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Show 26: Why Christians Do Not Follow Torah Law, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all. In today's show, we're going to continue with what the
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Bible says, specifically the New Testament, about why Christians no longer follow Jewish
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laws and traditions, why we don't go to church on Saturday or the Temple
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on Saturday, but we actually go to church and have Mass on Sunday,
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why we don't keep kosher, etc. Etc. It's, you know,
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it's a very interesting topic. And yesterday we finished up Romans. Hopefully I
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can get through all the New Testament today, I'm not sure, and then
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we can. If I can, we'll start on the Early Church falls tomorrow.
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But we're going to now turn to Corinthian. So this is still Saint
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Paul. And it's really important to think about Saint Paul in this subject because
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you have to remember, Saint Paul was one of those Jewish scholars. He
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was one of the most religious followers of the law. I mean, he
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held the cloaks while they stoned Saint Peter. I meant Stephen to death because
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he violated the Jewish law, the Torah law. He persecuted Christians and was
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trying to kill destroy the church, the Christian Church because it refused to follow
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the Torah law. When he was converted and became a Christian, he completely
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abandoned the Torah law, the Mosaic traditions except for the Ten Commandments, and
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was very vocal and adamant and railed against the Judaizers who would force Christians to
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live by the Torah law. You cannot read the New Testament in any honest
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way and not understand this. I mean, it was so clear. And
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so we'll pick up with Corinthians nine twenty through twenty one. To the Jews.
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I made myself as a Jew to win the Jews to those under the
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law, as one under the law, though I am not, in order
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to win those under the law to those outside the law, as one outside
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the law, though I am not outside the law, but under ice law,
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to win those outside the law. Wow. You know. He even
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had a couple of his followers who were gentiles circumcised so he could go into
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the Jewish temple and try to tell them the truth about Jesus, that the
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old Order had passed, that there was now a new Covenant. I don't
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exactly know how they checked people going into the temple to make sure they were
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circumcised, but apparently they did, and so that was necessary. And the
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Jews didn't buy it and dragged him out and beat him almost to death,
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and then he was They wanted to put him to death, as they did
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Jesus, for violating the Sabbath and for as they saw it, blasphemy.
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And he appealed to Rome and said he would go to Rome and stayed his
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case there. But he was very well. In yesterday's show, we talked
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about what we said in Romans, about how to not make unnecessary offense,
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not to set up a boundary between us and others who follow different traditions,
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so that we can convince them of the truth of Jesus Christ. So he
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continued to follow many of the practices, some of the practices of the Torial
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law. But he says right here he's not under the law, He's under
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the new law of Jesus Christ. And he had no intention, except for
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one or two of his followers who he had to bring into the temples with
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him, of forcing anyone to follow Jewish tradition. In fact, he condemned
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it explicitly. Corinthians three six through eight. He has given us the competence
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to be ministers of a new covenant. A covenant was not written as letters,
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which is of the spirit, for the written letters kill, but the
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spirit gives life. Now if the administering of death engraved in the letters on
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stone occurred in such glory that the Israelites could not look Moses steadily in the
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face because of its glory transitory though this glory was how much were were the
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men history of the spirit occur in glory? Very clearly, Christians were no
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longer under the letter of the Mosaic Law, but they were under a new
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law, a law the spirit that gives life. The penalties of sin under
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the Mosaic law were death thou shalt not and if they do, you know
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you're gonna be put to death or you're gonna have eternal death in hell.
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Okay, And we still follow the Ten Commandments, of course, because they
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define mortal sin. You shouldn't kill. Obviously, you shouldn't commit adultry.
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We you know, we can go to this law line. But remember it
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was said that to violate even one letter of the law was to violate the
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entire law. That meant to eat a clam or a pork shop, or
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not to wash your hands in a ceremonial fashion, or to take too many
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steps on the Sabbath day was made you equally as guilty as one who worshiped
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idols or committed murder. That's why he says that the law leads to death,
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but the new law under Christ lives to life. The spirit gives life.
