The sooner one obeys the sooner one can learn the Truth, know the Truth. Repent, it is a work of Law, for God Commands ALL men everywhere to Repent. It is not by the Law of sacrifice, but the Law of obedience, for it is better to OBEY than to sacrifice. Christ did do that work already for all and no man can do it by the Law fulfilled, so Repent and OBEY showing forth true faith, faithfulness. It is not growth through error, it is growth through obedience. Doing what is right grows you, gives real understanding. It is suffering for doing well that contains the greatest lessons, aka Denial of Self, the flesh that wants above others. Suffering for doing wrong teaches nothing but the same lesson and grows nothing, increasing nothing, has no equity, no profit, no value, it is the vicious circle that never ceases, the trip around the same mountain. It is vain to continue in the way of wickedness, useless to walk in circles. Denying yourself when you know what is right and your fleshly wants desire that which is wrong. Knowing the Truth and obeying it, ruling over your body. Again, it can not be said enough, God told Cain "YOU DO IT". You rule over yourself Cain and do well or sin will rule over you...
Judge rightly, love mercy and have faith. Cease from wickedness and fulfill your obedience to the Truth and you will not be forsaken. Do well and you will be accepted, do not well and sin will lie at the door and desire to rule you. You have a choice, free will, the true nature of man. You can obey from the heart or you can rebel. Rebellion the sin of witchcraft, intercourse with the devil, fornication, to commit adultery with another than your promised to (bought with a price, you are not your own). Stubbornness are of the sins of idol worship and iniquity. No matter how you define these things they are all the same thing. Having something before God, to prefer ones own image before God. The very thing satan did do, to love ones self more than God. To esteem ones self above God, idols. Iniquity, lawlessness, wickedness, unrighteousness, sin, crime, rebellion against the law.
1 Samuel 15:23, " For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. "
Rectitude, moral integrity, correct judgement, it comes full circle. Judge righteously, being guilty, even if forgiven, even if you know the forgiveness of the Lord, being forgiven and now by that loving much more, to love mercy and have faith.
To be moral, a man reborn, the old man had no moral fortitude, but gave into temptation. The new man born again, born of God sins not, can not sin. Not because they can not sin, because they have no desire to, or any pleasure from. The Law of Grace, denial, the eating of the Truth, butter and honey, to refuse evil and choose good. Better to obey that to sacrifice, deny thyself ungodliness and worldly lusts, live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. For now is the time for salvation, now is the time to find the Truth, to find Christ, now is the time of grace, time to work out ones own salvation with fear and trembling. Required it is to be faithful of anyone to be true to that which they profess to be. God hates a false witness, do not break the Law that says "take not the Lord thy Gods Name in vain". Do not Name the Name of the Lord and depart not from iniquity, lawlessness, wickedness, evil. Rather judge rightly, have hope, faith, mercy, love and abide in the Truth.
Again, faith is one absolute thing. Faith is faithful, unmovable, no matter what is offered, one is willing to suffer whatever must to remain loyal to that which one professes to love. Even when that love is not returned, to endure it till the end. To obey from the heart the Truth over ones fleshly desire to have pleasure over obedience. The one absolute thing, obedience. Sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness.
To fulfill ones obedience so they can help others with theirs. To shine the light by doing what is right no matter the cost. Truly count the cost required to build upon the foundation that is Christ and His disciples. To help in the most powerful way of all, being a doer of righteousness. The very thing satan hates most, and the very thing all fall to. Unwillingness to be faithful, but filled with the emptiness of provisions as to why one can not be faithful, why one can not obey, or need not obey. Obedience is killed, stolen and destroyed, to make room for the emptiness of words spoken but having no virtue no contents. No effectualness of a word spoken, but the outward appearance of speaking. Truly they draw nigh with their lips but their hearts are far from the Truth, having no virtue, having slept with the enemy, rather than return from such a lost state, they hide in provisions, the fig leaf of shame, God can not see me, He only sees Christ. How easy such a filthy thing is to sell to them lost in shame. They want to consume it upon their lust, so what they ask is provision, to have the ear itched. They speak always well of those who will not judge rightly or justly, better to be with the wicked who will not condemn sin but will make provisions for it. Better to be with like mind, can not cease from sin, then be with those who teach it, preach it and sell it. No condemnation they love to say, but they forget the part that says "IF". IF one walks in the Spirit and not the flesh, in the newness of life, actually being born again and given the new heart and not pretending to have it. Cleaning the inward and not just painting over it to give and appearance of godliness and one denied the power of godliness.
