Written On My Heart
Why is the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) better than the Old Covenant?
When I was growing up in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas there was not much that people did not eat or try. We knew almost nothing about what the Book of Truth (the Bible) said that people should and should not eat. We were basically told that there had been rules for Jewish people but that they did not apply to Christians. We were not even sure what those rules were except that Jews were not suppose to eat pigs. For the most part, my grandparents on the farm ate meat from "normal" animals like cows, chickens and turkeys. They were actually pretty close to eating only animals that the Book of Truth says are food except they ate pigs. In fact, my grandfather loved pickled pig's feet. Also my grandmother loved catfish even though my grandfather would not eat fish of any kind.
Then there was the family of my dad. They ate everything that my grandparents ate plus a whole lot of other things. They ate rabbits, squirrels, deer, frog legs, fish, crawdads, quail, ducks and perhaps some other game animals. They liked to hunt and my brother David learned to hunt from them. We pretty much ate whatever they said was good to eat. One of my favorites was barbequed bunny and another was squirrel brains with eggs.
Then there were some of our neighbors. If it moved someone was probably eating it. Well, except for skunks because there is just no way to get the stink out of a skunk. They would eat opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, snakes, and just about anything else that they could manage to kill. One of my neighbors was so excited when Stove Top stuffing came out that she promptly used it to stuff a groundhog and served it for dinner. In the winter, there was always some sort of critter in their stew pot. We would simply call it mystery meat. If you really wanted to know what it was then you had to go out to the back porch and try to figure out which of the skins was freshest.
When I got a job at a restaurant in Fayetteville I was introduced to yet more mysterious meats. I am talking about crab, shrimp, clam and other types of things from the ocean. The only time that I seen people eat these things was when I went to Gulf of Mexico when I was twelve and I thought that it was disgusting that people ate them at the time. It did not take me long to be persuaded to try them and I found that I liked shrimp as long as it was deveined, coated and fried. During this time I came into the House of Truth, then I was baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) and soon my life began to change.
I joined the US Air Force and was soon I was living in Greece. While in Greece I ate goat, sheep, prawns, squid (usually with spaghetti), shark, swordfish and just about anything else the Greeks could manage to cook for me. My landlord had been a professional chef and he sure could cook. In fact, I really loved Greek food and do not remember trying anything that the Greeks cooked that I did not like. I even liked vegetables when the Greeks cooked them. Apparently, slicing, coating and frying was not the best way to cook every vegetable like the family of my dad seemed to believe nor just boiling them like the family of my mother usually did. All during this time I kept spending tremendous amount of time and effort to get closer to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka The Lord).
When I left the Air Force and moved back home something strange happened. I went to visit my brother Jerry and he asked me if I wanted some barbequed bunny. When he did I felt sick to my stomach and told him no thank you. When I was driving home I thought, "Where did that come from? I love barbequed bunny.".
Over the next decade or so, this just kept happening over and over again as I kept pursuing hard after the Father of Truth. I went to a place to eat catfish but I about threw up when I smelled catfish. I went to eat Cajun food and could not bring myself to eat anything except the chicken. When I saw someone eating a plate full of shrimp it might as well have been a plate full of cockroaches. This continued on with one meat after another until I was left with only fish with scales, chickens, turkeys, quails, pheasants, deer, cows, goats, sheep and pigs.
Actually I did not really like pig meat anymore but I kept eating it because it was cheap. Its taste could be disguised with enough seasoning either when it was processed into things like sausage and pepperoni or cured (From what? I always wondered.) like ham or bacon or just plain covered up when it was cooked like barbequed ribs.
Then one fateful night I went camping with a scouting group. The adult leaders would take turns watching over the camp at night to keep the boys safe. During my shift one of the leaders came over and told me that the Father of Truth did not want His Children eating what He called filth. This really riled me up. I proceeded to tell him, how I knew my rights according to the Renewed Covenant. I told him, how I could eat anything I wanted, and still be in the House of Truth. After I said my piece, he started telling about things in the Renewed Covenant, that I had never noticed. He started explaining, how eating what the Father of Truth called filth, was wrecking my health. Well, I start telling him, about why I thought, that he was wrong. We went back and forth, all through my two hour shift, and then all through his two hour shift. Finally, when his relief came, he said, that he was going to bed, and that the only reason, that I was so riled up, was because the Spirit of Truth, was dealing with me about my diet. I laid down to go to bed, and thought, "Maybe he is right".
