To the multitude of folks that adamantly stand on the ~Word~ “Easter”, and associate IT with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I present some questions… AT What Name may we ~ALL~ have life? “Easter”? OR:
(John 20:31).. But these Are Written, that ye might ~Believe~ that Jesus IS THE Christ, The Son of God, and that ~Believing~ ye might have *life* through “His Name”. (The things that are Written, Are the things that Jesus said, from God The Father… NOT from man’s inventions, fables, tales of fun and merry making.. AND AT/IN The Name of Jesus shall we have life, Not the name of : Easter… Think about IT and read on please…
(I John 3:23)… And this IS HIS Commandment, “That we should ~Believe~ on the Name of HIS Son Jesus Christ, and ~Love~ one another, AS HE, (God THE Father) Gave us Commandment.”
By what “Name” ARE we *Justified*?
(I Corinthians 6:11)…Such were some of you, BUT, ye ~ARE Washed~ , BUT, ye are ~Sanctified~, BUT, ye ARE ~Justified~ *IN The Name OF The Lord Jesus, and By The Spirit of our God*….
NOT by the name of Easter! IN What Name must we offer our thanks up to God The Father?
(Ephesians 5:20).. Giving thanks always, for ~all~ things Unto God and THE Father, *IN The Name OF our Lord, Jesus Christ….
What IS Jesus to us? Think Seriously about this as you read IN THE Bible, God’s Written Word, HIS Book OF ~ALL~ Instruction for us to live by… In any of the Biblical Words, IS Jesus referred to as our: “Passover rabbit/bunny”? Was IT the “Ester Rabbit” that hung on the cross? Was IT the “Resurrection chick, biddy” that Mary and the others went to anoint with the spices only to find that the “Easter Chick”, had cracked open the tomb and was hatched ? IS our Lord and Savior written any where in the Bible as being associated with any of the pagan rituals so that we would ~Assume~ to change His glory into a tainted memory by placing, “The Memorial OF His Great Love In giving His Life’s blood as a Sacrifice for our sin, opening the Way for us to have ~Hope~ of Life eternal, and by His Blessed Resurrection, by God The Father, offering ~Proof~ to all men that we can indeed accomplish this hope, by the means of “Believing” on/in The Name of Jesus Christ, “Following” God The Fathers Will and Way, In the “Faith” set before us to hold in our hearts…
Why on earth would anyone who claims to be a follower of Christ, lift up and defend a Name other than Jesus Christ… The old saying, “A Rose called by any other name is still a Rose”, but what would you be doing to a “Rose” by calling IT A Weed? Jesus IS Jesus, and why can people not simply refer to this: Blessed Event AS IT IS Biblically Written: The Crucifixion, The Resurrection, OR The Ascension? AS IN Teaching The Gospel OF God’s Only Begotten Son, Biblically referred to, or Symbolized, AS The Lamb OF God….
(John 1:29).. The next day John, seeth Jesus Coming unto him, and saith, :Behold, THE Lamb OF God, which taketh away the sin of the world… (John the Baptist identified Jesus AS: The Lamb OF God, not The Rabbit, nor The Biddy!) Soooo
Think! Seriously About, The So Called, *Symbolisms* that folks claim to justify their “Easter” Celebration of The Blessed Son OF God! Any Symbolism that Was OR IS Needed, HAS Already Been claimed, placed, and had written of, BY God The Father OF and For The Learning OF HIS Son…. What mankind did, was attach the “Symbols” of ~Paganism~ to this Blessed *Life-Saving* Event, making A Mockery OF The Act of Sacrificial Love That Jesus Christ The “Passover Lamb” gave for us all… Shame, Shame, Shame, on all who even attempt to justify the “Easter” Event as anything other than, an egg hunt, of paganism to a goddess of the fleshly world of men’s traditions….
Oh, many Churches have begun to include a “Lamb” in with their decorations, laying among the colored eggs and lilies, rabbits and chicks, but that is only further symbolizing adultery of the Church with paganism…
IS our ~faith~ in Jesus Christ The Blessed Son of God, Strong enough so that our ~Belief~ is founded on and IN His Most Holy Name, and not in the name of confusion which “Easter” IS? Those for it say it is translated from the Biblical Word *Passover*, but strange that IT IS only inserted once in the entire Bible… AND *IF* this be true, ISN’T our witness for Christ stronger IF we call Him by the Name, by which we are saved? There, does seem to be a profound argument that the word “Easter” is derived from the name of a pagan goddess or goddesses, which may or may not be true, BUT, ISN’T IT Better to take away the objects of ~ALL Confusion~ and teach and lead our blessed children in The Truth of The Name of The Son OF God Almighty, Jesus Christ, rather than teach them that Easter is about Jesus but it is also about hunting eggs, delivered by a rabbit? OR, the dozen ~resurrection~ eggs which leave a very mixed message in the minds of little ones about the very truth of God’s Only Begotten Son… Can’t we serve our LORD and Savior in Truth and Honesty, in these last days, standing strong against the enemy, and not giving in to compromise? In searching for ways to teach, our children, of God, so that IT ISN’T ~boring~ in our opinion, we can get really off base from Truth, IF we are not careful, AND the best teaching tools are clearly Written IN The Book Which God had penned down by the prophets and apostles of old, and preserved unto today, can we not just accept IT, *AS IT IS Written*?
