Are Christians in Trouble Spiritually?

There are some on here who say you need to eat this or eat that!... My first 50 years I was an Old School Baptist. I can tell you that Old School Baptist love to eat... Some would be checking their watch during Sunday Service if the preacher was long winded. The congregation was getting hungry and couldn't wait to get to the table and fill their plate on the various goodie the sisters brought. My first wife was a carnivore and I was one too... So were the rest of the Old Baptist I grew up with... I say this to bring up my second marriage after my first passed away... I married another Christian lady but discovered before I married her she was a Vegetarian... She loved her diary products... Thank God she wasn't Vegan... I've been a vegetarian over 14 years... I am in pretty good health being 71... So being vegetarian changed my lifestyle and I learned to appreciate fake meat... I get razzed by others on here come Thanksgiving and Christmas and it is all in good fun... I don't usually come here I hang my hat in the C/A Forum but this seem to be an interesting subject... I leave this thought relating to the Opening Post... The only reason I can see that any Christian can get into any trouble Spiritually is because they forget the fruits of the Spirit when talking to each other... Brother Glen

 

So the unclean animals represented Gentiles, but when gentiles were grafted in and declared clean, you still hold on to the shadow. So why not keep sacrificing goats?

 

So,
no temple = no sacrifices

no sacrifices = no law

no law = no covenant

no covenant = now fellowship

no temple = no fellowship

But "we are the temple of God"

We are Under a new covenant, to the which we live under the Law of Christ, The Law of Love----->The Spirit of the Law.

We have a new Mediator--Christ

We have a High Priest--Christ

We have sacrifices of Praise

We have incense of Prayers

We are the Temple of God--->individually and corporately

God fills us with His Glory through His Spirit, the Same Spirit who has Sealed us until the Day of Redemption.

The Letter Kills, but the Spirit Gives Life.

1 Timothy 1
5 But the goal of our [e]instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 6 For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, 7 wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 10 [f]and [g]immoral men [h]and homosexuals [i]and kidnappers [j]and liars [k]and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

 

We follow the Word of God--->Jesus---->Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
Law = restriction
Love = Liberty

Liberty to do as Christ did--->Love God, Love others

Galatians 5:22-23

P.s. Sin is the transgression of the law--->If we are loving God and Loving Neighbor do we need the law?

 

Let me help you

if you only love your wife, the way that Christ loves the Church, you WILL NOT defile the marriage bed.

If you Love your neighbor, not only will you Not steal from him, you will GIVE To him (Love goes farther than just a list of "don't's")

If you love God you will GLORIFY His name ("not defaming" it falls short in "action")

If you love God, you'll keep EVERY DAY HOLY.

So you see, Love (yes as an action AND affection) actually Goes farther than the Law goes.

 

You mean you do not keep every day Holy to God? Are you serving satan the other 6 days? yourself? Whom do you worship if you are not keeping every day Holy to the Lord?

Truth (Jesus)

 

I don't really have the time like I did in the past to refute every comment added by the OP. However, I will state that the OP appears to be leaning towards that line of Judaism with the constant reference to the LAW and the TORAH. Judaism 101.
Jesus had ONLY 2 commandments on which hung all the LAW and the PROPHETS.
Get your head out of JUDAISM.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

 

Mark 7:18-20. 'So He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his heart but his stomach and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?" And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts, adulteries.........etc."'

Read Acts 10:9-16 again. Peter was commanded to eat the creatures in the sheet. It is true that this lesson was then applied to the Gentiles, but it applied to the food directly. 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs' (Genesis 9:3). Clean animals for sacrifice were already given (Genesis 8:20 etc.), but all animals were given to us for food. It is only in the Old (Mosaic) Covenant that there were restrictions. That covenant has now passed away and for the past 2,000 years we can once more eat what we like, giving thanks to God who graciously provides it for us.

 

Some people would say, I demonstrate my faith in Him by obedience to Him Whom He has sent - by not being made afraid by those who would twist the word in order to shake off the yoke of the law...

Others might say, God demonstrated his love for me by obedience to Him Who has sent Him - by not having been made afraid by those who would crucify and kill Him the Word of God, in order to re-establish lawlessness and shake off the yoke of obedience to the Law.

