True Faith works through and
in Love,wherein His Grace is received through the ontological essence of the Spirit of Christ having been restored to the redeemed person, when he operates in and by Christ's Faith only. For this is how Adam lived before the fall into darkness in death and sin. Wherein man then lived by his own inventions and self will and developed self-sufficiency because he could no longer trust any one else. What he did not know is this, man was first birthed a receptive being who would draw from a spiritual source either for his good or for his worst in evil. He did not know that in God alone is all goodness to be found and in the evil was all sorts of previsions in iniquity and evil which have there beginning in his mind, intellect, imaginations, opinions and then to his will and emotions in his fallen state.
Just
here we'll quote in part from a book written by Andrew Murray entitled “The
Two Covenant” which is available in the public domain the
following: “It
has pleased Him (God), not as an arbitrary appointment, but for good and
wise reasons, which made it indispensably necessary that it should be
so, and not otherwise. The clearer our insight into the reasons, and
the Divine reasonableness, of there thus being two covenants, and
into their relation to each other, the more full and true can be our
own personal apprehension of what the New Covenant is meant to be to
us. They indicate two stages in God's dealing with man; two ways of
serving God, a lower or elementary one of preparation and promise (the
first estate into which all professing to believe are placed by God in redemption),
a higher or more advanced one of fulfillment and possession (the
greater blessing of promise, which requires our willingness to enter
only after having passed through the first and our acceptance of the
crisis, the cross through the Lord's Supper and garden cup wherein death to the sin nature takes place and we then receive a new the ontological essence of the Spirit of Christ as promised in Genesis 3:15).
As that in which the true excellency of the second consists is opened
up to us, we can spiritually enter into what God has prepared for us.
Let us try and understand why there should have been two, neither
less nor more.
In the very nature of things
there was no other way possible to God than this in dealing with a
being whom He had endowed with the Godlike power of a will. (This is seen in Adam before the fall as Genesis record reveals.) And all
the weight this reason for the Divine procedure has in God's dealing
with His people as a whole, it equally has in dealing with the
individual. (Again as the vow to mans being restored to has first state of being while remaining within the body prepared for him, a spiritual or heavenly being conjoined to God through Christ, and in Christ. Which like Adams willful act caused mans fall so our willful act of receptive trust will cause His Faith in Love to string to Life within us again.) The two covenants represent two stages of God's education
of man and of man's seeking after God. The progress and transition
from the one to the other is not merely chronological or historical;
it is organic and spiritual. In greater or lesser degree it is seen
in every member of the body, as well as in the body as a whole. (Every person ever born of woman has within them a conscience of goodness awaiting in receptive anticipation (in hungering and thirsting) the Light of the Gospel through a change of natures. This takes place when the flesh of mans heart is circumcised by God. Which is a reversal of what took place in woman and then in Adam at the instant of the transgression and his receiving the nature of Satan and becoming a child of his.) Under
the Old Covenant there were men in whom, by anticipation, the powers
of the coming redemption worked mightily. (These are the righteous man and woman of faith as listed in Luke chapter 3 and Hebrews 11. These are also those seen when the earth quaked and the graves were opened at the moment of Christ first resurrection as witnessed in Matthew 27:51-53.) In the New Covenant there
are men in whom the spirit of the Old still makes itself manifest. (This is seen in all who stick with mans religion and thereby the deadness of the literal letter and are known by their actions and words as dead witness of their own choosing. Though the seed remains within and is receptive of the Truth but as just said they refuse Christ who is alone all Truth as John bears witness in chapter 1 and elsewhere in his witness message.))
The New Testament proves, in some of its most important Epistles,-
especially those to the Galatians, Romans, and Hebrews, how possible
it is within the New Covenant still to be held fast in the bondage of
the Old by a spiritual force known as religion (And I might add mans unredeemed reasoning's through the use of taking all things in a literal fashion instead of figuratively as they were first meant to be, in faith. For religion comes from the Latin word "religare" which means to hinder, bind or to restrict, as when a policeman hand cuffs a suspect and thereby takes control of his actions. For all religion apart from God's limited form as seen in James chapter 1 and verse 27 is of mans design and making in accord with the evil one. And can be best seen in Revelation chapters 16 starting at verse 19 on through to chapter 18 verse 24.).”
This is inserted because of
our statements of their being a first estate in which we're given the
Holy Spirit as our first blessing who as our aid and helper, teacher,
tutor and trainer and guide into all things spiritual and a second of
greater blessing than the first. And the requirement of our
willingness to die to all that is worldly, literal, carnal or of
religion and of self and self motivation and self sufficiency. There
are many a Bible student who have gone on before us who by way of the
Holy Spirit have been enlightened to the secrets that the Apostle
Paul has opened to us, these men be many and to name just a few are
the mystics, Enoch, Jasher though Jasher is not a proper name but is rather a book that draws a true and straight line of delineation, a plumb-line, Jacob Bohmen, William Law who rewrote, ie...interpreted
Jacob Bohmen's works, Andrew Murray who also noted the writings of
William Law and other such men of renown as, Major Ian Thomas,
Watchman Nee, E.W. Kenyon even modern day James Fowler of “Christ
In You Ministries” and Les Feldick of "through the Bible with Les Feldick" a simple study in the basics of scripture, to name but a few. William Law
has a book which posses the argument between a institutional or
religious literal belief system of err and the spiritual system in
which is Truth of all that the Lord reveals of Himself during the
Marriage Feast of the Lamb or the LORD's Passover meal which we're endeavored to
share herein. It's titled “A Demonstration of the Gross and
Fundamental Errors” written around the 1600's. My wife just opened
this book as of May 2013 and it bears witness and is therefore
confirmation to what we herein have already written.
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