I read a book that clearly makes this point. To retain and remit knows we offer God's plan of salvation in Christ, and the person chooses. (You know, the work is finished, cease from your own) It is important to know we are members in a body and Jesus Y'shua is head of the called.
Who is my neighbor? Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. Yes, you see we are in the world and not of it. What is left?
The highways and byways, lame, crippled, sick and the least of these.
Be zealous of good works.
Shalom.
John 3:16 1 John
“Love Not The World”
”For the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one”(I John 5:19)
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world will pass away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of The Only True GOD will abide for ever.” (I John 2:15-17)
“If you were of the world, the world would love it’s own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.” (John 15:19-20)
“Where do wars and fighting among you come from? Do they not come of your lusts that war in your members? You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is to be at enmity with The Only True GOD? Therefore whoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of The Only True GOD.” (James 4:1-4)
“The world cannot hate you; but the world hates Me, because I testify that the works of this world are evil.” (John 7:7)” and “The Messiah gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of The Only True God, Our Father.”(Gal 1:4)
The Messiah testified: “If the world hates you know that it hated Me before it hated you.”(John 5:18) Truly, Truly, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life in this world shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall have it unto life eternal.” (John 12:24-25)
John testified: “Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.” (I John 3:13) “ James testified, “Whoever would be a friend of this world is the enemy of GOD”(James 4:4)
The “earth” is The Creation of The Only True GOD, Father of ALL! The “worldly” systems are the creation of, and under the dominion of “the god of this world”, he who is “the father of lies”, he who “has blinded the minds of those who believe not The Messiah”! All the nations of this world are under the dominion of, and serve, the evil one for he provides the fuel that feeds mankind’s “imag”ination and mankind’s “imagination is destroying and perverting Creation(land, air, water, creatures, Truth, Love, Peace, Faith, Simplicity, .etc.) ;-(
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this world……. francisco
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The “earth” is The Creation of The Only True GOD, Father of ALL! The “worldly” systems are the creation of, and under the dominion of “the god of this world”, he who is “the father of lies”, he who “has blinded the minds of those who believe not The Messiah”! All the nations of this world are under the dominion of, and serve, the evil one for he provides the fuel that feeds mankind’s “imag”ination and mankind’s “imagination is destroying and perverting Creation(land, air, water, creatures, Truth, Love, Peace, Faith, Simplicity, .etc.) ;-(
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this world……. francisco
Slow down. First of all, everything can be redeemed (Psalm 24:1, Genesis 50:19-21). Second, even worldly systems (such as Talmudism) can be used for Heavenly things; and people have to know things for what they are. See Isaiah 29:13-14, Mark 7:7-13, Acts 15, and Romans 14; because, for example, one has to know how the Talmud (even though the Talmud tries to upsurp Tanakh) points to Y'shua-shelNatzaret as Y'shua HaMashiach-shel Natzaret, and how even Messianics celebrate but redeem Talmudists' holy days.
that which "waxed old. vanished away" indeed and Truth!
peace, in spite of the dis-ease(religion) that is of this world....... francisco
Exact. The levitical priesthood is established forever. May the house of Aaron now say his mercy endureth forever.That means God ordained "it" in His good time. It served it's purpose to establish a New and Living Way. The word of God remains (rhema) and accomplishes what He sends it forth to do. Forever his word is settled in heaven. In earth as it is in heaven.
Amen. Shalom to the Elect
simply, religion, and especially judeo/christian religion, is anti-Messiah for religion but carries on the legacy of the pharisee ;-( book learned to the utmost they know not The Messiah! all they know are "the colored marks written on a dead tree" ;-(
yet there is hope!
for Miracles do happen!