010 The Law and The Testimony

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Draweth Nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. We're

your host, Jose and Matthew. Tonight, me and Jose were fighting back

and forth what to do. We couldn't come up with anything, and then

Jose decided that the Lord was putting on his heart to do something. So

Jose, just go ahead and take the reins. Sure, man, Matthew.

So we've been we've been discussing the bad shepherds, right, That's a

lot of our shows have been recently kind of calling them to task, kind

of warning the shepherds of today about the dangers of not not being a shepherd

to God's flock, the mortal dangers that that that entails. And so that

just kind of got me down a path thinking of how a shepherd who was

raising the church, who went to some kind of Bible school, whether it's

seminary or a Bible college or you know who I mean. I have to

think, Matthew, that at some point in their Christian walk, they love

the Lord, and I have to think that at some point they're trying to

help people and and do something, and then you know, they start they

start taking that wrong path and they start to fall into these traps and they

end up falling under that judgment that we've that we've been reading about in Jeremiah

and Isaiah, you know, Ezekiel in Revelation. So that's that's what kind

of got the gears turning for me. And also in my daily reading,

I've been going through Galatians, so kind of having stuff click together. The

other portion of this, Matthew, is when we took our summer break,

I took the time to kind of listen to different videos that arguments against Christianity,

arguments against the Bible, arguments against God. Just trying to see what

people out there were saying, what their contentions were, and trying to study

to have have an answer to those questions. Matthew. I mean, that's

if we're going to preach the gospel, we have to have those those answers

that they're ready. We have to be studied up. We can't be sitting

there hemming and hying and saying, well, just believe Eve, because that's

not that's not an answer for for someone that's seeking. So one of the

main contentions that I've been listening to and hearing is this whole Well, Jesus

in the New Testament did away with the Old Testament and did away with the

law. So now we don't have to follow all those those laws that we're

in the Old Testament. That we have a certain amount of freedom in the

Gospel and in Christ. And of course, you know, the people that

bring up these these arguments, you know, they twist the words that that

Paul says a lot. You know that that that are in the epistles,

they twist a lot of those words and try to say, well, basically

that that the course of the New Testament are are evil because they're contradicting what

God said in the Old Testament. And we know that's not true. Man,

we know that's not As Christians, we believe the Old New Testament,

we believe the Law, and we believe the Gospels. We believe the testimony

of Jesus Christ and what He's given us. So how do you how do

you rectify these things? How do how do these things play out? Not

only today in our lives, but also prophetically, because that's ultimately where this

is going. Matthew, your ministry, and the reason why I've been following

your ministry for so long is because when you bring prophecy into it, it

really answers a lot of questions on these theological issues. And also to me,

at least, it cements a lot of my understanding and strengthens a lot

of what I believe because I know what I know prophetically what is to come,

and so that is why I'm able to understand some of these more more

difficult items. Right. So, matt if I'm if I'm stumbling, and

you see me stumbling, all you, as a brother have to do to

me, who is raised as a Christian his whole life, all you have

to do is say, hey, take commandments, say don't don't lie,

and right away, if the if, if the Holy Spirit is with me,

right, if I've been reading my Bible and if I've been praying,

Matthew, that should be a trigger to get me to stop my tracks.

And I have a brother in Christ who's who's who's reprimanding me. And I

said, listen, and you know, start doing the right thing. Right

if I if I, if you see me arguing with my brother, and

then I'm sitting down to come do one of these shows, Matthew, as

a brother in Christ, you're going to stop me and you're gonna say no,

you need to go rectify that situation before you even attempt to preach God's

word. Is that correct? That is absolutely correct, because you cannot muddy

the water of the Holy Spirit. I'm just going to say that point blank.

