The Issues About Women’s Liberty: The Giving of the Law (Part 29)

Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is

designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until

the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

right in. Colossians chapter 2 I'm trusting God

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

we're supposed to finish off the last part for

this today. Amen. I guess is it 29 today? Hallelujah.

Colossians chapter 2 verse 15. Having disarmed

Colossians 2:15

principalities, and powers. He made a public

spectacle of them triumphing over them in it.

So let no one judge you in food or in drink,

or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbath,

which are a shadow of the things to come, where

the substance Let no one cheat you of your reward,

taking delight in false humility and worship

of angels, intruding into those things which

he has not seen. from whom all the body nourished

and knit together by joints and ligaments, grow

with the increase that is from God. Therefore,

if you died with Christ from the basic principles

of the world, why, as though living in the world,

do you subject yourself to regulations, do not

touch? do not test, do not handle, which all

concerning this, which concerning things which

perish with the using, according to the commandment

and doctrine of men. These things indeed have

an appearance of wisdom in self -imposed religion.

false humility and neglect of the body, but are

of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Chapter 3 verse 1. If then you were raised with

Christ, seek those things which are above, where

Christ is sitting, at the right hand of God.

Set your mind on things above, not on the things

on the earth for you will die and your life is

hidden with christ in god hallelujah so what

i will just do today is just to look at the implications

for getting involved in the worship of angels

the implications of getting involved in the worship

of angels. In other words, what is the implication

of practicing the law? Even while you are saved,

even while you have been purchased, you have

been redeemed by the blood, what is the implication

of practicing the law? Look at verse 17. after

the two of collusions. He said, which are a shadow

of the things to come, but the substance is of

Christ. Verse 16, so let no one judge you in

food or in drink, or regarding a festival, or

a new moon, or sabbaths. He was just describing

the law, and which we said, That actually involved

in the law means involved in the religion of

angels or in the worship of angels And then he

said the law verse 17 is a which are a shadow

of the things to come but the substance Is of

Christ Another word the shadow of the things

to come. What is shadow? I mean, for a long time

I've read shadow, you understand, as something

actually like symbol or directing you to Christ,

like a signboard, you know something? Like when

you stand like this, you see, you point to this

place, this is the place, understand. What is

shadow? Of course, here is talking about the

law, that the law is a shadow. are we together

and if we read in order of i think we i made

mention of that hubris chapter 10 well let me

read eight first hubris chapter eight look at

verse four Well, let me read from verse one so

that we understand. Now this is the main point

of the things we are saying. We have such a high

priest who is seated at the right hand of the

throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister

of sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which

the Lord erected, not man. Verse 3, for every

high priest is appointed to offer both gifts

and sacrifice. Therefore it is necessary that

this one also have something to offer. For if

he were on earth, talking about Christ who is

a high priest, he said he will not be a priest

since there were priests who offered gifts according

to what? according to the law. So you say they

were a priest. If you had been on earth, because

the tabernacle of the high priest with her is

not made with hands. You say, if you were on

earth, you would not be a priest. Because there

were already people occupying that place. Are

we together? They did so, offer sacrifices, according

to what? According to the law. You say, who served?

That is what they did. The system. self as what?

As a copy and as a shadow of the things to come.

That's what the point I'm trying to make. So

there's a system of the law that's a shadow of

the things to come. Chapter 10 verse 1. For the

law, having a shadow of the good things to come

and not look at the what? And what? not the very

image of the things can never with these sacrifices

which they offer continually year by year make

those who approach perfect. Now it's already,

this place is trying to give us already what

shadow means. But when you look at the word shadow

in Greek is the word scare that is S. T -I -A

S -K -I -A In Greek it means darkness of error

darkness of error or adumbration or adumbration

talking about something that's faintly represents

or cast a shadow. What we're trying to say is

that if I stand here, this light is showing my

shadow. That means I am the real. Are we together?

This one is what? Is the unreal. Are we together?

So if you want to shake hands with me, will you

shake hands with the real or with the unreal?

