Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Christ is all and in all.
Act 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Act 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
God is NO respecter of persons.
We however have a whole world of people caught up in the various prejudices they've formed around others for their beliefs, their skin color, their nationality, their religions, their illnesses, their deformities, their weight, their personalities etc.
Our prejudices are many while our tolerances seem few.
Some may say God is prejudice because of His laws, because He expects people to keep His moral commandments, but in truth every single one of those moral commandments is designed out of the purest love that exists. We in our sinful natures don't want to see that though. We'd much rather make our own moral commandments that accommodate nicely our corrupted flesh nature- that way we can sin without feeling any guilt at all.
Satan wanted us to believe that God was unfair, that He was keeping us from truth, from happiness. Satan said this to Eve--
Gen 3:1 ...And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Yea, hath God said…
And then He said- Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
He KNEW God did not say that. He knew God said this--
Gen 2:16,17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Satan knew God told man- 'BUT of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt NOT eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
Satan KNEW this! So what was His purpose in going to Eve and asking her that question? It was to purely deceive her, to get her into QUESTIONING God.
Eve replied to God-
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Did Eve reply truthfully? Yes, but she embellished didn't she? She added a little bit that said- '..neither shall ye touch it' .
And Satan was right there to instill doubt into Eve's mind- doubt about God, about what God said.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Did He lie?
Yes.
Did Eve die?
Yes.
Did she die immediately?
No.
But she did die as God said she would.
Eve believed in SATAN. Eve chose to believe Satan's lies over God's truth.
Ever since then people have been choosing the exact same thing. They don't want the truth because it doesn't allow them to live to their flesh natures, giving into their flesh desires- just like Eve. All the other fruit of the other trees in the garden were not enough for her, she had to have that fruit and she had to have her eyes opened because she did NOT believe that God was being truthful.
With our eyes wide opened to good and evil- so many choose the evil over the good because like Eve they do NOT believe God.
God is NO respecter of people.
Any who LOVE Him, who keep His LAWS OF LOVE- His MORAL laws, the laws that JESUS kept fully Himself - LOVING God with all His Heart and Mind and loving His neighbor- anyone who does this is a child of God's. It's when we STOP loving God, when we STOP loving each other that we are lost.
God specifically told Peter and Paul to give the gospel of the Kingdom to the gentiles- NOT to have the gentiles change their own customs but to have them LOVE GOD FIRST- no false gods- and to LOVE their neighbors. There was a big to-do over the act of circumcision and whether or not all the gentile converts who were not circumcised should be made to get circumcised once they believed in the truth. Ultimately they were told they did NOT need to be circumcised? Why? Because that was a law given under the OLD covenant, not the NEW covenant in Jesus Christ. Then to demand they follow a custom given under the OLD covenant would actually put a stumbling block in their way.
Jesus did DO AWAY with the old ceremonial law NOT the moral law, He reaffirmed that more than once. Jesus brought the LOVE of God back to the forefront, not the strictures that had been necessary at the time to bring the chosen of God out of their 400 years of pollution by the pagan Egyptians.
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Christ is ALL and IN ALL.
Christ is not a respecter of persons.
All have the opportunity to choose HIS LOVE as their way of LIFE.
All through HIS amazing GRACE and LOVE.
Amen!
Christ is all and in all.
Act 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Act 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
God is NO respecter of persons.
We however have a whole world of people caught up in the various prejudices they've formed around others for their beliefs, their skin color, their nationality, their religions, their illnesses, their deformities, their weight, their personalities etc.
Our prejudices are many while our tolerances seem few.
Some may say God is prejudice because of His laws, because He expects people to keep His moral commandments, but in truth every single one of those moral commandments is designed out of the purest love that exists. We in our sinful natures don't want to see that though. We'd much rather make our own moral commandments that accommodate nicely our corrupted flesh nature- that way we can sin without feeling any guilt at all.
Satan wanted us to believe that God was unfair, that He was keeping us from truth, from happiness. Satan said this to Eve--
Gen 3:1 ...And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Yea, hath God said…
And then He said- Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
He KNEW God did not say that. He knew God said this--
Gen 2:16,17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Satan knew God told man- 'BUT of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt NOT eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
Satan KNEW this! So what was His purpose in going to Eve and asking her that question? It was to purely deceive her, to get her into QUESTIONING God.
Eve replied to God-
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Did Eve reply truthfully? Yes, but she embellished didn't she? She added a little bit that said- '..neither shall ye touch it' .
And Satan was right there to instill doubt into Eve's mind- doubt about God, about what God said.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Did He lie?
Yes.
Did Eve die?
Yes.
Did she die immediately?
No.
But she did die as God said she would.
Eve believed in SATAN. Eve chose to believe Satan's lies over God's truth.
Ever since then people have been choosing the exact same thing. They don't want the truth because it doesn't allow them to live to their flesh natures, giving into their flesh desires- just like Eve. All the other fruit of the other trees in the garden were not enough for her, she had to have that fruit and she had to have her eyes opened because she did NOT believe that God was being truthful.
With our eyes wide opened to good and evil- so many choose the evil over the good because like Eve they do NOT believe God.
God is NO respecter of people.
Any who LOVE Him, who keep His LAWS OF LOVE- His MORAL laws, the laws that JESUS kept fully Himself - LOVING God with all His Heart and Mind and loving His neighbor- anyone who does this is a child of God's. It's when we STOP loving God, when we STOP loving each other that we are lost.
God specifically told Peter and Paul to give the gospel of the Kingdom to the gentiles- NOT to have the gentiles change their own customs but to have them LOVE GOD FIRST- no false gods- and to LOVE their neighbors. There was a big to-do over the act of circumcision and whether or not all the gentile converts who were not circumcised should be made to get circumcised once they believed in the truth. Ultimately they were told they did NOT need to be circumcised? Why? Because that was a law given under the OLD covenant, not the NEW covenant in Jesus Christ. Then to demand they follow a custom given under the OLD covenant would actually put a stumbling block in their way.
Jesus did DO AWAY with the old ceremonial law NOT the moral law, He reaffirmed that more than once. Jesus brought the LOVE of God back to the forefront, not the strictures that had been necessary at the time to bring the chosen of God out of their 400 years of pollution by the pagan Egyptians.
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Christ is ALL and IN ALL.
Christ is not a respecter of persons.
All have the opportunity to choose HIS LOVE as their way of LIFE.
All through HIS amazing GRACE and LOVE.
Amen!
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