Paul's
warning to those with limited sight or vision.
In
my last statement I said that “mans traditions” voided the
power of the Word and the Will of God through His Word to retain
God's Redemption let a lone His Salvation programs within us. Mans Traditions
have the power to make mankind complacent and just what is meant by
complacency? It means to be self gratifying, smug in self-satisfaction
and is the poison used by the deceiver as a sweet savvy as a savory thing
within mans own being. This thing will turn to betterness and
resentment, resisitance to all things unknown, including the change
that God wants to bring about within our soul. This is especially
true once we have received the down payment, the deposit of the Holy
Spirit when we have asked for and received Redemption. For in
Redemption as stated elsewhere is where we are given the right or
power to become God's sons and children again. Wherein the Holy
Spirit begins His works of training, teaching, tutoring, mentoring and
educating us of our further need for Christ. This can be called a
love for Jesus who is the Messiah-Christ, the King of Israel, But our LORD. If we allow mans
traditions of slow or hinder His divine work by way of repeatedly
having to confess our errors of sin and more especially a sin
repeatedly focused upon we by this operation nullify the power within
us. This frustrates and grieves the Holy Spirit because it causes us
to slide backward or become stalled all together in our planed
growth. This if not dealt with sternly will cause our limb to be cut
off from the Vine into which we have been grafted. The root of “mans
traditions” is mans “religion” with all its
trappings and deceptive ways neatly disguised in packages tied with
red and purple bows and each is a poison more deadly than the last.
It is these things that Paul, John, Peter, James and Jude warn
believers to avoid at all costs. They
warn against mankind feeding his habit.
Ephesians
2:1-6
"And
you (writing to these Ephesian believers) hath he
(Christ) quickened (made alive. Same concept. As soon
as we believe this Gospel, God imparted to us that New Divine
God-child nature, known as Redemption. He gave us the regeneration of
our spirit. It’s now divine, awaiting His Salvation through this
Gospel through which we receive Eternal Life, that a few of us are
now partakers of but the rest are those) who were dead in trespasses and
sins: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this
world (everyone did) according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience. Among whom also we all (he included himself)
had our conversation (manner of living, our life style)
in times past in the lusts of our flesh (the
sweet savvy and savory things of mans traditions), fulfilling the desires
of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others (doing what comes naturally like
everybody else). But (the flip side) God
(not me, not I, but God-Christ) who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us. Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); Hath
raised us up together (the
hiden part of the Last Supper / Marriage Feast of our betrothal on
through our ascension in Christ where He), and
made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"
(see our position now as believers? Having received His Salvation)
Not
in the sweet by and by but the here and NOW! This secret has caused
much confussion and bewilderment among theologians, philosophy and theosphiers
because they all lack trust, they rationalize every thing, but trust. Which if used will become strengthen and
become in us and them faith. Faith is the foundational stone of our Salvation because it works through love.
Ephesians
2:8
"For
by grace are ye saved through faith; (plus how much? NOTHING!
There’s nothing else listed here. It’s by Grace through Faith)
and that not of yourselves; it is the (what?) gift
of God:"
Both
the Grace and Faith require what of us? Nothing it is a
Gift! How much work do you do for a gift? NONE! But, people
are having all this stuff laid on them. There is nothing in here that
says you’ve got to do such and such, except believe that Christ
Jesus has already done it. It’s finished! And we've shared
in His doing by our rightly partaking of His Last Supper, Passover
and New Covenant meal, death, resurrection and yes even His
ascension. Which also confirm our having now the power of Eternal and
Endless Life restored to us, wherein we become a Genesis 2 being again. Which is God's Righteous, Holiness and
Godliness through His Sanctification through death
(in
His Blood), burial,
resurrection and ascension. And
we can’t add to it. We're sealed by the Spirit and Blood in the
Truth and Grace by His Love, Christ Jesus. Because 1Corinthians
11(passover meal), 13(charity-love), 15:1-10(the living witness) and
Romans 10:9-11(Redemption) have been done they just confirm whats
been revealed.
Now,
back to Colossians chapter 2 verse 12. We're going to repeat
something that I said sometime ago and I’ll repeat it again and for
years to come if the Lord’s tarries. There is probably no other one
thing in all of Christendom that will cause enmity and will just make
the hair stand up on the back of people’s necks like baptism. I’ve
learned it first hand, over and over. You may disagree with somebody
on baptism and you may have had the best friend in the world, but he
is no more (because of the tradition of man). It simply puts a division between people and there’s
more arguing and more controversy over baptism and who should be
baptized and how they should be baptized and it almost gets
disconcerting. It’s not in Paul’s instruction to the Church or
Churches of this Age. It is not to be something that should be
division making.
Colossians
2:12
"Buried
with him (with Christ Jesus) in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead."
Let’s
read it again. "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead."
I
don’t know which way to start. Should I start with the Holy Spirit,
or should I start over in here. Let’s start with the Holy Spirit.
And go to 1Corinthians chapter 12 and I’ll start at verse 12. I
guess you all know this is still Paul writing to the believers at
Corinth who had a lot of carnal, earthy and worldly problems. As they
were still within our first estate for the training and teaching by
the Holy Spirit, the very station that most of what is called
“Christendom” is found in now. I've covered all that when I
taught the Corinthian letters. To get this teaching look to
“http://www.lesfeldick.org/”
for the books, about 78 in number from which this study is taken,
they're a free down load. Keeping in mind that Les does not dig
deeply into the spiritual things because he is accepted by most
church groups as a well accepted Bible teacher. So he treads softly.
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