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    Staedfast In Honor: The Letters
    Staedfast In Honor: The Letters
    Staedfast In Honor: The Letters
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    Staedfast In Honor: The Letters

    By Winner Torborg

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    I have talked to people all over about reading the Bible; but many of them would respond, “I’ve tried to read the Bible; but, ya know, I just can’t understand it. All I get from it is partial truths and double-talk. Maybe you can understand it; but I’ll just read the paper, at least I can understand that.” So, in obedience to God we took on this enormously long project of writing this GIST-BIBLE. What a GIST-BIBLE is, is a “what it’s talking about”-Bible. What the BOLIM (Bread of Life International Ministries) group have done is we have read from many versions of the Bible, prayed about what we read, talk to seasoned ministers, read again, prayed and listen to the Holy Spirit and wrote what He said down in our own words. Big G is the only true God that counts and Big J is His Son. There were many gods in the time when Israel was growing up, but Big G is the One true God: and there were many people named Yeshua (Aramaic), Jesus (Greek) and Joshua (English) in the time, but Big J is the One …
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      Staedfast In Honor - Winner Torborg

      Staedfast In Honor: The Letters

      Steadfast

      In

      Honor

      The Letters

      By: The B.O.L.M. Group

      Pastor Winner Torborg

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      Steadfast in Honor: The Letter by BOLIM

      Copyright © 2015 by Bread of Life International Ministries

      ebook ISBN #978-1-329-55814-4

      A Project of BOLIM Credentials

      Everyone who has given input for this project is well qualified. Some have been in the ministry for over 30 years, some have been serving in their church all their life, and some have had great and undeniable life changing experiences.

      Message to The Reader

      I don’t understand the Bible.  How many times have you heard that said?  You might have even said it yourself. 

      In this book we tried to make the truth about the Bible easy to read; we put it in everyday language so you can read it as if someone were talking to you.

      The way we did this book was we would read many versions of the Bible, pray about what we read, talk to seasoned ministers, read again, pray and listen to the Holy Spirit and write what He said down in our own words.  Doing this we found that some things needed elaboration and other things were too wordy.  So, in some cases 1 verse might come out as 1 paragraph and vice versa, or 1 paragraph would be 1 page.

      This is, in no way, supposed to take the place of your daily Bible reading. The way that I would suggest you should use this book, after you read it initially, is read it along with your favorite Bible version, and do that with guidance from the Holy Spirit.

      Letter to The Roman Churches

      1:1-7

      From: Paul, an apostle and your servant sent by Joshua (Jesus, Yeshua, Big J) the Anointed one (Christ, Messiah) to give you the good news that Joshua is risen and God’s not mad at you. 

      To: God’s chosen people who are in Rome.

      God had made promises long ago through specific people whom He chose as prophets.  These promises were about the Anointed, and they are now fulfilled and living; the Anointed has come and is here by His Spirit.  As far as the flesh is concerned, Joshua is in the lineage of King David; but as far as spiritual matters are concerned, He is the Son of God.

      It is because of Joshua and His message that I have been so privileged to be called as an apostle and to spread the good news as a special sent one.  This is my honor and obedience to Him, and you are among those to whom I am sent.  Even as you read this letter, I pray that the grace and peace from God and Joshua be upon you.

      1:8-17

      I’m glad that your faith has grown so much; in fact, your faith has become known in many places where I’ve been; and I want you to know that I pray for you all the time.  I pray that one of these days I will be aloud to come to you so that we all can be empowered in our faith.

      Indeed, I had tried to visit you many times before, but was not able to because of circumstances beyond my control.  But, when I do get to come there I hope to see the same fruit in you that I’ve seen in other churches where I’ve been.

      As you may have heard, I am called to bring the news of Joshua to non-Jews all over the known world, and that most definitely includes you in Rome.  You may have also heard that I teach error; I am not ashamed of the truth of Joshua, and that’s what I teach, since that is the only way to lead you to eternal life.  I am drawn to preach and teach faith because God’s righteous crew will live by faith.