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That is very much part of the symbolism of Jesus being in the tomb
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for three days. Remember he died, he was buried, he laid in
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the tomb on the Jewish Sabbath. He by taking on the penalty of the
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Mosaic law, he was a sacrificial lamb. He was the one who died
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for all of us so that we may be freed from the law. And
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he rose again on Sunday. And he rose again on Sunday as God.
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You know, before he was the Messiah, he called himself the son of
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Man. When he was risen on Sunday, he was now glorified, identified
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and identifiable as God himself. And the Christian is a new man who goes
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to church on Sunday, not on the Jewish Sabbath, which leads only to
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death. According to Saint Paul, you know that's those are his words.
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Not mine. You know, I'm not criticizing the Jews at all. I
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mean, you know, I love the Jewish people. It's not even an
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issue. I am speaking as Saint Paul was speaking at the time, who
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was a Jew himself, and Jesus brings new life, a new church,
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a new law, everything new. On the first day of the new week.
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The old week had passed away, the old order had passed away,
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the old law passed away in his burial, and rose up new on Sunday
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Galatians two three through four, chapter nine, eleven through sixteen, and chapter
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twenty one. Even then, and although Titus of Greek was with me,
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there was no demand that he should be circumcised, because some false brothers who
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would secretly insinuate themselves a spy on the freedom that we have in Christ,
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intended to reduce us to slavery. Those are the Judaizers. He kept talking
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about, those who would take away the freedom we have in Christ and put
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us back under the Torah law. And when they acknowledge the grace that had
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been given to me, then James and Cephas and John who were the ones
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recognized as pillars, Cephas being Saint Peter, it's Aramaic for Peter. It's
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Aramaic for the Rock. Actually he's he's actually giving him the most proper explicit
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title as the Rock, which is who were the ones recognized as pillars the
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pillars of the church. You know what else should say in the Bible?
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The Bible is, you know, good for instruction understanding. But the Church
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is the pillar and foundation of the of the of the truth. The pillar
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was talented on the foundation, which is the Rock, which Jesus made Saint
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Peter. They offered their right hand to Barnabass and to me as a sign
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of partnership, and we were to go to the Gentiles, and they to
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the circumcised. However, when Cephus came to Antioch, then I did not
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oppose him to his face, since he was manifestly in the wrong. Again,
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the pope can make mistakes. He's only guaranteed from error in matters of
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morals and doctrine, and even those issues he's supposed to work out with the
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bishops. And Saint Paul would have been a bishop at this time. Before
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certain people from James came. He used to eat with the Gentiles, but
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as soon as these came he backed out. And kept apart from them,
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for he was a fear of the circumcise. We have to remember of Saint
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Peter, he was not always the bravest man. He's the one that denied
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Jesus. Jesus as he picked the Jews, the most fallible race in ancient
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in the ancient world, the smallest, most weak race, to start his
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first church. He picked the most fallible, weak man among the apostles to
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found his new church. Very good parallel there as well. You know,
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Saint Peter's not one of the sons of Thunder. He was not a zealot.
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He was the one whose faith was strong, but whose will was weak.
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And the rest of the Jews put on the same act as he did,
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and so that even Barnabas was carried away by their incecerity. And later
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I'll read from Barnabas man he was really against the Judaizers. He could have
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even considered anti Semitic, even though I think he was Jewish. When I
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saw, though that their behavior was not true to the Gospel, I said,
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to see if it's in front of them, all of them, since
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you, though you are a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like
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the Jews. How can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews have nevertheless
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learned that some is someone who's reckoned as upright, not by practicing the law,
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but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we two came to believe in
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Jesus Christ so as to be reckoned as upright by the faith in Christ,
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and not by practicing the law, since no human being can be found upright
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by keeping the law. Even Saint Peter himself fell into the trap of trying
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to go back to the Torah law. And here Saint Paul, the expert
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on Tora law, says no human being can be found upright by keeping the
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law. Well, that goes back to what was said of Abraham. You
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know, he was he was judged by his faith. Abraham was not circumcised.
