Who or What Is the Church (Part 1 of 2) - 01/16/2023

[@alandhopewell]

Another chilly Texas morning; hello!

[@The_Lord_has_it]

It's 19 here in southwestern PA for the 4th day in a row. Going up to 50 today. We're ready to get out of the house! My son lives in Linden Texas. Thought I'd say hello. God bless

[@teegee3691]

9pm Monday night and 77F. Glad to join with you in the word - hope it's warming your heart😁

[@cindynixdorf3575]

Good morning fellow Texan!

[@alandhopewell]

@@The_Lord_has_it Same to you.

[@teegee3691]

Good evening Church - very happy to be with you, receiving this word for the day. What a joy to be joined with you through the blood of Jesus Christ. All blessings to you 😊❤️

[@ewencameron1548]

Thank you my sister

[@cameronmccreary4758]

It's a cold or rainy night here in Northern California and I've taking my pain medicine waiting for it to kick in so I can go to sleep. I listen here to Alistair and when I fall asleep I will finish this on the radio at 5 in the early evening on Family Radio. Pastor Begg mention churches being in industrial areas. There are quite a few in the Roseville, California area that I live in that are in industrial areas. When I was a kid I did go to church but my grandmother read me the Bible every night and she made it very interesting and exciting. In other words I got more from the Bible through my grandmother's readings than, I ever got out of church.

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

I enjoyed reading this this morning, it sounds like your Grandmother has been a wonderful Blessing in your family, to make such a lasting impression of the Word of God for you, throughout these years🙏🏻! Take care, & God Bless! 📖🙏🏻❤️🕯️✝️

[@mikemccormick9667]

Amazing grace how sweet the sound! Sealed with the Holy Spirit. From Revelation 15 the song of Moses and the Lamb; from NIV: Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the nations.[a] 4 Who will not fear you, Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”[b] 🙏♥️🙏

[@WasLostButNowAmFound]

First! In long time! God bless this ministry.

[@joanlewis9921]

This is so much a blessing I love to hear this man of God. He,s a blessing to God s people. Thank you

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

Good morning to all👋🏻📖☕, I pray that each of us here listening along to Pastors Begg & Lepine, may enjoy a safe & Blessed Day! 📖🙏🏻❤️🕯️✝️

[@teegee3691]

Good evening Todd. Blessings for your day also. How blessed are we, Christ's Church, to have the word daily available to strengthen us for each hour of the day.

[@cindynixdorf3575]

Amen!

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

@@teegee3691 Hello👋🏻Sister Tina, indeed we are, so very Blessed to be able to have the Word of God so readily accessible to each of us daily🙂🙏🏻! I pray 2023 is treating you well thus far👍🏻! Take care, & God Bless! 📖🙏🏻❤️🕯️✝️

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

@@cindynixdorf3575 Thank you🙂🙏🏻! Take care, & God Bless!

[@dubyredburndarling6334]

I always enjoy Pastor Begg s sermon's. God bless him🙏❤️.

[@patriciavarga4084]

Thank you!

[@robbiewagnon5376]

This topic is so necessary today. Because of its decline in "culture" a definitive identification is required. It seems instead of salt & light, "the church" has morphed into a faceless, ineffective body of congregants who now have no desire to even pursue the effectively, radical history & nature of THE CHURCH. These observations are not meant to be simply critical, but to define what IS in these last days. We must STAND in the strength of God's Word & the Sacrifice of our Lord & Savior, Jesus. Thank you Lord for this ministry.

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

Amen. Take care, & God Bless! 📖🙏🏻❤️🕯️✝️

[@robbiewagnon5376]

@Todd Radford Jr. and so also w/you, Amen

[@bettyh3747]

❤️

[@islewait6107]

🙏 ⚓ 📖 Psalm 49

[@reform95]

Good morning to all excited about this new study.

[@teegee3691]

Good morning Leigh -Ann. It's exciting to embark on this new study and look forward to sharing in it in this great community of saints.

[@annierodenberg2327]

🙏❤

[@JackEarwood-vn8xm]

So Much Blessing ! Where can I find the CHURCH ALIVE Peter Carter poem DRIVER of the BUS ? Thank You ! Blessings to All ! Thank You Pastor Alistair Begg

[@3orion33]

My allegiance is to Heavenly Father and His Son first and foremost. Not everyone is fortunate to be attending a church with that focus. It is difficult to feel comfortable and stay focused when un - Christlike words and actions are present in the building.

