Royce Ogle Patternism in the Church of Christ
Danny Dodd: Not the old television program- the Galatians! They were bewitched by a doctrine of the devil and entangled in “another gospel”
(1:6-9) after having been set free by the grace of God. The culprit was
legalism and it was taking them dangerously close to edge of this
grace. (5:4)
IT
WOULD BE A GOOD THING IF PEOPLE KNEW HOW TO RECOGNIZE A WITCH OR A
LEGALISTS. Rhetoric not intending to "teach that which is written
for our learning" is rank legalism and ll musical terms point to
witchcraft or sorcery.
When
people waged to preach the Word of God toss the legalism raca word at
the churches of Christ you know that they are upset that most Bible
readers will not follow them into adding musical and theatrical
performances. When they piped Jesus refused to sing and dance so they
killed Him.
THE meaning of the gospel is is the CENI:
Matt. 11:28
Come unto me,
all ye
that labour
and are heavy laden,
and I will give
you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you,
and learn
of me; (that's CENI)
for I am
meek
and lowly in heart:
and ye
shall find rest unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that preach him,
being read in the
synagogues every sabbath day.
CLICK FOR THE BURDEN JESUS DIED TO REMOVE.
The
burden in Greek includes:
Epōd-os （epadō
A. singing to or over, using songs or charms
to heal wounds, “epōdoi muthoi” Pl.Lg.903b.
Plat. Laws 903b Athenian 903b] that what he says is wrong. But
still he needs also, as it seems to me, some words of counsel to act as
a charm upon him.
Let us persuade the young man by our discourse that
all things are ordered systematically by Him who cares for the
World—all with a view to the preservation and excellence of the Whole,
whereof also each part, so far as it can, does and suffers what is
proper to it. To each of these parts (merismos 1 Cor 13), down to the smallest fraction,
rulers of their action and passion are appointed to bring about
fulfillment even to the uttermost
b. Subst., enchanter, “e. kai goēs” E.Hipp. 1038 (but
“goēs e.” Ba.234): c. gen.,
a charm for or against, “ethusen hautou paida epōdon Thrēkiōn aēmatōn”
A.Ag.1418 ; e. tōn toioutōn
one to charm away such fears, Pl.Phd.78a.
Pais [“Hēraklēs en paisin opheis apekteinen” D.C.56.36; en paisi (v.l. paidi）“ poimainōn” Hdn.6.8.1; khorēgein paisi (cf. “khorēgeō” 11):
khorēg-eō , 2.
metaph., minister to, “kh. tais seautou hēdonais” Aeschin.3.240; “tais epithumiais” Luc.Par.12; “pros epainon” Lib. Or.18.7; pros mēkos logou ib.13.26. epain-os , ho, A.
approval, praise, commendation “logon eipein epainon Erōtos” Id.Smp.177d “andrasi kh. es Dionusia” Lys. 21.2; kh. kōmōdois, purrikhistais, ib.4; “tragōdois” Is.6.60; “kōmōdois” IG22.3090 (less freq. with the Art. added, “kh. ta Dionusia tois tragōdois
Eros IV.
name of the klēros Aphroditē
klēros III.
of the Levites, “Kurios autos klēros autou” LXX De.18.2: hence, of the Christian clergy, “en klērō katalegomenos”
Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Bello THE LEVITES MADE WAR, NOT WORSHIP
Genesis 49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man,
and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel:
I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;
Thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
laudo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. laus, I. to praise, laud, commend, extol, eulogize, approve
Adoro a deity, to pray earnestly, to beseech, supplicate, implore; reverence
Lampros , a, on,II.
of persons, well-known, illustrious by deeds, station,
2.
magnificent, munificent, “l. en tais leitourgiais” Isoc.3.56, cf. D.21.153
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOUR CHURCH?
Dem. 21 153 If, men of Athens, public service consists in saying
to you at all the meetings of the Assembly and on every possible occasion,
“We are the men who perform the public services (lētourgountes); we are those who
advance your tax-money; we are the capitalists”—if that is
all it means, then I confess that Meidias has shown himself the most
distinguished citizen of Athens; for
he boresekklesia)) by these tasteless and tactless boasts.
[156]
Well, is there anything else? He has once
equipped a tragic chorus; I have furnished a band of male flute-players; and
everyone knows that the latter involves much greater expense than the former.
Moreover my service is voluntary; his was only undertaken after a challenge to
exchange property. Therefore no one could justly allow him any credit for it.
What else? I have feasted my tribe and equipped a chorus for the Panathenaea; he
has done neither. us at every Assembly
2.
of language, brilliant, “tōn dithurambōn (noisy song) ta l.” Ar.Av.1388; l. lexis ornamental diction, Arist. Po.1460b4; “logos”
4.
of sound or voice, clear, distinct, Pl.Phlb. 51d, D.19.199; “lampra kērussein” E.Heracl.864; “phōnē -otera” Arist. HA545a12; opp. ph. asaphēs, Id.Aud.801b22; “lampron anololuxai” Plu. 2.768d; cf. “lampō” 1.2.
Plat. Phileb. 51d and have peculiar pleasures in no
way subject to comparison with the pleasures of scratching; and there
are colors which possess beauty and pleasures of this character. Do you
understand?
Socrates
I mean that those sounds which are smooth and clear
and send forth a single pure note are beautiful, not relatively, but
absolutely, and that there are pleasures which pertain to these by
nature and result from them.
2. Epōdos, ho, verse
or passage returning at intervals, in Alcaics and Sapphics, D.H.Comp.19 ; chorus, burden,
refrain, Ph. 1.312 : metaph., ho koinos hapasēs adoleskhias e. the
'old story', Plu.2.507e.
Epoiēsanto A.
make, produce, first of something material, as
manufactures, works of art,
Explained as pepragmateumai,
prodedomai, phortos gegenēmai,
-Phortos is less complicated but is the
same meaning as Phorto sA. load,
freight, cargo, Od.8.163, 14.296, Hes.Op. 631, Hdt.1.1, S.Tr.537, and
later Prose, as PEnteux.2.11 (iii
B. C.), Plu.Marc.14, Luc.VH1.34; epoiēsanto me ph.,
expld. as pepragmateumai,
prodedomai, phortos gegenēmai,
Call.Fr.4.10P.; ph. erōtos,
of Europa on the bull, Batr.78, cf. Nonn.D.4.118.
