Peace in Christ.
The kingdom/government of God does not come with “observation”….the observing of externally-written church handwritings of ordinances/dogmas.
His government/kingdom is within us…in our hearts and in our minds.
Luke 17:20-21 KJV
(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
(21) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
From within is where our God rules over us. His writing is there. His laws are there….and are not found in an externally-written church handwriting of ordinances. They are internal.
Observing God’s internally-written laws unite us together as we all have the same laws in our hearts and minds. It His covenant with us that we are to keep.
Observing the church scribes’ handwritings of ordinances divide us into “denominations.” They all differ one from another because of their handwritings that divide themselves (Lo, here in this denomination....nor there in the other one).
We are not keeping His covenant He makes with us when we keep and serve…observing…the church handwritings of the church scribes.
Heb 10:16-17 KJV
(16) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
(17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
The word “Pharisee” means “separatist”. The modern-day “Pharisees” are those who separate themselves into “denominations”…divisions…where they self-govern and judge themselves by their respective handwritings: their statements of faith, church constitutions, by-laws, statutes, creeds, etc, etc, etc.
This is all man-based…just like the nations around us who do not know God and have to make their documents (such as “constitutions”) to govern and judge themselves with their “gods”…their weak and beggarly elements…their founding principles.
We are not to copy the outside nations by doing this who have their own governmental documents. They are “IMAGES” as they are copied from the nations around us that do not know God nor worship Him.
Gal 4:8-9 KJV
(8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
(9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
The "graven image" is the graven-by-the-pen handwritings of church scribes....who make documents that are patterned after the world around us who do not know God.
Exo 20:1-5 KJV
(1) And God spake all these words, saying,
(2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
We are not to make handwritings of ordinances that are patterned/taken from the Scriptures (heaven above) nor that is in the earth beneath (the outside nations surrounding us such as their "constitutions") or that is in the water under the earth....the teachings of dead men who are dead and buried.
(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
The LORD our God (meaning "JUDGE") is a jealous Judge. Men have made their "images"...their handwritings of church ordinances...in order to judge themselves with (and others also). These church handwritings of the church "fathers" are passed down from one generation to another who continue to keep and serve them. They do not move out of their places in their churches. They "hate" Him because they keep and serve man's commandments over His.
(5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Man-based churches are separated by the writings of their “scribes”…their church scribes ….that have made a “graven image:” making an externally-written handwriting of ordinances/dogmas for themselves to keep and serve.
They shut up the kingdom/government of heaven as they cause their congregants/observers to keep and serve their handwritings of ordinances rather than the internally-written laws of God. Their church “government” is one of man rather than of God.
Mat 23:13 KJV
(13) But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Church scribes’ handwritings are “graven images”…graven-by-the-pen images. They become firmly established in their gatherings where they worship God. But they are not to be found there. We must have reverence for His sanctuary. They should not be “standing” there in the holy place.
Lev 26:1-3 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.
(2) Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
We must keep His commandments and walk in His statutes rather than man’s graven ordinances which are “images” of stone where they are firmly established for their congregations to keep and serve rather than His commandments.
(3) If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
They are “graven images” which are not to be made. They are being used to judge others with.
Our LORD is our “God”…that is, JUDGE.
A worthless piece of paper should not be used as a judge. Do no let a man judge you via his “image” that he made for himself and his congregation to keep and serve.
Deu 4:23-24 KJV
(23) Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
(24) For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Do not let a man judge you via his handwriting of ordinances/dogmas that he made for himself to keep and serve.
The puffed-up minds of the church scribes thought they “saw” something in the Scriptures to keep and serve and have incorporated certain commandments of the Scriptures into their handwritings and then they all say that God has commanded it to keep them. They “trespassed” into the matters of the Scriptures that they know nothing about. They do not have the mind of Christ.
The handwritings of the scribes are used to judge others with….when we only have One Judge…One Lawgiver.
Col 2:14-23 KJV
(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
The “principalities and powers” are the handwritings of the church scribes that are used to rule over others …who humbly and voluntarily submit themselves to.
Why be subject to their ordinances?
They do not save the mortal flesh of anyone who willingly submit themselves to them. They mortally perish with the using of them…..the using of the handwritings of the commandments and doctrines of men. They perish under the wrath of God as He is a consuming fire.
(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
(16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
(17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
(18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
(19) And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
People see themselves as “wise” for willingly going to a “church” where they submit themselves to their church handwritings of the church scribes. Yet, they do nothing for the mortal flesh. NO FLESH is being saved in their “churches.”
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Professing themselves to be “wise”, they become fools.
Rom 1:22-25 KJV
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
They change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an IMAGE made like “corruptible man”…perishing man. The outside nations make and serve their handwritings….and they perish. The outside people of the world are like “birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.” We must not copy the nations around us with images of what they do.
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
We must not go to man-based churches…or we become one flesh with them in their mortal destruction. They perish by the keeping of the graven images that they exchange the glory of God for. We sin against our own mortal body when we go and join along with them.
