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The Father, Son and Holy Spirit

To have a complete understanding of the eternal nature of the Almighty is not something our finite minds are capable of grasping in this life, but there is one truth that is 100% clear and completely necessary for salvation and that is, to know and believe who Messiah is based on the Father's revelation in Matthew 16:15-17. This one truth is what unity, in the Christian faith, should be based on when it comes to knowing the Father and His Son, everything else after that is an in house debate.

Matthew 16:15-17 Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Before we get into this topic, it would be very helpful to first equate yourself with the four studies, Israel's True Messiah, Antichrist, the Beast and Replacement Theology. These studies will give you a better understanding of where most of today's church doctrines and behaviors came from.

Today's Jesus, who is said to be part of a co-eternal, co-equal Trinity God, was invented by the Roman Catholic Church in 325-AD. Which means today's Jesus didn't come into the Christian faith until 325 years after the Apostles were alive.

Nicene Creed of 325-AD: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father...

To help push and promote a co-eternal Son they say Jesus is eternally begotten, but to be begotten means you were born and to be born means you have a beginning. To believe in an eternally begotten Son is Babylon (which means, confusion). The spirit behind the co-eternal, co-equal Trinity doctrine is a persecuting spirit. It imprisoned, tortured and murdered those who rejected the God of the Catholic Church. Even today, if you don't receive the Trinity God of the Catholic Church, you probably won't be burned at the stake, but you will defiantly be labeled as a cult and excommunicated from what is called, the church. This is something God warned us about.

John 16:2-3 The time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is helping God. They will do these things to you because they do not know the Father or Me.

Let's start by looking at the term, (God).

Many people have come to the wrong conclusion because of the term, God.

The term, God, is not a term that's given to any one particular being, it's a title given to one who has authority. Since God, the Creator of heaven and earth has all authority, He has the title, Almighty God. There is another being who has the title, God, and his name is Satan.

2 Corinthians 4:4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe.

Satan is the God of this world because he has authority, he even has enough authority to give it to others.

Revelation 13:2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

Messiah also holds the title, God, because the one true God, His Father, gave Him all authority in heaven and on earth in order for Him to accomplish the mission His Father gave Him. Keep in mind that Messiah was given all authority, which means, at some point He didn't have it.

Matthew 28:18 Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."

Messiah was given all authority in heaven and on earth, yet His Father, as Almighty God, still has authority over His Son.

1 Corinthians 15:24-27 After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

John 14:28 If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

Messiah holds the title, God, but He also has a God of His own who is over and above Him, it's Almighty God, His Father.

John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.

Romans 15:6 that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Son holds the titles, God and mighty God but the Father alone holds the titles Almighty God, the Most High God and the Ancient of Days. No other being holds those titles and never will.

Is God Almighty a co-eternal, co-equal trinity of persons?

If the Holy Spirit was a person, then it would be Messiah's Father, because it was the Spirit that brought Messiah into existence, but we don't see that in Scripture. It was the power of the Most High, through the Holy Spirit, that caused Messiah's existence.

Luke 1:35 The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you. The power of the Most High will cover you. The holy Child you give birth to will be called the Son of God.

For Messiah to be co-eternal and co-equal with the Almighty means there was never a time, not even for a moment, when Messiah didn't exist nor was there ever a time when He didn't have all authority, all power and all knowledge. From this study you will see that none of this is biblical.

God is one eternal Being.

Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the Creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.

God is one eternal Being who is spirit.

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!

He is one eternal Being, not two or three co-eternal persons.

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Mark 12:32 Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.

Only one Being created everything all by Himself and all alone.

Isaiah 44:24 I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.

Nehemiah 9:6 You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their angels. You have made the earth and all that is on it, and the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the angels of heaven bow down to You.

God created everything through His Spirit.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Job 26:13 By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Psalm 104:30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth.

The fact that God created everything, through His Spirit, yet He says he did it all by Himself and all alone testifies to the fact that the Spirit is not a person.

Even Messiah Himself confirmed that It was God alone who created Adam and Eve.

Matthew 19:4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female.

Mark 10:6 Jesus answered them, "But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female".

God is one eternal Being who has a Spirit that interacts with His creation, in time and space, without God, Himself, leaving eternity. Through His Spirit, God can manifest His Divine presence, communicate His thoughts and manifest His power everywhere at the same time.

Jeremiah 23:24 No one can hide so that I can’t see him,” declares the Lord. “I fill heaven and earth!” declares the Lord.