LEGALISM IS PROFESSIONALS WORKING TO INVENT SACRED SONGS OR SERMONS.
Pragma^t-euomai work at at thing, labour to bring it about, 2.
to be engaged in business, spend one's time in business, epidekaton, of a tax-farmer 2.
of authors, elaborate a work, Ar.Nu.526;
4.
simply, write, treat, “poiētēs ōn pepragmateutai peri to hieron” p. apo emporias kai daneismōn make money by trade and loans, Hierodoulos Nethinim 1 Esdras 1:2
especially of the temple courtesans at Corinth and elsewhere also male
prostitutes. Str.8.6.20, 6.2.6; Neokoros
Strab. 8.6.20 Again, Demaratus, one of the men who had been in power at Corinth,
fleeing from the seditions there, carried with him so much wealth from
his home to Tyrrhenia that not only he himself became the ruler of the
city that admitted him, but his son was made king of the Romans. And the temple of Aphrodite was so rich that it owned more than a
thousand temple slaves, courtesans, whom both men and women had
dedicated to the goddess. And therefore it was also on account of these
women that the city was crowded with people and grew rich; for
instance, the ship captains freely squandered their money, and hence
the proverb, “"Not for every man is the voyage to Corinth."”Source unknown
Moreover, it is recorded that a certain courtesan said to the woman who
reproached her with the charge that she did not like to work or touch
wool: "Yet, such as I am, in this short time I have taken down three
webs."4 4 That is, "finished three webs." But there is a word play in katheilon histous
which cannot be reproduced in English. The words may also mean "lowered
three masts," that is, "debauched three ship captains."
Korinthos II.
son of Zeus, reputed founder of Corinth, Paus.2.1.1: prov., Dios Korinthos, used of persons who are always repeating the same old story, Pi.N.7.105, cf. Ar.Ra. 443, Ec.828, Pl.Euthd.292e.
Pind. N. 7 If someone is successful in his deeds, he casts a cause for sweet
thoughts into the streams of the Muses. For those great acts of prowess
dwell in deep darkness, if they lack songs, and we know of only one way
to hold a mirror up to fine deeds:
But my heart will never say that I have done violence to Neoptolemus
with cruel words. To plough the same ground three or four times [105]
is poverty of thought, like babbling “Corinth of Zeus” to children.
Plat. Euthyd. 292e since we have discredited all the
business commonly called politics, and it is merely a case of the
proverbial “Corinthus Divine”1; and, as I was saying, we are equally or even worse at fault as to what that knowledge can be which is to make us happy.
1 Cf. Pind. N. 7. Megara, a colony of Corinth, revolted, and when the Corinthians appealed to the sentiment attaching to Corinthus, the mythical founder of Megara, the Megarians drove them off taunting them with using a “vain repetition.”
PAUL OUTLAWED CORRUPTING THE WORD: SELLING SACRED LEARNING
Empor-ia , Ion. -iē, hē, (emporos) A.
commerce (acc. to Arist.Pol.1258b22, of three kinds, nauklēria, phortēgia, parastasis (qq. vv.)), mostly used of commerce or trade by sea (cf. “emporos” 111), Hes.Op.646, Thgn. 1166, Simon.127, etc.; “emporian poieisthai” Isoc.2.1
“peri tas e. diatribein” Arist.Pol.1291a5, cf. D.56.8.
Para-sta^sis , eōs, hē,
3.
generally, setting forth, exhibition, manifestation,
Poi-ētēs , ou, ho, II.
composer of a poem, author, “p. kōmōdias” Pl.Lg.935e; “p. kainōn dramatōn, tragōdiōn ktl.” SIG1079.2, al. (Magn. Mae., ii/i B.C.): abs., poet, Hdt.2.53, Ar.Ra.96, 1030, Pl.Ion534b, etc. 2.
author of a speech, opp. deliverer of it, “p. logōn” Id.Euthd.305b, cf. Phdr.234e, 278e, Alcid.Soph.34, Isoc. 15.192. (Written “poētēs”
b.
composer of music, Pl.Lg.812d.
Plat. Laws 812d Athenian
So, to attain this object, both
the lyre-master and his pupil
must use the notes of the lyre, because
of the distinctness of its strings,
assigning to the notes of the song
notes in tune with them;
note 1
but as to divergence of sound and variety in the notes of the harp,
when the strings sound the one tune and the composer of the melody
another, or when there results a combination of low and high notes, of
slow and quick time, of sharp and grave,
[812e] and all sorts of rhythmical
variations are adapted to the notes of the lyre,—no such complications
should be employed in dealing with pupils who have to absorb quickly,
within three years, the useful elements of music.
For the jarring of
opposites with one another impedes easy learning
No one in history did not know that "music makes the lambs dumb before
the slaughter." This MUST be the reason people repeat, repeat, repeat
human compositions as LITURGY with no intention of letting Jesus get a
word in edgewise,
poi-ētos , ē, on, III.
made by oneself, i.e. invented, feigned, “logos” Pi.N. 5.29; “poiētō tropō” E.Hel.1547; of works of art, imitated, Nonn.D. 34.287.
Writing sacred songs or poems is a BURDEN: a Work.
III. mass of detail, 'stuff', in
semi-colloquial sense, Aret.CD1.4
Aristoph. Peace 748 he has also dismissed that slave, whom one never failed to set weeping
before you, [745] so that his comrade might have the chance of jeering
at his stripes and might ask, “Wretch, what has happened to your hide?
Has the lash rained an army of its thongs on you and laid your back
waste?”
After having delivered us from all these wearisome ineptitudes
and these low buffooneries,
he has built up for us a great art, like a
palace with high towers,
750] constructed of fine phrases, great
thoughts and of jokes not common on the streets.
Moreover it's not
obscure private persons or women that he stages in his comedies; but,
bold as Heracles, it's the very greatest whom he attacks,
undeterred by
the fetid stink of leather or the threats of hearts of mud.... Such are
the services which should be graven in your recollection and
entitle me to your thanks. Yet I have not been seen frequenting the
wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to seduce young
boys; but I took all my theatrical gear and returned straight home. I
pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience
rebuked me for nothing.
REST is the Greek PAUO.