[@judithmainer9622]

Matthew 18:15-17 will help you in dealing with such situations. We can not judge a person's heart but their actions and words do bare the fruits of ones heart.

[@toddradfordjr.3669]

@@judithmainer9622 Well said! Take care, & God Bless! 📖🙏🏻❤️🕯️✝️

[@muddyboots7753]

My whole land and people are drowning in religion. For lack of specific words in our own language, the words of the english Bible are either mistaken or misused or confused. For 100+ years we have been "winging it" and our Christian way has now become tradition. If it weren't for these sermons on youtube I might have never been born again.

[@kentpaulhamus2158]

The church is the people who believe and put their faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior and are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and now are the children of God in Christ. What we need to know about ourselves from God's Word and our only hope of being justified before God: [WHY WE HAVE NO HOPE IN OURSELVES: Mk. 7:20-23 And he (Jesus) said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things (sins) come from within, and defile the man.] [WHY WE NEED A SAVIOR: Rom. 3:10-28 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things so ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his (God's) sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Joh. 14:6 For God so loved the world (us), that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Rom. 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:]

[@messengerisrael3817]

JESUS DEATH AND RESURRECTION SAVES EVERY MAN FROM ADAM DOWN , FROM THE FIRST DEATH ( THE GRAVE ) ; IT IS YOUR FAITH IN JESUS THAT SAVE'S YOU FROM THE SECOND DEATH ( LAKE OF FIRE ) . BY LIVING A LIFE WITHOUT SIN , JESUS RECOVERED ALL MEN FROM THE SIN BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD THROUGH ADAM . 1 CORINTHIANS 15:22 , " 22.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. THIS IS THE FREE GIFT FOR ALL MEN ; BUT CAN YOU LIVE WITH THE FATHER IN HIS KINGDOM IN SIN ? 1 JOHN 1:5-7 , " 5.This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6.If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7.But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. THIS IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PERSON ; YOU MUST REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL , IN ORDER TO HAVE RIGHTS TO DWELL WITH THE FATHER . MARK 1:14-15 , " 14.Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15.And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. REPENT OF YOUR SIN AS DAVID DID IN PSALM 51 , ANS BELIEVE THE GOSPEL ; WHICH ARE THE WORDS OF THE FATHER . JESUS CAME NOT TO GIVE YOU HIS WORDS , BUT THE WORDS OF THE FATHER . HEBREWS 1:1-2 , " 1.God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; WHAT IS THE CHURCH ? THE CHURCH IS THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE ONE'S HE HATH MADE A COVENANT WITH TO KEEP ALL OF HIS LAWS ( CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ) ; NO OTHER NATION HAST HE DONE THIS WITH . PSALM 147:19-20 , " 19.He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 20.He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD. GENTILES ARE GRAFTED INTO THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ,THROUGH FAITH IN THE MEDIATOR/HEAD OF THE CHURCH/KING OF ISRAEL ( JESUS CHRIST ) . PEOPLE FORGET THAT JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE COVENANT/CHURCH/TEMPLE OF THE FATHER ; FOR ISRAELITES AND GENTILES TOGETHER ; THE CHURCH IS THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE FATHER ; WITH JESUS CHRIST BEING THE HEAD/CHIEF CORNERSTONE . EPHESIANS 2:18-22 , " 18.For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. YOU MUST KEEP THE FATHER'S LAWS , THROUGH THE FAITH OF JESUS , TO BE SAVED . REVELATION 14:12 , " 12.Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. KEEPING THE FATHER'S LAWS ; AND WHEN YOU TRANSGRESS HIS LAWS , YOU MUST : MARK 1:14-15 , "14.MARK 1:14-15 , " 14.Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15.And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. REPENT OF YOUR SINS , AND START BELIEVING ( OBEYING ) THEM AGAIN ; THEN THE RIGHTEOUS BLOOD OF THE MEDIATOR JESUS CAN CLEAN YOU FROM ALL SINS . REMEMBER : ROMANS 10:17 , " 17.So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. SHALOM !

