The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Isaiah 61:1

Spiritual Circumcision

Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 28

Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 28

#2) Jesus judged according to what He heard from the Father; Jesus judged according to the word of God.

 

John 12:47-48  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.  48  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Every one of us is going to have our judgment… our words… our doctrine… compared against HIS words.

The only way to be justified, is BY PERFECT judgment… by HIS perfect WORDS… by pure unleavened DOCTRINE.

 

Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

“Oh I don’t judge”. Well then, (A) you’re lying, and (B) you’re not going to be justified at your judgment, because don’t understand true, righteous judgment.

You have to judge men in order to overcome in YOUR judgment.

 

1 Corinthians 6:2  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? …

 

Even under the law, it was required that men judge other men.

Leviticus 19:15 … in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

 

Jesus commands us not to judge, but also He commands us to judge.

Matthew 7:1  Judge not, that ye be not judged.

John 7:24  Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

 

Paul says similar:

1 Corinthians 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

1 Corinthians 4:3-4 … I judge not mine own self.  4 …but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

 

Its not a contradiction… it’s a need to spiritually DIVIDE! Paul calls it:

Colossians 1:9  … spiritual understanding;

 

1 Corinthians 2:13-16  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him [contradictory even!]: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

If you want to NOT BE JUDGED… you need spiritual understanding, a true understanding of righteous judgment.

 

If you want to “overcome when thou art judged” (Rom 3:4), you need to judge righteous judgment.

You must have salvation doctrine – a spiritual understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ – LAID DOWN, perfectly! Like a perfect corner stone! Like a sure foundation!

Level and Plumb … Straight! And of perfect dimension!

 

Isaiah 28:17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: …

Righteous Judgment! The DOCTRINE of Jesus Christ!

That is that we ought to lay down, if we are to truly lay down “our lives” (Christ – Col 3:4) for the brethren.

If a man did not lay down his life for you… lay down righteous judgment for you… as a foundation, then you could not have been saved!

You might say, “how do you make that conclusion from Isaiah 28:17?  How do you know its applicable to ‘laying down our lives for the brethren’, how do you know it’s applicable to laying down Jesus Christ?”

Well, because the verse right before it is this…

Isaiah 28:16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

This is how God is going to build His house. He is going to lay down Jesus Christ, the corner stone, and then He is going to lay down, and measure every stone (every man and every man’s judgment) against Christ. And He will either accept that stone, and build that stone in, or reject that stone, and cast that stone away.

 

Jesus CHRIST must be LAID DOWN so that men can fall upon Him and become the same type of stone!

1 Peter 2:4-5 … a living stone … Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house,…

Proverbs 10:25… the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

We lay down our lives, SPIRITUALLY, so that men can be built into the house; the body of Jesus Christ.

 

We do this by LAYING DOWN a foundation of DOCTRINE, such that men can REPENT, and be saved BY FAITH! (Rom 10:8-13)

Hebrews 6:1  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

If a Christian is not LAYING DOWN “the foundation of repentance FROM DEAD WORKS”, then he is not laying down his life for the brethren.

Salvation doctrine must be “LAID DOWN” perfectly, so that men can obtain the ETERNAL LIFE of Jesus Christ. We “lay down” DOCTRINE as a foundation, by preaching the gospel!

 

1 Corinthians 3:10-11 According to the grace of God … I have laid the foundation, …  which is Jesus Christ.

When a Christian preaches the gospel of grace, he is “laying down” his life, as a foundation.

The correct response for the lost hearer, is to enter into that PLACE of repentance, and DIE with Christ, to obtain HIS LIFE.

 

How?? By the word!

By repenting from works, and believing, and confessing… THE WORD!

THE WORD, is the stone, is the foundation!

1 Peter 2:4-9  To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,  5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.  6  Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7  Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, …  8 … a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word… being disobedient: …

That is the stone, the meat, the water, the doctrine, the judgment and righteousness, THE LIFE that we Christians “lay down” for the brethren, as a sure foundation… we “lay down”, THE WORD!