Iniquity, lawlessness, unwillingness to obey, this is the gap, this is the separation between all and God. For no sin can bear the presence of God. He is righteousness perfected, just and pure to a perfect degree and in the presence of such beauty, such holiness, evil is destroyed, put to death, it can not bear the presence of holiness. Birds of a feather so then flock together, it forces the issue, the Truth forces the issue, puts one to the Test. Will they do what is right or will they give into the temptation? It is the consequence of the presence of the Truth. Evil can not stand in the presence of the Lord, who will be able to stand in that day?
Ephesians 6:13, " Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. "
All one hears is how no one can sand fast. This lie they speak proudly of it, boast loudly of it. No desire to be perfect and stand fast in the Truth. Yet will give lip service to it gladly, make provision that dance all around it but never able to to touch it. Never able to be, but absolutely unable, so certain of being delivered in ones wickedness, one need not obey. Easy to say faith, easy to profess to have it, easy to say it is all one must do, "say it". It is another thing to do it, to be able, to truly believe and show forth the cup filled, the words not empty. I can stand fast and be not moved and I will. I can prove it, I am able to affirm that I am in the faith that works by love and is proven by deeds.
Colossians 4:12, " Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. "
PER'FECT, adjective [Latin perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end.]
To do something, to be a doer of a thing is called perfect. The who obey something y doing that something they are Commanded to do, is being perfect. Christ was PERFECTED how? For suffering for doing what was right, denied Himself and obey from the heart. What is right? Obeying God, obeying the Commands, if you love Me, Keep My Commandments. This makes you perfect, not making you as God, but making you as God asks you to be. They who have hidden the Truth who say "NO ONE is perfect or can be" love to state that no on can be as God, when God did not ask you to be Him, asked you to obey Him. It is just another foul provision sold to allow for one to not obey, need to obey, or to kill, steal and destroy wanting to obey. Wanting to obey and knowing you can if you want to. If I tell you enough about the old man who was a filthy rag wretch chief of sinners and apply that to the new man, one will doubt being able, will give up the ability that is found in the Spirit of Power received. Yes, it is not irresistible, if it were so, satan would not have resisted it. A third of the angels would not have turned from God unto darkness, they clearly resisted and they clearly possessed what all do possess, freedom to choose, the true nature, free will to obey or disobey. Free will to give all ones heart or not. Free will to follow or free will to go ones own way.
To endure till the end, endure what? Obedience to the Truth, faithfulness, when all around the enemy abounds in disobedience and the offers of temptation. The righteous abound in grace in the place where sin abounds, not sin in them, not a sinner abounding in grace, but the righteous through obedience abound in grace. They torture the Truth to make it so sinners abound in some imaginary grace as they sin more and more. Evil loves provision, those who serve evil love provisions. The repeat the lie constantly, so I repeat the Truth constantly and the war is waged. The teaching of how to live in Gods good and perfect will is simply, obey. To understand what eating of the butter and the honey produces. To refuse the evil and choose the good. The deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously and godly lives in this present world as one is surrounded by the enemy. Surrounded by them that abound in sin and turn the grace of God into lasciviousness, into a license to sin, liberty as they serve corruption and promise to others what they do not have themselves, salvation! This world is ripe with them that profess the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, calling Him Lord but out of the double mind one hears how they are unable to obey Him, nor need to obey from the heart. These empty wells say your "all" is not required or needed. God knows I am going to sin so, I can not be perfect or holy, these types who speak of the Truth but leave it empty, devoid of equity, a false witness.