Jesus
set us free from the Scribes and Pharisees He named speakers, singers
and instrument players in Ezekiel 33. The Greek PAUO like Sabbath or
Rest means STOP the speaking, singing, playing or whatever and "come
learn of ME." "ME" gets to be the teacher for Disciples who come
outside the camp and "learn of Me." Disciples do not do ceremonial
legalism. The laded burden in both Hebrew and Greek are forms of
songs intended to arouse anxiety. Jesus set us free FROM
"doubtful disputations" (Rom 14) so we can use one mind and one mouth
to teach that which is written for our learning (Rom. 15). Jesus didn't
teach us to sing when He attended the synagogue each Rest day.
Grace is another name personified in Jesus Christ. The Graces or Muses
in the antithetical pagan world were female singers, players, dancers,
dirty prostitutes. John calls the sorcerers in Revelatioon 18 and
consigns them to the Lake of Fire. Liberty is FROM whatever comes into
themind of clergy.
After Paul outlawed private interpretation or further expounding the use of the written "memory" is left to mark false teachers
2Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the servants of corruption:
for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as
natural [instinctive] brute [Anti-Logical] brute beasts, [Zoon, Zao, Zoe]
made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of
the things that they understand not; [through lack of knowledge]
and shall utterly
perish in their own corruption;
Natural:
G5446 phusikos foo-see-kos' From G5449 [natural descent] ; “physical”,
that is, (by implication) instinctive:--natural. Compare G5591
III.
later, belonging to occult laws of nature, magical, ph. pharmaka spells or amulets, Alex. Trall.1.15; “phusikois khrēsthai” Gp.2.18.8; ph. therapeia ib.2.42.3; ph. daktulioi Sch.Ar.Pl.884. Adv. “-kōs” Gp.9.1.5.
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
Revelation 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea,
saying, Thus with violence shall that great city
Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be,
shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation 18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all
in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be
heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth;
for by thy sorceries [pharmaka] were all nations deceived.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints,
and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Christ speaks through the prophets and apostles: He does
not speak through the kings or priests. The Civil-Military-Clergy
complex murdered the prophets and Christ in the prophets repudiates the
Civil state as robbers and parasites. He repudiated all of the
musical instrumental people and in Isaiah 30 consigned them to the hell
as the sorcerers were consigned to the lake of fire.
Bruit: G249 alogos [Anti-Logical] al'-og-os From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056 ; irrational:--brute, unreasonable. alogos , on,
Logos is the opposite of rhetoric, singing, playing, or any kind of music.
Corruption: G5356 phthora
fthor-ah' From G5351 ; decay, that is, ruin (spontaneous or inflicted,
literally or figuratively):-
-plague take thee! away with thee, corruption, destroy, perish. deprave
Phtheiro b.
with a Prep., luroidou, phtheiresthai pros tous plousious, of
hangers-on and flatterers,
Luroidou
“akouō se lurōdou gunaikos eran kai eis ekeinēs phtheiromenon pasan tēn ephēmeron agran katatithesthai
lur-aoidos
A.one who sings to the lyre, harmonia
meaning: In music, stringing, of bows and lyres,
musical scale, generally music: rhythm, acting,
dancing.
hudr-aulês one
who plays the water organ
Corruption Hebrew: H2490 châlal khaw-lal' figuratively to profane..
denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute), take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute,
(cast as) profane [of Lucifer](self), prostitute
Click here to grasp that the ANTI-legalists are in fact promoting legalism in the form of rhetoricians, singers and instrumentalists to AID Christ and His Word.
Just
as they did at Mount Sinai onward, those regulated by the Laof of moses
TOOK them into legalism: this was the worship of the starry host for
which God abandoned the Levi tribe. The "starry host" at Mount
Sinai was identical to the LEGALISM in Galatia and most of the world
from Egypt to Babylon. There is no ROLE nor DOLE for anything
beyond the direct command from the wilderness onward.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
hath in every city
them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Since the Lord's Supper is still a teaching or showing forth act, the
church is A School of the Bible: being waged to teach the Word and then
invent ing one's own songs and sermons INTENDS to come to the aid of
God. Legalism in fact is based on the Greek NOMOS which
went from cantillation or speaking to PRESERVE the Word, into a rigid
set pattern defining the exact words, the exact note, the exact timing
and none of it Biblical. This is the laded burden Jesus died to remove.
Vile treachery is to accept people's money and the assume the right to
be set at liberty from the direct command of Jesus Christ to "Teach
what HE commanded to be taught." No one in recorded history failed to
recoginize as did Christ in Ezekiel 33 that hypocrites are preachers,
singers and instrument players:
Plat. Euthyd. 289e-
[289e] For not only do these speech-writers themselves, when I am in their company, impress me
as prodigiously clever, Cleinias, but their art itself seems so exalted as to be almost inspired.
However, this is not
surprising; for it is a part of the sorcerer's art,
Thespesios divinely sounding, divination.
Thaumastos lying wonder
Epode enchantment, sorcery, singing
Epodos a song, a Laded Burden, enchantment
[290a] and only slightly inferior to that.
The SORCERER'S art is the charming of snakes and tarantulas and SCORPIONS and other beasts
and diseases, while the other is just the
charming and soothing of JURIES,
assemblies, crowds, and so forth. Or does it strike you
differently? I asked. [The other being lyre-makers in regard to their lyres]
No, it appears to me, he
replied, to be as you say.
Which way then, said I, shall we turn now? What kind of
art shall we try?
For my part, he said, I have no suggestion.
Why, I think I have found it myself, I said.
What is it? said Cleinias."
Musica , ae, and mu-sice- , e-s, f., =
mousikê, the art of music, music; acc. to the notions of the
ancients, also every higher kind of artistic or scientific culture or pursuit: musicam Damone
socci et cothurni,i. e. comic and dramatic poetry, Aus. Ep. 10, 43 : musice antiquis
temporibus tantum
venerationis habuit,
Similar
meaning:
Exegetice , es, f., = exêgêtikê, the art of interpretation, exegesis, Diom. 2, p. 421 P.
Magice
- , e-s, f., = magikê (sc.
technê), the magic art, magic, sorcery
medicinam [dico magicenque, magices factio
Factio
, o-nis, f. [id.] II.
(Acc. to facio, II. B.; lit., a taking part or siding with any one; hence concr.) A company of persons
associated or acting
together, a class,
order, sect, faction, party (syn.: pars, partes, causa, rebellio, perduellio, seditio).