I don't have trouble saying it because I've experienced it my whole life,

right So from my experience, Matthew, that stops me right there. And

so I don't have to think too hard on some of these theological issues because

I've been raised as a Christian my whole life, and I've heard it my

whole life, and it's kind of ingrained in me, and so I don't

need to reason these things out. Matthew's right, I'm not following the Ten

Commandments, I'm not following the Beatitudes. So I need to fix myself right

here, right now. Okay, So sometimes wet myself, I would say,

I'll speak for myself, Matthew. In my Christian walk, sometimes I

overlook some of these reasonings that are given in a lot of these epistles like

Galatians and the reason why we believe what we believe and why we practice our

Christianity a certain way, and so Galatians five. I mean, how many

times have we read it on this on these on these programs, Matthew,

how many times have we talked about it? Right, It's one of the

key things that you can do to see if you're operating in the spirit or

if you're operating by the flesh. The fruits are the spirit versus the deeds

of the flesh, straight list, right, There, no no two ways

about it. God lays it out. God says, if you're right,

this is what you're doing. If you're wrong, this is what you're doing.

And and and it's a really good way for us to check ourselves to

see if we're being being a Christian or not. Correct Matthew, that's absolutely

correct. Yes. So, as I was reading this week, with all

of these other questions in my head that we've been talking about, I had

a little bit God gave me a little bit better understanding to some of the

questions that that I've heard posed about Christianity. Right, So, if we're

If we believe in God and we believe in the Old Testament, well we

have to follow the law. But if we're Christians and believe in Jesus,

well now we don't have to follow the law. And people can take that.

People can push the the they can push the direction either way. Matthew.

You can either follow law so much that you become what's called the judaizer

in the New Testament, or you can follow the testimony so much that you

think you have liberty to do commit any sins and you're covered by the blood.

You're covered by the cross because Jesus died for all of our sins.

So therefore any sins that I commit, I'm good, So I don't need

to worry about that. Okay, Now we know that those two things are

contradictory, Matthew. Those two things can't can't hold up. And we know

that God is true and God is faithful. So what he's the law that

he's laid down is still true. And what he's told us about his son

dying on the cross for us is also true. So how how do we

rectify these two points? So I'll let you chime in, Matthew, before

I continue, Well, you know this is the major contention here. You

have you have presented the the two extremes and boys so easy to fall into

the Hebrew roots judy idlers. And then you have the opposite end of the

spectrum, which you said that, oh, Christ covered everything we're going to

do. That's the free gracers. That's antiinobiism. That's there. You go.

You got the two ends of the spectrum. The narrow gate is right

between the two. Amen. Amen, And that's what's in Galatians chapter five

if you pay attention again, right in the middle of the chapter. So

I'm going to read a few verses here Matthews, starting in verse sixteen.

But I say, walk by the spirit, and you will not carry out

the desire of the flesh, for the flesh sets its desire against the spirit,

and the spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one

another, so that you may not do the things that you please. But

if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

And then you get your list Matthew starting verse nineteen, Right, the deeds

of the flesh. So what God is saying here in Galatians is the law

is true. The law is gonna hold. But if you believe in my

son, you believe that he died for your sins, and he died in

the cross for you, and you believe in the redemption that God will bring

to us through his son. Then he said his Holy Spirit to you,

Matthew. And when you receive that spirit, you've repented of your sins.

You've been baptized by the Holy Spirit. And now you're walking by the spirit.

And if you are, Matthew, then you're not gonna be participating in

those deeds of the flesh. You will be walking by the spirit. Now,

if you were to stumble into those deeds of the flesh, now you

are no longer walking by the Holy Spirit, Matthew. Now that law comes

into effect. So that's kind of where I want to start the conversation at

because I'm trying to rectify how these shepherds, who you know, at least

a portion of them repented at one point in their life, accepted Christ as

their savior at one point in their life, but they've fallen back into their

sin, they've fallen back into those deeds of the flesh, Matthew. So

that that's where I'll start the discussion if you want to add anything to that,

well, I do take umbrage with that, because you know, I

have an intimate knowledge of how the church has been overthrown. Now to the

person setting in the pew, what you've said is true. However, I

do need to warn everybody about this. I have met an entire host of

pastors that was never, at any point in their life a Christian. I

have met some that were even funded evil and wicked entities had funded them to

go get a theological degree for the specific purpose of destroying the church. But

yes, as a general rule, what you've stated is true. I went

to an institution of higher learning with many of these people. I mean when

I was there, I was in the Christian Ministry Majors dormitory. Now,

the shocking thing about that is is that right now I only know one of

them that are still in ministry out of the entire dorm all three floors.