They in fact make void the greatest law of all, to love God with all your heart, mind, body, soul, might and strength. For nobody can be perfect and holy as God has asked.
PER'FECT, Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system.
Perfect, to have all that is requisite to the nature. In this nature we speak of is Christ, to have all that is required, to put on the mind of Christ, to walk as He walked. If I have obeyed, then I have completed what? That which I was asked or told to do. A task given and a task completed by doing. Was not asked to do what I could not do, what would be point to ask anyone to do what one knows they can not do. God knows they are going to sin, so why ask of them to obey? It is an argument of no value to them who have no desire but to serve their own lust. To walk by faith alone as long as that faith does not require anything from them. As one is being unfaithful, getting drunk, getting high, consuming this or that upon their own lust of the flesh and yet professing to have faith in God. It is of absolute moral decay that one can do this, a branch that produces no fruit, it abides not in the Vine, it is cut off and cast into the fire. I can't put on the mind of Christ, no one can. I can not walk as Christ, no one can. Provisions, Christ obey for me, because I am incapable of doing it. Christ fulfilled ALL the Law for me, because I am incapable of obeying. Christ paid it ALL for me, because I do not have to pay anything, it is not of works. I believe in Christ and that is all I have to do, look it says it right here, "just believe"!
Colossians 3:12, " Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. "
Romans 13:14, " But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. "
3 John 1:4, " I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. "
What is Truth?
2 John 1:6, " And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. "
They who are are of the Truth HEAR CHRIST, walking in the Commandments that He did likewise. It is obedience, obeying from the heart as Christ obeyed from His. They who are of the Truth hear the Commandments and walk in them, period! No provisions, no excuses, no reasons, no empty words, no fables, no inventions of men, no enticing words alluring them through the lust of the flesh, not by the sleight of men, their craftiness, the arts, something practiced to the point it entertains those who look upon it. To be bewitched and distracted from the Truth. You can not be of the Truth and a lie, you can not mix the Truth with lies and be of the Truth. Fresh water mixed with salt water is no longer fresh water, it is salt water. Bread can not be leavened and unleavened at the same time. Once leavened the bread is no longer unleavened bread. It can not be what it is not, a good tree can not produce bad fruit but it be a bad tree. You are to be perfect as God is perfect and to strive for the mastery of it, to be complete, simply obey.
It says nothing about doing your best, it says simply walk as He walked, if you say you abide in Him, abide. Do not take Gods Name in vain, saying you walk and yet walk not, that you abide and you abide not. Called to work and yet you work not but profess to be in the service of God working but it is not of works, when it is clearly of works, just not works of sacrifice. Do not bear falsely, if your hot be hot, if your cold be cold. Do not play the fence, do not walk on the line, be one or the other. The just be just, the unjust be unjust.
1 John 2:6, " He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. "
Romans 12:16, " Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. "
1 Corinthians 1:10, " Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. "
Do not mix, be ye peculiar.
2 Corinthians 8:19, " And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind: "
Do not mix, be ye separate.
Philippians 2:2, " Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. "
Do not mix the cup of the Lord with the cup of devils.
Philippians 3:16, " Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. "
Do not mix the table of the Lord with the table of devils.
Philippians 4:2, " I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. "
Do not mix.
1 Peter 4:1, " Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; "
Who can teach the Lord, you obey Him, He does not obey you. He does not change ever!
Romans 11:34, " For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? "
1 Corinthians 2:16, " For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. "
PER'FECT, Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline. Complete in moral excellencies.
To be perfect is to be complete in the understanding of Gods good and perfect will and be a doer of it. No one can be as God, no one is saying to be God. If one says such a thing they are confused indeed. To be morally upright is not some thing no man can possess ever. It is something that must be desired and fought for by doing righteousness, one becomes righteous even as Christ is righteous.
