line, line upon line, precept upon precept, precept upon
precept, and not just here a little there a little. The
OSAS doctrine is the #1 doctrine of devils to undermine the Fear
of God and keep people feeling good on the way to hell. If you
teach it you best read James 3:1 and REPENT. All the people who
you so mislead into hell will have an eternal hatred for you.
Best stand whatever abuse the vain powerless religious apostates
level at you for teaching the truth that OSAS is the #1 doctrine
of devils. A real faithful friend will say Yeshua said you MUST
be born again. When they say I have been born again, a real
faithful friend will say TODAY, If you will hear His Voice and
HARDEN NOT your heart, you could be born again, AGAIN. Tomorrow
may be too late to find His grace to repent.
Ezek 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and
committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations
that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness
that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he
hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them
shall he die.
Ezek 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your
ways unequal?
Ezek 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for
his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who
were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though
ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out
of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great
day.
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about
them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and
going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire.
Jude 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were
spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers
in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit.
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of
the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Rom 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are IN
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death.
Now everybody today seems to think that law of sin and death that we have been set free from, is the 10 Commandments. Is the 10 commandments the law of sin and death? NO! Absolutely not! The 10 commandments is NOT the law of sin and death. What is the law of sin and death? The law of sin and death is found in Romans chapter 6 verse 23 ... For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The wages of sin is death. That is the law of sin and death. The soul that sinneth it shall die. (Study Ezekiel 18) The soul that sinneth, it shall die. That is the law of sin and death. Now, we are going to get set free from that law of sin and death, IF we stop walking after the flesh and start walking after the Spirit.
Now this is where it should start to get interesting and we should start to see the light of the Spirit of Truth. IF you have been taught that you don't have to pay any attention to the 10 commandments because you have been set free from the law of sin and death, by the law of the spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua, YOU HAVE BEEN DECEIVED. That is a twisted and perverted doctrine of devils. Because you have been set free from the law of sin and death, (the law of sin and death is NOT the 10 commandments), IF, IF, IF... What does IF mean? IF means a condition. IF means that you may NOT suppose, assume, presume, or believe, UNLESS. IF means it is ONLY granted upon meeting the condition. IF means it is NOT provided unless you DO what is required by the particular demand or command or stipulation.
IF is like a stop sign in the Authorized word of God. It means something very important. You need to stop and make sure you know the CONDITIONS, the command, the stipulation, the qualification. ALWAYS pay very close attention when you see that little, yet most important, word IF in the Authorized word of God. Many of your favorite scriptures and promises of God have that little IF in them. Most overlook the IF. Most will be damned in the strong delusion.
We will be set free from the law of sin and death IF we walk: 1) Not after the flesh, 2) After the Spirit, 3) IN Messiah Yeshua. Three conditions, 3 qualifications on that IF. It is the law of life IN Messiah Yeshua, the perfect law, the Royal Law, the Everlasting Covenant that makes it possible to meet those 3 conditions. If your brand of New Covenant does not have the Everlasting Covenant, you need a NEW new covenant that does have the EVERLASTING COVENANT. The Everlasting Covenant is the 10 commandments. It is impossible to meet the 3 conditions, necessary to be set free from the law of sin and death, without the 10 commandments. IF you DO walk in accordance with those 3 conditions you will be set free from the law of sin and death.
The 10 commandments are not the law of sin and death. You must know those 10 commandments like Yeshua, and DO those 10 commandments like Yeshua did, to be set free from the law of sin and death. The soul that sinneth it shall die. The wages of sin is death. That is the law of sin and death. That is what you may be set free from IF, IF, IF, you meet the conditions.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: OK. That is what Messiah Yeshua did. He came in the likeness of sinful flesh. He had the same lusts and temptations to sin that we all have. He came for sin. 2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God IN him. By actually becoming the sin OFFERING for us, He actually condemned sin in the flesh.
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. He kept the law. Nobody else every did it. I have not done it. You have not done it, but, Yeshua did it. He kept the law. He fulfilled the law. He didn't do away with the law, He fulfilled the law. How did He do it? He walked after the Spirit of Life. He walked in the power of the Holy Spirit. He did not give in to the lust of His flesh. He yielded the lust of His flesh to the Spirit of Holiness. What is the Spirit of Holiness? The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Holiness, Who empowers us to keep the law the way Yeshua did. He empowers us with a spirit of truth and a spirit of holiness. "That the righteousness of the LAW might be FULFILLED in us. Are we fulfilling the righteousness of the law? Are we fulfilling the righteousness of the law? That law is righteous. That law is perfect. That law is the Royal Law. That law is the Eternal Covenant. That law is the EVERLASTING COVENANT. We will keep that law in the millennium or we will feel the rod of iron. There is nothing wrong with that law, Nothing. We are wrong to make excuses or rationalizations for our violations of that law. Violations of that law is what sin is. "That the righteousness of the law MIGHT be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Folks, most of our churches today are so deep into apostasy today. They think they are rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. Now if you believe, once saved always saved, then you believe that you have need of nothing. Nothing can cause you to loose your salvation, Right? I must tell you it is a doctrine of devils. We are going to see that right here in Romans chapter 8. Can you believe you will see "once saved always saved" to be proven to be a false doctrine of devils in Romans 8? ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED - SELLS - CHANCES ARE YOU BOUGHT IT. Who would not WANT to believe it? Nobody! Who does not believe it, only those who KNOW the word by the Spirit of Truth and Holiness. Only those who KNOW, not just believe, that they are IN the WAY, do not believe once saved always saved.