B. In partic., a company of
political adherents or
partisans, a party, side, faction
Magia , ae, f., = mageia, the science of the
Magi, magic, sorcery
(post-class.),
Mageia , hê, theology of the Magians, m. hê Zôroastrou Pl.Alc.1.122a
"in
order that by these means
they might indulge their own pleasures the more; and then, that they
might not seem to be inclined of their own accord to unworthy
services, taught men that demons could, by certain arts--that is, by magical
invocations--be made to
obey men; and so, as from a furnace and workshop of wickedness, they
filled the whole world with the smoke of impiety, the light of piety
being withdrawn." (Reognitions of Clement, Book IV, Chapt XXVI,
Ante Nicene Fathers, Vol 8, p.
140)
"Under
the assumption that a
common pattern of 'myth and ritual' prevailed in the ancient Near
East, it has been argued that the enthronement psalms belonged in the cultic
setting of a 'throne-ascension festival,' held every New Year,
when Yahweh's kingship over
Israel, the nations, and the cosmos was celebrated in song, ritual,
and pagent (play)."
"In
the Babylonian
cult,
for instance, hymns of praise had an important place.
Every New Year,
when the cycle of the seasons returned to its beginning, the
worshipers reexperienced and reactualized the victory of the powers
of life over the powers of death. The creation myth of Enuma
elish
depicted the victory of the god Marduk
over the dragon
of Chaos, Tiamet.
Not
only was the myth
recited, but the battle
was reenacted during the festival. At the climax of the celebration
worshipers joined in the acclamation, 'Marduk has become king!' This
is interpreted to mean that he had reascended his throne
for another year." (Anderson, p. 522).
Danny Dodd: The bewitching was occurring because of a group of Christian Jewish
legalists we now call the “Judizers”. They were the apostle Paul
nemesis in his evangelistic work with non-Jews including the Galatians.
They attempted to impose this other gospel of Jewish law keeping and
traditionalism upon Gentile Christians which denied the Spirit’s power
to work and God’s grace to sufficiently save. They were working to
intimidate, manipulate and dominate the Galatians to cripple their
spirituality and quench the Spirit, but Paul would have none of that!
The Name of the Holy Spirit OF Christ is "Jesus Christ the Righteous." There are only Two "actors" involved and the preacher is not one of them.
Acts 2:34 For David is not ascended into the heavens:
but he saith himself, The LORD
said unto my Lord,
Sit thou on my right hand,
Acts 2:35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made
that same Jesus,
whom ye have crucified,
both Lord and Christ.
There is only one God contrary to one wing of the Church of Christ: He
is the Father and Jesus of Nazareth was made to be His only mediator
between man and God. Lots of false teaching has strayed from all
historic scholarship in believing that there is another person who
guides them beyond the sacred pages.
Alexander Campbell
and others understand that A holy spirit is OUR unholy spirit which has
been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ and not His "spirit."
"This is...understood by
every attentive reader. The original phrase is hagiasmos
pneumatos, and is found only in II. Thess. ii. 13; I. Pet. i.
2. In both places it appears to refer to the sanctification
of the spirit of believers. It is literally
rendered "sanctification [or holiness] of
spirit." There is no article in the original and no epithet
that suggests the Holy Spirit in either passage.
God has chosen
men to salvation through (or by) holiness of spirit;
not through the holiness of his Spirit,
but
through the holiness of their spirit.
When Jesus prayed (John xvii.) for the sanctification or holiness
of his disciples,
it was through the truth: "Sanctify them
through the truth;
thy word is
truth."
The belief of the truth is, therefore, by Paul
associated with this holiness or sanctification of spirit.
The Jews under the Monarchy did not observe The Law of Moses:
They had been abandoned to worship the starry host so that all of their
religious rituals especially the loud instrumental music was a MARK of
Legalism in the sense that all pagan worship was witchcraft based on
loud vocal and instrumental music in the belief that one had to WORK
REALLY HARD to get the god's attendition.
THE LEGALISM AND BONDAGE IN GALATIA WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF RITUALS.
In Galatians 5 Paul speaks to the emasculated priests of Cybele which, like all priesthoods, were emasculated or sex-changed.
Since
no one in church history believed that music had any role in the
church; and none of the groups which flowed into the Church of Christ
had ever used instruments, continuing to NOT use instruments cannot be
called legalism. Legalism is IMPOSING something like instruments
in the belief that "they can lead you into the presence of God.
The
Scribes and Pharisees were legalists: Jesus called them hypocrites. In
the Ezekiel 33 version Christ named speakers, singers and instrument
players. The BONDAGE was a band of Scribes and Pharisees who
CHANGED the Word of God so they could make long prayers (hymns) under
pretense and fleece the widows and honest working people with the
LEGALISM of a tithe or "law of giving."
Jesus
and Peter call the Jews a CROOKED RACE: The purpose of baptism was to
"save ourselves from this race. Legalism was keeping the Law of
Moses: neither king, kingdom, animal sacrifices or exorcism musical
sounds were commanded by God says Christ in Isaiah 1 and Jeremiah 7.
The Jews had a Covenant with Death well defined in Amos and Isaiah 5.
Christ speaks ONLY through the prophets to repudiate the
Civil-Military-Priestly complex He called Robbers and Parasites. All of
the instrumental music under the law was witchcraft: Miriam as a
prophetess and the Levites prophesying with instruments is called
SOOTHSAYING.
The prophecy of the end--time paganism is the worship of the Babylon
Mother of Harlots (Rev 17): these are the same lusted after fruits Amos
warned about as speakers, singers and instrument players. All
instruments and musical terms point to enchantment.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.
Eleuther-oō
,Jesus freed us from the laded burdens (songs) which destroy the rest
as well as the burden laders. Jesus paid the temple tax and did
not impose anything new. He gave us the free water of the word
(Isaiah55) and freed us from those who create pleasure by speaking
their own word.
Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Galatians 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit OF his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Both
the Jews and Gentiles did service to those who are NOT God: that is
what God abandoned Isreal to as a result of musical idolatry of the
Egyptian trinity under the symbol of the golden calf. LEGALISTS use the
patternism of making noise during the goat burning ritual which God did
NOT command as their legalism. The Jews under the Monarchy did not live
according to the law.
Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God,
ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,
how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements,
whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Galatians 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Galatians 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians 5 "Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver." {Ezk 22:18}
H5178 nechôsheth nekh-o'-sheth For
H5154 ; copper; hence, something made of that metal, that is, coin, a
fetter; figuratively base (as compared with gold or silver):—brasen,
brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.
H5153 nâchûsh naw-khoosh' Apparently passive participle of
H5172 (perhaps in the sense of ringing, that is, bell metal; or from
the red color of the throat of a serpent ( H5175 , as denominative)
when hissing); coppery, that is, (figuratively) hard:—of brass.
H5153 nâchûsh naw-khoosh' Apparently passive participle of
H5172 (perhaps in the sense of ringing, that is, bell metal; or from
the red color of the throat of a serpent ( H5175 , as denominative)
when hissing); coppery, that is, (figuratively) hard:—of brass.
H5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
+ "There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch," {Deu 18:10}
Observer of times:
H6049 ‛ânan aw-nan' A primitive root; to cover; used only as
denominative from H6051 , to cloud over; figuratively to act covertly,
that is, practise magic, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of)
times, soothsayer, sorcerer.
David had these on his staff because he was abandoned
to worship the starry host. "We even have a
mention at a later date of a
similar custom in connection with the cult
in Jerusalem,
where certain Levites, called me'oreim,
'AROUSERS,' sang (every morning?) this verse from "Ps 44:23: "Awake,
O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever."
The Talmud tells us that John Hyrcanus suppressed the practice
because it recalled too readily a pagan custom." (Roland de
Vaux, p. 247).
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Musical Term
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Anan (h6049) aw-nan'; a prim. root;
to cover; used only as denom. from 6051, to cloud over; fig.
to act covertly, i. e. practise magic: - * bring,
enchanter, Meonemin, observer of times, soothsayer,
sorcerer.
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Destructive Roots
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Anag (h6026) aw-nag'; a prim. root;
to be soft or pliable, i. e. effeminate or luxurious: - delicate, delight self, sport self.
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The God
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Anan (h6051) aw-nawn'; from 6049; a
cloud (as covering the sky), i. e. the nimbus or
thunder-cloud: - cloud (-y). Anammelek (h6048)
an-am-meh'-lek; of for. or.; Anammelek, an Assyrian deity: - Anammelech.
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And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout
for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being
overcome; but the noise
of them that sing do
I hear. Ex.32:18
THIS WAS THE BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION AT MOUNT SINAI.
Anah
(h6031) aw-naw'; a prim. root [possibly rather ident. with 6030
through the idea of looking down or browbeating]; to depress lit. or fig. abase self, afflict (-ion,
self), answer
[by mistake for 6030], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile.. hurt, ravish,
sing..
Anah (h6030) aw-naw'; a prim. root; prop. to
eye or (gen.) to heed, i. e. pay attention; by impl. to
respond; by extens. to begin to speak; spec. to
sing, shout,
testify, announce: - give account,
afflict [by mistake for 6031], (cause to, give)
answer, bring low [by mistake for 6031], cry, hear, Leannoth, lift
up, say, * scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also
1042, 1043.
A Diviner is: Qecem (h7081) keh'-sem; from 7080; a lot; also
divination (includ. its fee), oracle:
- (reward
of) divination, divine sentence, witchcraft.
They have
seen
vanity and
lying
divination, saying,
The Lord
saith: and the Lord
hath not sent
them: and they have
made others to hope that
they would confirm the word. Eze.13:6
Diviners are still trying to
"batter down the walls" with lying divination and music:
At his right hand
was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the
gates, to cast a mount,
and to build a fort. Ezekiel 21:22
Enchanter:
H5172 nâchash naw-khash' A primitive root; properly to hiss,
that is, whisper a (magic) spell;
generally to prognosticate:-- X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X
enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.
H5175 nâchâsh naw-khawsh' From H5172 ; a snake
(from its hiss):--serpent.
+ "For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king." {1Sm 15:23}
A. Based on the words
Paul uses pointed to the emasculated priests of the mother goddess,
Paul intends to CUT OFF the musical performers in the same way the
priests were made eunuchs:
First:
Apo-koptō , a.ta gennētika, of eunuchs, Ph.1.89: abs., “apokekommenos” eunuch, LXXDe.23.1, cf.Luc.Eun.8:—Med., make oneself a eunuch, Ep.Gal.5.12, cf. Arr.Epict.2.20.19.
This would apply to the musical fall from grace
at Mount Sinai: the worship of the Mother Goddess allowed males
to "perform the role of women." David's stola was worn by the office of
prostitute and the Ephod was a phallic symbol which David cast off and
went naked.
Deuteronomy 23.1 non intrabit eunuchus adtritis vel amputatis testiculis et
absciso veretro ecclesiam Domini
The folly of Israel was common throughout history. An
emasculated priest served as the DOGS of Cybele the Mother of the
Gods. The Babylon mother of harlots in Revelation 17 used these
"lusted after FRUITS" as speakers, singers and instrument players (Rev
18). Paul called the SORCERERS who HAD deceived the whole world.
Deuteronomy 23.1He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
past,
that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
God.
Second:
3.
esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini hē phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85.
Ton-os , o(, (teinō) 2.
of sounds, raising of the voice, Aeschin.3.209,210, D.18.280, Phld.Lib.p.19 O., etc.: hence,
a.
pitch of the voice, Pl.R. 617b, Arist.Phgn.807a17, etc.; including volume, “tonoi phōnēs: oxu, baru, mikron, mega” X.Cyn.6.20; of a musical instrument, Plu.2.827b, etc.; diatonic scale,
3.
esp. of voice or breath, cut short, “ton tou pneumatos tonon” D.H.Comp.14, cf. 22:—Pass., “apokekoptai tini hē phōnē” Plu.Dem.25, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.85.
phōn-ē , 4.
of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “kerkidos ph.” S.Fr.595; “suriggōn” (pipe) E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “aulōn”(flute) Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “organōn phōnai” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “hē ph. tēs salpiggos” (harp) LXX Ex.20.18; ph. brontēs ib. Ps.103(104).7; “hē ph. autou hōs ph. hudatōn pollōn” Apoc.1.15.
