THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH BUT THERE ARE SINS THAT DO NOT LEAD TO DEATH - HOW CAN THAT BE ?

Romans 6:23 says “the wages of sin is death”, 1 Corinthians 15:56 says, “the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law”.  The Ten Commandments define sin for the carnal unconverted mind.  Everyone who thinks they need to keep the Ten Commandments will die because no one can keep them, all have sinned.  In order to escape this condemnation to death a person must be called and chosen by GOD and drawn by GOD to HIS son the messiah Jesus Christ.  This provides an escape from the laws just condemnation to death because grace provides forgiveness of sin where the Ten Commandments did not.  This is why John said, “there is sin not leading to death”.  1 John 2:1  explains that any true Christian that sins has “an advocate with the FATHER, Jesus Christ the righteous one”.  Baptism symbolizes the washing away of our sins we have committed up to our conversion but this forgiveness of sins will continue over our lifetime upon true and sincere repentance.  Romans 3:25   The saints, even though in Christ, can still sin but these sins are not to death like under the Ten Commandments but because of grace these sins are forgiven.  This is why John says, “he that says he has no sin is a liar and the truth is not in him” , 1 John 1:10  Even though we are saints of GOD we are not yet perfect but are growing towards perfection which is achieved when we enter the kingdom at the return of Jesus.  Philippians 1:6  It is sad that so many people think they need to keep the Ten Commandments, the very thing that Jesus gave his life for in order to save us from which is the just condemnation of the Ten Commandments.  If we are saved by forgiveness of our sins committed while under the law then why would we return to the law after we have been saved from it ?  True Christians have new commandments, the two Jesus gave us, love GOD and neighbor.  This love, this “agape”, is a gift from the spirit of GOD that empowers us to begin to conquer sin in our lives and develop the divine nature of GOD, a nature incapable of sin.  2 Peter 1:4  Yes we will truly be recreated to be in GODS image as Jesus was and Jesus is our example of this. The Ten Commandments could never do this but GOD did through Jesus.  Romans 8:3  Should we hate the Ten Commandments ?  No we should love GODS Ten Commandments because they were the schoolmaster that GOD used to draw us to Jesus, but once in Jesus they are no longer needed.  Galatians 3:24, 25  We saints actually fulfill the intent of the Ten Commandments which failed due to our fleshly weakness but we do this in the spirit not in the flesh.  We are in Genesis 2 and just as GOD had to recreate the Earth for man now HE recreates man for a new heavens and new Earth.  We are a new creation in Christ the second Adam, not of this creation, the church is the new Eve being pregnant with the future sons of GOD.  This new creation is what the ultimate goal and will of GOD has been in eternity.  Revelation 3:14  “the beginning of the creation of GOD” , is misunderstood by the carnal false churches to say that Jesus was the creator of Genesis 1 , but this verse is saying that GODS son Jesus is the beginning of Genesis II , the second Adam.  

There are many wonderful things for the saints to learn when they are taught by GOD through Jesus. 

INSANE THINKING

There have been stories in the news for quite some time now that if you seriously think about them you realize how insane many people seem to be.  Recently comments have been made by main stream news and political figures about the destruction of boats Carrying drugs by the U.S. military.  The insane idea is that if one missile is fired but the target has not been completely destroyed another missile cannot be fired because this is considered by the insane people as a war crime.  These insane people promise to bring charges against all those involved once they regain power in the federal government.  Now, if any of you have ever been in any type of combat situation and you shoot an enemy soldier once but he is not killed then by this way of thinking you should not fire again because that would be a war crime and you would be prosecuted for it.  Anyone thinking this way would be dead before the battle was over.  Civil war general William T. Sherman said, “war is hell” ,  he is right and if it were fought with this insane idea the war would be lost.  This is why the U.S. hasn’t won a war since World War Two.  This has been one reason why nations have been conquered or destroyed in history.

Another insane idea involves illegal immigration. To allow millions of illegal aliens to remain in a nation will destroy that nation from within.  This is exactly what is happening in the U.S. and European countries.  Many nations took in refugees from Islamic countries in large numbers and now are paying the price for it and the price will be high.  Anyone familiar with Islamic beliefs should know this.  No kind of people should ever be allowed in any nation that refuses to be assimilated into that nation’s culture.  The negative impact of this has been felt in any nation that has made this mistake.  

I am addressing the people of the world, not the people of GOD in this article.  If you do not correct your insane way of thinking soon your nation is doomed.  I do not think you will until it is to late.  This has been the way things always played out as recorded in the history books.  You are being led by people who are idiots and they will destroy you with their insanity, but hey, you voted them in didn’t you. This means you only have yourselves to blame.

The carnal world is in very bad shape and soon events are going to lead to catastrophe.  There is a huge price to pay for being stupid so get ready to pay it.  There is only one answer to all the world’s problems but they haven’t a clue about what it is.  

We, GODS  elect saints, know the answer.  We have made a commitment and have dedicated ourselves to it.  We will escape the horrible times ahead but we sigh and cry for all the abominations we see being committed in this world.  The saints take no pleasure in the pain, suffering and death that is coming upon the carnal world but they have no excuse, they have brought it upon themselves.  The saints also know that even for the carnal world there is hope, a hope they know nothing about.  This insane thinking will continue only for a time but the time will come when sanity will be restored.  That will be some day.

THE CONFUSION CHAOS AND EVIL OF POLITICS AND RELIGION

 I am aware that the U.S. has had times in the past where there has been civil unrest; the civil war, organized crime, the 1960’s and others but today we have for the first time a divided government in all three branches.  What we have witnessed over the last decade has been an escalation of outright violence and hatred by the democrats against the republicans.  It has reached a point of ridiculousness when the democrats blame the republicans for things that the democrats are actually guilty of.  The democrats have lost all credibility along with the mainstream media for the abundance of lies they have been telling. The scary thing is that they have no intention of stopping and that many follow them. It is as if they have lost their minds and are driven by hatred and devastated by the loss of power.  If something doesn’t change soon we may find ourselves in another civil war.  

I do my best to see both sides of any issue and reach my conclusions after careful consideration and analysis.  I am apolitical, not interested in being involved in politics, but I do keep myself informed.  An honest unbiased appraisal of the situation leads me to conclude that the democrat party has become unhinged.  There are also some republicans who are no better.  I see Satans claw prints all over this insanity within the government.  It is not just the Federal but also State and Local governments that have lost their minds.   

I have also observed that the constitution that defines the government contains no provisions for the current violence involving Illegal immigrants and antisemitism which is escalating because violent protestors are not punished.  There are governors and mayors of blue cities and states that no only refuse to cooperate but are breaking federal law by aiding and abetting the criminals.  Response to this by federal authorities is limited because the U.S. constitution ties their hands.  The federal district court judges appointed by Obama, Clinton and Biden have made rulings that are obviously partisan favoring the democratic left.  