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There was no Torah law at the time. He was, you know,
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favored by God. It was his faith in his willingness to sacrifice his
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son, which God said, of course, don't do. But here's very
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clear. We two came to believe in Jesus Christ so as to be reckoned
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his upright by faith in Christ, and not by practicing the law. Since
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no human being can be found upright by keeping the law. He goes on
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to say, I am not setting aside God's grace of no value. It
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is merely that if the saving justice come through the law, Christ died needlessly.
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Think about this now, If the Torah, if the Mosaic law moses
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to the modern version of the Torah, the most modest, certainly not modern,
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was sufficient, Jesus's sacrifice would have been unnecessary only because the law is
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insufficient. Was Jesus's sacrifice necessary if man could be saved to find salvation through
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his adherence to the law, through his actions, then Jesus's death, his
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sacrifice, his resurrection on behalf of fallen humanity who could not keep the law
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of God. As he said several times Jesus Christ himself to the Jews,
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you're doing this, but I want you to do this. You know,
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you say, follow these laws. I care about the conversion of your heart.
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No man can keep uphold the law in its entirety. Jesus's sacrifice would
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not be worthwhile. And you cannot believe that the laws too has to be
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upheld, even though Jesus came and died and was resurrected and all that,
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and believe that Jesus is the Messiah because the Messiah came to set free The
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two are incompatible positions. It's like Venerable Bishop Fulton Sheen said, which I
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mentioned a couple of days ago. Many people now believe that Jesus was a
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very good man, even a prophet, a very wise man, but they
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don't believe in the divinity of Jesus. Well, Jesus who says he was
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God, who taught a completely new doctrine, who found in a new church,
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if he was not who he said he was, he was not a
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very good man at all. He was a very evil man. You have
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to act she believed the words of Jesus Christ and the authority he gave his
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apostles to be a Christian. You can't have it both ways. Jesus was
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either right and he was wrong. He could either do what he said he
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could or he couldn't. He could either give that authority or he couldn't.
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And he either gave us a new covenant and a new church or he didn't.
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Mixing up old Testament with new Testament, mixing up old law with new
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law is a better way to put it. Old traditions, Jewish traditions,
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with Christian traditions, which were founded and very vocally spoken of by the appropt
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by the Apostles and the early Church fathers as being distinctly separate from Jewish traditions.
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Is not Christian? Just remember did Jews crucify Christ because he violated the
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law? And Saint Paul here says he came to set us free from the
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law. Well, if you're free from the law, you're free from the
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law. In Galatians chapter three one through three, thirteen sixteen through nineteen,
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he says, you stupid people in Galatia, after you've had a clear Christian
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picture of Jesus Christ crucified right in front of your eyes, who has put
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a spell on you? There is only one thing I should like for you
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to tell me. How was it that you received the spirit? Was it
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by the practice of the law or by believing the message you heard? Having
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begun in the spirit? Can you be so stupid as to end in the
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flesh? That's pretty harsh, isn't it. What if I was to say
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that next time one of my neighbors came over and told me I was going
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to help for going to church on Sunday, because there's seven day Adventus or
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to observe at Christians pull out Galatians. How stupid are you for believing in
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the law? Yeah? Wow? Christ redeemed us from the curse of the
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law by being cursed for our sake, since the scripture says anyone hanged as
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a cursed because humanity could not fill the law to the letter and find salvation
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through our own merits. Jesus came and took on the curse and fulfilled it.
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You know, they say he couldn't change the law by one letter one
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I owe to no, but he could fulfill it. He could be the
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ultimate sacrifice so that no one else would ever be punished by the law.
