Walking With Christ?

(I Corinthians 10:1-14).. Paul warned & ~Exhorted~… “Moreover brethren, I would NOT that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under: ~The Cloud~ and all passed ~~Through~~ the sea, & Were ~ALL~ baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the sea; ALL did eat the same spiritual meat, ALL did drink the SAME Spiritual Drink OF THAT Spiritual *ROCK* that followed them… & The Rock WAS Christ. … BUT With many of them God was not pleased…..NOW these things were ~~our~~ Examples… They ARE FOR ~our~ *Admonition*.. Upon the ends of the world to come…Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth…*Take HEED* lest he fall…. SOOOoooo… when you hear a leader in Christ say, “*I Think*, that this is right or okay because I see nothing ~~Wrong~~ with IT, then beware…Because IF a person cannot say, this IS Good AS IT IS Written, then there IS Doubt as to whether IT IS pleasing to God and IS IN HIS OWN WILL AND WAY…. AND were there IS Doubt….???? …. AS Jesus said:
(Matthew 14:31)… “O thou of ~~little~~ *Faith*, wherefore didst thou doubt? & Paul said:
(I Corinthians 14:33)… God ~~IS NOT~~ the author of confusion, but of peace…. SOOOooo.. A good rule of thumb….. Since doubt brings about confusion, and confusion IS a killer of faith, IF there IS Room for doubt as to whether IT IS Right or Wrong, Disobedient to Gods Will and Way, search the scriptures, IF IT IS Written then IT IS Just … IF The Written Word condemns IT then leave IT Alone,,, simple rules to live by…
(John 12:26)… Jesus SAID: .. “*IF* any man/woman serve Me, let him/her” .. ~DO WHAT?~ walk about this life with their head in the stars thinking that anything that they do IS righteous because Jesus is with them no matter what they do in the world? ~~OR~~ DO we have an obligation TO?: “let him (us/we) Follow Me (Jesus); & Where I (Jesus) am, there shall also My servant be, *IF* any man/woman ~Serve~ Me (Jesus), him/her will My Father honour,”
(John 10:5)… AND Jesus said: “AND a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers” … (27).. “My (Jesus) sheep (us/we who call ourselves Christian, +Meaning+ =followers of Christ+ not leaders of Christ) hear My (Jesus) Voice, AND I (Jesus) know them, & they *Follow* Me…..
A lot to be taken into account here, and herein are we to scrutinize, our walk, our talk, our belief, back up a step and take a look at the path on which we are walking……leading our children down…. God did not leave us HIS Holy Inspired Book OF ALL Instruction to be placed on a shelf and left there to gather dust while we follow men’s traditions in the ways of the world and claim that we are righteous because Jesus is going with us everywhere +WE+ go… Because, Jesus SAID:..
(Proverbs 16:25)… There IS A Way that seemeth right unto a man, BUT The end thereof ARE The ways of death… (Matthew 7: 14-15).. “Because ~~Strait IS The Gate, & Narrow IS The Way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find IT … Beware of: ~False Prophets~~
There IS A Way that seemeth right unto ~a man~, but the end thereof are the ways of death….”
SOOOO when your planning that big Easter party at the Church, to color, hide, hunt eggs, leading the precious little ones to hunt for Jesus in this act, STOP, and pick up Gods Book of ~ALL~ instruction and search out: ~Justified~ ask yourself, where did this come from? What ~~man~~ declared this to be the way to Memorialize the :Crucifixion, Resurrection, & Ascension of our Dear Lord, Savior, and THE Son of Almighty God? ASK yourself IS this pleasing THE Father? OR Satan and the man that he subtly leads? It’s fun It looks good, IT brings laughter….. To the people…. BUTTTT… then the Israelites put up their false practices and sat down to eat and rose up to play there was laughter and fun, until God punished them for acting in this manner……. Didn’t they? Read about IT IN the message that Paul gives us in: (I Corinthians 10) again…..
(Romans 2:13).. For not ~The~ *hearers* of the law are just before God, BUT the doers of the law shall be justified….
(Galatians 2:17)… *IF* while we seek to be justified ~BY~~ Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, IS therefore Christ THE Minister of sin? God forbid!
(Galatians 3:11) .. BUT That *NO* man IS ~~Justified~~ by the law in THE Sight of God, IT IS Evident: For, =The Just= ~shall live~ BY *faith*…. (NOT by men’s thinking, bringing in of doubt and confusion… BUT BY Faith….)
(James 2:21)… Was not Abraham our father ~~justified~~ by works, when he offered Isaac~ his son upon the alter? (23).. Abraham ~believed~ *God*, and IT was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the ~~friend of God~~ (24).. Ye see then how that by works a man IS justified, & not by faith only….
