JESUS CHRIST IS BETTER!!!

THE COMMANDMENTS OR THE OLD TESTAMENTS LAWS WILL NOT GET ONE INTO HEAVEN:

ONLY ACCEPTING, LOVING, FOLLOWING, OBEYING AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL GET ONE INTO HEAVEN:

The Lord's Anointed, Appointed, Faithful Churches, & Believing Nations Messenger/ Transformational Apostle James R, Winfree Sr.

Many Christians make the mistake of pitting love against the law as if the two were mutually exclusive. You either have a religion of love or religion of law. But such an equation is profoundly unbiblical. For starters, “love” is a command of the law ( Deut. 6:5;) ( Lev. 19:18;) ( Matt. 22:36-40 ). If you teaching and preaching to Christ Believers to keep the laws of Moses and the Old Testaments Commandments, you are putting laws and commandments above the cross of Christ. Conversely, if you tell the Church to keep and obey Old Testaments' commandments and Moses laws doesn’t get one into heaven, Only Jesus Christ can and will get one into heaven, God our heavenly Father is love, which is the meaning of the commandments and laws.

Furthermore, consider the close connection Jesus makes between Love and Law. For Jesus, there is no love for Him apart from keeping the law ( John 14:15 ). But He says even more than this. Jesus connects communion with God by keeping commandments. When we keep Christ’s commandments, we love Him. And when we love Christ, the Father loves us. And whomever the Father loves, Christ loves and reveals Himself to them ( John 14:21 ). So, there is no abiding in Christ’s love apart from keeping Christ’s commandments ( John 15:10 ). Which means there is no fullness of joy apart from the pursuit of holiness ( John 15:11 ).

God’s law is an expression of His grace. The law is God’s plan for his sanctified Christ Believers to enjoy communion with Him. That’s why the Psalms are full of declarations of delight regarding God’s commands. Even with the passing of the Mosaic covenant, surely the Psalmist sets an example for us. The happy man delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night ( Ps. 1:2 ). The precepts and rules of the Lord are sweeter than honey and more to be desired than gold ( Ps. 19:10 ). Yes, the law can incite the natural man to sin ( Gal. 3:19, 22 ). But God’s people rejoice in His statutes and behold wondrous things out of his law ( Ps. 119:18). They long to be steadfast in keeping His statutes (v. 5). In the eyes of the Believer, the law is still true and good for and to those Jewish Old Testament Believers; it is their hope, their comfort, and our song. But it cannot save or get one into heaven.

Let’s not be afraid of Moses's law and the Old Testament Commandments, never as the means of meriting justification, but as the proper expression of having known it. It’s not wrong for a sermon to conclude with something we have to do. It’s not inappropriate that our counseling exhort one another to obedience. Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is antinomianism. Granted, I don’t hear anyone saying “let’s continue in sin that grace may abound” ( Rom. 6:1 ).

The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at. If only we really believed, obedience would take care of itself. No need for commands or effort. But the Bible does not reason this way. It has no problem with the word “therefore.” Grace, grace, grace, therefore, stop doing this, start doing that and obey the commands of God. Good works should always be rooted in the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection, but I believe we are expecting too much from the “flow” and not doing enough to teach that obedience to Yeshua command to love each other, from a willing spirit, as made possible by the Holy Spirit, is the proper response to free grace.

We believe, teach, and confess that the preaching of the Law is not to and for Jesus Christ Believers under the New Testament of grace, the unbelieving and Jewish law-keepers and the ungodly the Old laws and commandment to and for, but not for or to true Believers in Christ Jesus, who are truly converted, regenerate, and justified by faith”

Preachers must preach the law without embarrassment for and to the unsaved and ungodly people. But Yeshua's love, mercy, and grace are to and for Christ Believers, we must insist on obedience without shame to Him, Jesus Christ. So the law and commandments are not to or, and should not, be urged upon true believers in the Lord God Jesus Christ, but we are to correct and promote Christlikeness in His love and grace. Both the indicatives of Scripture and the imperatives are from God, for our good, and given in grace. Amen.

Written & Shared By Apostle Winfree, James Sr.

apostlejrwinfree@gmail.com.