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The consequences of violating the law, Remember it said in was It Acts yesterday
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Romans probably Romans Gentiles weren't under the law, but they were reconciled upright if
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they followed the maintenance of the law, essentially the ten commandments thou should not
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kill, thou should not steal. Gentiles were not judged for eating pork,
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for instance, Only the Jews were. Jesus said to the Jews when they
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asked him about divorce, he said that was because of the hardness of your
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hearts. It wasn't God's will that this you could have divorce. Moses gave
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you that law because of the hardness of your hearts. We got a lot
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more into that with the early Church fathers, and we just apologize up front
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to some of my Jewish listeners. Remember most of these guys that are really
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hard on the Jews, of the ancient Jews, not modern Jews, were
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Jewish themselves, and some of their words were really strong. But you have
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to remember they were being hunted to death by the Jewish officials who were trying
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to destroy the Church. But they make absolutely clear Christianity and Judaism was totally
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separate and different. After Christ was resurrected, new church, new rules,
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new laws, new practices, new traditions, the old put away, don't
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put your hand to plan and look backward, let the dead bury their dead,
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take up your cross and follow me and man, I mean, they
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did not mince words, and they absolutely condemned anyone that said a Christian was
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still to follow toward a law. Not only is it condemned in the Bible
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repeatedly, which anyone who reads the Bible ought to know. If you have
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a decent translation, to the Bible, but the early Church fathers went after
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him with hammers and tongs. I mean, seriously, wait till you hear
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what Barnabas had to say. Now, the promises were addressed to Abraham and
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his progeny, the words were not. The words were not and to his
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progeny's implural, but to the singular and to your progeny, which means Christ.
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What I am saying is this, once a will had been long ago
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ratified by God, the law, coming four hundred and thirty years later,
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did not abolish it, and so nullified its promise. You see, if
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the inherance comes by the law, it no longer comes to a promise.
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But it was a promise that God made to his gift to Abraham. But
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it was by a promise that God made his gift to Abraham. Then what
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is the purpose of the law. It was added to deal with the crimes
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until the progeny to whom that promise had been made should come, And it
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was promulgated through angels by the agency of an intermediary. The law was made
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for the crimes committed by the descendants of Abraham the Jews, until Jesus would
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come once Jesus came fulfilled, the law took on him all our penalties and
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punishments. The law had run its course, fulfilled its purpose, it was
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abrogated and was no more Galatians four one through eleven. What I am saying
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is this an error during their time while he's still under age, is no
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different from a slave, even though he is the owner of the properties under
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control of guardians and administrators until the time fixed by the fathers. So two
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with us, as long as we were still under age, we were enslaved
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the elemental principles of this world. But when the completion of time came,
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God said his son, born of a woman, born a subject of the
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law, to redeem the subjects of the law, so that we could receive
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of adoptions as sons. As you were sons. God has sent into our
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heart the spirit of his son, crying abba Father, so that you were
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no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then
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an heir by God's own act. But formerly you did not know God.
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You were kept in slavery to things which are not really God's at all.
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Whereas now that you have come to recognize God, or rather to be recognized
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by God, how can you turn your back to those powerless and bankrupt elements
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whose slaves you now want to be all over again? You were keeping special
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days and months and seasons and years. I am beginning to be afraid that
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I may, after all, have wasted my efforts on you. Strong words
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by Saint Paul. When they were under the law, they were slaves to
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the law. Now as Christians, they are heirs and freed from the law.
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He says, Jesus came to redeem the subjects of the law so that
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we could receive adoption of sons as sons. And he points out, now
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you are keeping special days and months and seasons and years, like, for
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instance, the Jewish Sabbath and all the Jewish holidays. There were many days.
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I mean, we just think of Hanaka and such, and that's actually
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not one of the most ancient You can read the book of Max Backupees and
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see where Hanaka came from. But you know there are certain days set aside
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in the Jewish calendar that these new Christians were saying they still had to celebrate.
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And Saint Paul is saying, because you're doing this, I have wasted
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my efforts on you. You were rejecting the gift given you by Jesus by
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continuing to follow the law and make yourself a slave and not an heir Galatians
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five one through four. Christ set us free so that we should remain free.
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Stand firmed them, and do not let yourself be fastened again to the
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yoke of slavery. I, Paul, give you my word that if you
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accept circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all. Think
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about that. Circumcision is actually in pretty common practice today. It shouldn't be
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certainly no religious significence to it for a Christian, and at some point doctors
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were saying it was more hygienic. That has not been proven true. If
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I ever have kids, my sons will not be circumcised. Really, because
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I can confuse people if they read the Bible, and here it says if
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you receive, if you accept circumcision, Christ will be able to benefit to
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you at all. How that would scare a kid pretty bad if they didn't
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have the maturity and the guidance of the Catholic Church telling what it means.
