Having found the current lawless-grace-rapture-Heaven Christian doctrine to be lacking in strength and purpose, many believing Jews are ready to return to Moses. They are leaving one error only to fall into another.

They do not seem to understand that the mainspring of Christianity is not the reforming of the old nature of man, that over which the Law of Moses maintains jurisdiction, but the bringing forth of the Seed of God in people. Moses has no jurisdiction over the new creation formed from the body and blood of Christ.

If the Jews return to the Sabbath, to strict Mosaic observance of the feast days, to dietary observances, then they have left Christ. They in their adamic state are leaving the new covenant and returning to that which has been superseded by the Lord Jesus and the issuing of the law of the Spirit of life. They are defying the Apostle Paul.

Let us mention a related error. The Jewish congregations are making a distinction between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians. Again they are defying Paul. Paul stated clearly that there is but one Seed of Abraham, one olive tree. There is neither Jew nor Greek in Christ. There is only the one new Man.

Why is this simple fact so hard to understand?

Let us think again about the two stages in which man is formed. The first stage is the adamic man. He is Jewish or Gentile. The first man, the Jew, the Gentile, is crucified. Being dead he no longer is under the jurisdiction of the Law of Moses.

The new man, the life-giving spirit, the new covenant, comes forth. It is not of the race of Adam, of the first humanity. It is Christ in us the hope of glory. We are crucified with Christ and now His resurrection Life is living in us.

Is the new life Jewish? It is not! Is the new life Gentile? It is not! It is the Divine Seed of God and it cannot sin because it has been begotten of God.

Why do we defy Paul? Why will we not accept the fact that Moses, the veil, Hagar, the child of the flesh, has been done away? We no longer are under the Mosaic covenant. The righteousness of the Mosaic covenant is fulfilled in us who look to Christ constantly and are serving the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.

That the righteousness of the law [of Moses] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:4)

All righteousness that we gain by observing the Law is loss for Christ and loss for us. We are to live by an unswerving faith in Christ and never for one second to turn our eyes away that we may observe a religious ordinance. Our own righteousness obtained by religious observance is dung when compared with the Presence of God in Christ.

Who is this who is attempting to move us away from the simplicity that is in Christ? It certainly is not the Spirit of God!

Until we comprehend profoundly what it means to be born again we do not understand the Christian redemption, the new covenant.

To be continued.