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Acts 15 - The Voice Of Apostle James R Winfree Sr, On Stop Trying To Go To Church And Be His Church
Acts 15: Is About Being "Circumcised of the Heart in Jesus Christ"
For any descendent of Abraham, being "circumcised of the heart" is NOT a substitute for physical circumcision. There is nothing in the New Testament which supersedes Genesis 17. For Israelites, physical circumcision is an everlasting obligation. However, the Baptism of the Gentile Cornelius in Acts 10 shows that God had changed the commandment in Exodus 12:48 that all gentile proselytes must be circumcised to participate in Passover, for very good reason the New is better under Jesus Christ The Savior of all men.
Acts 15 The Believers, Christians, Saints Are His True Church Under The New Covenant Not Buildings
As we'll see, Acts 15 shows how a council of elders resolved the question of whether Devout Gentile proselytes should be circumcised or not, following God's revelation to Peter in Acts 10 that he should not circumcise Cornelius' household and following Paul and Barnabus' experience in working with newly converted uncircumcised Gentiles, who like Cornelius, were also exhibiting the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22) and had demonstrably been given gifts of the spirit (like speaking in tongues) by God Himself.
Acts 15:1 ¶ And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except you (Gentiles) be circumcised after the manner of Moses, (i.e., Exodus 12:48) You cannot be saved.
Very similar to the Lying preachers preaching that lifeless cold dead buildings is the house of God today, the fact of the matter is we who trust and believe are His temple His building, His body don't you think?
2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and Elders about this question.
Dropping down to:5
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them (i.e. the Gentiles) and to command them to keep the law of Moses (i.e. Exodus 12:48). 6 ¶ And the Apostles and Elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been MUCH DISPUTING, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Arguably if the Israelites had been able to bear the yoke of circumcision (as Peter referred to it), the (so called) "lost ten tribes" wouldn't be "lost."
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
As Peter had seen Gods Spirit affecting Cornelius and his household and had been compelled to baptize in God's awesome grace and in His Holy Spirit, Paul and Barnabus had seen similarly miraculous callings amongst other uncircumcised Gentiles.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, To take out of them a people for His Name.
Notice that: “a people for HIS NAME”. Not “to take out of them a people for Abraham's name” James is saying. Devout Gentile proselytes Aren't Abraham's descendants, they are the children of GOD HIMSELF IN JESUS CHRIST. This is in complete accord with what Paul writes in Romans 8:14.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by The Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God (i.e. irrespective of whether we're children of Abraham or not), 17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,...(i.e. again irrespective of whether we're heirs of Abraham or not ). NKJV
Back to Acts 15:
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after The Lord, AND ALL THE GENTILES, UPON WHOM MY NAME IS CALLED (Emphasis ours), Says the Lord, who do all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
The next two verses add to some of the confusion on this subject:
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollution's of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
When James says "my sentence is, that we trouble not them" he's referring to the circumcision of devout Gentile proselytes, As the context of this chapter and subsequent disputes in Romans.
We Believe that verse 20 means that Gentile converts were only Required to "abstain from pollution's of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood," and that therefore the obligations of the written Torah-law are not binding on Gentiles Believers nor on the Believing Jews.
We are under God's grace and not the law of Moses and we are not to follow Jesus and Moses but only God's Son Jesus The Christ.
James is quoting from the written Torah-law which placed these sorts of requirements on Gentile that the believing Jews and believing Gentiles are one in Christ Jesus This what Jesus Himself prayed in John 17:20-23 asking His and our Father to make us One in His Blessed Kingdom:
"There were at all times strangers living in Israel to whom the Mosaic law did not grant the rights of citizenship, but to whom it did extend toleration and certain privileges, for which it obliged them to comply with certain of the religious enactment's prescribed to Israel. They were required not to blaspheme the name of Jehovah (Leviticus 24:16), not to indulge in idolatrous worship (Leviticus 20:2), not to commit acts of indecency (Leviticus 18:26), not to work on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10), not to eat leavened bread during the celebration of the Passover (Exodus 12:19), and not to eat blood or the flesh of animals that had died a natural death or had been torn by wild beasts (Leviticus 17:10,15)". (From "Proselytes" in The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988).
So, what James is in fact saying is, "Since the experience of Peter at Cornelius' conversion in Acts 10: and since Paul and Barnabus' experience with uncircumcised Galatian Gentile proselytes it is clear that God has shown that Gentile circumcision because of (Exodus 12:48) Is no longer a prerequisite for baptism. However, there are obligations on Gentile proselytes in the written we must follow Jesus Christ and Him only we must serve. and therefore his remain valid today.
Instead we must "doing away with" the written Torah-law, Jesus is actually emphasizing the unchanged aspects of it. This is confirmed in the next verse and The Word was made flesh.
John1:1-12.
