Their role is to prepare the holy ones for ministry work, building up the Messiah’s body, until we all attain oneness in faith and in the full knowledge of God’s Son, reaching complete maturity according to the measure of the Messiah’s stature. Then we shall no longer be children, tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, prey to human trickery and crafty deceitfulness. Rather, practicing truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, the Messiah. From him the entire body, fitted and knit together by every supporting joint, grows and constructs itself in love as each individual part performs its proper work. Therefore I say this – indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.Their intelligence has been shrouded in darkness, and they are estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance in them, which in turn comes from resisting God’s will. They have lost all feeling, so they have abandoned themselves to sensuality, practicing any kind of impurity and always greedy for more. But this is not the lesson you learned from the Messiah! If you really listened to him and were instructed about him, then you learned that since what is in Yeshua is truth, then, so far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your old nature, because your old nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires; and you must let your spirits and minds keep being renewed, and clothe yourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth. Ephesians 4:12-24
IT is beyond me to see how any man can read this with even a little understanding and still believe in their man made religion? A few things really stuck out to me when reading it, first where it says “ they are alienated from the divine life, owing to their inherent lack of understanding, born from opposing God’s will.” The second part is where Paul writes “but this is not what you have learned from the Messiah, that is if you really listened to him…” Also the part of being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, at the mercy of people clever in ways to deceive people.”
In these few sentences Paul tells us we must hear the Lord, and do his will and become righteous from it. And do not be deceived by clever or cunning people, being tossed to and fro from their doctrine. And yet somehow these clever and cunning men who teach the trash about a fake grace, or worse the catholic doctrine or whatever doctrine.
The simple truth is, the truth is in Yeshua. And if you do not know him you do not know truth, you are living in lies of deceptive men and evil spirits. You must hear him and obey him and his will for your life. Not your ideas of how you want your life to go, but his way for you to live your life. He is the “way” truth and light. And no one can get to the Father except through the son. Being in unity or one with the Messiah, which you can only be one if you hear and obey him, as he hears and obeys the Father. Yeshua said “I only do what the Father shows me or tells me to do.”
The other day my aunt asked me how the third person of the Holy Trinity the (Holy Spirit) fits into my life. First I said back the idea of the Holy trinity is man made, there is nothing in the bible about it. The second thing is when a man becomes Holy and one with the Messiah as he is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Now if you take all these people who have made themselves one with the Lord, it has to be in the millions and maybe trillions. So how is it the Holy trinity? Anyone who gets into heaven does so only by making themselves Holy as he is Holy. There is no such thing. You cannot even number it as men how many belong to this Holy trinity, maybe it is a Holy Trillion?
The worst thing is trying to get people to understand how important this is. That there is no other doctrine or way in which you can be saved. It is only by hearing and obeying the Lord. Without him no man can be perfect. And without being perfect, no man will enter into heaven. Yeshua did NOT make any other covenants to agree to your doctrine and beliefs. You must be Holy! You must do it his way!
I will tell you it is not easy, it sounds easy assuming you even believe me in the first place, because most have been brainwashed by their religion to believe the lies. But assuming you believe me and have heard the Lord speak. Because I know many who have and do. Yet they do not listen to him in every aspect of their life, only the parts which they agree with and are OK with to obey. Not the difficult things that are hard to do or give up, or change.
We as men in the flesh want to take the easy road, not the difficult one. But the easy road always ends up in dysfunction and problems. The easy decision makes friends and keeps people happy because you are very agreeable with them. But it is not the Holy and righteous way of God and it does not end well. This is why you have sin and dysfunction in your life, because you do not listen to the Lord and take the easy way out in life instead of staying in the truth which causes pain and people hate it like they hated Yeshua when he lived here on earth and spoke truth.
It is the truth which sets you free, but it is also the truth that people hate to hear, even though it sets you free and gives you peace in a very dysfunctional world. And the reason it is a dysfunctional world is because we do not obey the will of God. The two go hand in hand.