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Noah Found Grace
When we think of Noah and the ark, we never think of “Grace”, do we? But the verse in Genesis 6:8-9b comes to my mind often… There are many lessons to be learned from this account, which THE LORD God had penned down by writers of old and preserved through time for us today to read, learn, and share with others… Walking through the Bible Testaments both Old and New, brings a wonderful experience of learning to a humble serious reader….
(Genesis 6:8 - 9b ..KJV)….But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9b.Noah was ~a just man~ and perfect in his generations, and Noah ~walked~ with God.
How did Noah ~Find~ “Grace” in the Eyes of THE LORD? People today teach that “Grace” is not found in ~works~, that we have nothing to do to find Grace, IT IS A Gift From God, nor can mankind lose “Grace” once it is obtained… What does THE KJV Bible actually say… And it is truly written that, “Grace”, is a Gift from God, BUT through What? There IS AN Action which man must make…. As Paul explained.
(Romans 5:15 KJV)….But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead , much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Ephesians 2: 8 - 9)…. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast . 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto ~~good works,~~ which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
So where we are not saved by “Grace”, from our works in the world of fleshly mankind, we are ~Saved~ through *Faith*… and that faith is settled in God, through Jesus Christ, not in mankind… Just as Noah walked with God although he lived in a world of sin, his faith was in God, his mind and thoughts centered on and in God, his obedience was to God and ~NOT~ to mans ways…
(Genesis 6: 22...Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
(Hebrews 11:7 KJV)…By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear , prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
One clue to Noah ~finding~ “Grace” in The Eyes of THE LORD… he was obedient to God’s Will and not his own, AS he did ~ALL~ that God commanded of him…
How many folks do we know today, including ourselves, would build a huge boat on dry land, out of obedience to God, and *IF*, we were so bold as to do something like that among our peers which were in disbelief, would we have the ~Faith~ to enter into *IT* with all the animals that Noah carried on IT? AND YET, Noah did, as God commanded… Could ~we the people~ who call ourselves “Christians” set such a magnificent example of ~Faith~ in our Heavenly Father, through HIS Son Jesus Christ, and in obedience to the guidance to THE Holy Ghost?
(Hebrews 4:16 KJV)…Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and ~find grace~ to help in time of need.
(Romans 5:21 KJV)…That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might ~grace reign~ **through righteousness** unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Hebrews 12:28 KJV)….Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
(Hebrews 13:9 KJV)… **Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.** For it is a good thing that the ~heart be established with grace;~ not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein .
Can we ~Loose~ Grace? No man can take it from us but we can throw it away by our own works and ways…. AS IT IS Written… So many Church groups have taken the view that the world is good in so many ways, taking in the traditions of men carried down through the ages from pagan teachings… Heartfelt stories that lure the conscious to adhere to them, but they are not sanctioned by The Written Word…. People be ware of Satan the devil for he is real and a real threat in the disguise of goodness… AND *IF* he can throw a beautiful treat before your eyes to tempt you, accepting, may give you a pummel, or a fading away from grace…
(1 Peter 5:8 KJV)…Be sober , be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour:
(James 1:11 KJV)…For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth , and the ~grace of the fashion of it perisheth:~ so also shall the rich ~man fade away in his ways.~
(Hebrews 10:29 KJV)…Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified , an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace?
(Jude 1:4 KJV)…For there are certain men crept in unawares , who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(II Peter 2:1-4 KJV)… But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of . 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned , but cast them down to hell , and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(Matthew 4:10 KJV)… Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence , Satan: for it is written , Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve .
(Romans 16: 16b- 19a)… The churches of Christ salute you. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned ; and avoid them *. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men.
(II Peter 1:2 KJV)…Grace and peace be multiplied unto you *through* ~the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,~
(II Peter 3:18 KJV)…But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever . Amen.