[@mikemccormick9667]

Sure hope you don't think the Pharisees who were Jewish will be saved. 🙏♥️🙏 Romans 2:28-29 New Living Translation 28 For you are not a true Jew just because you were born of Jewish parents or because you have gone through the ceremony of circumcision. 29 No, a true Jew is one whose heart is right with God. And true circumcision is not merely obeying the letter of the law; rather, it is a change of heart produced by the Spirit. And a person with a changed heart seeks praise[a] from God, not from people.

[@mikemccormick9667]

Romans 8:1-17 New International Version Life Through the Spirit 8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you[a] free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life[d] because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of[e] his Spirit who lives in you. 12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation-but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. 14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,[g] Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

[@messengerisrael3817]

@@mikemccormick9667 Circumcision means to remove something . In the covenant with Abraham , it is the removing of of the flesh of foreskin ; which is the completion of the creation started by God , on the first day that man was formed . Man was created in the image and likeness of God , but every other creature was made in their kind . Man was made from the dust of the ground , GOD IS NOT . God is teaching man how to become the kind . On the eighth day of man's creation , the flesh and blood of the earth will be removed , and man will become the kind Biblical circumcision means to make clean . The circumcisions for the cleaning of sin when through the two mediators of the covenant of the Father & the children of Israel . The circumcision of the heart/spirit is a sin sacrifice law of atonement through faith , through the mediator Jesus Christ ; which is repenting of your sins , then believing by obedience ; which is keeping your mediator Jesus Christ commandments ; which he received from the Father . People forget that there was also a sin sacrifice law of atonement through works , for the flesh/body ; which the God of Israel gave through the mediator Moses ; which was called the law of animal sacrifice and oblations ; which is the circumcision of flesh/body for sin . Moses , like Jesus was the mediator/husband/protector/covering , for the one's under the covenant between the Father . There are three type of circumcisions talked about in the bible : 1. The circumcision of the flesh of foreskin through the covenant made with Abraham . 2. The circumcision of flesh/body for SIN , through WORKS , blood OF THE ANIMALS AND OBLATIONS , under the mediator Moses ; Which means that when you transgress against the laws of the Father , you go through the book of the law , or the Leviticus priesthood . First you bring what animal is required for you to bring to the priest ; then you and the priest offer this animal to the God of Israel for a sacrifice , then the animal is killed , then the blood is drained , then the priest take the blood and put it 7 times before the vail of the tabernacle , then on the altar of incense , then you offer what offering or oblation is required . THIS IS WORK , NOT FAITH ,and God requires FAITH , not WORKS , to be justified of the HEART/SPIRIT . The flesh/body is only for your earthly body . 3. The circumcision of the heart/spirit for SIN , through FAITH , blood OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH FAITH under the mediator Jesus Christ ; Which means that when you transgress against the laws of the Father , you repent of your sins with a sorrowful heart ( mind ) like king David did ( Psalms 32 & 51 ) , then believe by obedience ; which is to start keeping the commandments of your mediator Jesus Christ ; which he received from the Father . THIS IS FAITH , NOT WORKS , THIS JUSTIFY OF THE SINS OF THE HEART/SPIRIT ; WHICH IS REQUIRED TO BE JUSTIFIED BY THE FATHER FOR YOUR EARTHLY & HEAVENLY BODIES . ( 1 JOHN 1:4-7 , " 5.This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin " ) The mediators ( Moses and Jesus ) gave the laws of the Father , but when the people transgressed these laws , the atonement came through a sin sacrifice through the mediators , under a priesthood ( Leviticus = MOSES or Melchisedec = JESUS CHRIST ) . ROMANS 2:25-29 EXPLAINED : KJV ROMANS 2:25 , " FOR CIRCUMCISION ( the sin sacrifice law of atonement through the mediator Moses , under the priesthood of Leviticus ; the law of animal sacrifice and oblations ; which was for the cleaning of the flesh/body , but it could not clean the heart/spirit ; because it was of works , not faith . People forget about the mediator Moses , who was a prophet like unto Christ ( Deuteronomy 18:15-19 ) . There are three type of circumcisions talked about in the bible : 1. The circumcision of the flesh of foreskin , the everlasting covenant through Abraham . 2. The sin sacrifice of atonement through the mediator Moses , or the law of animal sacrifice and oblations , or the law of Moses ; which was of works , to clean the flesh/body , so God would not kill the one's who transgressed his laws , and not repented by faith as king David did ; this law was through their husband Moses , under the priesthood of Leviticus . This law had many names ( law of animal sacrifice and oblations , law of works , law of sin and death , whole law , circumcision of flesh/body for sin , schoolmaster , law of Moses , because it went through the husband Moses ) . 