Dr. Jay Snell Newsletter Feed and Free BonusesPart One
How The Devil and Well Meaning People Make You Feel Too Unworthy To Receive The Healing and Prosperity God Promised You In The Abrahamic Covenant
Dr. Jay Snell Newsletter Feed and Free Bonuses
CHAPTER ONE
The Two Ways The Devil and Well Meaning People Make You Feel Not Worthy Enough To Receive The Healing And Prosperity God Promised You In The Abrahamic Covenant
How do the Devil and well meaning people make you feel not worthy enough to receive the healing and prosperity that God promised you in The Abrahamic Covenant? They basically do it in just two ways.
1. They attack your salvation by making you think you have to do more than just believe in Jesus as your savior to be saved. In other words, you haven't done enough to be saved to start with. The Judaizers in Paul's day started this one with their demand that Gentile Christians must be circumcised and keep Moses' Law to be saved in addition to accepting Jesus as their savior and Lord. We explore this lie in the first five chapters.
2. They attack the genuineness of your salvation experience by making you think you aren't doing enough to stay saved. They make you feel like you are in grave danger of losing your salvation when you slip up and commit a sin. In other words, you haven't done enough to stay saved. (By their foolish doctrine, we shall see that, from their perspective, you can't do enough to stay saved.) They do this by omitting The Abrahamic Covenant from their theology and grossly and ridiculously misinterpreting certain scriptures based on this omission. We explore this lie in the last five chapters.
Several things must be noted from the above statements:
*The pressure is always on you. You have to do more. You haven't done enough.
*The Abrahamic Covenant has been omitted from the theology of the Unworthiness Peddlers.
*This Peddling of Unworthiness began in the Apostle Paul's day. The same, identical Peddlers of Unworthiness that Paul had to battle are still alive, active and well today. And, they are still making the children of God, The Abrahamic Seed Group, feel they are not worthy enough to receive the healing and prosperity that God promised them in The Abrahamic Covenant.
In Paul's day, the Unworthiness Peddlers were known as "Judaizers". Sometimes they were known as "Legalists". In this work, we shall refer to them as "The Unworthiness Peddlers".
The purpose of this book is to get you completely off Satan's Guilt Trip down Unworthiness Detour. To accomplish this, we are going to look first, at the origin of this Unworthiness Theology in the ministry of the Apostle Paul. We shall see that what the Devil and well meaning people did then to get Paul's converts on this Satanic Guilt Trip down Unworthiness Detour is the same thing they are doing to you today. By seeing it in action during Paul's ministry, you will better understand it when they try to sucker you into a ride on their notorious Detour of Unworthiness.
The second thing we do to completely free you of the Unworthiness Peddlers is to show you how the Apostle Paul dealt with them. When you see how he got rid of them, you will also see how to get rid of them for yourself. We show you these two things in Part One.
The third thing we do to rid you of The Unworthiness Peddlers and their Guilt Trip is to demonstrate beyond any doubt that healing and prosperity belong to you regardless of your worthiness or your lack of any worthiness. We demonstrate this for you in Part Two.
Finally, to completely free you of their Unworthiness Doctrine, we examine the favorite scriptures the Devil and his Unworthiness Peddlers mis-interpret to make you feel not worthy enough to receive the healing and prosperity that God promised you in The Abrahamic Covenant. We demonstrate the very clear meaning of their scripture "proof texts" after allowing The Abrahamic Covenant back into it. You will see that their so-called "proof texts" mean the opposite of what they force them say to trick you into their Guilt Trip down Unworthiness Detour. You will see this clearly in Part Three.
To show you the origin of Unworthiness Theology and what the Apostle Paul did about it, we turn to the Book of Galatians. This book, more than any other, shows you in clear language :
*The origin of The Unworthiness Peddlers and their doctrine
*What the great Apostle Paul did about it and you can too
*Why your worthiness or lack of worthiness has nothing to do with your right and ability to receive the healing and prosperity God promised you in The Abrahamic Covenant
*The Devil's favorite unworthiness scriptures say the opposite of what he says they say
The book of Galatians is a dynamite book. In it, as in much of the Apostle Paul's writings, he was combating the legalism of The Judaizing Unworthiness Peddlers. That's the mixing of the law with grace. But the two don't mix, just like oil and water won't mix. You have either grace or you have the law - one or the other, but not both.
