The Veil of the Law Part 2

Understanding Sonship Today’s Focus: The Veil of the Law Part 2 Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 Greetings Kingdom Citizens Now in the last message we left off talking about those who desire to live under the Law in order to please (appease) God because they do what the Law says but let’s see spiritually what happens to them, especially those who are Kingdom citizens. Let’s start at 2 Corinthians 3:11. We see here a veil was put over Moses face so that the children of Israel could not look to the end of that which is abolished (Law). Remember a veil separates one thing from another and the veil separated the Shekinah glory of God that was on Moses’ face from the children of Israel because of its brightness. Now look at the result of what the Law did by putting this veil on in verse 14. It made them spiritually blind. Now we are all spiritually blind before Christ and we walked after the soul and not the Spirit. Not to get ahead of myself we further read in the same verse these words: FOR UNTIL THIS DAY REMAINETH THE SAME VEIL UNTAKEN AWAY IN THE READING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Now before I finish this verse, look at how prophetic that statement is. This same veil that separated the children of Israel from sonship with God is still over their faces today. Is this true? Yes! Because many are still waiting on the Messiah to come and He has already come, restored us back to sonship and ascended back to the right hand of the Father until the appointed time of His return. So for all of those who are living under the Law, they have a veil over their face that prevents them from seeing the glory of God face-to-face. But now look what Christ does in the last part of verse 14. Christ removes the veil. This is very important in understanding sonship. Because with the veil on, you were not a son but with the veil off you are now a son and Christ did that for us when he went to the cross, shed his blood, died and rose again and gave us the Spirit of Adoption who is the Holy Spirit. Now like I stated from a past message, we have some Kingdom citizens that believe we should live under the law and the Law put a veil over what Christ wants to reveal. This is very important to all of us who are Kingdom Citizens. The Old Testament are truths wrapped in shadowy veils and it is just enough for your soul to pick up and guide you. The Law is supposed to guide you to Christ (Galatians 3:24). Christ comes to take the shadowy veil off those truths and openly reveal them to the believer. But look what they are doing. They are reversing this process and teaching others to put the veil on that Christ removed. It also reverses your mind from son to slave. In addition it reverses your mind from free to bondage. Basically, you were redeemed by Christ, but now you want to be saved all over again because you want to live under the Law. Now there are some people who in the Spirit of Christ celebrate various festivals and other things. I have no problem with that. I am talking about those Kingdom citizens who criticize others who do not celebrate all of the holidays, special months and days that the children of Israel were to do under the Law. If you are a believer, YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE! Now if you sin, you have an advocate who paid the price for that sin in Jesus so that you are not condemned to death but if you are under the Law then you are sentenced to death. So why would we who are set free in Jesus name, want to be under the Law that condemns us to death??? Those who do this, are those who seek self-righteousness. Let me show you how this is true! Philippians 3:8,9 says that I (Paul) count EVERYTHING but loss for the knowledge of Christ. Now the good part in verse 9: And be found in him (Paul found in Christ), not having mine own righteousness (self-righteousness), WHICH IS OF THE LAW, but that which is through the faith of Christ, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF GOD BY FAITH. Now that cannot be any clearer for those who live under the law, they are seeking self-righteousness and they try to impose their knowledge and criticize the saints following after the Spirit because they do not live under the Law. Kingdom citizens do not get trapped with people that try to get you to live under the Law! The Law enslaves, because you cannot possibly keep it, and it keeps you from realizing your sonship with God. At Our Father’s Service, Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.