The Mission:
“…therefore every teacher and interpreter of the Sacred Writings who has been instructed about and trained for the kingdom of heaven and has become a disciple is like a householder who brings forth out of his storehouse treasure that is new and [treasure that is] old [the fresh as well as familiar].” Mt 13:52 AMP
“For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Jn 1:17 NKJV
Not Truth Alone
Moses gave the law…he was the lawgiver. The Law is true, but remember the letter of the law kills…
An example of this would be like the second book of Samuel, the Ark of the Covenant was being brought back to Jerusalem after many years of its absence. The Philistines had captured the Ark, but God made them so miserable with it, they set it to return on an oxcart.
The Israelites chose, against the protocol of how to transport the Ark, to continue on with it upon the oxcart. I find this a puzzle actually, because in this, unbelievers determined the mode of transportation and the people of God just rolled with it…
Because of that decision, when the oxen stumbled and the ark began to slide – Uzzah put out his hand to steady the Ark, and he was killed. It says the anger of God was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him for his error.
In this situation, Uzzah met the Letter of the Law… and it killed him. You can say it was unfair, he was only trying to save the Ark from sliding, it was an unfortunate luck of the draw… it could have been his brother Ahio instead. But you see, none of that matters.
In the extreme truth of the matter, where the rubber meets the road, the Letter of the Law kills…everytime. This is what Moses brought. Frightening, terror filled, the stark blade of truth unsheathed…this is why the Israelites cried out to Moses in Exodus 20:18-21, that he should talk to God for the Israelites, for they were terrified. Thus, the Israelites held themselves afar off.
Thank God! We do not meet the Lord like this!
For us in Christ, His grace preceeds and covers Truth. Romans 8:2-4 says:
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Remember, Jesus Christ is the Mercy seat that covers on the Ark of the Covenant. This is significant, and empowering for us all…
Now all of this information is preparatory for my point…
There are people who would speak truth (and truth alone) to you…
It is like meeting the edge of a sword without a protective sheath. Their words cut, they wound, they kill.
These words that appear to be truth are temporal pictures that carry none of the grace of God. They are mere snapshots in time, a cross-section of a moment, and while they possess a semblance of truth they carry nothing of God’s eternal plan for a person, or His heart of understanding and forgiveness that covers our shortcomings.
Like the old detective that requests, “Just the facts mam, nothing but the facts…” these appear to be facts, but in the end they fail to provide “the rest of the story.”
Dressed as truth they seek to enter and destroy and kill the very plan of God and His image within us coming into fruition.They seek to gut us and filet us, and actually derail and destroy the purpose of God for and in our lives…
These words of so called truth would read our heart rate and pressure, but really know nothing about us…
I direct you to 1Cor 2:13-15:
“ These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one…”
You hear that? If you are in Christ, you are rightly judged by no one…
Now, a brother or sister in Christ should not be speaking to one another in such weapons of destruction. Unbelievers know no better, but believers certainly should!
But as a believer, you should know you are free from this type of truth condemnation, no matter its source!
Put it off, kick it to the curb, or cast it on the Lord saying Holy Spirit if there be any grain of truth to this that you would have me take in… show me Lord. But I ask Your Grace to cover it, that it not kill me, but have the profit in me that You desire…
In this manner there is wisdom that can bring God’s best for you even out of words that were dressed as truth, but meant only destruction.
In the final say, God desires that we believe the best of all people, for only the best can embody God’s plan and calling and provision for someone, based on them receiving Christ as Lord and Savior and having their life transformed by the renewing power of the word and life of Jesus Christ.
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