Stepping out of the Comfort Zone 2

Last week we made a reference to Saul’s Comfort Zone and would like to take this opportunity to expand on that subject. Many people may think we are out to bash Saul. What our goal in all of this is to not so much bash him, but to bridge the huge gap created by his teaching, and his refusal to understand that through out Jesus’ entire Ministry and teachings he rebuked the Oral Law and traditions set forth in them.

These two scripture references from 2 Peter Chapter 3 where brought to my attention to add credibility to Saul Claims that he was speaking for God.
15 And account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
What we see in these scripture verses is exactly what we have been trying to say. Peter here in these verses is trying to explain that many have chosen to use the words of Saul’s writings and other Scriptures to justify there own programs or Ideals. Today we find so many Christians who are ignorant in the scriptures of the Torah and the Prophets, manly because Saul’s teaches in his writings that through Jesus’ Death on the Cross these sections of scripture no longer apply and are irrelevant to us as Christians.

The example to use in this case is a Sermon done by Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas Texas. Pastor Graham’s sermon of September 23, 2007 was entirely about repentance the day after Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement the most Holy Day of the Jewish year. The point of this example is that Pastor Graham we believe was well aware that it was the day after Yom Kippur, yet with staying in his Comfort Zone chooses not to tell the congregation or those outside watching through other media sources that he was specifically speaking of Yom Kippur.


Last week we looked at Peter’s transformation from his Comfort Zone, but Saul’s was a totally different story, it took Jesus himself to come and awaken Saul by means of a super natural experience. Through his experience Saul learns that Jesus was truly the Messiah whose coming was fore told by the Prophets. Jesus then sends Saul out on a Mission to bring the Word of God to the gentiles he maintains his Comfort Zone of Oral Law and Torah, himself, while teaching those who were not circumcised that they only fell under certain laws which can only be found in Oral Law Traditions. Saul sets out to convince the disciples that he was correct and through his actions created a big rift between Peter’s church created before Saul’s transformation and that of the one Saul was creating in the gentile community. Part of this we concede to Saul’s upbringing in the Oral Law, but the rest of it we blame on his choice to stay in that Comfort Zone of Torah and Oral Law Traditions. In that he was chosen by Jesus to bring the word to the gentiles and not to be the head of his Church. The head of his Church was to be placed in Peter’s hands one who Jesus taught himself to understand and rebuke the teachings of Oral Law and traditions. Not to forsake the Torah, but to continue to preach strictly from it and adhere to its directions for our lives.

A perfect example of Saul’s Comfort Zone and his inability to separate the Written Torah from the Oral Torah Traditions, is in Galatians Chapter 2 were Saul rebukes Peter for eating with the Gentiles, and requiring them to live like Jews. We think that Saul had no clue of the vision Peter received we looked at in Acts Chapter 11 which took Peter out of his Comfort Zone when it came to eating those of unclean things as described in Torah. See there is no such Law in Torah to separate Meat from Dairy, those rules are only found in the Oral Law Traditions no where else. Even though Saul had a vision of his own he was unable to accept Peter’s, if in fact he had knowledge of it.


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