      1:18-32

      You guessed it; God doesn’t like the sinfulness of the sinners, the wickedness that suppresses the truth from being known abroad.  The truth has been made pretty obvious to these people.  They saw the truth but refused to believe it, because they were more intrigued by the world and its pointless activities.  They thought going against the ultimate God made them so very wise; they made their own idols, man-made images to take the place of the One True God.  Because of all this hoopla God abandoned them to a reprobate life-style.

      Men abandoned sexual relations with women (wives) and did shameful acts with other men, and women did the same with other women.  When will this all end?  These shameful men and women committed all kinds of stupidity, prideful acts, greedy and dumb behavior.  By choice they have no direction.  They are gossipers, murderers, fighters, braggarts, malicious creatures, deceivers; they are disloyal, disobedient; they act out of jealousy and show no mercy.  They may make a show of having affection for someone, but if you took the time to study their behavior you would see that there is no compassion; they don’t understand, whether they say they do or not.

      2:17-29

      Now, I know that many of you are Jews and many are non-Jewish believers in the Anointed.  To you who are Jews, I must say, don’t think that because you are a Jew that you are better than, or smarter than the non-Jews.  And you who teach, be careful.  You should be teaching how to stay away from sin, and you don’t want to catch yourself doing the very thing that you teach others to stay away from.  I’ll give you an example:  if you teach from God’s Law that stealing or having an adulterous affair is wrong, then you don’t want to catch yourself stealing or withholding your tithe, or having an affair.  You can, and it would be wise to, take God’s Law and teach yourself.  You teach others according to God’s steadfast Law; you must obey the same Law that you teach them or you dishonor God and set a bad example before those who haven’t believed.

      The circumcision of the flesh has value only in observance to the religiously made legal accompaniments to the Law of God, but then if you break that legalism in any way your circumcision would suddenly become worth bubcuss.  The gist of what I am saying is that if a man does one thing because it’s in accordance with those religious accompaniments he has just bound himself to that religious legal system.  Now, if we do something because it’s in accordance with God’s Law and Joshua’s teachings we are bound to a greater system.  And watching the one who obeys the greater system will condemn the one who doesn’t obey everything in the religious legal system.

      Someone who looks like a Jew and is circumcised physically may not really be a Jew.  Oh, but there is a circumcision that is not physical and is not according to the legal attributes of the religious writings; this is a circumcision of the heart done by the Spirit.  Now, a true Jew is a person who is a Jew inwardly, with the circumcision of the heart.

      3:1-8

      So, is there an advantage to being a Jew and having the circumcision of the flesh?  Some would say, absolutely!  There is definitely the advantage that salvation came through the Jews.

      It is true that some people where wayward in their activities; but God is still true.  Just because they said they were righteous and honest and full of faith and then they proved dishonest, doesn’t mean that God is dishonest.  Man might lie, but God is still true.  Scripture says of God, What you say and have been saying will be Your righteousness, and in court You will always prevail.

      Now, I have heard some say, If our unholy living accentuates God’s holiness, what’s the problem?  But, if God’s holiness was a very clean glass and someone else’s was a smudged glass, and yours was a very dirty-almost dark-glass.  Do you think that your dirty glass would make God’s glass cleaner than the other guys smudged glass?  So, that argument is pretty ridiculous.  Sin is wrong and God said don’t do it, so someone who decides to keep on sinning deserves his punishment.

      3:9-20

      Getting back to the question about being a Jew:  You might ask does it make us Jews any better than non-Jews?  No.  When Adam fell from grace all mankind fell with him, that means both Jews and non-Jews.  Before Joshua no one was righteous, no one really sought God the way He wanted to be sought.  Everyone has turned and chosen their own ways above God’s and they all wound up messed up.  Their words have gone sour and deception and cursing became their language.  They have gone down the path of violence and landed in ruin and misery; peace was not known by them.  Nor did they respect God.

