Have we gotten ~TOO~ BIG~ for our britches… Busted the seams right out of “Obedience to God’s Way”, by setting up and holding ON TO so many, “Religious Practices & Traditions”?
Think about *IT*! What did Jesus Speak, Teach,? Go your way and do what seems righteous in your own eyes, invent ~New Ways~ to draw people to Me?
I heard a preacher, who was praising his congregation for their wonderful egg hunt and how it was such a great witness of: THE LORD, God and HIS Kingdom… HOW? Pray tell IT TO ME, Sir, can one witness of God’s Kingdom in a traditional custom practiced, before God’s Own Son came to be born on this earth… A Custom That THE LORD, forbade during the days of the kings, a custom which caused the downfall of the most intelligent king of all time, Solomon….
Read (I Kings 11: 4-10).. Earnestly and carefully…
What was taught in The Old Testament as well AS THE NEW?
(Hosea 6:3).. Then shall ~we~ Know, *IF* we “FOLLOW” on to ~Know~ THE LORD: HIS going forth IS Prepared as the morning, and HE Shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth…. (There IS Written: *IF* ~we Follow~, not If we blasé our own path….. As so many today are doing and calling it just and righteous because it is a good sound way of teaching The Gospel…)
What Exactly DID Jesus come to earth teaching?
(Matthew 8:22)… Jesus SAID, “Follow Me and let the dead bury the dead.”
(Matthew 8:22).. Jesus SAID:, “IF any man ~Will Come~ After ME, let ~him~ deny himself, Take up ~his~ cross, and follow Me.” (So, many folks want to parade the cross of Jesus under the pretense of serving Him, while thinking that they are hidden by His Cross, from the sins ways of ~Disobedience~ To God’s Will and Way, that they continue to follow after…)
Again AS IT IS Written:
(Deuteronomy 30:11).. This *Commandment* Which I, (THE LORD) Command thee this day, *IT* IS NOT Hidden from thee, neither IS *IT* Far OFF…. (But how many people take the time, make the effort, show enough care, to pick up THE Bible That THE LORD Had penned down and preserved for us to have as a guide, a written account of HIS Will and Way for us to follow, AND Actually try to learn The Contents of *IT*… WE claim we don’t have time, but we have time for everything of the world, we have time to follow the pernicious ways of false teachings, and we ASSUME TO Make up our own religions, and belief’s, because of our own arrogance and he said, she said, so IT Must Be Good….. BUT Jesus Said:
(Mark 4:22)… “There IS Nothing ~Hid~, which shall not be manifested; neither anything kept ~Secret~, but that *IT* shall come abroad..” (So our claiming Jesus with our mouth, while we got our hands all mixed up in the ways of the world, won’t keep hidden the disobedience that we are blazoning displaying before the world, bringing wrath upon the Church of Christ….
(II Peter 2:2).. Many shall ~Follow~ *Their Pernicious Ways*; by reason of whom the “Way of Truth”, shall be evil spoken of….
(Colossians 2:1-3)… *IF* ye then be ~Risen with Christ~, seek those things which *ARE Above*, where Christ sitteth on the Right Hand OF God.. Set your ~Affections~ on the things Above, ~~NOT~~ on the things of the earth.. For ye ~ARE Dead~, and your life is hid, With Christ In God…. (Many take this 3rd verse only and run with IT to believe that what they do IS Hid in Christ and God can’t see their sins, so they can do what they deem righteous and all IS wellllll… BUT This IS Not what the whole statement tells…. There IS THAT *IF* and The Command TO *Seek*…and, as Hosea Wrote, we must come TO Know The LORD, by paying attention to HIM, and we mere lumps of clay MUST Follow… So many want to lead, and will make The *BOLD Statement* that IT IS Good *IF* we put Jesus In IT, that makes *IT* Right… BUT we cannot put Jesus anywhere, we are not the Potter, to make anything right, BECAUSE, The ~Right Way has already been made, we must be the obedient followers IF we will enter into the DOOR of God’s Kingdom…..