 

And “the word” is laid down.. BY THE GOSPEL!

1 Peter 1:22-25 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:  23 Being born again, … by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  24 For all flesh is as grass … 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

 

We lay down our life, for the brethren, by laying down THE WORD.

The gospel, “the word” … is OUR LIFE!

Deuteronomy 32:46-47  And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.  47  For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

 

The word is our life. Preaching “the word… by the gospel”, is laying down “your life”!

So, we OUGHT TO lay down pure salvation doctrine for the brethren!

 

1 John 3:16 … we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

 

For Christians, we “lay down our lives” when we preach the gospel of grace out of our mouths.

For the lost, I believe there is a way in which they lay down “their life”, when they REPENT of their works, BELIEVE the gospel of grace, and CONFESS it unto salvation.

That is them LAYING DOWN the same foundation.

 

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. …  17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?  18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Loving… Giving… “in deed and in truth”, must be done by giving SPIRITUAL things that feed souls!

When someone lays down his life (his spiritual life, Jesus Christ) by preaching the gospel so that the SOULS of others are fed, are clothed, are SAVED… this is how we PERCEIVE the love of God.

 

Preaching the gospel of grace is TRUE, Unfeigned Love of the Brethren!

 

But loving other in the flesh, even sacrificing your fleshly life… is not true love, and it is not proof of the love of God in a person. Why? Because sinners love others that same way!

Luke 6:32-35 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.  33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.  34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.  35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Sinners love with the same love that Christians do, in the flesh! Are THEY ALL children of the Highest, with a heavenly reward awaiting them? Of course not…

If a sinner is already capable of the true, unfeigned love that Christian is… then there is no need to be “purified unto unfeigned love”.

So, fleshly good works CANNOT be TRUE LOVE of the brethren. No matter the “motivation”.

 

You just have to love your enemies one time, and then you become a son of God.

Well… Can’t sinners love their enemies?? Physically, yes! But spiritually, no!

 

The true enemy of a lost person is a saved person. And vice versa!

Romans 5:8-10  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  …  10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

A sinner loving another sinner, by doing fleshly good works, is NOT a man loving his enemy.

And a Christian loving another man in this world, by doing fleshly good works, is NOT him loving his ENEMY!

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Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 22

Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 22

Christians love Christians in how they JUDGE.

Philippians 1:9  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

2 Corinthians 5:14  For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Judging with TRUE and RIGHTEOUS judgment… is TRUE LOVE! One vs. ALL.

Judging the world as dead and unclean, but those IN THE FAITH, as living and pure… not based on fleshly WORKS, but based on FAITH (Heb 11:1 – “faith… is the evidence”)… this judgment IS “the love of Christ”.

To love is to receive. But to hate is to reject.

Hebrews 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

So to receive the brethren, is to love the brethren. And to love the brethren, is to love Christ.

Matthew 10:40  He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.  …

That is how a person first loves the brethren. They receive their WORDS!

They receive the gospel from the mouth of a preacher!

In so doing, they love the brethren, and they love God… AT THE SAME TIME! In the SAME ACTION!

Luke 9:48  And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me:…

To receive a child of God PREACHING the gospel (not PHYSICALLY), is to receive Jesus Christ.

John 15:18-20 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.  20  Remember the word that I said unto you, … if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

To LOVE the brethren is not to love anyone physically IN THIS WORLD!

To LOVE the brethren, you have to love someone who is OUT OF THE WORLD!

To LOVE the brethren is to believe their words! And to HATE the brethren is to reject their words!

Luke 10:16  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

To become a Christian – to get saved – you have to love the brethren. Not in multiple actions. Not in your daily life. Not over and over. Just once!

To love the brethren is to receive their preaching and to get saved by it.

Notice another proof of this:

Matthew 10:40-42 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.  41 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.  42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

This cup of cold water is the gospel (Pro 25:25, Jer 18:14), and is the Holy Spirit (Isa 52:7, Rom 10:15-16, Pro 15:30,25:25, John 4:14).