I got up the next morning to the smell of breakfast. I went to get my Little Smokies and eggs when I smelled something so foul that I thought I was going to vomit right there in the camp. I left the camp to get away from that smell as quickly as I could and barely kept my stomach contents in my stomach. I soon realized that the horrible smell was the Little Smokies. From that day, even the smell of pig meat can make me feel like vomiting.
I found this all very confusing. I thought one thing with my mind but was experiencing something else completely different in my body and spirit. I prayed in tongues until I reached the point where I could clearly hear the voice of the Spirit of Truth without distraction and finally asked what on Earth was going on.
The Spirit of Truth told me that the Law of Truth was being written on my heart so that eating those things that it called filth was now repulsive to me. I was stunned.
I had thought that the Law of Truth had been done away with and that it had no application for the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) in the Renewed Covenant. I had thought since we were under a better covenant built upon better promises that we could eat anything and still enjoy the health benefits promised in the Law of Truth. In fact, even though I found eating those things that were called filth to be absolutely repulsive, I still thought it did not matter what other people ate. It took a long time of looking into this in the Renewed Covenant, even in some cases having to read the source Greek manuscripts when translations disagreed, to find out that I was only partly right about that as explained in Does It Matter What I Eat.
This really should not have been so surprising. The Spirit of Truth was given to the Children of Truth to guide them into all truth (John 16:13). This same Spirit revealed everything that is written in the entire Book of Truth (2 Peter 1:20-21).
The Word of Truth found in the Book of Truth is what brings us to faith in the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) (John 17:17). Faith in the Man of Truth is built upon the writings of the Prophets contained in the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament) as well as the writings of the Apostles contained in the Renewed Covenant and both came from the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 2:20-22).
The Law of Truth given in the Original Covenant only contains the truth (Psalm 119:142). The Law of Truth came from the Spirit of Truth just like everything else in the Book of Truth (Romans 7:14). The Law of Truth was added because of the transgressions of people that continued until the Man of Truth appeared (Galatians 3:19). Before the Man of Truth came people were under the Law of Truth so it could bring them to him so they could have faith in him (Galatians 3:23-25).
The Man of Truth did not do away with the Law of Truth when he came but said that it is in effect as long as the universe exists (Matthew 5:17-18). Faith in the Man of Truth does not do away with the Law of Truth but rather gives us the ability to do what it says (Romans 3:31). No one can do what the Law of Truth says in their own strength (Romans 7:13-15). However we do the things contained in the Law of Truth when we follow the Spirit of Truth (Romans 8:3-5). When we follow the leading of the Spirit of Truth and do what the Law of Truth says from our hearts then we are not under it to try vainly to do those same things in our own strength out of obligation (Galatians 5:18).
In fact, the Renewed Covenant was promised in the Original Covenant to those under the Law of Truth because they could not keep it out of obligation (Jeremiah 31:32-34). The Renewed Covenant is nothing more than the Father of Truth writing the Law of Truth on our hearts so we can do what it says from the heart (Hebrews 8:8-11). The same Law of Truth that was once written on tablets of stone in the Original Covenant is now being written on our hearts in the Renewed Covenant (Hebrews 10:15-17).
This is the circumcision of the heart that the Father of Truth promised in the Law of Truth so that we could love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength (Deuteronomy 30:6). This is the circumcision that is made inwardly in the heart that makes people into Jews on the inside instead of the circumcision made outwardly in the flesh that only makes people into Jews on the outside (Romans 2:28-29). This circumcision that comes from faith in the Man of Truth causes us to no longer to desire do what is sinful (Colossians 2:10-11). The sinful desires that are removed from this circumcision are those things that lead people to transgress what is written in the Law of Truth (1 John 3:4).
It is having the Law of Truth written on our hearts that makes it possible to love the Father of Truth with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength (Deuteronomy 6:4-6). This is what the Man of Truth called the greatest commandment of the Law of Truth (Matthew 22:36-38). This will cause us to also love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:29-31). So when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts then we fulfill it by doing what it commands to show love to our neighbor (Romans 13:8-10).
So the Renewed Covenant is way better than the Original Covenant because having the Law of Truth written on our hearts is much better than having it written on tablets of stone.