Yet ~Another~ clue as to what we the people *Must* DO, IF we would find grace in the eyes of the LORD and maintain IT….
(Hebrews 12:15 KJV)…~`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 ;
(Galatians 1:6 KJV)…I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
(2 Timothy 2:1 KJV)…Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
(Genesis 6:12-14 & 18)… And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
(Genesis 9:16-17 KJV)… And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it , that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
(Ezekiel 14:20 KJV)…Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
(James 2:18 KJV)…Yea, a man may say , Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
(James 2:22 KJV)…Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect ?
(Revelation 2:19 KJV)…I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
(Genesis 6:8 - 9b ..KJV)….But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 9b.Noah was ~a just man~ and perfect in his generations, and Noah ~walked~ with God.
How did Noah ~Find~ “Grace” in the Eyes of THE LORD? People today teach that “Grace” is not found in ~works~, that we have nothing to do to find Grace, IT IS A Gift From God, nor can mankind lose “Grace” once it is obtained… What does THE KJV Bible actually say… And it is truly written that, “Grace”, is a Gift from God, BUT through What? There IS AN Action which man must make…. As Paul explained.
(Romans 5:15 KJV)….But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead , much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Ephesians 2: 8 - 9)…. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast . 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto ~~good works,~~ which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
So where we are not saved by “Grace”, from our works in the world of fleshly mankind, we are ~Saved~ through *Faith*… and that faith is settled in God, through Jesus Christ, not in mankind… Just as Noah walked with God although he lived in a world of sin, his faith was in God, his mind and thoughts centered on and in God, his obedience was to God and ~NOT~ to mans ways…
(Genesis 6: 22...Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
(Hebrews 11:7 KJV)…By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear , prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
One clue to Noah ~finding~ “Grace” in The Eyes of THE LORD… he was obedient to God’s Will and not his own, AS he did ~ALL~ that God commanded of him…
How many folks do we know today, including ourselves, would build a huge boat on dry land, out of obedience to God, and *IF*, we were so bold as to do something like that among our peers which were in disbelief, would we have the ~Faith~ to enter into *IT* with all the animals that Noah carried on IT? AND YET, Noah did, as God commanded… Could ~we the people~ who call ourselves “Christians” set such a magnificent example of ~Faith~ in our Heavenly Father, through HIS Son Jesus Christ, and in obedience to the guidance to THE Holy Ghost?
(Hebrews 4:16 KJV)…Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and ~find grace~ to help in time of need.
(Romans 5:21 KJV)…That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might ~grace reign~ **through righteousness** unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Hebrews 12:28 KJV)….Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
(Hebrews 13:9 KJV)… **Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.** For it is a good thing that the ~heart be established with grace;~ not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein .
Can we ~Loose~ Grace? No man can take it from us but we can throw it away by our own works and ways…. AS IT IS Written… So many Church groups have taken the view that the world is good in so many ways, taking in the traditions of men carried down through the ages from pagan teachings… Heartfelt stories that lure the conscious to adhere to them, but they are not sanctioned by The Written Word…. People be ware of Satan the devil for he is real and a real threat in the disguise of goodness… AND *IF* he can throw a beautiful treat before your eyes to tempt you, accepting, may give you a pummel, or a fading away from grace…
(1 Peter 5:8 KJV)…Be sober , be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour:
(James 1:11 KJV)…For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth , and the ~grace of the fashion of it perisheth:~ so also shall the rich ~man fade away in his ways.~
(Hebrews 10:29 KJV)…Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified , an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
grace?
(Jude 1:4 KJV)…For there are certain men crept in unawares , who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(II Peter 2:1-4 KJV)… But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of . 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned , but cast them down to hell , and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(Matthew 4:10 KJV)… Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence , Satan: for it is written , Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve .
(Romans 16: 16b- 19a)… The churches of Christ salute you. 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned ; and avoid them *. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men.
(II Peter 1:2 KJV)…Grace and peace be multiplied unto you *through* ~the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,~
(II Peter 3:18 KJV)…But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever . Amen.
Yet ~Another~ clue as to what we the people *Must* DO, IF we would find grace in the eyes of the LORD and maintain IT….
(Hebrews 12:15 KJV)…~`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 ;
(Galatians 1:6 KJV)…I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
(2 Timothy 2:1 KJV)…Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
(Genesis 6:12-14 & 18)… And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ; for all flesh had corrupted HIS way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before ME; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
(Genesis 9:16-17 KJV)… And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it , that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
(Ezekiel 14:20 KJV)…Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
(James 2:18 KJV)…Yea, a man may say , Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
(James 2:22 KJV)…Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect ?
(Revelation 2:19 KJV)…I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
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