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]Outside are the Dogs

Matt.7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. [/b]

If we were sitting listening to Christ speak in Matthew the Seventh Chapter a part of his now famous often quoted Summon on the Mount most of us wouldn't have gotten what he was speaking about with our religious education? He seem to be all over the map on a hundred different unrelated subjects?

However, upon having God's Holy Spirit pour out upon his disciples all the subjects are tightly connected into a most beautiful theme, a theme, which came together through his apostles own writings creating perfect unequivocal truth in Spirit for us if we have the same precious gift of Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

[b][i]Why Dogs?[/i][/b]

Let us grasp the context? Christ had just spoken profound powerful words that must have shocked so many at his time. Stop judging! Stop judging who? Their brothers, how could that happen? Two thousands years of the law that condemn all as sinners that shut the mouths of all those judged by it? How could a people educated in judging stop what they thought made them righteous before God; was this a trick question?

Matt. 7:1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.
7:2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

God set the lead himself, and Israel followed in the same judgment toward each others, their brothers. Condemning, and being condemn by their own judgment using the law of God. Now stop and think? We are speaking of the perfect righteous law of God, why would we not judge others with God's own righteousness, and perfect law, wasn't it mandatory?

John 12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Shouldn't they enforced the law. Well lets shock each other here, if one enforced the law upon their brothers it was probably too late any way? What? Yes, the law was given to bring Israel to faith and love in God, did you know that?

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

In other words, if one loved God, and read the law, not in the flesh, but from their heart in (Spirit and truth) they knew they were unworthy and would bring voluntary sin offering to God at his temple without being made to! Now stop and ask yourself a honest question? “Oh you enforcer of righteousness”? Would God accept any sin offering if it was not voluntary from the heart?

Genesis 4:5 but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Malachi 1:13 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.

Why Dogs? Because the self-righteous were enforcing the law judging and being condemn thinking they could make a person right/righteous by the law, not by the voluntary offering out of faith for sin from a precious innocent life God gave them freely from love, but by a righteous police force!

Psalms 22:16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.{or, They have pierced my hands and feet. (DSS)}

Isaiah 56:11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

In other words, yes, we can see that awful sin in our brother eye, it stick out like a piece of ugly meat, we can't even have peace with them until we can cut that thing out and/or off them. We can't see them as a person, they are so condemnedthey are dead of no value at all, we just hate them. But we just can't just kill them legally, we can't just put them in jail, we have to find away to bring them down humiliate them so they realize that what they are sinning against God himself!

Matt.7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

What do we have at or finger tips? God own judgment, his own opinion of right and wrong, his own righteousness how could that be wrong in upholding his judgments; let used the righteous law of God, so I can deal with this terrible sin in my brothers eyes, or I will not rest in peace until I exact it!

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

The Lion of the Law

The meat that feeds the lion, that is, the law, the righteous power of God's law is "sin" not righteousness in the flesh the flesh cannot be made clean by applying the law. Theres not enough meat to satisfy the lion of law, try if you will? The law devours all that stand before it inciting sin, not one person ever born into sin stood righteous before the lion! There is no protection in any sin from the law not even the ones in heart, small or great before the voraciousness beast of the law.

Romans 2:23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

Stand still if you will, pray for God's protection, pray like Daniel God will have mercy and shut the mouth of this hunger lion, for it will not stop the law until it kills you to death! If you think as a sinner that the law is lawful, and is your friend, you are sadly mistaken and you have not consider your own sins before this lion. Speak to it, justify it, ask it, tell it how much you love it. When its done you will be consumed into death, as it will consume the small the great without partiality none are found innocent all a wanting by the righteous scales of the law. This lion has no feeling of compassion, or will it say: I forgive you. No! It cannot, it will devour until justice is reaches into death of all its victims.

Romans 4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Romans 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

The law is not lawful because you judge your brother by it, it is lawful when it reach death for you and him alike! It is not an adjuster of the sinful it is a killer of all sinful flesh. You have been deceived by self-righteousness if you think less!

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Romans 7:21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

Law Dogs

There are many law dogs today as there was back at Christ time speaking righteous words, but are those words “holy” that we must put faith in the law dogs? We know the law is holy, but is that really the point? No! What is the point, what makes us holy so we are not put to death by its judgment of our sinful flesh ? Now stop and think about this, what made the law holy for sinful people that could not keep it? It was the voluntary offering ones made from their heart of faith in true repentance before God found in the payment of blood?

Hebrews 9:7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

Hebrews 9:12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9:18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

Hebrews 9:22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Yes, stop, and think? Nothing for sinner before God can be made holy without the out pouring of blood by an innocent victim, get the wording carefully? Innocent, that is, something that does not sin before God according to his righteous law! Does an animal without law sin? No! The law was not for animals, although, some people treat animals like humans, but it does not mean they sin, there is not moral laws for animals; we delude ourselves because we make pets out of them.

