A Vessel Unto Honour

Jesus said “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

There is a filter that, when applied to the Holy Scriptures, causes discernment and pierces through deception. It is The Master’s Key. This Master Key acts like prescription eyeglasses because it corrects the reader’s discernment, allowing the reader to see what the Scriptures cannot be saying, which in turn brings a sharp clarity to what they must be saying. The filter provides a steady foundation that does not rely on shifting feelings, but on the unchanging nature of the Word.

The Master’s Key

The Command: “Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:17

The Call: “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

John 14:15

The Source: “I do nothing of MySelf; but as My Father hath taught Me, I speak these things.”

John 8:28

The Authority: “He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and the Word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s which sent Me.”

John 14:24

The Anchor: “Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets.”

Matthew 5:17

Jesus said that He only speaks what He hears the Father say. Everything that Jesus said is basically quoted from the Old Testament, or expounds upon something in the Old Testament.

In Matthew 5 Jesus said “Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the prophets…”

So when I read Paul’s letters, I keep what Peter said about Paul’s letters (that Paul’s letters are hard to be understood) and I keep in the forefront of my mind what Jesus commanded “Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets” and then I know what Paul can’t be saying, because Paul was not anti-Christ.

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

2 Peter 3:15-16

Paul says a lot of things that could make it sound like he is saying the Law of Moses is done away with…. but that would be going against what Jesus commanded us to think… and if we keep in mind that Peter warned that Paul’s letters are hard to be understood- it appears that is exactly what Peter was referring to.

If we consider context, we must remember that Paul had the whole Torah memorized, and he was writing to specific people in response to specific issues at specific churches (we are reading one side of a conversation) and most of the believers at that time were Jewish along with Gentiles- so Paul would have assumed that his audience would have known what Scriptures he was quoting when he was writing.

Most of what Paul said is quoted from the Old Testament, like how Jesus spoke, and when I research the scriptures that Paul quotes, it changes my understanding of what Paul is saying in his letters.

The unlearned in Torah will misunderstand what Paul is really saying. That has proven to be true for me.

So that’s why I am sharing this helpful hint, because this really helped me to get understanding revealed to me bit by bit as I “Came out of her, My people”