3. The sin sacrifice of atonement through the mediator Jesus Christ , which has many names ; the law of faith , or the law of circumcision of heart/spirit , or the law of grace , or the law of righteousness , or the law of liberty , or the law of Christ ; which means that you must repent of your sins with a sorrowful heart ( mind ) like king David did , then believe by obedience ; which is keeping the commandments of your mediator Jesus Christ ; which received the commandments from the Father , Deuteronomy 18:15-19 ) VERILY PROFITETH , IF THOU KEEP THE LAW ( This is the law of the Father ; his instructions to righteousness , as Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:14-17 ) : BUT IF THOU BE A BREAKER OF THE LAW , THY CIRCUMCISION IS MADE UNCIRCUMCISION ( For the one's who are keeping the circumcision of the flesh/body for sin , or the law of animal sacrifice , as long as you keep all of God's laws without breaking one , you are fine ; but if you break one , you become uncircumcised , because the law of animal sacrifice could not clean the heart/spirit ; it was only for the flesh/body ; which the Father requires faith ) . ROMANS 2:26 , THEREFORE IF THE UNCIRCUMCISION ( The Gentiles , who were never under the law of animal sacrifice , or the circumcision of flesh for sin ) KEEP THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW ( The law of the Father ; 2 Timothy 3:14-17 ) SHALL NOT HIS UNCIRCUMCISION BE COUNTED FOR CIRCUMCISION ( The Gentiles would be clean of sin , just as the Israelites keeping the circumcision of flesh/body , or the animal sacrifice , as long as the Israelites not transgress any laws of the Father , but if they did ( Romans 3:23 , " For all have sinned , and come short of the glory of God ) , they must go through the circumcision of faith through Jesus Christ , just as the Gentiles ; which is repenting of your sins with a sorrowful heart ( mind ) like King David did , then believing by obedience ; which he received from the Father ) ? ROMANS 2:27 , " AND SHALL NOT UNCIRCUMCISION WHICH IS BY NATURE , IF IT FULFILL THE LAW ( Gentiles not under the law of animal sacrifice , but fulfill the law of God ( Romans 2:14-15 ) , JUDGE THEE ( Israel ) , WHO BY THE LETTER AND CIRCUMCISION DOST TRANGRESS THE LAW ( the letter would be receiving the laws of God from Moses on two tablets of stones and in ink ; which was written by Moses , who received it from God , but the children of Israel did not believe it by obedience . The circumcision would be the law of animal sacrifice for the atonement of the flesh/body ) ? Romans 2:28 , " FOR HE IS NOT A JEW (ONE not walking in the law of faith ; which is keeping the laws of the Father , through the faith of the Son Jesus Christ ) , WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY ( hearing the laws of the Father , but not keeping them as many of the Israelites under the mediator Moses ) ; NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION , WHICH IS OUTWARDLY IN THE FLESH ( circumcision of flesh/body for sin , or the law of animal sacrifice ; which could not clean the heart/spirit ) . ROMANS 2:29 , " BUT HE IS A JEW ( One walking in the law of faith ; which is keeping the laws of the Father , through the faith of the Son Jesus Christ ) , WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY ( keep the Father's laws ) ; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART IN THE SPIRIT ( Repenting with a sorrowful heart , then believing by obedience ) , AND NOT IN THE LETTER ( Romans 2:13 , " For not the hearers of the law are just before God , but the doers of the law shall be justified ) ; WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN ( The Leviticus priests , who carried out the sin sacrifice of atonement ; circumcision made by hand ) , BUT OF GOD ( Circumcision not made with hands , under the priesthood of Melchisedec ) . People forget that the biggest problem in the first century was Israel , moving from the law of Moses , to the law of Christ . The Gentiles as a whole were learning the words of the God of Israel ( Romans 9:1-5 ) . Most of the apostles are talking about the two sin sacrifices laws of atonement ; The blood of the animals and oblations through work , under the priesthood of Leviticus ; and the blood of Jesus Christ through faith , under the priesthood of Melchisedec . When you see the words : work , law , circumcision , flesh , spirit , etc... , do not assume that they mean what you think they do . The apostles were written to the church , people who had been studying with them ; So , in Romans 6:14 , Paul stated that you were not under the law , but under grace . This was the sin sacrifice law of atonement ; the blood of the animal , or THE LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE ; and GRACE IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST THROUGH FAITH ; WHICH IS REPENTING AND BELIEVING YOUR MEDIATOR JESUS CHRIST COMMANDMENTS ; WHO GIVES YOU THE SAME COMMANDMENTS OF THE FATHER . SHALOM !

