MORNINGTIME 2160
by Benjamin Munsell on August 27, 2016MORNINGTIME 2160
And he declared unto you his covenant, WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Deuteronomy 4:13-14. Nobody in the Old Testament time could keep the 10 commandments by the works of the flesh. No matter how hard, how dedicated, or how sincere a person was, it was impossible for fleshly man to keep and obey them. That was all man had to work with, his flesh, self, and old man nature. Except for the Holy Spirit ministering to a few people, everyone else was dead in the water when trying to obey "the 10". Man is dead in sin, and going down. The Father sends Christ, The Son, to bail out man from sin, He lived a Perfect Life and is the example to show us the way out of the death grip of sin on man. So what's different? Now, we have the Holy Spirit to guide us into the Way of Salvation. When Christ Saves us and we ask for the Holy Spirit to fill us, we are no longer CONTROLLED by the flesh as the people of Old were. As we Grow in Christ and His Being in us, we now move as the Spirit in us directs our path into a Holy, Righteous, and Obedient, Walk of Faith IN AND THROUGH CHRIST. It's no longer our flesh telling us what to do, it is The Spirit of Christ IN us telling us what to do, and as we Obey Him, we stop listening to our flesh and start obeying the Spirit of Christ, IN US. Because of the Work of the Holy Spirit, we no longer need to disobey Him, and will find ourselves gladly Obeying the 10 Commandments just as naturally as breathing air. It's the Holy Spirit IN us that allows us to Obey Him. He won't break His Own (10) Rules, and neither will we as we learn to hear and Obey His Still Small Voice. No longer can we say, "Paul couldn't keep them, why should we"? CHRIST DID, AND HE'S OUR EXAMPLE. Follow Christ, and, Be Blessed.
backAnd he declared unto you his covenant, WHICH HE COMMANDED YOU TO PERFORM, EVEN TEN COMMANDMENTS; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Deuteronomy 4:13-14. Nobody in the Old Testament time could keep the 10 commandments by the works of the flesh. No matter how hard, how dedicated, or how sincere a person was, it was impossible for fleshly man to keep and obey them. That was all man had to work with, his flesh, self, and old man nature. Except for the Holy Spirit ministering to a few people, everyone else was dead in the water when trying to obey "the 10". Man is dead in sin, and going down. The Father sends Christ, The Son, to bail out man from sin, He lived a Perfect Life and is the example to show us the way out of the death grip of sin on man. So what's different? Now, we have the Holy Spirit to guide us into the Way of Salvation. When Christ Saves us and we ask for the Holy Spirit to fill us, we are no longer CONTROLLED by the flesh as the people of Old were. As we Grow in Christ and His Being in us, we now move as the Spirit in us directs our path into a Holy, Righteous, and Obedient, Walk of Faith IN AND THROUGH CHRIST. It's no longer our flesh telling us what to do, it is The Spirit of Christ IN us telling us what to do, and as we Obey Him, we stop listening to our flesh and start obeying the Spirit of Christ, IN US. Because of the Work of the Holy Spirit, we no longer need to disobey Him, and will find ourselves gladly Obeying the 10 Commandments just as naturally as breathing air. It's the Holy Spirit IN us that allows us to Obey Him. He won't break His Own (10) Rules, and neither will we as we learn to hear and Obey His Still Small Voice. No longer can we say, "Paul couldn't keep them, why should we"? CHRIST DID, AND HE'S OUR EXAMPLE. Follow Christ, and, Be Blessed.