The Law of Truth began being written on my heart when I surrendered all control of my life to the Man of Truth. The Man of Truth is the one that has set me free from sinful desires when I decided to keep obeying Him in every area of my life to the best of my understanding (John 8:31-32). He sent the Spirit of Truth to teach me the will of the Father of Truth (John 14:26). He baptized me in the Spirit of Truth when I did not even know anything about speaking in tongues (Acts 11:15-17). When I did not know what to pray but prayed in tongues then the Spirit of Truth gave me the words to seek after the will of the Father of Truth (Romans 8:26). The Father of Truth is now working in me to give me the desire and ability to do His good pleasure because the Law of Truth is being written on my heart (Philippians 2:13).
You see the Law of Truth is being written on my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to seek hard after His Father with my whole heart in prayer and fasting. The Father of Truth promised in the Law of Truth that everyone who seeks after Him with their whole heart will find Him (Deuteronomy 4:29). His promise is those who pursue after Him in prayer will find Him (Jeremiah 29:12-13). The Man of Truth said anyone who seeks after Him will find Him (Matthew 7:7-9). The Law of Truth will be written on the heart of anyone who seeks after Him with their whole heart.
In like manner the Law of Truth is being written on my my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to examine the Book of Truth so I can find out how to do what is pleasing to His Father. Like the Jews at Berea I have looked into the Book of Truth for myself to find out what His will is (Acts 17:10-12). I have studied the Book of Truth so I could do what He approves of by rightly understanding the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15). It was being born again that caused me to desire to know the Word of Truth like a baby desires milk (1 Peter 2:1-3). Everything in the Book of Truth, both the Original Covenant and the Renewed Covenant, was given by the Father of Truth so His Children could know how to please Him (2 Timothy 3:16-17). It pleases Him when the Children of Truth live according to the truth (3 John 1:4). We live according to the truth when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts.
Lastly the Law of Truth is being written on my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to reject the traditions of men. The religious professionals had rejected the commandments in the Law of Truth so they could keep their own traditions just like the Pharisees (Mark 7:7-9). It was their traditions that I had been taught that had made me resistant to what the Law of Truth said (Mark 7:10-13). Then my mind was renewed by the Word of Truth so I could know the will of the Father of Truth (Romans 12:2). I did not find the commandments of the Father of Truth to be too hard to carry out because I love Him (1 John 5:2-4). We obey the Father of Truth because we love him when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts.
It is also important to understand that the Law of Truth being written on my heart is an ongoing process. Just as a book is not written all at once on paper so also the Law of Truth has not been written all at once on my heart. I have been becoming more like the Father of Truth with each new line of the Law of Truth that is written on my heart (2 Corinthians 3:18). This will continue until I am finally just like the Man of Truth (1 John 3:2).
It is also important to understand how this process progresses. The Man of Truth said that some parts of the Law of Truth were more important than others and those were the first to be written on my heart (Matthew 23:23). He also said that the other parts still need to be done but only after the more important parts are done (Luke 11:42). The commandments that define what is righteousness in the Law of Truth are the most important parts (Romans 2:25-27). If these commandments of the Law of Truth were not written on my heart then I would not remain in of the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Taking someone off the road to becoming a serial killer needs to be done before fixing their diet.
This process is not just about what you eat but breaking the power of any addiction in your life. It is first and foremost about those things in your life that must change if you want to live with the Father of Truth.
You might want to do what is right but keep finding yourself doing the opposite even though you do not want to (Romans 7:15). You cannot do what the Law of Truth says even if you agree with it because of you have no defense against your own flesh (Romans 7:16-18). So you cannot do what is right and cannot cease to do what is wrong (Romans 7:19-21). You are miserable because no matter how much you want to obey the Law of Truth you are a slave to sin even though you know that it will kill you (Romans 7:22-24). The Good News is that the Man of Truth can set you free from this death spiral by causing the Law of Truth to be written on your heart (Romans 7:25-8:2)).
You must come into the House of Truth so that the Law of Truth can begin to be written on your heart (John 15:4-6). You come into the House of Truth by submitting in total surrender to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). When you come into the House of the Truth then the Spirit of Truth begins writing the Law of Truth on your heart so that you are changed from the inside out instead of writing it on stone to change you from the outside in (2 Corinthians 3:2-4). When you come into the House of Truth your desires will change because the Law of Truth is being written on your heart (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Come into the House of Truth.
