The
Feasts of the Lord
As I write this
the fall feasts are close at hand.
This morning, my family and I watched as one TV preacher was on the air
trying to explain Rosh Hashanah.
In his
exuberance to get money, he intertwined the fall feasts with the spring feasts
by telling his viewers to send in their “Firstfruits” offering during the fall
feasts. That concept is anti-biblical!
He taught Rosh
Hashanah of the Gentile year 2009 as a time of new birth or some such nonsense.
In the Hebrew calendar 2009 is the year 5770. God operates within the Hebrew
calendar!
It was sickening
to listen as that supposed Preacher of Christ’s gospel abused biblical teachings
in order to grab a dollar.
God does not
expect any Firstfruits offering out of season!
The Preacher was
teaching a great transfer of wealth that most Marxists would be proud to
endorse!
Where in the
Bible does it say that the dollar, yen, or Euro will be the standard currency
during the millennium and on into the future?
In the New
Jerusalem, gold will be used as paving material!
God, through
Christ Jesus offers us the freedom of His grace!
God does not
demand that Christians follow a set of laws to gain favor with Him. Any such teaching is ungodly and
unbiblical!
The Bible tells
us explicitly:
Romans
8:1-2
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
(NKJV)
Christians
are not “under” a law, nor must we do this or that to gain or maintain salvation
or the blessings of Christ Jesus!
He
has not called us out of the bondage of sin just to place us under another type
of bondage!
Satan’s
slaves are bond up in sin that only leads to death! Christ’s slaves are released to a form
of liberty that cannot be explained, but only experienced by those called to
live free.
You
have no doubt been told about the Indian elephants, who
as young elephants are chained to a stake driven deep into the ground. That stake is drive so deep that the
young elephant cannot pull free. After years chained to the stake, and
experiencing bondage, the elephant as a adult is
chained to a stake that is very short and easily pulled from the earth. But, the mentality of the chained mind
holds the elephant to his chains still in bondage.
Christ
calls you to a renewing of the mind!
He offers you a liberty that many cannot envision. According to God’s plan for humanity and
the universe, the only way you could be offered that liberty was through the
payment of the perfect sacrifice on the cross at Calvary.
He
does not offer you a lifetime of human enslavement. Instead, Christ offers you a life of
freedom forevermore!