These are absolutely lovely. I use an Etchr bag too, but the I have the big one & the field kit. I grew up in Ohio & now live in the desert. What I miss most are the trees and critters, (lightning bugs!) autumn, & the rain. Where you live is gorgeous, and I will never tire of watching you paint trees!
What with the lockdown and the rest of it, just getting outside is a trip. Shaking hands with a tree seems a noble ambition. Been considering experimenting with a split primary palette. Paraphrasing the old saw...so much to do so little time...
Not a Hugger but definitely a Lover, years ago a friend gifted me with a Coffee Table Book titled, 'MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES". Author Thomas Pakenham followed up with similar, (Remarkable T ... World) BUT the first Volume is a MUST for any Tree Lover. The focus is on Trees in Great Britain and some will take your breath away. I have amassed over the years many other similar Coffee Table Books on Trees but the 1998 version far surpasses all others. Just looked Amz its now in affordable Paperback! thank you as always for your fantastic Tutorials. Kindly, Justine NY
Amazing. I've never watched Plein Air before - you have so quickly captured the essence of the trees - beautiful! It must be refreshing to be outside and paint. Thanks so much for all you share.
“Portrait of a Tree” would make a lovely print - I love the one that you did with the split primary palette. I really like the graphite one too but I’m drawn to the colored one. Thanks for the verses at the end of each video, I love those too!💕
Being still in lockdown here in the UK . I am itching to get out and do some Plein-air painting . It looks like I am going to be stuck in for foreseeable future. But I have got a small yard unfortunately I have not got many trees nearby but I have a lovely flowing bush in a pot and you have given me a good reason to have a go , even though I have not painted many plants before . Hope all you folks are safe and well and I pray that we will all come out of this pandemic soon safe and sound.
Ok, that’s it, I’m going to drop everything, gonna grab my paints and head outside. It’s a glorious day in north Georgia. Thanks for the kick in the butt!
Hi, I am new to the channel. With the lockdown enforced in our country, I have picked up watercolour painting, just to ease the stress I guess and learn smth new...I really like your videos. Thanks for all the explanations, they do indeed help to improve my technic (if I can call it that) as I have never taken drawing/painting lessons and very often just have to go with a gut feeling. Liked both sketches. Loved how you went with a purplish colour for the tree trunk.
I really enjoy how the watercolor came out. But man, your experiment to the right of it, has some intensity! Real impact on it. Here I was, not thinking that anything would beat the watercolor tree. But there’s just a really evocative feel on the one next to it, which was unexpected! Amazing job on both. And I think your experiments on the right hand side worked out very well!
That is really interesting. Have you tried those Chroma glasses? I think I might have a brown/green problem with color. Someone was using a Burnt Sienna copic marker and it looked like a dark olive green to me, and when they used some Green shade it looked tan to me. Now I'm wondering. Most greens look green to me and it's my favorite color. I have a pair of rose tinted sunglasses and when I used to wear them the greens looked so much greener and I felt happier. The blue sky seemed brighter. Just nature colors seemed more intense and beautiful.
Omg, this was so satisfying for me to watch, especially since it's been a year since I did any Plein-Air Paintings. I miss going out to paint in the nature! ❤️
This was very relaxing. Just got to test my new Versatil travel brush yesterday, and it was so nice to be outside painting again (though here in California I haven't really had an excuse for not getting outside...)
Trees! My favorite! This video made me so happy. Just thinking about sitting outside in the sun painting lifts my spirits. Also, that little palette is so cute! I converted a mini altoid tin with half pans on magnets, but yours looks like it has a nicer mixing space (albeit small)
Gloriously beautiful! I love when you draw/paint trees. I stare at two huge and beautiful Oaks across the street. One has branches that twirl from the trunk, about four feet up from the ground and then several branches twists around one another in a huge braided band. They make the eeriest groaning sounds when it's windy too. I practice drawing them but I'm just not able to do them justice. Thanks for such an enjoyable video!