      The religious legal accompaniments to the Law of God are written to those who choose to live the religious life; but no one can be justified by obeying those religious accompaniments, not before God. 

      3:21-31

      But now God has shown us how to be righteous before Him aside from the religious legal requirements, and this is shown up by the true Law of God and the teachings of the prophets.  It’s by true, unwavering, faith in Joshua the Anointed that people become righteous before God.  I’m sure you know that everyone has sinned and fallen from grace, as I said earlier; but God sent Joshua and gave the gift of life through him; this is the gift that sets us free. 

      The sacrifice of Joshua on the cross was to remit our sins by his blood and forgive us.  Face the facts; we need Joshua because he is the only one who could do this.  And, now that he has done this we can, and I hope you will, live the righteous life in him.

      So, are we able to boast?  In what?  No, there is no room for man’s petty boasting; it’s all God.  It is by our having faith in Joshua and what God did for us through him that makes us righteous, not by our working in soup kitchens.  So, do you think that faith replaces the Law of God?  I hope you don’t.  No, Joshua did not do away with the Law of God, he became it.

      4:1-12

      Let’s take Abraham as an example: Now, Abraham was the grandfather of Israel, and father of the whole Jewish race.  Ok, what was his experience with God?  Was he made righteous, or even accredited as righteous, because of obedience to the Law of God with the religious legal accompaniments?  Now, how could that be, the Law wasn’t even given until, something like, five or six hundred years after Abraham lived.  Or was it because of his faith in and obedience to God?  Yes, that’s it.

      When a man works a job and he is paid, his wages are not a gift because they are earned.  But now, when we put our total dependence on God then what may come as an income is a gift and that is because of faith.  This is the God who justifies the guilty because of repentance.  King David said that the recipient of God’s justification is not just happy, he is very happy indeed.

      Does this justification and happiness come only to those who are circumcised in the flesh?  No, that doesn’t make a difference.  Remember, circumcision makes no difference now.  And, as I have already said, Abraham was made righteous because of his faith in God; Abraham wasn’t even circumcised yet, not until much later.

      This same guy, Abraham, is accounted to be, spiritually, the father of all those who have faith in God, whether circumcised or not.

      4:13-25

      God gave a promise to give authority over the earth and everything in it to Abraham and his descendants.  But it was not based upon obedience to the Law or the religious accompaniments.  No, because if it were then no one could have it, because no one has been able to thoroughly obey the whole Law and the religious legal accompaniments; let’s face it, that is a lot to obey.

      But, no, the promise is given to those who live by the faith of Abraham.  Abraham’s name was given by God, his name used to be Abram, meaning exalted father.  But God called Abram, at the time, a father of a multitude and that is what Abraham means.  Abraham believed God, so he began doing what God did, he called himself Abraham.  This is the same God who raised the dead and called things into existence, Abraham did like Him since that’s what it means to believe Him.

      Now, Abraham had no children, he was an old man and his old wife was barren.  So, he had no hope, in the natural, of having a multitude of children.  But, he had God’s word and, believing that God doesn’t lie Abraham hoped against hope, he purposely envisioned himself with children.

      God had called him outside on a clear night and asked him to try and count the stars, and God had him to try and count the sand grains of the beach; He said, You can’t count that high; that’s like counting your descendants.   Well, by this time Abraham was fully convinced that God could do what He said.

      These things were not just said and written for Abraham’s benefit; but we, too, benefit from them.  God raised Joshua from the dead to right a wrong that we did when we sinned and put him there.  And now, if you will put your full faith in the one whom God raised, Joshua, then God will make you righteous too.

      5:1-11

      In view of this and in view of what the Anointed Joshua had done in our behalf, we can be at peace with God.  And because of our faith in Joshua we, too, are made righteous in Big G’s sight.  Let’s live in the grace given us through the anointing as we look to the eternal life promised by God to the faithful in Joshua with joyful assurance.  We can also count it a time to give God praise and glory when we have problems, troubles of any kind, knowing that the way we react to the troubles will build our strength of endurance, which helps to build character and ultimately builds up our confidence in salvation.  We will not be disappointed if we put our undying faith and faithfulness in the Anointed Joshua.

