Today I want to write about a topic that the majority of Christians used to avoid work - Old Covenant vs New Covenant.
The Old Covenant makes Christians do the work. But in the New Covenant Jesus does the work for them, so they think. Is that not a pile of dung?
Here is what one Biblical Scholar wrote,
“what the difference actually is: not a different law, but the location of the law, now written in hearts and not on stone.” Dr. Joshua Martin.
When God gave the law to Moses, the original law was written on stone. But Jeremiah says that God “will put the law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.”
I agree that placing the law in our hearts is better than placing the law on stone. But Christians do not want to see the law on stone or in their hearts. They want to abolish the law altogether. That’s what they believe Paul says. No law, no work, period. Just grace through faith. But we know that no one receives grace without work except the thief of the cross. The thief on the cross is an exception. But the majority of Christians was misled by Paul to believe that every Christians can get grace from Jesus without work based on this one exception - the thief on the cross. This is a fallacy of logic! I can understand if some carpenters and fishermen believe in this kind of argument. But how about the rest of us?
Most Christians do not understand what they read. They think they do, but they don't. Why? Because the Bible, as I have repeatedly said in the past, is a law book. Our prophets, if they don't understand what they read or hear, they would ask God for an explanation. The Biblical Scholars, on the other hand, would ask their college teachers for clarification if they have a question. But their college professor is not God. This is like the blind leading the blind. How can a college professor read the mind of God? No one could except God Himself!
My conclusion is that almost all of the Bible stuff that I read on the Internet is written to avoid or circumvent work, that's all. What is work?
The work that the majority of Christians tried to avoid is being a good law abiding citizen. That's all that God requires from us - be a good law abiding citizen. What is so hard of being a law abiding citizen? I think paying income taxes is probably the hardest part of being a good law abiding citizen. But everybody else pays income tax, right?
Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your
name?'
And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' Matthew 7:21-23. If we practice lawlessness we are not doing the will of the Father. Do you know when Matthew 7:21-23 occurs? It occurs on Judgment Day when Jesus returns for the second time. It's sentencing time. Too late for anyone to repent.
Old Covenant or New Covenant, if we are not law abiding citizens, if we practice lawlessness, we will hear weeping, and gnashing of teeth, or dentures! No grace.
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." But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 6:5-8.
Do you know why God killed all of them except Noah and his family? Children, adults, and the elderly were all drowned and killed. Do you know why God killed them all? God has no faith in them.
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