Are we together? When the scripture talks about

shadow, it talks about something that is faintly

represented in the sun. Amen. So, there are many

features of Victor you can never see from the

shadow of Victor. Are we together? If you say

you want to study me, like Pastor Cosimo, Dadu,

Anatomy, Nitia Kadava, they sleep with cadaver

they eat with cadaver hallelujah they are not

they didn't study shadow did you understand trying

to say amen they did not study shadow they brought

the cadaver they were seeing it they were walking

on the cadaver are we together amen if you have

a doctor that walk on the shadow don't go to

that doctor are we together amen so What the

Bible is trying to say is that you can never

study the real from the shadow Did you get what

I'm trying to say? So the Bible says not a war

tax the law is not the reality Are we together

that it is not the real thing Now read that verse

17 go back to that Colossians Let's read that

verse 17. He said which are a shadow of the things

to come You see that? He said but the substance

is Christ that was substance in Greek is Soma

S -O -M -A It it means literally body You did

get all the point so you can say The body, just

like I give an example, my body, me, me, me,

that is Soma. The shadow is not the real Victor.

Me, my body, you can see me, you can touch me

in the sun, is the substance, that's the reality.

So the reality is Christ, not the shadow. So

what are we trying to say? We're trying to say

that the reality and the shadow are two different

systems. That is, what the reality will give

you, the shadow cannot give you. The revelation

in the reality, you can't see it in the shadow.

The shadow brings death, the reality brings life.

The shadow is darkness, but the reality is light.

You want life is in the real, not in the shadow.

Therefore, you cannot expect the shadow. What

again? Death, because there is death in shadow.

Eh? Darkness. Eh? to teach you about light and

life. Are we together? We said the real or the

reality, which is Christ, is different from the

shadow. The shadow brings darkness. The shadow,

so you cannot study the shadow, which is darkness

to see light. Which means you cannot study the

shadow. Which brings death to receive life. Did

you get what I'm trying to say? Now look at what

Paul outlined more. When he did a very intelligent

thing here. He described the first thing by 16.

He said, food and drink. What Paul grouped it

is that that's dietary regulations. Did you get

what I'm trying to say? Dietary what? Regulation.

You know, there are some people who believe to

please God, you can eat certain things. Did you

get what I'm trying to say? That's why he said

you cannot, you see. you cannot have life or

you cannot get God's acceptance from following

the shadow because in the shadow there is no

you can't have acceptance of God so Paul is saying

don't allow anyone to judge you you understand

he said in food and drink in other way we can

say the dietary regulations don't eat pork don't

eat rat don't eat lizard Don't eat, what do you

call it? Shellfish, you know shellfish? All those

crab. And the rest, they are family. Amen? Lobsters,

you get the point? Even though today it has become

a symbol of luxury. But if you eat it, these

things, we even have one in Nigeria, they call

it Taitos, right? Dietary regulation. If you

read Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, you will

see all kinds of dietary regulations there. Are

we together? All kinds of dietary regulations.

We can even classify the issue of communion in

that category. You know, some people believe

when you take bread and wine, that's when you

will have God's favor, God's protection. And

so you take things out of context. In fact, to

make it, that's those people who are in the,

if you take it much more, you move to our brothers.

that take Eucharist. They believe that to be

able to be safe, you need the Eucharist. That

as you eat it, you eat literally the body of

Jesus. And they pick it from John chapter six,

when Jesus said, if you eat my body and drink

my what? my blood, that's when you will have

life or eternal life. Are we together? The question

is, you want to ask, who has ever eaten Christ's

body? The disciples that were with him, did they

eat his body? If you read in that content, you

will see that even then they were confused. They

didn't understand what he was saying. That was

why they were angry. So how did this person talk

to us like this? Eat your body? You know what

I'm saying? And they were angry to stone him.

Jesus was not talking literally. I mean, we cherry

pick scripture anyhow. Why won't you take the

other one that Jesus said literally? That if

your hand causes you to sin, you should cut it

off. Did you understand what I'm saying? Why

didn't you take that one literally? We say, no,

Jesus was not talking about that if your eye

causes you to sin, how many times your eyes has

caused you to sin? Why didn't you plug it? But

it is that one that said, if you eat my body,

you think he's talking about his physical body.