We can also see OSAS proved to be false in another favorite chapter Luke 15 about the prodigal son. Let us go on in the Spirit of Truth. IF, IF, IF you are a child of God, by being born again by the Spirit of Truth and Holiness, you will see it here in Romans 8. I believe the Spirit of Truth will let us all see it and direct us what to do about it. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Now there is a counterfeit spirit going around. The counterfeit spirit helps us believe the lies of the false teachers who contradict the Authorized written word of God with impunity. We all want to believe some lies. The counterfeit spirit helps you believe lies. You can find the counterfeit spirit in Toronto and Pensacola. The counterfeit spirit makes the flesh feel good. The counterfeit spirit can make the flesh feel so good that it thinks it is the Holy Spirit. There may even be some signs and wonders but everything supernatural is not of God, especially in these days of strong delusion. Sometimes when that flesh gets to feeling so good that you think it is the Holy Spirit, it can be a deceiving counterfeit or religious spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. If you are carnally minded you are going to get death. That is the law of sin and death. The soul that sins shall die. Now the true Spirit of Holiness, can set you free from the law of sin and death. How does it set you free from the law of sin and death? There is only ONE WAY, giving you the power to KEEP the law, the everlasting covenant that many false new covenants have excluded. Everyone should be able to see that see the law of sin and death is, that if you transgress the law, the 10 commandments, God's Royal Law, the Everlasting Covenant, you are going to die. That is the law of sin and death. Now if you walk in the Spirit, you get power to keep the law. You don't throw the law away, you get empowered to keep the law the way Yeshua did. For to be carnally minded is death. If you are carnally minded, you have a spirit that tells you that you don't have to pay any attention to the 10 commandments, or that you may excuse or rationalize them, If you are carnally minded you will think that these have been done away. If you are carnally minded you will think that you can break them with impunity. Today if you are carnally minded you have got a deceiving spirit. You can call it the Holy Spirit till the cows come home, but I must say that you are deceived. For to be spiritually minded is life and peace. The only way you are going to be set free from the law of sin and death is by keeping the law. Because the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Sin is a transgression of the law. You throw that law away, rationalize it, or excuse it, you are deceived. You have got to keep that law. That is the spirit of life. That is the spirit that sets you free from the law of sin and death, that spirit which empowers you to keep the law, to live holy, the Holy Spirit. When you stop sinning is when you find that life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Look, if you don't love God's Royal Law, you don't love God. God's law is perfect. God's law is never going to change. God's law will be kept perfectly in the millennium, or you will feel the rod of iron. You see the carnal mind is enmity against God. The carnal mind wants to do away with the law of God. Have you done away with the law of God? You think you are spiritual? That is carnal. The carnal mind is enmity against God and God's laws. At least the heathen are honest about their contempt for God's law. The carnal mind does not even try to keep God's law. The carnal mind thinks it is totally justified to violate, rationalize away, excuse away the law of God. The "Christian" carnal mind says I don't have to keep the law, I've been saved. The carnal mind thinks Christ came to do away with God's Royal Law, rather than giving us the power to fulfill it like He did. That carnal mind is a deceived mind, whether it calls itself Christian or not. That carnal mind, Christian or heathen, will take you to hell. The carnal mind is enmity against God. It is not subject to the law of God. Listen, if you don't think you are subject to the law of God, you are not spiritual, you have a deceived carnal mind. That is what the word of God says. Look at verse 7 carefully, Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: ( it does not love the law) for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. You don't keep the law, someone needs to tell you, the law of sin and death will get you, you will die. You will not stand in enmity against God, excusing or rationalizing to do away with His Royal Law.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Now if you think you are pleasing God, if you sing real pretty songs, but you don't pay any attention to God's Royal Law, the 10 commandments, you are in the flesh. You think you are in the spirit, with no mind to keep the Royal Law, that is a deceiving spirit. The royal law keeps you from being deceived and sets you free from the law of sin and death. So they that are in the flesh, no matter how good they sing, no matter how spiritual and good they feel, cannot please God. What pleases God is faith, and obedience, which are really the same thing. Faith is to know what God said, and to walk in it. To know what God said, and not walk in it, is rebellion. You see how faith is really obedience.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if ... IF...stop sign....what is the condition, there is a qualification or stipulation before I can presume this .... IF means something important. UNLESS you meet the condition you better NOT assume, believe, or presume you may have it without meeting the condition. You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, IF, IF you meet the condition. What is the condition? IF so be that the Spirit of God dwell IN you. That is the only way. You have the Spirit of God or you have a deceiving spirit. If you believe once saved always saved you have a deceiving spirit. You can be delivered, but, first you have to be able to HEAR that you have picked up a deceiving religious spirit. Most today will not have ears to hear the Spirit of Truth. The deceiving spirit does not empower you to keep the law, the deceiving spirit will give you excuses and rationalizations for violating the law. The Holy Spirit causes you to keep and love the Royal Law, and the deceiving spirit causes you to excuse and rationalize your disregard for the Royal Law. The deceiving spirit will make you think you are very spiritual when you are carnal.
The Holy Spirit will be showing you the carnality yet to be brought in to subjection. The deceiving spirit tells you that you have arrived this side of glory. The Holy Spirit shows you the disparate wickedness in your own heart that must yet be dealt with before glory. IF, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Messiah, he is none of his. Now there are a lot of people that think they belong to God. Who would not want to think they are a child of God? They think they are a child of God. But the proof is when they love God's Royal Law and they have the power of His Spirit of Holiness to keep that law. If they don't have love for, power to keep, or even the inclination to measure their hearts according to that Royal Law, then, for sure, they have the deceiving counterfeit religious spirit. We are going to come across another IF still relating to the same thing in verse 10.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. And IF.. there is the IF stop sign again. Think about this. What is the condition? Are you meeting the condition. YES you will find it ALWAYS conditional. Don't run those IF stop signs, it is not just the ticket you might get, you could get killed running stop signs. IF Messiah be IN you, the body is dead because of sin, But, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. What is the IF? If Christ be IN you. What did Christ do? He kept the law. He did NOT do away with the law! He fulfilled the law. He kept the law. Do we UNDERSTAND that? IF Messiah is IN you, you will be empowered to keep the law the way He did. If Christ is in you, then you will fulfill the law the way He did. He is the way. If Messiah is in you, then you will love and regard the law the way He did. If Christ be in you, the body is dead... you go ahead and you reckon or operate as though your body is just as dead to self, just as Yeshua Messiah allowed His body to be dead, because of sin. Now we have sinned but Messiah did not. What is sin? Sin is a transgression of the law. If you rationalize or excuse the transgression of the law you turn it into INIQUITY. VERY DEADLY DANGEROUS!