So but let's get back to your point. This is true that most of

the people you're talking about, the traditional Christians, at some point in time

they let their will superseded for some rhymes some reason, the will of the

spirit. And that really is what we're looking at. Here When you read

verse seventeen, you really can't see it in English, but this last phraseology

says, so that you may not do the things that you please, this

word here in Greek, you need to know, you need to understand that

that's will or wish, it's what you want to do. So this is

stating very clearly in the Greek that there is what the spirit wants and there's

what the flash wants, and these two things are very separate things. And

it's key that everybody knows what the new Covenant is. If you don't know

what the new Covenant is, yeah, wow, if you don't know what

the new Covenant is, you really are behind the curve. Because this is

screaming to me the new Covenant, and because I know the New Covenant of

course from Jeremiah. But it's best to get it in the Book of Hebrews.

Let me jump over there real quick a Hebrews chapter eight, starting at

verse seven. Now, now this is basically a major quotation from the Book

of Jeremiah, but I think it's better to get it here. For if

that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for

a second. For the finding fault with them, he says. The whole

days are coming, says the Lord, when I will affect a new covenant

with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah, not like the

covenant I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the

end to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not

continue in my covenant, and I did not care for them, says the

Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the House of

Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws

into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. And I

will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall

not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying know the

Lord, for all will know me, from the least to the greatest of

them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember

their stents no more. Verse thirteen, when he said at new covenant,

he has made the first obsolete. But whatever is coming up, whatever is

becoming obsolete and growing old, is ready to disappear. Here God makes himself

perfectly clear. You are not going to teach each other written laws. God

is stating this mechanism. Of course, we know what the mechanism is.

We know what the promise was. It happened ten days after Ascension tide.

We know that's when Pentecosts happened, and we were filled with the Holy Spirit.

We that is the Church. So from that point forward, everything that

Galatians chapter five, now it makes sense. God is going to come to

us individually in individual circumstances, in individual situations, and He will guide you

and lead you unto all truth. This is emphatically what is being said.

So knowing this, this is why Galatians then starts out with the list.

Look, if you're not walking by the spirit, you're going to be doing

these things. And anyone doing these things, you can take this by the

bank. They are not walking by the spirit. So this list that Galatians

gives its paramount to the church. If you see somebody calling themselves a Christian

and they are practic seeing something in this list, they are not what they

say they are. They're absolutely not what they say they are. John Gomez

is wanting to jump in here. What do you think about that? I'm

okay with that. Matthew, all right, well, let me see how

I can do it. Well. While you're doing that, I want to

read a few more verses of Galatian Chapter five, just to go off of

what you're just talking about. In verse twenty two, it tells us that

the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such things there's no

law. Now, those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with

its passions and desire. Years. So the reason why I read that,

Matthew, is because again maybe it's just because I don't have as much experience

with the clergy and in ministry. It's those are hardwares what you said about

the the pastors that we have today, hardwares that you said. And so

I'm struggling with that, right because that's not the church I grew up in.

But what it brings to mind is if I go over to Romans nine

and God tells us that he's he is the potter, and with his clay,

he's made some vessels for honorable use, but he's also appointed some vessels

for wrath and for destruction, and he endures those vessels with patients until the

time. So with those two with those two chapters, out of those two

chapters that I read of Matthew, that makes sense. That's what you're telling

me, that you have two vessels. Essentially you have to to uh,

two pieces of a clay that God's made and one's honorable and one's not.

And that's hard to swallow for me. But it's the truth. Yes,

unfortunately, it is the truth. But I did have to bring that to

two people's attention. I had to. I had to bring it to their

attention. And that's that's just the way it is. It's it's an unfortunate

thing. Uh. But you know, let's get John Mark Gomez's uh view

on the matter. John. It's been a while. How are you doing,

buddy, I'm good, Matthew can hear me? Oh? I can

hear you? Just fine? Oh, hose, Why don't you describe what

we're talking about in a short synopsis of Let's get J Andg's take on it.