Hallelujah. So what we're trying to say is that

you can practice the law and which we are doing

it. That is the religion of angels. That is the

religion of angels. Then he talks about the sacred

days. Look at it, it was 16. That's the second

one. First one died three regulations. Then he

say regarding what? Festival, new moon, and Sabbath.

Religious festival, this is talking about what

they do annually. Like for example, the Passover.

Are we together? He talks about the new moon.

New moon has to do with monthly festivity. Amen?

Are we together? Or monthly celebration? The

supper has to do with weekly. You know what to

do weekly. We still have believers that follow

or keep the seven day. You know what I'm saying?

Nope. Why we are trying to speak like this? Because

we're trying to read and see what is the implication

of living according to the law. You know, I've

had many believers say, no problem now, there's

no problem at least. Since we are not sinning

directly, it's also worshipping God in different

ways. No, you cannot worship God by the law.

It's not possible. Did you hear what I said?

You cannot worship God through the law. It's

not possible. Just like you cannot receive life

through the law. You cannot receive God's acceptance

through the law. No. Not at all. Then the last

part that Paul talked about in the sack. Look

at down when he talked about verse 20. Therefore,

if you died with the Christ from the basic principles

of the world, why as though living in the world,

do you subject yourself to regulations? Do not

touch, do not taste, and do not handle. This

poll is trying to do is what we call the rituals

of purity and asceticism. This issue of abstinence.

You know abstinence? That is, don't touch certain

things. If you read particularly Leviticus 15,

Numbers 19, you will see the outline of what?

Of all the things. Don't touch this dead body.

You know, some of us still do it. in our villages

you understand if your mother died they say no

children are not allowed to touch the mother's

body did you understand say because if you touch

her that means you also follow and or something

all kinds of you know what i'm trying to say

that so they have all these things if you touch

this this is how you're going to you have to

be purified kept outside the camp for so so number

of days before you can come in there you are

purified so all this touch not Don't do this,

don't do that, understand? Or at certain time,

you cannot eat this, you cannot eat that. For

the sake that you are preserving purity. Are

we together? Paul says that all these are what?

Are commandment of man. He said they have a form

of wisdom. They have an appearance of wisdom.

But they lack, they lack the value in restraining

one from sexual, what? Indulgence or desires.

Hallelujah. So we have so many things today in

different form. Many people practice the law,

even as believers. There are a list of it. See

people carrying bottles all around, or holy water,

or handkerchief, they call it mantu, for protection.

The God of my papa, he will put it inside. He

will carry the Holy Spirit. Oh God. As I said,

you know, when those days we used to take the

wine and the cup in the sun, even back at home,

I used to ask, why do we take the bread and the

wine? He said, well, the Bible commanded it and

Jesus commanded it to do this in remembrance

of me. Why do you want to remember him? The question

is that, do I need to take the bread and the

wine to remember Jesus? Do you have memory problem?

I mean, you know, there are some certain questions

you need to ask. I mean, you need to ask the

question, but you know, he said, that's just

what Jesus said we should do. You know, certain

spiritual things are mysterious. You just have

to believe to go because what we are taught as

faith is abstract, that is believing in something.

You understand? That's not Bible faith. Bible

faith is not, I was afraid, Bible faith is not

just, it's not hinged upon nothing. It's not

just positive thinking. It will happen. I told

you it's going to happen. Hallelujah. What will

happen? Who say it will happen? Did you understand

what I'm trying to say? What are you holding?

Who said it? It's not just positive thinking.

I'm optimistic. No, that's not faith. No. We

have studied in this church. You see, when you

study the entire book of John, you will know

what remember means. Did you understand what

I'm trying to say? You know, some of us, we read

Bible as if those who wrote it were Englishmen.

Remembering does not mean to recall. It's not

talking about memory. It's talking about understanding.

Do this because at the last supper, he was teaching

them, illustrating what he would do. So he said,

eat this, do this. Knowing and understanding

is about myself. That's what it means by do this

in remembrance of me. He's also saying, continue

to do it so that you can recall. No, that's not

the meaning. Hallelujah So that's why you must

be committed to understanding the world Some

say you have to be baptized in the Sun for you

to be saved the code scriptures here and there

Jesus said again that Jesus suffered in the Sun

Unless you're born of water He said water. Gone

of water and the spirit. How can you remove the

water and only speak about the spirit? If you

are in this church for a long time, by now I

believe you don't have a problem with that. We

have taught you how to read the Bible in context.

