Yet you wrote about a desire to be in Him?
I write that I'm in him. Not in Him or a desire to be in him.
What does that mean to you? Doesn't it mean you hear His words via His Holy Spirit?
It means I hear His words via His holy spirit.
And if words from Him (the King, Lord, Father, and Teacher)
I don't believe in the Lord God. I believe the Lord is the resurrected Christ.
don't those words come with the rules of the King, instruction from the Lord, discipline from the Father, and Teaching with reproof from the Teacher?
These rules and instructions sound like the Old Testament Law to me.
This is walk in the Statues, Ordinances, and Commandments
Again Statues, Ordinances, and Commandments sound an awful lot like the Old Testament Law to me.
I generally like the responses, but I wonder about how you say you hear from Him, Jesus Christ, via His Holy Spirit and not realize that He was the very same Christ that spoke to Moses???
Exo 3:18 “They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.'
Now the sacrifice might not still be needed or required, but the One Moses knew and heard from then "The Lord, the God of the Hebrews" is the same One we call Jesus Christ today. The reason we call Him Jesus, which means God's Salvation, is because He did go to the cross. But that does not mean that we can just do whatever and whenever!!
Which of course is why Jesus said, "“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail." (Luke 16:17)
Have He not told you that what a King says is law."
Of have you not read,
Mal 2:7 “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth;
For he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
So if indeed we do hear the King, who is Jesus Christ, and He tells us to do something, is it to be ignored. If He tells you not to do something, is it then ok to do it? And even in the "New Testament" did not Jesus say things like:
Mat 22:37 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
Mark 12:30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'
Luke 10:27 And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
So I don't understand you say you are in Him, Jesus Christ, but don't know He is "THE LORD YOUR GOD"?
I don't believe in the Lord God. I believe the Lord is the resurrected Christ.
It seems like you are saying that He is the resurrected Christ, but that He did not exist before the New Testament, and I cann't understand how anyone could spend much time talking back and forth with Him, like someone you love, and not know that He was also in the beginning and was the Law giver, along with being the One through whom all things were created, and even the first born of all creation.
The Law, not even one letter of the Law, can go away because He can't go away, and the Law is what He "The King" says!!
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
The above can't mean the Law went away:
Luke 16:17 “But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
But it means that the Law is fulfilled by listening to the Lord and doing what He says, via His Holy Spirit. So if a person says they know the Lord and don't know this, do they know the Lord Jesus Christ, the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. After all, are they confessing Him Lord if they are not only hearing but also doing what He asks?
People say all sorts of things. Some have even been know to pretend obedience.
Ps 81:15 “Those who hate the LORD would pretend obedience to Him, And their time of punishment would be forever.
Yet if the is obedience to the One we call the Lord our God, like Moses called Him, then there is an understanding that we need to do what He tells us to do. I mean if I indeed think the Lord is the resurrected Christ and I hear from Him via His Holy Spirit, then I am going to do things He tells me, especially if I think He is God! But if I don't believe in the Lord God, then what? Maybe then I could call Him Lord but not really think it necessary to do what He says - because He is not God - according to that thinking. So there is not fear of God, but a pretense of obedience!
Frankly Peterlag - I read what you write and it makes no sense to me since I walk and talk with Him. He, the Word of God and God, has asked me to do many things for Him - from opening a Christian bookstore for Him, working in a healing ministry for Him for five years, helping in a hospital visitation ministry, and so much more. He has ask me to talk to this person and that person, to post on this forum, and to preach the Word of God to be Him because He wants His people to listen to Him. And while I don't wind up doing all of them, I desire to do them and, because He is God and my Lord. I would not have done them otherwise. Indeed if I had thought it was not needed to do anything I didn't want, because I was not under any authority, then I would not have done any of them. It is like what James wrote:
Jas 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Did not Abraham think of Him as the Lord God, though not as Jesus at that time?
Gen 15:2 Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
So your denial that Jesus Christ is the Lord God who Abram knew and believed in baffles me. Abraham and Moses make sense to me, but you don't. I just can't figure out how anyone can walk and talk with Jesus Christ and not know that He is the Lord God????