Hi Steve, I'm a huge fan of your watercolors and especially your trees - so natural & absolutely life-like. Have you ever seen a B.C.(Pacific) Dogwood in flower? They can grow up to 16 ft. high. Would love to know how to paint one; guess I'd need to master negative painting or strategically spatter on some frisket? A future tutorial maybe?? Stay safe, regards from Vancouver, Canada
Hi Steve! What would you recomend for "painters block"? Always wanted to know how to paint relaiatic paintings of plants. While in lockdown I got myself to the satisfactory level and now I lost the fun of discovering and it turned to "just a process". How do I find the joy of it again?
where can you get those clips with the magnet on the one side, to hold your palettes...that is such a cool way to have your palette convenient for painting!
You used the water-soluble graphite, but it didn't look like you added any water to it. Did you? I really enjoyed seeing you with these trees. Thanks. 😍🌲🌳🥰
Just curious.. why ink pen instead of pencil? Are there benefits of one over the other? I haven't used the toned paper for watercolor, I look forward to trying it!
This was awesome! The caran d'ache pencils reminded me to ask a question: Do you have a video on Caran d'ache museum watercolor pencils? I have a set but haven't used them much, plus they don't fit into a pencil sharpener, so I guess you sharpen with a knife?! Would appreciate any knowledge on these! Thanks for all your videos!
I love this sketchbook page soo much! You ARE the master! What type of gouache is in those pans? I'm surprised they haven't cracked and crumbled. Thank you for this video. 💖
Your outside area looked very relaxing. Did your Dad plant any of the trees there or were they always on the land? Outdoors can be a challenge here. Yesterday was 101 and we are at 98 today, with a pretty strong breeze. Seems a little early this year.. Thanks for the video on the tinted paper, take care and stay well.
Is it anyone's experience that pan watercolors feel chalky? Or is that a characteristic of gouache? Cause I have a set of pan paints and I'm not sure if they are watercolor or gouache. The watercolors that I have in a tube don't have a chalky feel after I used them on my watercolor paper. But these pans do. Any help would be appreciated.
To enter the kingdom of God: Maybe it’s because we’ve never know any other way of living, having become accustomed to the ways and cares of this world. The things in the world and what we do, we know one day will cease. Solomon, king of Israel, sought to know the end of having abundant material possessions and perceived they were vanity and vexation of spirit. Money, wealth, status, possessions are promised to God’s servants within reason and according to His purpose, but they aren’t guaranteed or the reason why He has called us to be sons and daughters nor was it His purpose to give us a carefree life. Not many rich are called, not many noble men or those who are wise in this world are called, but God has called the fatherless, the widows, those who are meek, who mourn, who are persecuted for His name’s sake for the kingdom of God. Many trials and tribulations are appointed to those who live godly in Christ Jesus. Through them all, our Lord will deliver us. These trials although are grievous at the present time, are strengthening us for the day when He will make up His precious jewels. God is righteous and His eyes can’t behold iniquity. Most of the things we watch on TV are ungodly in God’s sight. Unless it is pure and free from sin, you should guard your soul so you aren’t tempted by evil. The lusts of the world and the things within will pass away but he or she that does the will of God will abide forever. In order to be found perfect and blameless before the Father and His Son Jesus, we must renounce the pleasures we’ve become comfortable doing and live holy and separate from the world, guarding our soul from all evil and the appearance of evil, including friends or family who are not serving God. Admonish them and guide them if they are willing to listen. There is always the day when they could finally understand and begin to serve Him in love and truth. Don’t give up, continue to teach them with the same kindness He showed us for Christ’s sake. If anyone has unforgivingness, ask God to heal you. Our fight isn’t against the people who have hurt us but against the principalities working in them which caused them to do things they wouldn’t do if they truly understood God and His glory, kindness, and righteousness. If anyone is struggling with any form of lust or demonic oppression, fast and pray to God, and He will deliver you and heal you. Meditate in the scriptures as often as you can. God is near to the broken-hearted. Rejoice because if we are found worthy, He shall wipe away our tears from our eyes and lead us into His kingdom. Our Father in heaven sent His Son to us so we may have eternal life. His blood ended the Leviticus sacrifices for sin which was the schoolmaster, the law of sin and death, that could never give anyone who continually sacrificed the blood of the animals eternal life. Only the blood of Jesus and keeping His commandments will give us eternal life in the kingdom. The Laws of God, His Ten Commandments, Sabbath, feast days, and dietary law will be kept in Jesus’s millennial kingdom and eternally in the Father’s kingdom, New Jerusalem. His