Obedience is to the unseen

Saturday, December 29th, 2018

Jeremiah 7:22-26
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For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
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but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.
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But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
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From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.
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But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.’

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It is not that the Hebrews were stripped of opportunity to have the living conscience of God with them. It was that each time a prophet returned them to reconcilliation, they just considered themselves righteous and again turned away; doing again their own will. The kingdom of heaven has always been available to the living, as our God is the God of the living. But the kingdom only supplies the will of the Father through His truth. And for the Hebrews and even to this very day; Islam and Judaism fall further away from reconcilliation that the eternal prophet, the final and most holy prophet, the first ressurect brought to them as good news.

Do not doubt that the Father loves the children of Abraham. But we also know that the children of Abraham are not considered by geneology but as children of faithfulness. Of Sarah.

And scattered throughout the world are those who are chosen and will be gathered to live eternally as co heirs of God, as brothers and sisters to the Messiah, the one and only Son of God, the living Word. "Walk in obedience to all I command you.." never meant the temple ceremonials and traditions. It was meant to be recognized as spiritual. Like Abraham with Isaac. It was faith that placed him in obedience not the ceremonial offering.

It was Abraham relying on the unseen qualities of God that God recognized as righteousness. It was not that Abraham was righteous, it was that righteousness came through Abraham, AMEN AMEN. Righteousness is in God alone. Righteousness does not come from perfect knowledge of sin. Righteousness is what we Christians consider the fruits of the Holy Spirit that come 'through' us.

See?

The kingdom is the living conscience that can only  serve the will of God. This is why the Lord said through Jeremiah: ' Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.' Obedience was not stoning someone for doing deeds on the Sabbath, no, obedience was loving one another, and the opportunity to treat one another as you woild have yourselves be treated.

The kingdom serves the will of God. And God is love. So what can we say? How important is it for Christians to deny themselves and allow the fruits of the Holy Spirit to come through them by the kingdom?

It is the obedience that our Master showed us, it is the love we are commanded to have for the Father; as well as, one another. We are a beacon in the darkness, we are the water from the rock, we are the split sea, we are the wall of fire, we are the example of hope. So we allow what is holy to act through us, putting aside ourselves. This is an act of love that is eternal, and greater than ourselves.

As Jesus said, Be holy as I am Holy. So we deny ourselves so perfection can instead work through us by the kingdom. This is how the Father's will is done through imperfect being such as us. Judaic amd Islamic believers will bow and confess that the truth of God does His will alone. Christ Jesus is the living Word of God, the truth as the eternal authority, and therefore is the only way to obey the Father.