Before
I progress, what requires greater trust onto faith, our believing
what a mere man says as truth or our taking in of God's written word
inclusively? In other words what pleases God? But is it left to the
printed word or a more correct word heard from deep within us that is
spoken of? Jesus stated that man does not live by bread alone but
does live by every word spoken by GOD! Has GOD ever stopped speaking
of His revelation? NO! Because Revelation states that those with Him
in heaven cry out with praise each time they hear Him reveal more of
His greatness in Revelation of Himself. The angels all cry HOLY!
HOLY! HOLY! In Revelation 4. When we have received His Salvation is
when we to hear GOD's voice in the revelation of Christ and GOD
reentry within us and it is from this standpoint that we to will hear
what has been revealed to Paul. Paul before he reveals the contempt
God has for the immoral and ammoral man states this in verse 17 of
Romans 1, “For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as
it is written, The just (righteous,
observing divine laws further shown as, used of him whose way of
thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God,
those approved of or acceptable of God)
shall live by faith (an
inward certainty, belief respecting man’s relationship to God and
divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy
fervour born of faith and our being conjoined to God through
Christ).”
(in Habakuk 2:4, Galatians 2:16, there
is a stern warning concerning faith
in Galatians 3:11-12 and Hebrews 10:37 and then 1John 5:10-12 with
emphasis on verse 5) Jesus is identified as being the Word of God,
housed within mans flesh. And Jesus as the son of man lived out His
life of hearing the word of God within Him and did both speak and do
all that this voice revealed to Him. Then it is recorded that He
asked this question, “Who do men say that I am?” Peter by
insperation said, “You are the Son of GOD!” God's revelation to
mankind!
Here is
another revelation what is man made from? Dirt! So if a kingdom has
to have landmass to be a kingdom then just what is this landmass made
of? Dirt! In Genesis 1 we find man as a spirit being not yet in dirt
in verses 26-27, when he joins God in His rest which is the beginning
of chapter 2:1-3. Then still in chapter 2 we find God forming of clay
a body or house within which He breathed the breath of life in verses
6-7 and later we hear that life is in the blood first in Genesis 6:17
and then again in Leviticus 17:11. What did it require for God to
mold and form or shape the figure of Himself? Water, as it moistened
the earth or dirt from which man was made. Man from that every moment
was God's kingdom, a kingdom within which He dwelt as the Spirit
conjoined to mans spirit within man.
First looking at
Habakuk 2:4 we find this statement; “Behold, his soul which
is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his
faith.”
From
here Galatians 2:16, [15-21] where Paul is rehearsing his encounter
with the disciples in Jerusalem (as recorded in Acts 13) he states
this; “We who
are
Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but
by
the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified
by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the
works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But
if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are
found sinners, is
therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build
again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For
I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God. I
am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
lives in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me. I do not frustrate
the grace of God: for if righteousness come
by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”
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