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XX. GOD SHOWED HIMSELF, BY THE FALL OF MAN, AS PATIENT, BENIGN, MERCIFUL, MIGHTY TO SAVE.

Understanding that through our faithfulness, gratitude and service to the father do we escape the destiny of our
fleshly mortality and come into spiritual immortality. Jesus came to teach us the Torah of God so that we may come into is likeness and glory for God made man to be the inhabitance of His wisdom and glory.

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XII. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH; OF THE BREATH OF LIFE AND THE VIVIFYING SPIRIT.

Death is only pushed out by the by the knowledge of God bringing to us life. His Word pushes out the death to bring us into the life of the Spirit. Every creature has breath, but breath is not everlasting. Only His Spirit brings us to life. The final stage of the Spirit working in us is Salvation. All this is done through the process of killing the flesh and our old nature. For us to have salvation, we must kill the works of the flesh within us.

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IX. “FLESH AND BLOOD SHALL NOT POSSESS THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”

Irenaeus starts off by refuting the heretics view on salvation, outlining man as being dead without the Spirit of God and explains what the “living man” is. He goes on to explain how our flesh is inherited by the Spirit and how we inherit the Kingdom of God. We cannot inherit the kingdom of God unless we die to our fleshly impulses. Our soul will either obey the Spirit of God or sympathize with flesh and fall into the various lusts our flesh desires.

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XIV. UNLESS THE FLESH WERE TO BE SAVED, THE WORD WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN UPON HIM FLESH.

If Christ did not come into the flesh, our flesh would not be able to be saved. If he had come in another substance other that what our flesh is made of, it could not be saved. Others have twisted the understanding of the Scripture that says: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” to show that our bodies cannot be redeemed. Jesus, by means of communion, eating of His flesh and blood we are redeemed. “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” actually is referring to the carnal works of the flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom.

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XII. IT CLEARLY APPEARS THAT THERE WAS BUT ONE AUTHOR OF BOTH THE OLD AND NEW LAW.

To “fulfill the law” is widely misunderstood among most modern believers. However, the fulfillment of the law is love, and love is the obedience to the commandments. The Pharisees added their own traditions and doctrines. When Yahushua rebuked the Pharisees for following the doctrines of man, He was not referring to Moses. The precepts and commandments are the same in the Old and New Testament. Examples of Yahushua and Paul establishing them is proof.

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XIV. IF GOD DEMANDS OBEDIENCE FROM MAN, IT WAS MERELY FOR MAN’S WELFARE.

God’s provision has continued through all the ages for man through everything spoken to mankind which has always been Torah that would form us into His image. God doesn’t need anyone to serve him, but he grants eternal life who does so out of their free will. God doesn’t need anything from us, He has communion with humans for their benefit, not his. He gave the Torah to teach us who are prone to idol worship to serve God. The idols are the things of the letter, the carnal, the temporal, however we are to serve Him by making our focus on the eternal and spirit realm that is in His Word.

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XIII. CHRIST DID NOT ABROGATE THE NATURAL PRECEPTS OF THE LAW, BUT RATHER FULFILLED AND EXTENDED THEM.

The meaning to “fulfill the law” is thus explained as not doing away with it but exceeding its very nature to a higher level than what the Pharisees were walking out. The Heretic Marcion taught that Yahushua came to do away with the law, which was a grievous error that robs saints of immortality. The natural law (or the letter) were for the slaves, but out of our own free will we become friends of Yahweh by wanting to walk what Yahushua taught, which was to walk out a higher level of obedience out of our love for Yahweh of his commandments.