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Bondman · 04-13-2008, 05:50 AM

Message #46

GREAT NEWS!

A. The 2nd quote below is an EXCELLENT example of Message #45 above - of how to become a serious Truth-Seeker! Being OPEN to new truth! And of saying those 3 oh-so-difficult words: "I was wrong." What I now write is NOT meant to offend or hurt Robin, not one bit! She's given me permission to write this. I mean, we all make mistakes, right? The TRICK is to learn form them. My words here are so we can all learn something that she didn't realise, and so was getting wrong.

In the OLD TESTAMENT quote below, God is speaking personally to King Solomon:

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Originally Posted by Faithwoman

1 Kings Ch 3:14 And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life."*

Wow imagine that! he will give us a long life! we just need to walk in his ways and obey the statues and commands.. I want to to his will and obey.. I want that long life! Don't you?

So what's the problem with the statement about a long life above? This is DOCTRINE, i.e., TRUTH which we need to have RIGHT as we possibly can! To establish any doctrine from the Old Testament - as a universal truth that is applicable to ALL OF OUR LIVES NOW, we must NEVER take something God was promising to just one person (Solomon in this case) and project this forward to make it apply to all of US TODAY! This is simply invalid and wrong. (b) Furthermore, we must be extraordinarily careful in taking any Old Testament statement of general truth, and applying THAT to our lives today!! In this instance also quite invalid and wrong.

I can't BEG of you strongly enough to please TAKE THE GREATEST POSSIBLE CARE in applying OT verses and concepts to us today.

(As an aside, there IS an important way where God may use the OT to speak to you (mostly to more mature Christians) and give you specific guidance or information - which I will share with you sometime, including some of my own more amazing experiences.)

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Originally Posted by Faithwoman

Ok I got an awesome lesson from God through Bondman and I thought it was important and I learned alot from a PM in regards to my previous post. I have asked him to share here if he sees fit..

Man.. oh.. man... I am really sitting in the corner tonite..

Robin

B. The 1st quote above is also an example of what I've said here over and over and over: since Jesus came, we live in the New Testament, NOT the Old Testament!!! I know you've maybe never been told this, BUT IT'S TRUE!!! Let's illustrate with a prime example:

OLD TESTAMENT To get your sins forgiven, you must buy a lamb without blemish to be a sacrifice to God, have it messily bleed, and it has to DIE! Then God will forgive your sin! But soon you'll need to do this again... and again... and again! Would you like to start doing this regularly!! Well it's in the Bible, isn't it, so shouldn't we be doing it?? - along with thousands of other OT commands of how God's special people, the Israelites were to live! NO, BECAUSE THESE ARE NOT FOR US!!

Why then did Almighty God institute this almost barbaric ritual for them? - He was teaching His people about the PERFECT LAMB OF GOD Who was to come - who John the Baptist said would take away the sins of the world.

Yes, our Lord Jesus had to bleed too - painfully in the extreme, and a great LOT of blood! - then He died, just like the OT lambs did!! HE DID THIS FOR US ALL!!!

AND SO ALL OF OUR SINS WERE THEN TOTALLY FORGIVEN BY GOD - PROVIDED, and ONLY provided, that we BELIEVE in Him, and COMMIT THE WHOLE OF OUR LIVES to this wonderful Jesus!!!

•THAT'S THE GREATEST NEWS IT'S EVER POSSIBLE TO HEAR!!! •

Love you guys!

- BM, with Mrs BM

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