laws are holy and pure, good and righteous, they bring life and save all who keep them from death. God does not ask much from us. He knows what we can endure, and the suffering we will go through will push us to a breaking point, to test what is in our hearts and whether we will do His will. We may sin, but God will not cast us down forever. He will hold us up again and give us strength to endure the race. The laws are not impossible to keep. Zechariah and Elizabeth, the father and mother of John the Baptist, kept the laws of God without blame (Luke 1:5-6), not because they never sinned, but because they didn’t try to willfully sin against God’s law and kept His commandments with a pure and earnest heart. We cannot receive the blood of Jesus unless we begin to keep His commandments. His word is truth; all those who love Him will keep his commandments. If we do not, then we lie and do not the truth, the truth being the word of God, His commandments. Psalm 119:142 KJV [142] Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. 1 John 1:5-7 KJV [5] This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. [6] If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: [7] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John 2:3-5 KJV [3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. [4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [5] But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Galatians is about the law of animal sacrifice. Christ is the sin sacrifice. His purpose on Earth was to die to redeem us from our sins. The blood of the animals temporarily kept God from killing the people but couldn’t redeem them from sin and death. (Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord). Adam’s transgression (Genesis 3) cut humanity off from receiving eternal life. Only through Christ can we have hope of receiving eternal life. Adam was without sin before he transgressed the law of God. Jesus Christ redeems you back to the state Adam was before he transgressed God. Christ frees you from all your past sins (Matthew 24:13 [13]But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved) until you die or when he returns (2 Timothy 4:1 [1] I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom). Most of the nation of Israel during the time Paul wrote Galatians were keeping the animal sacrifices because they didn’t believe Christ was the sacrificial Lamb of God. When Christ died, the veil of the temple ripped (Matthew 27:51 and Hebrews 9:7-11), symbolizing the end of the Levitical priesthood for animal sacrifices and the beginning of the order of Melchisedec under Jesus Christ. Many of the Jews believed the newly converted Gentiles had to keep the law of animal sacrifice. They didn’t understand Christ’s purpose as the sacrificial Lamb of God. Paul said the law is not of faith and Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:12-13) by being a curse himself. This can’t be the law of God (Ten Commandments, feast days, dietary laws) because the law of God is holy and perfect (Psalm 19:7). The law of animal sacrifice could not redeem you from your sins once you transgressed the laws of God. Transgressing the laws of God put you in sin (1 John 3:4 Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law). They did not receive the blood of Christ but were still under the blood of the animals. The Jews believed if they sacrificed an animal to repent of their sin, God would forgive them. They didn’t love God enough to understand that true repentance begins in the heart or mind. David in Psalm 51 said he would have sacrificed to God for forgiveness, but he knew that wasn’t true repentance. Anyone with enough animals could sin as much as they wanted knowing that God would forgive them if all they must do was to kill an animal. That is why David said true sacrifice comes from a contrite, remorseful spirit, and why Paul said this law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. The law of animal sacrifice was to teach people sin had repercussions or punishments. Hebrews 10:1-4 KJV For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. [2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. The Sabbath day existed before Israel became a nation. It is the rest God promised to his people in Hebrews 4 but because of sin, they could not enter it. Jesus' millennial kingdom is on the 7000th year of man which is the 7th day for a day with God is as thousand years (2 Peter 3:8). The feast of tabernacles and the 8th day feast symbolize the 7 thousand years of man and the 8th day symbolizes when there will be no more flesh and blood humans with everyone having received their spiritual bodies whether to life eternal or damnation. Each feast is significant and all men will keep them in Jesus' kingdom on Earth in Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:22-24 KJV For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. [23] And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. [24] And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. Israel is God's holy name. When we accept Him we become his children spiritually. When the children of Israel made the covenant on Mt Sinai they become God's firstborn. The Gentiles are grafted into the holy olive tree which is Christ and the covenant Israel made. When we die, God will judge us based on the things written in the books of the laws of God (Revelation 20:11-13).
