I hear and read so may times the words of preachers and teachers, That *IF* you want to be saved just `~ask;~ “Lord Jesus, come into my heart,” and ye shall be saved… Just a ~Simple~ statement sorta like ordering a burger at the local drive-in, in a matter of fact way…Kinda like just take IT for granted that Jesus will do what we ask just because we ask IT… IS this really what The Bible Teaches? IS This Really ~ALL~ that there IS TO IT?
As A child I was taught adamantly that Eve ate the apple, and as an unread, unstudied adult I adamantly taught the same… SO It goes on and on with the teaching of a lie, because we don’t ~~READ~~ the Bible for ourselves, study to show ourselves approved, before God and man…
(II Timothy 2:15).. And in rightly dividing the scriptures we learn to teach in The Truth and Honesty that God The Father first had the Bible penned down in. AS The Son of God ~Testified TO~…
(Read all of Proverbs chapters 2 & 3) all good scriptural instructions and then Jesus SAID:
(John 7:38) .. “He that ~believeth~ on Me, *AS The Scripture* Hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water….”
Living waters that flow with the institution of life eternal by bringing others to Christ so that they can with a repentant heart follow Him in Truth and Honesty, NOT leading them deeper into, The stagnant waters of the mire and muck of the world and its way…
(John 8:21-32).. “*IF* ye continue ~IN~ My Word, then are ye My disciples indeed, AND ye shall know ~The Truth~, and the truth shall make you free.”
How can we learn all that we need to know about Jesus and the Promises that He gave from His Father to us? By sitting and listening to someone speak, or reading the writings of man, accepting their words and getting up and going merrily about our life as though we are saved in and by the word of man? Does this prove faith in Christ? OR man?
So very many folks, will stand and proudly announce that they are ~Christians~, BUT, ask them a Biblical Related Question, and most times the answer you will get IS:, “I really don’t know what the Bible has to say about that, BUT, IN MY Opinion, IT IS OR Should be this way or that.” “I really haven’t read about that in the Bible, because THE Bible IS SO Hard to understand, and I just don’t have the time to sit down and read the Bible, BUT I AM A Christian and I attend regular Church Services and listen to the messages that the preacher brings us.. After all that IS his job and that IS what we pay him for, is to read and study the Bible and bring us THE WORD…” Therefore we put our trust in a paid for job of a man instead of Christ from the git-go. SO IN Reality we shouldn’t call ourselves Christians, meaning followers of Christ, but rather followers of man..
BUT, listen to their praise of the ~books~ that they do find the time to read.. “Secret Loves”, “Left Behind Series”, “Modern Man/Woman”.. This IS visible proof of where the thoughts of many “Christians” dwell, and not on The Gospel OF Christ, so the ignorance that they prove IS: self inflicted, even purposed by neglect and actual denial of The Kingdom OF God…
I Hope and Pray that ~ALL~ people, will realize that man IS fallible and can speak and write misleading information, whether on purpose, or unknowing, SO we must prove mans words by, Gods Book of ALL Instruction…for ourselves.. Not sit idly by and take for granted what IS spoken or written by modern man as, truth..
Always search out the older versions of The Bible, because any Bible that was printed in the late 1800s or 1900s has been changed to reflect ~Modern Day~ teachings that watered the truths, changed words, omitted and added to the ancient scriptures that were written under the Divine Guidance of The Holy Spirit… Writers today are for the most part, just that writers of entertainment AND for ~Profit~… The few that may write under the Guiding Hand of Christ, are mostly rejected as heretics…. BUT prayerfully and carefully searching the scriptures can ~~Prove~~ Gods Word OF Truth….
(Galatians 3:22) … BUT the *Scriptures* hath concluded ~~ALL~ under sin, that the ~Promise~ by faith OF Jesus Christ, Might be given to them that ~Believe~…
(Romans 10:8- 17) … BUT What saith IT? The word IS nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that *IS*, The word of ~Faith~, which we ~~Preach~~.. (Faith in what? The ways of man in the customs of the world?) … (9).. That *IF* thou shalt confess with thy mouth The Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that, *God* hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…(17) ..SO Then ~~Faith~~ Cometh BY Hearing, (*BUT*) and ~Hearing~ BY THE WORD OF God… SO IF we don’t know what IS Written in The Word of God, how can we be assured that the message that falls upon our ears IS Truth or fiction… Because, many fables tend to get added into the Gospel through the teachings of man… (But in actuality, what IS being taught is all you gotta do to be saved, IS Ask Jesus to come into your heart.. IN this very teaching the indication IS being given that you just ask Jesus to ride along with you in this world and what you do is good because you got Jesus in your heart and can carry Him where ever YOU Want TO go… IS that what has been Written, IS any scripture that has been read so far indicated that we carry Jesus OR that we bow to and follow The Will and The Way of The Father…BY walking the path that Christ HIS Son, laid down when He walked this earth among men, doing what? Taking part in all the customs and rituals of the pagans and following the traditions of men?)