When I was growing up in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas there was not much that people did not eat or try. We knew almost nothing about what the Book of Truth (the Bible) said that people should and should not eat. We were basically told that there had been rules for Jewish people but that they did not apply to Christians. We were not even sure what those rules were except that Jews were not suppose to eat pigs. For the most part, my grandparents on the farm ate meat from "normal" animals like cows, chickens and turkeys. They were actually pretty close to eating only animals that the Book of Truth says are food except they ate pigs. In fact, my grandfather loved pickled pig's feet. Also my grandmother loved catfish even though my grandfather would not eat fish of any kind.
Then there was the family of my dad. They ate everything that my grandparents ate plus a whole lot of other things. They ate rabbits, squirrels, deer, frog legs, fish, crawdads, quail, ducks and perhaps some other game animals. They liked to hunt and my brother David learned to hunt from them. We pretty much ate whatever they said was good to eat. One of my favorites was barbequed bunny and another was squirrel brains with eggs.
Then there were some of our neighbors. If it moved someone was probably eating it. Well, except for skunks because there is just no way to get the stink out of a skunk. They would eat opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, snakes, and just about anything else that they could manage to kill. One of my neighbors was so excited when Stove Top stuffing came out that she promptly used it to stuff a groundhog and served it for dinner. In the winter, there was always some sort of critter in their stew pot. We would simply call it mystery meat. If you really wanted to know what it was then you had to go out to the back porch and try to figure out which of the skins was freshest.
When I got a job at a restaurant in Fayetteville I was introduced to yet more mysterious meats. I am talking about crab, shrimp, clam and other types of things from the ocean. The only time that I seen people eat these things was when I went to Gulf of Mexico when I was twelve and I thought that it was disgusting that people ate them at the time. It did not take me long to be persuaded to try them and I found that I liked shrimp as long as it was deveined, coated and fried. During this time I came into the House of Truth, then I was baptized in the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) and soon my life began to change.
I joined the US Air Force and was soon I was living in Greece. While in Greece I ate goat, sheep, prawns, squid (usually with spaghetti), shark, swordfish and just about anything else the Greeks could manage to cook for me. My landlord had been a professional chef and he sure could cook. In fact, I really loved Greek food and do not remember trying anything that the Greeks cooked that I did not like. I even liked vegetables when the Greeks cooked them. Apparently, slicing, coating and frying was not the best way to cook every vegetable like the family of my dad seemed to believe nor just boiling them like the family of my mother usually did. All during this time I kept spending tremendous amount of time and effort to get closer to the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka The Lord).
When I left the Air Force and moved back home something strange happened. I went to visit my brother Jerry and he asked me if I wanted some barbequed bunny. When he did I felt sick to my stomach and told him no thank you. When I was driving home I thought, "Where did that come from? I love barbequed bunny.".
Over the next decade or so, this just kept happening over and over again as I kept pursuing hard after the Father of Truth. I went to a place to eat catfish but I about threw up when I smelled catfish. I went to eat Cajun food and could not bring myself to eat anything except the chicken. When I saw someone eating a plate full of shrimp it might as well have been a plate full of cockroaches. This continued on with one meat after another until I was left with only fish with scales, chickens, turkeys, quails, pheasants, deer, cows, goats, sheep and pigs.
Actually I did not really like pig meat anymore but I kept eating it because it was cheap. Its taste could be disguised with enough seasoning either when it was processed into things like sausage and pepperoni or cured (From what? I always wondered.) like ham or bacon or just plain covered up when it was cooked like barbequed ribs.
Then one fateful night I went camping with a scouting group. The adult leaders would take turns watching over the camp at night to keep the boys safe. During my shift one of the leaders came over and told me that the Father of Truth did not want His Children eating what He called filth. This really riled me up. I proceeded to tell him, how I knew my rights according to the Renewed Covenant. I told him, how I could eat anything I wanted, and still be in the House of Truth. After I said my piece, he started telling about things in the Renewed Covenant, that I had never noticed. He started explaining, how eating what the Father of Truth called filth, was wrecking my health. Well, I start telling him, about why I thought, that he was wrong. We went back and forth, all through my two hour shift, and then all through his two hour shift. Finally, when his relief came, he said, that he was going to bed, and that the only reason, that I was so riled up, was because the Spirit of Truth, was dealing with me about my diet. I laid down to go to bed, and thought, "Maybe he is right".