BUT By the works that are pleasing unto God… Obedient unto HIS Will and Way, we can work all our life in the ways of the world and our works will be counted as dirty rags, before the LORD, because we have walked contrary to HIS teaching that HE Had printed for us to *Follow*, not trying to lead HIM or HIS Son, to follow us in the world and make what we do right, BUT What God does IS Right, and Where God leads us, IS where we must follow, not what man leads us to do….
(Isaiah 64:6).. We are all as an unclean thing, and ~all~ our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.. We all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away…
IT IS easy to excuse what we do as, just being a human and as long as we live in these bodies we are gonna sin, but that sorta makes IT to be premeditated sin…. It’s there we know IT and we’re not gonna step aside from it but we’re gonna wade right on into it cause Jesus is gonna walk beside me there…. Wrong…. Jesus will not walk beside us into a sinful act, BECAUSE, He has made a WAY That helps us to avoid this, the thing IS we gotta *FOLLOW* His Way and He Will Lead us around the sin, or through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, BUT ~~we~~ Must follow Him….. Very Important to remember and realize, Jesus never said, where you lead Me I will follow, did He?
The little poem and pictures of footprints in the sand, IS a touching poem, but:
(Matthew 11:29-30) Tells us AS Jesus said: “Take My yoke upon you, & learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for My yoke IS easy and My burden IS light…”
So we must seek The Truth, AS IT IS Written… not try to live in a fantasy of things the way man paints IT….. AND IT does amaze me that so many will readily accept man’s fantasies as truth, but blindly reject the Bible as something tooo supernatural to be realistic… So they think they have to find a more suitable way to teach the children thus instilling fables and tales of pagan history to teach the truths of Gods Word…. Does this make sense?
*IF* we claim TO believe God, Then we must proceed to ~Obey~ God to walk in HIS Will and Way, not to embrace the ways of a world which God has said, HE does ~NOT~ approve of AND IS Going to destroy….. AND When we celebrate ~THE Lords~ Memorial in the ways of a fleshly world, we are standing on dangerous grounds and teaching our children rebellion rather than Love….. WE teach waaay TOOOO, much flesh to our children… Open your eyes, look around you… SEE… the matter that this world is made of and the way not only we are leading our children, but because of ignorant stubbornness, and a desire to enjoy this fleshly life we too are falling along the ways of Satan’s broad and spacious path…
(John 14:3)… Jesus said: “*IF* I (Jesus) go & prepare a place for you, (us/we who ARE followers of Christ) I (Jesus) Will come again, & Receive you into Myself, THAT Where I am, there ye may be also……
Don’t get mad because I chastise you of the ways of the world, BUT Rather Get glad that Jesus made us all this promise, and seek to walk in the path that He laid for us all to:: *Follow* instead of chasing after a lost and dying world… Open your eyes and look at where you are stepping,,,, there may be a ~Big~ sink hole into the mire of hell just in front of your toe…. Read the “Word”, Be Reformed, Be Repentant, Seek TO Become Obedient Unto God’s Will and Way, estrange yourself from the world led by Satan and his army of demons……
(II Samuel 22:31-33).. AS FOR God, HIS Way IS Perfect, The Word of THE LORD IS Tried: HE IS A Buckler to ~~ALL~~ them that trust IN HIM… For WHO IS God, save our LORD? AND WHO IS A Rock, save our God? God IS my strength and power: HE Maketh my way ~~Perfect~~….
(I Kings 8:61)… Let your heart therefore ~~BE Perfect~~ with the LORD our God, to walk IN HIS Statutes, & TO Keep HIS Commandments, as at this day…
(Luke 6:40)… Jesus said: “The disciple IS not above his Master: BUT everyone that IS perfect, shall be as his Master..
SO *IF* we learn TO Follow instead of trying to lead we will learn as Jesus said:
(John 17:23)… “I (Jesus) in them, (we/us who are followers of Christ His disciples), AND Thou (Father) IN Me (Jesus), that they (we/us) may be (what?) Made ~~Perfect~~ IN One; and that the world may know that THOU (God The Father) hast sent Me, (Jesus Christ the Son) and hast loved them, (us/we) as THOU (Father) hast Loved Me, (Jesus Christ)…”
This one verse lifts my spirit in the joy of the LORD so much higher than any manmade event, or fun filled time, with the Name of Jesus attached to it… Because IT IS Truth… IT IS Not laced with pagan belief, or presented with worldly cultures… BUT IT IS Simply given as Jesus said, that the world might know… The Father, The Son, and The true followers of Christ as ~one~ in the perfection of God’s LOVE……
In fact IT IS Not accounted that Jesus ever donned a clown face, colored an egg, played a game of chance, or competition, or joined in any of the pagan festivities that were very present on the earth as He walked about teaching OF, “The Kingdom OF God”…. && *IF* we’re gonna Follow Him IN His Will and Way, neither should or can we……