Maybe quotes from another book would be better for you? Let's read what Paul had to say to some Gentiles.....
Rom.3
[19] Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
So if Jesus did away with the law, how is it that Paul still tries to KEEP the law by not coveting?
Not only that, do you think the Romans reading this letter know now that they TOO are not to covet based upon the LAW of God? Of course they know! Let's continue.....
Before Paul knew God's laws his old man was alive. He was doing what he wanted because he had no idea there were laws saying he cound not.
But when he learned that there was a law against those things his old man died.
These new laws which bring life eternal, Paul found to be death to that old sinful man.
Now let's read what Paul tells these Romans about God's laws....
[Paul tells them God's law is HOLY JUST AND GOOD! Now let's confirm this....
Was that that was ordained to life (The Law) is what caused death to the old me? GOD FORBID! It was SIN that cause the old me to die and it was coming into the knowledge of God's law that did it. For sin, after understanding the commandment, became even more sinful. Let's continue...
So is this a better letter, or do you think this letter is counterfiet also?
There is no authorship assigned to the letter to the Hebrews. The Holy Spirit has it that way for a reason. It should be accomodated as such. Your attempt to discredit my witness by slander, saying I propose it to be counterfeited, tells much about your integrity as an individual. Nevertheless, I will continue in my attempt to assist you in understanding. I provide the following declarations of God for your perusal, and should you decide to believe God, you may come to understand my position from knowledge of the word of God.
Ro 9:4-5
Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
The glory, the adoption, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promises, to whom do these things belong? Paul, who you insist on quoting to support your position, does not equivocate here. They all belong to the Israelites. No one other than the Jew can lay claim to them, such as you may insist. Paul says that is Israel's prerogative alone.
Why did Christ Jesus come in flesh? What was His purpose for coming into the world? We all know what orthodoxy emphasizes, but what do the Scriptures reveal?
Ro 15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God
, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers:
Whose minister was He? Everybody in the whole wide world? Not according to God! His ministry was to the Circumcision, not the uncircumcision.
Even though God's attempt to fulfill all and bring forth the blessing of the Covenant failed, Jesus' commission on earth was solely to the Jews.
How about this one, concerning Jesus' brethren:
Mt 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Holy Spirit did not say,"save the world from their sins", no, it says, "His people," who are, according to God, the Israelites, the Jews, the Chosen People.
Jer 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
The mention of "lost sheep" pertains to Israel, not the nations. This is the evidence given to us.
Mt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
I am not certain, but I think this is quite clear to all. Jesus received a commission from His Father, and it did not include us, the nations. It was to save His people, the children of the covenant fathers.
Mt 10:5-6 . These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The sending forth of the disciples with power to proclaim the Kingdom had parameters, according to God. They were forbidden to go unto the nations. The message of Jesus Christ was confined to Israel, until the keys of the Kingdom were turned over to Peter (Matt 16:19), and the commission was transferred to the Twelve (Matt 28:19).
Ro 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; Ro 9:5 Whose [are] the fathers, and
of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen
Read the address on the envelope to find out to whom the letter is of Hebrews was sent:
Hb 1:1 . God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets,
You nor I can claim that God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Prior to Israel's defection and stubbornness which led to Jesus' murder on the Cross, there was nothing in this whole thing for us, we were without God in the world and without hope.
Ro 2:14 For when the Gentiles,
which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these
, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
There should be no difficulty apprehending this statement. It plainly declares what many saints refuse to acknowledge from pride and self centered opinions; the law has never applied to the nations, and the evidence is considerable against such a notion. God says the law was never ours to keep, it was given to another race, another people, peculiar, and a treasure above all others in the earth, and that was and is Israel.
Ro 3:1-2 . What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them (Israel) were committed the oracles of God.
It does not say what advantaged "did they have" or "what profit was there of circumcision", for God is not done with His demonstration to the universe and Israel's part in that, and the fulfillment of all will come to pass according to the declaration out of God. And that continuation in faithfulness to an adulterous nation is based strongly upon the Oracles of God, the Jews being the sole possessors of those Oracles,
Ac 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Who is the" us" Stephen is talking about? It cannot possibly include any gentile nation. Yet that is commonplace today in the Body among the saints, whenever the failure to correctly divide the word of truth is prevalent. Believers inject themselves into any and all portions of the Bible they feel is best for their personal need at the time, unaware of the dishonor they bring to God and His Word.
All this confusion is the fruit of failing to understand the difference in what Paul preached and the evangel of the Kingdom on earth. May God be gracious to us to grant light to see His ways as they truly are, according to His word, and just believe Him
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