1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Under the law, animal blood was pour out for sin, not all sin, but some could be atone for if the person came to God in their heart first asking for forgiveness. Yes! A voluntary offering. If the person was found to be practicing sin willfully with no repentance did an offering to buy God off appease him work?. What if you dragged a sinner before the court of priest exposing his sin, would that make him a better person, a holy person? No!

Romans 3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Romans 8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

1 Corinthians 2:12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

Colossians 2:18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But what holiness was Christ speaking to here that we should not throw before the law dogs that devour much meat? Christ is lawful, because he is sinless, like the lion of the law is sinless. Christ for us Christian's is our righteousness, now please get the wording. We are not righteous by applying the lion of the law to ourselves or others, we are made righteous because Christ gave us his righteousness when we put faith in his righteousness not in our own. That righteousness was a voluntary offered to God from Christ own love, his life not ours. We must come to God in repentance when we appreciate the love God has given us in Christ we then ask his forgiveness. The precious, now get this, the one time precious love Chris offered to his Father for our sins. It is Christ blood that clears us from all sin once for all times. We need not offer Christ up each time we our fleshly sinning daily, minute to minute that is pointless, a redundancy of primary doctrine of Christ repentance for dead works, why dead? Because dead means not to be
we are walking in faith! When we are in faith we are live in Christ our eternal life free of all sins. We are mpt in works of law thinking each time we sin we must pay a price to God by a gppd works we do and/or agaim offering his Son's life up again in our hearts and mind, which is sadly, false religion!

Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Psalms 51:16 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Hebrews 10:11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

Psalms 54:6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Hebrews 10:10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The flesh is dead, the lion of the law devoured it, we are dead in our flesh before God, we have no flesh before God. Did you hear that? We have no flesh before God. It is dead, gone to God forever, once we are purchased by Christ blood once for all times.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

Hebrews 7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

That is what Christ warned us about, why are we throwing Christ, our holiness, our righteousness before law dogs, when we know the outcome? They are unrighteous, unclean, because they have no holiness any longer? Forthrightly, they have no sacrifice for their sins under the law anymore, but only works of law that are dead. Why no sacrifice for sin? Because the law is void set aside the law is for the flesh (the unright not the righteous in Christ) which flesh is dead in Christ. But do we trample upon that precious gift of Christ blood for some meat of sin in our brothers eye, a sin that cannot be wiped out by a law that only incites more sin in us? How can adding sin clean up sin, how can adding law that incites sin stop sin?

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 John 3:4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

1 John 3:6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

Are we confused with the beast of government that devours the flesh of many? Do we have a law religion that like the beast of all governments devours flesh? Are we a law dog that honestly thinks keeping people in line by the law of God is a voluptuary offering? Something we think we can present to God thinking we are righteous and zealous because we take no prisoner when someone violates the commandments of God? Boy are we in for a supersize! You better believe!
If what we think is that what it means, to use the law lawfully? Have we gotten it backwards? The law is not lawful at all, it was done away with, buried in Christ, God is not a two face God, having two laws enforced at one time. One for us, one for them, the ones we don't like and know by the law that they are unrighteous, no one was righteous by the law, it took the gift of life to be made righteous from God by killing the law against or flesh!

James. 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
2:7 Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"{Leviticus 19:18} you do well.
2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
2:11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"{Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18} also said, "Do not commit murder."{Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17} Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
2:12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy.

Sober up to true righteousness! No one under the law gained righteousness by keeping it. Not one kept it! It was God's kindness in the gift of innocent life that extinguish sin before God allowing our sins to be covered. Sober up to righteousness! If one could not be made righteous by keeping the law why indeed would we deceive ourselves into thinking we can use it lawfully without blood? No, now stop and think please? Blood, Christ blood completed the law, it does not enforce the law, none of the apostles of Christ made others keep the law, or reestablished it over anyone, not even those in the world. They fought night and day not to lose the power of Christ life in them giving them true righteousness.

Philippians 1:11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Judging sins of the flesh again thinking it produces righteousness by the law, is simply foolish, a work of dogs. No righteousness came to sinner by using the law, it devoured them into death as unrighteous proving they could not stop sinning!

1Tim.1:4 neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith--
1:5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
1:6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
1:11 according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

[b][u]Separating Flesh From the Spirit[/u][/b]

Do we actually understand that the law of God separated the flesh from the Spirit of God? Now really think about that, please don't repeat words taught us by some religion. The law was a wall that stop any sinner in their flesh from thinking they could enter into a Spirit commune with God. The wall was the law, because it condemned all as sinner unworthy of touching the Holy Spirit of God.

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Galatians 5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Galatians 4:21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

The law separated fiction from truth, the law is the reality of sin in us, the law put our flesh into truth, what it actually is before a righteous God expressed in his righteous law. It stopped all flesh, dead, from barging or thinking it could be made righteous by any work it could do good or bad. The law made no one righteous. Let us not be confused as the world is confused on this subject of law. Many believe obeying the law of the land makes them righteous. No it does not! God accounts what is true righteousness for eternal life, and its not the laws of land coming from beast of governments. The law of the lands righteousness comes from it citizen obeying the rule of law. But that does not make a person righteous before God true righteousness, no more so then a Jew trying to obey God's laws.

