The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 270


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 270

The Christ verses Judaism

James 2:1-13 – My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? t you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself, ”you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.


Christ/Messiah is Our Only Hope

At the peak of Jewish religion and tradition, Messiah appeared and was victorious over sin and death. This transition by God, from those who killed the prophets and stoned those sent to Jerusalem, including Messiah is found in Luke 13:24-35 and Matthew 23:37-39.

Now another transition and tradition is paving a way through the Gentile Church; 1 Thessalonians 2:11-17. And time marches on to the Millennial Assemblies of worship during the 1,000-year reign of Messiah on the earth, we can clearly see the cord of evil in the fall of mankind, at times pressed into a thin and weak ribbon, but emerging again briefly at the end of the Millennial reign. We could follow this ‘cord’ of evil throughout the history of the fall of man. This would be a GREAT study of the Word of God, but not in this small devotional.

In our text of James, the apostle pits the rich and poor Jew against the Law, “ thou shall not kill, and thou shall not commit adultery and the Jews failure,” Today we stumble at Grace as the Jew has done with the Law, are we not just as guilty? Yes, we are just as guilty, but now like the Jew, are we not consumed with self-righteousness, like the Judaizers in their days of glory, yes – we are the same today as the Jew in his day. Leadership (the poor in faith) is self-starved of faith in God because it is materially rich, while the poor (the rich faith) has the satisfying cup of overflowing faith and these are the heirs of the kingdom.

How visible is this today? In churches all across the world, we see the immoral and traditional doctrines of demons within their so-called courts of justice destroying at a whim or wail PERSONAL FAITH, with touch not and taste not doctrines, while simple childlike faith is abandoned by works to gain the favor of God. “Bah-Humbug, or Balderdash”. Now I am all about the rapture and the millennial Kingdom of God, but is this Apostasy happening now? Yes! For us citizens of the Kingdom of God who are now living in the kingdom of heaven, just let me say that we are living in the days of the fulness of time for the Gentile. Messiah became grieved by the faith of the Jew and He is now grieved by the faith of the Gentile.

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