Paul's Credentials To Combat The Unworthiness Peddlers
Look at Galatians 1:1. In this first verse Paul names the source of his apostleship.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, or by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
He didn't have a nominating committee, a board, or a denominational bureaucracy that appointed him. He said that his authority was not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father who raised him from the dead. Now that's a good set of credentials, isn't it? It's hard to argue with that. The thing that authenticated Paul and what he said was that he had the power of God in his life, and everywhere he went he demonstrated it. He told the church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 2:4,
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
There were times when he spoke that his speech wasn't at all eloquent. But when he did speak, what he said was demonstrated and authenticated by the power of the Holy Ghost. Things happened in his ministry.
Look at Galatians 1:2-3.
2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
He says in verse 3, "Grace be to you and peace...." There can be no peace apart from grace. Paul uses this expression several times in his writings, and he always put it in this order, grace and then peace. Again, there can be no peace apart from the grace of God.
God's Will For Us Is Our Deliverance in Spite of The Unworthiness Peddler's Desire To Bring Us Into Bondage
Now look at verse 4.
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Jesus gave Himself for our sins for the purpose of delivering us from this present evil world. What did Jesus giving Himself for our sins have to do with delivering us from this evil world? If He had not been delivered up we would go down the tube with this present evil world. This world is on the road to hell. Without Jesus' death, we would all be on the road to hell. But because of His death we have been delivered from what this world is headed for.
Then Paul said that this was all according to the will of God and our Father. Aren't you glad to know that what Jesus did for us, including our deliverance, is according to the will of God. It's not the will of God for this world, this present evil age, to have a grip on us, and for us to be knee-deep in the muck of this world. It is the will of God for us to be delivered from it. That's why Jesus came to die - to deliver us according to the will of God. As Christians, we are delivered by the will of God.
The Unworthiness Peddlers Teach "Another" Gospel
In Galatians 1:6-7, Paul gets into the heart of the matter.
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Paul is absolutely baffled by the Christians in Galatia, because they have begun to follow another gospel rather than the Gospel he had delivered unto them. Then, Paul seems to contradict himself by saying, "The gospel that you're following is not really another." What is he saying here? How could he say that they were following another gospel then say it's not really another? If it's not another, why is he bent out of shape about it?
Look again at verse 6. There are two different Greek words translated in this passage by the same English word "another". When he says in this verse, "I marvel that you are following another gospel", that is the Greek word used to mean "another of a different kind". The altar in my church is made out of wood. The pulpit is also made out of wood. Though they are both wood, the altar is made from pine, and the pulpit is made from ash. They do have something in common - they are both wood - but they literally are of a different stock; made from totally different trees. This is what the word "another" means in this verse when he said that they were following another gospel - a gospel of a totally different nature.
In the next statement (in verse 7) he says the gospel they were following is not another. This is a totally different Greek word which is used here. It means "another of the same kind". So the gospel they were following was not another of the same kind of gospel that he had preached unto them. For example, the two altars in my church are both made from pine. They are two different altars, but the second altar is "another of the same kind" as the first, because they are both made from pine.
So what Paul said in opening his letter to the Galatians is, "I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto a gospel of a totally different nature: which is not another gospel of the same kind that I preach. The gospel that you have been suckered into is a gospel of a totally different nature." There was a problem with the gospel that this church accepted, because the gospel that they accepted was a totally different Gospel than what Paul preached. In other words, it was another of a different kind - it was not the same type of Gospel that Paul presented to them to start with. So there was a problem with the gospel that was being preached in Galatia.
He went on to say in verse 7, ".... but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ." There was a group of people going through the land preaching a perverted gospel, going into the churches that Paul established, and messing them up. They were preaching something that was of a totally different caliber and nature than what Paul preached; therefore, what they were preaching was not the same as what Paul preached. And, unfortunately, what the Unworthiness Peddlers preached then is still being preached today in one form or another. They still try to add stipulations to the requirements for salvation such as baptism in certain ways, membership in certain denominations etc., etc., etc.