Same here, Steve. I love trees very much, too. 😊
I could listen to you talk about painting forever. Thank you for doing what you do. You’re a real blessing.
I agree that both of these pieces would make lovely prints!
U are so inspiring! Thank you for sharing?,,😊
Great video. Very interesting; Thank You very much. Looking forward to visit your next wc video. Greatings from Germany.
Beautifully done and thanks for the tips. Keep sharing your awesome talent sir.☺️💕🙏🏻
These are absolutely lovely. I use an Etchr bag too, but the I have the big one & the field kit. I grew up in Ohio & now live in the desert. What I miss most are the trees and critters, (lightning bugs!) autumn, & the rain. Where you live is gorgeous, and I will never tire of watching you paint trees!
Beautiful
So,gooooooooood!
Very nice & realistic looking. Thanks for sharing.
The trees are glorious and so are your sketches. Thanks so much for sharing your talents!!!
Precioso
Lovely set up and sketch, makes me want to jump outside and enjoy the Spring and use my paints. Thank you for sharing it.
Once again, just beautiful. Love your work. Thank you! Stay safe!
What with the lockdown and the rest of it, just getting outside is a trip. Shaking hands with a tree seems a noble ambition. Been considering experimenting with a split primary palette. Paraphrasing the old saw...so much to do so little time...
That's so chill to watch ! I like that the toned paper is not too dark so watercolor still shows up nicely but it gives it a little more extra.
Not a Hugger but definitely a Lover, years ago a friend gifted me with a Coffee Table Book titled, 'MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE TREES". Author Thomas Pakenham followed up with similar, (Remarkable T ... World) BUT the first Volume is a MUST for any Tree Lover. The focus is on Trees in Great Britain and some will take your breath away. I have amassed over the years many other similar Coffee Table Books on Trees but the 1998 version far surpasses all others. Just looked Amz its now in affordable Paperback! thank you as always for your fantastic Tutorials. Kindly, Justine NY
Love both images, especially the watercolor one.❤️❤️❤️
Thanks, Steve ~ You’re always so inspirational ~ made my day💁🏼♀️
I LOVE my Pocket Palette from Expeditionary Art! I'm happy to see you using the grey-toned book. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride. 😁🖌😍
Beautiful!!!
Awesome Steve..!! Such a Great Channel. Such a Great Teacher. Thank you for what you do. 👊😷
Amazing. I've never watched Plein Air before - you have so quickly captured the essence of the trees - beautiful! It must be refreshing to be outside and paint. Thanks so much for all you share.
“Portrait of a Tree” would make a lovely print - I love the one that you did with the split primary palette. I really like the graphite one too but I’m drawn to the colored one. Thanks for the verses at the end of each video, I love those too!💕
I love the monochromatic experiment! Fantastic background ;)
Being still in lockdown here in the UK . I am itching to get out and do some Plein-air painting . It looks like I am going to be stuck in for foreseeable future. But I have got a small yard unfortunately I have not got many trees nearby but I have a lovely flowing bush in a pot and you have given me a good reason to have a go , even though I have not painted many plants before . Hope all you folks are safe and well and I pray that we will all come out of this pandemic soon safe and sound.
This was such a nice video to take our minds off all the stresses today. Thank you so much for sharing your talents on RUclips!
Ok, that’s it, I’m going to drop everything, gonna grab my paints and head outside. It’s a glorious day in north Georgia. Thanks for the kick in the butt!
So beautiful, so inspiring for us artists... When I watch your videos, all I want to to is paint :)
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Your videos are fantastic. Your sensor needs a cleaning. My eyes kept going to the spots. Thanks for all of the work you do to post these videos!!
Hi, I am new to the channel. With the lockdown enforced in our country, I have picked up watercolour painting, just to ease the stress I guess and learn smth new...I really like your videos. Thanks for all the explanations, they do indeed help to improve my technic (if I can call it that) as I have never taken drawing/painting lessons and very often just have to go with a gut feeling. Liked both sketches. Loved how you went with a purplish colour for the tree trunk.
The tree is beautiful. You make it look so easy 😀
Oh! That travel brush! I just ordered 2 of those. They were on sale and I'm so looking forward to using them!
