Greeting:
Paul's Holy Kiss
of Charity( Pure Grace):
Grace
(not
law) unto
you, and peace (not
confusion) ,
from God
our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Galatians
5:17 Contrary Things Law vs Grace
Law <--vs--> Grace are "contrary" things: Death
<--vs--> Life
Of things created/made(before/after), two
"contrary" things can notably be "made":
(i) made one proselyte: twofold:
more the child
of hell(law):
Matthew
23:15 ... Law
(ii) made perfect (grace) by the God of all grace: Hebrews
5:9...1Peter 5:10 ... Grace
-
Mixing contrary things makes an
oxyMORON with a BAD
end.
Contrary Things: Law vs Grace only combine (mix) to
make "One Proselyte".
One Proselyte: is "twofold": "more
the child of hell": Matthew 23:15.
Example of contrary
things in
Matthew 12: 30-37
It's good(grace) or corrupt(law); not both good + evil
So "either make the tree good or
corrupt(evil)":
JC.
Allegory:
either make
the tree
grace (good) or law (evil).
Law: "both
good and evil" was
"corruptible", and "mortal": Paul.
Grace: good only, never
evil, is "incorruptible",
"immortal": Paul.
The choice is
non-violence (grace) or
non-existence (law): Gandhi.
To be (grace) or not
to be (law), that is the
quest-i-on: Shakespeare
Dare to Compare
(not mix) Contrary Things
"Comparing
spiritual things with spiritual": Laws with Grace: 1Corinthians 2:13
Contrary things such
as
law vs grace, sacrifice vs mercy, confusion vs peace, shouldn't be
mixed, as such oxymoronic mixture of contrary
things is as mixing Life + Death(added) = Dead End. Rather we are
biblically exhorted to compare
spiritual things with spiritual: "comparing
spiritual things with spiritual"
(1Corinthians 2:13): notably comparing plural
with singular (eg: "generations" of Adam: Genesis 5 with "generation"
of Jesus Christ: Matthew 1): law law with grace; For such contradictory
contrary
things written aforetime for our learning are meant to be
compared, not mixed. Example: mixing blessed(graced) + cursed(lawed)
ends badly: "accursed"
(Galatians 1:8,9), and since "there
is no respect of persons with God", it applies to "every one" (Galatians 3:10,13).
Let us Dare to Compare this God: Law
<--vs-->
"that God": Grace (Contrary Things)
Galatians 5:17
notes law(flesh) and grace(Spirit) are "contrary" things which are
one "against" the
other, and notably after Galatians 4 notes "which (contrary) things are an allegory". So let us dare to compare
(not mix) contrary things such as this God: Law vs
that God: Grace
as flesh <--vs--> Spirit. To wit: "that God" (the God of
all grace)
was in "Christ" (the end of the law) reconciling
the world (not some only), not law imputing
their trespasses unto them: 2Corinthians 5:19. On the contrary Law
imputes sin: Romans 4:15; 5:13, and law is the strength
of sin's death
sting: 1Corinthians 15:56, so law = strong
man to bind in order to spoil the
Mosaic house of sin and death: Matthew 12:29.
A simple nursery rhyme perhaps, but with biblical
allegoric
significance. For
we have many allegoric biblical references to those who were double minded:
"Moses, Moses" quite contrary; "Abraham, Abraham" quite contrary; "Simon, Simon" quite contrary; Also "Saul, Saul" quite contrary; Even "Jerusalem, Jerusalem"
quite contrary. In Galatains 4 we find
the mention of two
Jerusalems:
Jerusalem below (also called Babylon): in bondage (law) with her children:
them;
Compared with Jerusalem above: mother of us all.
Jerusalem below is further described as "this Agar": Mt Sinai = The Law, or this of
this/that, Which things
are an allegory, and
which things are as "contrary" as Life(Grace) or
Death(Law), as contrary as Alive or Dead, Blessed or Cursed, Groomed or
Gloomed, Uplifted
or Depressed,
Constructive or Destructive. When compared rather than mixed, Law is
as God their Destroyer
vs Grace is as God
our Saviour. However perfection is not both (lukewarm, which is
neither hot nor cold), but one only: "the only true God": the only wise God": "the blessed and only Potentate". So the only true
God isn't two slices, but one slice.
