Hebrews 5:11-14\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.\u00a012\u00a0In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths\u00a0of God\u2019s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!\u00a013\u00a0Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,\u00a0is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.\u00a014\u00a0But solid food is for the mature,\u00a0who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.<\/i><\/p>\n
Hebrews 10:16<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cThis is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Romans 8:28-29<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,\u00a0nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.\u00a029\u00a0No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,\u00a0by the Spirit,\u00a0not by the written code.\u00a0Such a person\u2019s praise is not from other people, but from God.<\/i><\/p>\n
Is it discipline?\u00a0\u00a0Yes, and no.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps at the beginning, but afterward, that is ultimately, discipline is only the beginning.\u00a0\u00a0Like a child being disciplined to live within the best qualities of life, it is something learned, something learned through disciplining by wise and loving parents.\u00a0\u00a0At first the child does not want to share, but eventually the child learns to share and benefits of sharing.\u00a0\u00a0Having learned rudimentary elements of the surpassing quality of sharing the child learns to do it not only under the watchful eye of a parent, but also when away from the parent.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps in kindergarten, or earlier in preschool or at the park, the child shares because the child has learned that sharing is better.\u00a0\u00a0The child learns that sharing brings joy to the lives of others and that giving joy to others is something that brings joy to self.\u00a0\u00a0The child begins to enjoy sharing, and being kind, and being caring and being loving.\u00a0\u00a0The child has already learned that expressing love to mommy and daddy brings them happiness which in turn makes the child happy.\u00a0\u00a0Learning the best qualities is first taught, then enforced through discipline and reminders, which the child does not at first understand, but will do.\u00a0\u00a0The external teaching, discipline and reminders eventually are no longer needed because the child has incorporated the teaching into its life.\u00a0\u00a0At that time the lesson has become a habit of the child that the child does without thinking.\u00a0\u00a0Eventually the child learns the beauty of the lesson and enjoys the quality that the lesson brings in its life.\u00a0\u00a0The child, with the lesson within its heart, even in its very soul, relearns the lesson and understands it and holds onto it not as something externally learned, but as something internal.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, what started as an external lesson became an internal treasure that is part of the intrinsic nature, the intrinsic qualities of the child.\u00a0\u00a0The law is no longer an external duty but rather something that flows from its own soul.\u00a0\u00a0The lesson is complete.\u00a0\u00a0The child is now someone different than before the lesson, it is a new and better creation.<\/p>\n
Family, the dos and don\u2019ts of the Bible are not meant to be external directions on how we are to live all our lives.\u00a0\u00a0The do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, or The Law, is something external that can never be fully lived up to.\u00a0\u00a0That is clearly shown in the Word.\u00a0\u00a0It was given by God to show us who God our Creator is.\u00a0\u00a0To show His intrinsic self to us.\u00a0\u00a0It is to teach us His ways so that we know how to live as He lives and to know what being one with Him will be like.\u00a0\u00a0His law is a reminder of who Adam and Eve were before the fall and how effortless it is to live with God if we are what He meant us to be. Before the fall, Adam and Eve effortlessly pleased God because they had a different nature.\u00a0\u00a0They were innocent and lovely in spirit, mind, intent and action.\u00a0\u00a0They were who God meant them to be.\u00a0\u00a0Sin changed them.\u00a0\u00a0They died.\u00a0\u00a0It is such a horrible story.\u00a0\u00a0But God knew all that would happen from the eternal past and had a plan to save mankind and to put Himself in their hearts and souls and remake the children of Adam and Eve into what they were meant to be.<\/p>\n
So the law lived in Adam and Eve before it had to be given from God to men, but was external to hearts and souls of the children of Adam and Eve.\u00a0\u00a0God so loved all of us that He would not let mankinde simply die into eternal torment without giving them another opportunity to be one with Him.\u00a0\u00a0So Jesus paid the full price for the sin of all who would honor Him as Savior and Lord, for all who would receive the Holy Spirit to live themselves as the disciples of Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0All these then begin the reconstruction of themselves to have, and to be, what the Lord wanted them to be.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus takes the hand of the person who loves Him and leads them back to their Father in Heaven who adores and cherishes each one.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus presents all who belong to Him back to their heavenly Father!\u00a0\u00a0Oh what a moment!\u00a0\u00a0Jesus brings back to His what Adam and Eve so effortlessly had.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus did the work to make serving God not an external checklist, but the fruit of what flows from within.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is work and discipline at first, but the child learns and grows and what was a purposeful thought becomes an effortless fruit of a divinely changed heart and soul.<\/p>\n
As we grow in understanding we grow in the knowledge that God is good and that He loves us.\u00a0\u00a0There is no richer knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0A knowledge that is not externally seen and known, but that lives within and flows.\u00a0\u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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