I really enjoy how the watercolor came out. But man, your experiment to the right of it, has some intensity! Real impact on it. Here I was, not thinking that anything would beat the watercolor tree. But there’s just a really evocative feel on the one next to it, which was unexpected! Amazing job on both. And I think your experiments on the right hand side worked out very well!
this is fun and turned out well, the journey was delightful
With being colorblind I've found using toned paper helps with my values.
That is really interesting. Have you tried those Chroma glasses? I think I might have a brown/green problem with color. Someone was using a Burnt Sienna copic marker and it looked like a dark olive green to me, and when they used some Green shade it looked tan to me. Now I'm wondering. Most greens look green to me and it's my favorite color. I have a pair of rose tinted sunglasses and when I used to wear them the greens looked so much greener and I felt happier. The blue sky seemed brighter. Just nature colors seemed more intense and beautiful.
@@recoveringsoul755 no, never tried the glasses. I've wanted to for awhile, just never spent the money.
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oh wow! how I I wish I could draw and paint like you! my supplies arent great but I am making progress (at least I think so, lol) Thanks for sharing!
We haven't got any leaves yet up here in the North but we do have buds. :)
Omg, this was so satisfying for me to watch, especially since it's been a year since I did any Plein-Air Paintings.
I miss going out to paint in the nature! ❤️
This was very relaxing. Just got to test my new Versatil travel brush yesterday, and it was so nice to be outside painting again (though here in California I haven't really had an excuse for not getting outside...)
Trees! My favorite! This video made me so happy. Just thinking about sitting outside in the sun painting lifts my spirits. Also, that little palette is so cute! I converted a mini altoid tin with half pans on magnets, but yours looks like it has a nicer mixing space (albeit small)
Great!!
Thank you, Steve, for the video and for the scripture! You are such a blessing in so many ways!
Gloriously beautiful! I love when you draw/paint trees. I stare at two huge and beautiful Oaks across the street. One has branches that twirl from the trunk, about four feet up from the ground and then several branches twists around one another in a huge braided band. They make the eeriest groaning sounds when it's windy too. I practice drawing them but I'm just not able to do them justice. Thanks for such an enjoyable video!
This is so gorgeous! How a simple tree can be a masterpiece! I’m still not in love with the Hahnemuhle sketchbook.... this makes me want to try again.
Lulis, this is a new Watercolor Grey book from Hahnemuhle. Give it a try! Let me know how it goes! Joe-Hahnemuhle USA.
Wow !! Great work.
Excellent job! I've been following you videos for a few years. Keep up the good work! Always looking for you videos to pop up!
hi, thank for your video. How do you hold your palettes on the border of the etchr tab ? Such a good idea, I'd like de to do the same
Hi Steve, I'm a huge fan of your watercolors and especially your trees - so natural & absolutely life-like. Have you ever seen a B.C.(Pacific) Dogwood in flower? They can grow up to 16 ft. high. Would love to know how to paint one; guess I'd need to master negative painting or strategically spatter on some frisket? A future tutorial maybe?? Stay safe, regards from Vancouver, Canada
Yes, on the two approaches you mention. Another would be gouache. But mask/frisket would be my choice.
Thanks Steve. I'm so jealous. Your trees have leaves. Next week ours will start. Still just brown sticks.☹
Hi Steve! What would you recomend for "painters block"? Always wanted to know how to paint relaiatic paintings of plants. While in lockdown I got myself to the satisfactory level and now I lost the fun of discovering and it turned to "just a process". How do I find the joy of it again?
where can you get those clips with the magnet on the one side, to hold your palettes...that is such a cool way to have your palette convenient for painting!
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You used the water-soluble graphite, but it didn't look like you added any water to it. Did you?
I really enjoyed seeing you with these trees. Thanks. 😍🌲🌳🥰
Yes I did
Just curious.. why ink pen instead of pencil? Are there benefits of one over the other? I haven't used the toned paper for watercolor, I look forward to trying it!
I like the unique ability of ballpoint pens to shade with varied pressure yet get very dark and they don't smear like pencil.