Psalm 139:7-8 How can I get away from your Spirit? Where can I go to escape from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the deepest parts of the earth, you are also there.

The Spirit of God is not a person, though it can manifest as a person, in the same way, it can manifest as a pillar of smoke and a pillar of fire, a rock. It can even manifest as a burning bush, an Angel and even a dove but that does not mean the eternal Spirit of God are these things. You won't see an eternal Burning Bush nor will you see an eternal Dove flying around in the Kingdom of God. They were just tangible manifestations of God's eternal Spirit for that particular time and for that particular purpose.

Tangible definition is - capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch.

The Holy Spirit is the conduit for God’s creative power, thoughts and Divine presence.

Conduit: A means by which something is transmitted.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you; I will make known my words unto you.

In times past, God spoke to His creation by His Spirit, manifesting as a pillar of smoke and a pillar of fire as God led Israel through the wilderness. At times, God would manifest His presence and thoughts by His Spirit manifesting as the Angel of God’s presence or the Angel of the Lord.

Isaiah 63:9-10 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity, He redeemed them; and He bore them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; so, He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.

When they rebelled against the Angel of God’s presence it affected God's Spirit because the Angel representative/Messenger/Ambassador of God’s presence is the Holy Spirit.

Angel: Strong's H4397 messenger, representative, ambassador.

A (word) is the tangible expression of a (thought).

The Angel of the LORD is not a preexisted Jesus, it's a tangible manifestation of God's Spirit. Some people believe Messiah was an angel prior to His birth, but the Scriptures say Messiah was never an angel.

Hebrews 1:5 For God never said to any angel what he said to Jesus: “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father. ”God also said,“I will be his Father, and he will be my Son.”

Because the Holy Spirit is an invisible spirit, the Angel of God’s presence is the Holy Spirit manifesting God's thoughts and will in a tangible way.

When the people, in times past, encountered the Angel of the Lord, it was a tangible manifestation of the Holy Spirit. In doing this, the people were interacting with God’s presence and manifested thoughts.

Judges 13:21-23 When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord. And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!” But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time.”

The Holy Spirit represents God’s will, character and authority in the natural realm. Notice, when they heard the Angel's voice, it was the Lord's words they were hearing. This is because the Holy Spirit is the conduit for the thoughts and will of God.

Exodus 23:20-22 Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

This is how God manifested Himself through Messiah. Messiah became the hands, feet and mouthpiece of God. Basically, the word became flesh.

Luke 22:41-42 Jesus was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Your will, be done.”

John 12:49 I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.

John 14:10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.

John 17:8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and I will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

The Holy Spirit is not a person so it has no individual thoughts or will of its own, it only expresses God’s Divine presence, power and are His manifested thoughts to His creation. The Holy Spirit revealed God's thoughts and will through many ways and in different forms in times past, but in these last days, the thoughts and will of God are being manifested through His Son by the same Spirit. The difference is, the Son, as a living soul, had thoughts of His own and a will of His own that He needed to resist in order to do the Father's will.

What about the "Us" in Genesis? Isn't that the preexisted Jesus with the Father?

When God said, "Let Us make man in our image" we have been taught to see Jesus as co-creator with God, this is a wrong conclusion to come to, especially when we read the opposite in the Scriptures. God actually tells us that it was Him alone and all by Himself who created everything.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself.

The Hebrew language don't use capital letters so if you see a capital letter in a verse, the translator is trying to make you see something that is not there.

When God said, “Let us make man in our image” He was, including the morning stars and sons of God, which are His angelic host that surrounds His throne. Notice how the angels were present with Him during His work of creation.

Job 38:4-7 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

We find the same inclusion of the angelic host in Isaiah 6:1-8. Notice the angelic host surrounding the throne of God and how He includes them by saying "Who will go for us". Notice how the translator, again, uses a capital (U) in the word (Us) to make you see a preexisted Jesus when in reality, God was just including His angelic host.

Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.” Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

Every tangible manifestation of God, throughout the Old Testament, is the Spirit of God manifesting in different ways and at different times, it's not a preexisted Jesus.

Psalm 139:7-8 How can I get away from your Spirit? Where can I go to escape from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the deepest parts of the earth, you are also there.

Hebrews 1:1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in different ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.

The body of Messiah, the living expression of God's thoughts, will and character.

John 14:9 Jesus said to him, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father."

