Legalism -- and Jesus says idolatrous worship -- is deriving
acts of worship
to be performed for other people. This is
not burning
animals but is ceremonial legalism which is idolatry
-- the worship of
self-selected talent who have signed onto "The Good
Ship Sacrifice" as
master while the honest evangelist does the real work.
Legalistic or
vain or idolatrous worship was defined by Jesus as
coming out of their
own empty heads:
- He answered and
said
unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you
hypocrites, as it is
written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far
from me. Mark 7:6
-
- Howbeit in
vain do
they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments
of
men. Mark 7:7
Vain or empty
worship is
depraved or idolatrous worship:
- Maten (g3155) mat'-ane;
accus. of a der. of
the base of 3145 (through the idea of tentative
manipulation, i.e. unsuccessful
search, or else of
punishment); folly, i.e. (adv.) to no purpose: -
in vain.
In Isaiah 29 God
warns of
people who could not or would not read or sing the
words in the book True sacrifice or praise is
returning God's Words
back to Him because we simply are not literate
enough to approach Him
with the sacrifice which we have concocted out of
blind minds.
- Wherefore the
Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their
lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart
far from me, and
their fear toward me is taught by the precept of
men: Isaiah 29:13
QUOTED
FROM ISAIAH:
Isaiah
did not
define a true fast
or worship as something which you do but something
you do not do:
- If thou turn
away thy
foot from the sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a
delight, the holy of
the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not
doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words:
Isaiah 58:13
-
- Thus saith the
Lord of
hosts, Hearken not
unto the words of
the prophets that prophesy
unto you; they
make you vain: they speak a vision of
their own heart, and not out of
the mouth of the Lord. Jeremiah 23:16
These false
prophets, and
increasingly prophetesses, will violently attack
Biblical worshipers by
accusing them of being legalistic because they
refuse to have their
mind manipulated by "talented" song and sermon.
However, as prophesied,
this is turning the truth upside down: the
legalistics are the
performance worshipers:
- These are
murmurers,
complainers, walking after their own lusts; and
their mouth speaketh
great swelling words, having mens persons in
admiration because of advantage. Jude 1:16
THE
VERSION FROM
EZEKIEL clearly identifies all performance music
as belonging to the
sectarian HYPOCRITES.
Also, thou son
of man,
the children of thy people still
are talking against
thee by the walls and in the doors
of the houses, and speak one to another, every one
to his brother,
saying, Come, I
pray you, and hear
what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.
Eze 33:30
And they come unto
thee as the people cometh,
and they sit before
thee as my people,
and
they hear thy words,
but they will
not do them:
for with their
mouth
they shew much love,
(Lord, Lord as amorousness - inordinate
love),
but
their heart goeth after their covetousness. Eze
33:31
Indeed, to them
you are nothing more than one who sings love
songs (minstrel as a prostitute) with a
beautiful voice and plays (make melody on) an
instrument well,
for they hear
your
words but do not
put them into practice. Eze 33:32NIVWhen
all this comes true--and it surely
will--then they
will know that a prophet has been among them." Eze 33:33
From: Agab
(h5689) aw-gab'; a prim. root; to breathe after,
i. e. to love
(sensually): - dote, lover.
The Spirit of
Christ (1
Peter 1:11, Rev 19:10) speaking through pointed to
the Hypocrites who
were a SECTARIAN group of religious performers
said, in effect: Musical
performance is hypocritical (by definition) and is
therefore JUST
NOTHING at all.
Because their
performance
effort is divisive their actions and Jude define
them as the true
sectarians.
Hupokrinô reply, make
answer
2. expound,
interpret, explain [outlawed
by Peter
as private interpretation] II. Att., speak in
dialogue, hence play a part on the stage, be an actor,
kômôidian, of orators and rhetoricians,
represent
dramatically,
use histrionic
arts, exaggerate, deliver a speech, declaim, of
orators and
rhetoricians, represent
dramatically
rhêtor-ikos , ê, on, oratorical, hê rhêtorikê (sc. technê). These are the craftsmen lumped
with the singers, musicians and "grinder" doing
merchandise in the
house of prayer. Rev. 18:22
Hupo-kritikos
, ê, on, belonging to hupokrisis 2. suited for speaking or
delivery, lexis
-kôtatê ib. 1413b9, cf. Demetr.Eloc.193: hê -kê
(sc. technê) the art of delivery
Techne
is defines LEGALISTC III. an art or
craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or
method of making or doing,
whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts,
rhetoric, poetry, A.Ag.249
Sorcery.
"Worship" performane which has to be REHEARSED is
the definition of
LEGALISM.
One of
the roles
was as canto I. Neutr., to produce
melodious sounds
(by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing,
play (class. in prose
and poetry; to sing and play while the actor
accompanies the song with
gestures or dancing, C. Transf., of instruments, to
sound, resound: a
Orator.
And the voice of harpers, and musicians,
and of pipers,
and trumpeters,
shall be heard no more at all in
thee; and no craftsman [TECHNE],
of whatsoever
craft he be, shall be found any more in
thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in
thee; Rev 18:22
Hupo-kritēs , ou,
A. one
who answers:
3.
metaph., pretender, dissembler, hypocrite, LXX Jb.34.30,
36.13,
Ev.Matt.23.13,
Poikilos
“drakōn” Pi.P.8.46
2. of Art, p. humnos a song of
changeful strain or full of diverse
art, Pi.O.6.87;
“poikilon kitharizōn” Id.N.4.14;
“dedaidalmenoi pseudesi poikilois muthoi” Id.O.1.29;
of
style, “lexis poiētikōtera kai p.” Isoc.15.47
(Comp.); “skhēmatismoi”
4. changeable, unstable, “ho eudaimōn ou p. kai eumetabolos”
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