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But circumcision is is the keeping of the law. And like I said,
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to violate one tenant of the law was to violate all and circumcision was the
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outward sign. As I said, I'm not exactly sure how they checked this.
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When you walked into the temple, that would be a little freaky,
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But the outward appearance of the law said that you were under the law and
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had to obey all the letters of the law. He goes on to say,
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I give you my durrance once again to every man who accepts circumcision,
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that he is under obligation to keep the whole law. Once you seek to
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be reckoned as upright through the law, then you have separated yourself from Christ,
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and you have fallen away from grace. My Torah observant friends, and
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seven day Adventis, etc. And seven day Adventist, Messianic Jews, etc.
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Please read Galatians five one through four. Once you seek to be reckoned
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as upright through the law, then you have separated yourself from Christ, and
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you have fallen away from grace. Galatians six, seven through nine fifteen.
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Don't delude yourself. God is not to be fooled. Whatever someone sows,
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that is what he will reap. If this sowing is in the field of
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self indulgence. When it's the harvest comes from it, it will be corruption.
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If this sowing is in the spirit, then when the harvest from the
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spirit will be eternal life and lever, let us slacken in doing good.
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For if we do not about, we shall have our harvest in due time.
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It is not being circumcised or uncircumcised that matters, but what matters is
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a new creation. The new creation is the Christian baptized, who receives new
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life, especially through confirmation in the Catholic Church Ephesians two eight, two eight
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through ten, and thirteen through twenty one. For it is by grace that
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you have been saved through faith, not by anything of your own, but
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by a gift from God, not that anything you have done, so that
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nobody can claim the credit. We are God's work of art, created in
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Christ Jesus for the good works which God has already designated to make up our
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way of life. But now in Christ you used to be so far off
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and have been brought close by the blood of Christ. For He is the
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peace between us, and that has made the two and one entity and broken
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down the barrier which used to keep them apart by destroying his own person in
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by destroying in his own person the hostility that is the Law of Commandments with
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its decrees. His purpose in this was by restoring peace, to create a
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single new man out of the two of them, and through the cross,
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to reconcile them both to God and one body. In his own person,
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he killed the hostility. He came to bring the good news of peace to
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you who were far off, and peace to those who are near. Through
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him, Then we both the one Spirit, have free access to the Father.
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So you are no longer aliens or foreigners or foreign visitors. You are
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fellow citizens with the Holy people of God and part of God's household. You
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are built up hound the foundations of the apostles and prophets, again the foundation
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and piller of the Church, and Christ himself as the cornerstone. Every structure
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knit together, and him grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Before
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the coming of Jesus, the gentiles were cut off from the Holy people of
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God because he did not follow the law. God came. He brought the
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law to its conclusion, and he rises us up as new men under a
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new law, destroying in his own person the hostility that is the Law of
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Commandments with its decrees, The Law of Commandments with its decrees Colossians two thirteen
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through seventeen and twenty through twenty three. You were dead because you were sinners
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and uncircumcised in the body. He has brought you to life with him.
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He has forgiven every one of our sins. He has wiped out the record
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of our debt to the law which stood against us. He has destroyed it
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by nailing it to the cross. He has stripped the sovereignties and the ruled
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forces. He has paraded them in the public behind him in his triumphal procession.
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Then never let anyone criticize you for what you eat or drink, or
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about an observance of annual feasts, new Moons or Sabbath. They are a
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shadow of what is coming, the reality of the body of Jesus. Christ
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says, how clear can you be? Christ took the law, nailed it
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to the cross, and destroyed it. Do not let anyone criticize you about
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annual festivals, new moons and Sabbath. No, when your tour observant Christian
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friend says you have to go to church on Saturday, because that's what it
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says in the Old Testament. Just turn to Colossians and say, no,
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I go to church on Sunday, because the Bible says in the New Testament,
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we don't follow the old law anymore. If you have really died with
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Christ to the principles of this world, why do you still let rules dictate
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you as though you were still living in the world. Do not pick up
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this, do not eat that, do not touch the other, and all
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about things that perish, even why they are being used according to merely human
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commands and doctrines. In these rules you can indeed find what seems to be
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good sense, the cultivation of the will, and a humility which takes no
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account of the body, but in fact they have no value against self in
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dutchment in dulg okay, stop applying the tonal law to us, folks.
