Isaiah 58 Ministries Deborah
April 5, 2013
Pastor: Leah Svensson vs
Pastor: Leah Svensson vs
Jezebel
Scriptures: Ephesian 1, Galatians 2:4, Galatians 3:1, Collosians 1:9, Romans 2,
2 Corinthians 11, Judges 4:4, Proverbs 12:4, Judges 4:9, Titus 2, 1 Timothy 2, 1 Kings 18, 1 Kings 25
Theme
Deborah was a woman devoted to God, holy, pure, virtuous, clean before God. Jezebel participate in many different occults, she was a murderer, a sly, wicked, filthy minded Queen.
The Bible is like a carefully and meticulously woven piece of cloth or a high quality, finely made Tapestry. You start with two pieces of thread and keep adding according to a precise blueprint/design.
With a tapestry there is always a threaded side underlying the design on top that is not meant to be seen. With woven material you see all of the threads.
The Bible is a tapestry woven richly, meticulously by men led by the Holy Spirit. It isn't until you know Jesus as our Savior that the tapestry is no longer a tapestry that you hang on the wall or put on the floor. It then becomes a piece of woven cloth that God makes into a garment of salvation and a robe of righteous. Only those who want to know God can see the woven cloth and want an outfit made by the hand of God.
The Bible, when woven correctly, can be seen as a beautiful splendid work of God! Knitted together with the leadership of a very skilled worker, God, and you can see the craftsmanship in every little detail. When the Bible becomes a woven piece of cloth to you, you can easily see that it was impossible for a man to have written the Bible. From Genesis to Revelations you can see the higher intelligence of God.
So we need to see Deborah not as a tapestry, where you don’t see what is motivating her, what is in her. We must do the same with Jezebel. We have to see these women as a piece of cloth, where you see what is beneath the surface.
When you read the Bible and only take out one or two threads, (scriptures), you start another religion, an occult. An occult that puts men into bondage, leading men away from God and put them into slavery to the devil and other men.
A lot of people have started a new sexually perverted “love” religion, where it is ok for women to abandon their children and even murder their embryo's/ infants to fulfill their sensuality, take care of themselves first, selfishly off of Deborah with this scripture taken out of context:
Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.
This new religion should actually be using Jezebel as their example of a woman leader not Deborah. Why? (See Sermon)
2 Corinthians 11:19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! 20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.
2 Corinthians 11:26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. 27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. 28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
Galatians 2:4 This matter arose because some false believers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.
Galatians 3:1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.
Romans 2:
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
Sermon
Deborah
There are very few women leaders in the bible because women are to be keepers at home and it is a sin for a woman to have authority over a man. One woman stands out and feminists love to use her as an example or as a shield to condone working women. But this woman had “great”, I mean “great” faith in God to see his laws taught, his word upheld, his love and protection proclaimed everywhere. This woman is:
Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. 7 I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’ ”
8 Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”
9 “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. 10 There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.
She was the exception. Not the rule.
It is Not normal for women to be leaders in society. It is natural for women to be leaders in the home. Deborah had to be a leader because the men had lost their way. God couldn't find a man with the same faith she had in God to provide, deliver, and bring forth true justice. The men had all fallen into sin and were evil. The men were afraid of their enemies.
Doing Good for the Sake of the Gospel
Titus 2:1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
1 Timothy 2:12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. (two exceptions; when there is no man with faith in God, and when the men do not know the way of God or are non-believers. Then the woman has the authority of God himself.) This is what I have,. It is why I write this to you from God.
There is a huge difference between a woman who has faith in God and a prostitute, a woman who weakens a man using feminine wiles to get him to do evil, wicked acts, such at Jezebel! A woman who has faith in God is Holy like a nun! Pure in thought, mind, and body. So before someone uses Deborah as an example for women they better be really pure, holy, clean in thought mind and body! Or else, they are nothing more than harlots leading men and women into sexual sin and depravity.
There are many religions, “god’s” for that kind of woman, Baal, Vensus, Medusa, etc.
