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By Jose Alberto Muñoz on Friday, November 6, 2015 at 6:48am
There are a few children that are rejoicing over the fact that God is telling us that the work of salvation and sanctification is all His, that means He saves us and He keeps us saved, we don´t do anything and He does everything, from beginning to end,
Php 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”.
He is perfecting His Church, the Bride at this very moment. We believe, we’re at the end of time and yet some act as though they don’t believe God is fulfilling His Word concerning the perfection of His Bride.
Looking at the passage of Noah getting drunk in Genesis 9. I notice the consequences for what judging people according to the appearance or their outward behavior are and not judging them righteously. Let’s see what God says about it.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
First thing we find is that, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and as a consequence of that God says of him, Gen 6:9 “… Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.”
That is a definition of what God is (perfect), We know Noah was not perfect for he also had sin living in his mortal body, right? Rom 7:17-18 “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
Now, we find that God asked them in the Old Testament to be perfect,
Gen 17:1 “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.”
Interesting, God did not asked him to be perfect until he was 90 years old, 3 X3X 10??? But that is not the subject now.
So we need to find out what does God mean when He says that Noah is perfect and how do we become perfect. Let’s look at the wordPerfect in the New Testament.
Matt 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as yourFather which is in heaven is perfect.”
G5046 τέλειοςteleios (te'-lei-os) adj. complete.
{(neuter as noun, with G3588) completeness; in various applications of labor, growth,mental and moral character, etc.}
[from G5056]
KJV: of full age, man, perfect
Root(s):G5056
The first thing we notice is that it is the same word in both instances in this verse, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. So we can securely say that perfection is a character of God, that is what He is, He is perfect, so men are not perfect and men cannot achieve this character by himself and never will because of what God says in
Rom 7:17 “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
Men cannot perform that which is good. Good, being another character of God, for God is good.
How is it then, that God calls Noah perfect? And He commands us to be perfect. We know God speaks in parables to hide the truth,
Mat 13:35 “… I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
He wants to get us working, trying to achieve that perfection on our own so that we can finally fall down flat on our faces and say Lord I can’t, “have mercy on me”, note: this would only happen to the child of God not to the unsaved. God calls Noah perfect because He’s looking at Jesus in Noah, He’s looking at himself, the image of God, He is not looking at us and saying, “wow! Look at this guy, how perfect he has became, wow! He has almost obtained that perfection, he just have to keep working harder and he’s going to obtain it, so I’m just going to put some more tribulation on him so that he can obtain that perfection.”
No, we are never going to obtain that perfection, never, no matter how much we work at it, it’s unobtainable, for if we thought we could, being deceived, we would glory in it because of our own sinful nature, so that is not the purpose of God on that commandment, “be youthou perfect”, it is a trap.
Now, you might say, oh! Well that is easy to comprehend, we know that we’re saved by Grace and not by works, but then we say that once we’re saved we have to get to work and we get caught up in the trap of works and end up doing what the Galatians were doing in Gal 3:3 “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” the same word, perfect, and they began in the Spirit, they were born again Christians but now they are under the law doing works.
How cant hat be? We have understood correctly by God that first we were sinners but now we are saints, now we do “good” works,the problem with that is we think that now we can do good, which is the same as being perfect, we get the physical and the spiritual mixed up again and end up,“having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”. We have to understand that the physical,carnal or fleshly, has nothing to do with the spiritual. Obedience to the physical law is not the same as obedience to the spiritual law. We have these two mixed up and the proof is that we judge people’s spirituality by their actions when that is not the measuring stick. Their doings or lack of doing things is physical not spiritual. We see a good example of that in the story of Noah and we’re going to see the consequences of judging by the flesh or the doings.
Gen 9:20 “And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.”
Here we see that his son Ham, saw that his father has gotten drunk and was now naked lying on the floor. The implication of this is that he made a big deal of this and went out and told his brothers saying, hey brothers, look at my father, the “PERFECT” man, the one who “walks with God”,the preacher of righteousness, he’s not really perfect, he is a sinner, he just got drunk, he’s all messed up, he cannot be a true Christian. Ok, may be I exaggerated a little bit, but that is the implication of what happened, he was mocking his father, on the contrary his brothers covered Noah’s physical sin because they understood who is the Perfect One and they also understood their evil nature.
Gal 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ:nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which Inow live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
We have another example of this in the book of Matthew where Jesus is questioned by the scribes and Pharisees concerning the obedience to the physical law or the traditions of the elders, which in turn, becomes a law.
Mat 15:1 “Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees,which were of Jerusalem, saying, why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.”