Hebrews is saying the written Torah-law in the first five books of our Bibles is "done away." In our Lord Jesus Christ Heb 8:13
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Acts 15: Is About Being "Circumcised of the Heart in Jesus Christ"
For any descendent of Abraham, being "circumcised of the heart" is NOT a substitute for physical circumcision. There is nothing in the New Testament which supersedes Genesis 17. For Israelites, physical circumcision is an everlasting obligation. However, the Baptism of the Gentile Cornelius in Acts 10 shows that God had changed the commandment in Exodus 12:48 that all gentile proselytes must be circumcised to participate in Passover, for very good reason the New is better under Jesus Christ The Savior of all men.
Acts 15 The Believers, Christians, Saints Are His True Church Under The New Covenant Not Buildings
As we'll see, Acts 15 shows how a council of elders resolved the question of whether Devout Gentile proselytes should be circumcised or not, following God's revelation to Peter in Acts 10 that he should not circumcise Cornelius' household and following Paul and Barnabus' experience in working with newly converted uncircumcised Gentiles, who like Cornelius, were also exhibiting the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22) and had demonstrably been given gifts of the spirit (like speaking in tongues) by God Himself.
Acts 15:1 ¶ And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except you (Gentiles) be circumcised after the manner of Moses, (i.e., Exodus 12:48) You cannot be saved.
Very similar to the Lying preachers preaching that lifeless cold dead buildings is the house of God today, the fact of the matter is we who trust and believe are His temple His building, His body don't you think?
2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and Elders about this question.
Dropping down to:5
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them (i.e. the Gentiles) and to command them to keep the law of Moses (i.e. Exodus 12:48). 6 ¶ And the Apostles and Elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been MUCH DISPUTING, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Arguably if the Israelites had been able to bear the yoke of circumcision (as Peter referred to it), the (so called) "lost ten tribes" wouldn't be "lost."
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
As Peter had seen Gods Spirit affecting Cornelius and his household and had been compelled to baptize in God's awesome grace and in His Holy Spirit, Paul and Barnabus had seen similarly miraculous callings amongst other uncircumcised Gentiles.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, To take out of them a people for His Name.
Notice that: “a people for HIS NAME”. Not “to take out of them a people for Abraham's name” James is saying. Devout Gentile proselytes Aren't Abraham's descendants, they are the children of GOD HIMSELF IN JESUS CHRIST. This is in complete accord with what Paul writes in Romans 8:14.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by The Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God (i.e. irrespective of whether we're children of Abraham or not), 17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,...(i.e. again irrespective of whether we're heirs of Abraham or not ). NKJV
Back to Acts 15:
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after The Lord, AND ALL THE GENTILES, UPON WHOM MY NAME IS CALLED (Emphasis ours), Says the Lord, who do all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
The next two verses add to some of the confusion on this subject:
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollution's of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
When James says "my sentence is, that we trouble not them" he's referring to the circumcision of devout Gentile proselytes, As the context of this chapter and subsequent disputes in Romans.
We Believe that verse 20 means that Gentile converts were only Required to "abstain from pollution's of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood," and that therefore the obligations of the written Torah-law are not binding on Gentiles Believers nor on the Believing Jews.
We are under God's grace and not the law of Moses and we are not to follow Jesus and Moses but only God's Son Jesus The Christ.
James is quoting from the written Torah-law which placed these sorts of requirements on Gentile that the believing Jews and believing Gentiles are one in Christ Jesus This what Jesus Himself prayed in John 17:20-23 asking His and our Father to make us One in His Blessed Kingdom:
"There were at all times strangers living in Israel to whom the Mosaic law did not grant the rights of citizenship, but to whom it did extend toleration and certain privileges, for which it obliged them to comply with certain of the religious enactment's prescribed to Israel. They were required not to blaspheme the name of Jehovah (Leviticus 24:16), not to indulge in idolatrous worship (Leviticus 20:2), not to commit acts of indecency (Leviticus 18:26), not to work on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10), not to eat leavened bread during the celebration of the Passover (Exodus 12:19), and not to eat blood or the flesh of animals that had died a natural death or had been torn by wild beasts (Leviticus 17:10,15)". (From "Proselytes" in The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988).
So, what James is in fact saying is, "Since the experience of Peter at Cornelius' conversion in Acts 10: and since Paul and Barnabus' experience with uncircumcised Galatian Gentile proselytes it is clear that God has shown that Gentile circumcision because of (Exodus 12:48) Is no longer a prerequisite for baptism. However, there are obligations on Gentile proselytes in the written we must follow Jesus Christ and Him only we must serve. and therefore his remain valid today.
Instead we must "doing away with" the written Torah-law, Jesus is actually emphasizing the unchanged aspects of it. This is confirmed in the next verse and The Word was made flesh.
John1:1-12.
Hebrews is saying the written Torah-law in the first five books of our Bibles is "done away." In our Lord Jesus Christ Heb 8:13
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