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Law and Grace - A WORD TO THE WISE!

 In the beginning of this article, we began to describe to you an example of the Ten Commandments being like a seemingly innocent daisy chain of little flower stems, each having the consistency of knitting yarn.  But, soon, the deception deepened, and the bondage to the Law increased, until, many have awakened down the days to discover that they have allowed themselves to become enslaved to the Old Testament Torah Law that produces bondage, sin and death.  Now the chains have been forged until you have come to the place where you are deep in bondage and deception.  Well, we have good news for you!   The time is now when you are to hear the Voice of the Son of God and, arise, and shake off the shackles that have bound you to a life of legalism and religiosity. 

Gal 5:1  "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm (stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has set you free) and do not be (entangled) subject again to a yoke of slavery (the Law).  2  Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, (that is, if you try to keep the Old Law,  Christ will be of no benefit to you.  3  And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.  4  You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace."  (NAS)

 We here at the Great Commission Ministries at 9473 County Road D, Webster, Wisconsin, 54893, Phone 715-866-4060, are inviting you to become free in Yahshua's Mighty Name, and then to "Stand fast in the liberty where with Christ has set you free, and BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN IN THIS YOKE OF BONDAGE - the bondage of Old Testament Torah Law keeping!   We celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, not out of legalism or religiosity, nor out of a sense of duty, but freely, voluntarily, not as a "got to", but as a privilege.  We do not observe the Feast because the Old Testament tells us to, but because we want to celebrate the Presence of God freely.  Amen.  If you feel that you have need of further teaching about this, or any other spiritual subject, we are offering our services to you for discipleship in the Gospel of the Kingdom.  Amen.

 1 Tim 1:8  "But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9  realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers  10  and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,  (NAS)

 God's precious best be to you and to yours.  Again, if you would like to discuss any of these or other matters, or would like counseling or prayer, you may call 715-866-4060 or e-mail us at 

LETTER TO SOME DEAR ONES

 Dearly Beloved Sister _____ , and Beloved Brother _______ ,

 Thank you for taking the time and going to the expense of calling, to renew acquaintance.  I know that this takes courage on your part.

 Please permit me to tell you a little story, and to ask a question or questions.

 Story:  Once upon a time, a few years ago, we had some dear friends, named ______ .  They were very dear to us.  So dear, in fact, that we made a covenant together that we would rather lose our land and farm, than to lose their friendship.  ______  even built on the 25 thousand dollar addition on our place, for Karen's parents to be able to stay here.  The _______'s  visited at our house and attended our meetings on a weekly basis.  They were a very great help and strength to our ministry.  We visited at their home and our fellowship was very sweet.  They contributed finances and a great deal of sweat equity to our ministry.  Our Joshua was dating their daughter, and we even talked of marriage between them.

 Suddenly, because of something that happened, (of which I will tell you in a moment), our friendship was no more.  They no longer came to our home.  They no longer came to our meetings.  They no longer contributed time, work, or finances to our ministry.  We no longer went to their house.  We no longer prayed together.  For all intents and purposes, our friendship was finished, over with, destroyed.  We have not seen each other, visited with each other, embraced each other, prayed or worshipped together for a number  of years now.

Would you like to know what destroyed this most lovely of friendships?  (I have a lump in my throat as I write to you.)  It was the heresy of the importance of Old Testament Torah Law keeping.  This friendship was destroyed because these dear friends came somehow to believe that it was important to keep the Sabbath, to keep the Jewish holidays, to observe 300 to 619 Old Testament Torah laws. 

 The New Testament CLEARLY tells us that there is NO Old Testament or Torah law that we are to observe or to consider important for us today, except those laws that are underscored, reemphasized, or commanded in the New Covenant, or the New Testament.  In other words, ONLY those laws emphasized in the New Testament are important for us to consider today, except for the historical value and meaning of those old Torah rules, like, "Stone your children to death if they misbehave!"  This law is valuable to us, to show us what God thinks of disobedient children.  But we are no longer to stone them to death.  or, be legalistically or religious about other Old Covenant Laws, such as:, "don't eat bacon", or "don't have sex during menstruation".  These laws had significance in the olden days, but with today's sanitation laws and practices, we are to call nothing unclean that God calls clean.

 It is acceptable to appreciate the Torah and the Old Testament and "Jewish Roots" for "historical benefit", and, to better understand the heart of God, but, thus saith the Lord Yahweh, there is NO LAW from the Old Testament that we are to regard as important to keep or observe for today, UNLESS that law was reintroduced, re-emphasized, or underscored in the New Covenant, the New Testament!  To believe otherwise is to embrace heresy and deception and spiritual disease and contamination.  There is NOTHING in the New Testament commanded about keeping the Sabbath or the Feasts or menstruation, or stoning our children or tithing.  There IS something in the New Testament about loving each other, about murder and stealing and sexual sin and coveting and gossip and lying, and head covering, and tongues, and baptism, the King's Greatest Secret, The Throne-Room Mentality, the Great Commission, the Gospel of the Kingdom, getting people saved and discipled, etc. 

 I may have mentioned this to you before, but, in our courtship years, Karen and I wrote love letters to each other.  Prior to our marriage, Karen and I had certain RULES that we followed in our pre marriage days. 

 OUR PRE-MARRIAGE COVENANT

 We had 10 premarriage commandments, like. 