When evil people are not quickly punished they will be emboldened to do even more evil.  Ecclesiastes 8:11  Isaiah 26:10   The people involved in all of this from both sides are carnal evil unconverted people, children of the devil.  They are all under the law, the Ten Commandments , and should be punished for their actions by death.  Under the Ten Commandments the wages of sin is death.  The government if they enforced the Ten Commandments should kill all these people but the nation’s constitution will not permit this.  The very laws of this nation that were to guarantee freedom will lead to slavery and slaughter.  This has happened to many other nations in history.  Every great nation of the past has fallen and the U.S. will too.  Eventually all nations will fall when Christ returns and conquers them to set up the kingdom of GOD.  As politics is confusion and chaos so is religion, both are controlled by Satan.  Satan is the father of lies, chaos and confusion.  This is exactly what history has recorded about both.  The only hope the world has, that they know nothing about, is the return of Jesus and his GODS kingdom here on Earth.  

WERE YOU TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH ?

 

Were You Told the Whole Truth?

SRB 30 November 2025​

Christianity, as described in local churches, is free, painless, and a solution to all problems – costing nothing.

And that is totally inaccurate. The message is presented in scripture, but rarely does anyone pay attention to the whole message given in scripture. They have their proof-texts, and that is where the “search for truth” stops.

Yeshua, the Son of Yahweh, told his followers that there is a cost to be carried as a result of being a disciple.

Lk 14:25–27 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

When have any of us Westerners seen churches paying a price for their salvation? Are not all our local churches focusing all their attention on décor, sound and video systems, children’s playgrounds, and banquets – and tithes ?   They are marketing themselves for popularity instead. Don’t they appear to ensure that there is little cost for their tickets to heaven ? Are their seats filled with true disciples?

I imagine that if any local church was filled with believers who endure the cost of discipleship as described by Yeshua, their doors would close. That is why I believe that those who truly are disciples meet in small group assemblies away from local churches that would not accept them because of doctrinal conflict. (To be sure, a true disciple would not willingly attend the local church which does not speak only God’s truth.)

Speaking only of we who have modern day viewpoints - and a serious culture shift from that of the Jews 2000 years ago – are easily deceived by our preachers and teachers who provide the comfort that we, the people, want. We are gullible.

I think it is important at this point to admit that there are those who have benefited from the church community. Their social programs have helped people handle their problems in life. That is not the subject of this post.

1 John 5:13: write this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life.

We should consider all that was taught in the scriptures regarding salvation, everlasting life, and all the conditions attached to being one with the Father and with His Son. It will shake our confidence – and it should.  There is one word in English that we tend to skip over that needs to be large font and bold: “if.”

1 John 1:8–9: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 2:23–25: Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2: Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.

Colossians 1:21-23: And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard . . .

2 Peter 2:20-22: For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first . . . It has happened to them according to the true proverb, the dog turns back to his own vomit, and the sow is washed only to wallow in the mire.

Heb 10:26–27: For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries

AT this point, one should wonder just who is being addressed in those verses. After all, did not your church teach you “Once saved; always saved ?” There would be no “if” statements if that were true.

Phil 2:12–15: Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world

Now this is the tough part of this message. What should we think about the “if statements’ and the admonition to “work out our salvation ?” These things appear very complex for those who came to Yeshua without being called by His Father. My opinion is that many, who call themselves “Christians,” fit into that category. They liked the message, enjoyed the security offered by their local church message and now have confidence in their everlasting destiny.

So, I hope to stir some thought here.

If these quotes from scripture are valid, should we not question ourselves according to those “if” words ? If we have been chosen by Yahweh to come to His Son Yeshua and have submitted to the life changing baptism in “Jesus’ name,” then we should truly have God’s spirit within. We don’t need anyone to tell us that we do. Yahweh’s spirit tells us that we do. God will change us over time.

Our understanding of scripture will eventually change. Some of our beliefs will change. We will not fit into the community of the local church any longer because we are no longer of that fold. We will hear the scriptures calling us – the shepherd’s voice.  John 10:27

And now the difficult part – you may not soon find another true disciple to bond with. There are not many in this world. Pray for one and wait. We are out there hoping to find you, too.

And that is when Luke 14:25–27 becomes real. Then, you will understand. Relationships will change and not necessarily because you chose it. You may find that the others will choose it for you, as you become unacceptable to them. That is the cost you can count. It is well worth it.

If you are reading this and wonder about your status with the Only True God, then seek Him with all your heart.

MY PERSONAL MESSAGE TO ALL OF GODS ELECT SAINTS AROUND THE WORLD

 Soon it will be 15 years that this blog has been online.  In that time I have received very little feedback or response in the way of comments.  This blog is my effort to communicate with others who are GODS elect saints.  According to my blog statistics there are people reading the articles from over 20 nations but the vast majority never respond in any way.  I am at this time asking everyone in this world who reads this blog to please respond.  Just tap the word comment at the bottom of each article and follow the directions.  Many biblical subjects are written about on this blog but if there is any subject that you would like to explore please let me know.  This blog is an attempt to fellowship with GODS scattered elect saints that I know are out there among the nations.  Fellowship is very important because the same spirit of GOD works in all of us and by communicating electronically we can share with each other what GOD has taught us.  Scripture says that the bride of Christ must make herself ready but since we are so scattered the only way to do this is by the internet.  It has been in this manner that I have found two more of GODS elect and I hope to find even more.  I am well aware that we are all at different stages of spiritual growth and the goal is for us all to be in the unity of the faith and that those among us who have been in the faith longer than others can and will by fellowship  help all grown to the same level.  When reading the experiences of the first century Christians this was a common thing. Paul phrased it as the strong bearing the weak with the goal being for all to measure up to the stature and fullness of Christ.   Some of you may or may not know that of all the people that have ever existed from Adam until just before the great tribulation, only 144,000, will be called and chosen by GOD to be HIS elect saints.  This is the time of the barley harvest but the great harvest will be in the future in which we will be kings and priests and reign on Earth with Christ.  Considering this great calling and election we all have been given wouldn’t you want to reach out to your brothers and sisters who are scattered to the four winds ?  I do hope that all of you out there are healthy and happy and growing in the spirit, that you will consider commenting if only just to let me know that you are there. 

Thank you, Lee

A CHRISTIAN USING FORCE TO SHOW LOVE TO BOTH THE VICTIM AND THE PERPETRATOR

This is a question that has been debated among GODS elect saints.  There have been extremes in both directions as to how a true Christian should respond to the violence of an evil person.  Some have thought to take no action at all except praying for GOD to do something while others take action of some kind to help the victim.  

James 2:15,16,17   James is saying that if anyone has any kind of need it is a Christians obligation out of love to help, if they are able,  rather than do nothing or faith without love, which is GODS work in you, is dead if it is not applied in any or all circumstances.  Love is a verb , it requires action to be proven.  Just saying you love is cheap talk, it’s hearing but not doing.