God does not provide us with many “righteousness” He gives us one righteousness, the Son of God, Christ Jesus. Without obeying the law of Christ in our hearts we cannot be holy, and/or righteous. We may obey the law of religion and be considered a saint by our religion, but that does not means we are righteous, and a saint to God.

Galatians 2:21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Romans 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

We must be in Christ, to separate the flesh from the Spirit. The law could not kill the works of the flesh, it could judge them as unrighteous, but it did not stop the flesh from lusting against true righteousness of God's Spirit. Those thinking as fools think only jail the conduct of others so they can have a better religion, and/or government thinking that is Christ righteousness. They are sadly misleading themselves and those they teach. They have no concept of true righteousness which was founded at the out-pouring of Holy Spirit into God's children hearts who's flesh was then at that minute accounted dead by Christ righteous life!

Let us not confuse the stopping of a brother or sisters from sinning in some manner as being made righteous, that is, by some commandments of the law. We may see improvement in the flesh, and are satisfied with that simpleton results. Just like the beast of government that want peace and order allowing some sins, as long as it does not upset the apple cart so goes all religion and those teaching it.

Psalms 92:6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

Proverbs 10:18 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Religion is a government for its subjects, it administer the law of God as it's enforcer. It take the seat of Christ in judgment, and makes the pretense of doing righteousness because it boast in improving the conduct of its members in the flesh. Does it bring order to the flesh? Yes? Does it punish the wicked? Yes? But does that mean it is God's righteousness? No?

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

1Cor. 1:18 For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
1Cor.1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1Cor.1:28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.
1:30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 1:31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."{Jeremiah 9:24}

It is the dog devouring much meat by laws, not in Christ, or part of him. But is a dog satisfied with meat, beating its enemies, protecting it property and its own? Yes? But is the animal righteous not filled with the righteous life of Christ Jesus made holy by his present in them? Hardly, how do we know that, how do we unconfused the Spirit from the flesh?

We don't justify that the flesh has something good in it that is Christ righteousness. No! We know people do good to each others, they help and love others, but the flesh also has evil in it. Why do we take only the good and make it into Christ, but not the bad? Now stop, and please rethink the truth, the truth that stops the lying mouth of the flesh.

Colossians 3:9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

2 Thessalonians 2:11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

Titus 1:2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Here is the truth that unbinds us to Christ and true righteousness, so we stop preaching, and acting as if someone can be righteous because we correct them with the law that such judging extracts their sin by using the laws of God skillfully, like an attorney or a physician?

John 12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

True righteousness that gives life, yes, life! We have received life if we are in Christ, we have received true righteousness, because we are in Christ and him in us. We did not get that from the law, the law of God, or the law of the land. We did not earn that by works of law.

Now in the same chapter we have been talking about Chapter Seven of Matthew, Christ unblind's the blind, the dogs of the law. He says the truth that allows for no flesh to be right, and/or righteous, what is that truth? What stop the power of our lying flesh, what shuts the mouth of the flesh lusting to be right at all cost by even using God's word the bible to justify its evil fruits?

Jesus said: A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree, a corrupt tree cannot produce good fruit.

Can we cross over that by false words, can we become a false prophet preaching the righteousness of the flesh by works of law? Yes, we can! In Christ there is no corrupt fruit from sin, now is there? What bible have you been taught from? Are we saying our religion, our government, ourselves, or someone else is the good tree not producing any bad fruit? Is that our teachings? If it is we are according to God a liar!

Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
7:19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.
7:20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Did Christ allow for some middle ground here? Did he say a little sin, that there is some bad fruit on all of us, but we are a good tree producing good fruit so eat plenty of it so we can have eternal life? No he did not, he stated as did the apostles full of Holy Spirit the flesh lust against the Spirit, and nothing good dwells in our flesh that makes us a good tree in our flesh, that is, the tree of eternal life.

Matt.7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
7:17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
7:19 Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
7:20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
7:21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

[b][u]Love the Law of Freedom[/u][/b]

Our voluntary offering we give to God is done freely. We are not extracted that from our brothers eye by laws for sin and boasting in our flesh that is our offering to God, a sacred service the same sacred service that ulimately kill Christ and his apostles by the law for the flesh!

1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

John.16:1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble. 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 16:3 They will do these things{TR adds "to you"} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
16:4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

The flesh offers up is always someone else flesh to protect their own, even in religion. Those walking in love, the only true righteous sacrifice for God are they themselves living sacrifice of God's love for the human race. They do not kill their brothers to boast in cleaning up the flesh that is of no value at all in serving God or knowing God. No they offer up a sweet smelling sacrifice of God's love, who is God's love, not us, it is Christ God's true righteousness given us freely upon the altar so he may passover our transgression and deal with us like his own children.

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

Hebrews 13:15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God{Psalm 50:23} continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

Hebrews 10:12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Philippians 4:18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.