Hey, John, how you doing? Hey? I'm good? How

you doing? Real good? So we're kind of going through Galatians chapter five,

trying to walk through the judaisers and walk through the antinomian Antiinomianists, right,

those people that say that we're once saved, always saved, and trying

to find that narrow gate. Matthew put it that way, that's kind of

appropriate for how we can both still be both fulfill the law but also fulfill

the testimony of Jesus. Walk by the spirit a SENSEI right. And that's

what Galatians five is telling us, is that if we walk by the spirit,

we won't participate in those deeds of the flesh. And that if you

are participating in the deeds of the flesh, not only do you not walk

by the spirit, but you're not of Jesus Christ. I mean, that's

what Galatian tells us. It says those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified

the flesh with its passions and desires. And so you know, God's telling

us that if we're walking by the Holy Spirit, then we are fulfilling the

law, because he tells us what that spirit is, right, the fruits

of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness, self control, those are the fruits of the spirit.

And if we're doing that, then there's no way that we're violating God's

law. And we've been going we've been stepping through oh chapters and Ezekie old

chapters in Jeremiah where it talks about the judgment of the bad shepherds, the

slaughter of the shepherds. What's going to happen to them reflects what are told

in Revelation chapter thirteen. That's why those people have to endure the tribulation because

they essentially were not walking by the spirit, and so they've they've in order

for them to be saved God, God has to essentially steal them too.

But they have to end up losing their losing their head for not worshiping the

beast. So that's kind of what we're what we're talking about right now,

and how those shepherds could be in the church even though we know that the

God's Holy Spirit is in the church, but how do we have these bad

shepherds also that are preaching against the gospel. So that that's kind of where

we're at right now. John, Okay, I mean, I think,

I mean, I've always kind of thought that I think the reason why they're

still in the church, you know, is because you know, there's a

lot of people who simply don't know scripture and just kind of trust the teachers

that they're listening to. They don't know how to really study it, they

don't know how to really dig in. And uh, I don't think a

lot of people question things a lot of the time. But it comes down

to when people really get If people are getting saved out there, you know,

and they're they're getting into it by the Holy Spirit, there's they're gonna

know something's wrong. Especially if they even just read the Bible at its surface

level, they'll know that something is weird with whatever they're being taught this,

you know, right, right, But yeah, I mean I think it's

I think it's allowed maybe to you know, sift people out. Maybe maybe

that's the case. I'm not really sure. Well, I would have to

agree, because that's that that is the That is the root of the new

Covenant that I just read from. That is the root of it. Let's

let's take a look at it again and listen very carefully to what actually states

because it's massively important. It states that. Let's see here, for this

is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel. After those

days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their minds,

and I will write them on their hearts. So this is exactly what John

is talking about. Even the people that are novus, these people that love

the Lord and all these cues, something will not be right. And God

just said He's going to promise you this. This is what the Holy Spirit

does. The Holy Spirit will tell you something's not kosher here, something is

not right, and your heart will bother you. Your conscience will literally become

energized, and whatever is being said, whatever is being taught, it will

not ring true. I mean, there's such a difficult way for me to

put this if people don't have never experienced it, But this is the truth.

It doesn't matter how intelligent you are. It doesn't matter if you know

Greek, it doesn't matter if you know Hebrew. I bear testimony to this.

I have been around many people because I spent a lot of time volunteering

at Shepherd Community. I watched it many times. These people would be of

low IQ, but the Spirit would greatly lead them and you could not pull

one over on them because they knew what was right, almost almost as if

it were they were born with the law in their heart. Now, of

course there's six hundred and thirteen laws. That doesn't cover a majority of the

situations that we're in today. And that's just the truth. I mean,

let's talk about all the positive laws that deal with owning a slave. Ladies

and gentlemen. You can't own slaves today. So you've been taken a great

swathe of the six hundred and thirteen laws out right there. But the Lord,

our God, once he ascended to heaven, he promised the Holy Spirit,

which was sent on Pentecost what the Hebrews call Chavuote. And since that

time God has done this very thing. He has written it on our hearts

and our minds that what's going on will not ring true. And when something

is not ringing true, your mind is telling you something's not right, and

your heart's telling you to you need to get clear of this situation. You

need to listen to the Holy Spirit, because that is your law. And

the good thing about this law is the good thing about the Law of Christ.