John says the same thing in 1 John 3:17,18  

The scriptures say that GOD knows the thoughts and intents of our human spirits.   Hebrews 4:12 HE will know what your true motivations are and HIS judgment is based on this criteria.  If you use violence it must only be used when all other options are exhausted and your frame of mind must be love for both the victim and the perpetrator. Use only enough force needed to stop the violence you have encountered and then call the proper authorities to report the incident.  If you happen to take the life of the perpetrator this is not murder, it is killing, there is a huge difference between the two.  Murder is done with evil intent killing is not.  Even the 6th commandment in the law should be interpreted, “thou shalt not do murder”.  

How can we be showing GODS love in us if we see an evil person hurting someone but do nothing ?  Even if the victim is ourselves we have options.  Once I was involved in a situation where a man was threatening me with bodily harm.  The first thing I did was silently pray asking GOD what should I do.  I heard a voice in my mind say, “tell him to go back into his house and stay there”, and so I spoke those words then to my surprise he did just that.  I had often wondered what would have happened if this man had actually attacked me.  I believe that GOD in that event would have given me the strength and ability to overcome the man without causing any serious injury to him.  

At the return of Jesus the then glorified saints will meet him in the air and a two edged sword placed in their hands to inflict vengeance on the nations, to execute the judgment written against them and this honor is for all GODS saints.  Psalm 149  In the future we will be given a major role, an honor, to be used as weapons in HIS vengeance.  When GOD said, “vengeance is mine, I will repay” this is how HE does it.  We need to have patience now and not seek vengeance before the time appointed and in this current life, even in defense of self or others, never do so with hatred or vengeance in our heart.  

Regardless of the specifics of any violent incident we must always call upon GOD for help. Never get yourself into something or anything alone, have GOD go with you.  Cast all your cares and needs upon HIM because HE cares for you.

Our prayers to GOD should include our sincere desire to never be in a situation where we would have to use violence but if it did happen that GOD would give us the victory.  Even Jesus used a whip to drive the money changers out of the temple showing that he used violence to promote good.  Abraham, Moses, king David and Elijah literally killed people as scriptures show but were never condemned for it by GOD.  There was one incident where king David murdered Uriah the Hittite and this was indeed a sin and when confronted with his sin repented. Psalm 51 is an account of David’s repentance.

This sort of issue is one requiring deep spiritual understanding but even if you happen to make a mistake and sin we yet have the ability to repent and be forgiven.  Taking a life is a very serious thing because you take everything away that a person is, good or evil.  This also has the potential to cause within us severe depression for quite some time but GOD will help us through this.

Just as for myself I pray for all of GODS elect saints that they never are faced with this situation but if they are GOD will be with them. 

JOHN 14:23 GOD AND JESUS MAKE THEIR HOME WITH US

John 17:3  1 John 3:24  1 John 4:12,13   In John 17:21KJV “that they all MAY be one as you FATHER are in me and I in YOU that they also MAY be one in us.” 

John 17:23 “I in them and YOU in me that they MAY be made perfect in one”

The FATHER and Christ dwell in the elect saints.  They make their home with us.  Then just as the FATHER dwelt in Christ and did all the works, the healings, the raising of the dead, calming the storm and walking on water and everything else that people saw Jesus do were actually done by the FATHER.  Even all the words Jesus spoke were his FATHERS words.  This same thing is now done in the elect saints because GOD and Christ dwell in us.  Now, “that they MAY be one as we are one”, the word “may” indicates a condition to becoming “ONE”.  Salvation requires that the elect submit to GOD and Christ and not quench or grieve the working of GODS spirit in us to do the works of GODS love.  This is related to the parable of the talents.  If we do not love we will not be yielding to the spirit and have buried our talent, the gift of the spirit in us.  If we submit to the spirit so that GODS work of love flows through us then we gain more talents, we grow in the spirit, we do not quench or grieve the spirit. GOD invested HIS spirit in us at the cost of HIS sons life and HE expects a return on HIS investment.  There is no excuse for not growing in the spirit because GOD will do all the works in you if you cooperate with HIM.  Noncooperation is a bad thing, cooperation is a good thing.  Do the good thing.  Never allow yourself to become luke warm like the Laodiceans.  GOD will, out of the blue, place you in a situation where you can apply HIS love to your neighbor and when this happens respond with that love.  You cannot plan these events, GOD does, and in this it is known that the works were not your own works but GODS works.  You can’t plan for something that you have no idea is coming.  It seems that in the minds of the unconverted in their churches, that they do the work of planning of things and thinking their works please GOD but they can’t because it was their works not GODS.  

When the FATHER and Christ dwell in you GOD has planned out the works,  Ephesians 2:10  notice, GOD prepared good works IN ADVANCE for us to do, so if GOD planned the works in advance how are we to know them until they come upon by surprise.  Christ and his FATHER desire to make us one with them, the “may” then is conditional upon us yielding to GOD. 

For myself and all of GODS elect I pray that the word “may” will be “make” in the day of Christ Jesus.  GOD, who began this work of HIS love in us is able to complete it at the return of Jesus.   Philippians 1:6  because, Philippians 2:13  Our part in all of this is to respond to GODS love by loving HIM back and submitting to HIS will, if we do this our calling and election will be sure.

 

ARE YOU IN THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD ?

Did you know that in the United States there are over 200 churches all claiming to be Christian but with a variety of teachings ?  Did you know that worldwide there are over 45000 different churches all claiming to be Christian ?   How in the world would you ever find out which one is the true church ?  According to the scriptures there is only one body of Christ,  Ephesians 4:4  then how do we explain over 45200 different bodies ?  If you decided to spend just one day on each of these churches to study their teachings to determine which one was the true church it would take you about 125 years to complete your investigation.  You wouldn’t live long enough to finish.  You would never be able to identify the true church without examining them all, would you ?

So, the church you happen to be in now, did you choose to join it ?  If you did then I can guarantee you that you that you are not in the true church.  This is because GOD alone adds to HIS church such as should be saved.  Acts 2:47 (last sentence) you see GOD must put you in HIS church, you can’t join it.  It’s as many as the Lord our GOD shall call. Acts 2:39   However, many may be called but few are chosen, Matthew 22:14. You, just like the original disciples, must be chosen because you cannot choose Jesus, he must choose you.  John 15:16  When GOD and Christ choose you the rest of the unconverted world will hate you. John 15:19  Why ?  Because you will know the truth when they can’t even understand it.  You will have a confidence and boldness that the world will think is arrogance, conceit, haughtiness or hubris and falsely accuse you of being of the Devil.  You would no longer fit into this world because Christ did not fit either. John 8:23  You would be just like Jesus in this way,  John 17:14,15,16  Do you understand what Jesus is saying ?  The one and only true church of the living GOD is composed of both former Jews and Gentiles that have been called and chosen by GOD ALMIGHTY and by GODS spirit through HIS son will convert you, give you HIS Holy Spirit and teach you HIS truth.  Jesus said this very thing.  John 6:43,44,45  John 14:26   John 16:13   John 15:26  so did Paul, 1 Corinthians 2:10,11,12,13  and  1 John 2:27  and 1 Peter 1:12

I have given here absolute proof of what I am saying by the scriptures.  It should be obvious to any who is understanding that your current church, your current pastor or minister is a fraud.  Oh yes, they know some buzz words, they call Jesus Lord, Lord, have done many wonderful things in his name and they claim to be men of GOD but are wolves in sheep’s clothing, dark agents of Satan masquerading as ministers of light.  2 Corinthians 11:14,15    They lie to you then charge you for it and you have been paying them !  GODS truth is free because GOD paid the price for it with HIS sons life. 

