9/30/06 A Letter from Timothy, Inspired by the Spirit -
To My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear
Love, Forgiveness and the Law (The Ten Commandments)
Jesus said, “If you obey My teaching then you are really My disciples.”
You are Jesus’ disciples as I am His disciple. I now teach you according to the understanding received from Him who we follow by the power of His Spirit. This makes me His apostle. You also become His teachers when you teach another of His love by your testimony of His own Spirit working in you.
So understanding is a gift. The fruit and gifts of the Spirit are not for a few, but the whole of the body of Christ. Each of us has received of the Lord’s gifts, each lesser or greater according to His will for each part of His body, so we can all work together for His single purpose in the salvation of others.
So then God has told me He has given Me, at present, a double portion of understanding according to my knowledge and intake of His Word, so I might grow quickly in His Word for His own purpose in the edification of many.
To my brother He will also give double, for he is now commanded to partake of the Word at every opportunity and his understanding shall grow accordingly.
If then all of you both listen and read God’s Word more often, to a greater degree you also shall receive understanding. God does not withhold His gifts, but bestows them abundantly upon all those who willingly and openly accept them. “Seek and you shall find. Eat and you shall be filled.”
As your understanding grows, so then must your level of obedience grow. To everyone who has knowledge of what is sin, to them it is sin. To disobey God is to sin. This is why we must keep the Law, not because by keeping it we are saved...by grace are we saved, by faith and repentance through Christ, not of ourselves...it is a gift from God. We only need accept our salvation and be humbled by it.
If then by the Law we were once condemned by transgression of the Law, and now we are saved from the penalty of transgression of the Law (sin), which is death, having been freed from the Law and condemnation, has then the Law (Ten Commandments) passed away? No! God forbid. Rather, only the laws found in ordinances have passed away, having been nailed to the cross with Christ, as the apostle Paul taught us. The Law of the Ten Commandments has become established because of the freedom we now have from the Law by Christ, who is also our Helper, giving us the strength and enabling us to keep the Law by the power of His Spirit. In our salvation and love has the Law now been written on our hearts, because of faith in God who gave us the Law and in our love for Him who fulfills the Law, Jesus, being the same One who taught us the Law anew with greater meaning and understanding, opening our eyes to God’s wisdom and love.
God is the Light of life,
and all that He has decreed for us to follow
is a lamp for our feet so we do not stumble.
God is indeed love and mercy,
and the mercy and love He sent to us
is fulfilled in Christ Jesus,
who, if we follow and obey God’s love,
shall be established in us,
and we shall live in His joy,
in His presence, in His Kingdom,
which He had prepared for us from the beginning...
Hallelujah!Amen.
Even so, call on My name in all repentance and faith and you shall live, for I died for you and was raised so you may also be as I am and dwell with Me where I dwell. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 2 - Innocence Destroyed in Evil Arrogance, With Slothful and Wicked Ignorance, Wrought by False Truth Permitted Under Human Rights]