I got up the next morning to the smell of breakfast. I went to get my Little Smokies and eggs when I smelled something so foul that I thought I was going to vomit right there in the camp. I left the camp to get away from that smell as quickly as I could and barely kept my stomach contents in my stomach. I soon realized that the horrible smell was the Little Smokies. From that day, even the smell of pig meat can make me feel like vomiting.
I found this all very confusing. I thought one thing with my mind but was experiencing something else completely different in my body and spirit. I prayed in tongues until I reached the point where I could clearly hear the voice of the Spirit of Truth without distraction and finally asked what on Earth was going on.
The Spirit of Truth told me that the Law of Truth was being written on my heart so that eating those things that it called filth was now repulsive to me. I was stunned.
I had thought that the Law of Truth had been done away with and that it had no application for the Children of Truth (those who obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) in the Renewed Covenant. I had thought since we were under a better covenant built upon better promises that we could eat anything and still enjoy the health benefits promised in the Law of Truth. In fact, even though I found eating those things that were called filth to be absolutely repulsive, I still thought it did not matter what other people ate. It took a long time of looking into this in the Renewed Covenant, even in some cases having to read the source Greek manuscripts when translations disagreed, to find out that I was only partly right about that as explained in Does It Matter What I Eat.
This really should not have been so surprising. The Spirit of Truth was given to the Children of Truth to guide them into all truth (John 16:13). This same Spirit revealed everything that is written in the entire Book of Truth (2 Peter 1:20-21).
The Word of Truth found in the Book of Truth is what brings us to faith in the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) (John 17:17). Faith in the Man of Truth is built upon the writings of the Prophets contained in the Original Covenant (Tanach aka The Old Testament) as well as the writings of the Apostles contained in the Renewed Covenant and both came from the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 2:20-22).
The Law of Truth given in the Original Covenant only contains the truth (Psalm 119:142). The Law of Truth came from the Spirit of Truth just like everything else in the Book of Truth (Romans 7:14). The Law of Truth was added because of the transgressions of people that continued until the Man of Truth appeared (Galatians 3:19). Before the Man of Truth came people were under the Law of Truth so it could bring them to him so they could have faith in him (Galatians 3:23-25).
The Man of Truth did not do away with the Law of Truth when he came but said that it is in effect as long as the universe exists (Matthew 5:17-18). Faith in the Man of Truth does not do away with the Law of Truth but rather gives us the ability to do what it says (Romans 3:31). No one can do what the Law of Truth says in their own strength (Romans 7:13-15). However we do the things contained in the Law of Truth when we follow the Spirit of Truth (Romans 8:3-5). When we follow the leading of the Spirit of Truth and do what the Law of Truth says from our hearts then we are not under it to try vainly to do those same things in our own strength out of obligation (Galatians 5:18).
In fact, the Renewed Covenant was promised in the Original Covenant to those under the Law of Truth because they could not keep it out of obligation (Jeremiah 31:32-34). The Renewed Covenant is nothing more than the Father of Truth writing the Law of Truth on our hearts so we can do what it says from the heart (Hebrews 8:8-11). The same Law of Truth that was once written on tablets of stone in the Original Covenant is now being written on our hearts in the Renewed Covenant (Hebrews 10:15-17).
This is the circumcision of the heart that the Father of Truth promised in the Law of Truth so that we could love Him with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength (Deuteronomy 30:6). This is the circumcision that is made inwardly in the heart that makes people into Jews on the inside instead of the circumcision made outwardly in the flesh that only makes people into Jews on the outside (Romans 2:28-29). This circumcision that comes from faith in the Man of Truth causes us to no longer to desire do what is sinful (Colossians 2:10-11). The sinful desires that are removed from this circumcision are those things that lead people to transgress what is written in the Law of Truth (1 John 3:4).
It is having the Law of Truth written on our hearts that makes it possible to love the Father of Truth with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength (Deuteronomy 6:4-6). This is what the Man of Truth called the greatest commandment of the Law of Truth (Matthew 22:36-38). This will cause us to also love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:29-31). So when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts then we fulfill it by doing what it commands to show love to our neighbor (Romans 13:8-10).
So the Renewed Covenant is way better than the Original Covenant because having the Law of Truth written on our hearts is much better than having it written on tablets of stone.