Why were these people so concerned with what the disciples did? That seemed to be all that they were doing,just following Jesus trying to find some fault with Him or his disciples in their doings, therefore missing the spiritual message. That is, because they are carnal and cannot understand that Jesus and His children are Spiritual, and His message is spiritual,they cannot understand that.
Mat 15:3 “But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
Jesus did not deny the disciples breaking the law, but he asked them why did they transgress the COMMANDMENT OF GOD by their traditions, in other words the disciples broke the physical law but you (the Pharisees), are braking the commandments of God, by keeping the physical law and adhering to traditions of men, furthermore, condemning the disciples or judging them outwardly, for their actions. Jesus is saying, you don’t understand the Grace of God nor His Sovereignty, all you have is a fleshly gospel, a fleshly god and that god is made after the image of men.
Jesus went ahead and explained the difference of the physical law and the Spiritual law and told them that by obeying the physical law they make the commandment of God of none effect.
I know this sounds like we don’t have to obey the law, but no, on the contrary that is what obeying the spiritual law is.
Rom 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Mat 15:7 “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
Again, it is not the outward worship, or the doings, it is the heart. That is where the problem is.
John 4:24 “God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.”
Mat 15:9 “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Now, we say, oh! Yes, but we don’t teach the obedience to commandments to be save, we teach the obedience of the commandments after you’re save, and that is wrong, that is where we’re getting caught back in under the law, Gal 3:3 “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
And you say, oh! But the commandments are not grievous now, they are light and we enjoy doing them. That could be true but you still submitting to the law and the traditions making the commandment of God of none effect.
Mat 15:10 “And he called the multitude, and said untothem, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
What comes out of the mouth is the only thing that should concern a child of God, and is not talking about foul language or worldly speech, but the truth or the lie,that is the only thing that defile a man, because that is spiritual, no what he does or does not.
Conclusion: God is bringing His Bride to Perfection through the understanding of His Word, Eph 4:13 “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
Php 1:6 “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”.
He is perfecting His Church, the Bride at this very moment. We believe, we’re at the end of time and yet some act as though they don’t believe God is fulfilling His Word concerning the perfection of His Bride.
Looking at the passage of Noah getting drunk in Genesis 9. I notice the consequences for what judging people according to the appearance or their outward behavior are and not judging them righteously. Let’s see what God says about it.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
First thing we find is that, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and as a consequence of that God says of him, Gen 6:9 “… Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.”
Very interesting because God says that he (Noah), was perfect. Let’s take a quick look at the word perfect.
H8549 תָּמִים tamiym (taw-meem') adj.
1.(literally, figuratively or morally) entire.
2. (also,as noun) integrity, truth.
[from H8552]
KJV:without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright (-ly), whole.
That is a definition of what God is (perfect), We know Noah was not perfect for he also had sin living in his mortal body, right? Rom 7:17-18 “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
Now, we find that God asked them in the Old Testament to be perfect,
Gen 17:1 “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.”
Interesting, God did not asked him to be perfect until he was 90 years old, 3 X3X 10??? But that is not the subject now.
So we need to find out what does God mean when He says that Noah is perfect and how do we become perfect. Let’s look at the wordPerfect in the New Testament.
Matt 5:48 “Be ye therefore perfect, even as yourFather which is in heaven is perfect.”
G5046 τέλειοςteleios (te'-lei-os) adj. complete.
{(neuter as noun, with G3588) completeness; in various applications of labor, growth,mental and moral character, etc.}
[from G5056]
KJV: of full age, man, perfect
Root(s):G5056
The first thing we notice is that it is the same word in both instances in this verse, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. So we can securely say that perfection is a character of God, that is what He is, He is perfect, so men are not perfect and men cannot achieve this character by himself and never will because of what God says in
Rom 7:17 “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.”
Men cannot perform that which is good. Good, being another character of God, for God is good.
How is it then, that God calls Noah perfect? And He commands us to be perfect. We know God speaks in parables to hide the truth,
Mat 13:35 “… I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
He wants to get us working, trying to achieve that perfection on our own so that we can finally fall down flat on our faces and say Lord I can’t, “have mercy on me”, note: this would only happen to the child of God not to the unsaved. God calls Noah perfect because He’s looking at Jesus in Noah, He’s looking at himself, the image of God, He is not looking at us and saying, “wow! Look at this guy, how perfect he has became, wow! He has almost obtained that perfection, he just have to keep working harder and he’s going to obtain it, so I’m just going to put some more tribulation on him so that he can obtain that perfection.”
