Speaking now of Paul who came out of Judaism to become the Authority chosen by GOD to bring to Light the secrets hidden by GOD through the restoration of Spirit of Christ Jesus within him. These secrets or mysteries which GOD hide until Saul of Tarsus, were held close to GOD's chess. And only allouded to in vailed language within the context of the Law of Moses, Psalms and Prophets. Jesus after spending 40 days in the wilderness was hungry and was tempted of the devil or Satan. And used the sword of the Spirit against him when He said it was written and then proceeded to quote from Deuteronomy the spoken and then written word as a double edged sword of revelation to defeat the tempter. When He stated, "It is written" three times in Matthew 4 and repeated in Luke 4 and then referred to in Romans 15:4 and Ephesians 6:17. When Satan used the same method that he had done with woman back in the garden, when her guard was down as the weeker vessel. Weeker because it was not to her that GOD had spoken the warning NOT TO EAT, as seen in Genesis 2:7-9 but to Adam. Paul then progresses to reveal this Light throughout his many Epistles after his conversion.
Acts
26:18 states this about the people of darkness, verses those who come
into the Light wherein they are released from the influence, dominion
and power of darkness. Which religion henders through blindness (also
called a stonyheart) of unbelief in mankind. I will pick up the flow
at verse 15 where the Lord answers Paul's question of Him, “I said,
Who are You, LORD? He said, I
am Jesus Whom you are persecuting.
But rise, and stand upon
your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a
minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and
of those things in the which I will appear (give
you insight and understanding of My revelation)
to you; In
delivering you from the people, (notice
that He did not say, “My people,” but instead used a derogatory
slur, or Hebrewism of, “the
people,” signifying separation from
them)
and
from
the
Gentiles, to whom now I send you,
To
open their eyes,
to
turn
them
from
darkness (blindness
and hardheartedness of soul or spirit, those governed by a false spirit, a
familiar spirit that causes deception to rule supreme)
to light, and
from
the
power (dominion)
of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins (in
mans
Redemption),
and inheritance among them which are sanctified (the
LORD's Salvation) by faith* that is in
Me.”
*Both
Redemption and Salvation come through Christ
Jesus, and they are to be received by faith; and consequently,
neither are by the merit of works, nor by that of suffering. And more
importantly through or by the traditions and doctrines of man as
stated earlier. These are not connected to sancification but are
instead of our receiving through Love to Faith (the rule and law
of the kingdom of heaven and God) working in and through Grace
(in what is
called Salvation. Where Salvation is our being totally set-a-part
sanctified through a death of our being separated from, and are now
headed towards God's indwelling, as He was in Adam first and then His
Son, Jesus Christ and then Paul, as we are admonished to emmulate
them). The phrase “by faith that is in Me” is the
limiting factor here as it elludes to Matthew 11:29, and then John
10:14-28 and 2Corinthians 5:14-15 as the qualifier for GOD's now
indwelling of us by His Faith.
I pray that I and
indeed we can give the LORD good service through these efforts that
follow.
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