You throw that law away, you have nothing to go by. Your reckoning is bound to be wrong. But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. OK, righteousness, righteousness, what is righteousness? TRUE righteousness, God gives us. You cannot get true righteousness any place else. The only place you can get true righteousness is from God. Any other righteousness is self righteousness. Now, when we keep the law, does that make us righteous? NO!!! Because we have all sinned before we ever started thinking about keeping the law. So keeping the law does not make us righteous. God makes us righteous, because we confess, and agree with God that we are sinners. We admit that we have broken His law, and He gives us the gift of righteousness. He covers our sins, by the sacrifice and shed blood of Messiah Yeshua! And He declares us righteous. Anybody who argues or disagrees with God will lose big time. Now, then, If God declares us righteous, we have true righteousness. Now what is the PROOF? The PROOF, is this Spirit of Messiah, this Spirit of Holiness which empowers us to keep the law. This Spirit of Truth and Holiness empowers us to live the law, to love the law, keep the law, to fulfill the law, just the way Messiah did. That is the proof! That is how we KNOW. That is the proof. So if you have allowed some false teacher to get you to think that the law of sin and death no longer applies to you because the Royal Law of God does not apply to you, you have gotten the deadliest and strongest delusion you can get. It is nothing but deception and INIQUITY, while you think you are spiritual. The proof and the only way we can KNOW we have the Spirit of Messiah, is not by deceiving ourselves, but by the empowerment to live and fulfill the law the way Messiah Yeshua did. You do away with God's Royal Law, you are lawless, lost, without hope, deceived, without any way to find your way out of the strong delusion that you are in. You may be confident some demon will come in to make you feel good about your condition on that broad way to hell. The next verse has another one of those stop signs.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. IF, But and ONLY IF.... What is the condition, what is the qualification, what is it that I must do? Don't suppose you have this IF thing UNLESS you meet the conditions. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you. That Spirit, that Holy Spirit, that empowers you to love, to keep and fulfill that Royal Law the way Messiah did, MUST dwell in you. You know that He does dwell in you because you are being empowered to keep and fulfill that Royal Law. Then and only then will, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Therefore, knowing what all those IF and MIGHT stop signs are all about. Knowing what the CONDITIONS and requirements are, knowing that we are being empowered to love and keep that Royal Law, then we know that we are getting free from the flesh, and getting power to stop sinning and keep that law the way Yeshua did.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. If you live after the flesh you are not free from the law of sin and death. If you live after the flesh you are going to be breaking the Royal Law of life and liberty. If you are living after the flesh you have no regard for the law. If you are living after the flesh you will do away with the law. Being in the flesh is all about not paying attention to the law of God. IF, if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But IF, ye through the Spirit do mortify (live by the power of the Holy Spirit). Then you put to death the deeds of the body, like self will, greed, covetousness, vanity. Then, only if, then ye shall live. Not unconditional, it is very CONDITIONAL.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. If we think we are a son of God and do not love, keep and fulfill His commandments, we are deceive and NOT a son of God. We know we are a son of God when that Spirit of Holiness is causing us, and helping us, and empowering us to stop sinning.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Are any of you thinking this is going to be putting you in bondage? We are talking about the law of life, the perfect law of LIBERTY. Otherwise you are in bondage to sin. This freedom will keep you in the Fear of God and thereby set you free from all other fears. If you have not read the Fear of God article on the GJiGT, you may click here to it. Bookmark it. It is important like this. Right Fear of God sets you free from all other fears. The revelation by the Spirit of Truth will show you the truth that you are saved by hope. We are going to see that soon. We are not going to be put in bondage to fear, we are going to be set free from all our fears. We are not even going to fear death. We are going to be empowered by the Spirit of Truth and Holiness to put to death the deeds of the body so we are not even fearful of death. That is glorious freedom. I have been set free from the bondage of fear. Most people, the biggest fear they have is fear of dying. By the power of the Holy Spirit mortifying the deeds of the body sets us free even from the fear of death. Overcoming the fear of death makes you very free. Now the big thing is that you have received is the Spirit of Adoption. WOW! Few know how fantastic this is. The spirit whereby we cry Abba Father, Daddy. God is Our Father, we are a child of God, by this spirit of Adoption. There is more. The firstborn received a double portion of the inheritance. Yeshua being the Only Begotten Son of God has it all. All of the rest of us have to come in by Adoption.
Something that many do not know in the law that Moses gave us, is that anyone was free to adopt a son. If someone adopted a son, that adopted son was given full rights of the firstborn. In other words, Isaac had two sons Esau and Jacob. Now the birthright of Esau, which he sold for a bowl of pottage, everything that God gave to Abraham,. and that Abraham gave to Isaac, would be given a double portion to Esau. Everything that Isaac had was going to be split 3 ways and Esau would get 2 parts and Jacob only 1. Now, if Isaac would have adopted a son, then instead of everything being split 3 ways it would be split 5 ways. Easau would get 2 parts, the adopted son would get 2 parts, and the natural son Jacob would get 1 part. That is how it is in the law of God. That is the law of Adoption. According to the law given to us by Moses, any adopted son got a double portion. Do we understand what that means as it related to Yeshua the Messiah the Only Begotten and Firstborn Son of God? That means we get the same portion that He did according to the spirit of Adoption. According to the law of God, the Royal Law, we will get the same double portion of Yeshua. WOW!