No, we are never going to obtain that perfection, never, no matter how much we work at it, it’s unobtainable, for if we thought we could, being deceived, we would glory in it because of our own sinful nature, so that is not the purpose of God on that commandment, “be youthou perfect”, it is a trap.
Now, you might say, oh! Well that is easy to comprehend, we know that we’re saved by Grace and not by works, but then we say that once we’re saved we have to get to work and we get caught up in the trap of works and end up doing what the Galatians were doing in Gal 3:3 “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” the same word, perfect, and they began in the Spirit, they were born again Christians but now they are under the law doing works.
How cant hat be? We have understood correctly by God that first we were sinners but now we are saints, now we do “good” works,the problem with that is we think that now we can do good, which is the same as being perfect, we get the physical and the spiritual mixed up again and end up,“having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh”. We have to understand that the physical,carnal or fleshly, has nothing to do with the spiritual. Obedience to the physical law is not the same as obedience to the spiritual law. We have these two mixed up and the proof is that we judge people’s spirituality by their actions when that is not the measuring stick. Their doings or lack of doing things is physical not spiritual. We see a good example of that in the story of Noah and we’re going to see the consequences of judging by the flesh or the doings.
Gen 9:20 “And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.”
Here we see that his son Ham, saw that his father has gotten drunk and was now naked lying on the floor. The implication of this is that he made a big deal of this and went out and told his brothers saying, hey brothers, look at my father, the “PERFECT” man, the one who “walks with God”,the preacher of righteousness, he’s not really perfect, he is a sinner, he just got drunk, he’s all messed up, he cannot be a true Christian. Ok, may be I exaggerated a little bit, but that is the implication of what happened, he was mocking his father, on the contrary his brothers covered Noah’s physical sin because they understood who is the Perfect One and they also understood their evil nature.
Gen 9:23 “And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”
They did not see his nakedness, they were able to see past the physical into the spiritual and always saw their father wearing the pure, fine, white linen,which is Christ.
Gen 9:24 “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.”
Gen 9:25 “And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”
This is the reward for not being spiritual but carnal, you’ll be cursed.
Gen 9:26 “And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.”
This is the blessedness of the new birth, the Grace of God, the Faith on Jesus Christ, the Work of God in us.
Gal 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ:nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which Inow live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
We have another example of this in the book of Matthew where Jesus is questioned by the scribes and Pharisees concerning the obedience to the physical law or the traditions of the elders, which in turn, becomes a law.
Mat 15:1 “Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees,which were of Jerusalem, saying, why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.”
Why were these people so concerned with what the disciples did? That seemed to be all that they were doing,just following Jesus trying to find some fault with Him or his disciples in their doings, therefore missing the spiritual message. That is, because they are carnal and cannot understand that Jesus and His children are Spiritual, and His message is spiritual,they cannot understand that.
Mat 15:3 “But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
Jesus did not deny the disciples breaking the law, but he asked them why did they transgress the COMMANDMENT OF GOD by their traditions, in other words the disciples broke the physical law but you (the Pharisees), are braking the commandments of God, by keeping the physical law and adhering to traditions of men, furthermore, condemning the disciples or judging them outwardly, for their actions. Jesus is saying, you don’t understand the Grace of God nor His Sovereignty, all you have is a fleshly gospel, a fleshly god and that god is made after the image of men.
Jesus went ahead and explained the difference of the physical law and the Spiritual law and told them that by obeying the physical law they make the commandment of God of none effect.
I know this sounds like we don’t have to obey the law, but no, on the contrary that is what obeying the spiritual law is.
Rom 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Mat 15:7 “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
Again, it is not the outward worship, or the doings, it is the heart. That is where the problem is.
John 4:24 “God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.”
Mat 15:9 “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Now, we say, oh! Yes, but we don’t teach the obedience to commandments to be save, we teach the obedience of the commandments after you’re save, and that is wrong, that is where we’re getting caught back in under the law, Gal 3:3 “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
And you say, oh! But the commandments are not grievous now, they are light and we enjoy doing them. That could be true but you still submitting to the law and the traditions making the commandment of God of none effect.
Mat 15:10 “And he called the multitude, and said untothem, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.”
What comes out of the mouth is the only thing that should concern a child of God, and is not talking about foul language or worldly speech, but the truth or the lie,that is the only thing that defile a man, because that is spiritual, no what he does or does not.
Mat 15:12-14“Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind,both shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands defileth not a man.”
Conclusion: God is bringing His Bride to Perfection through the understanding of His Word, Eph 4:13 “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
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