(Luke 14:27) Jesus Said, “Whosoever doth not bear his cross, AND Come after Me, cannot be My disciple…” (33).. “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh ~NOT~ ALL that he hath, he cannot be My disciple…”
SOOO does it sound like we can chase our tails around in the world and follow Christ as His disciple? OR do we have to abandon all the world and ~Come After~ (Follow as IN Christ IS The Leader, The Potter, we are the clay the followers of/in His way)…
(John 14:23).. Again Jesus Said, “*IF* a man ~Love~ Me, he will ~Keep My Words~: AND My Father will love him, and *WE* Will Come unto him, and make *OUR* abode with him.”
(Mark 1:15).. Again Jesus Said, “The ~Time~ *IS* Fulfilled, AND The Kingdom OF God *IS* AT Hand:” (Run, play in the world, join in their rituals of pagan customs, mixing them in with the teachings OF God’s Kingdom?) OR DID Jesus SAY: “REPENT ye AND BELIEVE The Gospel.” How can we repent and believe that which we do not know and have not been taught in the House where we gather TO Learn The Truth’s of our Savior?
Did Jesus follow the entertainment of the nations to teach the Gospel.. TO, the adults, young folk, children… Did He get up a busload to go to visit Disney World, to help them learn of the Kingdom OF God?
When He went into the Synagogues did He carry the themes of: Space Explorers, Famous Towns, Cowboys, Beaches, OR DID He, simply TEACH The Gospel of God’s Kingdom?
(Luke 4:16/17).. As was His custom He Stood and read from the Book of Isaiah… So IT WAS The ~~Custom~~ of Jesus To Read from the *Scriptures* not from mans Book of Fun Fables..
When you, AS A Christian Worker, go out to invite children to Vacation Bible School, OR Sunday School, IS you invitation of the world? How many times do you say, “We are having a study of God’s Written Word The Bible To learn of HIS Only Begotten Son?” OR, IS your invite more like, “We are going to have a good time in Vacation Bible School this year, because we are going to explore outer space, or visit the beach, and we’ll have ~plenty~ of good snacks every day, and exciting games to play?” IS This an honest invitation? DID you consider in any of your speech, “*IF*, IT BE God’s WILL and HIS WAY?”
According to the testimony offered, before the congregation after the VBS IS over… “VBS was successful this year, because ~WE~ had so many ~attend~.. And we even had some ask about being saved and we’re baptizing them, thus bringing an increase into the Church.” Emphasis on the ~Increase of The Church Numbers~, rather than the teaching of the ~Truth of God’s Written Word TO ONE of the little ones that Jesus Said, forbid them not to come unto ME…(Mark 10:14).. IN ALL This were they brought TO Christ, or sent deeper into the ways of the world? Were they taught what IT takes to be a follower of Christ as Jesus Taught IN:
(John 5:24).. “Verily, Verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, he that ~Heareth~ My Word, AND ~Believeth~ on HIM that ~Sent~ Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; BUT IS Passed from death unto life.”
(Mark 16:16)… “He that ~~Believeth~~ and IS Baptized shall be saved, But he that ~Believeth NOT~ shall be damned.” DID we, responsible adults, actually teach the little ones that we baptized What IT IS To Believe, OR Did we just tell them Jesus Loves you just as you are, thus baptizing them that Believeth NOT. Because they know not what to believe….other than to play the games of the world and learn of it’s ways and fabled fairy tales?
(Mark 1:15)?? Will they be prepared to go out and teach as disciples of Jesus? OR vessels of what the world has to offer?
(Mark 6:12).. And they went out, and preached that men should ~~Repent~~. AS Jesus Said:
(Luke 13:3) .. “I Tell you, Nay, Except ye *Repent*, ye shall ~ALL~ likewise perish.”
