The difference between Covenant Righteousness and Holiness.....deno.
Righteousness means ones good and right standing with God. It is a
position with God. It is not a deed or work of the Law. Abraham believed God and his faith was counted to him for his
righteousness way way before Moses was even born. This positioned
Abraham (who had not the Law of Moses) in the position of being IN
COVENANT WITH GOD AND WALKING WITH GOD (attached, tied together,
connected). Abraham was Gods man and God was Abraham's God and exceeding
great reward. Abraham's faith was counted for his righteousness
without the deeds of the law. Righteousness and holiness are
two different things. (Faith justifies meaning makes one have right
standing with God, & Holiness sanctifies, makes one fit for the
Masters use). Righteousness is your position with God BY FAITH. Holiness
is from your commitment to Jesus as his bride or wife as to sin not
against Him. To help this generation get this I will go out of the box a little to help them see it. Faith connects you, attaches and marries you to Christ. Holiness is your marital spiritual love making to him in faithfulness and purity. Because of our weaknesses thru the flesh God
chose to save us and justify us BY FAITH in Christ the Passover Lamb and
not by the works of the holy law, which Peter and Paul learned from
Jesus that no one could keep the Law as to never sin. No not even one. I
can't and you can't. Lets not kid ourselves. The Laws standard for
righteousness was to keep all its rules and regulations flawlessly, not
committing one sin was the demanded standard for righteousness or for
RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD by the law. No one but Jesus could do that. We
needed ANOTHER WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN THE KEEPING OF THE LAW...this
is why Christ came. To give us something to BELIEVE for righteousness
just as God came to Abraham to give Abraham words and promises to
BELIEVE so that his faith, WHAT HE BELIEVED would be counted to him as
his righteousness, his connect, his tie to God, his attachment, HIS
RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. Faith in Christ blood, death and
resurrection puts us in GOOD POSITION WITH GOD WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE
LAW JUST AS IT DID ABRAHAM AND YET EVEN IN A GREATER POSITION WITH GOD
THAN HE HAD. Abraham was a friend of God on earth. In Christ we are the
Sons of God on earth. Big BIG position difference. BETTER POSITION,
BETTER COVENANT. BETTER RELATIONSHIP. Abraham called God God, We call
Abraham's God our FATHER "dad" DADDY as Jesus did. The lost
have no right standing with God because of their unbelief. Their
position in standing with God is the position of being FAR OFF FROM GOD
because of their unbelief. An unbelieving Jew may live by the law of
Moses strictly. He may abstain from pork, women, and the world as a
separated life by the deeds of the law, BUT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT BELIEVE
THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND THE CHRIST, HE HAS NO RIGHTEOUSNESS or
RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. His unbelief condemns him, (it disconnects him,
unties, and detaches him from God). That means he is not in right
standing with God anymore. His righteousness is ZERO because of his
unbelief. Jesus told them, If you do not believe that I am the Son of
God and the Christ, then in that standing you will die in your sins.
That is not a good position to be in before God.(John 8:24). So
concerning the unbelieving Law keeping Jew, his holiness is his great
deception and his unbelief is his condemnation. His unbelief condemns
him for whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23)).
This mentioned above is why Jesus said in John 3:16-18) that he
that BELIEVES IN ME IS NOT CONDEMNED (His faith gives him GOOD STANDING WITH GOD), but he that believes not is
CONDEMNED ALREADY. Meaning there is nothing God can do for those who are
not in the position of right standing with God that can only come from
faith in Jesus Christ. Abraham believed Gods promise and HIS FAITH
JUSTIFIED HIM AND HIS FAITH WAS COUNTED AS HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, as HIS
RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. Therefore we conclude that what we
believe and confess about Jesus is VERY IMPORTANT. It is the connect or
disconnect positioning place. John 5:24 reveals the glory of those
connected, those who believe and whose faith in Jesus Christ blood,
death and resurrection is their righteousness THEIR POSITION OF RIGHT
STANDING WITH GOD. John 5:24 is powerful good news......deno.