(John 10:4-5)… Jesus SAID: “When He, (The Shepherd), putteth forth His Own sheep, He goeth ~Before~ them, AND the sheep *Follow* Him: ~For they *Know* His Voice and a stranger will they ~NOT Follow~, BUT Will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.” ….. (So IF Jesus puts us forth, then we Will follow Him, but IF we set out to make our own religion, following the traditions, we can readily know that Jesus did Not put us forth..
Maybe that IS the key to the reason that so many, who call themselves Christian, are dabbling in the ways of the world, they spend TOO much time *Listening* TO the voice of the strange things of the world: “Vampires, Werewolves, Walking Dead, Harry Potter and Wizards, Astrology Horoscopes, Tattoos, Pagan Practices, Seasonal Traditions, Ghost Seekers, Sexually Displaying our bodies in skimpy, bare apparel, Games, Drunken Parties, Contest, Competitions, AND Many MORE ALL OF Which ARE, Advertisements of Satan The Serpent, who should be totally Estranged from God‘s people… not mixed up with them. BUT jealousy, and envy raises up their ugly heads as we ~~LOOK~~ at the world around us and all that IT Has, the fun, the profit, the pleasures even though fleeting, and we jump right into the mix….. Thinking that we can just take Jesus with us… BUT, we are soooo Sadly Wrong…..
(John 21:22) AGAIN JESUS SAID: “IF I Will that he tarry till I Come, what IS that to thee? Follow thou Me!
(*IF* God The Father, chooses to allow all this to go on in the world, and, *IT IS Written* that HE Does, then IT IS Nothing to US, Except, TO Keep ourselves ~Free~ From *IT*… Our hand to the plow of “Sharing The Gospel OF God’s Kingdom IN Truth and Honesty, ~NOT~ mixing the ways if the world into it to contaminate the Gospel of God’s OWN Son… The Bible warns of all these things, IN Writing, that we must avoid, keep ourselves free from, but IF we don’t care enough to read, take heed, and walk away from these things, then we ~Will~ be found standing with the adversary, on judgment day.. This IS the choice that God does give us to make, to ~Follow~ HIS Son Jesus, OR The World led by Satan… AS IT IS Written we Must Keep ourselves where we belong, no man can take us away from the Hand of Christ, but we ourselves can turn away, like a dog to his own vomit.)
(Jude 1:21)..Keep ~yourselves~, *IN* The LOVE OF God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life…
(Romans 12:2)… AND Be not conformed to this world: but be ye ~Transformed~ BY *The Renewing of your mind*, that ye may ~Prove~ what IS that Good, Acceptable, and Perfect Will OF God…
So many Who call themselves Christians, today have the “Mike Hammer, can’t Touch This, Syndrome”, to their delusional failure… I’ve heard so many say that “Once Saved Always Saved, and *IF* we fall away It IS because we weren’t saved to begin with, and that ’s ~MY~ opinion.”… Here is the failure, “That’s MY Opinion”… We don’t have to Depend on our ~Own~ opinion for anything because God Had IT Written for us to *Follow*… We just have to Obey, and read *IT*, learn *IT*, & do *IT*…. AND that part IS ALL up to us… Like the old saying goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”.. Well, you can tell folks all day long to read and learn, *AS IT IS Written*, BUT you can’t make them do IT… and we can sing, I’m saved all day long, but that doesn’t mean we are IF we are not following THE Way Jesus Taught, IN The Will and Way of God The Father…. Our Way, Our Opinion, ain’t worth a hill of beans in the middle of a fire ant bed, *IT* IS God’s Teachings, WHAT THE LORD SAID, Through HIS Son Jesus, The Word, as He delivered The Word To be Written, by men, for men to: *FOLLOW*….. Not to mix and mingle with men’s opinions and pagan traditions…
(II Corinthians 11:14-15)… No marvel; for Satan himself IS transformed into an angel of light,,, therefore IT IS No great thing IF his ministers also be transformed as ministers of *Righteousness*; whose end shall be according to ~~Their Works~~….
We must repentfully, and prayerfully, crawl back into the "britches" that fit, *IF* we will be honest servants of The LORD God Almighty, and joyfully walk in them to Follow God's Will and Way, AS Jesus Said.
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