 

Are you a Christian? Do you claim to be a Christian?

What if there were 'some-where' <<He places His name>>?

 

Very, VERY good statement of real, Christian faith! God bless

 

<You> may think that <you>, <keep> a day, <<Holy to God>>. You are simply arrogant.

<You> may think that <you>, <keep every day> --or is it just <<the other 6 days>> I beg your pardon, <<Holy to God>>, or, that you are <<keeping every day Holy to the Lord>>. You simply are extremely arrogant. It's all you're really, saying, and all, you really, are.

God only sanctifies days or anything else holy TO HIM! And God does it "in sundry ways", like "in times past having spoken through the prophets", and, "in these last days having spoken by the Son".
But most strongly and veritably unambiguously God sanctified or hallowed or set apart "the day The Seventh Day", through ACT OF WORD OF DEED: "THUS"---by having "RESTED the Seventh Day WHEREFORE THEREFORE the day The Seventh Day is SABBATH of the LORD GOD" and not for no man to honour or dishonour or desecrate or sanctify or defame or consecrate. Because that is God's prerogative and not the prerogative of arrogant mortals. HOW MODERN OR ANCIENT!

 

The impression rather is, that Sabbatharian hypocrites serve satan the one day holy to God, most.

One should experience it first hand, to realise.

 

Jason,

John 16:9 reads, "Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me." These are Jesus' words regarding the Holy Spirit - "He will convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgement..." (v.8)

Concerning your statement about walking in newness of life, you are again twisting the scripture. What, may I ask, is 'good news' about having to keep laws? "Hey, everybody! Listen to this good news! Jesus died to put you under a yoke of rules and ordinances! Come and strive to be found worthy!" lol. Don't be daft. Christ died in order to take away the sin of the world.

'It was for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free. Stand firm therefore and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.' (Gal 5:1)

'This I want to hear from you, did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?' (Gal 3:2)

'Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?' (Gal 3:3)

'Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.' (Gal 5:4)

'I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ died in vain.' (Gal 2:21)

The law demonstrates that we cannot fulfil it, hence the scripture locks everyone up under sin, that those who believe on the promise by faith in Christ, will be saved, not those who (call God a liar in their feeble) attempt to uphold the law.

Jason, do you not realise that you are currently one of the wicked, simply because you attempt to keep the law? You are one of those who call God a liar regarding the salvation of Christ and His fulfilment of the law. You say (technically) "I will prove myself worthy by keeping some of the commandments as cherry picked by me and my understanding of the gospel." You are not in agreement with God that all have sinned and fall short of His glory. You seek to establish a righteousness of your own, instead of relying 100% on the finished work of Christ.

To reiterate, I rejoice in Christ, not in sin. I rejoice with exceeding great joy! I gladly bow the knee to Jesus, because He has saved me. I KNOW this by the Holy Spirit Whom He has given me as a pledge of my inheritance. It's the baptism of fire that comes from God and not from man. Have you met God? Has He imparted His Spirit to you? If you have not the Spirit of Christ, you are not His. Simple, really.

Just one more testimony concerning the grace of God...

I sat by my window once, thinking over the day and the conversations I'd had with my friends when suddenly I heard God speak. He said, "I wish you'd speak to Me the way you speak to your friends." I was amazed! I answered, "What!? You mean you want me to drop the reverential bit!?" So I speak ordinarily now. No bowing my head. No feigned 'holiness'. Just plain ol' me as I am. And not only this but I barge in with boldness!lol. Bet you don't do that?lol

 

Put your own name in the addressee position. Because Paul says so, Whatever one accuses another of, he is himself guilty of...

O the holiness of the antinomians! And they claim they are Christians. That's the most difficult part to understand.

 

Hello there,

For me, getting into Christ was a majorly important issue! I wanted to know FOR SURE that I was in Christ. I'd read about the Holy Spirit being a pledge etc and I wanted this for myself! I fasted a whole weekend! I was STARVING! On the Monday, in a moment of absent mindedness I ate... I was devastated by my apparent weakness and sobbed before God. In that moment I received His Holy Spirit. He said, "Just believe." I went from broken hearted to ecstatic in the blink of an eye!lol. 'If any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.' Rom 8:9