THE JEWS AND THE LAW

Romans 2:17-29

17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew'

If you rely on the Law

And Brag about your relationship to God;

18 If you know His Will

And approve of what is Superior

Because you are Instructed by the Law;

19 If you are Convinced

That you are Guide for the Blind,

A Light for those who are in the Dark,

20 And Instructor of the Foolish,

A Teacher of Infants,

Because you have in the Law

The Embodiment of Knowledge and Truth--

21 You, then, who teach others,

DO YOU NOT TEACH YOURSELF?

You who Preach against Stealing, do you Steal?

22 You who say that people should not Commit Adultery,

Do you Commit Adultery?

You who Abhor Idols, do you rob Temples?

23 You who brag about the Law,

Do you Dishonor God by breaking the Law?

24 As it is written:

'GOD'S NAME IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES

BECAUSE OF YOU.'

25 Circumcision has Value if you Observe the Law,

But if you Break the Law,

You have become as though you had not been Circumcised.

26 If those who are Not Circumcised

Keep the Law's Requirements,

Will they not be Regarded as though they were Circumcised?

27 The one who is Not Circumcised Physically

And yet Obeys the Law

WILL CONDEMN YOU

Who even though you have the Written Code and Circumcision,

ARE A LAWBREAKER.

28 A MAN IS NOT A JEW IF HE IS ONLY ONE OUTWARDLY,

NOR IS CIRCUMCISION MERELY OUTWARD AND PHYSICAL.

29 NO, A MAN IS A JEW

IF HE IS ONE INWARDLY;

AND CIRCUMCISION IS CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART,

BY THE SPIRIT

NOT BY THE WRITTEN CODE.

SUCH A MAN'S PRAISE IS NOT FROM MEN,

BUT FROM GOD.

(Romans 2:17-29)

As Christians,

Do we teach ourselves, as we must.

Is our Praise from God and not from man?

A person is a Christian

If he is one Inwardly;

And Circumcision is Circumcision of the Heart

By the Spirit

Not by the written code, or physical.

In Him you were also Circumcised,

In the putting off of the Sinful Nature,

Not with a Circumcision done by the hands of men

But with the Circumcision done by Christ,

Having been buried with Him

Through your Faith in the Power of God,

Who Raised Him from the dead.

(Colossians 2:11-12)

Today, God's Name is Blasphemed among the Pagans

Because of the Apostate Church;

The Harlot,

Who has set aside the Word of God

And replaced it

With their own warped understanding.