1 John 1:1-3 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

Messiah is the last Adam.

Messiah, as the last Adam, picked up where the first Adam left off, as a mortal man.

Adam was created from the earth as a righteous and holy man connected to the Spirit of God. Because of this, he had conditional immortality. God was his Father because it was the Spirit of God that caused Adam to became a living soul.

Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Psalm 104:30 You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.

Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living soul.

Both Adam and Messiah were living souls having their own free will and individual thoughts, separate and apart from God. Adam was crated a full grown man, whereas, Messiah was conceived and birthed as a child who would need to grow in wisdom and to adulthood.

Luke 2:52 Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people.

In the garden, Adam used his free will to disobey God, whereas, Messiah, in the garden, used His free will to obey God.

Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Adam was created righteous and holy so he had conditional immortality, through the Holy Spirit, because it's the Spirit that gives life.

John 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

The day Adam sinned, he spiritually died and was cut off from living forever.

Galatians 2:15 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Genesis 3:22-23 Then the Lord God said, “Look, man have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden.

Adam's behavior left him spiritually dead and subject to physical death, which he would experience later in his life.

Genesis 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Messiah, as the last Adam, was born of a woman, born under the law. As the last Adam, He picked where the first Adam left off, meaning Messiah was born a mortal human-being who was subject to death. At some point, Messiah would receive the Holy Spirit to fulfill and carry out the Father's will for Him, this happens at His baptism.

Acts 10:36-38 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all— that word you know, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Acts 2:22 Fellow Israelites, listen to this! Jesus of Nazareth was a man who had God’s approval. God did miracles, wonders and signs among you through Jesus. You yourselves know this.

Messiah received the Spirit without limit enabling Him to speak for the Father with miraculous power and authority.

John 3:34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

Messiah was faithful throughout His whole life, even to dying on the cross, just as the Father planned.

Acts 2:23 God knew what would happen, and his prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and killed him.

Messiah had to taste death for everyone, but He could not die as long as He was connected to the Holy Spirit. This means at some point the Holy Spirit would be removed from Him to allow Him to die. This happens on the cross, at about the ninth hour, the Holy Spirit leaves Him, but not because He sinned, but rather, because He became sin for us.

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Messiah became mortal on the cross and died for the sins of the entire world, but His death would only last for three days and three nights. He would then be raised from the dead and be exalted to the right hand of the Father and once again, He would be given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father promised, so He would never have to die again.

Acts 2:32-33 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

Romans 6:9 Christ was raised from the dead, and we know that he cannot die again. Death has no power over him now.

Messiah has now become the life giving Spirit of the New Covenant.

1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Through Messiah's resurrection, and exaltation, He was given the same ability to give life to others, as the Father has.

John 5:26 The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.

Messiah, as the firstborn from the dead, is the beginning of God's new creation. Prior to Messiah's resurrection and becoming the, life giving Spirit, there was no New Covenant Spirit.

John 7:39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Today, Messiah is the conduit for eternal life, when we abide in the words of Messiah, we have Messiah, and we have eternal life.

1 John 5:11-12 this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

John 15:5-6 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

2 John 1:9 Anyone who goes too far and does not live by the teachings of Christ does not have God. If you live by what Christ taught, you have both the Father and the Son.

John 10:27-28 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

John 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Hebrews 5:8-10 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.

In conclusion:

In the same way God used the Spirit to created the dust of the earth to make Adam a living soul, the Spirit created the Seed in Mary that developed into a body of flesh which gave way to Messiah's birth and Him becoming a living soul, the last Adam.

Messiah's body is the word made flesh, but Messiah Himself is the living soul.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

The body of Messiah had its origin from heaven through the Holy Spirit coming down and forming the flesh of Messiah in the womb of Mary, not Messiah as a living soul.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

The shed blood of Messiah was God's own blood because He, through His Spirit, manifested as the body of Messiah.

Acts 20:28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

The body of Messiah is a tangible manifestation of Holy Spirit just like in the Old Testament with the pillar of smoke, the pillar of fire, the rock, the burning bush and so on. The pillar of smoke, the pillar of fire, the rock, the burning bush and so on is not the main thing, what is spoken through those tangible objects is the important thing.

John 6:63 It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are life.

Messiah received supernatural power at His baptism when He received God's Holy Spirit, which He had to submit to in order to obey the Father's will.

Matthew 3:14-16 But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?” But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him. After his baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and settling on him.