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If you've really died with Christ to the principles of this world, why do
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you still let rules dictate you as though you were still living in the world.
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And he just talked about the Jewish dietary restrictions, where I was talking
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about the Sabbath in the Last Passage and circumcision before that. First Timothy one
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through ten when I was setting out from Macedonia, or urge you stayoid ephesis
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to instruct certain people not to spread wrong teaching, or to give attention to
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myths and unending genealogies. Remember, the entire Jewish tradition is based on genealogies
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relation to Abraham being what gives you salvation. These things only foster doubts instead
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of further in God's plan, which is found an unfaith. The final goal
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at which this instruction aims is to love, issuing from a pure heart,
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a clear conscience, and sincere faith. Some people have missed the way to
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these things and turned the empty speculation, trying to be teachers of the law.
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But they understand neither the words they use nor the matters about which they
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make such strong assertions. We are well aware that the law is good,
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but only provided is used legitimately, on the understanding that laws are not framed
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for people who are upright. On the contrary, they are for criminals and
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insubordinate, for irreligious and the wicked, for the sacrilegious and the godless.
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There for people who'll kill their fathers and mothers, and for murderers, for
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the promiscuous homosexuals, kidnappers, for liars and perjurers for everything else that is
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contrary to the sound teachings according to the Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed
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God, the gospel that was entrusted to me. In other words, yeah,
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still keep the ten commandments. And you know he also is pretty strong
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against homosexuals. There. You know, we have a church now that's trying
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to normalize homosexuality. Yeah, that's it says several times of the Bible that
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homosexual sex will lead to hell, so we shouldn't do that. But that
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ignore don't listen to cut yourself off from people who are trying to apply the
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law of the Torah to the Christian The two are incompatible. Timothy four one
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through four. The Spirit has explicitly said during the Last Times that some will
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deserve the faith and pay attention to deceitful doctrines, spirits and doctrines that come
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from the devil, seduced by hypocrisy of liars, whose consciousness are branded with
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red hot irons. They forbid marriage and prohibit foods which God has created and
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to be accepted with thanksgiving by all who believe and who know the truth everything
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God has created is good, and no food is to be rejected, provided
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is received with thanksgiving, the word of God and prayer to make it holy.
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Many of the tour observant Christians say we're to keep the Jewish kosher dietary
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laws. Here the New Testament says plainly absolutely not. And many vegans and
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vegetarians say that Jesus want us to be vegetarians, even though he said specifically
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the opposite. And here it says no food is to be rejected providers received
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with thanksgiving, the Word of God and prayer to make it holy. Titus
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one five through fourteen. The reason I left you behind in Crete was for
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you to organize everything that still had to be done and appoint elders in every
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town. And the way that I told you that is, each of them
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must be a man of irreproachable character. A husband and one wife and his
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children's must be believers and not liable to be charged with a disorly conductor and
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subordination. Presiding elder has to be irreproachable, since he has God's representative.
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Never arrogant or hot tempered, nor a heavy drinker or violent or avaricious,
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but hospitable, and a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, devout,
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self controlled, and he must have a firm grasp on the unchanging message of
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the tradition, hold faster tradition. Yeah, so that he could be counted
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on for both giving encouragement to sound doctrine and for refuting those who argue against
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it. And in fact, there are many people who are insubordinate, who
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talk nonsense and try to make others believe it, particularly among those of the
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circumcision, those insisting that Christians must follow toward a law. What does he
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say about them? They must be silenced. People of this kind upset whole
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families by teaching them things they ought not to do, and doing it for
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the sake of sordid gain. It was one of themselves, one of their
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own prophets, who said Cretans were never anything but liars, dangerous animals,
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all greet and laziness. And that is a true statement. Okay, sorry,
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people have crete, but that's what Saint Paul thought. So be severe
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in correcting them and make them sound in their faith, so that they stop
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taking notice of Jewish myths and the orders of people who turn away from the
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truth. How clear is that he talks with the people sistem on circumcision,
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which means the Torial law. As I said, circumcision is symbolic of the
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entire law, and they stop taking notice of Jewish myths. I'm exasperated.