Believe
it or not, the faith and righteous conviction of our founding fathers
and the people who laid the ground work of our nation, they were
militant police minded, military minded Christians. They believed in the
love of God and in the love in the Cross of Christ as Christians, but
they were also wise to the serpent, and not blind to the evils of people
so they enforced the rule of law severely
to keep the peace and to protect the innocent, God fearing, law abiding
citizens just as God did in heaven using also loyal and faithful angels
(heavens army and police) when Satan turned to lawless behavior to over
throw heavens Peace, Governor, God and His Constitution of the way He
governs His creation, His creatures, the citizens of heaven. Now that's a powerful sentence filled with truth. Doing this for centuries kept evil and crime low in our nation and our
streets were filled with a pleasant hello how are you today spirit of
peace and hospitality between people who were PROUD TO BE AMERICANS.
Community discipline and self control was every where. The ambitious and
the God fearing were full of dreams and hope in the new land of promise
for the individual. Men under this new Constitution could even rise up
as kings of their own empires if they were diligent, determined, disciplined, and
obeyed the Constitution and the laws of the land agreed on by THE PEOPLE
for this new free nation. This was no fantasy, this was how most of
America really was for centuries. No not perfect but still yet filled
with BIG DREAMERS. America was full of people who understood the need of
the rule of law and to the adherence to those laws. She was full of
people who were very mannerly and so polite in the streets and in the
market places, schools, and homes. A God Fearing Christian Nation. The
further we keep drifting from this truth and from the Spirit of the
Christian light, love, faith, hope, and convictions the uglier America
and her streets keep getting. Our founding fathers and those
who laid the ground work for our nation had wisdom enough to know that
freedom in this world has to be won by faith in God, by the courage of
the people, defended by the people, and upheld by the people. They knew
the history of the kings of the earth, of the worlds governing powers,
and dictators and how evil many of them were to the people they ruled
over. This is part of the reason why we have the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
AMENDMENT. Then as we grew up and increased in the wisdom of the fruits
of freedom we also had to learn that our Constitution was to be the
upheld truth for all men. Would we as one nation under God live what we
professed that all men are created equal no matter their skin tone.
Truth pricked the conscience of the nation to be true to the
Constitution for all men. We went to war to mend our wrong. Freedom
expanded in her reach. But I must also speak of this truth. Without united Patriotism, without love for God and country, and without obeying the rule of Gods law to love your neighbor as yourself, freedom in this land where most of the weight is placed upon the individual, freedom can be very cruel to the non ambitious, and to the lazy who all they want to do is to have pleasure without sacrifice or discipline. To those who have no lofty dreams. The envious it can crush. The less fortunate could end up on the streets fighting for survival or run to lawlessness living and looting which destroys more the soul. Freedom without the rule of Gods law obeyed to love your neighbor as yourself (whether your rich or poor), is a smouldering fire. And when on top of this lawlessness you refuse to enforce the rule of the laws of the land and let the looting go unrestrained or not countered or with force responded to, the nation only doubles its trouble in the end and adds more fuel to the smouldering fire. You give it oxygen to grow and to spread its destructive course in future confident filled raids. But today this also must be said. Today in
this free nation, there are still people who have evil agendas and an
unhealthy abnormal lust for greed and for power over the people. Those
governing powers (PEOPLE) that lust for power and control over the fruits of the citizens labors, over their productivity, prosperity and wealth, these same power hungry
people despise the 2nd amendment and strive and look for all kinds of
reasons to have it removed to disarm the citizens....Maybe even to go as
for as to arrange terror to justify the disarming. GOD
KNOWS...Certainly this would be the greatest betrayal of a great
Constitution and nation. Lust for power and greed are the root
of all evil and history proves evil will go to all measures to gratify
its desires..Only We The People Can Keep That From Happening. BY FAITH
AND COURAGE FREEDOM REMAINS FREE. Believe it or not, this was the heart,
spirit, convictions, and the courage of our founding fathers and the
people who laid the ground work for our freedoms....Just saying. This
was the heart of our politicians and governing officials for
centuries.....deno.