[@messengerisrael3817]

@@mikemccormick9667 ROMANS 8 EXPLAINED : KJV 1.There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh ( LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE THROUGH THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ) , but after the Spirit ( BLOOD OF CHRIST THROUGH THE WORKS OF THE SPIRIT ) . REMEMBER , ISRAEL UNDERSTOOD THE LAWS OF THE FATHER , THE GENTILES WERE NEW TO EVERYTHING ; THE PROBLEM WITH ISRAEL WAS THE SIN SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT TO RECOVER YOU , ONCE YOU TRANSGRESS THE LAWS OF THE FATHER . MOST OF ISRAEL BELIEVED THAT THE CIRCUMCISION OF FLESH FOR SIN , OR THE LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE & OBLATIONS , OR LAW OF WORKS , OR LAW OF SIN & DEATH , OR WHOLE LAW , OR SCHOOLMASTER , OR LAW OF MOSES ; BECAUSE HE WAS THE HUSBAND/PROTECTOR/MEDIATOR FOR THE PEOPLE UNDER THE COVENANT ; WAS THE SIN ATONEMENT YOU MUST GO THROUGH TO BE FORGIVEN OR REDEEMED TO THE FATHER . THE SIN SACRIFICE OF ATONEMENT THROUGH MOSES , UNDER THE PRIESTHOOD OF LEVITICUS WAS OF FLESH/BODY , NOT FAITH/SPIRIT . IT WAS GIVEN SO GOD WOULD NOT KILL THE ISRAELITES FLESH/BODY , WHEN THEY TRANSGRESSED HIS LAWS , BUT IT COULD NOT FORGIVE THE HEART/SPIRIT ( WHICH IS YOUR MIND ) . 2For the law of the Spirit ( WORD OF THE FATHER ) of life in Christ Jesus ( REPENTING AND BELIEVING ) hath made me free from the law of sin and death ( LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE ) . 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17 , " 14.But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:17That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. WHAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS JESUS SAID AS HE BEGIN HIS MINISTRY IN MARK 1 ? MARK 1:14-15 , " 14.Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,15And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. THE GOSPEL IS THE WORDS OF THE FATHER ; HIS SPIRIT ; WHICH WAS PUT IN THE MOUTH OF JESUS CHRIST; WHICH WAS FROM THE BEGINNING . ( DEUTERONOMY 18:15-19 , " 15.The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;16According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.17And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.18I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.19And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ) ISAIAH 48:16-20 , " 16.Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.18O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:19Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.20Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob. HEBREWS 1:1-2 , " 1.God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; JOHN 6:63 , " 63 .It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 3.For what the law ( LAW OF ANIMAL SACRICE & OBLATIONS ) could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh ( THIS ATONEMENT WAS MINISTERED THROUGH THE PRIESTS OF THE LEVITICUS PRIESTHOOD , WHO WERE THEMSELVES IN SIN ) , God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh ( HEBREWS 10:4-5 , " 4.For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.5.Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me " ) , and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ( HEBREWS 7:11-12 , " 11.If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law " ) . 4.That the righteousness of the law ( LAW OF THE FATHER ) might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh ( ATONEMENT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF ANIMALS ) , but after the Spirit ( ATONEMENT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST ) . 5.For they that are after the flesh ( CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH THE ATONEMENT OF THE BLOOD OF BULLS & GOATS ) do mind the things of the flesh ( THIS ATONEMENT WAS FOR YOUR FLESH/BODY ) ; but they that are after the Spirit ( ATONEMENT THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST BY REPENTING OF YOUR SINS WITH A SORROWFUL HEART, THEN BELIEVING BY OBEDIENCE ; WHICH IS KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF YOUR MEDIATOR JESUS ; WHICH HE RECEIVED FROM THE FATHHER ) the things of the Spirit ( WORDS OF THE FATHER ; WHICH ARE INSTRUCTIONS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS ) . 6.For to be carnally minded ( HEBREWS 9:6-10 , " 6.Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.7But 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:8The 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:9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. ) is death ( ANIMAL SACRIFICE COULD NOT FORGIVE THE SINS OF THE HEART/SPIRIT ; WHICH IS REQUIRED TO BECOME A SON OF THE FATHER ) ; but to be spiritually minded ( HEBREWS 9:11-14 , " 11.But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ) is life and peace ( HEBREWS 9:15 , " 15.And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance " ) . 7.Because the carnal mind ( THOSE ISRAELITES WHO REFUSED TO REPENT AND OBEY BY KEEPING GOD'S WORD , BUT SUBSTITUTE THE ANIMAL BLOOD IN PLACE OF THEIR BLOOD AS THE ATONEMENT ) is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God ( ROMANS 10:17 , " 17.So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God " ) , neither indeed can be.