If you are offended by what I have written here that is the normal and expected response from the unconverted mind.  If you have been enabled by GOD to begin to see the things I have shared with you then there may be hope for you if you continue to diligently seek GOD for the truth and not from men.  

Yes indeed, there is a true church of GOD but spiritually it is not of this world therefore all the churches of this world are not that one true church.  

My brother in the one true faith has an article below this one in which he explains to you the very things I have covered in this article.  He has a different method of delivery than I do but that doesn’t make his words any less powerful.  I encourage all readers to carefully read both articles in the spirit of the Bereans , with an open mind and check out the scriptures we have supplied.  

HOW DO YOU KNOW ?

 

How Do You Know?

SRB 19 Nov 2025​

Matt 7:21–23 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.

Obviously, Christ Yeshua was talking about someone else. I can be sure it is not about me since the people in my church compliment me on my knowledge of scripture, my generous giving, and the many times I volunteer for committees and projects. So, it cannot be referring to me.

That part about “the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” is proved by all the things I mentioned previously, right?

…. Or maybe I am missing something. Perhaps the evidence of my status with our Father has little to do with my outward contributions to a local church? If so, what else is there?

Jer 9:23–24 YLT Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, but in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

(I like the Young’s Literal Translation since it does not remove God’s name found in the oldest manuscripts from the bible (even though he uses Jehovah rather than Yahweh.)

So, we must know Him. That’s easy, right? For those who have spent years at the feet of their preachers and teachers, believing that they know God is automatic. But do they?

We are told that we must believe in someone else, too.

John 6:28–29 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

That is another easy answer for those who choose to believe what man has taught. I rarely meet anyone who questions those things that their church has taught. There are many responses to questions about the major change of American culture that apparently started in the 1950’s that caused young people to be more concerned with “fitting in” with their social environment than to facts and objective thought. In short, we feel the need to be accepted.

Ideas become facts because majority opinion has more power than truth. This runs counter to the Apostle Paul’s remarks about the Berean church searching scripture to see if Paul’s words agreed with the contents of their books and letters.

Rarely do Christians do that, and those who do and find valid questions get pushed away.

So, again with the initial question: how do I know if I am a true follower of the Son of God? I submit it has nothing to do with my contributions to a local church. Instead, it has everything to do with knowing Yahweh and Yeshua and obeying their commands.

Every teaching from Yeshua that appears in our New Testament came from His Father.   John 7:16  If I am looking to see what God’s commands are; I look to the words of Yeshua first.

A final note: we must know the truth given to us by the spirit of God.. Now, this sounds simple while it is in print. It is not so simple if I had not already received the spirit of God.

Yahweh chooses those who He will elect. He calls them to know His Son. Those who know His Son are baptized into the New Covenant and received the spirit of God. Most folks would say “I already know that.” I once thought that I knew that. I once believed that I knew that as well. Until it really happened. The impossible part here is that those who have not learned God’s truth cannot understand what I just wrote. It seems like so much arrogance, and that is probably why those who do understand are reluctant to share this information. The world around us, having had 2000 years to polish their deceptions, have got a firm grip on religion.

In order to understand scripture, one’s desire for truth must become a passion. It is better done in small groups with others who seek truth. Seeking God with all you have and asking Him for truth – and waiting on Him to answer - is important.. I think it must be acknowledged that God will know if you are sincerely seeking Him – frauds need not apply.

I think many will do like the Jews and seek some sign that these words are true. The Jews wanted one from Yeshua as well, and it was not that long before the sign was given.:

Matt 12:38–41 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

So, anticipating a question to all this, I’ll answer what I think will be asked: how do I receive the truth?

Answer: I’m certain that many remember all the warnings that were given in scripture regarding evil people arising and distort the teachings of Yeshua and His Apostles.  Jude 1:3-4 There will be wolves in sheep’s disguise and may deceive even “the elect.” Matthew 24:24

Do you think that these warnings were for only the first century people? Second century? A short internet search should quickly show that this deception has never stopped. It is going on today. Where can you find it? Look around. Search your church’s statements of faith. Look at the doctrines you are being taught with their “proof texts.’

The corruption of scriptures is real. There will be those “authorities” who understand Greek or Hebrew and dismiss all those errors as minor - with no true impact. Friends, those minor errors, those additions, those mistranslated words have hidden the truth from the masses.

So, what do we do to get the truth? First, we believe Yahweh:

Jer 31:30–34a YLT Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant, Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them—an affirmation of Jehovah. For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, and on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. And they do not teach any more each his neighbor, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest.

Gal 3:5–7 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”? Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, Yahweh and great shall be the peace of your children.

John 6:44–45 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

1 Thess 4:8–9 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

1 John 2:26–27 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

There are those among you who desire that people do not accept these passages literally. I can certainly understand their concern. They are dealing with those who are not the Elect of God. They are Christians according to the customs of their churches only. The huge difference between my understanding and the local church pastor or teacher is that my view includes ONLY those whom God has given His spirit. Your local church leaders think that all of you already have God’s spirit. They do not want anyone to rock their boat.

James 3:1-2 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Jas 1:5–8 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways

Finally, I want to close these thoughts with this passage that I hope inspires deeper thought by the readers. It is so important.

Phil 2:12–13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

When God gives you His Truth, it will be unshakeable. You will not fear discussing it with anyone. You will not be timid when questioned. You will not be angry with those who doubt you.

May I say, if your belief is not open for a mature discussion, you probably don’t believe it. If you cannot explain the reason for your belief, then it is not your belief – it came from someone else.