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Any spirit can tell you that you are a son of God, a child of God. Pagans have spirits telling them that they are a child of God. Some of the pagans even think that they are gods. There are a lot of new age demon spirits that tell people that they are God's. The truth is that we are all born thinking that we are some sort of god. But, the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: Now the Holy Spirit, is going to tell you that you are a child of God. He will tell you that you can call God, Abba Father, Daddy. The Spirit will tell you that. However, don't be naive or gullible to think that a deceiving or deluding demon spirit would not tell you the same thing. How do we know the Spirit from the other spirits? It makes you feel good, is not the right answer. Watch out. Just because you want to believe it, and it feels good to believe it, does not mean it is the Holy Spirit. The way the witness of the Spirit bears witness with your spirit is by empowering you to show your love for God. Yep, keeping those commandments. The Holy Spirit affirms them, and convicts you when you transgress them. The deceiving spirit will try to get you to rationalize them, or excuse them, or do away with those commandments. That is how you know, and there is not any other sure way. Pay attention and there is another stop sign in the next verse.
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. And IF... Unless... What is the condition? If we are children, not deceived or being deceived, then we are heirs, and joint heirs, full firstborn portion, because we came in by this Spirit of Adoption. He is the firstborn, the Only Begotten. He gets the double portion, and the adopted sons get double portions. It is joint heir-ship. WOW! IF you are a child of God. Just don't run those IF stop signs. Make sure you know and meet the conditions. Are you a child of God because you believe you are a child of God? The devils believe better than we do. We have got to know it. How are we going to know it? Are we saved? Once saved always saved? That is a damnable doctrine which will cause you to throw away the compass that tells you if you are going the right WAY. It is always CONDITIONAL, this side of glory, but it is our faith, that obedience to the Royal Law, that gives substance and evidence of that blessed hope. Let's get into it. And IF children, IF you are a child of God, then and only then are you an heir. IF, IF, what is the condition? What is the condition that we MUST meet? IF so be that we suffer with Him. Do you want to suffer? No. Have you chosen to suffer? IF you do not choose to suffer with Him, maybe that spirit that tells you that you are a child of God, is a deceiving spirit. If that spirit is telling you that God loves so you are going to get blessed, this side of glory, ... If that spirit causes you to suppose that you are getting blessed of God, and that gain is godliness, that is NOT the Spirit which causes you to CHOOSE to SUFFER with Him. Because it is ONLY IF, you see that stop sign, IF? What is the condition? If you are going to be a true child of God there is a condition. You better not be assuming and presuming you have attained UNLESS it is true "IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM." Do you want to suffer? If you don't want to suffer, maybe we better start planning to suffer. "IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM." That is the path, that is the WAY, the way of taking up your cross. The I'm blessed gain is godliness is another gospel, and doctrine of devils. 1 Tim 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. No suffering - no glory. No cross, then it is another gospel. If you have a doctrine of Messiah that does not have suffering, and a cross for you, you are being taught about another Jesus. They are talking about another Yeshua, if there is no suffering. Without that willingness to suffer, they are talking about one of the many, many, false Christs. IF you are a child of God it is ONLY IF you have chosen the path of suffering with Him.
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. What is that word RECKON all about. Reckon is how one determines their direction or their way. Reckoning means picking your direction, the way you will go. The direction that we MUST pick is that we are going to suffer with Him. If you pick the gain is godliness direction you have got another Jesus, another gospel, one of the many damnable heresies. Maybe this is not how you normally get Roman 8 taught to you. I believe we are hearing from the Spirit of Truth. Show me the error. Check it out. For I reckon, what path am I going to take. I am going to take that path that has the SUFFERING with Him. I will check it out, measure it, determine that the way I go is that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which SHALL be revealed in US. IF you are a child of God, if you are an heir of God and joint-heir with Messiah, it is ONLY IF, we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him. That is the path we MUST take, the WAY of Messiah. We must look for that path of suffering with Him and reckon that the sufferings with Him are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. We are looking for a glory to be revealed IN us. We are on the edge of it. It is so exciting to be alive right now. Because we are going to see this time of tremendous suffering of the body of Messiah from the forces of antichrist being given power to wage war on the saints. We are going to see this time of TREMENDOUS GLORY revealed in the midst of it.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. We have a GREAT earnest expectation. For the expectation of the creature, that is us, waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. Now we like to believe that we are sons of God. We hope that we are sons of God. Our earnest expectation is that in the midst of this great suffering soon to come upon those who have chosen to suffer with Messiah so that they may be glorified with Him. For those who have determined that the path that they must go is that path of suffering with Him. The only path that they can go, to find that glory, is that path of suffering of this present time, know the suffering can not be compared with the glory that will be revealed IN US. Our earnest expectation, we are the people that are going to finally get to see this great earnest expectation, manifested. The earnest expectation of every child of God is to see the manifestation that we may know. We are going to be the first with that manifestation of the greater works of John 14:12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. We are going to be the people that see the greater works. We are going to see this manifestation of the sons of God in the midst of the great tribulation war of the antichrist on the saints. I will tell you for sure that if you have not chosen that path of suffering with Him, you will not see this manifestation in you. You can easily be deceived to think you are child of God. Who would not want to think that? Does that make it so? Meeting the CONDITIONS makes it so. Your faith, your obedience, your willingness to suffer with Him makes it so. The people who have chosen that path of obedience and suffering with Him, are going to see this manifestation of the sons of God in them just like Yeshua Messiah. What is this manifestation?
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Do you know what vanity is? That means you want to be worshipped. That is what vanity is. It is SELF. It is SELF WILL. It means you want to be worshipped. Now, the creature, every human being was made subject to vanity. Self consciousness, self awareness, self will, wanting people to worship you. Where do you find people to worship you? In your churches. Gold star if you knew that. Do you worship your pastor? Does your pastor want you to worship him? Do you want all the church folk to think you are a good person? That is vanity. Is that the path of suffering? All human creatures were made subject to vanity, not willingly. God did not want to do it but He had to. Why did God have to make us creatures of vanity? The reason is that He created mankind to replace the worshipping angels who rebelled with Lucifer. What kind of worship, worth - ship, would God get from robots? You see we are not robots. He created us with vanity, a self awareness, a self consciousness, a self will, in hope that from that pit of vanity and self will we would lay aside that self will and give Him worship that was worth something. Jesus took on flesh. He had a self consciousness, and a self will. One thing that was different and very unusual about Yeshua, is that when people worshipped Him, He received the worship. It was no sin for Him to receive worship. No good angel will receive worship. All the demon angels, you know what they are looking for? They are looking for worship. That is why you find demons filling the churches today. If you get one of those demons in you, and you can get people in your church to worship you, that demon will make you feel real good. That is what it wants. A demon spirit wants to be worshipped. That is why they fill the churches today.