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In America we have millions of men. Are you telling me that all the men in America are afraid of their enemies and have “NO” faith in God to save? That is the only time you need a woman leader. Here at Isaiah 58 Ministries we spend every minute of every day seeking to be like Deborah. It takes a person who is very, very dedicated to living a life separate in conversation, pure, holy, clean in thought, mind, body, fearing God rather than men. It takes a person who is very, very dedicated to living a separate life in conversation and apart from the world in order to have faith in God.
Not one person who I have heard espouse Deborah as God giving women the “right” to work outside the home, and be leaders, say that women have to be as dedicated to God, holy, devote, pious and godly like Deborah. On the contrary they say women cannot help but be sinful. They cannot help but be angry and frustrated at their children and therefore need to put them in daycare or public schools. These same women who desire leadership roles within the Church or feel God has a leadership role for them need to look first to their own homes, to being a keeper at home, to raising calm, honest, holy children. Then, the Lord will use them and no one will be able to stop them or shut them up. God has a place for everyone in the Body of Christ. Women are to teach the younger women how to be keepers at home, how to love their husbands and pray for them and lift them up.
Titus 2:3-5 ……teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind……
When we want to see what a godly woman looks like, look no further than Proverbs 31. This girl does it ALL!! She sews, she cooks, she buys fields and runs them, she makes sure everyone under her is safe and well dressed and well fed. HOWEVER, when it comes to public or church leadership, it's her MAN that is in this certain position of leadership. It's precisely because she runs the affairs at home like a well oiled machine that her husband can take the time to discuss and take care of public and church issues that may arise.
" Well known in the gates is her husband,
Where he sitteth among the elders of the land."
Such a wife is, according to Proverbs 12:4, עטרת בּעלּ×”ּ, - she advances the estimation and the respect in which her husband is held. He has, in the gates where the affairs of the city are deliberated upon, a well-known, reputable name; for there he sits, along with the elders of the land, who are chosen into the council of the city as the chief place of the land, and has a weighty voice among them.
Deborah did not hold one of these "positions in the gates," rather, she stayed about 10 miles outside of the gates under a date palm tree and people came to her for her to judge in their disputes. I see many godly women doing just this in their families and in the absence of a godly man able to judge, someone's got to do it! However to tout Deborah as a real warrior is wrong. Deborah and God wanted a man to lead men into battle and it was because of his cowardliness in asking a woman to go along that it was another woman to eventually won the decisive victory over their enemies.
People who desire to have women in the same position in leadership as men cannot quote the Bible to support their beliefs, they need to give their religion, their belief system, a different name like Jezebels. Jezebel was a wicked, merciless murderous, violent queen, or the harlot club or maybe even Amazon women, (and I'm not just talking about good online shoppers). Now Amazon women would be a good name for their religion, they believe in women having dominion over men and subduing them. They believe women are to be seducing men into sin, lust, pornography, away from faith in God. Men should put their trust in women as more than equals, smarter than men. (Just watch TV, this attitude of belittling, demeaning, and degrading men comes a crossed on every show you watch.)
1 Kings 18:.....13 Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD?.......
1 Kings 21:25 (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife. 26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)
Why? To take power away from men. The power that comes from living in fear of God, devoted to him. It is called the “power” of God! The power of the “Holy Spirit”! ( Samson is the example: Delilah found out the secret to his power and took it from him.)
God shamed the men in Deborah’s situation for not having faith in Him and for letting a women ease their fear and be their leader. God mocked the men because they were afraid and the women were not. Saying God would used a woman to get the victory to their shame and embarrassment.
Judges 4:9 “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. 10 There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.
To be sure, women, you would do much better to have humble spirits and do as the godly women in the Bible. Sarah submitted to Abraham and was blessed in her old age with a child she thought she would never have. Ruth obeyed her mother in law and had faith in God as she humbly gleaned off a Godly man's field who asked her to marry him and fought for her. She is in the lineage of Christ. Ester obeyed her uncle and humbly went before a king she did not really know. 3X she went and used wisdom and tact and instead of facing the sword she found favor and saved her people. She was risen to a place of esteem through her humbleness, not through grabbing at leadership as her predecessor. Anna was a prophetess who God showed who the Christ child would be. Mary, Mary, and Martha took backseat positions of equality. A contradiction? No, we are all to learn and be disciples but there was not a woman among the 12 for a reason even though there were many devoted women following Christ. Mary, to be sure was the very first evangelists. She saw the empty tomb and the risen Lord first- she was told to go and tell the disciples. Women were among the 120 being filled with the Holy Ghost on Pentecost. Aquilla worked beside her husband and the two of them taught Paul the way of Christ. And there is a mention to "Our Elect Lady" in the New Testament who very well could have opened up her home to a home church. However, none of these women were in a position to take man's position, to usurp it. The New Testament gives qualifications for men in leadership for a reason and not women.
