For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10
All of James chapter 2 is worth reading, but you must do so in the right Spirit to really understand, because for many people and their beliefs about who God is or what he expects will be very different from what James is writing. I do not know how in the mind of the people they can read James 2 and still think this saved by grace and not works doctrine is truth? How do they justify in their minds it is all correct? And how do they justify the bible is still the word of God if there are serious conflicts when compared to their doctrine?
This is the point God is making to me these days. And interestingly how one of his main teachings starts as the last one ends and then becomes the main focal point, tying it all together. But first something the Lord said to me this morning.
“You are not guilty, until you are guilty! You do not know until you know.” But here is the problem, the light is trying to show you but you do not listen and come to an understanding. Yeshua was showing me Proverbs 1 and John 3:19-21 in detail. Not reading it but just calling to mind what it says and explaining things about it and using my past life as examples. Yeshua reminded me of the sin I used to be in, he does often. And how I was. Yeshua does not come in yelling and screaming, do this and don’t do that. Not like most parents do. Instead his light comes in and shows you what you are doing, kind of like an out of body experience where you see from the outside looking in. Human nature is very good at that where we see everyone else’s faults but not our own. In Yeshua we will see our own faults as well as everyone else’s, with the point to not be judgmental of others, but to show us how human nature is and why we are evil. But the main focus of Yeshua is on you, not the other people.
So back to what he said to me, you do not know until you know, and you are not guilty until you are guilty. A verse I saw yesterday ties in nicely here. In Matthew 19:14 it says “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Even though human nature is evident from birth, because a baby does nothing for no one, but is demanding. It cries when it needs food, a diaper changed… But it is not guilty of sin, the two are separate things. The sin comes in when the child gets older and starts learning. And what we as parents allow into the mind of our kids is what forms them. These days most kids are formed by daycare, schools, friends, TV and computers or cell phones. And all of these are corrupt. And it becomes a perfect example of generational sin, one generation passes it down to the next simply because we allow all of these outside sources to affect us.
In my life I allowed it to be that way until about 40 – 45 years old. I read my bible over and over since 19 years old and it never convicted me of anything, the light never shined in me because of reading it. I did not have to justify anything in my mind as being contrary because the bible is a book, not the light. I could read James and not comprehend what it is saying and how it is completely the opposite of my catholic religious upbringing. Same with the 10 commandments and many other things written in the bible.
So here is one of the biggest points to make. Your religion and church system you go to, and the bible never convict or shine light into you. Yet these are the two biggest sources we use to be right with God. And the problem is they work against each other. As long as you make the religion and bible your way to God you will never comprehend the real way to God. Man always teaches a different way and truth because he is evil in heart and does not want to see his evilness so he heaps up doctrine, men teachers the bible as the teacher instead of the one the bible says should be your teacher in Matthew 23. Do not call anyone your teacher (Rabbi) for one is the Messiah.
The reason for Yeshua dying on the cross was to take away the sins of the world, but your sin remains if you do not allow the light to come in and convict you or condemn you. I will tell you how God showed me this in the morning.
He used food as an example. We are told to eat certain foods and avoid others, but the information is totally incorrect. For example for years they told us to eat cereal and oatmeal and not eggs. Then they put a lot of sugar in the cereal. This creates problems in many parts. First, sugar is one of the worst things you can eat, including non sugar sweeteners, especially fructose corn syrup. Sugar and trans fats are the two main issues in our diet today killing us and making us sick. They make the cholesterol in eggs a bad thing when actually our bodies need cholesterol. Our brains are made up of something like 70% cholesterol so when you limit the intake of it we affect our brains. And then we wonder why we have so much dementia and other memory loss problems. And why we have ADD and ADHD kids. Of course you are limiting what they need to live on and thrive and on the other hand giving them what they should not be putting in their system which creates the ADD y ADHD. Young kids will be active and need time to run.
So basically what the so-called experts are telling us is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing and eating. The same with what we put in our minds, because our mind is like a computer, how we program it is how we will be. The thing with Yeshua is he reprograms us in his truth. But first he must strip us down to nothing inorder to reprogram us. He cannot change your mind when you are focused on the things you already learned, they are the opposite. You have no idea how many arguments or debates I get into about food where the other person will not open their minds to the fact that we should be eating eggs. They make many points, but mainly because the fda or whatever government agency says you shouldn’t and how am I to say otherwise? Do I have a degree?
Well, actually yes from the school of hard knocks. At one time my diet was high in sugar and trans fats and I got fat and unhealthy. I then changed my diet and got rid of those things and my weight dropped and health returned. I am living proof as are a lot of people who eat right, that the system is corrupt and telling you lies and keeping you unhealthy and or fat. You are not guilty of this sin against the body, until the truth comes and you ignore it and remain in your ways of eating trash because you like it too much or whatever stupid reason you give. God knows you were conned into believing the lie, but there is no excuse once the truth has been put in your face and you choose to ignore it.
Here is the thing, if you ask every fat unhealthy person what they eat or watch what they eat. And the same with healthy people. 100% of the time the results will be accordingly. Bad food equals bad health, good food equals good health. There are no exceptions.
Now apply this to your Spiritual life. The worldly religions are conning you into believing the lie, the great deception. There is no judgment on that, when or where the judgment comes from is when you are given the truth or light and you refuse it and remain in the same place. The sin is not the focus point, the sin is the outcome of the focus point. We must look at the fruit (results) we are bearing. If we are fat and unhealthy, or still in sin and it has control of us. It is because we refuse the truth and light. Or we do not know it yet.
A baby cannot decide what to feed itself, that is up to the parents, until a certain age. And when the truth starts to show that child or young adult what the truth is, they must then repent and change as needed. The bible does outline this and gives us the answers to what is right and wrong, healthy and unhealthy. But again you can read the bible over and over and it will never matter until or unless the light is allowed to shine into you and condemn your choices or behavior.
This is all of the gospel or truth, let the light of God shine into you and lead you into all righteousness. He shows you the right choices to make, then we must do them. This is the working out of what he is working in. Being not only hearers of the word but doers of the word (again the word is Yeshua not the bible). This is the unforgivable sin, if you remain in the darkness when the light has come, refusing to live in righteousness. And to make matters worse most argue that they are good the way they are even though all around them is sin and dysfunction. That is like sticking your finger in the face of God and saying he is wrong and you are right. And demanding he accept your religious beliefs and lifestyle.
But the truth is God does not accept it, he expects you to do it his “way.” Not your way.