We know from Rev 12 about the war in heaven when Michael and the faithful angels will cast Lucifer and all his demonic hordes to earth. Woe unto you inhibitors of the earth for Satan has come down unto you having great wrath for he knows that he has a very short time. Where do you think the first place those demon hordes will go? Another gold star if you said the churches. That is where you will find them today. God had to create us subject to vanity in order that He would be able to get worship from man that was worth something. There is no other way He could restore the true worship in heaven when Lucifer led the worshipping angels in rebellion against God. We must be like Yeshua, Who chose to lay down His will, to lay down His flesh, to even have His flesh crucified. We have got to choose that same path of suffering and self denial, and choose to suffer the shame of the cross. That is God's hope for us. That there would be a few who would really follow the example of Messiah and chose the way of the cross for His glory. That our will would be to do His will, like Messiah did. He subject us all to vanity with this hope that we would chose the way out of that pit of vanity. Because...
Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Look where corruption comes from. It comes from vanity. There would be no corruption in this world if there was no vanity. If people were not seeking their own self will, if they were not seeking to be worshipped. The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is not evil. The love of money however causes all of the evil. Money means power. You can get people to worship you if you have enough money. What is your price to bow down and worship? Everybody has a price and some are just a little higher than others. The creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. We are going to be delivered from this corruption. This bondage of corruption is vanity, self will, self consciousness, wanting people to worship you, wanting people to think you are good. We will be delivered from the bondage of corruption through Messiah, through His Spirit of Holiness. The Holy Spirit helps us mortify, or put to death this corruption of vanity and self will. The Holy Spirit will bring us into the glorious liberty of the true children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. We are groaning, this whole creation is groaning, because of this vanity which causes all the corruption. We are travailing in pain together UNTIL NOW! Until NOW! We are finally coming into this point where the sons of God are going to be manifested. How are they going to be manifested? By overcoming vanity, by laying down their self will.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Have you got the Holy Spirit? Have you been born again? What is the first fruit of the Spirit? Love. Genuine love for God and your brothers. You love God by the instructions of the first 4 of the 10 commandments and you love your brother according to the instructions of the last 6 of those commandments. Making this choice of the path of suffering, the choice of the path to mortify the deeds of the flesh. Yeshua was the first fruit of the Spirit of Life. He was resurrected from the dead. Not only they but ourselves which have the first fruits of the Spirit. Do we have it? Even we ourselves groan within ourselves. We are waiting. We are waiting for the Adoption. That adoption will be the redemption of our bodies from the pits of vanity and self will.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? Do you understand that you are saved by HOPE? That is the word of God, that we are saved by HOPE. I hope I am saved. I hope you are saved. Do you know you are saved? You are not going to know until your body is redeemed. That is why "Once Saved Always Saved" is a damnable doctrine of devils. Because you are saved by HOPE. You better hope you are saved, because you are saved by hope. You don't know you are saved if you are walking around in a living body of corruptible flesh. If somebody has taught you to know you are saved they have taught you how to believe a liar. The word of God says that you are saved by hope. You hope you are saved. For hope that is seen is not hope. If you see that you are saved and you see it that you can not fall, you are deceived. You have bought that doctrine of devils. Because you are saved by hope. Are you saved? I hope I am saved. I believe I am saved. I have a way of knowing. I have a way of knowing. Does that mean I can NOT fall? No! Does it mean that I can not lose it? No. I am just hoping. I am saved by hope. I have a blessed hope. Amen, I have a blessed hope. I am saved by my blessed hope. Yes I have a blessed hope of this manifestation. But am I going to see it while this body of corruptible flesh is still alive? Yes, I am hoping that I will. I believe that we are all part of this God forsaken generation, that a FEW, are going to see it manifest. I am hoping for it. You better be hoping for it. If you think you have got it you have been deceived. Keep hoping for it. It is a blessed hope. For hope that is seen is not hope. If you see it, you are not hoping. We are saved by hope, there is no other way. For what a man sees, he does not hope for it any more. If you don't hope you are saved, you have been deceived.
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. IF we hope.... again the stop sign. What is the condition? IF WE HOPE. But I would rather know. I've been told I could know. Yes, in the word of God there is a place where I have been told that I could KNOW. I know I can know. 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. There it is. I believe on the name of the Son of God, Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah. I don't believe on my righteousness. I know there is no other way that I can be saved. So I may KNOW that I have eternal life. We seem to skip those little key important words like IF sometimes. I MAY know. I, May, MAY, know. May know, means MIGHT know, and it is CONDITIONAL, but John has written the conditions. May means, might, possibility, opportunity, contingency, or the conditions. What John has written gives you the conditions that we may know if we are in the WAY of eternal life. Even this most absolute, I KNOW that I am saved verses, says that I MAY, might, possibly, KNOW the conditions of the WAY. So what has John written that we may KNOW? 1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. We may KNOW the effects of saving knowledge in producing obedience, and love to the brethren 1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 1 John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. It always comes back to keeping that Everlasting Covenant, that Royal Law, those 10 commandments. There is only one way to sort it all out. I don't believe on anything by the power of the Blood of Yeshua to save me. I don't depend on the authority of any name but the name of Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah. I believe I am saved by the blood of Yeshua. But I am saved by HOPE. I hope I am saved. What does this mean? How do I sort it out? It always comes back to the same thing. And hereby we do know that we know him, IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. (1 John 2:3-5)
We have only one way to KNOW, IF, IF, we are IN Him, IF, IF, IF we keep His commandments. His will, not my will. We can KNOW we are IN THE WAY, but we don't KNOW we have arrived till we get there. Yet, this generation, in the midst of great tribulation, may see the manifestation of sons of God, that no other generation ever did see. I am not talking about the rapture, I am talking about walking in the obedience and power that Yeshua Himself walked in by totally laying down our vanity, self will, and becoming obedient even obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. We can KNOW we are in THE WAY, if, IF, IF we have not thrown away our map, that Royal Law, the Everlasting Covenant in His 10 commandments. Hereby we do KNOW, that we KNOW Him, IF (IF, IF,) , we keep His commandments. If you don't think you need that law, if you think the new testament does not have that law in it, you have ANOTHER JESUS. Because the only way you can know, and you want to know, is if you keep His commandments. What are His commandments? He said totally love God and love your neighbor as yourself. He summarized the 10 down to 2, because the first 4 teach us how to love God and the other 6 teach us how to love our neighbor. So He gave us a summary. But the Royal Law is the Everlasting Covenant, and if your brand of new covenant has eliminated the Everlasting Covenant, you have a false and deceiving new covenant. Under the true new covenant, we have a better covenant, NOT because it eliminated the Everlasting Covenant, RATHER because the true new covenant also has the Spirit of Truth. The new covenant Spirit of Holiness gives us the power to DO it the way Yeshua did. We can fulfill the law. We can keep the law. We can mortify the deeds of the flesh. We can lay down our self will for His better and perfect will, and for His glory. Any TRUE covenant, old covenant or new covenant, IF, if it is a true covenant, must have the everlasting covenant the Royal Law.