The Bible is not line by line. It's all verse

by verse. If you have studied a book of John,

you will know what it means by water. You understand

what I'm saying? But if you say in one line,

I'm impute your village into it. Why won't you

listen? So all those things, what we're trying

to say that the reason why I'm pointing this

thing is that you can believe him. and practicing

the religion of angels why you are a believer

you say without holiness no one shall see the

lord yes whose holiness your own your own so

you are a joker so you mean you mean you mean

You mean you are struggling that to stay holy

so that so that you will see God your own effort

Go and read well Are we together? Hallelujah.

So what we're trying to say is that You can't

get anything from human effort remember he said

is based on the commandment and doctrine of men

These are things carved by men You have to do

this to see God. Is it God that said it that

way or the man that interpreted it that way?

That's not what God is saying. That's what we're

talking about. Look at verse 18. So what is the

implication? When you live with that type of

performance mentality, that is you are living

or you are involved in the religion of angels,

innocent. Five ways to get favor from God. From

where? Three ways for God to answer your prayer.

Where did you get it? Did you see that you are

also establishing your own doctrine? The doctrine

of man. Hmm? Are we together? Remember those

two guys that came? One that said, I have done

this, done that, done this, done this, done this.

Pay my tithes, do this. He listed all the things.

The other one came. He came not on anything,

but depending on the mercy of Him. Are we together?

You see, the service of God is not based on any

of our own merits. Are we together? Hallelujah.

Verse 18. What is the implication of involved?

He says that let no one cheat you of your reward.

Why is he questioning it? Because I told you.

When the Bible talks of a believer's reward,

even though yes, it's based on what we do, it's

not based on what we do on account of our own

merit. Did you get what I'm trying to say? be

steadfast, be immovable, always abandoning in

the work of the Lord, knowing that your label

in the Lord is not in vain. Your label where?

In where? In the Lord. It's not in vain. So Paul

cautioned and said, let no one cheat you. you

of your reward. What Paul is trying to say is

that one of the greatest implications is that

there is no reward in wear, in shadow, in the

law. That's why he's cautioning. Don't allow

anyone. That's why he said don't allow anyone

to judge you verse 16. And then verse 18 says,

let no one cheat you. Don't allow it. Cheat you

of your reward. How is it taking delight in false

humility and in the worship of it that means

in the worship of angels There is no reward you'll

be cheated You'll be cheated There is no life

in the law any work done in the law is called

dead work That's from week from where we are

saved Let me read some verses. I saw this verse

in Hebrews chapter 6. Hebrews chapter 6. Look

Hebrews 6 · chapter mention Hebrews 6 · chapter mention

at verse 1. He said, therefore, leaving the discussion

of the elementary principles of Christ, let us

go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation

of what? He said, repentance from what? So what,

when we receive Christ, you understand? We are

actually repenting from what? From dead walks.

Chapter 9 verse 14. Hebrews chapter 9 verse 14.

Hebrews 9:14

It says, how much more shall the blood of Christ

who through the eternal spirit offered himself

without spot to God cleanse what? Our conscience

from what? Oh, are we together? From what? Death

walks. No life is in the law. He says he cleans

our conscience from death walks. To serve the

living God. To serve the living God. Romans chapter

five. Oh, Romans chapter seven. Look at verse

five. Romans. chapter seven, verse five. He said,

for when, please look at this, please. When we

were in the flesh, the sinful passion, which

we are aroused by the law, we are at work in

our members to bear fruit. To what? To death.