Plat. Rep. 397a [397a]
“the other kind speaker, the more debased he is the less will he
shrink from imitating anything and everything. He will think nothing
unworthy of himself, so that he will attempt, seriously and in the presence
of many, to imitate all things, including those we just now
mentioned—claps of thunder, and the noise of wind and hail and
axles and pulleys, and the notes of trumpets and flutes and pan-pipes, and
the sounds of all instruments, and the cries of dogs, sheep, and birds; and
so his style will depend wholly on imitation
Cut off the Organs of sound:
Organon , to/, (ergon, erdō) A.
instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing,
“polemika (war) hopla te kai organa” Pl.R.374d, cf. Lg. 956a
3.
musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous,Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.; of the pipe, Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2.
Ergon , 1.
in Il. mostly of works or deeds of war, “polemēia e.” Il.2.338, al., Od.12.116 ; “ergon makhēs” Il.6.522
of Marsyas,
B. John Chrysostom understood Paul's message.
Chrysostom's Commentary on Galatians:
Galatians 5:1.-"With freedom
did Christ set us free; stand fast therefore.115 ."
Ver. 12.
"I would that they
which unsettle you would even cut
themselves
off." And he says well
"that unsettle you."
"A man that is heretical after
the first and second admonition refuse." (Tit. iii: 10) If they will,
let them not only
be circumcised, but mutilated.
Where then are those who dare
to mutilate themselves; seeing that they draw down the
Apostolic
curse, and accuse the
workmanship of God, and take part with the Manichees? ... But if you will not allow this,
why do you
not mutilate the tongue for blasphemy, the hands for rapine, the feet for
their evil courses, in short, the whole body?
For the ear
enchanted by the sound of a flute hath often enervated the
soul;
and the perception of a
sweet perfume by the nostrils hath bewitched the mind, and made it
frantic for
pleasure
.
Catullus,Carmina 63
Notes Cybele had early become
identified with the Cretan divinity Rhea (Eve, Zoe), the Mother of the Gods,
and to some extent with Demeter, the search of Cyhele for Attis
being compared with that of Demeter for Persephone. The especial
worship of Cybele was conducted by emasculated priests called
Galli (or, as in vv. 12 and 34, with reference to their physical
condition... The worship
was orgiastic in the extreme, and was accompanied by the sound of
such frenzy-producing instruments as the tympana, cymbala, tibiae, and cornu, and culminated in scourging,
self-mutilation, syncope from excitement. and even death from
hemorrhage or heart-failure
Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy
rite,
And as her tender
finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
She rose
a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
"Up Gallae,
hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,
Hie to the
Dindymnean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
The which
affecting stranger steads as bound in exile's brunt
My sect pursuing
led by me have nerved you to confront
The raging surge
of salty sea and ocean's tyrant hand
As your hate of Venus'
[ZOE] hest your
manly
forms unmann'd,
Gladden your
souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
Drive from your
spirits dull delay, together follow ye
To hold of Phrygian
goddess, home of Phrygian Cybebe,
Where loud the cymbal's
voice resounds with timbrel-echoes blending,
And where the
Phrygian piper drones grave bass
from reed a-bending,
Where toss their
ivy-circled heads with might the Maenades
Where ply mid shrilly
lullilooes the holiest mysteries,
Where to fly here
and there be wont the she-god's vaguing train,
Thither behoves us
lead the dance in quick-step hasty strain
."
Danny Dodd: They were born of a “free woman” not a “slave woman” He proclaimed. (4:31) Christ had set them free so why would they want to “be burdened again by a yoke of slavery”?
(5:1) This slavery would only lead to a life outside of God’s Spirit
instead of one bearing his fruit. (5: 19-25) The opportunity to live
this triumphant Spirit-filled life was the very reason that “before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.” (3:1)
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Galatians 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh;
but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians 4:24 Which things are an allegory:
for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Galatians 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia,
and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
The SLAVE children repeat the musical idolatry which caused God to abandon them at Mount Sinai.
God gave David Zion to build a tent.
But, Solomon built God a house on Moriah the center of STARY WORSHIP.
However, God does not dwell in houses built by human hands (by slave labor)
Nor is He worshipped with the WORKS of human hands: raising, clapping, waving or picking
Christ said that God had NOT commanded any of it.
John also calls Jerusalem SODOM and the Mother of harlots
- The present Jews were under the legalism of a GOD IMPOSED worship of the starry host.
- Those who impose instruments use the PATTERNISM of Jerusalem and a plague stopping ceremony.
- Christ says God had not
commanded sacrifices or burnt offerings: these substituted for burnt
infants just before 2 Chronicles 29 and just after.
- Therefore, the legalism the latter day profits try to impose is exactly the PAGAN IDOLATRY of Babylon.
Danny Dodd: Legalism in that Judizing form sought to take away the freedoms the
Galatians enjoyed in Christ. It still does in whatever form it morphs
into now. It seeks to steal the joy and victory of salvation. It is
bewitching because of the way it masquerades and presents itself. But
in the wonderful book of Galatians Paul reveals it for the ugliness
that it is.
A person who is
saved is a Disciple (only) by baptism and "teaching what Christ
commanded to be taught." A disciple goes to Bible Class. The Campbells
following Christ in the wilderness taught that:
Church iis A School of Christ
Worship is reading and musing the Word.
That is exactly what Paul taught AFTER he put down all of the
performing artists who by definition "make the lambs dumb before the
Slaughter."
Now, attending Bible Class with no Law of Preaching, no LAW of giving and no LAW of singing silly human songs IS FREE AT LAST.
From chapter three he teaches that legalism:
Danny Dodd: Relies on Human Effort. Paul asks, “Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law?”
Paul
ministered "spirit" by teaching: they received spirit by listening and
obeying: Jesus said my WORDS are Spirit and life. Spirit stands
opposite to the Law of Mosesor human effort. The direct command is to
TEACH THAT WHICH JESUS COMMANDED TO BETAUGHT. If you do not follow the
PATTERN by READING and DISCUSSING the exact text then you are relying
totally on human effort. Probably NO ONE rests on Jesus Effort who gave
us His Word. Human effort is composing poems, setting them to
meter, practicing, rehearsing and then performing music for the
admiration of the paying audience IS HUMAN EFFORT.
He then continued, “Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?”
(vs. 2-3) Legalism values merit over grace. It emphasizes human
goodness (which apart from Christ doesn’t exist anyway) over God’s
righteousness. In so doing it creates an impossible standard for anyone
to live by- which, in turn, produces failure, guilt and judgmental
spirits. Christ died to set us free from such a doomed system. Grace
through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9) based on the righteousness of God, not
on our own merit, saves us.