(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
(25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The kingdom/government of God does not come with “observation”….the observing of externally-written church handwritings of ordinances/dogmas.
His government/kingdom is within us…in our hearts and in our minds.
Luke 17:20-21 KJV
(20) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
(21) Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
From within is where our God rules over us. His writing is there. His laws are there….and are not found in an externally-written church handwriting of ordinances. They are internal.
Observing God’s internally-written laws unite us together as we all have the same laws in our hearts and minds. It His covenant with us that we are to keep.
Observing the church scribes’ handwritings of ordinances divide us into “denominations.” They all differ one from another because of their handwritings that divide themselves (Lo, here in this denomination....nor there in the other one).
We are not keeping His covenant He makes with us when we keep and serve…observing…the church handwritings of the church scribes.
Heb 10:16-17 KJV
(16) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
(17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
The word “Pharisee” means “separatist”. The modern-day “Pharisees” are those who separate themselves into “denominations”…divisions…where they self-govern and judge themselves by their respective handwritings: their statements of faith, church constitutions, by-laws, statutes, creeds, etc, etc, etc.
This is all man-based…just like the nations around us who do not know God and have to make their documents (such as “constitutions”) to govern and judge themselves with their “gods”…their weak and beggarly elements…their founding principles.
We are not to copy the outside nations by doing this who have their own governmental documents. They are “IMAGES” as they are copied from the nations around us that do not know God nor worship Him.
Gal 4:8-9 KJV
(8) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
(9) But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
The "graven image" is the graven-by-the-pen handwritings of church scribes....who make documents that are patterned after the world around us who do not know God.
Exo 20:1-5 KJV
(1) And God spake all these words, saying,
(2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
We are not to make handwritings of ordinances that are patterned/taken from the Scriptures (heaven above) nor that is in the earth beneath (the outside nations surrounding us such as their "constitutions") or that is in the water under the earth....the teachings of dead men who are dead and buried.
(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
The LORD our God (meaning "JUDGE") is a jealous Judge. Men have made their "images"...their handwritings of church ordinances...in order to judge themselves with (and others also). These church handwritings of the church "fathers" are passed down from one generation to another who continue to keep and serve them. They do not move out of their places in their churches. They "hate" Him because they keep and serve man's commandments over His.
(5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Man-based churches are separated by the writings of their “scribes”…their church scribes ….that have made a “graven image:” making an externally-written handwriting of ordinances/dogmas for themselves to keep and serve.
They shut up the kingdom/government of heaven as they cause their congregants/observers to keep and serve their handwritings of ordinances rather than the internally-written laws of God. Their church “government” is one of man rather than of God.
Mat 23:13 KJV
(13) But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Church scribes’ handwritings are “graven images”…graven-by-the-pen images. They become firmly established in their gatherings where they worship God. But they are not to be found there. We must have reverence for His sanctuary. They should not be “standing” there in the holy place.
Lev 26:1-3 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.
(2) Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
We must keep His commandments and walk in His statutes rather than man’s graven ordinances which are “images” of stone where they are firmly established for their congregations to keep and serve rather than His commandments.
(3) If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
They are “graven images” which are not to be made. They are being used to judge others with.
Our LORD is our “God”…that is, JUDGE.
A worthless piece of paper should not be used as a judge. Do no let a man judge you via his “image” that he made for himself and his congregation to keep and serve.
Deu 4:23-24 KJV
(23) Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
(24) For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Do not let a man judge you via his handwriting of ordinances/dogmas that he made for himself to keep and serve.
The puffed-up minds of the church scribes thought they “saw” something in the Scriptures to keep and serve and have incorporated certain commandments of the Scriptures into their handwritings and then they all say that God has commanded it to keep them. They “trespassed” into the matters of the Scriptures that they know nothing about. They do not have the mind of Christ.
The handwritings of the scribes are used to judge others with….when we only have One Judge…One Lawgiver.
Col 2:14-23 KJV
(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
The “principalities and powers” are the handwritings of the church scribes that are used to rule over others …who humbly and voluntarily submit themselves to.
Why be subject to their ordinances?
They do not save the mortal flesh of anyone who willingly submit themselves to them. They mortally perish with the using of them…..the using of the handwritings of the commandments and doctrines of men. They perish under the wrath of God as He is a consuming fire.
(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
(16) Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
(17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
(18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
(19) And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
People see themselves as “wise” for willingly going to a “church” where they submit themselves to their church handwritings of the church scribes. Yet, they do nothing for the mortal flesh. NO FLESH is being saved in their “churches.”
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Professing themselves to be “wise”, they become fools.
Rom 1:22-25 KJV
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
They change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an IMAGE made like “corruptible man”…perishing man. The outside nations make and serve their handwritings….and they perish. The outside people of the world are like “birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.” We must not copy the nations around us with images of what they do.
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
We must not go to man-based churches…or we become one flesh with them in their mortal destruction. They perish by the keeping of the graven images that they exchange the glory of God for. We sin against our own mortal body when we go and join along with them.
(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
(25) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