When I give the gospel to someone, I’m giving LIVING water and good fruit to them.

This is the true good work, the spiritual good work, for which I CANNOT lose my reward.

But not just me! Also the hearer, the receiver, HE also obtains an eternal reward, by receiving it, and confessing it.

Mark 9:41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.

When they receive my words and get saved (i.e., believe and confess), they produce the same living water and good fruit back to ME, who sowed it in them.

They brought forth fruit to God, and fruit to ME, and gave to ME, a cup of cold water, just like I gave to them.

It is an exchanging of the love of God, and of the love of the brethren.

He receives me, and I receive him.

I love him with the truth by preaching it, and he loves me by believing and confessing it.

I give him the love of God, and he gives me back the love of God.

You CANNOT get saved WITHOUT loving the brethren.

They say “faith without works is dead”… “a true faith works”.

Well yes. But that is all accomplished and sealed IN CHRIST… at the moment of salvation!

Galatians 5:6  For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Putting people IN CHRIST… that is TRUE FAITH working by TRUE LOVE.

When a person receives the brethren preaching the gospel, true faith works them, IN CHRIST (1Pe 2:5), by true love.

Faith works… faith saves… by true unfeigned love, IN JESUS CHRIST.

Not in our fleshly lives! NOT by the worldly love of men’s sinful flesh! Not in sinners loving sinners.

In one action, at one time, you either love the brethren, and love Jesus, or you hate the brethren, and you hate Jesus.

All by whether you HEAR and RETAIN… the WORDS of the brethren!

  1. At salvation a man receives the love of God in him.

1 John 2:5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: …

“The love of God” is not JUST a action that you must perform (i.e., to love God).

It is ALSO a substance that you must receive and KEEP.

Romans 5:5  … because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

John 5:38-43 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.  … 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.  43 I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: …

The love of God must be received IN YOU, by receiving, by BELIEVING His word, IN YOU.

This is what it truly means to love God, in spirit and in truth: to KEEP (i.e., to receive and believe) His words. If you have the word of God abiding in you, then you have the love of God abiding in you.

And it is the same thing with the love of the brethren…

  1. At salvation a man receives the love of the brethren in him.

1 John 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

How do you love God? You KEEP His words! (Joh 14:21)

Well it’s the same with the brethren. You KEEP their sayings.

John 15:18-20 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  …20… if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

That is loving the brethren just like it is loving Christ.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

True love is a PLACE that we must abide in.

The place is IN CHRIST. The place is “in His love”.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

You cannot love God, and NOT love the brethren.

You cannot be saved and NOT love the brethren.

1 John 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

You can’t love God unless you (seemingly first) love the brethren, and you can’t love the brethren unless you (seemingly first) love God.

One cannot come without the other. One cannot really even come AFTER the other.

These actions MUST happen at the same time. These substances (the love of God, the unfeigned love of the brethren) must be put in you AT THE SAME TIME: at salvation.

1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

“Grace… was… with… love… in Christ Jesus”!

These substances are both put in a man (not in his flesh, on Earth, but in his spirit, in Christ) when he is saved:

2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2 John 1:1  The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

ALL THEY who have KNOWN the truth, and RECEIVED the truth, and are IN THE TRUTH… love all others that are also IN THE TRUTH.

 

  1. The love of God is in Christ.

Romans 8:39  … the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 1:14 … with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

The true love of God, that every Christian has, is not in US – that is, in our flesh. It is IN CHRIST.

Philemon 1:6  … every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

True love is not present or possible on the Earth. True love is only present and possible IN CHRIST.

  1. A saved person loves the brethren, in Christ.

1 Corinthians 16:24  My love be with you all in Christ Jesus…

3 John 1:1  The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

2 John 1:1  The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

This is where the true love of the brethren is. Not on Earth. Not in my flesh. But IN CHRIST.

  1. A saved person loves when he speaks, to wins souls.

Isaiah 38:17  Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

True love, the love that God had towards ALL the world… is DELIVERING SOULS!