It's
amazing that people translate the Word to suit their dogma and then
expound their dogma based on their translation: The Spirit (Gospel) is
received by preaching as opposed to human rituals to arouse up the
flesh (Law). The Spirit or Word of Christ (John 6:63) is RECEIVED
by hearing.
Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Is a Curse. “All who rely on observing the law are under a curse.”
(vs. 10) This curse is the reality that no one under a law system will
ever keep that law system perfectly. If we seek salvation by merit we
will fail every time and the curse will fall upon us. Instead, like
Abraham, we should live by the freedom of faith. “Clearly no one is justified before God by the law because ‘The righteous will live by faith.’” (vs. 11) Why stay under the spell of a curse when in Christ we are redeemed from this curse to be “free indeed.” (John 8:36)
Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse:
for it is written, Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Galatians 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 For (what I mean is that) as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
To
claim that churches who will not permit the effeminate art of musical
worship teams and instrumental music are LEGALISTIC is false. A
legalist in the Greek language specificially obeys the rigid rules of
performing with an instrument as opposed to the FREEDOM commanded as
NARRATION in the psalms to teach the Word of God for the purpose of
education. Music FORCES everyone into GOOSE CLAPPING.
Paul
identifies two covenants: The only spiritual covenant was made by
Christ to Abraham 430 years before thelaw of Moses: therefore
justification or ceremonial righteness does not depend on circumcism
and keeping the Law. Justification is not salvation or
regeneration.
Of Isaac, a Gentile:
Gen. 26:3 Sojourn in this land,
and I will be with thee,
and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Gen. 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Gen. 26:5 Because that Abraham
obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge,
my commandments,
my statutes,
and my laws.
Gen. 26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: [obeyed the CONDITIONAL command]
Righteousness BEFORE, during and after the Law of Moses (a nullity) was based on FULFILLING THE will of God whether before or after Moses.
Diakai-osunê , hê,
A. righteousness, justice, dikastikê legal justice, Arist.Pol.1291a27;
Opposite. epieikeia, CLEMENCY, opposite strict law.
2. fulfilment of the Law, LXX Is.26.2, al., Ev.Matt.3.15, al.
II. justice, the business of a judge, Pl.Grg.464b, 464c (v.l. dikastikê), Clit.408b.
III. D., personified, AP9.164; Isis D. SIG1131 (Delos), IG3.203.
IV. Pythag. name for four, Theol.Ar.23.
V. dikaiosunê: hê choinix, mustikôs,
Righteousness by faith means that
one does not have to become a Jew and live under law to be ceremonially
qualified for baptism.
There are several examples of being RIGHTEOUS by OBEYING the command.
As the Spirit of Christ baptism for the remission of sins was
prophesied. Therefore, Jesus had to be BAPTIZED to fulfill all
righteousness.
Matt. 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
Matt. 3:14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
Matt. 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now:
for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
DEFINITION FROM THE SECULAR LITERATURE
Pisteuo includes 2. comply, hôs ouch hupeixôn oude pisteusôn legeis; S.OT625, cf. 646 ; OPPOSITE. apisteô, Id.Tr.1228.
Sophocles, Trachiniae 1221
You know her. Just this is the command that I impose upon you,
my son:
when I am dead, if you wish to show your piety by remembrance
of your oath to your father,
make this woman your wife and do not disobey
(apistos) your father.
[1225] Let no other but you take her who has lain close at
my side.
You, my son, make that marriage-bond your own.
Obey [Pisteuo]; for although you were obedient in great affairs,
your disobedience in small ones cancels the gratitude already won.
Apisteo I. disbelieve, distrust,
II. = apeitheô, disobey, but if they refuse to comply, to be faithless.
In Galatians 3 Paul shows the ONLY WAY to be under the ONLY SPIRITUAL COVENANT.
Rom. 10:16 But they have not all obeyed
the gospel.
For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
The
Scripture is loaded with various forms of parallelism: the second part
is FOR which mean "what I mean to say" is. If you quote
partial
verses it means you intend to deceive.
Gal. 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 3:27 (What I mean to say is) as many of you as have been baptized
into Christ have put on Christ.
Not:
We are saved BY faith "only." That PROVES that you do not have A holy
spirit or A good conscience or consciousness which means a
CO-perception, to be informed of. Paul told the Jews they would not be
able to read or hear the Old Testament until they turned or converted
to Christ. Jesus equated converted to baptism and Luke recorded
baptism to being converted.
[27] quicumque enim in Christo baptizati estis Christum
induistis
Enim why because, for, for instance, namely,
that
is to say, I mean, in fact I.
To corroborate a preceding assertion, yes indeed, yes truly, of a
truth, to be sure, certainly, indeed: A. To prove or show the grounds
of a preceding assertion
But after that (THE) faith is come,
we
are no longer under a schoolmaster (THE LAW).
Gal 3:25
Verse 25 is not a complete sentence.
WHAT?
FOR ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:26
BECAUSE FOR
as many of you as have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. Gal
3:27
Enim why because, for, for instance, namely, that is to say, I
mean, in fact I. To corroborate a preceding
assertion, yes indeed, yes truly, of a truth, to
be
sure, certainly, indeed: A.
To prove or show the grounds of a preceding assertion
Is a Prison. Legalism enslaves. It is a spiritual imprisonment- putting in locks and chains the empty tomb of Christ. Paul said it. “Before this faith came we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.”
(vs. 23) In this prison reside anger, hatred, discord, selfish
ambition, dissension, factions and other fleshly works. It creates an
atmosphere of “biting and devouring each other” that can lead to self-destruction. (5:15)
THE ONLY DEFINITION OF LEGALISM POINTS TO THE PERFORMED LAWS OF APOLLO (Abaddon, Apollyon)
-Plato Symposium
215c DEFINES LYING WONDERS Why,
yes, and a far more
marvellous one than the satyr.
His lips indeed had power to ENTRANCE mankind by means of instruments; a thing still possible
today for anyone who can PIPE his
tunes:
or
the
music
of Olympus'
flute
belonged, I may
tell you, to Marsyas
his teacher. "So that if anyone,
whether a
fine flute-player or paltry [cheap,
easy]
flute-girl, can but flute his tunes, they
have no equal for exciting a RAVISHMENT, and will indicate (prophesy)
by
the
divinity
that is in them who are apt
recipients
of
the deities and their sanctifications.
