law and gospel

The law was a command given by God to the Israelites. There are two purposes for which God gave them commandments. First, God tells them that you are all sinners. The second is that God informs them that they are making the mistake of condemning others through the law. This is the act of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is the same as sitting in God's seat.

Eve (symbolizing all mankind) was deceived by the serpent (Satan) and wanted to become like God, so she ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil corresponds to the law. And Eve gave the fruit to her first man, Adam. The first man, Adam, as Christ, plays the role of giving the body of sin. He is born in the world in the flesh and gives his body of sin to the people of the world.

God told the Israelites to keep the commandments, and when they broke the commandments, they received forgiveness for their sins through sacrifice. The reason is that through sacrifices, God made them realize that humans are beings who cannot escape sin no matter how hard they try. So, through sacrifice, God makes them remember the promise they made to the woman's descendants. The descendant of the woman is Adam, the last Christian person. The last man, Adam, redeemed the body of sin on the cross and gave the body of resurrection (clothes of Christ) to those who were united with him.

This is the gospel. Therefore, believers were able to enter the path of salvation, receiving forgiveness of their sins once and for all, rather than having to offer sacrifices every day. 1 Peter 3:18 『For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:』 Hebrews 9:28 『So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.』

The gospel is moving from the law to Christ. There is only one way to come to Christ, and that is to believe in dying with Jesus Christ and being resurrected together. In Romans 6:6-7, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” For he that is dead is freed from sin. This means gaining the glory of resurrection through the death of the old self.

The Bible says that those who die are completely free from sin. So baptism means death. In John 3:5, “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” The first death is due to sin at the water judgment. died about it. The problem of sin has been solved. The second death is the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. That is why the saints' soul that emerged from their bodies were burned to death. So, through the power of the Holy Spirit, one becomes born from heaven. This is testified in 1 John 5:7-8. 『For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.』Water is water baptism, and the Holy Spirit is fire and Holy Spirit baptism. Blood signifies the death of Jesus Christ. These are all words that testify to the death of Jesus Christ and those who have entered into Christ.

For a believer, the old person dies and becomes a new person. The death of the old man means that one's identity has changed. This means that believers live as new people, not old people. The kingdom of God is established in the heart. So a temple is built in the heart, and God enters the temple and becomes its owner. However, the old man remains the same. As long as the body exists, the old man harasses the new man. That is why we engage in spiritual warfare. God tells believers to concentrate their minds, stay awake, and always focus on the temple and pray in the Holy of Holies.

And through the Bible, God tells believers not to worry about the problem of sin. In Romans 8:1-2, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.』 The reason is that believers must preach the gospel, but there may be times when they stumble due to their weak flesh, so God embraces this. It is given. If a believer intentionally abuses this, he is not dead to sin.

However, there are those who return to the law even though they have come to the gospel. This is called legalism. Legalists say they believe in Jesus, but they are like Judaizers who make sophistry by saying that keeping the law is helpful. Representative examples include keeping the feasts, observing the Sabbath (Sunday observance), tithing must be done, repenting of sins every day and being forgiven through the blood of Jesus, deceiving the church building as a temple, and forcing money, etc. The things of are legalism. Besides that, there is humanism. There are people and pastors who believe in God and try to gain worldly blessings. Gnostics are those who talk about the image of God as if it can be improved through hard work. And fake pastors deceive believers by telling them that they must live a sanctified life to become like God. Saints must become one with God, not become like God. There is no other way to become one with God than to die with Jesus.

Also, those who speak untruth say that resurrection means the body received from parents dies and then comes back to life. They are proclaiming untruths such as that there is a rapture. They talk about the kingdom of God in words, saying that the kingdom of God is within our hearts, but this is only a theory and they do not actually believe in the presence of God in the hearts of believers. Also, while teaching people to speak in tongues, they make strange sounds and call them speaking in tongues. Tongues become a foreign language to a person who cannot understand the Bible even though it proclaims the gospel of truth. That is speaking in tongues. Because the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, Jesus' disciples spoke in tongues, and the content was about the great work of the kingdom of God. If a believer understands it, it is in his own language, and if he does not understand it, it becomes tongues.

The gospel of truth is that the kingdom of God is established in the hearts of believers, and they become the people of the kingdom of God and become sons of God. This is the purpose of the gospel. If you deviate from this, you are not in the gospel but in untruth, and you become a person trapped in the law. If the words of the Bible are heard to you as hologos, they become the gospel of life, and if you read them as rhema, they become the law. The gospel is life, but the law is lifeless. Therefore, this is also expressed in other words as water above the firmament and water under the firmament. In addition, there are comparisons between the new man and the old man, heaven and earth, the first man Adam and the last man Adam, the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the fruit of life, wine and water, etc.

 

In conclusion, the law becomes the gospel to discover Christ, but legalism is an untruth that destroys the soul. The Judaizers at the time of Jesus were like that.

Revelation 17:5 『And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.』The woman's name refers to the church that belongs to legalism and the church of untruth. am. The church today that deceives people with humanism, legalism, and gnosticism is Babylon. This is right around us, and they don't know about it, so it's a big secret. The name is Mysterion. It is not a secret whose name cannot be known, but the name itself is the name of the letters meaning secret. In other words, the name represents mystery.

In Revelation 3:17-18, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.』

Babylon is a country that opposed God. It is truly a mystery why the church degenerates into a false faith like Babylon. In 1 Peter 5:12-14, “By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.” The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Looking at verse 13, ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι (in Babylon) συνεκλεκτὴ (chosen) καὶ Μᾶρκος ὁ υἱός μου. Although he is in Babylon, he is a chosen one (saint: church). Babylon does not mean Rome, but you are in the same place as Babylon, but you are chosen by God. This means that today’s saints are also called and chosen in a world like Babylon.

Revelation 17:6 『And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.』The adulteress drinks only the wine of wrath. . The Bible says that this woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. The representative idol today is “False Jesus.” They think of a false Jesus, and that is why they demand blood every day. Every day they ask for the blood of Jesus to forgive their sins, and they kill Jesus every day. The big “the woman drunken” are the churches right next to us. These are churches of untruth. But they say they are shouting out the truth.

The great prostitute kills souls. In Acts 7:51-53, 『Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.』

In Matthew 23:29-30, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.』