Proverbs 14:25  A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

You need to PREACH the gospel! (Rom 10:14-15, 1Co 1:21)

Deuteronomy 10:18  He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

A Christian loves lost people, in truth, by GIVING them spiritual food and drink. That is… by giving them the gospel.

John 15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 21

Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 21

  1. To love God is to KEEP His commandments.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: …

Spiritually, to love God is to KEEP His Commandments.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

  1. We must KEEP God’s commandments to get saved.

1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

If you don’t keep His commandments, then He is not abiding in you, and you are not abiding IN CHRIST.

John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

If you don’t keep His commandments, then you are not abiding in His love.

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.

“You don’t know my God”.

To keep is not “to do”. (Even if it were, you still don’t DO his commandments, at all times).

What does it mean to “KEEP” His commandments?

  1. To KEEP is to retain (i.e., to hold, to guard, to preserve).

To KEEP His commandments is actually not to DO anything with your flesh.

“Doing” and “keeping” are different things!

Leviticus 22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

You can’t DO His commandments, unless you first learn them, and KEEP them.

Joshua 23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

Here are the first 4 instances of “keep” in the Bible:

Genesis 2:15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 3:24  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 6:19-20 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.  20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

To keep is not to obey, or to do…

To “keep” means to preserve, to guard, to protect, to hold, or to retain.

1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Christians keep, and do.  But we must FIRST KEEP, so that THEN… we can DO.

Deuteronomy 7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Psalms 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Doing and keeping are different actions. You have to first KEEP, so that you CAN… THEN… DO.

So a man must KEEP (i.e., retain, preserve) His commandments.

Well… what are His commandments?

  1. God’s Commandments are His words.

Proverbs 2:1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 13:13  Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

1 John 2:7  Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

You KEEP His commandments by RETAINING and believing His words, in your heart.

  1. To KEEP His commandments is to RETAIN His WORDS.

Proverbs 4:4  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

You need to PRESERVE His WORDS, PERFECTLY. That is KEEPING His COMMANDMENTS.

John 14:21-24  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.  22  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?  23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.  24  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

You don’t have to do fleshly good works to love God. And you definitely don’t have to do them continually over the course of a good Christian life in this world.

“Keeping Jesus’ commandments” isn’t about obeying a set of rules, or living your life, as best you can, by a code of conduct. “Keeping Jesus’ commandments” isn’t about the way you live your life.

“Keeping Jesus’ commandments” is about RECEIVING and BELIEVING HIS WORDS!

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; [you have to go in!] 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed [kept it] in vain.

“In vain” means without fruit, or without profit. (Ecc 2:11, Jer 16:19, Lev 26:16,20, Isa 49:4)

If you don’t believe the gospel and call upon God, you produce no fruit, you receive no fruit. (Heb 4:2, 2Co 6:1, Ps 14:4, Joh 12:42)

But it isn’t just NOT believing and confessing it… It is also having the wrong things (Gal 5:9, Mar 7:20,12:17, Mat 7:15-16, Hos 9:16) … believing lies! (Hos 10:13, Jer 16:19)

I only see one clear instance of keeping something in vain. (1 Sam 25:21) David keeping Nabal’s STUFF for him (a “son of Belial”).

2 Sam 23:6 says the sons of Belial are THORNS!

“Keeping Jesus’ commandments” isn’t about how much more obedient you are than other sinners. It isn’t about how you live, or anything you do in your life.

“Keeping Jesus’ commandments” is about whether you BELIEVE THE TRUTH unto salvation.

  1. A person loves God when he believes the gospel unto salvation.

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1 John 2:3-5  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.  4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

John 5:38-44  And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.  39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.  40  And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.  41  I receive not honour from men.  42  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.  43  I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.  44  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Hear His word, and KEEP IT, by BELIEVING it. This, is what puts the love of God (eternal life) IN YOU.

A Christian loves God, unto perfection, and is GIVEN the love of God IN HIM, unto perfection… when he BELIEVES the truth. That is when a man first loves God in truth; in unfeigned love!

