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WRITTEN EPISTLES

INTRODUCTION:

A WRITTEN EPISTLES ARE LETTERS THAT SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF OTHER’S.

HERE AT KINGDOM HARVEST DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRY YOU ARE MY LETTERS AND I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DEFEND MY PLACE OF POSITION, WHEN WHAT YOU RECEIVE FROM THE WORD OF GOD SHOULD SHOW THROUGH THE WAY YOU LIVE.

YOUR LIFE IS READ THROUGH WHAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED IN YOUR HEART.

THERE ARE THREE THINGS DEFINE AN EPISTLE.

THEY ARE LETTERS OF CHRIST.

THEY ARE LETTERS OF THE SPIRIT.

THEY ARE LETTERS UNVEILED.

A. LETTERS OF CHRIST

2 CORINTHIANS 3:2 “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:”

LETTERS OF CHRIST IS LETTERS WRITTEN NOT ON PAPER, BUT IN THE HEART. WE HAVE THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION WITH US. GOD’S LAW WRITTEN IN OUR HEARTS.

WE ARE GOD’S LETTERS SENT OUT TO REPRESENT HIM. WE ARE WRITTEN EPISTLES.

YOUR LIFE IS READ IN THE WAY YOU LIVE. IF YOUR LIFE IS GOVERN BY GOD’S WORD YOU GET GOD’S STAMP OF APPROVAL TO BE SENT OUT.

BUT IF YOUR LIFE REJECT WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS, YOU WOULD BE CONSIDERED UNDELIVERABLE.

IF YOU WHERE READ BY MEN WHAT WOULD YOUR LETTER READ DELIVER OR UNDELIVERABLE.

MOSES WROTE GOD’S LAW ON STONES, BUT GOD WRITES HIS WORD IN OUR HEARTS.

THE LAW WAS AN EXTERNAL MATTER, BUT GRACE DWELLS INTERNALLY IN OUR HEARTS.

SO WHEN WE ARE READ BY OTHERS IT’S NOT READ BY WHAT THEY SEE FROM US ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT WHAT IS REVEALED ON THE INSIDE.

WHEN YOU ONLY HAVE THE LETTER, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER CHANGE.

BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOUR HEART, GOD WILL USE THE WORD TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

MATTHEW 7:20 “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”

B. LETTER’S OF THE SPIRIT.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:6 “who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

DO YOUR LIFE BLOCK OTHER’S FROM SEEING GOD,OR DO YOUR LIFE INTRODUCE OTHER’S TO CHRIST.

YOUR SPIRIT SHOULD BE ABLE TO FREE OTHERS, NOT BOUND THEM.

THE LAW WAS NEVER MEANT TO SAVE ANYONE., BUT SHOW YOU THAT YOU NEEDED GOD IN YOUR LIFE, BUT INSTEAD IT BROUGHT YOU TO DEATH, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT WAS WRITTEN ON STONE, YOU FOUND YOURSELF IN IT.

THE LAW DEFINES WHAT CONDEMNS SINNERS, BUT GRACE OFFERS JUSTIFICATION WITHOUT A PERSON DESERVING OF IT.

THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SPIRIT HAS AN CHOICE TO LIVE BY THE SPIRIT.

BUT THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE LAW IS GOVERNED BY RULES AND REGULATION.

JOHN 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

C. LETTER’S UNVEILED.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:16 “Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.”

THE KEY TO TAKING THE VEIL OFF YOUR FACE IS WHEN YOU TURN TO THE LORD.

WHEN THE VEIL IS STILL ON YOU’RE TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING FROM OTHER’S AND EVEN GOD.

SIN IS THE REASON WHY PEOPLE WALK AROUND WITH A VEIL OVER THEIR FACE, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO FREE ANYONE, BECAUSE THEY AIN’T FREE THEMSELVES.

BUT WHEN THE VEIL IS UNVEILED IN YOUR LIFE THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL GIVE YOU LIBERTY.

JESUS REMOVED THAT VEIL WHEN HE RENT THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE AND FULFILLED OLD TYPES AND PROPHECIES.

YET ISRAEL DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THAT THE MINISTRY OF THE LAW IS TEMPORARY.

IT IS HOLDING ONTO A MINISTRY THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO LAST, A MINISTRY WITH A FADING GLORY, BUT WE WHO ARE WRITTEN EPISTLES FOR CHRIST DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE, OR TO VEIL, BECAUSE WE HAVE A GLORY THAT WILL LAST FOREVER AND WILL GROW CONTINUALLY BRIGHTER.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 “in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”