HEARTBROKEN

 In our relationships with people, family or friends, who are not converted we sometimes have situations where a loved one has made choices in their lives that cause us and them heartbreak.  When this happens we must deal with it spiritually by realizing that this situation is temporary and that the pain felt by both parties is going to be resolved through time. GODS saints know that this life is temporary and that what our unconverted loved ones do today will not be counted against them just as our past sins have not been counted against us.  It is only that we were the first fruits in GODS plan to redeem humanity thus implying second fruits later on.  All the heartbreak that is current will be forgiven and they will be converted having the Holy Spirit in the age to come.  Therefore the current heartbreak should not be our focus but rather the future heart healing.  GOD allows the unconverted to do what they want and that is sin.  The saints no longer do what they formerly did but now must kill that old self to become a new creation in Jesus.  We no longer have our own will that led to sin and death but live by the will of GOD who now controls our lives if we submit to HIM.  Remember, not my will but your will be done.  We are to be like Jesus Christ in total submission to his FATHER and then his FATHER becomes our FATHER.  This same opportunity will be presented to those relatives and friends at a future time when GOD will wink at their sins, they will truly repent and be forgiven and receive HIS Holy Spirit.  It will be a repeat of what happened to us but at a time after us.  This should be our focus, our hope for our unconverted loved ones, not the current heartbreak of this age.  We are to be the teachers of the currently unconverted of this current evil age.  Therefore it is extremely important that we strive to make our calling and election sure so that we can be there for them in that future day.  If we truly love, agape, our unconverted friends and loved ones then this should be our focus.  We are unable to help them now other than to love and pray for them but if we are successful in our election then we will be given access to the power of our GOD that just as Jesus lives in us now they will live in Jesus and in us.  This will be the fulfillment of Micah 4  and   Isaiah 30:19,20,21  we will be their Elohim, their teachers.  What GOD and Christ did for us now GOD, Christ and us will do for them.  This requires patience and understanding but it gives hope to all concerned that John 3:16,17 is very true. 

To all of you out there who are faced with heartbreak remember these things.  Psalm 147:3  Isaiah 61:1  Isaiah 57:18,19  2 Corinthians 1:3,4   Psalm 34:18   Jeremiah 33:6  Isaiah 30:26  Hosea 6:1 

GENTILES ARE INDEED WITHOUT THE LAW BUT STILL UNDER IT

1 Corinthians 9:20,21 The word “under”. Strongs G1722  a good rendering is, give self wholly to,  whereas the word “having, follow, outside or without” as in various translations is Strongs G459 it does not mean the gentiles were not under the law but that they just didn’t keep it.  The gentiles did not “wholly give themselves to the law”.  There is only one definition for sin under the law, violating the Ten Commandments.  There isn’t one law for Jews and another for gentiles.  If gentiles were not under the law then they couldn’t sin, but yet…Romans 3:9,19  Romans 4:15  put gentiles under sin just as Jews.  It is ignorance to say that the gentiles are not under the law because this would mean they could not sin. 

When Moses made the covenant of the law with Israel he said, Deuteronomy 29:14,15  “those not with them there that day”, was everyone else in the world. 

Israel was to be a model nation, an example to the world of a people who GOD blessed abundantly and other nations were to see this and desire the same blessings Deuteronomy 28:1,210  Anyone desiring these blessings were required to become an Israelite and were to treated as one born in the land.  Exodus 12:48,49  Isaiah 56:6,7  Leviticus 19:33,34  What GOD was doing with Israel was proselytizing in order to bring the world under HIS law but Israel failed miserably and eventually GOD divorced them. 

Even though Israel failed the record of their experiences is recorded in the scriptures as well as the 613 commandments.  This system of laws has never been changed or altered and is the same today and all unconverted people are condemned to death by them.  The only way to escape this death is Christ.   

The tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written contained only the Ten Commandments, the thou shalt nots, but said nothing about if thou did and violated them.  This is where the book of the law of Moses enters as it proscribed the punishment for the violation of the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments were the statutes and the law of Moses contained the judgments.  This is the whole law all 613 Commandments of the Torah.  Anyone that voluntarily puts themselves under the Ten Commandments is under the entire law and Jesus did not abolish one jot or tittle of the law.  Matthew 5:17,18   The unconverted people are all under the law anyway until the come to Christ.  GOD will judge all people either by the law or by faith and grace. The church is being judged today to found worthy because we will not be judged after Jesus returns but before, before the saints are changed.  1 Peter 5:17   Hebrews 12:25  1 Corinthians 11:31,32   2 Thessalonians 1:5  The Laodiceans are neither cold or hot, that is being a church of GOD are obviously not under the law but they have also neglected the covenant of faith and grace and this produces a problem with judgment.  Therefore they must not love their lives unto death and be willing to buy gold tried in the fire of the great tribulation, they must be martyred and those who are will be in the first resurrection with GODS elect saints.  Those who do not will perish in the tribulation.  These people quenched and grieved the Holy Spirit to the breaking point and disqualified themselves for salvation.  

So, I hope the reader can see that everyone is under the law except the church and that law and grace are the two methods GOD uses to judge humanity.

MESSAGE TO GODS SCATTERED ELECT

 Given the harsh reality of the world’s economic system there are a few things that I would strongly recommend my readers to consider.  1.  Keep some cash at home if you can.   2.  Stock up on non perishable foods, dry goods and canned goods like fruits vegetables and meats, flour, coffee, and any medications and personal hygiene products.  3.  If able buy some silver bullion.  1 Troy ounce rounds that you can hold in your hand, not on paper.  

I believe there is a possibility that very hard times may be coming.  If we are watching world events as Jesus said we should do then it should be obvious that the nations have gone into extremely high levels of debt while at the same time debasing their currencies.  The result is high inflation and decreasing amount of goods in the supply chain.  I have been following this situation for many years and know that eventually everything is going to come crashing down.  Will it be tomorrow or next month, I don’t know but the indicators are all bad and we need to prepare as best as we can.  This, when it does happen, is what I call the false tribulation.  There may also be at the same time wars breaking out around the world as currently there are many hotspots that could explode at any time.  

Please do not be overly alarmed or go to excessive measures but be realistic and stay within what you are able to do because I will say that this may be an event that will stretch out over time.  It is very difficult to predict anything when we are not in direct control of events.  It is as they say, better safe than sorry.  Perhaps many of you have already taken steps to do what I have recommended but if not it may not be too late to start.  This is stepping out on faith to believe what the prophets, Jesus and the Apostles wrote about concerning these days.  The list of things I gave is not all inclusive so determine what your needs are and prepare as best as you can remembering to not panic but keep a level head.  We do what we can but look to GOD to do what we can’t.  Above all continue in your walk with Christ, always submit to the power of his GOD to guide you in all things.  

JESUS FULFILLED THE LAW

 

It is extremely important to understand how to count days. The count of days is from one day to the next day, you can’t call the day you begin with as a full day, you start on a day then moving to the next day is a full day.  To calculate when Pentecost falls you begin on the weekly Sabbath and move to the first day of the week, this is one day, then continuing the count for seven weekly sabbaths that will be 49 days and then the next day, Sunday, is the 50th day, Pentecost.  Below are two months that will be used for you to make the proper count. Begin on Saturday the 7th and move to Sunday the 8th and this is one day. Continue counting to month 2 Saturday the 26th, the 7th sabbath . Then one more day to Sunday the 27th which is Pentecost.  You can also do this count backwards because you always have two fixed dates, the weekly Sabbath and Pentecost both of which always fall on their own day of the week.  