      Big G sent Joshua to be our substitute in death by dying for us even when we were still ungodly sinners.  And, I’m sure you know that no sinner would joyfully give up his life for anyone; well, maybe for a very good man.  It is by the blood of Joshua that our sins were washed away and it is that plus our faithful commitment to obey God’s word that will ensure our salvation in the end, through His Son.

      5:12-21

      Disobedience is sin and Adam sinned when he disobeyed God.  And since Adam was the father of all mankind, humanly speaking, sin became the normal human thing to do.  Yes it was wrong, but the fact that it was wrong didn’t appear until the Law was known.  Now, even those who didn’t, and don’t, sin in the same way as Adam did, if they reject Joshua and do not accept his Lordship, they are still sinners.  Why is this?  It is because the sacrifice of Joshua on the alter of the cross spilt the blood that removes sin.  And since Joshua is now alive forevermore, he is Lord.  The outcome of a life of sin is, in the end, death; but the gift of God, which comes through your faith filled obedience and continual vocal acknowledgment of Joshua, is eternal life.

      6:1-14

      Now, you know that when a man disowns his son, the son can never claim an inheritance from that man again.  Or when Philish dies she has no claim on her old husband anymore and her husband has no hold on her anymore.  Well, just so, when you and I disown and die to sin, sin has no claim on us and we have no hold on it anymore.  So, by our baptism into the Anointed and then the anointing, we died to the worldly ways where we once lived.  And, if that’s the case, then what gives anyone of us the right to live in it again?

      Now, we who have turned and proclaimed Joshua as Lord, and have been baptized in his baptism have infused ourselves with him.  So, if we had died with him, died to sin, wouldn’t it make sense that we should also be raised to eternal life with him, provided we don’t turn back?

      Now, you who have taken the proper steps and have died to and disowned sin, made Joshua your Lord and were anointed with his anointing should never live your lives as if sin was your lord anymore.  The law of sin, which leads to death, does not control you but you live your lives under God’s grace, may you always obey it.

      6:15-23

      Before you accepted Joshua as Lord by your faith fill confession you were slaves to sin.  Now, a slave is one who is controlled by his master and has no choice but to do what his master tells him; he has no rights of his own.  But, once you had grown tired of being a slave to sin, and you heard the good news about Joshua, and the freedom that comes by uniting with him, you committed high treason again the lord of the sinful life—that lord is Satan—and you made that confession that gave you freedom.  Now you are not a slave anymore but a child of God; you want to serve Him because of love.  And now, because of your love for Him and His love for you, you have rights; one is the right to walk away from sin.

      7:1-6

      You know the Law and it’s religious legal accompaniments—the sin and death part, I’m sure.  But, don’t you know that those religious accompaniments of sin and death only have jurisdiction over you while you still live under that sin and death system?  Take an example; a married woman and her husband are one under God’s Law while they both live, there is a very, very thin margin for divorce.  So, according to the religious accompaniments—we’ll call them the law of sin and death—if she divorces him and/or has an affair with another whether she is married to him or not, then she is in adultery as long as her first husband is still living.  But, if he dies then she is free from that sin.  This same deal goes for the man also.  But, if she were dead to the law of sin and death she would be free to marry, and there would be no adultery claim.  Well, just so, when you are dead to the law of sin and death it has no jurisdiction over you anymore.  But if you choose to live in sin, as according to that law, death is right around the corner.  You can either live for God, which will result in eternal glory, or you can live for yourself, which is in actuality living in sin and it results in eternal death—not fun.

      7:7-12

      So, what am I telling you?  The Law of God is right but the religious legal accompaniments make for a very hard life.  Everyone was, at one time, under that law—the law of sin and death—we were all born there, it’s where we

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