Jesus Christ is the creator God and was the Visible Manifeastation of the Invisible Godhead.
During Jesus' ministry to Israel the Sadducees and then the Pharisee's tested Jesus, but the Pharisees in the passages I will look at used a lawyer to do their bidding (in Matthew 22, Mark 12 and Luke 10, that is how Paul in Romans 8:7 could state, the carnal mind is enmity toward God, when it has not set itself to obedience to love with all its being). Because they did not want to be held as being lower then their counter parts the Sadducees (These two factions were in a constand battle about the interpretation and meaning of scriptures and in the eyes of the populace the Pharisees held the greatest respect as an authority). They wanted to entrap Jesus in some kind of heresy against the Law of Moses or its many ordinances, not knowing that He was its author and the origin of all that spoke of Him and His coming, which they did NOT see. Why did they not see or understand? Because they had NO Vision as one of their prophets had already stated in Proverbs 29:18 (vision lack of understanding, they perish, are naked, uncovered and exposed) "but happy is the one who keeps the law (the teaching that one receives for life)." This lawyer asked Him what was in His opinion the greatest commandment to which Jesus replied that all the Law and the Prophets were based on this One Commandment, "Hear O'Israel the LORD your God is One (Deuteronomy 6:4-5) and that they we're to love Him with all their might and strength, and that the next is like onto it, too Love your neighbor as you love yourself." To which the lawyer had NO come back. What Israel and indeed all of the world does not do is to set our mind upon Jesus, to make Him our focus as the hub of the wheel within ta wheel or as Paul states the Head of the Church, Body and Family of God. This Paul describes in Romans 12:1-3 as being our daily duty of being a living sacrifice and our reasonable worship due God. Because this is the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 6:3-7, when it is understood as it is meant to be. This is why Paul states what is said in our next passage.
Colossians
2:16a
"Let
no man therefore judge you…"
We
had a fellow say the other day that he was getting involved with a
group that wanted to put him under the Saturday Sabbath, and the next
thing they wanted him to do was quit eating pork. To it I said can’t
you see their putting you under the Law? And we’re not under Law,
we’re under Grace. Now here it is. Don’t let anyone tell you what
you can or can not do. In Christ we are the triumphant, but to return
to the old ways is to deny Christ and that is the devils way. In
which we will loose both His Redemption and our hope of Salvation.
These are the warnings when they are heard clearly and understood. As
stated above their mindset has not been submitted to God and they are
therefore violating the Word and Law through their actions and words.
"Let
no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, (we’re
free from all of that. We’re going to let the Holy Spirit help us
decide what’s good for us and what’s not. We’re not under a set
of rules like the Law of Moses demanded, and this is what Paul is
talking about) or in respect of an holyday,…"
We’ve
got to know definitions, so what’s the definition for holy? Well it
isn’t something supernatural perfect and righteous, but rather holy
meant "set aside for God’s purposes." So these
holy days were simply days in Judaism and the Jewish economy that
were indeed set apart for God’s purposes. They
all were intended to get the Hebrew mind focused on their God and not
the meaninglessness of earthy things which preoccupied their
thinking. They had the Passover, and all the
other Feast days, but in this Age of Grace we’re not under any of
that, as they only pointed to the better thing that was to come. Hebrews
author states that the Better thing has already come in chapter 1
verse 4, after discribing Christ Jesus in the first three verses. We
don’t have days set aside for special treatment. All that was tied
up in the scroll and laid aside until the day of the Lord. For us its
the day of Christ when Jesus as Christ removes His Body before the
tribulation period. After that we will see His fulness as those Old
Testament days revealed Him. This will happen before the Marriage
Feast of the Lamb as the consummation for the betrothal feast which
is what the Passover/Last Supper is. As a feast of union and deadication of souls to God where we become spirit to Spirit again.
This we are told to rehearse when every it comes to
mind, and not in some off beat fashion, as a tradition, in a
ritualistic way. For when this is done in that fashion we make it
void and evil to our detriment in Corinthians 11. Because you see we've already
gone through the wrath and judgment of sin on the cross in Christ
Jesus. In the anointing that resides within us in 1John 2:27-29 which
reads as follows: “The anointing (inaugral
consecration) which you have received of Him
abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: As the same
anointing teachs you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and
even as He has taught you, you shall abide in Him. And
now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we
may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If
you know that He is righteous, you know that every one that does
righteousness is born (to
convert someone to His side, as God made Christ His Son, God makes us
His Sons in the same fashion) of
Him.” This again is what
Jeremiah 31:33-34 tells us God is about to do in the vision which
Jeremiah shares there as a Prophet of God. Then what I have stated
elsewhere is also seen in verses 20-21 of 1John 2 above, this states:
“You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. I
have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because
you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.” Where
does this unction have its root, in our soul/spirit and renewed mind (a mind submitted and totally committed to God), as the seat of our
opinions, emotions, intellect. When our mind has not been subjected
to loving a person place or thing we will never love as we were
created to. Our mind like Israel's will remain earthy, carnal, and
worldly caught by the desires and lusts for the things desinged to
pass away with age and using. And
through our emotions will change as the tide of the seas change with
every wind of doctrine.
What
are the things that never change? God, Blood, His Word, Light, Truth,
Grace, Love, Life and His character as seen in Christ and for us of
the circumcision our vision of Him.
From
this I can draw and state that if we keep our same perspicacity of
mind then we are unstable in all our nature to the point of being
doubleminded, filled and governed by our emotions as they at times
can be quite fickle and change with every new wave thing. This is
best seen in James chapter 1:8 and then 4:8. These passages have
these links attached to them, 1Kings 18:21, 2Kings 17:33, 41, Isaiah
29:13, Hosea 7:8-11, 10:2; Matthew 6:22, 24, 2Peter 2:14 in fact the
whole of this chapter and then 3:16 where Peter speaks of the vision
or revelation that Paul has received and publishes. We all need to allow our past to stay in our past, forget it, release it and then
move onward in the LORD.
From
here Paul moves on to holy days which fall into the deception in
their keeping of them in ritualistic fashion.
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