Strength made perfect in weakness, not to sin, not by sinning, that is what the wicked teach, for the wicked are wicked and they teach the ways of wickedness. They can only give you what they possess, they can not give you what they do not possess. Weakness to sin is not what anyone of the Truth are made strong by or in, through Christ. Weakness to the Truth, obedience unfeigned from the heart, submission, submit thyself unto God and you will be made strong, you will be made perfect. They who obey from the heart are built up. They who regard the Truth, who set their minds unto it and fight each day for it. Putting on the armor of God each day and entering the field of battle, I will hold the line, I will not have pleasure in unrighteousness or them who do unrighteousness. I would rather be with God, then have pleasure for a day with them that sin. Knowing full well of what is coming, I will stand fast. I have no excuses, no reasoning I can invent to chase after to fool myself into thinking I can live like a devil and live, I can have faith like a devil and live. I can live like a devil and profess to my love towards Christ, it is filthy, it is foolish and it is something God hates. If I love Him, then it serves no purpose to do anything He hates, or to make excuse to be able to do what He hates and pretend I somehow love Him and He somehow loves me just the way I am. He loves them that love Him and we Love because He first loved us, giving His only begotten Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Having been forgiven much we love much more. He does not love anyone just they way they are but they be perfect and holy. He would not ask anyone to Repent, to be born again, to have a new heart if He loved just the way you are. He loves obedience and righteousness, for them that are obedient are righteous. Submit thyself unto God and resist Him not, this is weakness and strength, this is faith, this is believing, this is salvation.
2 Corinthians 12:9, " And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. "
It is not chance that proceeding "ones strength being made perfect through weakness", it says the Lords Grace is sufficient! The time given to be taught what grace truly is, this is sufficient for all. Submitting thy self to what, to the good and perfect will of God, who by grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, that we live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. That this is weakness in which is spoken of, that all who OBEY FROM THE HEART the Truth are made perfectly strong and complete. Even though I am pricked by a thorn everyday, knowing perfectly what I was, what I did, and what I was forgiven for, I will endure it and obey the Truth that I once refused, denied. Now putting on the new man, the newness of life through Christ, not some change of mind, a change of heart. An actual event that took place in me, that I did not need to ask someone if I had received it or if it had happened. For no one who truly has it will need anyone to tell them they have received it. They will be to busy professing it, they have found their coin (Lord), (treasure), and it was right inside their house all along!!! They did not need to go look over there or in there, it was right here all along. Please I beg all, do not let the foolish imaginations of men who have never known the Truth trick you into foolishness. Wait on the Lord and you will not have to waste your time following the foolish inventions of men, fables, cunningly devised, craftiness, who allure the weak with foolish provisions. With empty words, promising liberty as they themselves serve corruption. Unable to give anyone what they do not possess themselves.
Per'fect, To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.
To be perfect in the rules, what rules? Gods good and perfect will in which we obey from the heart proving our love, our faith, our belief in Him to be a factual state of ones being. Truly effectual, an operation that is plain to see by anyone with eyes to see.
Instruct in what? AGAIN, I will say it again. Refuse the evil and choose the good. Deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, live sober, righteous and godly right now in the present world. For now is the time for salvation, now is the time of grace to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now is the time of grace, now is the time to learn the good and perfect will of God, to hear the conclusion of the whole matter and be a doer of it. Fear God and KEEP the Commandments.
Complete is the same as perfect, as one ought to realize as you define the Truth by definition, you will find it is all one thing, obedience. Obedience out of love! Not duty, not reward, but love. Is there duty, yes. Is there reward? yes. But without love they mean nothing, if I have not love, then all one does is nothing, useless, vain, no equity, no value, shipwrecked, void, castaway, lost and all that are like unto these things. You can have it all but without the Truth, you are nothing. No matter what great things you do, without Christ you can do nothing. Without the Truth it is vanity.