Month 1

SUN              MON              TUE             WED       THUR              FRI              SAT

   1          2          3        4         5          6          7

   8          9         10      12       13        14        15

   16       17        18      19       20        21        22

   23       24        25      26       27        28        29

   30       31

Month 2

SUN    MON    TUE    WED    THUR   FRI    SAT

                             1           2           3           4         5

6           7              8           9          10         11       12

13        14            15         16         17         18       19

20        21            22         23         24         25       26

27       28             29        30

Furthermore, if you count 10 days backwards from the 27th you arrive on Thursday the 17th, the day Jesus ascended to heaven.  Also, from the month 1 sabbath, the 7th, count backwards 3 full days and this will be Wednesday the 4th Passover, the day Jesus was murdered. 

The first day of unleavened bread, a high sabbath day, was on the day after the Passover, the 5th, and the last day of unleavened bread was the 13th.  During the days of unleavened bread and after his resurrection, Jesus met two disciples on the road to Emmaus,  Luke 24:13 and when the three of them went into a house then, Luke 24:30  Jesus broke a loaf of leavened bread and blessed it, and this happened on the sabbath that Jesus was resurrected. Remember that days back then began at sunset so it would be a full 12 hours or so before daylight.  Jesus blessed leavened bread during the days of unleavened bread, specifically on the second day of unleavened bread, and as the disciples said, Luke 24:21  the third day from Passover.  The two disciples later told others about how Jesus was MADE KNOWN TO THEM in the breaking of bread. Luke 24:35   So the during this one week period of time Jesus fulfilled the Passover , the weekly Sabbath, the days of unleavened bread and later Pentecost.  Jesus didn’t come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.   True Christians do not keep any of the old covenant laws, none of them.  We are in the new covenant with the two greatest laws ever that GOD works out in us.  

LOVE GIVING AND GODS WORKS VERSUS HUMAN WORKS AND HUMAN LOVE

Jesus was the only human to ever match GODS level of love because his GOD and FATHER created him this way.  Jesus told us that his FATHER did all the works that the people of his day witnessed him doing . Human love is not the same kind of love as GODS love. In the worlds churches only human level love is practiced. The false churches plan giving events, like feeding the poor.  They plan the entire thing by putting an ad in the local paper announcing the event and church members prepare the food for the appointed day.  Everything they have done was planned by them not by GOD.   True giving is unplanned, it is like what the Good Samaritan did, it comes like a bolt out of the blue and places you in a situation where you are totally reliant on GODS love to be the force, power and motive behind your actions to help those in whatever need they may have.  In this way your works do not enter and are assured to be GODS work in you.  You cannot plan for something that takes you by surprise.  Only in this sense scripture calls these works your works, but it is well known that the true source of the works was GOD.  GOD motivates HIS people with HIS love both to love HIM and their neighbor.  Without this GODLY Love all types or forms of kindness, giving and compassion are operating in human love only.  When true Christians give their left hand doesn’t know what their right hand is doing.  It’s not a physically planned thing.  True Christians operate towards the carnal world under GODS direct motivation but within the true church it is different because it is true Christians giving to other true Christians and under these circumstances the act of giving and the plan to give are both driven and motivated by GOD.  An example of this was Paul’s collection for the saints in distress.  What makes the difference between the church and the world is that Holy Spirit is present in the true church while absent in the false churches.  People in these false churches will not be able to discern the difference and will indeed credit GOD for their giving but in truth it was all their own work based entirely on human love.   Usually these false churches brag about the things they do in their communities and around the world.  You have seen their commercials on TV and their asking for money for some kind of event they have planned.  You have seen the write ups in the local paper, “Church feeds over 100 people”  or something similar.  They have their reward in this world but none with GOD.  

I hope this article has shown the difference In giving between GODLY motivation or human planning.  Paul said, “it is GOD who works in you both to will and to do HIS good pleasure” , so then, in this sense faith is shown by GODS working in us because faith without GODS works in us is dead.  Therefore, the faith of the world’s churches is dead because their works are their own and not GODS.  

WORKS

 When the scriptures speak about works what does that mean  ?   Works are actions, deeds or activities performed by a person, but not by GOD.   Works are mentioned in both old and new covenants.  Under the old covenant,  which scripture confirms is the ten commandments and the book of the law of Moses . Deuteronomy 9:11,15  all the blessings under this old covenant were physical not spiritual.  Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Under the old covenant ten commandments Israel was commanded to do the works of the law.   Since salvation is not of works there are no works to perform in the new covenant that were in the old covenant.  In the new covenant our works are done in us by GOD, Isaiah 26:12KJV , we are HIS workmanship, and HE has prepared these works,  Ephesians 2:10  to fulfill what the ten commandments could not do. Romans 8:3  GOD works in us with HIS love to change our nature to be like HIS and Christs nature. 2 Peter 1:4  GOD gives us the will and ability to live by the two greatest of all commandments that HE revealed through Jesus. Matthew 22:37,30,39,40  Philippians 2:13 We then become partakers of the divine nature and do by nature GODS will and not by being commanded to do so by ten commandments. What was formerly done by command is now done because it is our will.  

Sinful human nature must be changed to overcome sin. We must live as Jesus lived. Jesus was totally dependent on his FATHER for everything and not on the old covenant because Jesus is the new covenant, Isaiah 42:6 and if we are in Christ we will be transformed to be wholly dependent on GOD just as Jesus was. John 5:19,30  John 8:28  John 14:10  Of himself Jesus could do nothing and neither can we, we rely totally on GOD for everything.   GODS love cannot sin and this love in us by HIS spirit enables us to overcome sin. Romans 5:5  Love is the fulfillment of the ten commandments.  Romans 13:10  The two greatest commandments given by Jesus have taken their place.  The ten commandments are waxing old and obsolete.  Hebrews 8:13

 The old covenant also had a curse. Deuteronomy 28:15-68   To enter the old covenant you had to be circumcised and swear an oath to keep all 613 of GODS laws.  Deuteronomy 29:12  According to Jesus the old covenant was not abolished and every word remains till all things are fulfilled.  Matthew 5:17,18  Therefore all of the old covenant laws are still in effect, ALL OF THEM, but not on the church.  Christians are told by Jesus to not make oaths so this would exclude them from even keeping the ten commandments as presented in the old covenant. Matthew 5:33,34,35,36,37  Physical circumcision is know to be useless.  The ten commandments were the ministry of death, 2 Corinthians 3:7 but the new covenant is the ministry of the holy spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:8  Under the provisions of the old covenant all Israel, by their own efforts, and with no help from GOD had to keep all 613 commandments of the law.  All people today that place themselves under the ten commandments have placed themselves under all 613 commandments of the old covenant and are responsible to obey all the provisions  that the covenant demanded. The old covenant was not to be altered in any way so the benefits of the new covenant cannot be added to the old covenant.  People under the old covenant ten commandments are not in the new covenant.   GOD makes the rules and not men.  It is abundantly clear that there are two covenants but only one saves. 

