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The Devotional

Comment: With each season of life there are adventures that will not pass our way again, yet the adventures are not foreign to us either. One early day in life we could not walk, yet we noticed all around us people were walking. We kept trying and soon we made it from one chair to the next, soon also we learned to run. From that point life seemed to take off. Going to and fro, increasing in strength and stability and for a period of time not giving much thought that the clock of life is winding down. As we age the same adventure of walking may turn into difficult periods of time and adventurous stumbling as we move about from chair to chair again. Walking has not changed has it? No not at all, only the legs that carry the body! The body, the mind and spirit say GO! And the legs, if not too painful at the moment “chuckle, I mean shuffle” to the next support station! I have this pod counter on my smart phone, it wants me to walk 10k a day, and I dropped it to 7k, I barely get it up to 2k throughout the day. In New England where I live I can travel through 4 States in less than two hours, “big deal”; I looked at my pod counter and observed this 100 miles journey only took less than 500 steps.

Challenge: Sadly many believers (born again) children of God live out their lives in the flesh and as the physical body gets old and perishes so does it seem that their relationship with God does the same. This ought not to be, yet many will turn away because they are exhausted and burnt out from laboring in the flesh. Defeated in the Spiritual power of abiding in Christ. Why? Because they have failed to study, apply and obey the Holy Bible. These went merrily along in life forgetting that time runs out and being satisfied, clothed in the self-righteousness of “I did it my way!”

Most of us do not understand the commands, the regulations or the ordinances and statutes of serving in the military. Wiki-Pedia describes Koine Greek as a common dialect within the armies of Alexander the Great. Now guess what the whole of the New Testament is written in, yes you guess it, it is written in a language that is full of commands, regulations, statutes and ordinances. A Greek “common language” that was modified by Alexander the Great so that he could teach all of his conquered nations and their military to follow him and perfectly understand without question. His thinking was that if he were to conquer the world, than those conquered must speak the same language.

Does this mean that all of us people saved by grace of God should be speaking Koine Greek? No! No more than all of us Blood Bought saints should be speaking Hebrew, but it does mean that we should understand that God is not to be mocked since whatever a man or woman sows, is what they will reap. Religion compels a person to pervert the Gospel of Grace in order to avoid the suffering that comes from being persecuted for Jesus Christ. Religion boasts that it accepts the world views of today, these religions have lost or never heard the command. “Put on the LORD Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh – See Romans 13:11-14.

The apostle Paul in Galatians 6 and before concluding this epistle says – “But God forbid that I should boast except in the Cross of our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Do we fail to see the Ordinance of this verse? The world is defeated and ashamed of the Cross of Christ and believers on the opposite side of this are victors and ashamed of the world. If the apostle Paul could have this mindset we too should strive to have it as well. This being said, we must understand that what we religiously approve or disapprove in church has little to do with what we should be doing. We are not to be ritualistic which has nothing to do with Spirituality or the Gospel of Grace.

Notice – Galatians 6:15 the example and theme of Galatians – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails ANYTHING, but a new creation. The regulation of circumcision was never carried forward in the New Covenant (Testament), but the statute of being a new Person in Christ was commanded – Ephesians 6:10 Finally my brethren be strong in the LORD and in the Power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil… through Ephesians 6:20. You have heard it said that the Holy Bible is all about Christ. If this is true and it is, then what are we doing by agreeing with the world that good can be achieved by accepting what is evil? Bah! Humbug! Let us therefore return to the calling of God, 2 Peter 3:9 and Matthew 28:17-20.

The commands, regulations, precepts, statutes and Word of God speak loud and clear in the New Testament. Yet churches have become traitors by accepting what is shameful and converting to liberal diction without power. Any theology that accepts the world views of today has traded the Power of the Living God for the worthless flesh of an uncircumcised pagan. However I Praise God; there are churches in this nation who are sticking to the command of presenting the Gospel of Peace to the world of which we are ashamed of, because we are not ashamed of the gospel for it is the Power of God to Salvation for ALL who believe – Romans 1:16-17 as the just will live by faith.