1 Corinthians 13:2, " And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. "
If I do write as I do out of duty only, it will show, it will shine through. If I do what Christ asked of me to do, tell about Him out of just reward, it will show and nothing I can do will hide my lack of love. Men may not see it but God surely sees it and knows it. I love talking about the Truth, about the testimony I was given, to share it, to protect another who just found their coin and now are surrounded by family trying to kill, steal and destroy them. For it is absolutely going to happen to all who find their treasure. The moment one does, those closest to you will come to take it from you. They do so out of true ignorance, so forgive them but do not heed them. god forgive them for they know not what they do as they go about killing you!
COMPLETE, adjective, Having no deficiency; perfect.
No deficiency in obeying, perfect!
No want, to want for nothing, to understand the Truth and by it wanting for nothing, wanting for no good thing, obey it all from the heart, out of love. Complete in the Truth, knowing the good and perfect will of God and doing it out of love from the heart, obedience. Submit thyself unto God, resist not God, humble, to obey.
And ye are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10.
Finished; ended; concluded; as, the edifice is complete
This course of vanity almost complete
In strict propriety, this word admits of no comparison; for that which is complete cannot be more or less so. Either you obeyed or you did not. Either you are fresh water or you are not. Either you are a good tree or you are not.
In botany, a complete flower is one furnished with a calyx and corolla. Vaillant. Or having all the parts of a flower.
Something complete is finished, there is nothing else needed, nothing more wanted. The flower has all its parts, it is completely a flower having no other part needed. One was told to stand right here and they stood right there. They obey perfectly, Gods hand molded them into an image and they conformed to it. Obeying His hand as it directed them.
COMPLETE, verb transitive
To finish; to end; to perfect; as, to complete a bridge, or an edifice; to complete an education.
To fill to accomplish; as, to complete hopes or desires.
To fulfil; to accomplish; to perform; as, the prophecy of Daniel is completed.
This is what it simply means to be, perfect, as God is perfect, not to be God, or be able to be that which God is, but what He asks you to be. What God molds you to be, the Potter molding the clay into the image God sees fit, and when He is done and you obey His hands, you are complete, perfectly complete. Morally absolute, moral excellence, in which you will not hear them and obey them that tell you that Christ did not come to morally reform you. You will have the armor of God on and be able to withstand the fiery darts of the devil and them that do his biding. They who shot for your heart with provision, once saved always saved, all paid for you, all done for you, Christ obeyed for you, loves you just the way you are, unconditional love, nothing is required, a gift can not be a gift if you have to do anything for it. These and so many more, if you do not put in the work, you will be deceived and you will deceive yourselves. If you trust in men, you will fall into the same pit. Stop ignoring all the warnings and escape from them that live in error. They dig for your souls, they are working to rob you, to take what is not theirs, do not allow them access to your heart, guard it diligently. A soldier on duty is diligently doing his duties, not slack, but standing at the ready, even at the door, watching, waiting, doing that which must be done, required.
Remember the Truth...
Psalms 55:21, " The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. "
Whose spoke these words smoother than butter, softer than oil?
Not them clearly which are the enemy, but those who have crept in unawares, walking with you, professing to love the Lord as you love Him. Proclaiming to guide you, you must do the work.
Psalms 55:12, " For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. "
Do not lean upon men, lean upon the Lord. Trust not in princes, trust in the Lord. Cast all your cares unto Him. Do all things as unto Him.
I can not stop saying it, why would Christ say Go and Sin NO More if it were impossible? If the lady at the well had some sin nature imbued in her flesh, she was born to sin and could not but sin, could not but go marry another man. Born in sin and all that she did in her life, marrying and remarrying, fornication, adultery, lies, and ever other abomination man chooses to do before the eyes of God Almighty. If she had no choice but to be unfaithful, no choice but to sin and do all she did, then Christ could not of came and preached the very first thing He preached, Repent.
John 8:11, " She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. "
From what time? The very beginning, the first thing. What God Commands all men everywhere to do and obey, Repent!