1.  Shalt maintain separate checking accounts.

2.  Shalt keep Karen's maiden name.

3.  Shalt  not sleep together.

 4.  Shalt  not go to the toilet together.

5.  Shalt  not be naked together. 

6.  Shalt  not have sexual intercourse. 

7.  Shalt  not kiss certain parts of other's bodies.

8.  Shalt  not take showers or baths together.

9.  Shalt  not use certain intimate words of love.

10. Shalt not conceive or give birth to children.

 These 10 commandments were very important to us.  We observed, loved, kept and obeyed them.  But then, a change took place.  We got married,!!!  41 years ago, we got married!  And though those pre-marriage commandments were to us a matter of life and death, before marriage, and though those love letters were very important to us both, Karen and I entered into a New Covenant with each other that replaced to Old Rules and the Old Covenant!   For either of us (or any body else, for that matter) to insist that we continue to observe these old Rules, after we experienced our new covenant, would be heresy and insanity.  It is common for us, since our marriage, to have blatantly ignored and broken EVERY ONE of those Old Rules, because we are under a BETTER COVENANT, A BETTER ARRANGEMENT, BETTER RULES, BETTER AGREEMENTS, etc.

 But there are some, who would say, when it is time for Karen and I to make love with each other.  "NO!  When it is time for you to make love, you must, instead, go to your closet, get out your old love letters, your old rules, and KEEP THE OLD RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 

 In the Olden days, those rules had value, had purpose, were important, are interesting for us to recall.  The recalling of them, speaks to the importance of our breaking of them today.

 Would you like to know how our friendship with the  _________‘s was destroyed?  It was destroyed because some Old Testament Old Torah observers came to our Feast of Tabernacles, and began enticing and seducing,  wooing and bewitching with their damnable heresy about the importance of keeping the Old Testament Torah.  Because the _________'s eagerly, painfully, wanted to be even more pleasing to God, they allowed themselves to be bewitched, deceived, wooed, entangled, bound, fooled, isolated, separated, estranged, enticed and seduced.  Immediately, they were seduced into the pre marriage behavior.  But they were not content to keep this heresy to themselves.  Like the bite of the vampire, they not only became seduced, but they felt compelled to bite, seduce and bewitch others.  The _______'s have not been to ONE of our services since that time.  The daughter _____ has not been to our home since that time.  Another friend, ________,  who had been coming to our home on a weekly basis,  has not been to our home since that time.  The original seducers of the _____'s, named ____, have not been to our services since that time.  No hugs, no help, no fellowship, no friendship, no togetherness, no unity, no giving, no mutual ministry, no discipleship.  Where these past fast friends are concerned, there is great sadness, loneliness and loss.  I become angry and homesick when I think of the death of these lovely, lovely friendships.

It was after this that I mandated that you not come to our meetings, because I knew that you were also becoming infected with this damnable contamination.  I did not want you to come here and dance and smile and fellowship and eat with and seduce and contaminate and bewitch our precious few humble dear ones with your very damaging emphasis on the importance of Old Torah Law keeping.  I asked you, instead, to repent of this damnable heresy.  I tried to warn you.  I tried to teach you. Finally, when I could see that my loving earnest counsel was unavailing, I did the only and best thing I knew how, and that was to quarantine you, and to forbid your presence at our meetings.

 I say again:  If, to ANY extent, you still embrace this heresy of seeing the importance of keeping ANY Old Testament Law not reemphasized in the New Testament, then, please, I beg you, I command you, stay away from our people and from our meetings and from our place.  We will love you from a distance.  For all of these obvious reasons set forth in this article, we cannot recommend your ministry to any others.  In fact, we may, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, actually warn others, that you are a potential source of hideous contamination into this horrible, seductive, bewitching, contaminating, enslaving, heresy of your emphasis on the need to keep Old Covenant, Old Testament Torah law keeping.

 If you will promise  us that you will repent or have completely repented from this idea that it is important to keep the Old Testament Torah law, and are willing for teaching and dialogue concerning the matter, there is a possibility that this quarantine can be lifted.

 Let's communicate about this matter.  I also want to hear from _______  about this.  I feel as strongly about this as I would toward a sexual predator, because of the strong seductive and bewitching quality of this "Jewish Roots" heresy.

 Respectfully,

 john roy bohlen  715-866-4060

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WHY WE CELEBRATE TABERNACLES

 Again, let me talk to you as to why we observe the Feast of Tabernacles:  It is NOT, I repeat, is NOT because the Old Testament commands it.  It is for the following reasons:

 1.  Tabernacles has never yet been fulfilled.  We believe that one of these years, soon, perhaps this year, that it WILL BE fulfilled, and that, as the people waited, in the New Testament, in the Upper Room, and as Yahshua Jesus, in the New Testament, fulfilled Passover and Pentecost, that Tabernacles will be fulfilled in a mighty outpouring of the Glory and Presence of God in a way that the World has never seen, and the Church has never imagined.

 2.  As Tabernacles was commanded and demanded and compulsory in the PAST, AND in the FUTURE, we believe that there is a window of opportunity for us to celebrate it now, voluntarily, but, not because we have to.

 3.  It cannot HURT, to gather together for the purpose of celebrating Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for sharing, for worship, for waiting on God, for teaching, for giving each other an opportunity to be used of God to bless the others, to allow a creative opportunity for people to allow God to be God through them to the rest of us.  Amen.

 4.  But NOT because the Torah or Zechariah commands it.  Amen

 If you would like more information on the Feast of Tabernacles, the Throne-Room Mentality, The King's Greatest Secret, etc., or would like to have counseling, please contact us.

 We love you!

John Roy Bohlen and John 5:30

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