He said, verse six, but now we have been delivered

from what? or talk to me from the law having

died to what we were held by so that we will

do what serve in the newness of the spirit not

in the oneness of letters our service our life

our conduct is in the newness of spirit, not

in the letters. We were saved from the law. So

going back to live by it is to do dead walks,

is to live and have dead walks. We were saved

from it. So that now we serve God in the newness

of the spirit. not in the letters. For the letters

telleth what the Spirit giveth life. We are ministers

of what of the Spirit, not of letters. So when

Paul said, I have run the race, I have found

a good fight. I have finished my race. I have

kept the faith. Then he said, therefore, now

lay for me the crown of righteousness. What did

he say he kept? He said he kept the faith, not

that he kept the law. Are you with me? Are you

with me? He didn't say he kept the law. He said

he kept the faith. Faith there means he kept

the sound doctrine. These are not letters. This

is not the law Hallelujah So there is a kind

of doctrine that is not the doctrine of man Look

at that romance go back a little bit verse six,

chapter six, verse 17. Romans chapter six, verse

17. He said, but God be damned, that though you

were a slave of sin, yet you observed from the

heart that form of doctrine to which you were

delivered. That means This doctrine, this one

to which they were delivered is not that other

doctrine of the doctrine of men, of the basic

principle of the world. The one that leads men

to death, the one that we have been delivered

from. So the one Paul kept, he said, I have kept

the faith, is this one, the form of doctrine

that delivered men. He did not keep the law.

That's why they are late for him. What? The crown

of righteousness. So what I'm trying to say is

that reward is keeping the doctrine that delivered

me. That form of doctrine. That is where the

reward is. So Paul now warns and say, eh, bro.

He said, let no one cheat you of your reward.

We're not talking about anything that works.

It works. It works for me. It works for you.

How? What's the meaning of that? When the devil

deceived Adam and Eve, didn't it work? Is that

righteousness? Don't talk like that. He walk?

No. Look at that verse 18, number two. Another

problem, a collusion, go back to that collusion.

Two, verse 18. He said, let no one cheat you

of your reward. Taking delight in the false humility

and worship of angels. intruding into those things

which he has not seen is a vainly poofed up by

what? In his fleshy mind. One thing you will

see in observing the law is prides. that leads

to emptiness. Pride. Pride. Pride. When it comes

to the things of God, you want to always speak

as if what you have received from God was what

you did. So when you are giving testimony, say,

dry fasting. I was in the first day, Kalabada

Gada. Second day, Anusa Sabada. Third day, suddenly

the heavens opens. And I saw the Lord. I said,

ooh. Fasting opens heavens. There is a dimension

of God you can't touch. unless you are into intense

fasting. The question is that what dimension

have we not received in Christ? I'm asking you,

which one is that man talking about again? That

you have to receive a dimension in God by what

you will do. Are we saying your alignment is

not needed? No, that's not what we're saying.

But not what you received. It pleases the Lord

that His fullness of Godhead dwells in Him. And

that Him is in me. Did you get the point? So

which fullness of God have you not received in

Christ? Which one are you talking about? Which

one are you talking about? Philippians chapter

Philippians 3 · chapter mention

3, I want to show you something. Pride, there

is pride in the law. This is why you see men

trying to distinguish us. There are different

kinds of graces. Which grace? Which one did this

save you? And which one did you not save the

other person? Verse three. He said, for we are

the circumcision. Who worship God? In what? In

the spirit. rejoice in Christ Jesus and have

know what oh talk to me have know what confidence

in the flesh and look at what Paul said though

I also have confidence in the flesh if anyone

else think he may have confidence in the flesh

I have more so He said, let me just give you

some credatia, small, small, small, small. He

said, circumcising the eddy of the stock of Israel,

of the tribe of Benjamin, of the Hebrews of Hebrews,

concerning the law, a Pharisee, concerning, I

mean zeal, he said, perfecting the, I mean, persecuting

the church, concerning righteousness, which is

in the law, blameless. This is the law. Did you

understand anything? This is confidence in what?

In the flesh. He said, if you are talking about

that, I have more. Let me just give you some

list, a little bit. Now say all those things.

He said, yet, look at verse 8. Indeed, I count

all these things lost for the excellency of the

knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom

I have suffered the loss of all things, and count

them as rubbish. That I may gain Christ That

I may gain Christ and be found in him having

Not having my own righteousness which is from

the Lord But that which is true Christ or true

faith in Christ the righteousness which is from

God by faith This is what Paul followed and dumped

that water one. You understand what I'm saying?