Lets take a quick look at those commandments. The commandments and the empowerment by the Spirit of Truth and Holiness, keeping those commandments lets know we are in the WAY to the realization of our blessed hope. We KNOW that we know Him IF we keep His commandments. The commandments are the "seal" and the witness. The commandments are the seal. What is a seal? It is a legal term. A legal document has a seal on it. That seal will tell you the Name of the Lawgiver, the Authority of the Lawgiver, and the Territory or Jurisdiction of the Lawgiver. Looking at the 10 commandments and we find the Name of the Lawgiver in 5 of them. There is only one of those ten commandments that has the Name of the Lawgiver, the Authority of the Lawgiver, and the and the Jurisdiction of the Lawgiver. (Exodus 20 or Deut 5) Looking at the law very carefully we find only one place in that law with the "seal" giving His Name, His Authority, and His Jurisdiction. We find the "seal" of God is found in the 4th commandment. The 4th commandment is found in Exo 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
The Sabbath day is not the day the pope says is the Sabbath. The Sabbath day is true Sabbath day. It is the true Sabbath day because God said it was the Sabbath. The pope paganized the Sabbath and the Protestants have generally followed the pope's tradition that makes the word of God of none effect ever since 326 AD. The Sabbath day means the 7th day. The Sabbath day is the day that God says is the Sabbath. Look at your calendar and see the first day on the extreme left and the Sabbath day on the extreme right, the 7th day, the true Sabbath of the Lord. Will you honor and obey the pope, or will you honor and obey God? Will you continue in the traditions of men which make the word of God of none effect? This commandment is not a little deal. This is the only commandment which has the seal of God contained in it, including His Name, His Authority, and His Jurisdiction. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: there is His Name. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is -- Here we see his Name again, His Authority as Maker of Heaven and Earth, and His Jurisdiction over the heaven and earth that He made. He made it, He owns it, and He has authority and jurisdiction over it. That is why He is the Lawgiver. It is His Royal Law, His Everlasting Covenant. Do you want to violate that law and tell me you are saved and expect me to say Amen? I would have to say that the soul that sins, or transgresses the law will die, and since you violate the 4th commandment there is more reason for me to believe that you are deceived than that you are saved. You testify to the whole world every week that you do not regard and transgress the Royal Law every week. I don't think saved people would have that kind of testimony. They say once saved always saved and I say we are saved by hope and the only way to know we are in the way that leads to eternal life is to keep His commandments.
The day we worship and keep holy is our seal, witness, and testimony to the whole world who our God is. It is a sign that God gives to those in His family called Israel, the born again ones, that He is the Creator of heaven and earth. Exo 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
He the Creator of Heaven and earth. Not the pope, not Lucifer, the sun god or the moon god. What is your testimony, witness, and seal? What is the SIGN between God and His people? Who is your God? I don't recommend the pope's perversion of the royal law where he changed God's 4th commandment, eliminated the 2nd commandment, and repeated the 10th commandment to still keep 10 while eliminating number 2. You say I don't follow the pope. Really? Ever go to church on Deis Solis, the sun god day, Sunday? What about Christmas and Easter? Learn not the way of the heathen. Muslims worship the moon god Allah on Friday. That is their sign, their seal, their witness to the world who their god is. Pagans and paganized Christians worship on the sun god day, Sunday. That is their sign, their witness that they do not obey the Creator of heaven and earth. The children of God, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. The children of God witness that they obey their God by remembering to keep holy the day that God said to keep holy. They make no excuses or apologies, or rationalizations, to follow the pope and paganized Christians. They allow no man to judge them regarding their obedience to His 4th command. They OBEY the command of God regardless if every other man on earth follows the tradition of the pope that makes the word of God of none effect. The LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. The children of God, are coming out of their ignorance, and remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. We hope for that we do not yet see. The sons of God have not yet been manifest. But that is coming, and there is good reason to believe that will be soon. If you are walking that path of suffering. IF you are keeping those commandments including the 4th one. Then you are waiting for the manifestation with patience. The Spirit of Truth, not the deceiving spirit, not the lying spirit, but the Spirit of Truth and Holiness, also helps our infirmities. We don't know what we should pray for as we ought to pray. But it is the Spirit Himself making intercession for us, with groanings that cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. He, that Spirit that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. If you think it is the will of God to do away with, or change, or rationalize, or excuse, and go against God's Royal Law, that is a deceiving spirit. The Holy Spirit will always confirm and affirm the will, and word, and royal law of God. The spirit which would nullify, modify, rationalize, change or eliminate the law of God is not the Spirit of God. It is so simple that children understand it.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. He says worship or keep holy the Sabbath. I don't want to worship on the Sabbath. I want to go to my church and they worship on Sunday. Nobody does that. There is not any church in town that does that. Pope says it is OK. My pastor says that Sunday is the Christian Sabbath, because Jesus rose on Sunday. No He did not. When Mary got there before daylight on Sunday the tomb was empty, He was not in the tomb any more. We KNOW that all things work together, even our sufferings, for good to them that love God. How do you KNOW you love God? Only one way, you keep HIS commandments. Yeshua says IF, IF, if you love me keep my commandments. That is the ONLY way you KNOW. If you have thrown out those commandments, you have thrown away everything. You have thrown away the royal law, the eternal covenant for your brand of new covenant, your will, your truth, your purposes. If your new covenant does not have the eternal covenant you need to be in a big hurry to find a TRUE new covenant. All these great promises of God are for those who are the called ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE, not my purpose, not your purpose, not the pope's purpose, not your church's purpose, HIS PURPOSE.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Look at all the gospel accounts. Where did you find His Son on the Sabbath. What was the custom of Yeshua. He was always to be found at the synagogue on the Sabbath. He did almost all of His miracles of healing on the Sabbath. Those healings on the Sabbath were one of the reasons the religious authorities wanted to crucify Him. The religious authorities would have had no problem if He had done His miracles on the day the pope says. He did it on Sabbath. He knew the Royal Law. He was, is, and will always be the giver of the Royal Law. Alleluia Yeshua! It is NEVER WRONG TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH. The religious authorities always seem to have a problem with the Sabbath, even in these last days. The people with religious spirits want to do it according to the religious authority of the pope. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Folks, we are ADOPTED, that we means we get the double portion just like Yeshua! Praise the Lord God Almighty. Alleluia Yeshua!