 Better choose the right one.  Ephesians 3:20,21  Keeping the ten commandments is your work in the old covenant and breaking even one brings death and this is why Paul called the ten commandments the ministry of death. 2 Corinthians 3:7   God told us this in Zechariah 4:6  Not our power , not our might, but by GODS holy spirit are the works of GOD that HE does through us just as they were done through Jesus Christ.  Jesus told us these things, Paul told us these things and the prophets told us these things, why do so many not believe these things ?  The answer,  John 8:47 

THE RICH YOUNG RULER

 In Luke 18:18-23  Matthew 19:16-30   Mark 10:17-31  Jesus is approached by a rich young ruler and in each of the three accounts additional information is provided that was not included in the other accounts therefore we must glean all relevant information from all three in order to understand what took place in the conversation between Jesus and this rich young ruler.  Jesus told this young man that if he wanted to have everlasting life to keep the commandments, Jesus even specified several of the ten commandments to be clear.

The rich young man said he kept all the Ten Commandments from his youth and asked what he yet lacked. Jesus answered him in Matthew 19:21   Obviously there was something this young man lacked that keeping the Ten Commandments did not provide.  Also as we should know, no one can keep the Ten Commandments because all have sinned and broken them.  This young man thought he was righteous by keeping the Ten Commandments just like Paul did before his conversion.  Philippians 3:9   This has the effect on many people that the keeping of them makes them righteous and in good standing with GOD when in fact they produce self righteousness which is filthy rags to GOD.  Isaiah 64:6   This is why Paul said the law deceived him and killed him.  Romans 7:11   This does not make the law evil it makes us evil.  The law is holy, just and good to condemn sinners to death, it was the ministry of death on stone.  2 Corinthians 3:7

People that put themselves under the Ten Commandments therefore are dead because anyone who broke the law dies without mercy.  Hebrews 10:28   The wages of sin is death, the sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15:56  This is or at least should be Christianity 101 , it’s not difficult to read the scriptures to see the truth of these things. 

 Christians are no longer under the Ten Commandments, the old covenant, the ministry of death.  Christians undergo a spiritual transformation that changes their nature to become a partaker of GODS nature, they have GODS love so that we need not be commanded but do by nature what GODS will is by the example of Jesus Christ.  Jesus fulfilled the Ten Commandments with GODS love not by command but because he was one with his GOD and was created in his GODS image and we are to be recreated in the image of Jesus.  The first humans, Adam and Eve , had no knowledge of what sin is, they had to disobey GOD to acquire that knowledge but before this human nature was pure and innocent but would be changed by their obedience to Satan and from that day forward human nature became Satanic.  Before conversion we were the children of the Devil but through Jesus we can be made children of GOD.  Acts 26:18

AS HE WAS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD

 

When Jesus was on this earth he did no miracles, he said nothing concerning teaching that originated from himself.  John 14:10,24  John 7:16  John 12:49  John 8:26,28,29  John 17:8  John 6:39   Jesus, when on this earth was just as we are now.  WE, the saints can do nothing of ourselves, our belief is not our own, the words we speak in the spirit are not our own.

 Now that Jesus is at his GODS right hand he uses the power of his FATHER to continue his work as mediator between his GOD and GODS saints.  GODS spirit does everything in the life of HIS saints by having HIS son live in them just as GOD did everything in Jesus and lived in him when Jesus was on this earth. John 14:10  

 The works of the saints are of the love of GOD.  The saints have no works of their own because we are GODS workmanship, Ephesians 2:10KJV , it is GOD who works in us both to will and to do HIS good pleasure. Philippians 2:13KJV  These works GOD has prepared for us and we are empowered by HIS love to work them out, to walk as Jesus walked.  In this way we are just like Jesus was when he was on this earth. 

 Some translations translate  1 John 4:17KJV  this way,   "as he is so are we on this earth" but this makes no sense because Jesus has been glorified and now given access to his FATHERS power, we are yet flesh with no power at all.  Therefore the correct translation is, "just as he WAS so are we on this earth".  

When on this earth Jesus was totally dependent on his FATHER for everything and so are we.  The obvious difference between us and earthly Christ is that he was the son of GOD and filled with the holy spirit without measure, WAS impeccable and was to be our messiah.  The connection Jesus had with his FATHER was without a mediator and he and his FATHER dwelt in one another, they were one, one in love, righteousness and holiness. John 10:30 

 The hope of the saints is to join GOD and Christ in this unity of oneness, that we may be one with GOD and Christ just as the FATHER and Christ are one.  John 17:21  

There is no amount of Ten Commandment keeping that will achieve this, no works by us of any kind, for if we work it is not GOD working but us working and you should know that salvation is not by our works but only by GODS.  This is the TRUE faith and description of what salvation is. It is nothing that you hear from all the worlds churches because they are all deceived. Revelation 12:9  

 If you understand these things then you are blessed and I would like to hear from you. Please write to me at the email on this blog.  

TO ALL WHO ARE IN LIKE MIND

 To all who are in like mind........................

Greetings Steve and Gary, 

I write this message to both of you in the spirit of GODS love. In no way do I intend it to be obnoxious or demeaning or insulting. For many years I have been searching on my blog for another elect saint of GOD that has walked with GOD and Christ longer than I have. For me it has been 32 years since my conversion. In that time I have been taught by GOD through Jesus Christ only, no man taught me anything that I know. I experience a voice in my mind / spirit that speaks to me and teaches me things I never knew about before. I cannot put into words what this is like. When I was yet a babe in Christ I did not at first recognize this voice as another voice but confused it with my own thoughts. Then a day came when a thought came that I was not even thinking about and had no knowledge about, it was then that I realized that this voice I was hearing was not my own. How could I have thoughts about something that I have no knowledge of ? The 3 other saints I fellowship with have had the same experience. When Jesus said we are taught by GOD through him it is the truth. I can say these things but there is no way I can prove them to anyone. I have searched online for someone who is a more mature Christian than I am hoping to hear what they have learned beyond what I have learned in the hope of the spirit opening my understanding to the same things. I have to date found no one. I do believe they are out there scattered to the four winds. It is only spiritually logical that other saints who have been in Christ longer that I would have grown in the spirit beyond me.

 

 My joining Simply Christian was part of my search and I have been delighted to find two others in their walk with GOD and Christ that are in their own stage of spiritual development. Neither of you are babes anymore as I have observed growth in both of you. Lately on this forum the discussions have entered into the territory of strong meat, the deep things of GOD. I entered that stage about 25 years ago. It is very obvious to me as I am sure it is to you that the 4 fellows involved in these discussions have no knowledge even about the things of milk let alone the things of meat.