Paul Prayed The Curse of God On The Unworthiness Peddlers Who Preached This Other (Unworthiness) Gospel
He goes to say in verses 8-9,
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Look at the words "other gospel" used in both of these verses; specifically the word "other". This word translates a third Greek word which is different from the word "another" we discussed earlier. The word that is translated "other" is a Greek preposition from which comes our English word "parallel". It means "by the side of, or parallel to". So what he was saying in these verses was, "If anyone comes along and preaches a gospel by the side of or parallel to the Gospel that we preached, let him be accursed." The word accursed means to be everlastingly separated from God with no hope of reconciliation. That is the curse that Paul is bringing down on these false preachers.
So what Paul told these Galatians was, "You've been deceived by another gospel, which is another of a totally different kind than what I preached. If anybody comes to you, even an angel from heaven, and places a gospel beside you or parallel to the gospel that I preached and you go that way, you're making a big mistake; but more than that, I'm going to call down the curse of God on the preacher." He said the same thing twice, back to back. Do you think he was serious about this? Do you think that God was serious - to allow that same statement to be made twice? God is jealous of His Gospel!
Now look at verse 10,
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
He's asking rhetorical questions in this verse. Do I seek the favor of men, or do I seek to please God? It's very obvious that Paul didn't care one bit about pleasing men, but he was very concerned about pleasing God. Look at the last part of this verse, "....for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." That statement in the Greek text is a "contrary to fact conditional sentence". A contrary to fact conditional sentence presents something in the worst possible light that you can put it. Each part of this conditional sentence is the total opposite of reality. There is an "if" clause and a "then" clause. The "if" clause is the opposite of the way things are. Consequently, the conclusion is also opposite of the way things really are. What he is saying is this; "If I seek to please men, then I should not be a servant of Christ." Well, the truth is the exact opposite. He did not seek to please men; therefore, he was a servant of Christ.
Here's How Satan and Well Meaning People Make You Feel Too Unworthy To Receive The Healing and Prosperity God Promised You In The Abrahamic Covenant
What he was doing here was setting the stage for a battle - a battle which rages throughout the New Testament. Jews hated the fact that because of what Jesus Christ did when He came to this earth, the Gentiles were coming into the Jewish system without having to keep the law of Moses and be circumcised. And they were trying to stop them. They meant well, but they were refusing to let the Gentiles come into the Abrahamic salvation system apart from keeping Moses' law.This is what Paul was battling - he was showing that they didn't have to be circumcised or anything else. So what he is actually saying is, "I could bend to this, I could go along with this, and I would please men. I'd calm down all your Jewish feathers. But if I did that, I would not be the servant of Christ." The point is, Paul didn't try to please men, and he WAS the servant of Christ - the contrary to fact condition. Paul didn't seek to please men by going along with them. He was the servant of Christ because he did not go along, no matter what the cost.
I have found in my walk with God, that there are times when it is absolutely necessary that you draw the line in the dirt, no matter what the cost. If you do not, you will find yourself in a state of compromise, and the smile of God will never be on you as long as you are in that state.
The Judaizers were saying that for the Gentiles to be saved they had to receive Christ, but they also had to keep Moses' law, and this is the part that modern theology has missed, also. Let me explain it. The law was added to the Abrahamic Covenant 420 years after God made the covenant with Abraham. In the covenant with Abraham God promised healing, prosperity, well-being for family members, in addition to the salvation of the soul. All you had to do to get this was be born a Jew. But these Jews were sinners, and some of them committed some of the most ungodly acts that have ever been recorded. And yet these blessings belonged to them because of the Abrahamic Covenant.
But God had to do something about their sin problem, so He set up the law in order that they would know what to do and what not to do. He set up a sacrificial system of the slaughter of animals, that if they sinned and then made the proper sacrifice, the blessings of Abraham kept right on working for them. But when they sinned, if they did not make the proper sacrifice, the Abrahamic blessings shut down. This continued until Christ came and became the final sacrifice for sin under Moses' law. When the Jews accepted Jesus Christ as that final sacrifice, as their Messiah, as their personal Savior, that act made the Abrahamic blessings keep right on running for them. It was into this system the Gentiles were grafted, the same identical Jewish system; and that's where we are today.