Paul gives place to virgins who commit their lives to attendance to the Lord. In these women, I believe such as were Mary and Martha and Mary the woman caught in adultery they had utterly given themselves over to the cause of Christ. And many men- evil men and evil women have used Paul's admonition for women to be "silent in the Church," as a way to wrongly dominate and control. These people ought not be in any sort of leadership at all as well. Women are to prophesy and be able to speak as the Spirit gives them utterance, as should children. But a wise woman finds it a blessing to rule the roost at home and giving her husband the ability to be "known in the gates."
There is one man even men have to obey: Jesus Christ
God has put his word in our hearts and without the Bible we can't know and do the will of God. But it gives us boldness to read the Bible, (Jesus Christ is the Bible), and obey. We try our best to obey the Bible on the highway of Holiness. We are here teaching women to be self-controled, keepers at home, loving their husbands and children. Why? That is where God’s anointing is. He ordained women to do this.
You will not see the anointing, or power of God in the work place because God doesn't Bless the work place, public schools, churches, or even governments who believe/think the blessings of God come in the form of added revenue, profit, increase money or assets.
A man of God/ woman of God has to understand what forms God’s blessing come in. A marriage, a child, a home to raise the child, animals, crops to feed and care for the family.
God ordains and anoints Fathers and Mothers in the Ten Commandments as the only true leaders on the earth. They are the most powerful union, (when Holy), on the face of the earth. They are so important that God commands that a child be stoned to death if they rebel against their parents, or ”Godly”, teachings”! Praise God we have Jesus to make this not necessary!
A Rebellious Son; (children of the past 70 decades 1950-present day)
Deuteronomy 21:18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
When you go to work you are not doing so in the love and power of God.
Men, fathers, are ordained and anointed by God to work the land. (Even the Levites, priests had to tend their own lands)
Women, mothers are ordained and anointed by God to raise children and do things pertaining to the home.
The church is ordained and anointed by God to teach every word in the Bible!! Every word. As if every word is the Truth, is Jesus, is powerful and written by the Hand of Almighty God. Right now many preachers have no faith in the power of a very Holy God and His word. They only preach about 1,000 twisted words out of the bible.
The government is ordained and anointed by God to protect these God given rights of the God given institute of marriage. The authority of Fathers and Mothers…..
Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Ephesains1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
Thanksgiving and Prayer
15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Collosians 1:9……………..
We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, [fn5] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you [fn6] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Dueteronomy 28
Blessings for Obedience
1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:
3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you. 11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.
12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.
We are doing everything we can to obey God and to obey; blessings are what we seek from the hand of Almighty God. Right now the world is on the wrong road. They need to get on the right road of obeying God and we can all find out how easy life really is for everyone. How sicknesses and diseases just dry up and disappear. Health springs forth on everyone and every living thing. When the righteous are in power the people rejoice and are glad……
We find out how loving and Good God is!
Extra teaching:
The Law.
What is it?
What law did Jesus set us free from, that we now walk by faith and not by sight?
There is a difference between Christians and Jews.
The Jews are taught all kinds of laws and ordinances they have to do in order to be forgiven. They have sacrifices to make, they have to clean their dishes a certain way at a certain time, they have to circumcise their children when they are 8 days old. Now all these laws have very practical applications. There are medical reasons for all the things they do. But only the Ten Commandments deals with the soul. The mind is the soul! Keeping the mind clean and free from sin.
Our conscience!
