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You wrote, "The dog returns to its vomit and the pig to its mud. And they call it grace."The law of God...but I get your drift.
Yes. The dog returns to its vomit and the pig to its mud. And they call it grace.
Amen.
The law is a measuring stick to measure what we are doing. The law has no power to fulfill itself. Like a voltage meter. Now a voltmeter has no power...but it reads when there IS power. So then grace can be measured by the law, because it fulfills the law.
Well by then it will be too late. They refused knowledge and correction..so God will reject them.
And technology. But yes, we have gone backward spiritually.
It takes a concerted effort in the flesh to ignore the warnings of the bible. And a lot of indoctrination.
Good post...for the most part. A little too much emphasis on law...but the law of God IS being thrown out.
amen. Couldn't have worded it better myself. In fact, I believe I'll use this allusion in the future.
You wrote, "The law is a measuring stick to measure what we are doing. The law has no power to fulfill itself."
Quite true because the LAW of Moses isn't a sacrifice for SIN. It says we need one, but isn't one itself. Therefore the LAW cannot save.
I was saved when I was very young. Today I'm quite old. In the years between I've seen many many pastors priests and pew sitters alike who ignored the LAW and lived as they chose - using demonic grace to justify their licentiousness. All of them destroyed their reputation, their families, their finances and their self-respect. Some of them died before their time. A few of them, very few, repented of their wickedness and slowly gradually rebuilt something of a decent life. BUT THE SCARS REMAIN UNHEALED. They live now as old folks and their regrets for what they did haunts them every day of their life. Jesus never abandoned them and Jesus forgave them, but the wounds they inflicted upon themselves and others remain for the most part an open sore.
Young fools there are in the post-modern church today who wickedly deny the LAW and all its benefits, which are not limited to justification before the Lord. I can't seem to get past the sacrifice for SIN in their eyes.
You wrote, "It takes a concerted effort in the flesh to ignore the warnings of the bible. And a lot of indoctrination."
I too believe that the overwhelming majority of manipulation and indoctrination in our churches is hammered into the congregations constantly and consistently. This is done simply because it sell$. I sat in a congregation once where the man up front proudly declared, "I speak happy talk to fill seats." Nobody seemed to be shocked at his statement. In my hearing one Sunday I heard a Baptist preacher, who was also the Dean of the local Bible college, end his sermon on grace by advocating, "go out and SIN this week that grace may abound." I ran, not walked, out of that church into the parking lot - drove home and never went back.
You wrote, "A little too much emphasis on law...but the law of God IS being thrown out."
I am deliberate on my emphasis and over-emphasis of the LAW. I wonder sometimes if I've written with too much of a light touch. The absolute lack of attestation to God's Holy LAW is abysmal and an abject betrayal of both gospel and the Most High who has blessed us greatly in the Grace He has shown in giving us His LAW.
I believe one must hammer upon the subject over and over again until the disciples of licentiousness either 'get it' or shut me down. Mostly I have suffered the latter. People do not want to hear anything about the Bible or morality. Want to start a heated argument that'll get you tossed out of the room? Bring up the subject of morality. It's a four letter word these days and NOBODY wants to talk about it. Nobody gives a damn about God, nobody. It's always about Church Tradition in one form or another. Arguments abound about inconsequential matters with none of them addressing the heart of two of God's greatest gifts; the LAW and the Second Birth, which is based upon fulfillment of the LAW. The church has established its own empty traditions which, like the Jews before them, are of no value at all in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Your post is very welcome - there are so few like it these days. Thank you for posting.
that's me, hollering from the choir loft...