The Judaizers, however, acted out the greatest theological blunder in Old Testament history, which was this; Old Testament Judaism separated Moses' law from Abraham's Covenant and set it up as a system of salvation and blessings by works. They attempted to earn, by works, what God had already given them by grace in the Abrahamic Covenant. (You cannot earn salvation or the blessings of God by works! You can't do it.) So when they separated Moses' law from Abraham's blessings and tried to earn what God had already given them, they turned Moses' law into an instrument of death. See the author's book, What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings?
This is what Jesus found when He came to earth. This is what Jesus, the twelve apostles, and especially Paul battled throughout the New Testament writings. It was this same element that was trying to get Gentiles who came into the knowledge of Christ, to keep Moses' law, especially circumcision. What they were actually saying was that if the Gentiles were going to be saved they had to receive Jesus, BUT they had to add the rest of the Jewishness to it and then they could be saved - otherwise receiving Christ was not enough. Now listen to me, it's not Jesus Christ plus something, it's Jesus Christ period!
This is the battle in the book of Galatians. Again, these Jewish leaders were acting out the greatest theological blunder in Old Testament history when they set up the law as a doctrine of works, a system of salvation and blessings to be earned - to enable a person to earn his way with God. You will never earn your way with God. This is what Paul was combating throughout this letter to the Galatians
The Supernatural Source of Paul's Gospel
So Paul does not seek the favor of man, he seeks only to be the servant of Christ. He says in verses 11-12,
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
When Paul got saved he didn't get counseling and training and Bible School instruction from the neighborhood Bible Academy. Paul took off; he went off by himself. And by himself, the Holy Ghost revealed things to him. Paul is telling the Galatians in these verses, "I didn't learn this Gospel which I preach in Bible School. It was taught to me by revelation. I didn't get it by man, the Holy Ghost showed it to me."
This is how God revealed to me the answer to a great problem - the problem of how and what modern theology believes the Law to be. I kept saying, "Something is wrong. Something somewhere is not clear about the Law." God finally revealed to me what it was. The problem was Old Testament Judaism separated Moses' Law from Abraham's Covenant, and set up Moses' Law as an independent religious system of works. When all the while, God gave the Law to enable the people to maintain the blessings of Abraham. But they separated it and tried to earn blessings from God when the law was never given for that purpose and can never produce those results. This revelation enabled me to say it in language people can understand and back it up with Scripture.
This is what Paul is dealing with in Galatians. Here's a group of people, Jewish teachers and rabbis, who had gotten saved, but still could not get out of their minds this perverted theological view of the purpose of the Law. And therefore, they were saying that Gentiles who came into their Abrahamic church had to come in the same way Jews did - by keeping Moses' law. When all the while, the way they went about keeping Moses' Law (disconnected from the Abrahamic Covenant) was a theological perversion!
Look at verses 13-14,
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Paul's way of life was to persecute and kill Christians or put them in jail. Paul was at the top of the Jewish religion. He knew what he was doing, he profited above his equals.
He goes on to say in verses 15-16,
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Notice this now. He did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. He didn't run down to the First Believer's Covenant Church of Jerusalem and ask them what to do.
Look on at verses 17-18,
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
Imagine that. For three years Paul lived alone with God trying to figure what this was that had happened to him. He'd met Jesus on the road to Damascus, and it affected him to the point that it took him three years to get a handle on it. That's Holy Ghost salvation! Three years later he went to Jerusalem to see Peter and stayed with him only fifteen days.
Look at the rest of Chapter 1 through Chapter 2:2.
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
24 And they glorified God in me.
CHAPTER 2
1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Paul didn't go back to Jerusalem until God revealed to him that He wanted him to go back. So there were three years and then fourteen years - seventeen years the Apostle Paul was by himself getting this revelation from God. He didn't go to Bible School - not that I'm knocking Bible School - but this man was in God's School, the School of the Holy Ghost.
