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The Bible says “My people perish for lack of knowledge” –
Hosea 4:6. This means that in the spirit, whatever you know is included in the
commonwealth of your spiritual density and identity! Even spiritual authority
is based on what you know in the spirit, this knowledge is quickened by the
Holy Ghost into your authority. Knowledge without the Holy Ghost is absolutely
nothing.
The Old Testament makes a lot of well-meaning Christians
completely blind to the life of spirituality that Christ came to offer. The Law
through religion creates a façade of pseudo-religiosity that keeps the people
busy thinking they are growing spiritually, but in effect only their ‘church’
or ‘denomination’ is growing is in size, in their organizational structure and in
the missionary projects they undertake. But believe me; these things have
ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with your personal spiritual growth! It doesn't matter
how good and seemingly comprehensive whatever religious program is that you are
involved in, you are not growing until Christ’s life and Word can be seen in
you and until your knowledge of God and the spirit have increased as well. So
the church has been blinded into surrendering her birth-right as God’s chosen
people because of their dwelling too much in the Law! The church thinks that
the nation of Israel is God’s chosen people still... but that was a shadow!
ISRAEL in OT = Church in NT.
What is church? Believing Gentile + Believing Jew =
Church (Israel of God – Gal 6)
“But Brother Daniel, the Bible says that ‘all Israel
shall be saved’!” No it doesn't. We've got to somehow learn to read the
Bible the way it was written, with no chapter and verse numbers. It is rather
careless to build a whole doctrine on some verse number that has just recently
been introduced as a coordinate system to navigate the holy text. Paul’s great
letter to the church in Rome contains some very valuable information about the
subjects of the Law and Israel. In Romans chapter 11 Paul talks about how God
has not completely rejected the people of Israel, he says there is still a
remnant in Israel that would later receive the grace of God through Jesus
Christ.
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Rom 11:17 If some of the branches have been
broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the
others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
Rom 11:18 do not boast over those branches. If
you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
Rom 11:19 You will say then, "Branches
were broken off so that I could be grafted in."
Rom 11:20 Granted. But they were broken
off because of UNBELIEF, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be
afraid.
Rom 11:21 For if God did not spare the natural
branches, he will not spare you either.
Rom 11:22 Consider therefore the kindness and
sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided
that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
Rom 11:23 And IF THEY do not persist in
unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
AGAIN.
Rom 11:24 After all, if you were cut out of an
olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a
cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree!
Rom 11:25 For I do not want you to be
ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you should be wise within yourselves;
that blindness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the
nations has comes in.
Rom 11:26 AND SO all Israel shall be saved; as
it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will
turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
TO BE CONTINUED>>>
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