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Some of the debates I get into, especially online, are utterly exasperating.
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When you have to say, I'm sorry, Have you ever read the New
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Testament? Do you just discount everything Saint Paul ever said? What about Saint
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Peter, Saint James? Is there anything in the New Testament you actually believe?
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Then? How can you be a Christian? Tied Us three eight through
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nine. This doctrine that you can rely on. I want you to quit.
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I want you to be quite uncompromising in teaching all of this, so
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that those who now believe in God may keep their minds constantly occupied in doing
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good works. All this is good and useful to everybody. But avoid all
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fool of speculations and those genealogies, and the quibbles and disputes about the law.
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They are useless and futile Hebrews seven eleven through nineteen. Now, if
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perfection had been reached through the levitical priesthood, the a lot of these tour
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obsorted Christians again keep calling themselves modern levites, and that's actually a genealogical thing.
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I'm not really getting that. But let's go back to the original meeting.
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Now. If perfection had been reached through the levitical priesthood, and this
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was the basis of the law given to the people, why was it not
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necessary for a different for a different kind of priest to arise, spoken of
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as being of the order of Malchisedek rather than the order of Erin. Any
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change in the priesthood must mean a change in the law as well. So
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our Lord, of whom these things were said, belonged to a different tribe,
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the members of which had never done service at the altar. Everyone knows
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he came from Judah, a tribe which Moses did not mention it all.
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When dealing with priests, this becomes even more clearly evident if another priest of
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the type of Melchisedek arises, who was a priest not the virtue of the
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law of physical descent, but in virtue of power of an indestructible life.
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For he is attested to by the prophecy your priests forever after the order of
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Malkizadek. The earlier commandment of the is thus abolished. The earlier commandment is
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thus abolished because of its weakness and its ineffectiveness, since the law which could
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not make anything perfect. But now this commandment is replaced by something better,
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the hope that brings us closer to God. Now, Kizadek is an interesting
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figure in the Old Testament. He's the one who Abraham went to and who
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blessed Abraham. So there was a true religion before Abraham. Abraham was deemed
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righteous by his faith and not by the law, because the law had not
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been given yet. And here Moses appoints the Levites and sets up the entire
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levitical toural law, and very clearly in Hebrew seven eleven through nineteen were told
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that was insufficient, inferior, inferior, and replaced by Jesus, a priestaff
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of the order of Melchisedek with a new law Hebrews eight six or seven and
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thirteen. As it is, he has been given a ministry as far superior
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as is the Covenant, which is of which he is the mediator, which
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is founded on better promises. If that first covenant had been faultless, it
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would have been no room for a second one to replace it. If the
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law of Moses had been sufficient, there'd be no need for Jesus. If
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the law of Jesus is not sufficient and there's still room for Moses's law,
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then Jesus, Jesus Christ's sacrifice was insufficient, and Jesus can't be God if
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that's the case, And you can't call yourself a Christian and believe both ideas
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at the same time. By speaking of a new Covenant, he implies that
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the first one is old, and anything old and aging is ready to disappear.
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How was Hebrews eight thirteen Hebrews nine eighth through fifteen. By this,
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the Holy Spirit means means us to see that as long as the old tent
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stands, the way into the Holy Place is not opened up. It is
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a symbol for this present time. None of the gifts and sacrifice is offered
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under these regulations can possibly bring any worshiper to perfection in his conscience. They
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are rules about outward life, connected with food and drink and washing at various
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times, which are enforced only until the time comes to set things right.
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But now Christ has come as the high priest of all blessings which were to
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come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tint not made
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by human hands, that is not of this created order. But he is
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in the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of
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goats and bulls and calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal
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redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a half or
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sprinkling of those who have incurred defile it. Defilement may restore their body their
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bodily purit may restore their bodily purity. How much more, with the blood
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of Christ, who offered himself blameless as he was to God, through the
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eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions, so that we can worship
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the living God. This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so
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that now a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant.