It can see and it can perceive what you can't. So if there's

alarm bells going off in your brain and your heart's telling you to get free

of this, and you need to cease and desist, what you're doing.

You need to do that thing because to you, listen very carefully to my

voice. If you are operating outside of the confines of what the Holy Spirit

is directing you, you're going to be judged for it. Not only that,

you're going to be judged ten thousand times harsher than someone who owns a

slave and mistreats it, because you're bucking the Holy Spirit. And believe me

when I say that does not fly. Now I can set here, and

you know, if I wanted to, I could grill Jose about the six

hundred and thirteen laws. How many are positive? How mean? And your

negative? None of that means a hilo beines. None of it means a

hilobanes because you must obey the whole of the law all the time. The

only way God can exercise that kind of jurisdiction over you is to have the

Holy Spirit. So when you're doing something wrong, he immediately, moment by

moment, intervenes and says, look, you're violating my law. You cannot

do this to this person, You cannot do this in this situation. That

is not godly, that is not christ like. And your conscience will tell

you those things that's what really facilitates this list. In Galatians five, Well,

these words are so broad. What can you possibly do with them?

Let's just take a look at some of them. Let me jump back over

to Galatians. Some of these things are just Look, so, John,

what is immorality? Can you define that for me? Immorality, I would

say, is simply anything that is wrong, that is wrong against God's law,

really, because truthfully, there is either God's law or human law,

and human law can kind of be wavering from left to right. But anything

that goes against God's law, I would say, would be immorality. You

actually didn't say anything. You're not helping. Look, look, John,

we need details. Jose. Let me do the next one. Okay.

The next one on the list is impurity. Jose. What's impurity? Something

not clean? Something not right? Okay, Look, look, both of

you are saying that I'm going to be damned if I do this. So

we need to get to I mean, we need to get the jocks and

tittles. Guys. Think about it. Somebody is willing to become a Christian,

somebody's having problems, and they walk up to you and say, hey,

I just read Galatians five. So so I need an itemized list of

what immorality is right. I cannot define that for you. Look, there

are people in Africa. They walk around without their clothes on. Okay,

they will literally well none of the women will wear tops. If they come

up to me and say, you know, Matthew, I you know,

I'm having trouble with this. I don't understand what I can and can't do.

I'm not going to look this mother of five in the face and say

you have to put a pop on. So, ladies and gentlemen, you

need to figure it out. You need to figure it out that you can't

write the law. It's impossible for you to write the law to that mother

of five in the middle of Africa. You can't do it. It's way

beyond your pay grade. You know. Let's talk about if we go up

to the Inuit in Alaska. If I told you some of their laws,

you would think they were crazy. But of course most of you have non

or lived in negative thirty degree weather before, so they have a completely different

dynamic about what is right and wrong. Because you could do something wrong up

there and it kill a whole family. You can buy to see that the

next day, and they're all project to death. The only one who can

do this across the face of this whole planet, from one end of the

heavens to the other is the Holy Spirit. And if you don't know that,

you need to know it, because the same spirit that's operating you is

the same spirit that's operating somebody in Portugal. In Portugal, they have different

laws, they have different customs, and the Holy Spirit will direct them differently.

If you don't realize that, you don't get it, and you need

to get it that your life is way beyond the borders of your existence.

Your life is now situated in what the Greek calls epiirano in the heavens.

Your life is above the heavens. With Jesus, he can direct your every

single thing. Look for an example in times past, on more than one

occasions, I'm at the grocery store. I assure you this was in no

way, shape or form planted, But all of a sudden, the Lord

tells me, Hey, that person in the next line, you need to

change lines and get behind them. So I get behind them. They go

to check out, and all of a sudden they're scrambling. They don't have

enough money. And guess what if I had not obeyed the Holy Spirit and

I happen to have helped that poor mother did buy my own law. God

should damn me if I'm not good enough to know the difference of where,

when, and where I need to be to help somebody setting there praying silently

because they're desperate and do not have enough. I'm not worth the shoes I'm

wearing anyway, Matthew, you know what's beautiful about that? What's that?