For a God who was both merciful and merciless could not be trusted to
be merciful to all, especially if there is no respect of persons, which
makes law merciless to all if the truth about law be known.
Contrary Gods: Biblically two Gods (Law vs
Grace) are
opposed about them.
When looking closer at God in the Bible we find there
are
either two
contrary Gods or one God that is contrary to himself. Further
examination in the Bible reveals two contrary Gods opposed about them.
One God concludes them all in unbelief and destroys all but eight
souls. One God in Christ does not impute their trespasses unto them.
Such contrary Gods are as contrary as law vs grace: impute sin or not
impute sin. Such are allegorically this God and that God; "that God" being
all light and no darkness at all, this God being both light and
darkness, but the light of this God being also darkness as noted in Amos 5:18 and Matthew 6:23. So
then the day
of the LORD is darkness and not light, and another law is not
light, but darkness.
Bible verses mentioning "contrary"
Interestingly, Leviticus
26 (Mosaic Law) mentions "contrary" seven times, and speaks
of seven times more
plagues; a good reason to flush
law as dung (make law dead
testator) to establish
grace that is merciful,
sufficient,
and impartial:
1) Leviticus 26:21 And
if ye walk contrary (q@riy) unto me,
and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more
plagues upon you according to your sins.
2) Leviticus 26:23 And
if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me
3) Leviticus 26: 24
Then
will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven
times for your sins
4) Leviticus 26: 27
And if ye will not
for all this hearken
unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
5) Leviticus 26: 28
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and
I, even I, will chastise you seven times
for your sins
6) Leviticus 26: 40
If they shall confess
their iniquity, and
the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which
they trespassed against me, and that also
they have walked contrary unto
me
7) Leviticus 26: 41 And I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the
land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled,
and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity
Interestingly, there are also seven
hebrew and greek meanings of the biblical word contrary:
1) q@riy
(hebrew)
2) hephek
(hebrew)
3) enantios
(greek)
4) apenanti
(greek)
5) para
(greek)
6) antikeimai
(greek)
7) hupenantios
(greek)
Esther 9:1 Now
in the
twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the
same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in
execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power
over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that
hated them;)
Ezekiel 16:34 And the contrary (hephek) is in thee from [other] women in thy
whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that
thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou
art contrary.
Matthew 14:24 But the
ship was now in the midst of the sea(humanity), tossed with (plural)waves: for the wind
was contrary (enantios).
Mark 6:48 And he saw
them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary(enantios) unto them: and about the fourth watch of
the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have
passed by them.
Acts 17:7 Whom Jason
hath received: and these all do contrary (apenanti) to the decrees of Caesar, saying that
there is another king, [one] Jesus.
Acts 18:13 Saying, This
[fellow] persuadeth men to worship God contrary (para)
to the law.
Acts 23:3 Then said
Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest
thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary (not
translated) to the law?
Acts 26:9 I verily
thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary (enantios) to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 27:4 And when we
had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds
were contrary (enantios).
Romans 11:24 For if
thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert
graffed contrary (not
translated) to nature into a
good olive tree: how
much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into
their own olive tree?
Romans 16:17 Now I
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary (para) to the doctrine which ye have learned;
and avoid them.
Galatians 5:17 For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
these are contrary (antikeimai) the one to the other: so that ye cannot
do the things that ye would.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary (hupenantios) to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross;
1Thessalonians 2:15
Who
both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted
us; and they please not God, and are contrary (enantios) to all men:
1Timothy 1:10 For
whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for
menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other
thing that is contrary (antikeimai) to
sound doctrine
Titus 2:8 Sound speech,
that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing
to say of you.
The grace
of
our Lord Jesus
Christ with you
all. Amen.
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