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Those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise Hebrews
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ten thick six or ten. You receive no pleasure in burnt offerings or sacrifice
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for sin, then I said here I am coming. In the scroll of
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the book is written of me to do your will God. He says,
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first, you did not want what the law lays down as the things to
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be offered, that is the sacrifices, the serial offers offerings, the offerings
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and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them. And
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he says, here I am, I am coming to do your will.
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He is abolishing the first sort to establish the second. And this was all
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for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ,
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made once and for all. As I said, I don't understand how
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you can read the New Testament and still think Christians are supposed to follow tour
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a law. It is specifically said, done over new law. New Testament
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died nailed to the Christ with Jesus. New Man rose up. No more
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the regulations that were just he said, regulations on behavior or regulations for the
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body. Don't eat this, do eat this, be here on this day,
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do this on this day, wash your hands, don't walk more than
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you know so many feet on this day, etc. Etc. Just pick
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up the book at Viticus. I mean, look, if you have a
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minor translation of the Torah and the Talament, and all that, and you
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really want to go through and see really how complex all this stuff. Seriously
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is, go for it. But most Protestants say the Bible a loan,
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so they're really just going by the Old Testament in this case. And you
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know the books of Moses, especially Leviticus for the complicated stuff. Okay,
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look at that, and now look at what the New Testament says. The
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New Testament says, Jesus abolished it. It was no longer worth while it
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was not doing what he wanted. He won a conversion of heart, and
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for humanity that could not uphold the law, he came and died, killed
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the law fulfilled the law, gave us a new law and new covenant.
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And tomorrow, as Hank Williams Senior used to say, the good Lord William,
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the creek don't rise. I love Hank Williams. I'm a huge Henk
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Williams fan. By the way, Hank Williams left you for ze Roy Acuff
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Ray Price. I love that stuff that's neither here or there. Just how
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I always remember that. He's say, friends, I'll talk to you Marth.
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The good Lord William the creek don't rise. Well, anyway, if
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that be the case, we'll try to begin getting into what the early church
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fathers said about Jewish traditions in the law. This will probably be another two
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parter, and I mean, we're gonna hit with Pope Saint Clement, We're
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gonna hit with Saint Barnabas, Polycarp, Saint Polycarp, Saint Justin Martyr.
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The earliest Church, those who actually learned from the apostles, were ordained by
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the apostles who learned directly from Jesus Christ. They made it clear. I
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mean, they literally said, we are Christians, we are not Jews,
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and we do not follow Jewish traditions. And the Jewish people who do follow
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Jewish traditions have no part of us until they're ready to abandon the Jewish traditions
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and in the temple, abandon the Jewish Sabbath, all Jewish Kosher traditions,
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dietary traditions, holidays, circumcision even and become Christians. And it's some of
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it's going to be a little tough to hear, because, like I said,
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they were literally at war at this time. They were at war.
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The Jewish religious cultural leaders were trying to kill them, and they were meanwhile
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going into the synagogues and preaching the Gospel to the Jews, and through their
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uncompromising, even jelical efforts, they converted about half of the Jews to Christianity
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in the first couple of centuries, and then would go on to convert Rome
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and Greece and the entire you know, the entirety of Europe, most of
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Asia, eventually the New World, most of Africa and North Africa at least.
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I mean, they literally did take every risk and every controversy as boldly
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as they possibly could, put their own lives in danger every single day to
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give us this tradition, and it's up to us now to uphold it and
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not to be led astray, like Saint Paul was saying, others by those
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who have seductive arguments, saying you still have to follow toward a law,
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because he said, plainly, you don't, and you really shouldn't, and
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if you believe in it, you're not even Christian. So that's what the
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Bible says. It's not what I'm saying. It's not like my interpretation of
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the Bible. It's not one of like the Book of Daniel, where I'm
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looking at like you know, these symbolic passengers. You know, this is
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like when Jesus said, truly, truly, I say to you, you
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know, truly, truly, this is what was being said. And anyway,
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y'all, in the words of Saint Padripia, pray, hope and don't
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worry, and I will talk to you tomorrow