The use of human songs and musical instruments were IMPOSED LAWS:
Nomos I. anything
assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance, Lat. institutum, Hes.; nomos pantōn basileus custom is lord of all, Pind.
ap. Hdt.; kata nomon according to custom or law,
Hes., Hdt., attic; poet. kan nomon Pind.:— para nomon contrary to law, Aesch.:—dat.
nomō by custom, conventionally, opp.
to phusei, Hdt., Arist.:—at
Athens nomoi were Solon.'s laws, those of Draco
being called thesmoi.
2. a
song sung in honour of some god, Hdt.; nomoi polemikoi war- tunes, Thuc
Deō (A), imper. 3pl. to
bind from (i.e. to) a thing,
2. alone, bind, keep in bonds, pōs an egō se deoimi; says Hephaistos, pointing to
the nets in which he had caught Ares, -Od.8.352;
3. metaph., bind,
enchain, “glōssa de hoi dedetai” Thgn.178;
“kerdei kai sophia dedetai” Pi.P.3.54; “psukha d. lupē” E.Hipp. 160(lyr.);
later,
bind by spells, “to stoma”
Gain and Sophia
Binding A. cleverness or skill in
handicraft and art, as in carpentry, tektonos, hos rha te pasēs eu eidē s. Il.15.412; of the
Telchines, Pi.O.7.53; hē entekhnos s., of Hephaestus and Athena, Pl.Prt.32 1d; of Daedalus and
Palamedes, X.Mem.4.2.33, cf.
1.4.2; in music and
singing, tekhnē kai s. h.Merc.483, cf. 511; in poetry, Sol.13.52, Pi.O.1.117, Ar.Ra.882, X.An.1.2.8, etc.;
in driving, Pl. Thg.123c; in
medicine or surgery, Pi.P.3.54; in
divination, S.OT 502
Aul-ētēs , ou, o(,
Organon
A. instrument, implement, tool, for making
or doing a thing “polemika hopla te kai organa” (lifeless instrument or carnal weapon)
2. organ of sense or apprehension, speech
3. musical instrument, Simon.31,
f.l.
in
A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn” Phld.Mus.p.98K.;
of
the
pipe,
Melanipp.2, Telest.1.2
Jubal "handled" musical instruments to BIND people to steal their
animals, put them in pens and then sell them back to the owners: it
means WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
No one is free of the prison who uses the enchantment of instrumental music which is defined as enchanting:
Eph.
5:26WEB That he might sanctify [same as
A holy spirit Acts 2:38]
and cleanse it
with
the washing of water
[INTO] the word,
WEB In
endu denotes either rest or motion within or into a place or thing;
Washing
of
water
into:
Enduô assume
the person on, enter, enter the contest,
Washing
of
water
into:
Vulgate In
the Word. Il.; en paidotribou
the school of the training master.
We are children of God BY faith WHEN we are baptized INTO Christ.
NOT inside of Christ but INDUCTED into the School of the Word.
Jesus said MY WORDS are Spirit and Life.
You can never speak by a HOLY spirit and rejecte baptism
we become DISCIPLES and not ceremonial legalists.
This was not the Galatians calling nor is it ours. “You my brothers were called to be free.” (5:13)
Free to overcome sin; free to love one another; free to live faithfully
by God’s Spirit; and free to enjoy the blessings of God’s amazing grace.
Be careful not to be enslaved by the bewitching power of legalism in
whatever form it takes. Recognize the tantalizing dangers behind this
other gospel and avoid it. Know the truth and be free!
No one was so ignorant that they did not grasp that the ceremonial legalism using music was not evil.
I say, to produce this effect,
chants appear to have been invented,
which really
enchant, and are designed to implant that harmony of which we speak.
And, because the
mind of the
child is
incapable of enduring serious training,
they are called
plays and songs,
and are performed in play;
just as when men are sick and ailing in their
bodies,
their attendants
give them wholesome diet
in pleasant meats and drinks,
but unwholesome diet in disagreeable
things,
in order that they
may learn, as they ought, to like the one, and to dislike the other.
And similarly the
true
legislator will
persuade, and, if he
cannot persuade,
will
compel the poet to
express, as he ought,
by fair and noble
words, in his
rhythms, the figures, and in his melodies, the
music of temperate and brave and in every way good men.
See why all religious music is defined as witchcraft or sorcery and sorcerers are consigned to the lake of fire.
"The spirits were thought to speak in murmurings or piping
sounds (Isa 8:19), which could be imitated by the medium (witch or ventriloquist)...Most spiritual and
popular was the interpretation of dreams.
It also was the case that
mediums intentionally would convert themselves into a semi-waking
trance. In this way the
suitable mediums
attained to a certain kind of clarvoyance, found among various peoples.
This approaches the
condition of an ecstatically aroused pseudo-prophet.. In Greece, too, oracles were
pronounced by the Phythian prophetess who by vapors
and the like was aroused to a practice of the mantic art. (Int Std Bible Ency, p. 2466)
Plato Symposium: drinking wine to the strain of a flute.
Plat. Sym. [215c] Why, yes, and a far more
marvellous one than the satyr. His lips indeed had power to entrance
mankind by means of instruments; a thing still possible today for
anyone who can pipe his tunes: for the music of Olympus'
flute belonged, I may tell you, to Marsyas his teacher. So that if
anyone, whether a fine flute-player or paltry flute-girl, can but flute
his tunes, they have no equal for exciting a ravishment, and will
indicate by the divinity that is in them who are apt recipients of the
deities and their sanctifications. You differ from him in one point
only—that you produce the same effect with simple prose unaided by
instruments. For example, when we hear any other person—
[215d] quite an excellent orator,
perhaps—pronouncing one of the usual discourses, no one, I venture to
say, cares a jot; but so soon as we hear you, or your discourses in the
mouth of another,—though such person be ever so poor a speaker, and
whether the hearer be a woman or a man or a youngster—we are all
astounded and entranced. As for myself, gentlemen, were it not that I
might appear to be absolutely tipsy, I would have affirmed on oath all
the strange effects I personally have felt from his words, and still
feel even now. For when I hear him
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