TRUTH AND TRUTH ALONE
MAKES YOU FREE
Brother James, OIC
Rom 7:3-8 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead (in sin apart from Faith in Christ), she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ (Anointing); that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law (Ten Commandments), did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit (Jesus stated “My words are spirit and they are life“), and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
As a Father I remember telling my children don’t touch that or it will burn you. Minutes later I would hear a yelp from the child. My command became an unbearable curiosity and he had to find out for himself. Did he ever touch anything hot again probably if only by circumstance. The Law of Sin and Death were the warnings that later would explain spiritual things to the minds of a True Believer. But many do not want to know the Spiritual Truth that makes them free, they have an identity problem never identifying themselves with the New Creation who they are becoming day to day but still struggling in their flesh to get it right. But I am here to tell you there is no getting it right in the flesh.
Rom 7:9-20 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Friends this is a prime example of the struggle between the Knowledge of Good and The Knowledge of Evil both a fallen state in which sin dwells. That is why cursings and blessings in Deuteronomy only deal with the natural and not the spiritual but in Christ a New Creation births forth that has been brought back into relationship with God the Father. My Living Hope of this in Christ is in my rightly dividing the Truth of Gods Word in order to know and understand as God the Father and my Lord Jesus knows:
2Pe 1:1-4 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace (Greek: Charis Unmerited Favor) and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full and complete knowledge) of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power(Christ: GODS ANOINTING IN YOU) hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (which is only revived by the Law.
Without question God meets each one of those He called where they are in life. And He expects each to grow in Him according to the measure of Faith He gives them which increases by the Hearing of Truth. Jesus thus having distributed to each of us talents knows our faith capabilities and the expectations God the Father has on each of us. And He expects each of us to multiply our spiritual talents. This can never be accomplished in the flesh nor through the law which wars in my flesh. We need Gods Grace and it is multiplied to us through our growing into the full and complete knowledge of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph 2:4-10 But God, 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;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Not everything written in Gods Word is Truth for you, but New Testament Truth which is according to Grace is what makes you free.
Joh 8:31-32 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