Christians believe Jesus died for us, he is the Messiah. We no longer have to sacrifice animal after animal for different sins. But there are a lot of things that are good to do. Watching for different molds are good. Washing dishes is good. Circumcision is good. Jesus teaches us a new way, if we eat any deadly thing it will not harm us, we have power over all the power of the enemy, he heals, but the most important thing Jesus did for us is tear apart the curtain, veil in half, so all men can hear from God. Everyone can have God's word written in our hearts, we have the Holy spirit that gives us self-control so we do not sin any more. Because sin makes a person sick. That is why Jesus forgives a person's sin, or the sin someone committed against them, then he heals then says, go and sin no more. It is the Holy Spirit, the power of God! The most important commandment is to love God and if you love God you would never hurt yourself, (sin against yourself) and you would never hurt anyone made in the image of God, (unless in self-defense).
God puts His love in you and you love everyone with God's love. The Holy Spirit is the power of God to live sinless on the earth. Plus when we are dead to ourselves and it is no longer us living but Jesus living through us, we do not sin.. The Holy spirit doesn't sin; Jesus doesn't sin. The only time a Christian sins is when they turn away from God...... that is why God in His love in us has us tell everyone turn from wanting, desiring, longing for the sin, turn to God, love God He will set you free!!!!! Where the Spirit, the love of God, the holiness, the purity of God is, there is freedom from all bondage, sickness, disease, broken limbs, blindness, etc........... Freedom from whatever control us, makes you suffer.....
2 Corinthians 3: 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Jews still have to have their sins forgiven through sacrifice of animals and they stay healthy through obeying cleanliness. Which is very good. But it only through Christ that the insides, our minds, souls can be clean and in the mind can dwell the God head itself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, causing us to live a holy sinless perfect life before God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Extra teaching:
The Law.
What is it?
What law did Jesus set us free from, that we now walk by faith and not by sight?
There is a difference between Christians and Jews.
The Jews are taught all kinds of laws and ordinances they have to do in order to be forgiven. They have sacrifices to make, they have to clean their dishes a certain way at a certain time, they have to circumcise their children when they are 8 days old. Now all these laws have very practical applications. There are medical reasons for all the things they do. But only the Ten Commandments deals with the soul. The mind is the soul! Keeping the mind clean and free from sin.
Our conscience!
Christians believe Jesus died for us, he is the Messiah. We no longer have to sacrifice animal after animal for different sins. But there are a lot of things that are good to do. Watching for different molds are good. Washing dishes is good. Circumcision is good. Jesus teaches us a new way, if we eat any deadly thing it will not harm us, we have power over all the power of the enemy, he heals, but the most important thing Jesus did for us is tear apart the curtain, veil in half, so all men can hear from God. Everyone can have God's word written in our hearts, we have the Holy spirit that gives us self-control so we do not sin any more. Because sin makes a person sick. That is why Jesus forgives a person's sin, or the sin someone committed against them, then he heals then says, go and sin no more. It is the Holy Spirit, the power of God! The most important commandment is to love God and if you love God you would never hurt yourself, (sin against yourself) and you would never hurt anyone made in the image of God, (unless in self-defense).
God puts His love in you and you love everyone with God's love. The Holy Spirit is the power of God to live sinless on the earth. Plus when we are dead to ourselves and it is no longer us living but Jesus living through us, we do not sin.. The Holy spirit doesn't sin; Jesus doesn't sin. The only time a Christian sins is when they turn away from God...... that is why God in His love in us has us tell everyone turn from wanting, desiring, longing for the sin, turn to God, love God He will set you free!!!!! Where the Spirit, the love of God, the holiness, the purity of God is, there is freedom from all bondage, sickness, disease, broken limbs, blindness, etc........... Freedom from whatever control us, makes you suffer.....
2 Corinthians 3: 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Jews still have to have their sins forgiven through sacrifice of animals and they stay healthy through obeying cleanliness. Which is very good. But it only through Christ that the insides, our minds, souls can be clean and in the mind can dwell the God head itself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, causing us to live a holy sinless perfect life before God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love for Enemies: Preach the Gospel to them! Repent! Be filled with the love of God, receive God's power to live sin free!! Use your freewill! Say it! I have my own freewill! The devil no longer owns me! People can no longer control me, oppress me! God has set me free from sin and sinful people!
Matthew 5:43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
2 Corinthians 6: 14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”
17 Therefore,
“Come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”
18 And,
“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”
says the Lord Almighty.”
