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Is the New Testament scripture?
After all Jesus quoted from the Old testament did he not?

So it is right that what God was about to do, must align with his scripture and this is the reason that Jesus quoted the Old Testament. To show those who eyes to see and ears to hear, who he was and what was happening and about to happen. Even the Bereans tested what Paul had to say with scripture (The Old Testament) in order to see that his teachings were also from God and scriptural. There is no record that says that they disagreed with him, so in that sense what Paul was saying was of God in their opinion and his writings and teachings were based on scripture and were actually scripture as the Lord Jesus himself showed Paul directly many of the things that he taught.

Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

Galatians 1:12
I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

In the past, God's plan was to guide his people with the Law with the future promise of his Messiah/Christ. We now live in the time when the Messiah has visited us. We are in a different season and a better one. We have more promises available to us. God's Spirit doesn't just come upon us, but lives in us. The Law has been fulfilled for us in Christ. As long as we are in Christ, the Law is fulfilled for us.

Today, the light is brighter and the old is but a shadow of the new. One was the question that needed an answer and the other is the answer. We have the grace of God in our lives everyday. It is no longer an eye for an eye, rather it is about letting them slap the other cheek. A contradiction? No, this just shows that times have changed. We are in a better time. Certain things are now possible because Yashua laid his life down for us.

The New Testament and the Church may seem to fly in the face of the Old Testament at times and we see this conflict no more clearly than we see with Jesus and the Pharisees.

Love and grace is here in our season. We are no longer stoned for adultery, but we can repent and be forgiven. We can do good on the Sabbath and we can consider one day as holy or or all days as holy. We can even eat that which God once called unclean. All things a lawful, but not all things are profitable. It is a time of liberty in the Spirit.

God used Moses and the Israelites in that season, but it is now the church season. We are sheep of another flock. We are not Jews, but Jews and Gentiles who are now part of Christ's Body.

We have a heritage just like the Jews did and we have a covenant just like the Jews did. God is moving through the Gentiles and making them part of Christ's body. Of course we must not think that we are better than the Jews for they are the natural branches and we have been adopted. But I am a Gentile and part of the life giving vine. I have a covenant with God, not written in the blood of bulls, but the blood of God's only Son.

We no longer need to go through a priest for we are priests ourselves. For if God uses the Gentiles in the time of Israel's stumble, then he has that right. He is God and he is Sovereign and if he wants to provoke them to jealousy, then he only does it to bring them back into full relationship with him.

So it is that we have scripture too and so it is that our faith is being written everyday. We no longer have to look to the past and copy it, but the power of God is available to us to change the future and do new things. God is moving and inspiring his people everyday. The light will get brighter in the future just as the darkness will get darker as we head toward the time of harvest.

What about scripture? The Spirit of God lives in us and moves us. How can what God says to us not be the word of God and how can what God has inspired us to write not be scripture. All true prophecy is from God, whether God spoke it yesterday today or in the future.

The Book of Revelation for example, is scripture of utmost importance to the Church. It is considered so revelatory, that this of all books contains a special message of warning.

Revelation 22:18-19
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.
19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

So yes I agree with the Old Testament and believe it to be scripture just as Christ did. But I also believe in the heritage of the church and the miracles and moves of God that have happened and will continue to happen. I believe in the good works of the saints. To a degree I am able to inherit them easily, even though they paid for this truth with their bood.

I believe in obeying the teachings of Yahshua for he is my shepherd and Christ. So where do I read his teachings, it is certainly not recorded in the Old Testament (but aligns with it), rather it was recorded and written down by his disciples. This was the will of our Christ, as he left it to them to record his words. He didn't write them down himself, but used his Church as the witness. His Church is the light of the world and the salt of the earth.

I consider the words that Christ spoke on earth to be scripture, although not recorded in the Old Testament. Just as I consider Paul, Peter, John's teaching as scripture. For surely the Spirit of God is IN his people today and because of this, it can be said that we live in a better covenant.

The gospel we have to give to all the world is not found in the Old Testament rather it is the good news about Jesus and the Kingdom of God. This instruction was given to us after the Old Testament.

Matthew 26:12-13
12 "For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial. 13 "Truly I say to you, [b]wherever this gospel is preached[/b] in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

John 10:16
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

If it were not for the New Testament writings, we would not know what the teachings of Jesus Christ were. In fact he used his Church as a witness of himself and to the glory of his God his Father. I have faith in Christ and know that he knew what he was doing.

Even though evil may try and corrupt what Jesus did and distort what Jesus taught, the enemy cannot and will not ultimately succeed. God always finds a way to preserve and demonstrate his truth.

Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

What gospel is that? Not Moses gospel, not Abrahams gospel, but the good news about Yahshua and how he saved man by the shedding of his blood and his death and resurrection. He now sits at the Father's side interceeding for us.

It must also be pointed out that the Church who had the New Testament writings considered them scripture and quoted and taught from them just as the original diciples quoted and taught from the old. It just shows prgression and that God is moving in his plan toward the great and wonderful day of Jesus return. It is not just about what God said thousands of years ago, but what he is also saying today.

2 Peter 3:16
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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