Then
Peter rose up, took out his sword and cut one of those soldiers ears
off. Well meaning Peter got out of line. I mean he wanted to protect his
Redeemer from the worlds hate and harm as to draw his sword in defense
of his Master, but his zeal and love for Jesus was about to get him in a
world of sorrow and pain, being MISDIRECTED BY EMOTION INSTEAD OF
WISDOM and contrary to the will of God. Jesus had to drink that cup. He
had to taste death by way of the cross and Peter again was trying to keep it far from the Lord thru his zeal. Many times, in haste
and in zeal we shoot off out the mouth or draw a kind of sword so to
speak to stand up stand up for Jesus, but we act in zeal more than in
wisdom, and we end up (though meaning well) making a mess of things,
even as to cause our own selves/ministries/reputations harm acting sometimes to prematurely. Well had Jesus not healed that soldier, well meaning Peter would have
been in a world of double his trouble. The Roman law was if you attack a
Roman soldier like Peter did, you got the death sentence PERIOD. Jesus
healing that soldier not only gave strong witness that He was the Christ
(Gods Anointed to heal), but He also got Peter out of a world of death
for striking an officer in the Roman police force. Has your zeal for the
Lord got you in a mess? There is grace given us in Jesus for the fix and to mend a mess.
Ask and you shall receive......deno.
A famous quote says, Love is the absence of judgement..And the
people applauded those words.......Does this mean then that ANYTHING
GOES?....and that no one should say nothing about lawlessness and
misconduct called sin?......then accountability must be thrown out the
window. Gods acceptance of the sinner by Jesus Christ is
truly from love and Gods love (Jesus Christ First Preached Word was
repent, resist the devil, be penitent, do not love your sin) but love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all
your strength and that we show Him love when we uphold, promote, and
keep His commandments. Faith and lawlessness combined is the
lie and a formed religion of the AntiChrist spirit....Anything goes to
the man of sin, the lawless one. But God is light and walks in light and
tell us all in His true love for us, for us to have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness. Friends, the idea that Gods
love is the absence of judgement is a lie. Lucifer preached the non
consequence love lie to Adam & Eve also and look where it got them.
Love has holy standards. Love draws lines. Love draws lines because true
love cares. Parents who really love their children, they have home
rules and enforce them from true love. Parents that love
their children, their love for their children is not with the absence of
judgement...Just wait till you get home Dad said often to me and my
brother for acting up in church when Dad was preaching...The bible says,
those that do not rebuke their children (that is Judgement) and that
use not the rod (that is the Judgement paddle) they HATE THEIR
CHILDREN...But if you think other wise because in your mind you are
wiser and smarter than God, then you hate God. So you say and
you think love is the absent of judgement, then you do not really
understand properly the God of the bible. Perfect love Himself shall JUDGE the
whole world. His eyes to some will be as flames of fire taking vengeance
on them that knew not the one true God and who despised His Son and His Blood....Have mercy Lord, have
mercy.....deno.
Luke 22:43)...Jesus was in agony in the garden. Sweat like drops
of blood were pouring from him in his strong distress of facing the
cross. He was experiencing what we often call HIGH ANXIETY (panic attack
like pressure) although our light affliction is nothing compared to
what his soul was grieving over that night. Lucifer was wrestling with
him over the cross saying over and over again, BE THIS (Cross) FAR FROM
YOU. He was to pay the full merciless, mercy filled price for the sin of
all the world though he was more pure in heart than a child.
Praying and praying unto almost dying from the weight of all that
darkness power that was warring against him, in that hour of the power of darkness against him mightily, in the darkest day of the Lords entire eternity, God caused a beautiful
thing to happen for His Son who had become flesh.....vs 43) And suddenly there appeared an ANGEL unto him
from heaven and strengthened him. (A created holy in spirit creature was sent to help and strengthened even his Creator)......After this divine intervention of grace and the glory of God, Jesus never again was in sorrow over the cross. After that angel strengthened our Lord, He for the joy that was set before him ENDURED THE CROSS. Lord in our distress and
anxiety of soul may the angels from heaven appear and strengthen us as
that angel strengthened our Master. In Jesus Name....Amen....This is
acceptable scripture....It happened.....deno.
