The Daily Word of Righteousness

One Salvation, #12

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. (Isaiah 6:3)

One can perform the works of the Law as a ritual with one's heart far from God. This was true of some of the Pharisees of Jesus' day.

No one has ever pleased God by works alone. Righteousness comes to the individual who recognizes, as did King David, that God is to be loved from the heart, to be first in all our thoughts.

Faith never changes. Righteousness never changes. There are no "dispensational" changes in faith or righteousness or God's goal for man.

God requires of man that he practice justice, that he love mercy, and that he walk in humility before God. Man is to love God with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength, and his neighbor as himself.

The requirement of God has been the same from the creation of the world. It has been the same throughout history. It will be the same forever. God never changes. His ways never change.

Satan's purpose in Dispensationalism is to cut off the believers in Christ from the revelation given through the Hebrew Prophets, to give Christians the impression they can walk in unrighteousness, bitterness, and pride, with their heart far from God because they have been "saved by grace."

Divine grace under the new covenant has one purpose—to guide, strengthen, and forgive us until we practice justice, love mercy, and walk in humility before God.

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (Titus 2:11,12)

God's expectation concerning the behavior of people has never changed from the creation of the world. Salvation is one plan from the foundation of the world.

Salvation has little to do with going to Heaven when we die. Salvation is not where we are but what we are.

To be saved is to be reconciled to God in our behavior.

To be saved is to be delivered from relationships, circumstances, and things that hinder our rest in God's will.

To be saved is to be freed from all that is of Satan and brought into eternal union with all that is of God.

Salvation under the old covenant was directed toward victory over physical enemies and the acquiring of material prosperity and health. Salvation under the new covenant has to do with spiritual enemies and with eternal life—particularly with the resurrection of the body to righteousness, immortality, and glory.

The Divine salvation never has been pointed toward eternal residence in mansions in Heaven, in the spirit Paradise. The vision of the Prophets, the vision for all the elect of God, describes a new world, a new earth in which dwells righteousness.

There is one Israel of God. Israel is the Olive Tree. The fathers of the Church are of physical Israel. We Gentiles have been grafted on Israel and are an integral part of Israel through the Lord Jesus Christ.

God used physical Israel as an object lesson for us (Jews and Gentiles) on whom the end of the age has come. The true salvation is in Christ and it is for all men—first for the Jews and after that for the Gentiles.

The elect of the Jews and the elect of the Gentiles will be guided by the Lord into the patient waiting for Christ. Religious men will grow worse and worse until finally they have built their headquarters in the land of Shinar. The Babylon they create will become the prison of unclean spirits.

Each of us who loves the Lord Jesus must come out (in our heart) from the babylonish spirit of the churches. Let us watch for the Lord, who is coming leaping upon the mountains of spices.

Let us "come away" with the Lord. We shall find that our Lord is beginning to speak to Jewish people, and they too will find Him to be a "clear shining after rain."

The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. (Song of Solomon 2:13) (from One Salvation)