And dumped the one that have confidence in the

flesh. And followed this one in the sand that

Christ gave. That is humility. Right. The 13th

verse 19. Go back to Colossians chapter 2. verse

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

19. He said, I'm not holding fast to the head

from whom all the body nourished are knitted

together by joints and ligament, with the increase

that is from God. He said, not holding fast.

You can't live in the worship of angels and hold

fast the head. Did you get what I'm trying to

say? And once you are not holding the head, there

is no growth, there is no there is no product

that came from holding fast of the head. Did

you get what I'm trying to say? And that's why

it is by holding the head, the last implication

is that you grow with the increase that is from

God. But the one that is vainly proved, the one

that is practicing the law cannot hold fast to

the head. Therefore, Look at anyone that every

day is working with weapons. Eh? A little thing.

Holy ghost fire, holy ghost fire, holy ghost

fire. That person is ever and perpetually a man

in fear or a person in fear. He can never go

to discover his own reality. Because the faith,

his belief is in a bottle, not in the spirit

he carries. Are we together? You want to grow?

Live the law. Understand that which is in Christ.

Are we together? That is how to grow. You are

rooted in Him by revelation. You are rooted,

you will grow in Him by understanding who He

is. That's why this text almost is closely related,

this verse particularly, with Ephesians chapter

Ephesians 4 · chapter mention

4. Do you understand? If you read, you will see

that it's talking about knitting together. How

do you do that? It says so that you will not

become too close to and what? And flow by every

wind of what? by every wind of doctrine. That

is if you have what? Grown. And the essence of

the ministry gift is said that they will be able

to reveal that we might come to the unity of

faith and to the knowledge of the what? Of the

Son of God. That is how you grow. By the knowledge

of the Son of God. Peter said, grow in grace

and in the knowledge. That is how you grow. You

don't grow by the law. Because in the law, you

can't hold fast to the head. You want to become

a baby? Stay by practicing the law. or involved

in the worship of angels, you will ever and perpetually

be a baby. Today, they will say, I come from

heaven. I saw this, I saw that. You say, what

were they doing there? You see, because your

focus is every day on the law. And before you

know, today you follow these thoughts. Tomorrow

you are here, toast to and fro. by every wind

of doctrine. Once you are like that, you are

a candidate of deception. If you see the horror

of many people in the sand, so many people in

church, I mean the horrible messages, how some

people use God and they see the... What is Baba

Lao in English? Native doctors! they have left

uh busho they are wearing suit now well packaged

selling soap come from heaven and you are there

you didn't know are you not there oh they are

looking at me we are raised with christ eh seated

together where so how can somebody say he has

been to heaven where has he been to see soap

and say when you wash With it, you have favor.

I have keys from heaven. I mean, how daft could

we be? But I have come to Mount Zion. Not I will

go. I am there, the city of the living God, the

heavenly Jerusalem. Are we together? Amen. Amen.

Say, I cannot be deceived. I cannot be deceived

because I am growing in Him. And I remain in

the church. You know, your strength is in your

community. This level of freelancer Christianity

is not good in the sun. Hallelujah. Are we together?

Look at verse 20. Colossians 2 verse 20. Therefore,

Colossians 2:20

if you died with Christ from the basic principles

of the world, why, as though living in the world,

do you subject yourself to regulations? Do you

subject yourself to regulations? Do not touch,

do not taste, do not handle which all concerns,

things which perish. with the using according

to the commandment and doctrine of men, these

things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in

imposed religion, false humility, and neglect

of the body, but are of no value against indulgence

of the flesh. That's the one here. that you will

not express your victory in Christ. The law only

promotes desires of sinning. Did you get what

I'm saying? It has no value against. That means

there is nothing you will ever do to express

your victory in Christ when you live by the law.

Because there is no... There is no value against

you to restrain yourself. I've seen so many people,

maybe you have tried it. You think you kill sexual

urge or immorality by fasting. Immediately after

you finish the three -day fasting, it's as if

they say all the demons from heaven. Did you

understand? All the demons from heaven, you understand?

You are sleeping eternal, oh Jesus, I bind you.

I bind you. Bind who? You have not bind anything.

Because in your thoughts, that it is through

an effort of man that you are able to restrain

yourself from indulgence of the flesh. It's not

possible. You will fail. You will get disappointed.

You will get discouraged. You will get confused

until you understand who you are in Christ. The

power is in the revelation. Understand? The power

is in the gospel. The power is understanding

who you are in Christ. You don't need any do's

and don'ts. What you need is knowledge of who

you are. That's what you need. Understand? Every

habit, every attitude, is only destroyed, immediately

you understand who you are in Christ. Are we

together? Are we together? Not by do's and don'ts.

Please take note of this last verse, verse 23,

to remind yourself nothing you are trusting to

overcome. To see it has gone in your life will

ever be achieved through the law. Sin shall no

longer have dominion over you. That is, sin shall

no longer be your master. Why? He said, because

you are not under the law. but under grace. Did

you get what I'm trying to say? Which means that

being under the law is actually being in a system

that perpetually keep you in defeat. You must

come to an understanding that I am under grace.

The grace of God that bring us salvation is the

one, understand, is the one that taught is the

one that teach it teach us to abstain to live

godly in this present life so you can see all

these things that the law don't ever think that

the law is for you i live with my children you

would tell them 10 times In fact, if you say

don't touch this thing, that is when their curiosity

increase. You understand? To go and touch it.

Because they want to know, why did they say I

shouldn't touch it? So what am I trying to say?

Look at verse 14, having wiped out. You can't

be walking and carrying the things Christ has

wiped out. Having wiped out the handwriting of

requirement. We say that not handwriting of requirement

means the written law that is a manuscript. The

manuscript, the law is a wiped it out. Why are

you going to carry it again? He said, you wiped

it out. That was against us, and contrary to

us. Keeping the law shows that you don't understand

what Jesus has done. You can't be doing, or undoing,

is that what you're saying? You can't be going

and trying to bring what Christ has removed.

As a believer, living by the law, is a self -sabotage.

A self -sabotage means God has wiped out things

that is against you and now you are bringing

it back. He says it's contrary to you. Remember,

in the last verse, verse 23 of chapter two, he

said he has a what? An appearance of wisdom.

That's all when people are dishing it up. You

say, hmm, hmm. When we say sit down so that you

can learn the Word of God, you don't want to

come to church. But what we say, you see, what

you would do is that you have the number of your

mother, write it in a paper, paste it in the

wall. Immediately wake up in the morning, speak

to it three times. Mummy, ka la la la la. That's

what you like. Because it has a what? It has

an appearance of what? Wisdom. This is the reason

why many men of God have used so many people

and deceived them. Because people like law. Just

give them what to do because they want to be

involved so that when they come to give testimony,

they are also included inside. Did you understand

what I'm trying to say? Yes. They don't want

to say, this thing look easy. Come to touch.

Church, let's teach you the word of God to know

who you are. To be strengthened. You say no.

So the law is not for the righteous. What did

I say? First Timothy chapter nine. That's what

we're saying. It is against you. Did you hear

what I'm saying? It is against you. Don't ever

agree to live by the law. No matter the appearance

of wisdom, it's against you. It's self -sabotage.

The law is not of faith. And you are of faith.

First, Timothy. Oh, God, help me. 1 Timothy 1

1 Timothy 1:9

verse 9. Look at it. He said, knowing this, that

the law, is it made for you? Oh, talk to me.

Is it made for you? Is it made for you? No. The

law is not made for the righteous. Listen, this

place when he was talking about, is not made

for the righteous man. Remember when he mentioned,

but. For the lawless, for the insubordinate,

he's not describing conduct here. Because he

says he's not meant for the righteous. He's talking

about the righteousness by faith. So if he says

the insubordinate is describing a person under

the law, he's not discussing conduct. He's a

mate for the righteous man. He's a bud for the

lawless, the insubordinate. for the ungodly and

for the sinners, for the unholy, the profane,

for the murderers of fathers and murderers of

mothers, the men slayers, for fornicators, for

sodomites, for kidnappers, the liars, for...

Did you understand what I'm trying to say? Is

this one describing Israel? Are you with me?

Is it describing Israel? Yes, these were who

they were. Look at the Tronomy 31. I want you

to connect with what we did. Because I am coming

to wrapping this. The Tronomy 31. Look at 24.

