AND JESUS SAID: "THEREFORE EVERY SCRIBE WHICH IS INSTRUCTED UNTO THE KINDOM OF HEAVEN, IS LIKE UNTO A MAN THAT IS AN HOUSEHOLDER, WHICH BRINGETH FORTH OUT OF HIS TREASURE THINGS NEW AND OLD" (MATT. 13: 52).
SO HERE JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT HIS SCRIBE, HIS MINISTER DISCIPLES.... THEY WILL BRING FORTH THEIR TEACHING FROM THE WORD OF GOD, THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. THIS HAS TO BE SO FOR JESUS TAUGHT [MAT. 4:4] THAT MAN WAS NOT TO LIVE BY PHYSICAL BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD - AND SO ALL THE BIBLE!
WE STUDY TO SHOW OURSELVES APPROVED UNTO GOD A WORKMAN THAT NEEDS NOT BE ASHAMED, AS PUAL PUT IT, FROM BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS.
THE THINGS NEW WILL BE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT; FOR NOT ALL THINGS ARE THE SAME AS THE OLD UNDER THE NEW TESTAMENT. NOW LETS CLEAR SOMETHING UP RIGHT AWAY, FOR SOME WILL SHOUT OUT, BUT GOD SAYS HE'S THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
OH HOW THAT VERSE CAN BE USED SO WRONGFULLY. GOD IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER, IN HOLY CHARACTER! NOT NECESSARILY IN DOCTRINE!
EASILY PROVED, JUST READ JESUS' FAMOUS "BEATITUDES" IN MATTHEW 5, 6, AND 7. "YOU HAVE HEARD IT SAID..... BUT I SAY UNTO YOU....."
THE NEW TESTAMENT OR COVENANT IS NOT A CARBON COPY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT OR COVENANT.
A HUGE EXAMPLE IS PHYSICAL "CIRCUMCISION" - ACTS 15, A CHURCH CONFERENCE WAS CALLED UPON TO CLEAR THE MATTER UP. PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER THE NEW COVENANT.
JESUS SAID TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL (JOHN 4) THAT JERUSALEM WAS THE PLACE TO WORSHIP GOD, CENTRAL TO GOD'S PEOPLE KEEPING THE FEASTS AT JERUSALEM, BUT JESUS SAID THE TIME IS COMING AND WAS EVEN THEN, WHEN SUCH A TEACHING WOULD BE DO MORE; FOR GOD WANTED TO BE WORSHIPPED IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. JESUS KNEW THE GOSPEL WAS TO GO ALL OVER THE EARTH, COMING TO OBSERVE THE FEASTS OF GOD AT JERUSALEM, WAS NOT GOING TO BE REQUIRED UNDER A WORLDWIDE GOSPEL.
JESUS MADE DIVORCE AND RE-MARRIAGE MORE CONFINED THAN UNDER MOSES, AS HE TOLD THE PHARISEES, IT WAS EASY UNDER MOSES, BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF THE HEART - SEE MATT. 19.
THERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES I'VE GIVEN YOU. I'M SURE SOME WILL HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING ALL THIS, ABOUT OLD AND NEW. I HAVE GIVEN YOU THE KEYS TO UNDERSTAND ALL THIS IN A TWO PART STUDY CALLED "LIVING BY EVERY WORD OF GOD - HOW?" YOU'LL FIND IT UNDER EITHER "CHRISTIAN LIVING" OR "SALVATION AND GRACE" SECTIONS ON THIS WEBSITE.
I'LL SOON UPLOAD IT TO THIS BLOG.
Keith Hunt
....................
No comments:
Post a Comment