The Apostle Paul emphasized: "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God: Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament [New Covenant]; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." 2 Corinthians 3:5, 6.
If Bible students, ministries, ministrations, or administrations devise, construe, or make plans to be bound by the "letter of the law of the Old Testament [Old Covenant]," in any way by mixing together within and throughout the "New Covenant Of The Law Of The Spirit Of Graceful Peace" (John 14:27); "their mixtures" (like hard-stone and living-flesh) do not mix, thereof and therefore will not generate anything other than confusion and/or its likes; for in the Old Testament, God has shown where God's people should not have been and stayed unapprehended by Christ's Grace Of Deputizing the Holy Spirit's Control; and the propensity of the objective-servings with proficient-magnanimity of where God's pleasurable-leading of the New Covenant of what He wanted His people to BE with Him, as their expected end. Amen!
It is interesting to note that in addition to the Scriptures mentioning the "Spirit Of The Lord" and the "Spirit Of God," there are 14 additional Definitions Of God's Divine Law Of The Spirit referred to in the New Testament.
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Spirit Of Truth - John 15:26 |
Spirit Of Knowledge - Eph. 1:17 |
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Spirit Of Holiness - Rom. 1:4 |
Spirit Of Understanding - Eph. 1:17 |
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Spirit Of Life - Rom. 8:2 |
Spirit Of Wisdom - Eph. 1:17 |
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Spirit Of Adoption - Rom. 8:15 |
Spirit Of Revelation - Eph. 1:17 |
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Spirit Of Faith - 2 Cor. 4:13 |
Spirit Of Grace - Eph. 1:17 |
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Spirit Of Meekness - Gal. 6:1 |
Spirit of Glory - 1 Peter 4:14 |
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Spirit Of Promise - Eph. 1:3 |
Spirit Of Prophecy - Rev. 19:10 |
Note: The Old Testament "Spirit Of Grace" (Zech. 12:10) was plainly in sight outside the law of which the Old Testament observers failed to digest along with the "Spirit of Wisdom" (Isaiah 11:2) of that Grace! At the end of Christ's ministry, He wept over His beloved chosen people saying, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" Matt. 23:37. Christ died "outside the camp" meaning outside of Jerusalem. However, when one mixes the Old Covenant with the New Covenant, it is just like attempting to sit on the "fence line" of the walled city of the Old Testament Gate and unable to go the length of the Grace Of Christ outside and away from it, for the fulfilled freedomization of having one's deeds freed to DO as the Law Of The Spirit enables the possessors to BE!
Conclusion
Each participant of Christianity will gravitate to, with, and for a Spiritual-Altruistic-Soul-Temple (which is the Supreme Unction); or, a carnal-soulishness of the many spiritisms of stigmatic unfoundings (as a conflagration of strange fire or kind of "extreme unction" devastatingly converse of the Supreme - and at the same time opposing the impressed and expressed New Testament Word Of God).
May God bless each and every one of you as you continue to contemplate the Christ of the New Covenant more fully, "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Col. 2:9.
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