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Mike McCormick 8.So then they that are in the flesh ( PSALM 51:16.For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise " ) cannot please God. 9.But ye are not in the flesh ( LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE ) , but in the Spirit ( EPHESIANS 2:10 , " 10.For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them " ) , if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you ( THE FATHER'S WORD ) . Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ ( JOHN 17:21 , " 21.That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me " ) , he is none of his. 10.And if Christ be in you, the body ( FLESH ) is dead because of sin ( 1 JOHN 3:4 , " 4.Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law " ) ; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness ( MARK 1:14-15 , " 14.Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,15And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel " ) . 11.But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you ( WORD OF THE FATHER ) , he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you ( JOHN 6:63 , " 63.It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life " ) . 12.Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh ( THE PRIESTS OF LEVITICUS ) , to live after the flesh ( LAW OF ANIMAL SACRIFICE FOR ATONEMENT ) . 13.For if ye live after the flesh ( CIRCUMCISION OF FLESH FOR SIN ) , ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit ( CIRCUMCISION OF SPIRIT FOR SIN ) do mortify the deeds of the body ( START LIVING BY FAITH ; WHICH IS KEEPING THE LAWS OF THE FATHER , THROUGH THE FAITH OF THE SON ) , ye shall live. 14.For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God ( 1 JOHN 1:5-7 , " 5.This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin " ) . 15.For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ( ATONEMENT THROUGH THE LEVITICUS PRIESTHOOD ) ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father ( 1 JOHN 2:1-5 , " 1.My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.5But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him " ) . 16.The Spirit itself beareth witness ( THIS SPIRIT IS THE COMFORTER ; WHICH THE FATHER SENDS IN JESUS NAME TO TEACH YOU ALL THINGS , AND BRING ALL THINGS TO OUR REMEMBRANCE OF THE WORD OF THE FATHER YOU READ OR HEAR ) with our spirit ( WHICH IS OUR MIND ) , that we are the children of God ( 1 CORINTHIANS 6:17 , " 17.But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit " ) ( THE COMFORTER IS THE HOLY SPIRIT , OR HOLY GHOST , OR HOLY ANGEL ; WHICH BRINGS YOU THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD OF GOD ; WHICH IS ALSO THE HOLY SPIRIT . ) ( 1 JOHN 5:7 , " 7.For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one " .) THIS CAN BE EXPLAINED IN REVELATION 1:1 . ( REVELATION 1:1 , " 1.The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John " . ) WHO ARE ANGELS ? HEBREWS 1:7,13-14 , " 7.And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.13.But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?14Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? ALL ANGELS ARE SPIRITS ; THE ONES WHO DID NOT FALL WITH SATAN ARE HOLY . 17.And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together ( HEBREWS 2:9-11 , " 9.But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren " ) .