The
gay marriage issue that is before the Supreme Court today has so much
weighing on their decision. The future moral course of America is on the
line. It is pushed before the Supreme Court as a civil right. But in
all the spirit realms of God in heaven and of Satan in hell, they all
see this as a vote for a SINFUL RIGHT, being voted for in the land of
those who once were so happy to say by faith and in holy, righteous, God Fearing conviction, IN
GOD WE TRUST. If the Supreme Court sides
with man (HUMANIST) on this issue and not with God and His Words, then
our own United States Supreme Court has exalted their power and
authority above the Throne of God and His Eternal Courts Laws. The
consequence of this upon our nation (if they choose man over God on this
sinful right) shall be wounds that we have never seen the likes nor the
measure before in our nation. Salt shall have lost it seasoning in
America. Even now, we can see and tell that something is happening to our nation. God for centuries has kept together this nation despite all our struggles. As He Himself was the strength of Noahs Ark, to keep it from coming apart at the seams, even so God has blessed our nation for Centuries with His upholding grace and power. He has kept evil at bay. Light kept darkness in check. But sin is so abounding today that Americas atmosphere has been invaded with change. It is in the spirit more wicked spirits are roaming and indwelling many detected by the increase of the love for darkness more than light, by the love for pleasures more than love for God, and by shocking lawlessness increasing. Job's hedge has now broader openings, and the watchman are preaching gold above obeying God in holiness and righteousness. The word repent seems an ugly word hard to proceed from the watchmans lips. It does not sparkle and shine to the eyes of the flesh and to those who love life in this present world. Those who are ignorant or blind, when they are
judged they receive the lessor blows for they lack understanding. But to
have known the Lord and His ways and to on purpose remove His yoke off
your life (Nation) is the same road Lucifer stumbled and tripped upon when he revolted
against God and His Authority. Great was his fall from heaven. He went from extremely blessed to extremely eternally cursed forever. He chose that which was forbidden by God. This
issue (Gay Sin Issue) is to be in private and not a public issue. Good and holy parents do not want their children to know what goes on in the bedroom (Its a holy place. A private place). Such is a very private matter to the holy. Even so this bedroom behavior of men with men and women with women is to never be a Supreme Court decision or ruling as to approve. GOD HAS ALREADY LAID THE LAW DOWN ON THIS SIN. This particular sin is one the scriptures prove God is VERY VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT. You see this in the scriptures by His strong rebukes, by His forbidding words of this sin, and by His horrifying judgements that He poured out upon the people who demanded this was their right though they were warned to repent. God, the Word of His Authority, and to many millions and millions of people and parents with children oppose this
sin to force it upon the nation as a civil right. This vote or the
redefining of marriage by our Supreme Court to God is not weighed as a
civil right but a sinful right. They must not forget this.......God
Save Our Nation......deno.....share freely.
When Jesus was on earth people heard and saw angels. People saw visions of the Lord. People received dreams from God. People marveled at Jesus. People were astonished at his doctrines and the way Jesus taught. People said, Jesus' word was with power. People rejoiced that such healing power was given by God to men when they saw the works of God thru Jesus. People spoke highly of Jesus. People stood in awe of Jesus. People said, Jesus was a mighty prophet and that thru Jesus God was visiting His people Israel. People praised Jesus for healing their loved ones and raising their children from the dead. Some people witnessed Jesus heal everyone in a certain city, as it is written, And Jesus healed them all. A man called Jesus GOOD MASTER, and asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life, but that same man left the conversation saddened and UNSAVED. Friends, thousands and thousands of people said all kinds of nice and good things about Jesus and to Jesus. They witnessed him do all kinds of miracles of healing when he was ministering the love and power of God in earth. But friends it is so important to note that none of those nice words that they said of Jesus, or to Jesus saved a one of them. Even a man that Jesus said the words, "You have answered well", when that man had said the greatest commandment of all was, Hear O Israel, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, the bible said Jesus marveled at that mans sweet answer, but even that great answer did not save that man. Jesus said to him, You Are Not Far From The Kingdom of God. So many praise the Lord from time to time. So many even speak well of the Lord from time to time. Some people even are amazed and stand in awe at Jesus and some call him a good man, a great teacher, even a holy man and even a prophet of the Most High, yet those same souls, though they are so close yet have they not entered into the kingdom of God. Scroll Down.
It is those who repent and believe, it is those who live what they say they believe, and know and call Jesus Lord, the true Christ, the Son of God and obey him, and believe that he died for our sins and rose again from the dead, they are the ones saved. Just awing at Jesus, marveling at Jesus, praising Jesus, calling Jesus a good man, a good teacher, a good Master, or a holy man, or a prophet, those nice words do not qualify anyone unto salvation. So many are so close yet still far away. Have you been born again?....deno.....share freely.