The Law of Truth began being written on my heart when I surrendered all control of my life to the Man of Truth. The Man of Truth is the one that has set me free from sinful desires when I decided to keep obeying Him in every area of my life to the best of my understanding (John 8:31-32). He sent the Spirit of Truth to teach me the will of the Father of Truth (John 14:26). He baptized me in the Spirit of Truth when I did not even know anything about speaking in tongues (Acts 11:15-17). When I did not know what to pray but prayed in tongues then the Spirit of Truth gave me the words to seek after the will of the Father of Truth (Romans 8:26). The Father of Truth is now working in me to give me the desire and ability to do His good pleasure because the Law of Truth is being written on my heart (Philippians 2:13).
You see the Law of Truth is being written on my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to seek hard after His Father with my whole heart in prayer and fasting. The Father of Truth promised in the Law of Truth that everyone who seeks after Him with their whole heart will find Him (Deuteronomy 4:29). His promise is those who pursue after Him in prayer will find Him (Jeremiah 29:12-13). The Man of Truth said anyone who seeks after Him will find Him (Matthew 7:7-9). The Law of Truth will be written on the heart of anyone who seeks after Him with their whole heart.
In like manner the Law of Truth is being written on my my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to examine the Book of Truth so I can find out how to do what is pleasing to His Father. Like the Jews at Berea I have looked into the Book of Truth for myself to find out what His will is (Acts 17:10-12). I have studied the Book of Truth so I could do what He approves of by rightly understanding the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15). It was being born again that caused me to desire to know the Word of Truth like a baby desires milk (1 Peter 2:1-3). Everything in the Book of Truth, both the Original Covenant and the Renewed Covenant, was given by the Father of Truth so His Children could know how to please Him (2 Timothy 3:16-17). It pleases Him when the Children of Truth live according to the truth (3 John 1:4). We live according to the truth when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts.
Lastly the Law of Truth is being written on my heart because knowing the Man of Truth has caused me to reject the traditions of men. The religious professionals had rejected the commandments in the Law of Truth so they could keep their own traditions just like the Pharisees (Mark 7:7-9). It was their traditions that I had been taught that had made me resistant to what the Law of Truth said (Mark 7:10-13). Then my mind was renewed by the Word of Truth so I could know the will of the Father of Truth (Romans 12:2). I did not find the commandments of the Father of Truth to be too hard to carry out because I love Him (1 John 5:2-4). We obey the Father of Truth because we love him when the Law of Truth is written on our hearts.
It is also important to understand that the Law of Truth being written on my heart is an ongoing process. Just as a book is not written all at once on paper so also the Law of Truth has not been written all at once on my heart. I have been becoming more like the Father of Truth with each new line of the Law of Truth that is written on my heart (2 Corinthians 3:18). This will continue until I am finally just like the Man of Truth (1 John 3:2).
It is also important to understand how this process progresses. The Man of Truth said that some parts of the Law of Truth were more important than others and those were the first to be written on my heart (Matthew 23:23). He also said that the other parts still need to be done but only after the more important parts are done (Luke 11:42). The commandments that define what is righteousness in the Law of Truth are the most important parts (Romans 2:25-27). If these commandments of the Law of Truth were not written on my heart then I would not remain in of the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Taking someone off the road to becoming a serial killer needs to be done before fixing their diet.
This process is not just about what you eat but breaking the power of any addiction in your life. It is first and foremost about those things in your life that must change if you want to live with the Father of Truth.
You might want to do what is right but keep finding yourself doing the opposite even though you do not want to (Romans 7:15). You cannot do what the Law of Truth says even if you agree with it because of you have no defense against your own flesh (Romans 7:16-18). So you cannot do what is right and cannot cease to do what is wrong (Romans 7:19-21). You are miserable because no matter how much you want to obey the Law of Truth you are a slave to sin even though you know that it will kill you (Romans 7:22-24). The Good News is that the Man of Truth can set you free from this death spiral by causing the Law of Truth to be written on your heart (Romans 7:25-8:2)).
You must come into the House of Truth so that the Law of Truth can begin to be written on your heart (John 15:4-6). You come into the House of Truth by submitting in total surrender to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10). When you come into the House of the Truth then the Spirit of Truth begins writing the Law of Truth on your heart so that you are changed from the inside out instead of writing it on stone to change you from the outside in (2 Corinthians 3:2-4). When you come into the House of Truth your desires will change because the Law of Truth is being written on your heart (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Ozarks, Ruach HaQodesh, The Law, Torah
posted by The House Of Truth @ March 22, 2014
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