Matthew 4:17, " From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. "
So one must beg to ask then, why write at all "that ye may stand PERFECT and COMPLETE in ALL the will of God" if no one can. If no one can be freed from sin, the very works of satan. Then how did Christ come and destroy the works of the devil? If one can not obey, and God made us this way, there is no reason to Repent and that is how these filthy vile provisions that are made, sold and bought are chased after by so many. Why people can say without blushing that none need to Repent. That none can live a sinless life, so then one must invent a way for themselves to be saved, even when the Truth condemns them to death, to an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, for your iniquity has separated you from God.
1 John 3:8, " He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. "
What good is it to be turned from the power of satan and yet still be unable to obey the Truth? This is only possible if you have not the Truth. If you have never even known it the Truth.
Acts 26:18, " To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. "
The reason the Truth goes unspoken, why "judge not" has been turned into a chant of the wicked. The wicked can not judge with righteous judgement, the hypocrite can not speak of being faithful. For sin silences the Truth, it removes it far from them, they that are in rebellion, witchcraft, intercourse with the devil. When one sleeps with the enemy, they can not condemn the act of others doing the very same thing. Those that do condemn it and do it themselves, have no power to convict others, for their is no Spirit of God in them to do so. They can pretend and most sadly do just that, pretend. They can give lip service to the Truth but they cannot be a doer of the Truth, a worker. IF YOU ARE NOT MEET FOR THE MASTER USE, THE SPIRIT WILL NOT BE IN YOU TO CONVICT ANYONE. So it can not be of works, one can not rightly divide what Paul wrote, there can be no dividing what he meant in Truth, it must mean then all of the Truth is gone. All the testimony of God, all of His love must be void, the Law and what Christ truly did and did not do must be lied about. They can not regard the works of the Lord in Truth. They can not be built up, they must give the outward appearance. i hear them say we walk by faith and yet the same person will profess without blushing they are in no way "faithful". For true love is not unfaithful.
Psalms 28:5, " Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. "
The unchangeable God must be changeable, He must hear the prayers of the wicked. He must become the image of corruption for them that serve corruption. The lawless must have provision, must be able to justify themselves and others in their wickedness. The reason so many openly with great pride will tell others to not read the old testament. They love the provisions they have bought in the new testament and the old proves what truly was nailed to the cross and what was not. They who love the Truth, obey the Commands of the Truth. That very little was changed, what Christ did fulfill and what still must be fulfilled by all. The Truth that there is no such thing as a love that as no conditions. The Truth that is better to Obey than to sacrifice. For Christ fulfilled the sacrifice once and for all, but He obeyed for no one. He obeyed to be that righteous example that all who love Him could follow. They who do righteousness are righteous even as Christ is righteous.
Proverbs 28:9, " He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. "
One can hear others actually tell others that in Christ there is no moral reform. No newness of life, no new heart, no real born again state. That it is by their works, even though the profess it to be not of works. The say it has nothing to do with them but as they pretend to have what they have not, they are doing it themselves. They are doing it without the Truth, without Christ. It is sacrifice in which they can not receive the free gift that Christ gave, His life. They can not know forgiveness, the clearing of the conscience. Rather than obey, they sacrifice. They sacrifice the Truth and they do so without even blushing. They can not blush, their conscience is seared, they can not feel the pricks.
It is saddening that some will tell others that denying ones self will not save you or keep you saved. That bearing your own cross will not save you are keep you saved. That following Christ will not save you or keep you saved. This is spoken by many, taught, bought and sold. Merchandising the weak mind of them who refuse to hearken, refuse to be gathered, refuse to be born again. Born again in Truth, not a change of mind but and actual event that will take place in anyone who will obey the Truth from the heart. To be built up, increased by God, grown, to have riches that gold or silver can not bring you. Denying ones self, bearing the cross of affliction, called in the furnace of affliction, just as the Lord Jesus and following His righteousness, His righteous example set, He is our righteousness. It is the very beginning of understanding, this wisdom, this knowledge. To obey the Command, Repent and make straight the Way of the Lord. It is the first and it does not end, it is a race till the end, endurance race, for it is only they who endure till the end, who will be saved. It is the Gate that must be entered.