Hebrews 9:14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

As a result of Messiah's faithful obedience to the will of the Father, through the Holy Spirit, Messiah now has a name above all names and every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Messiah is Lord.

Philippians 2:8-11 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross! As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow —in heaven and on earth and under the earth—and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Messiah is the man who stands as mediator between the one true God and all of humanity.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Messiah rules as Mighty God in the Kingdom of God under the authority of His Father, Almighty God. God's whole plan, to redeem a lost and dying people, is all mapped out in 1 Corinthians 15:22-28.

1 Corinthians 15:22-28 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back. After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” that does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority. Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere.

Receive Messiah and stay connected to Him and begin your new life into eternity where the Father and His Son will be with you always.

John 14:21-24 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?” Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.

John14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The very bottom line of knowing and accepting Messiah's true identity and of where the entire Christian faith should be unified is found in Matthew 16:15-17.

Matthew 16:15-17 Jesus said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

I know this is a very deep study with many more questions that need answers so feel to call me or email me with any questions you might have.

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What does it mean to be, "Not under the law"?

Before we can understand what it means to be, not be under the law, we must first understand what sin is.

Sin is simply missing the mark and the mark is God's image. God is holy, righteous and just. God is perfect love and we were all created in His image.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

When we sin, we miss that mark and fall from the glory of God's image.

Romans 3:23 all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

God has given each one of us a conscience that acts as a voice within us to help us to maintain God's image. When we sin, it affects our conscience and everything around us to where it produces sickness, death and destroys relationships. Sin is like a growing cancer that eats away at the conscience and causes it to become hard to the point that missing the mark no longer causes us guilt or shame. With a hardened conscience, our thoughts become evil continually. This is what happens over time when sin goes unchecked.

Genesis 6:5-7 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.

Since the first time man sinned in the garden, sin grew and got so bad that by the time Noah came in history, God had to destroy everything with the flood. This is what sin does in God's creation, it grows worse and worse as each generation passes. Our job is to keep our conscience clear and alive to God's voice.

Acts 24:15-16 I believe, just as these men do, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and ungodly. Because of this, I try with all my strength to always maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

Sin has been causing havoc in the world since Adam sinned, but keep in mind, God has a plan to fix the sin problem in the world but His plan must run its course to where Messiah can be born, live and die for the sins of the entire world, this will open the door to God's Kingdom. God's plan, to remove sin from His people, was put in motion from before the foundation of the world, but the plan wouldn't be completed until Messiah came and finished the plan.

1 Peter 1:18-20 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

From Adam to Noah life continued in the world and sin progressively grew worse and then from Noah to Moses sin was still growing so God enacted the law at Mt. Sinai to help to deterred sin and protect His plan until Messiah could come.

Galatians 3:24-25 In other words, the law was our guardian leading us to Christ so that we could be made right with God through faith. Now the way of faith has come, and we no longer live under a guardian.

The law, that was given at Mt. Sinai, came 430 years after God promised Abraham a future Son who would be a blessing to the whole world.

Galatians 3:16-17 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

Why was the law added?

The law was added because people were sinning and sin destroys people. The law, with it's punishment, only slowed sin down so that the promised Seed could be born.

Galatians 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

With the law given at Mt. Sinai came God's imposed punishment for sin i.e. stoning to death. The fear of being stoned to death for sin was to act as a deterrent to keep God's people form self destructing before the promised Seed could be born. Once Messiah was born, we are no longer under the threat of being stoned to death for sin, even though sin is still present in the world.

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

No one can out sin the grace of God. In other words, since Messiah came, God will never call for a sinner to be stoned to death for their sin

Romans 5:20 The law was given so that sin would increase. But where sin increased, God’s grace increased even more.

If there is no stoning for sin, then we are free to obey God through faith working through love, not because of fear of punishment.

1 John 4:18-19 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.

Grace is a tool in the hand of God because it teaches us to live a godly and righteous life. Grace gives us time to grow and learn for our mistakes and turn form them, this was not so under the law. Under the law, you sin, you die, game over. Grace gives people time to be conformed to the image of God's Son.

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Here is what many people don't understand about sin and the law. When we sin, WE ALSO break God’s law, which was given at Mt. Sinai.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.

Sin and death was in the world before the law was given at Mt. Sinai, people just didn't get stoned to death for their sin, yet they still suffered the consequence of sin itself.

Romans 5:12-14 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did.

