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I started re-reading the Bible and and asking for the discernment from Him through The Holy Spirit. As I read the Old Testament again I was given fresh understanding and it was revealed that the Old Testament was the Promise of God and the New Testament the fullfilment of that Promise through Christ His Son. Oh yes there are many examples of behaviors given so we can understand the difference between the ways of man and The Way of God.
ReplyDeleteSo many in the Old Testament lived by the laws are judged by that law. Yet even then the real salvation was in the faith that God will always do as He said He would do. The animal sacrifices were just a picture of the blood and the cost of sin, not meant as a ritual, but as the belief in God's promise to forgive us if we have faith in His Way. To remind us that His Way is not our way, and we cannot get to Him our way, but only through His Way.
The Jews were very religious and wanted to do the works of God to be acceptable to Him, they understood that His work was the most important thing a person could do in their lives and that we were and are created to do God's work.
With that in mind I offer these two verses as a way that Christ offered understanding to those who want to do God's work.
John 6:28-29
28 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Jesus Christ is telling them He is the Messiah and only through Him is the work of God done. He is telling them that all they do in the flesh means nothing without believing in Him, for works without faith is dead.
Look at the verses prior to and after this and see where He speaks of being the bread of life, and how they seek the bread to feed the flesh and understand that He is saying He is the food we need.
John 6:22-27 and 30-40
22 On the following day, when the people who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except that one which His disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with His disciples, but His disciples had gone away alone- 23 however, other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks- 24 when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25 And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, "Rabbi, when did You come here?" 26 Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him."
30 Therefore they said to Him, "What sign will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You do?
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."
32 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
34 Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always."
35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
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