Likewise, loving THE BRETHREN, is done at the same time, in the same action: in believing the truth.

  1. A person loves the brethren when he believes the gospel unto salvation.

1 John 5:1-4  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.  2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.  3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: …

We love the brethren, at the same time we love God: WHEN we KEEP His words – when we get saved.

John equates loving God with BELIEVING  – believing His record (v10-12). The same is true of the love of the brethren: we love the brethren when we believe their RECORD – when we KEEP their WORDS.

We love the brethren when we receive their WORDS!

We love the brethren by RECEIVING their preaching.

John 15:17-23  These things I command you, that ye love one another.  18  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.  19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.  20  … if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. … 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.  23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

To love Jesus was to receive and believe (to “keep”) His words.

To hate Jesus was to reject His words.

Receiving the preaching of Christians is not only loving God, but loving THE BRETHREN.

Rejecting the preaching of Christians is not only hating God, but hating THE BRETHREN.

One cannot truly love Jesus, unless they FIRST love the brethren, by RECEIVING THE WORDS that the brethren preach.

You must receive the words of a saved preacher to get saved yourself. Even if it is just an Apostle.

So… a person who has believed the gospel, has ALREADY loved the brethren.

AND not only, HAS LOVED (past tense), but loves (present tense).

Titus 3:15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. …

We love our brethren IN THE FAITH. Christians love Christians in what they BELIEVE.

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Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 18

Hebrews 6 & 10 – The Impossibility of Salvation – Part 18

 

In the past, I’ve struggled with this next passage in Colossians 2.

But dividing flesh from spirit, fleshly good things from true spiritual good things, has REALLY opened it up for me. And WOW… This passage is awesome!

Colossians 2:16-23  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: [which were all requirements under the law!] 17  Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.  18  Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels [What does that mean? Like… people trying to trick you into worshipping angels?!? That’s kind of what it sounds like at first, but that just doesn’t make any sense. No, it isn’t about anyone worshipping angels. Your reward is IN a worshipping of angels. Worshipping THE WAY that the angels worship! This passage is warning you, to not let any man trick you into trying to serve God, IN THE FLESH, thinking that that is what you will be rewarded for, instead of worshipping God in truth, IN THE SPIRIT, the same way the angels do: by ministering (giving food) to Him and His people SPIRITUALLY.], intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, [Men think they will be rewarded spiritually, for their FLESHLY service. But he has no idea what REAL Christian worship is. They’ve never even seen it! This lost man has no business telling Christians how to serve God. He intrudes into spiritual things, and beguiles Christians, who CAN and SHOULD serve God spiritually, into trying to serve God in FLESHLY things. Things in which there is NO REWARD!] 19  And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. [Ministering spiritual food to the body of Christ. Get people saved and teach them how to save others. That is true ministering, the same way the angels worship.] 20  Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,  21  (Touch not; taste not; handle not;  [do fleshly good works, abstain from fleshly sin]  22  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? [recall back to v16: ALL fleshly good things are SHADOWS of true good things]  23  Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

What does that mean? It means… fleshly good works and fleshly good lusts, are just a SHOW.

When you attempt to serve God, in the flesh… Abstaining from sin and loving others. Giving out clean water, food, clothing, and medicine. Even offering sheep, and goats, and bulls, under the law…

IT LOOKS like you are truly worshipping God, it LOOKS like you are truly humble. It LOOKS like you are neglecting the body. It LOOKS like you are not satisfying the flesh.

But it’s a SHOW!!! It is NOT TRUE worship.

If what you are doing is not resulting in SOULS BEING WON… getting wisdom and giving wisdom, then you are WASTING your time, and wasting your ABILITY to serve God IN TRUTH. All you are doing, is LOSING your REWARDS. You’ve been beguiled out of your rewards.

Acts 17:24-25 God that made the world … dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, …

Your flesh can only do a figure of the true… it can only do a SHOW of true worship.

Colossians 2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of … neglecting of the body;

It LOOKS like you are NEGLECTING THE BODY. That is how it appears IN THE WORLD.

But truthfully, spiritually, you are not neglecting the flesh. You’re serving the flesh!

Colossians 2:23 … a shew of … not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

Your fleshly good works are just a VAIN SHOW of not honoring the satisfying of the flesh.

You are not truly, NOT honoring the satisfying of the flesh. You’re satisfying the flesh!

It LOOKS like you are neglecting the flesh, because you are trying to neglect SOME of your fleshly lusts and desires. The ones you KNOW are evil. But you’re actually still just satisfying the flesh.

Sometimes you satisfy your flesh when you sin, and sometimes you satisfy your flesh when you don’t sin.

Sometimes an alcoholic satisfies his flesh when he drinks.

But when he cleans up his life, and gets sober, that is ALSO satisfying his flesh.

He feels better about himself when he doesn’t drink. His body is healthier. His life is better. His relationships are better. He gets recognition and praise. His flesh is getting satisfied!

Your flesh can lust for both good things AND bad things!

Sometimes you satisfy your flesh when you sin, and sometimes you satisfy your flesh when you do good.

Just think about bodily exercise…

Sometimes you desire to skip your exercise and just eat junk food on the couch. And that satisfies your flesh.

Sometimes you desire to exercise and eat healthy foods. That also satisfies your flesh.

Sometimes you desire to eat junk food. Sometimes you desire to eat healthy food.

Sometimes your flesh wants to be good, and sometimes it wants to be evil.

But either one you choose… it SATISFIES your flesh.

It might be short term satisfaction (like enjoying junk food) or long-term satisfaction (like enjoying being fit and healthy) … It might be short term satisfaction (like committing adultery and ruining your marriage) or long-term satisfaction (like not committing adultery so you can protect your marriage and your children) … but either one is satisfying the flesh.

Whether you desire the good, or desire the bad… whether you choose the good, or choose the bad… it is to satisfy the FLESH.

Whether you work an honest job to put food on the table, or you commit armed robbery to put food on the table… you do it to satisfy your flesh.

That is all that our flesh can do… satisfy flesh!

All the works that are in THIS world, whether evil OR good, are to satisfy THE FLESH.

Now, the accusation I EXPECT to get back is, “well that is just saying that everything that anyone ever does is selfish, and that is called psychological egoism and I don’t believe in that! I believe I can do good for others and it isn’t a selfish act.”

Google tells me “psychological egoism is a philosophical concept that suggests that all human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest, even when they appear altruistic; essentially, claiming that even when helping others, people are doing so because it benefits them in some way, whether emotionally or socially.”

But that isn’t really what I’m teaching.

I’m not saying that “the satisfying of the flesh” is ONLY satisfying YOUR flesh.

Colossians 2:23 doesn’t say, “the satisfying of YOUR flesh”.

It says, “the satisfying of THE flesh”

OTHER people’s flesh is included. ALL FLESH is included.

To do fleshly good works, in this world, is satisfy FLESH.

Sometimes yours, sometimes OTHER MEN’S.

So truthfully, in doing good to others, at the expense of yourself… you are not neglecting “the flesh”… you are still satisfying “the flesh”, because you are serving the needs of THE FLESH.

It doesn’t matter if it is selfless. It matters that it is FLESHLESS.

Feeding flesh, saving flesh, healing flesh, honoring flesh… receiving honour of men, IN THE FLESH.

Even to sacrifice yourself to save others… It satisfies FLESH. You saved FLESH. You didn’t save anyone’s spirit.

And men honour you and praise you and memorialize you… because you satisfied FLESH.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

The common way this is taught… is that the fleshly part of a Christian really only desires to sin in this world, while the Holy Spirit in him only desires to do good in this world.

So the way the world teaches it is… Imagine you’re walking by a homeless man with a group of your friends. Your flesh wants you to… look away. Maybe, to laugh at him, spit on him. Maybe even kick him! But the Spirit in you wants to stop, and kneel down, and speak kindly to him. Maybe give him your money. Some food or clothes! (Maybe give him your job, or your house?)