This was awesome! The caran d'ache pencils reminded me to ask a question: Do you have a video on Caran d'ache museum watercolor pencils? I have a set but haven't used them much, plus they don't fit into a pencil sharpener, so I guess you sharpen with a knife?! Would appreciate any knowledge on these! Thanks for all your videos!
No, but I do have a couple on Albrecht Dürers from Faber Castell. They work the same.
@mindofwatercolor hey steve would you happen to know any toned watercolor paper with 300lb weight and cotton? Isnt hanamuhle pulp ?
No 300lb toned that I know of. This tone sketchbook is pulp as I mentioned but they make 100% cotton watercolor paper just not in a sketchbook.
I love this sketchbook page soo much! You ARE the master!
What type of gouache is in those pans? I'm surprised they haven't cracked and crumbled.
Thank you for this video. 💖
Gouache is Holbein.
so lovely as always steve! How did you attach the palettes to the etchr bag?
Magnet clips.
Your outside area looked very relaxing. Did your Dad plant any of the trees there or were they always on the land? Outdoors can be a challenge here. Yesterday was 101 and we are at 98 today, with a pretty strong breeze. Seems a little early this year.. Thanks for the video on the tinted paper, take care and stay well.
The trees were always there. My dad cleared this land which was originally a wild wooded area. He left the best trees. Mostly oaks and hickories.
Is it anyone's experience that pan watercolors feel chalky? Or is that a characteristic of gouache? Cause I have a set of pan paints and I'm not sure if they are watercolor or gouache. The watercolors that I have in a tube don't have a chalky feel after I used them on my watercolor paper. But these pans do. Any help would be appreciated.
Yes, gouache will seem chalky and student grade watercolors sometimes will.
I havent tried the etchr slate bag. I got the backpack. I dont like the backpack. I wish I had gotten the slate bag.
As soon as I can I’m gonna “ go find a tree”,
To enter the kingdom of God:
Maybe it’s because we’ve never know any other way of living, having become accustomed to the ways and cares of this world. The things in the world and what we do, we know one day will cease. Solomon, king of Israel, sought to know the end of having abundant material possessions and perceived they were vanity and vexation of spirit.
Money, wealth, status, possessions are promised to God’s servants within reason and according to His purpose, but they aren’t guaranteed or the reason why He has called us to be sons and daughters nor was it His purpose to give us a carefree life. Not many rich are called, not many noble men or those who are wise in this world are called, but God has called the fatherless, the widows, those who are meek, who mourn, who are persecuted for His name’s sake for the kingdom of God. Many trials and tribulations are appointed to those who live godly in Christ Jesus. Through them all, our Lord will deliver us. These trials although are grievous at the present time, are strengthening us for the day when He will make up His precious jewels.
God is righteous and His eyes can’t behold iniquity. Most of the things we watch on TV are ungodly in God’s sight. Unless it is pure and free from sin, you should guard your soul so you aren’t tempted by evil. The lusts of the world and the things within will pass away but he or she that does the will of God will abide forever. In order to be found perfect and blameless before the Father and His Son Jesus, we must renounce the pleasures we’ve become comfortable doing and live holy and separate from the world, guarding our soul from all evil and the appearance of evil, including friends or family who are not serving God. Admonish them and guide them if they are willing to listen. There is always the day when they could finally understand and begin to serve Him in love and truth. Don’t give up, continue to teach them with the same kindness He showed us for Christ’s sake.
If anyone has unforgivingness, ask God to heal you. Our fight isn’t against the people who have hurt us but against the principalities working in them which caused them to do things they wouldn’t do if they truly understood God and His glory, kindness, and righteousness.
If anyone is struggling with any form of lust or demonic oppression, fast and pray to God, and He will deliver you and heal you. Meditate in the scriptures as often as you can.
God is near to the broken-hearted. Rejoice because if we are found worthy, He shall wipe away our tears from our eyes and lead us into His kingdom.
