19/12/2022 - THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING

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They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”  John 8.33

God had a plan in His heart: to create a being in His image and likeness. Everything the Most High created before that was preparation for that being, who would be like Him here on Earth. After creating it, God saw everything He had made, and indeed, it was very good (Genesis 1.31). The acts of the Creator are perfect, but man was not vigilant and fell into transgression. As a result, his descendants become servants of the devil as they are born (Ephesians 2.1-3). What an inheritance!

Adam’s conscious sin threw us under Satan’s yoke. He ate of the forbidden fruit, and that was the beginning of mankind’s slavery (Genesis 3). We need to pass on the message of the Gospel, the Good News of what Christ has done on our behalf. When people allow themselves to be taught about the Truth, they immediately become free. Those who hear about the work accomplished by Jesus in His death soon make the decision to be set free. Good decision!

The Lord raised up Israel to be His people; thus, the other nations would learn to walk with Him, enjoying His blessings. However, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob became slaves in Egypt. He raised up Moses and brought them out, after more than 400 years of shameful servitude. To fear God, they were given the Law, a bitter medicine, the best at that time. As the days went by, they made a religion out of it. Great damage!

The religion created by the priests was unable to change people’s hearts and give the world the example that the divine commandments are worth keeping (Matthew 23:15). Such religious people had the formalism, but not the power. In Jesus’ day, they wanted to kill the Master for doing the work as the Father had commanded (John 8.37). Christ went from town to town, teaching everyone to give themselves to God, giving Him true place in their life, and believing the Scriptures (Luke 8.1). What a difference!

Jesus’ teachings were to take them out of the hardness of the Law and lead them to God’s mercy. He opened the Word and explained His writings. In this way, the demons manifested in the oppressed, and He cast out the evil. After that, many were made well, and all praised God. The Messiah came to pay the price of the Adamic Fall, and the religious people did not accept His pure and holy doctrine, because it put theirs to shame (Matthew 7.28,29). Holy doctrine!

The coming of the Son of God marked the end of human religion. Jesus said that He would not accept human testimony, nor receive glory from man (John 5.34). Unfortunately, once again, the Savior’s message has been transformed into a jumble of things born of unconverted hearts, and what we saw were the worst aberrations made in the Name of God. Just look at what happened in the Holy Inquisition. Holy Inquisition?

Today, many are not deceived, as they compare what is said in the Name of the Lord with the Scriptures. The true descendants of Abraham are never shaken by man’s threats, nor do they bow down to the creations of the “priests”, but rather seek to understand the divine will, showing signs, wonders and marvels. Such wonders!

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares