Peace in Christ.
From Leviticus 26:1 - You shall make no idols nor graven image.
A idol or graven image is a church handwriting of ordinances/dogmas. A “dogma” is what one thinks/believes is true and correct. The church scribes have “made” unto themselves (and their congregations) their handwritings of ordinances…their graven-by-the-pen images… to keep and serve.
But the kingdom/government of God does not come from the observation of man's church handwritings. It is written within us.
The church handwritings are “standing images” for they never move from their churches. They are established documents that never disappear. They do not save our mortal flesh. They are as lifeless and burdensome as a stone…an image of stone that their “church” is built upon. Yet, they are highly revered. They are wicked "principalities and powers" in the high places of their churches.
Many use them to judge themselves and others with. They are serving the sin by doing so. They may appear outwardly righteous...but inside they are full of dead people who do those things....keeping and worshipping handwritings of dogmas. They may have the form of righteousness but deny the power of the cross which would keep them mortally alive for the duration of this age (having an age-lasting life).
Do not let a man judge you over his handwritings for God is our Judge. "I am the LORD your God"....meaning that He is the LIVING JUDGE. Their "judges"...their "other gods"...are not living. They are lifeless writings that cannot do anything by themselves. They can do no evil nor good to us. They are empty and lifeless with no power on their own to do anything like our powerful living Judge.
Lev 26:1 KJV
(1) Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Think about a particular document that most churches have: the “statement of faith”….of what a church “believes” is true and correct (the definition of “dogma”).
It never moves. It never changes and you must keep it and serve it in order to belong to that “church”.
The whole church is built upon it and revolves around it and it is highly revered among its participants. You must humbly and willingly (voluntarily) go and submit to that lifeless document in order to belong to them…that church body. Why go there and submit yourself to the ordinances of fleshly-minded men who are puffed up thinking that they know something but don't?
And there where they keep and worship their documents, they never grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ as the document keeps them immature….like children in understanding.
1Co 14:20 KJV
(20) Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
There they are tossed to and fro about like children (in understanding). They are carried about with every wind of doctrine (the 4 winds) by men who deceive them.
Eph 4:14-16 KJV
(14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But He delivers us from those earthly-minded men who seek to deceive us with their documents…their handwriting of ordinances/dogmas (things that they think is right to believe). He takes them out of our way so that we may be truly free.
We are then to “grow up” into Him in all things. He is the “Head” by which the whole church body is joined together (and not joined together by a church handwriting of dogmas).
Their lifeless church body (the dead body of believers) is built upon their documents…while the living body of believers (the true church body) has Christ as its Head and is alive because they are connected to the true Head.
(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
He is the Head of all principality and power. We are complete in Him.
We are not complete under the fleshly-minded man (the fleshly head of man) who wants you to keep and serve the transmissions of men which are patterned after the “rudiments” ….that is, the written principle fundamentals …of the world.
Their documents are patterned after the outside world’s documents and not after Christ. The body is Christ. The true body of believers…the true church…. has Christ as their Head and not a handwriting. Their "church" body where they come together to serve handwritings is not Christ.
Col 2:6-10 KJV
(6) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
(7) Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
(8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
(9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
(10) And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
From Leviticus 26:1 - You shall make no idols nor graven image.
A idol or graven image is a church handwriting of ordinances/dogmas. A “dogma” is what one thinks/believes is true and correct. The church scribes have “made” unto themselves (and their congregations) their handwritings of ordinances…their graven-by-the-pen images… to keep and serve.
But the kingdom/government of God does not come from the observation of man's church handwritings. It is written within us.
The church handwritings are “standing images” for they never move from their churches. They are established documents that never disappear. They do not save our mortal flesh. They are as lifeless and burdensome as a stone…an image of stone that their “church” is built upon. Yet, they are highly revered. They are wicked "principalities and powers" in the high places of their churches.
Many use them to judge themselves and others with. They are serving the sin by doing so. They may appear outwardly righteous...but inside they are full of dead people who do those things....keeping and worshipping handwritings of dogmas. They may have the form of righteousness but deny the power of the cross which would keep them mortally alive for the duration of this age (having an age-lasting life).
Do not let a man judge you over his handwritings for God is our Judge. "I am the LORD your God"....meaning that He is the LIVING JUDGE. Their "judges"...their "other gods"...are not living. They are lifeless writings that cannot do anything by themselves. They can do no evil nor good to us. They are empty and lifeless with no power on their own to do anything like our powerful living Judge.
Lev 26:1 KJV
(1) Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Think about a particular document that most churches have: the “statement of faith”….of what a church “believes” is true and correct (the definition of “dogma”).
It never moves. It never changes and you must keep it and serve it in order to belong to that “church”.
The whole church is built upon it and revolves around it and it is highly revered among its participants. You must humbly and willingly (voluntarily) go and submit to that lifeless document in order to belong to them…that church body. Why go there and submit yourself to the ordinances of fleshly-minded men who are puffed up thinking that they know something but don't?
And there where they keep and worship their documents, they never grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ as the document keeps them immature….like children in understanding.
1Co 14:20 KJV
(20) Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
There they are tossed to and fro about like children (in understanding). They are carried about with every wind of doctrine (the 4 winds) by men who deceive them.
Eph 4:14-16 KJV
(14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But He delivers us from those earthly-minded men who seek to deceive us with their documents…their handwriting of ordinances/dogmas (things that they think is right to believe). He takes them out of our way so that we may be truly free.
We are then to “grow up” into Him in all things. He is the “Head” by which the whole church body is joined together (and not joined together by a church handwriting of dogmas).
Their lifeless church body (the dead body of believers) is built upon their documents…while the living body of believers (the true church body) has Christ as its Head and is alive because they are connected to the true Head.
(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
He is the Head of all principality and power. We are complete in Him.
We are not complete under the fleshly-minded man (the fleshly head of man) who wants you to keep and serve the transmissions of men which are patterned after the “rudiments” ….that is, the written principle fundamentals …of the world.
Their documents are patterned after the outside world’s documents and not after Christ. The body is Christ. The true body of believers…the true church…. has Christ as their Head and not a handwriting. Their "church" body where they come together to serve handwritings is not Christ.
Col 2:6-10 KJV
(6) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
(7) Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
(8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
(9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
(10) And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