Uh? Like? Like it says in scripture? You know the babies know.

Not too long ago, Zelda and Ezekiel they seen a homeless man on

the street and they decided they wanted to buy him pizza. They found whatever

they could because Zeke I think he had a few dollars and he asked,

you know, yes, and he had to see if she can scrounge up

a couple bucks to get him pizza, and she did because they knew that

he needed help, and they knew that it was the right thing to do.

But I mean, God puts it on our hearts, and especially when

it's infused with the Holy Spirit, it's reinforced. How's that? Yeah?

No, that's that's absolutely how it works. John, That's why in the

Gospels we get Jesus given us to be attitudes, and he breaks it down

for us, and he tells us that, you know, the people of

that of that time, the juty eursers of that time, they're trying to

follow the letter of the law, and God's God's telling them that they need

to follow the spirit of the law. And that spirit is the Holy Spirit.

Because if I try to reason through all all of God's laws and all

of God's commandments, I'll never get there. I'll never I'll never be able

to do any any of it right. The only way for me to follow

the law at all is is with the Holy Spirit, with God guiding me.

Like you said, Matthew, what you're supposed to do in that situation,

how you're supposed to help, How you're supposed to humble yourself and do

God's will exactly like you put it earlier, do his will, not your

will, because you can twist that law to satisfy your will, fooling yourself

thinking that you're following God's will. And so that's why I think it's important

for Christians to understand, because when you hear these people talk against Christianity and

say that Paul twisted scripture to get rid of the law. I mean,

we're showing here in Galatians Fire that that's absolutely not the truth. And Jesus

himself said that the law is not done away with, but yet he gave

us to be attitudes in order to be able to follow the Holy Spirit.

Not only that, he tells us in John that he sending the Holy Spirit

as a comforter and as an edifier for us. And then we get to

Revelation in chapter twelve and fourteen, Matthew, and it tells us that there's

going to be people that are following the commandments of God and holding the testimony

of Jesus. So how can the law be done away with if we still

have people in the end times following the ten commandments? So logically it doesn't

make sense to argue that that the law has been done away with. So

we have to figure out how we are following the law while at the same

time not following the letter of the law. Boy, And that's the one

hundred and forty four thousand dollars question, isn't it? Amen? You know,

let me say this I'm going to say this very very likely. I'm

not going to take you to the scriptures, but you all need to understand

this. The Old Testament makes itself perfectly clear that God wrote the Ten Commandments

with his own finger. People challenged Christ as to what authority, why he

was doing these and he says, I do these things by the finger of

God. Now you need to understand that the Lord Jesus Christ was saying that

he was God's finger, and what God wrote with his own finger was the

Ten Commandments. Everybody knows that the Ten Commandments is in Exodus chapter twenty right,

hose, Amen, what's the last time you read Exodus chapter twenty one?

Why don't you go there right now? Exodus chapter twenty one, Jose

and read for me verse one. Now, I think you're going to get

a kick out of it. Now, these are the ordinances which you are

to set before then. So that word in Hebrew is tora, No,

no, it's not, it's mish. Fact. Boy, you can hear

a pin drop in the room. When I say that. People just look

at me like I'm stupid. Well, what does that mean? You're smart

enough to be wanting to jump on the Hebrew roots bandwagon, and you don't

know what mish fact is because it's not pora here. Read for me verse

two Jose, if you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six

years, but on the seventh he shall go out as a freeman without payment.

Well, I got umbraged with that because I'm pretty sure if you own

a slave in the United States, that's a felony, right, and you'll

get a whole lot more than six years, won't you. Amen, Ladies

and gentlemen, I know the six hundred and thirteen laws by heart. I

had to write them, I had to memorize them separately, the positive laws

and the negative laws. I know them intimately, and I'm here to tell

you that there are six hundred and three ordinances mish fought. So, ladies

and gentlemen, you need to get this through your heads. The Ten Commandments

is what God wrote with his own finger. Those are never cast away.