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Alleluia Yeshua! If God be for us, who can be against us? Alleluia Yeshua! If God be for you can you stand against the pope? If God be for you can you stand alone? If God is for you can you do it His way even if every body else goes according to the religious authorities? You want to kill me? You want my parts? Alleluia! If God be for us who can be against us? Yeshua said in Luke 12:4-5 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. I encourage you as strongly as I can to study the Fear of God article on the GJiGT www site. The Fear of God is a never ending study. The Fear of God may not only be the beginning of wisdom, it may be almost the whole ball of wax. With the proper and right Fear of God we can overcome and do away of all of the other fears associated with the great tribulation.
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? He did not spare His own Son. His Son was not exempt from suffering. He delivered Him up for us all to the suffering of death on the cross. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? ALL THINGS! He is going to give us ALL things. IF, IF, we are faithful, choosing that same path of suffering even the cross. If we walk in the Royal Law. IF we walk in the Spirit, fulfilling the law, keeping the law the WAY that Yeshua did. Keeping God's laws is not Legalism. It is obedience. Keeping MAN's laws and traditions is Legalism. May I say, IF you keep Lucifer's Sabbath, his false prophet the pope's Sabbath, the sun god's Sunday Sabbath, that it is not likely that you will be one of those sons of God to be manifested in the great tribulation. Those manifested sons of God will get the seal of God. Study the seal of God. Here are just a few interesting things that you will find: Isa 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 2 Tim 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. The fourth commandment contains the seal of God. It is not a little deal. It is a big deal now in these last days of strong delusion. Those who do not have a deceiving spirit or religious spirit know that it is always a big deal to do things the way God said, no matter who or what tradition would say otherwise.
We are saved by HOPE. I hope I am saved. I hope you are saved. There is a way we can know along the way. You just cannot find the way if you have thrown away the eternal covenant with the particular brand of new covenant that you have embraced. The immutable unchanging law of God is simply to be obeyed to demonstrate your love and faith to God. The bible says we are saved by hope. We don't arrive this side of glory unless we might be visited by that angel with the seal of God and that we be one of those manifested sons of God in the great tribulation. The way is the way of Holiness, obedience, which is the proof of genuine faith and love. Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who would be crazy enough to do that? It is God that justifies. Only a fool would think he could win an argument or with God. Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alleluia! Alleluia Yeshua! The only thing not in that list is SELF WILL. ----------- Let us take a quick look at some of the favorite verses of the lawless ones captivated by modern Laodicean churchianity Gal 3:23 and Gal 5:18. I would encourage you to study the "Acts Context of the Epistles" on the GJiGT. The Acts Context is important not only for Galatians but all the epistles, because it was written AFTER them. Acts is much more than an exciting history, it gives the context of all the epistles. Things taken out of context become pretexts.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. If you have faith you have graduated. If you have faith you know the law because you know the Lawgiver. If you have faith you have the law written on your heart. If you have faith you know the only way you have to respond to the love of God is to keep His commandments. If you have faith, the law which was carnal becomes spiritual. If you have faith, that same law which used to limit your freedom becomes the source of your freedom. If you have faith, the only way you know that you know Him, Who has given you faith, is to keep His commandments. I have faith. Do you have faith?
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. If you are led by the Spirit, the law no longer burdens you, it is a delight. If you are led by the Spirit, you delight in the law and know that God's law is perfect and does not change. If you are led by the Spirit, you know the only way you have to prove your love to God is to keep His commandments. If you are led by the Spirit, His commandments are NOT something you have to do, but something you GET to do. If you are led by the Spirit, you know you are blessed to walk in the law of the Lord. If you are led by the Spirit, you do no iniquity because you walk in His ways. If you are led by the Spirit, you respect ALL His commandments. If you are led by the Spirit, you do not wander from His commandments. If you are led by the Spirit, you meditate in His precepts. If you are led by the Spirit, His law becomes your delight and your direction. If you are led by the Spirit, you keep His statutes. I am led by the Spirit. Are you led by the Spirit? I want to bless you and strengthen your hands if you want to be a man of God. If you want me to join you or cofirm the errors of churchianity today, I cannot. I don't play church. I am and elder at large in the church of Yeshua Messiah that grow in faith through obedience to the word of God. I go where I am sent and received. I do not preach roman or pagan churchianity doctrine. I preach the Word of God. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. Mat 10:41
I cannot convince you or anyone of the truth. Either the Spirit of Truth will convince you or else you will continue to believe what you want to believe.
