How We Go On To Perfect Maturity

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First read my Notes on The Sermon on The Mount. They can be found on my Hearing Seven Thunders blog here, or on my Mellow Wolf Matthew Files site, here.

From the understanding presented in these notes on the Sermon on the Mount it can be seen that to go on to perfect maturity we need be attached to the Messiah of Israel in the actions of God whereby he brings good news to Israel – and so to the world.  This is the good news of forgiveness to Israel and of faith for the world.

We cannot attain unto these actions on our own, as individuals.  Although we may “turn the other cheek” as individuals and in relation to the events and people in our lives as individuals, this will not bring the revelation of the defeat of the fear of death to the world.  Only God’s own design of “turning the other cheek” by and with the Messiah of Israel toward corporate Humanity, as He chose and nurtured it and called it His own Humanity, can bring the revelation of the victory of faith over fear to the whole world.  This is Messiah’s godly action of turning the other cheek to Israel and then Israel’s godly action of turning the other cheek with him to Rome and to all the nations, and all our turning the other cheek with the Messiah of Israel and with Israel to all Humanity in its enmity toward the God of Israel.  For if we turn the other cheek in our own name we are the blind leading the blind into the ditch.  If we do so by attachment to the Messiah of Israel we are a light set on a hill, opening the way for the whole world unto the God of Israel, the God of righteousness, justice and mercy, that the world might come before Him in repentance and hope and not in defiance and rebellion.

God will bring this testimony about in a full and complete final witness.  First, He will bring it about as a witness to Jerusalem and Judah by his ingathered remnant of the followers of the Messiah of Israel in a role like that of the son of Joseph.  Then He will bring it about through the witness of Jerusalem and Judah, together with all Israel, a witness to all nations, and then the world will know that the God of Israel is the Creator of heaven and earth.

We can only go on unto perfection with the Messiah of Israel with Israel