God has never thrown away his moral law. So that's a good place for

everybody to start. Now. I know I probably just rattled everybody's cage because

I just know that stuff right off the top of my head. If you

never read Exodus chapter twenty one and had the wherewithal to think to yourself,

well, hey, maybe that's not Torah. Maybe he's saying that this great

big list I'm getting ready to get of six hundred and three additions to the

Ten Commandments, they're part of the Ten Commandments. No, they're not.

They're mishfact. I don't think I know, and you don't believe me.

Go get yourself a copy of the linen, grab bull Dex and look it

up for yourself. So it's this is the best verse to do. Exodus,

chapter twenty one, Verse two. This is why God had to write

What did the New Covenant say? He said, it was just going to

write it on our hearts and on our minds. Correct, Hose, Correct?

Now, you can't teach me anything. Look, Hose, was you

there in line with me when that poor mother was in the other line and

God told me to jump into the other line? No? Okay, how

much paper would that take? I mean, now do you write that law?

Jose? You have to you have to help the poor pay for groceries

when you're in close proximity to them. I mean, how would you write

that? So which store? I have to do this? In Kroger or

pay less or can I do it in Walmart too? Do you understand how

it's physically impossible for you to accomplish God's will of your own accord? Right?

There's not enough paper to do it. There's quite simply no way to

do it per location. I mean you live in Phoenix? Correct? Correct?

And John, where are you presently residing at? I'm in Reno,

Nevada. I'm in Reader, North Dakota. You realize you'd have to write

a codex for each individual place. Let me bring this out, John,

there in Reno, do you have a daylight savings time? Oh? Yeah,

Well, guess what, there's one city in all the United States that

don't. It's called Phoenix, where Jose's at. So you're gonna have to

write an entire codex on just the city of Phoenix and all the laws that

would have to be obeyed just because they don't have to obey daylight savings time.

There's no way to do it, ladies, don't. The only way

this could be accomplished was for Jesus Christ to promise us that he would send

us his holy spirit once he got to the Father's right hand side. Guess

what he did? He really did do that. He really did, Yeah,

Matthew, And I think I think that's what God shows us in Revelation.

When you have these that are sealed, these bond servants that are sealed,

and they do uphold the testimony, and they do uphold the commandments.

The only reason that they don't bow down and worship the image of the beast,

the only reason that they have to lose their heads and be a part

of the First Resurrection, is because it's God's doing. It's done by God's

hand. It's not anything that they've done. And there's nothing that we can

do to be that worthy, to be that holy Matthew. The only way

is through God. The only way is through his son. It's through the

Holy Spirit. That's what God's given us to accomplish that He wants that for

us. And you know, I know most of the listeners here have already

accepted Jesus as their savior. But if there's any that are listening that haven't

yet, that have all these questions that we've been talking about, that's your

first step is understanding that God wants us to be in his family. God

wants us to be in his kingdom, and he sent his son to show

us how to do that. And he has this Holy Spirit with us now

to be our comfort and to be our teacher. And that's a beautiful thing.

Matthew. That's that's a wonderful way that God set up to accomplish his

law and accomplish his will. John, your thoughts. Got one more thing

to add to that, because it's very fascinating how God does this. I'd

love it. Yesterday I had Bible study and we were talking about Micah six

' eight and I kind of want to read that right now. I'm going

to start at Micah sixty six. What can we bring to the Lord?

