Those who see no distinction with what Paul wrote, they've had their minds blinded by the God, little g, of this world.
Blind to the fact that we who are members of the church, which is his body, have no relationship with God through a covenant.
None whatsoever.
Not old, not new.
And those who simply believe the Bible already know this.
Under covenant, Jesus made it clear to Israel that he would give them wisdom to defeat gainsayers, no studying required.
Watch Luke 21:15, Check it out for yourself. Luke chapter 21 and verse 15, For I will give, notice, I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.
Who's been spoken of here in Luke chapter 21?
The house of Israel.
Even in the next chapter, Luke chapter 22 and verse 30, we find where it says that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
This has nothing to do with the church, the body of Christ.
It's opposite to what the apostle Paul tells us.
We're told to hold fast to what we've been taught.
And that's how we will convince the gainsayers.
Look at Titus 1:9, Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
We're not supernaturally given the wisdom without study, without teachers.
See the difference?
Israel, God's covenant people and their covenant with him during their rise, Jesus commanded them not to study.
Over and over he did this.
Watch closely.
Mark chapter 13 verse 11, But when they shall lead you and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate. But whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Don't miss it.
Don't miss it.
Why would they need study if the Holy Ghost was going to give them the words to say?
Now watch.
Under grace, which is during Israel's fall, Jesus commands us to study.
He told them, take no thought, don't premeditate.
But he told Paul to tell us something entirely different.
2 Timothy 2:15, Study. What? Study.
Now, through Paul, he's telling us to study.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
Another question.
I mean, questions are good things, folks.
These are good questions we must ask.
Another question we've got to ask concerns teachers.
Do we need them or not?
Under covenant, you'll notice that the book of 1 John and Hebrews, they both,
speak exclusively to Israel.
It's about them and their new covenant.
1 John 2:27, Pay close attention. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you.
Don't go to church this Sunday and let a man stand up there and convince you that
this is talking about you.
If this is talking about you, then Paul's writings can't be.
And if Paul's writings are talking about you, then 1 John can't be.
Look at Hebrews 8 verse 11, And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Did you see that?
They shall not teach.
Now watch Jeremiah 31:34, Here we go again. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Are you seeing this?
No wonder we have those today that, that don't understand that the entire world's sins are no longer being imputed.
No longer being counted or charged.
Why the confusion?
Because they're reading someone else's mail.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, then turn over to the back of your book, Hebrews,
through the book of Revelation.
That's not your mail.
It doesn't match the epistles of Paul, no matter how hard you try and wrest the scriptures.
It's someone else's mail.
The Lord said, For they shall, that's future.
Then he says, I will forgive their iniquity. I will remember their sin no more.
We got people today that don't understand that their sins were put on Christ.
He was judged, so we don't have to be.
It's verses like this that cause the confusion.
This speaks of a time when God will forgive someone of sins.
He will count their sins against them no more.
It's at a future time.
And it matches Acts chapter 3 verse 19. There's when Peter said, They're looking forward to the times of refreshing when they're back in the presence of the Lord.
They're looking forward to that time because Peter says that's when they're going to get their sins blotted out.
That's not our doctrine.
That's not our thinking.
And if it is, it shouldn't be.
You can't walk in complete grace while thinking like that.
And then, hey, here comes information.
And now this is in the same Bible, by the way.
Here comes verses saying that there is a need for teachers.
There is a need to study.
Don't miss it.
And this falls under grace.
It comes from the books of Paul.
And Paul speaks of the new man,both Jew and Gentile.
Not so in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, where we read in John 4:22, Salvation at that time was of the Jew.
Any Gentile being saved had to come up and under the Jew because their program had not failed.
It was still in its risen state.
Israel still had preeminence over everyone on earth.
Not so today.
In this, the dispensation of the grace of God, there's no distinction between Jew and Greek, bond, free, male, female.
But here's information from Paul concerning the here and now body of Christ.
Body of Christ.
Three words found nowhere else outside of Paul's letters.
Why not?
Because no one else was commissioned to write to us.
And Paul again reiterates the same thing about teachers.
It shows up again in 1 Corinthians 4:17, For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways, which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
And he's not done.
Here it comes again.
1 Timothy 4 verses 10 and 11,
(10)For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
(11)These things command and teach.
Now we just read where there's some in this book that are not to be taught.
In time future, Israel's going to receive a Holy Ghost unction.
That's why they won't need teachers, and no need to study.
Look at 1 John 2:20. 1 John 2:20. Again, this is under covenant. We're under no such covenant. But here, Israel is going to get supernatural abilities from the Holy Ghost
to know all things with no need for studying. Oh, that would be nice, but that's not you. That's not me. 1 John 2:20, But ye have an unction from the Holy One. And what's the next four words? Ye know all things. Well, that's not our mail. We don't know all things. That's why we must study and become workmen.
Philippians 4:9, Those things which ye have learned.
There's studying, teaching, learning.
2 Timothy 3:14, Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned.
I hate to be unkind, but listen.
Only a fool would miss this after reading all these clear verses for themselves.
There are some in this book who are told to, Mark 13:11, Take no thought. Don't premeditate.
God will supernaturally fill their mouth with wisdom. Luke 21:15.
They need not that any man teach them anything. 1 John 2:27.
Because they have an anointing that will teach them of all, A-double-L, all things.
And at that time, God says, Their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.
We have something so much greater.
So much greater than their covenant.
We have grace.
Paul was given the dispensation of the grace of God to give to us.
And he tells us, if we want understanding, we must study and consider what he says.
2 Timothy 2:7. No member of the body of Christ is under a covenant.
In your Bible, the covenants are between God and Israel.
Not you.
You can't be both under a covenant and under grace at the same time.
That defies the natural law of non-contradiction.
No, no.
A covenant comes with an if condition attached to it.
Grace comes without the if condition.
There's nothing for us to do in our flesh in order to gain or stay in favor with God.
That's what grace is.
It's unearned.
If we could earn it by something we did, it wouldn't be grace.
Israel, however, God is going to put His laws in their hearts so that Ezekiel 11:20,
They may walk in His statutes, keep His ordinances and do them.
And at that time, not now, oh no, right now, they're Hosea 1:9, Loammi.
Not God's people.
But at that time, this is time future, after the church the body of Christ has been called away, then they will be His people and He will be their God.
This book is a perfect puzzle.
Once you work out your timelines, the pieces, oh, they fit so nicely with one another.
All the dots you've been collecting are now connecting.
You no longer sit in church like a deer in headlights.
You stop staring at your cell phone passing time away while the preacher's preaching.
Your understanding starts to open and you get hungry.
You can't get enough.
2 Timothy 2:15, Study, and rightly divide the word of truth.
Makes all the difference.
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