They say they are already saved, they have already obtained that which is laid up for those who endure till the end. Forgiveness and freedom to do what is right is not salvation, salvation comes in the end. One wins the race when they cross the finish line. One receives that crown laid up for them when they have endured till the end. How subtle is the evil of them who teach lies, who cause so many to rest upon a foundation of sand that will not be able to weather the storm that is to come? It is a sham and a shame so many follow the foolishness men have contrived for their consumption. To consume it unto their flesh, to teach that one has already one the race. To get someone to stop racing, stop fighting, stop enduring, stop denying themselves, stop bearing their cross, stop following the Lord, stop watching, stop waiting, stop doing what is required, to be faithful. Why do anything when it is all paid, all obeyed for you. When the finished works of Christ are yours just by repeating a lie, a bunch of empty words.
This world is merchandised by provision, excuses, reasons, by inability. By lies offered up so to get one to cease from the war, walk off the field of battle when the battle is raging upon every side. To become deaf to the cries, blind to the destruction, to forget, fall back asleep, become distracted. Awake to righteousness and sin not, awake and fight the good fight of faith working by love and proven by deeds. Define the Truth and setup a standard, the bars was raised, it was not lowered. No sane person could read Matthew 5 and not understand that bar is raised. What makes a person sane or not? To call evil good and good evil is the definition of insanity. To be bewitched, beguiled, entertained, mused, amused by evil is insanity. People walk around looking perfectly sane but loving unrighteousness is a person insane indeed. Sinning against ones own soul is not a picture of health. Destroying ones own self for lust is not a thing anyone does but they are confused, lost, deaf, blind, deceived, tricked, fooled, beguiled and all other words that are like unto these. It is insanity to lead other to death and hell. Insanity to have pleasure in doing so. Insanity to love the unfruitful works of darkness. It is insane to entertain evil and call it good, pleasant and to be desired. it is insanity to disobey God, disobey the Truth, disobey what love is, walking in the Commandments of God.
Again, this is me preaching the Truth to me and sharing it. This is what I must hear, need to hear. Working out my salvation, for I can not work out yours. I need to go over this and over it till the end. I must not forget what I heard, what I have been taught. Stand ye here and move not. You will be surrounded but you will not be moved if you put on the armor. If you show up to work you will be paid, increased, for they who work will eat. They will have money to buy the Truth and sell it not. The riches God gives to them that love Him with their hearts. Wisdom, sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness. Rule over yourselves by the Truth or sin will rule over you. You will walk through life doing awful things, blind and unkind, deceived by them who proclaim to be what they truly are not, deceiving and being deceived. The sleight of men, cunning craftiness, of absolutely filthy disgusting doctrines of men that give no increase. They promise liberty but serve corruption. Stop being tossed to and fro, stop being a ship with no captain at the helm, as ship without a rudder just blown about wherever the wind listeth. Having to ask another if you have received the gift, or have you heard?! Imagine how lost one must be to need to ask another about their state of being in Christ or not?
Ephesians 4:14, " That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; "
What do you mean you do not know if you have heard, received, are obeying? What do you mean when you tell another thank you for I was not sure? How did someone else make you realize that you heard from the Lord? How is it someone else can work out your salvation for you? Who can prove your love for you? Who can affirm you are in the faith for you? Who can tell you if you have been called and are at work working? Who needs to be told they are awake and are sinning not? Who needs to be told they are obeying from the heart? Who can know your heart but God? Who searcheth the hearts of men and knows the true continence of a man? Who can deny yourself for you? Who can bear your cross for you? Who can follow Christ for you? Who can Repent for you? Who can be faithful for you? Who can dig deep for you?