The ~Most Dangerous Game~ That folks can play IS: “Church”, more dangerous than Russian Roulette…
But most preachers don’t mention that part It is all about Jesus Loves you just as you are, you ain’t got to do nothing, but ask Him to come into your heart… And you will be saved… Leaving folks, children and adults, to believe that it is well and good for them to just carry on as they did before and they are saved, OH, and they add yet another misnomer into IT, Once you ARE Saved, you are always saved… That’s like saying that once you are ordained a preacher or a deacon you are always one… Yet how many have fell from grace because of ~~SIN~~???
(Romans 10: 15 -16).. AS IT IS Written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the ~Gospel of Peace~, and bring glad tidings of Good Things… BUT… they have not ~ALL~ obeyed the Gospel…
(Hebrews 12:15) .. Looking diligently lest ~Any man~ *FAIL* of the ~Grace of God~; lest any root of bitterness springing up, trouble you and thereby ~many~ be ~Defiled~….
(To fail means among other things to fall short, meaning that you had IT but failed in it. As well as having failed to receive IT..) but reading the rest of the verse, lest any root of bitterness spring up, would certainly indicate the act of having attained the Grace of God but falling short because of something that arose up within you… like the tendency to follow the ways of the world.)
(Titus 1:16) .. They profess that they know God; BUT in works they deny HIM, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every ~GOOD Work~ Reprobate…. What did John Write of Jesus Words of warning?
(Revelation 2:22) .. “Behold, I Will Cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, ~~EXCEPT~~(Unless) they *Repent* of their deeds.” This IS A Warning to the Church that allowed that woman Jezebel to teach, to defile it. Saved OR?
(Ephesians 2:8-10)… For by ~Grace~ (God’s Favor) are ye saved … ~Through~ *Faith*: (We obtain God’s Favor, Saving Grace, BY What vessel? Some teach that there is nothing that we can do that God JUST Automatically Saves Some folk and others are condemned to destruction and that IS What Grace IS, and That IS Why we can’t lose IT.) But Read The Bible!
(Romans 9: Of God that ~Sheweth Mercy, “I will have ~Compassion~ on whom I Will”.. “So IT IS Not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth.”
Yes, God IS THE ALL Powerful, which IS Why man’s vain thoughts, always get him into trouble… *IF* I think that I should be first in line, But God’s Will IS That I be last, then IT IS God’s Will that stands not mine… AND *IF* I think that God has to save ~~ME~~ in HIS Saving Grace, then IT IS a failed thought, because I must go through the ~~DOOR~~, (Jesus Christ, The Way, IN humble faith and *Repent* of my sins with a humble broken spirit of self, that IS The Choice that God The Father gives us… what will we do? Reject the ~Word~ and die in our sins, OR Repent and be saved? That IS The Choice that IS Freely given to man Set Before man TO Chose, from God….(Deuteronomy 30:15/19)
We are saved --- Through ~~ Faith~~, and that not of ourselves: (we can have all the *Faith* in ourselves, or that preacher behind the pulpit that we want, but that does not bring about Salvation… WE MUST have Faith Rested IN AND ON, GOD.. WHY?) IT IS The Gift OF God: (IT Comes From God, not we ourselves, or man why) Not of ~works~ lest any man should boast… (Look AT ME, LOOK What I DID, and yet how many folks do we see that count how many souls they got to come to Church, look at me I did this, I AM A Christian?) (10).. For we ARE HIS Workmanship, Created IN Christ Jesus unto ~~Good Works~~, WHICH God hath before *ORDAINED* That we should ~Walk~ IN THEM.
And yet we try to make ~~OUR~~ works be the right way, by adding our little fairy tales to God’s Written Word, twisting this very Scripture to make IT Be that we were ordained before to be saved in God’s Grace, when IN Fact IT IS The Works that was Ordained that we must do, and that IS The Honest and Truthful, Unaltered teaching OF The Gospel OF Gods Kingdom and OF HIS Son Jesus Christ… Nothing More, Nothing Less.
AS IT IS WRITTEN!
(Acts 3:19)… *Repent* (Honestly be sorrowful) ye therefore, & AND& Be *Converted* (Change your beliefs your character, *YOU*) that your ~Sins~ be blotted out, when the times of ~~Refreshing~ Shall come from The Presence OF The Lord…..
(Acts 26:20).. That they should *Repent* and *Turn TO God*, & AND & *DO Works Meet FOR Repentance*…
Does the works that you see done or that you do in God’s House of Worship show that they are “Meet” fit express a humble obedient attitude of faith in God of ~Repentance~, OR do they reflect the tempered works of man’s world in all vanity? The attitude of following the fads, and traditions of man kinds pagan customs?
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