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{Note: Being redeemed from the law is not the same thing as being
redeemed from sin. It is similar to a Christian practicing alcohol, drugs,
pornography etc. and then being redeemed from those things that are
restricting a Christian from their closer more intimate relationship with
the presence of God in their life. The Law was actually a boundary
keeping sinful people apart from the Holy God but after being cleansed
by the blood of Jesus Christ and with the finality of His death on the
cross the Holy Spirit then removed the boundary of the law from us and
redeemed us into the actual perceivable presence of God.}
'Galatians 4:21-5:1 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid [Hagar], the other by a freewoman [Sarah]. But he who was of the
bondwoman was born after the flesh [man's plan]; but he of the freewoman [Sarah] was by promise [God's plan].
Which things are an allegory [parable]: for these are the two covenants [Old Testament, New Testament]; the one
from the mount Sinai [Mt. Sinai], which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar [Hagar]. For this Agar is mount Sinai
in [Saudi] Arabia {the Biblical Mt. Sinai is located in Saudi Arabia with the now traditional Mt. Sinai located in
Egypt}, and answereth to Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] which now is [in effect, New Testament], and [Hagar] is in bondage
with her children. But Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] which is above is free, which is [Sarah] the mother of us all [in faith].
... *Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the
bondwoman and her son: *for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. So then,
brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.' - This analogy of two Mountains or two
locations Mt. Sinai [the Law] and Mt. Zion, Jerusalem [the cross and the resurrection] is one of the most important
Biblical concepts because it goes straight to how and where we are to approach God. God was on Mt. Sinai when
Moses met God in the burning bush and then as a sign God brought the Children of God out of Egypt and to Mt.
Sinai to worship Him there. But they could only worship from a distance as they could not approach Mt. Sinai
'whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death' then as Moses and the Children of God journeyed to
Israel their Promise Land God went with them. God in allegory left Mt. Sinai [Law] and relocated with the Children
of God to Jerusalem [Mt. Zion]. If you want to keep the Law that mountain [Mt. Sinai] is vacant and if it's not
vacant it's certain death if you even try to approach it. Mt. Zion in Jerusalem the cross and the resurrection of Jesus
Christ on the other hand is both open and available to all mankind and along with the availability of Mt. Zion there
is an invitation to all to come to God freely but only to Mt. Zion not to Mt. Sinai. It is only to Mt. Zion that the
invitation for mankind to meet with God has been given.
The Promises of God - The concern today is that much of the church
teaching of today [i.e. emergent church] is void of the Promises of God
in the same way that the Crusaders of history sought meaningless
relics [the actual cross of Jesus], land [Jerusalem] and trophies [the
holy grail, lance of Longinus] of the Biblical days but they were relics,
land and trophies that were without the blessings and Promises of God
to the Gentile Christian Church and therefore are empty meaningless
and powerless - When false teachers like Joel Osteen and Rick Warren
preach their promises 'your best life now' or a U.N., NWO approved
societal based 'purpose driven life' these are man centered doctrines
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