This is what they sell, Christ obeyed for you, was faithful for you because you cannot possibly be faithful. God knows you will not be faithful so why even try? I have heard these things all my life and they are filthy lies, served up by them that serve that evil one. They are empty wells, clouds with no rain, being blown about from this lie to that lie and back again. Speaking great swelling words of emptiness, showing a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. They glory outwardly but inwardly they are white washed walls, tombs filled with dead mens bones. They devour one another with words, for it is what comes out of a man that defiles a man. Sure they are in the service of God as they kill, steal and destroy.
By their wicked ways, with fake words, false words, imagined, invented, disguised, concealed, pretend, pretense, like the filthy lie of original sin, sin nature and many other foul things, they merchandise you with.
Pernicious - Wicked, people who say they have heard but have heard nothing, they think they are in the service of God but are not, they follow their own ways.
Feigned - To literally make it up in ones own mind, invent something that is a lie.
2 Peter 2:2, " And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2 Peter 2:3 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.
2 Peter 2:4 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; "
Why tell us about who was spared if all sins are already forgiven and not just the past sins from the moment one acknowledges the Truth, Repents and is forgiven so they can walk in the newness of life with a new heart. They who sin will not be spared, no amount of empty words will make this Truth change into a lie. I assure you, God sees you and your book is not Jesus' book. One will not be judged by the works of Christ, that is vain indeed. All will be judged by their own works. They say it is not of works and it is not. It is not by the works of animal sacrifice, the Law nailed to the cross, the ordinances that were against us and taken out of the way. It is by the Law written upon the hearts and minds of those who serve the Truth, they obey from the heart the teaching that only God gives and gave, sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness.
Saying I believe does not prove anything, does not confirm your love. Proclaiming to walk by faith "ALONE" and unable to even express the word "faith" filled by actions and definition through the Truth, does not make one walk by faith. Let alone the fact that it is not by faith alone, there is nothing alone but you and Christ. Not believe alone, not faith alone, not grace alone, not any one thing alone, it is by ever word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Are you in the faith? The faith working by love and PROVEN by deeds? Affirming it constantly? Why affirm it constantly if once you have it there is nothing you can do, even if you try to lose your salvation. Why study to show thyself approved. if one is already in advance approved because Christ did it all, paid it all, obey it all, suffered it all, finished it all for you already?
Titus 3:8, " This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. "
Affirm what? Are you in the faith?
2 Timothy 2:15, " Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. "
Rightly divide what? The Truth!
Not by the righteous works anyone has done themselves, did Christ come and suffer the cross for us all. Christ did not come and suffer death so anyone could walk in the old man and proclaim to be freed of sin and death. No sacrifice any man did could bring Christ down to be nailed to the cross. It was solely by the grace of God, the mercy of Him and through the obedience of the only Lord and Savior there is, can anyone be saved in the end, have forgiveness today so they can walk in the newness of life and in the end be saved, for there are none walking in this world saved. Forgiven, yes, but till one endures till the end and receives the crown laid up for them, one can not be saved. No one can win a race and not be racing in the race. One can not finish the race till the cross the finish line and receive that which they have raced for. So many lies, so many vain imaginations, foolish inventions of men sold, so many merchandised with empty words, feigned words, by pretense. So many ways to get people to ignore the Truth and be slack concerning the only thing that matters most of all, your salvation in the end. The resurrection of life or the resurrection of damnation.
One may have every hope they will be in the end saved. Have every hope they will stand fast, hold fast, be unmoved, and endure till the end. Have every hope they will love the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have every hope they will be able to stand in the dark and terrible day. Have every hope they will not be ashamed for anything. Forget not that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. For nothing is hidden and if there be spot it will shame you. Gods presence is absolute, and all the vain ideas of man are vanity.
It is a day of rest, a day God rested and a day He made for man and not man for it. This is the fourth Commandment, and it is remains the only Lords day. Whether you want to obey it or not matters not what this day is. It will not save you, it will mark you.
It is remission of sins past and not permission for sins future!
May the true Grace of God abound in all who truly love the Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ. Blessed be the Name of the Lord Amen and Amen...
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