Our Father in heaven sent His Son to us so we may have eternal life. His blood ended the Leviticus sacrifices for sin which was the schoolmaster, the law of sin and death, that could never give anyone who continually sacrificed the blood of the animals eternal life. Only the blood of Jesus and keeping His commandments will give us eternal life in the kingdom. The Laws of God, His Ten Commandments, Sabbath, feast days, and dietary law will be kept in Jesus’s millennial kingdom and eternally in the Father’s kingdom, New Jerusalem. His laws are holy and pure, good and righteous, they bring life and save all who keep them from death. God does not ask much from us. He knows what we can endure, and the suffering we will go through will push us to a breaking point, to test what is in our hearts and whether we will do His will.
We may sin, but God will not cast us down forever. He will hold us up again and give us strength to endure the race. The laws are not impossible to keep. Zechariah and Elizabeth, the father and mother of John the Baptist, kept the laws of God without blame (Luke 1:5-6), not because they never sinned, but because they didn’t try to willfully sin against God’s law and kept His commandments with a pure and earnest heart. We cannot receive the blood of Jesus unless we begin to keep His commandments. His word is truth; all those who love Him will keep his commandments. If we do not, then we lie and do not the truth, the truth being the word of God, His commandments.
Psalm 119:142 KJV
[142] Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
1 John 1:5-7 KJV
[5] This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. [6] If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: [7] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 2:3-5 KJV
[3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. [4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [5] But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Galatians is about the law of animal sacrifice. Christ is the sin sacrifice. His purpose on Earth was to die to redeem us from our sins. The blood of the animals temporarily kept God from killing the people but couldn’t redeem them from sin and death. (Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord). Adam’s transgression (Genesis 3) cut humanity off from receiving eternal life. Only through Christ can we have hope of receiving eternal life. Adam was without sin before he transgressed the law of God. Jesus Christ redeems you back to the state Adam was before he transgressed God. Christ frees you from all your past sins (Matthew 24:13 [13]But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved) until you die or when he returns (2 Timothy 4:1 [1] I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom).
Most of the nation of Israel during the time Paul wrote Galatians were keeping the animal sacrifices because they didn’t believe Christ was the sacrificial Lamb of God. When Christ died, the veil of the temple ripped (Matthew 27:51 and Hebrews 9:7-11), symbolizing the end of the Levitical priesthood for animal sacrifices and the beginning of the order of Melchisedec under Jesus Christ. Many of the Jews believed the newly converted Gentiles had to keep the law of animal sacrifice. They didn’t understand Christ’s purpose as the sacrificial Lamb of God. Paul said the law is not of faith and Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:12-13) by being a curse himself. This can’t be the law of God (Ten Commandments, feast days, dietary laws) because the law of God is holy and perfect (Psalm 19:7). The law of animal sacrifice could not redeem you from your sins once you transgressed the laws of God. Transgressing the laws of God put you in sin (1 John 3:4 Whoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law). They did not receive the blood of Christ but were still under the blood of the animals.
The Jews believed if they sacrificed an animal to repent of their sin, God would forgive them. They didn’t love God enough to understand that true repentance begins in the heart or mind. David in Psalm 51 said he would have sacrificed to God for forgiveness, but he knew that wasn’t true
repentance. Anyone with enough animals could sin as much as they wanted knowing that God would forgive them if all they must do was to kill an animal. That is why David said true sacrifice comes from a contrite, remorseful spirit, and why Paul said this law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. The law of animal sacrifice was to teach people sin had repercussions or punishments.
Hebrews 10:1-4 KJV
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. [2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
The Sabbath day existed before Israel became a nation. It is the rest God promised to his people in Hebrews 4 but because of sin, they could not enter it. Jesus' millennial kingdom is on the 7000th year of man which is the 7th day for a day with God is as thousand years (2 Peter 3:8). The feast of tabernacles and the 8th day feast symbolize the 7 thousand years of man and the 8th day symbolizes when there will be no more flesh and blood humans with everyone having received their spiritual bodies whether to life eternal or damnation. Each feast is significant and all men will keep them in Jesus' kingdom on Earth in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 66:22-24 KJV
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. [23] And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. [24] And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Israel is God's holy name. When we accept Him we become his children spiritually. When the children of Israel made the covenant on Mt Sinai they become God's firstborn. The Gentiles are grafted into the holy olive tree which is Christ and the covenant Israel made.
When we die, God will judge us based on the things written in the books of the laws of God (Revelation 20:11-13).