What kind of offering should we give him? Should we bow before God with

offerings of yearling calves? Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand

rivers of olive oil? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for our

sins? No, oh, people, the Lord has told you what is

good, and this is what he requires of you. To do what is

right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. And

that is perfect. This is exactly what the Holy Spirit does in a trillion

times of trillion different situations, no matter where you're at this is exactly what

nothing else could do that how could I have possibly Look, ladies and gentlemen,

the Holy Spirit came to me and administered, you know, you know,

justice for this poor woman in front of me, and to show her

kindness. And in doing so, I was walking humbly before my Lord because

I wasn't thinking with my brain, I wasn't thinking with my wallet. It

never occurred to me that, of course I'm not going to you know,

pay the twenty bucks for you know, her gallon of milk. YadA,

YadA, YadA YadA. By default, when you're led and you listen to

the Holy Spirit, you're walking humbly before your God because she's the one calling

the shots. And I really didn't care. I mean, how on earth

did I get the twenty bucks in my pocket in the first place? You

know? Let me read that from the New American Standard Bible, verse Eve.

He has told you, oh man, what is good and what does

the Lord require you? But to do justice, to love kindness, and

to walk humbly with your God. The voice of the Lord will call to

this city, and it is sound wisdom to fear your name. Hero tribe

who has appointed its time man, if you can, I know most of

you can't. Look at this in the original language. What a riddle this

is. And the only way you can pull that off is to have your

risen Savior promise you the Holy Spirit, and have him fulfill his promise and

send you that Holy Spirit. This comforter, this teacher, this one look

literally in this one situation. And I'm sure that everybody agrees that the better

example is with Tom with John's two children. I mean, how beautiful is

that those two children had no idea. This homeless man was praying about what

he was going to eat. Zel didn't answer that man's prayers. Zelda is

not even old enough to have the wherewifal to understand what was happening. I

appreciate that Zeke did, but this did not come from Zeke. This come

from the spirit of the Living God. The spirit of God answered that man's

prayers with two children. You cannot write enough laws to do that. You

can't. And of course, who really answered the prayer? Because I wasn't

born yesterday. This isn't my first rodeo. The two children really didn't answer

the prayer. It was his wife that did. Ye, see me,

is the one that acted out God's will. It must be this way.

This is why that the Holy Spirit also tells us what is to come.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I could tell you all sorts of mysteries.

I can sit here and explain to you how how pie is in the Book

of Jeremiah, chapter twenty five. I can literally blow your mind with information

upon information upon information that is utterly worthless as compared to that homeless man that

needed a meal. And what God really did was use Yosini's two children to

teach her what was to come. Because what was to come was that homeless

man was not going to starve to death. God had already decided to answer

his prayer. So Ysinia was directed as to what was to come because that

man did, in fact eat pizza, and that isn't exactly what the Holy

Spirit intended to happen. And that's what God done. And you cannot write

enough laws to accomplish mercy. You cannot write enough laws to accomplish justice.

You can't. There's too many crazy situations that goes on. I mean,

I remember one time we were coming home at night and there was a car

accident in front of us. Ladies and gentlemen what I did that night.

You can't write into the law. You don't have enough paper, because life,

by our perception, is a series of random accidents. But not to

the Lord, our God, consider these things, Jose No, Matthew,

I agree with everything you know and John had just stated. And I think

that's a that's a good a good study that we've covered today, a good

remembering of what God's told us, a good weaving together of everything that we've

been reading and we've been learning. It's really important to tie it all together

because it all makes sense. God's not trying to confuse us, He's not

trying us to wrap us around in circles. He tells us everything that he

wants us to do. And if we're just stop being hard hearted, stop

being hard headed, and listen. It's it's really quite easy, Matthew.

It's that easy. As the examples you and John have given. It's not

it's not too difficult to act like a Christian. It's not too difficult to

walk by the Holy Spirit. So I think I think that's a good thing

that we've done tonight. Matthew. Amen, Amen to that. JMG.

You want to pray us out of here. Please, yeah, give me

one second, hold on, I'm barely getting in my car. All right,

Heavenly Father, we thank you for another day that we're allowed to study

your word and dig in. We pray that every listener and whenever they listen,

that they're and they can learn to yield to the spirit and let it

rule their love. Father. We pray that every single one of these listeners

and uh, anyone, I'm sorry, Lord, I just pray that you

give the break to be able to discern good from evil, help them to

bless those who need blessing. And Lord, just help them to live by

your spirit. And we pray in Jesus name. Amen, Amen, Amen,

and Amen. Come next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless God

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