When we take the time and pay the price for the Holy Ghost to reveal something to us, we can always depend on it. When I began to talk to other preachers about what God had revealed to me concerning the Law, they looked at me like I was crazy. I would say, "The law was not a ministration of death." They would come back with, "Oh yes it was. Paul said it was." They would quote to me from Paul's Corinthian letter about the law being a ministration of death. I'd say, "The law was not a yoke." They would quote to me where Paul said it was a yoke.
But this is what I found. Paul and the other New Testament writers were combating the most deadly theological blunder that Old Testament Judaism ever made, and that blunder has carried them to hell by the millions to this very hour. They severed the law from Abraham's blessings and tried to make it do something that God never intended it to do, which is to earn salvation and blessings. When they did that they turned the Law from a blessing into a death instrument. When Paul said that the Law was the ministration of death he did not mean that was God's true, original purpose for it. He meant Judaism had turned it into a death instrument by their perversion of separating it from Abraham's Covenant. See the author's book, What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings?
As God was teaching this revelation to me, I would go off like Paul did. For weeks my dear wife wouldn't hear a word come out of my mouth because I was in such deep thought about what God was showing me, trying to piece it together and make it work. He would show me things, and I would grapple with it trying to work it through the theological systems I'd learned. I'd think on it until my mind would almost short circuit, then I'd have to put it out of my mind for several days. There was nobody that I knew that I could go and talk to about this, because I was blazing new ground. I was unraveling the theological systems that had been built on the acceptance as true the Jewish perversion of separating the Law from Abraham's Covenant.
Modern theology has accepted that as a fact . They have accepted that the Law really was a system of salvation by works. Finally I had to throw out everything I had learned previously concerning it and let the Word of God speak for itself. When I did, God was able to get through to me and I wrote the Abrahamic Covenant books. It took seven long years.
Paul did not get what God gave him by man. He disappeared for three years and then checked in with Peter for fifteen days. Then he went away for fourteen more years and only went back to Jerusalem to touch base with the Jewish leaders as God revealed to him that it was time for him to go back.
When he finished that Holy Ghost School, he had the theological system that is written now in the New Testament. God showed me that every time you find a statement about Moses' law in the New Testament, you have to categorize it. Modern theology makes no such distinction. They accept as fact that the Law really was a system of salvation by works. That was what the Jews brought into the theological mix of their day that was wrong. And that is why all the negative remarks are made in the New Testament about Moses' law. It was not about the Law itself, but about what they had done to it.
So I found, very simply, that if I categorized the Law statements in four basic categories all the theological hassle would unravel. I have already taught this in the Abrahamic Covenant books in great detail, but let me summarize them for you here.
Law Statement Categories in The New Testament
Category One -- Includes those statements that were made about the Law in the New Testament from the standpoint of God's original purpose of the Law. In the original purpose of the Law, Moses said the Law was given for our good always and to preserve us alive even as it is to this day. That was the purpose of the Law. How can something given, that Moses said was for our good always to preserve us alive even as it is at this day, be a ministry of death in the New Testament? It can't. Why did it turn into a ministry of death? It didn't. But what they did to it turned it into an instrument of death. Those statements about the Law from the original purpose, such as Romans 7, "The law is holy and just and good," were given by God in order to enable the people to maintain the Abrahamic blessings. See the author's book, What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings?
Category Two -- This has to do with what the Judaizers did to the Law as a result of their theological mess. They turned it into a yoke of bondage, a burden, a weight that neither they nor their fathers could bear. They turned it, literally, into a ministration of death. It was NOT a ministration of death, but it became that when they separated it from the Abrahamic Covenant and made it into a system of works.
Category Three -- These are statements which are true, whether it's from the standpoint of their error or from the standpoint of it's original purpose, which is, "By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified." That's true, no matter what.
Category Four -- This category uses the language of the Unworthiness Peddlers and, using their terms and definitions, refutes them on the spot. If you want to know more about these four categories of Law statements in The New Testament, read the detailed explanation in my book, What've They Done With Abraham's Blessings?
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