Whether we have the law on stone or not, people will still be destroyed because of sin, that's what sin does.

Romans 2:12-13 When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it. For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.

Sickness, death and broken relationships are build into sin itself, without any help from God.

Numbers 32:23 But if you fail to keep your word, then you will have sinned against the LORD, and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.

Proverbs 8:36 he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.

Isaiah 59:2 your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

The law didn’t invent sin or death, it only pointed out sin and then required a quick sentence, i.e. stoning to death. But remember, sin has its own death sentence, even without the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments, which declared the sinner guilty, wasn't added until 430 years after God made the promise to Abraham, but people still died because of sin, the death just didn't come from God, it came from sin itself.

Let me give you an example using the Sabbath. The seventh day of creation was created by God as a holy and blessed day as part of creation itself.

Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The Sabbath was holy long before Sinai, before there was sin and even before there was a Jew. This means the law given at Sinai didn't make the Sabbath holy, it protected it. The punishment for not keeping the Sabbath holy was to be put to death.

Exodus 31:15 Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

To be put to death for profaning the Sabbath came from the law at Mt. Sinai, prior to Mt. Sinai people weren't stoned to death for profaning the Sabbath, even though the Sabbath was still holy. The whole reason for the law was because people were sinning, i.e. breaking the Sabbath, that's why the fourth commandment is part of the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 20:8-10 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.

When the Bible says, we are no longer under the law but under grace, it doesn't mean the Sabbath is no longer holy or that we can now go out and lie, steal, murder and commit adultery. What it does mean is that God will no longer have you stoned to death for sin. But remember, sin still has its own death and destruction built within sin itself. Sin still causes sickness, death and destruction, even without the law.

Sin destroys relationships both in the natural realm and in the spiritual realm. This is very important to understand because salvation and eternal life is based on a living relationship with Messiah.

1 John 5:11-12 this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Eternal life is connected to following Messiah.

John 10:27-28 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

Hebrews 5:8-9 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.

The danger of sin today is not the fear of being stoned to death, but rather, the danger of sin is that it hardens the heart towards God's saving work in us.

Hebrews 3:12-14 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.

Messiah's shed blood cleanses us of our past sin and declares us righteous, which allows us into God's presence.

Hebrews 9:15 For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.

2 Peter 1:9 But whoever does not have them is short-sighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

Messiah's blood cleanses of all our past unrighteousness and is forever sufficient to cleanses us of our future unrighteousness, if we confess them.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we don't confess our sin, sin will grow and cause spiritual death and a spiritually dead person is no longer following Messiah.

James 1:14-16 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.

To not be under the law, but under grace, is to no longer fear being stoned to death for sin, but sin is still unrighteous and no unrighteousness will be part of God's Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 6:8-10 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

Today, we obey God's Torah through the teachings of Messiah, we don't do away with it.

Revelation 12:17 This dragon was very angry with the woman. He went off to fight with the rest of her children. They are the ones who obey the Torah of God and are faithful to the teachings of Jesus.

2 John 9 Anyone who goes too far and does not live by the teachings of Christ does not have God. If you live by what Christ taught, you have both the Father and the Son.

Today, we obey God through the teachings of Messiah because we love God, not because we're afraid of being stoned to death. This is what the New Covenant is all about, God fills us with His love and changes our lives from the inside out and that changed life loves God and values what God values.

Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Ezekiel 36:25-28 Then I will put clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will make you clean from all your unclean ways and from all your false gods. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My Laws and be careful to do what I tell you. And you will live in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be My people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 31:33 this is the new covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the new covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

Romans 2:12-13 When Gentiles sin without having the Torah will perish without the Torah being used. Those who have the Torah and have sinned will be judged by the Torah. Just to hear the Torah does not make a man right with God. The man right with God is the one who obeys the Torah.

In conclusion:

Sin is still in the world and sin still kills and separates people from God and obeying God still brings life. So, does grace mean we can sin because we are not under the law?...No way.

If you love God and love your neighbor, show it by obeying God because His law teaches us how to love God and love our neighbor the way God defines love. As a matter of fact, it will be hard for the changed person not to obey God's law because of our new nature.

Matthew 22:37-34 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 13:8-10 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

If someone invites us to a Sabbath fellowship our response should not be, "I'm not under the law". In the same way, if your neighbor's spouse invites you over to have an intimate relationship you shouldn't say, "I'm not under the law, I'll be right over". Why? Because no one who commits adultery will inherit the Kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

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