Look at verse 24. He says, so it was when Moses

had completed writing, writing the words of this

law in a book, when they were finished, that

Moses commanded the Levites who bore the ark

of the covenant of the Lord, saying, take this

book of the law and put it beside the ark of

the covenant of the Lord. your God that it may

be that that it may be there as a witness against

who did you see what Paul was saying it might

be against you for I know you are a what a rebellious

and stiff mate if today while I am yet alive

with you you had been rebellious against the

Lord, then how much more after my death?" This

is closely when Moses was about to die. When

you read actually from chapter 27, which we did,

the last time we were teaching or we are studying,

you see that he gave them the law. He said, when

you get to Canaan, that means He knew that these

people, the only way you can keep these rebellious

unbelievers is by giving them the law. That's

the only thing. That's why Paul was saying that

the law is not meant for who? For the righteous.

He gave them to restrain them. So one of these

laws is Deuteronomy 22 Verse five. Why did Moses

gave that law? Because they are rebellious people.

They are unbelievers. They are not righteous.

They are not righteous. Are we together? Go back

to that 22. 22 verse five. He said, and a woman

shall not wear anything that pertains to a man,

nor shall a man put on a woman's garment. For

all who do so are an abomination to the Lord

your God. Remember, this law is both for male

and female. What is the problem? I want to ask

you again. When Moses gave this law, was the

problem about clothes or about their hearts?

Or talk to me. Was the problem about clothings

or about their hearts? About their hearts. The

reason is because they were all believers. The

problem was because they are all believers. So

the focus of this text, eh, was primarily because

of the people themselves. Are we together? If

you read the astronomy, I mean, sorry, Leviticus

Leviticus 18:22

18 verse 22 and 20 verse 18, there are laws about,

remember what we said when we read the astronomy

31? He's talking about that now I'm about to

die, even the way you are behaving. He said,

package this thing. As you move into that land,

this is how you should condole yourself. He talks

there are laws against sodomy. You understand?

Sleeping with man to man and woman to woman.

And now he add this one. I don't want confusion.

So there is no cross dressing. so that we know

this one is man, this one is woman. So that this

one will not come off black and look like a woman

and then move and say, I'm coming to greet my

sister. And then we don't know what is happening

with them. What they say, no, no, no, no, no.

Never, a woman must never wear a man's garment.

And a man must never wear a woman's garment.

The idea is for identification who is who. because

he has already given them, you can never, don't

ever sleep with a man. A righteous, righteous

people don't need that. This is the foundation

by which that law came from. So you cannot leave

this text and come and be pestin' it on my sister

who is a righteous person. You are daft, you

don't understand the context by which this text

was given. No! See. This text, Deuteronomy 22

.5, is not for believers. Tell your neighbor,

tell your neighbor it's not for believers. Say

it again now, it's not for believers. So don't

torment my sister. Did you understand what I'm

saying? This text is given to unbelievers who

are rebellious, who are bent. into disobedience.

Are we together? You cannot put this mark on

people. It's not about a style of dressing. It's

about the nature of the man. That's how the law

came. You have to understand that dressing generally

is influenced by culture. You understand? If

you come to the northern part of Nigeria, the

same country, we see you do that. Do you understand

what I'm saying? Now what we're trying to say

is that you cannot import all those things like

that. Even within the same culture, dressing

keeps changing. Do we say you should dress half

naked? No, I'm going to address that. But what

we are saying is that you cannot do style of

dressing. Women should not wear trouser. Which

wear? This text is not saying that. Did you know

the type of dressing in Israel? Did you understand

what I'm trying to say? So don't carry liftings

that are for unbelievers and be pestilence upon

who? Believers. Are we together? Hallelujah.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I hear some of my sisters

say, a -ha! A -ha! No, it's not a -ha. We have

not finished. Because the problem is that, remember,

the text of the Bible must be read contextually.

Are we together? Can you thank the Lord? An appreciation.

We appreciate you being here today. We hope you

carry this word with you throughout your week.

Don't forget to check the show notes for additional

insights. Stay connected with us through our

website or follow us on social media. If you

were encouraged, share this message with someone

you care about. Until next time, stay blessed.