Here are scriptures to ask the Lord by the Spirit of Truth to give you understanding. In all your getting, get understanding. The following list of scriptures is by no means comprehensive.
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Ezek 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Ezek 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezek 18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
Ezek 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Ezek 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezek 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezek 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Ezek 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Ezek 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezek 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezek 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezek 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezek 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Heb 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Zep 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.
Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Heb 3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Heb 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Heb 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Heb 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Heb 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Heb 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Heb 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Deu 9:14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Deu 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Pet 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 22:9 Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
ALL of Romans Chapter 8 - If one does NOT run the IF stop signs and would ask the Holy Spirit what are the conditions associated with all of the IF's in Romans 8.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Rom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Pet 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Pet 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Ezek 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezek 33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezek 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Ezek 33:15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ezek 33:16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Ezek 33:17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Ezek 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Ezek 33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Ezek 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezek 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ezek 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Phil 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Phil 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Phil 3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Phil 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Phil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
1 Cor 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Cor 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1 Cor 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Cor 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1 Cor 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
1 Cor 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Cor 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1 Cor 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1 Cor 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Cor 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1 Cor 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1 Cor 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Exo 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
Col 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Num 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
1 Th 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
I do hope the word “if” is not too little for you to have eyes to see. God is a conditional God. God will not violate the sovereignty of the human will. God does not turn us into robots when we come to repentance and get “saved.”
Even the prodigal son was free to leave the Father. The Father testified that His prodigal son was LOST, that His son was DEAD, until he returned (repented). The way is the way of repentance. It is a very narrow way. Repentance is found when the grace of God gives us the ability to change when we are confronted by the truth. Without that work of the Spirit of Truth we will continue to believe what we want to believe.
Today there are many false doctrines. We are in the midst of strong delusion. This is a sign of the times in which we live. Yeshua, Jesus, told us that false teachers would fill the pulpits and air waves in the last days. Paul said they would heap to themselves, these false teachers, having itching ears, who would tell them what they want to hear. We are in the midst of a famine for hearing the word of God. Yeshua said it would be as the Days of Noah. Paul said there would be a great "apostacia." Most of the false teachers of pre-trib la la land, call that "apostacia" the rapture. You don't have to know Greek to see that "apostacia" is more likely apostasy than rapture. We are in the great falling away, the great apostasy, the great departure from the truth, the great departure from THE faith.
Most today have a faith, but they have departed from THE Faith, they have left The Way, and they do not KNOW, The Truth. The Truth personified is the REAL Jesus, the REAL Yeshua. It is another Jesus, and another faith that is taught by churchianity today.
2 Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie:
2 Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
One of the most damnable of the doctrines of devils, and false teachers, and the deceived and deluded is "Once saved always saved." We are saved by grace through faith. The problem today is that most people have no clear understanding of what sin is, what faith is, or what grace is.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. There is a blessed hope and it is NOT the rapture before the tribulation. We are saved by HOPE. Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? Faith is the substance of that hope. Am I saved? I hope so. There is also a way that I can KNOW along the way. The only way you can know will shock you regarding the truth of the word of God and what all the false teachers try to teach us. The truth and doctrine I proclaim, is the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand, and the doctrine of justification by faith!
Today, how many even know what sin is? What faith is? What grace is?
What is sin? Sin is a transgression of the law. Yeshua poured out His blood to redeem us from the law of sin and death, and empower us with His HOLY Spirit to stop sinning. He did NOT pour out His blood to give us a license to sin, and call everyone whom He empowers to stop sinning, a legalist. Legalism, by the way, is a way of self righteousness by your obedience to the traditions and doctrines and laws of MEN. It is NOT legalism to obey the laws of God. That is obedience, that is the proof of faith and love of God. Whenever someone accuses you of being a legalist for keeping God's commandments, I hope you will understand what a great complement they are actually giving you, and just say thank you.
Are you saved? Do you KNOW Yeshua? Do you love Jesus? How do you KNOW? There is only one way YOU KNOW according to the Word of God.
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 John 2:3-4 And hereby WE do KNOW that we KNOW HIM, IF (IF, IF, IF) we KEEP HIS commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
So what is Faith? Faith is belief plus the HOLY Spirit. What is faith?
Nothing mystical. Faith is very simple. If you know what God said, and you walk within it. That is Faith. If you know what God said and you reject it, and you do what YOU WANT, that is REBELLION. It is just that simple.
Lucifer went into rebellion because of self-righteousness and vanity. He knew what God said. And us men, just like in the garden, think God doesn't really mean that. God does mean EXACTLY what He said. He can NOT lie. When you set your own values, your own beliefs, doubting the word of God, and doing what YOU WANT, that is rebellion. That is not Faith.
What is Grace? There is a false teaching of grace in the church all around the world. Grace is simple to understand. Grace is time given while you are living in the body to conform yourself to the word of God. The bible says that if you judge yourself, He won't judge you. But if you fail to judge yourself, when the spirit is in the body, He will judge you. GRACE is God’s gift to be able to change when confronted with the truth. Grace is the empowerment by the Spirit of Truth to correctly respond to the truth. The power to conform yourself to the word of God. THY WILL - NOT MY WILL! But if you don't judge yourself, He will judge you. Today He is the Lamb. But when your spirit leaves He is the Judge and GRACE IS OVER! Make no mistake about that!
There is a false theology running all over the churches that we can continue to rebel and it is OK. That is a LIE right out of the pit of hell. It is nonsense what is being taught today about grace. You give me a gift and I can throw it right back at you. You and I are not robots. Lucifer had the gift of faith and he threw it back in God's face and went into rebellion. We may get the gift of salvation. We may get the gift of saving faith, but like Lucifer we can throw it back in God's face if we walk in rebellion. And we will then end up spending eternity in hell with Lucifer.