So (again, they teach) if you’re REALLY a Christian, you’ll have those conflicting desires.

And then you will have to CHOOSE to do either what your flesh wants, or what the Spirit wants. But, if you are NOT REALLY a Christian, you really won’t have that push, that pull, that desire to do the good things.

But there are a number of problems with that (FALSE) interpretation:

  1. Its not binary. It doesn’t say “ye cannot consistently do”. It says “ye CANNOT do” the things that ye would. So how can you ever do ANYTHING? … Who is “ye”? … It makes no sense unless you completely divide the THINGS of the flesh and the Spirit.
  2. Unbelievers have those same conflicting thoughts. So is that the Holy Spirit in them too? Or maybe… is it just the lusts of the flesh?
  3. It assumes that the Spirit is lusting to satisfy flesh. That the Holy Spirit is lusting for, is hungry for, EARTHLY (good) THINGS!

Plant an apple tree in your backyard and offer its fruit to the Holy Spirit. Will it satisfy His lust?

Bake a loaf of bread and offer it to the Spirit. Will it fill him? No.

Then why would you think that any other EARTHLY things (works/fruits) can satisfy the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit in a Christian, is not lusting after things which can satisfy the flesh.

Romans 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.

The things of the Spirit, are not the things of the flesh! They lust after different things!

1 Corinthians 2:13-14 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

It doesn’t say, “neither can he do them consistently”.

The things that satisfy the Spirit, are SPIRITUAL THINGS.

These spiritual things are:

  • Words (i.e. fruit)
  • Souls/Children (i.e. fruit)

The Spirit of God desires WISDOM! That is… people getting WISDOM, and people giving wisdom.

Galatians 5:17  … and these are contrary the one to the other: …

Here is the only other instance of “are contrary” in the Bible.

1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:  16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

How are they “contrary to all men”, if they aren’t killing and persecuting all men??

And the phrase “are contrary” is our link back to Galatians 5:17.

This is the real battle of the lusts of the flesh against the lusts of the Spirit.

Not in whether a man chooses to commit a sin, or chooses to do a “good work”.

And not in whether men generally love or hate other men in the FLESH.

It is in the doctrine of salvation! It is in getting people saved!

The battle is that the flesh wants to satisfy men’s flesh, while the Spirit desired to save men’s souls.

That is what the Holy Spirit lusts after: SOULS.

The Holy Spirit wants you to GET SAVED, and wants to use you to save others… by WORDS.

The Holy Spirit does not lust after WORLDLY things.

The Holy Spirit is not inside Christians, desiring for them to do worldly good works.

You can sell all your money and give away all your things to feed the poor in this world, and all it does… is satisfy FLESH. You didn’t satisfy the Spirit.

In choosing not to gamble and drink and fornicate, you are NOT TRULY honoring the neglecting of FLESH.

In choosing to give away your own food, to feed others who don’t have any food, you are NOT TRULY honoring the neglecting of THE FLESH, in favor of the satisfying THE SPIRIT.

You’re not honoring only the satisfying of the Spirit. It just LOOKS like you are, to men.

Fleshly good works are… “a shew of … neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.”

I believe all fleshly works, are evil. All fleshly good works are SIN to God.

John 7:7  The world … I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

But men don’t even CONSIDER the possibility that their works and their sacrifices, are evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:1  Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Sit and listen, because men speaking, men bringing forth what is in their hearts, is sin.

Psalms 14:3  … there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: …

You cannot produce good fruit. You can’t give anything good to God out of your flesh.

You only produce evil fruit. You are no different, and no better, than anyone who lived before Christ.

Your sacrifice is foolishness and evil. It doesn’t even matter that you offer it SINCERELY.

Proverbs 21:27  The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Men think they are offering a clean thing. “I give my life to you, Lord”.

