Hi G. Walsh
Thank you for your question.
Should we be meditating on the law,
There are
1,050 New Testament commands of what we should abstain from, things to ask, things to be awake to, things to be, not to be, to believe, to not believe, to beware of, to bless, to cast away, to not cast away, to charge, to comfort, to consider, to continue in, to covet, to do, to not do, to endure, to fear, to not fear, to feed, to flee from, to follow, to whom to give, to whom not to give, what to give, what not to give, how to give, blessings promised for giving, where and how to go, what to have, hold, honor, keep, lay aside, let, not to let, ways to live, love, not to love, to pray, ways to pray, things to prove, put away, put off, put on, things to rebuke, ways to rebuke, to rejoice, things to rejoice in, things to remember, to seek, to stand fast, things to stand fast with, to stand in, to think on, the way to think, to submit, to take, to take heed, and then you have the Thou Shalt’s and Thou Shalt not’s, ways to not walk, things to walk in and of course there are those miscellaneous commands of what to abhor, admit, admonish, agree with allow, eat, edify, examine, exhort, fight, forgive, speak, study, sing, strengthen, support and see to…..etc!
As Ray shows and brings to focus through his writings
,……… it is all ONE. Can we or you do any of the commands as Christ is, does and has fulfilled without His Spirit? No.
What this means is that when we are as Christ is, ONLY THEN shall we DO, BE and FULFILL all the commands as Jesus Christ Himself does and HAS FULFILLED WITH FLAWLESS PURE PERFECTION!
Until then, sure, we can take any one or all the commands and give it our best shot.
Should we give it our best shot? Only if God makes us, causes us and gives us the experience of so doing to show us that without Him we achieve nothing always everywhere in everything.
So should we …any of the 1050 commands….should we? Yes. Can we? No. Will we? Yes. When? Once God has perfected His Work in us to form us into the image of His Perfect Son Jesus Christ.
Arc
Re: How did you leave Babylon?
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Remember that Bablyon is also within. You will always be coming out of Bablyon. Religion, the church system, politics, etc are all a physical shadow of the bablyon within. It is to remind us not to "reason with our own understanding" which is man's way, but to "trust God with all of your heart". When we start reasoning out something in our lives remember that "God's ways are not our ways", so just "cast your cares on Him because he cares for you".
That ol man, that first Adam, that Essau in us will continue to make us want to go back into Bablyon all the days of this age.
"Don't be afraid. Only believe."
CIY