But if a sacrifice is not PERFECT, then it is evil. Leviticus 22:19-21. Malachi 1:8,14.

Man’s motivation isn’t the problem. Man’s NATURE is the problem. His flesh is the problem. There are no true good things in our flesh.

That’s why we need to repent of fleshly things (works, life, fruits, knowledge, etc.), and depart out of our flesh.

You need to REPENT of ALL your fleshly works: good and bad – they’re all sinful!

But the false brethren see it the exact opposite!

Proverbs 13:19  The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

“How dare you tell me my good works are sinful!

How dare you tell me to stop trying to do good works!

How dare you tell me to repent of doing good works!

I don’t do evil works, I do good works, and I’ll NEVER stop doing good works!”

Proverbs 14:16  A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

They will not “depart from evil” entirely… they will not get rid of all their evil works entirely.

They will repent of what they KNOW is evil. Cussing, Smoking, Drinking, Lying, Stealing, Gambling, Murder, Rape, Adultery, Fornication… those they will repent of… those they will depart from.

But they won’t depart from their “good works”. Why would they? They see too much VALUE in their fleshly works!

Proverbs 13:19  … it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Because of the deceitfulness of sin, men THINK their good works are clean, and good, and right to God.

In their own eyes, they’re doing RIGHT.

Proverbs 21:2  Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Proverbs 12:15  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Man’s fleshly good works, are all sinful!

Surely, someone will accuse me of this:

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

I know at first, it sounds like that is exactly what I am doing.

But, I hope you’re starting to see, that in truth, it’s the complete opposite!!!

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Intro to Spiritual Anatomy

 

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The Keepers of the Law – Part 21

 

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So, I promised you a picture…

The TEMPLES of SOLOMON and HEROD…

Outer Court.

Inner Court.

Holy Place.

Holiest Place.

Did God dwell in the Temple? Yes. Did God dwell anywhere BUT the Holiest Place? NO!

But, the Holiest Place was IN the Temple. But it was also completely separate!

2Chronicles 5:14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God. 

Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 

This is WHERE God met with His children. In His Temple. Their Temple.

And THIS is where God meets with His Children NOW. This is a MODEL of how He meets with them.

Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; 4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. 7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: 

He met with them THERE. He SPOKE with them there. In the HOLIEST PLACE!!

Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,

that the way into the holiest of all

was not yet made manifest,

while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 

This is STILL true…

2Peter 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

Out body houses The Holy Ghost – BUT ONLY IN THE SPIRIT.

Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

The standing (dead) tabernacle (body/flesh/bones) was like the outer court – any sinful human could go in there.

But, God is ONLY in the HOLIEST OF ALL – which is IN THE TEMPLE!!! (or tabernacle or body).

BUT, is a completely separate and holy compartment – not violated by the sinful flesh.

God didn’t go through the outer court and the inner court, etc. to get to the Holiest place. He had His own way in!!!!

It is a picture of our saved temple today.

That’s how Jesus is IN US, IN OUR BODIES, BUT ONLY IN THE SPIRIT!!!!!

Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Ezekiel 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: ..13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

 

1Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

 

2Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. (spiritual heart)

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

A DEAD BODY is a Big Deal!

Leviticus 21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Numbers 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.

A DEAD BODY is UNCLEAN and CANNOT participate in the Passover…

Numbers 9:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. 5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: 7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 

You CANNOT TOUCH a DEAD BODY. It makes you UNCLEAN. It DEFILES THE TABERNACLE (or TEMPLE of The

Lord)

Numbers 19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Nothing UNCLEAN can enter the Temple/Tabernacle of The Lord. It DEFILES IT – makes it unclean!!!

The Lord CANNOT touch something unclean. He is HOLY. Being CLEAN is being HOLY.

Leviticus 10:10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean

Ezekiel 44 is Millennial

Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

One is either HOLY or UNHOLY. No in-between. One is either CLEAN of UNCLEAN. No in-between.

Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Leviticus 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. 

We MUST be HOLY and CLEAN for The Lord to use us as His Temple!!!

1Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

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