I felt a motivation by the spirit to share with everyone on the forum the things freely given to me as an act of love but was met by many of them as an enemy of whatever they believe as truth. I have been tempted to leave the forum so that these types do not blaspheme the way of truth but Steve convinced me to stay. Now I only make comments in response to either of you two but not directly to them and I still post articles on various subjects. In doing this I avoid getting to overly involved in engaging in a battle of wits with those who are unarmed. I confess that it was getting out of hand. I remembered that AS MUCH AS IT DEPENDED ON ME, live at peace with all men. Both of you have a different way of expressing yourselves than I do that has not compromised GODS truth and may have better success than what I have had. My way is stern and straightforward with no apologies, I provide abundant scriptures to support my claims. This is my nature and has worked with some but not others who take my boldness in Christ as arrogance, pontificating and wanting to have my own way. They become offended by what I write about without even understanding it. My motivation is exactly the opposite of what they accuse me of. It’s true, I will not back down or apologize for the truth of GOD. Jesus offended many people during his ministry with his GODS truth so I look at this as taking up my own cross and following him. The truth will either offend a person or set them free but this is in GODS hands to do. I encourage both of you to write more and share with the members of this forum what GOD through Jesus has taught you. This is part of loving your neighbor as yourself. If they begin to attack you and blaspheme then withdraw from communication with them, do as I have done, continue writing and sharing apart from them. If GOD would decide to call and choose just one of them the angels in heaven will rejoice and we would be blessed to have had a very small part in it. Thanks for hearing, Lee

 

The letter above was only written to Gary and Steve but is appropriate for us all.  Recently I have been Given a better understanding of things like salvation, faith and works.  It is a biblical fact that true Christians are considered dead in Christ, that they no longer live because Christ lives in them, Jesus takes over your life. We then have no works at all, not in the law or in the acquiring of our salvation because GOD through Christ does the works. Philippians 2:13  GOD prepared all these works for us.  Ephesians 2:10  We Sabbath rest in Christ while GOD and Jesus work in us. 

 

We are saved by grace through faith but this faith is backed up and proven by these works GOD and Christ do in us. This is why James said faith without works is dead.  The works are GODS love in us by HIS spirit, they are not our works , they are GODS works.  WE are living sacrifices .  Romans 12:1  Just as Jesus gave us example with how he lived his life we are empowered by GODS spirit and love to do the same and over our lives be transformed to be an exact likeness of Jesus who was an exact likeness of his GOD.  This likeness is GODS nature of love which is the fulfillment of the law.  Salvation is in the last day but most think it is when they are baptized , baptism is only the beginning of the journey to salvation in the last day when Jesus returns to give everlasting life to his true followers.  

 

I am no different than all of you, I am a sinner who is now in the new covenant of grace.  We all have been given a talent, a portion of GODS spirit. If we just bury it there is no growth and we will face the wrath of the Laodiceans.  However if we remain in the faith and growing in it we will acquire more talents that will please GOD and Christ thus assuring our salvation.  

 

A true work of love is not by planning, that is your work not GODS.  GODS work in you will come out of the blue like in the story of the good Samaritan. Doing and good works will be this way because it will insure that they will not be of our planning.  We are to submit in love, willingly, to GOD and Christ praying to the FATHER through Jesus for more of GODS love in us.  Pray for the death of our old person so the new person may live.  Brother Kel has an excellent video about these things that I encourage you all to watch, several times, and brother Polycarp, though long dead, has an excellent letter that he sent to the Philippian  church that also speaks to these things.  We have as well the letters of the Apostles in the scripture that have these things as a constant theme.  

All of us need have the good works of GODS love in us and when the next time , out of the blue, we are faced with a situation of any sort that needs the application of GODS love that we apply it without question.  Whatever is not of GODS love is sin.  In his sermon on the mount Jesus taught some very hard things, loving those who hate you, doing good and praying for enemies, to overcome evil with good.  Looking at these things it seems impossible but all things are possible with GOD.  I have fallen short on all these things and have repented and asked for forgiveness and for more GODLY love, more faith and to bear more fruit, to overcome my old self and mortify those deeds, to truly die to myself so that Christ can live in me, my hope of glory.  This will not be easy but all who live in Christ will suffer some kind of persecution, this is sharing in the sufferings of Christ.  We have been taught the truth of doctrine but now this truth must be applied to live it.  God began a good work in us and HE is able to complete it in the day of the Lord Jesus. May GOD and Christ be with us all.

 

ANTHONY BUZZARDS ARGUMENT AGAINST THE TRINITY

 Anthony Buzzard, a biblical unitarian theologian, holds that Trinitarian Christians are not true Christians
because they do not follow what he argues was the original belief system of Jesus and his apostles. This position is based on his conviction that the doctrine of the Trinity is a later, non-biblical development.

Buzzard's argument against the Trinity

• The Trinity as a later development: Buzzard argues that the idea of a triune God was a non-biblical innovation that emerged in the centuries after Christ. In his view, early biblical figures and Jesus himself would not have recognized this doctrine.
• Jesus as a human Messiah: Buzzard promotes a Socinian-like theology, asserting that Jesus was a human Messiah uniquely used by God, not a divine being himself. He teaches that the one true God of the Bible is God the Father alone.
• The "creed of Jesus": Buzzard calls for a return to the "creed of Jesus," which he defines as a Jewish theology of one God, the Father. His book Jesus Was Not a Trinitarian details his arguments for this position.
• Worship of Jesus: He asserts that the worship of Jesus by Trinitarians is a form of Christian idolatry that would have been alien to Jesus himself. While he acknowledges that Jesus is to be honored, he distinguishes this from the worship reserved for God the Father.
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Mainstream Christian perspective

Mainstream Christians strongly disagree with Buzzard's position.

• Traditional Christology: Historic Christian teaching, based on biblical interpretation and established over centuries, holds that Jesus is fully divine and part of the Triune God. Major creeds, such as the Nicene Creed, articulate the doctrine of the Trinity and Jesus' divinity as foundational to orthodox Christianity.
• Interpretation of scripture: Where Buzzard sees contradictions or later additions, Trinitarian theologians point to biblical passages they interpret as affirming Jesus' divinity and pre-existence.
• Heresy vs. doctrine: The church has historically regarded unitarian and similar non-Trinitarian views as heretical. Mainstream theology views the articulation of the Trinity as the faithful and necessary clarification of biblical teaching, not a departure from it. 
  

  Context of his position

Buzzard's views come from his affiliation with biblical unitarianism, a tradition rooted in the Radical Reformation. He was associated with the Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith) and the Restoration Fellowship. The debate between Trinitarians and unitarians on the nature of Jesus has existed throughout church history. The Apostles never preached a trinity but rather affirmed there is only one God, the father.  1 Corinthians 8:6  along with the words of Jesus, John 17:3  Buzzard declares that due to incorrect translations as well as deliberate alterations are the source for the trinity doctrine. 


  Sir Anthony Buzzard on Christian mistakes - Trinities
Mar 16, 2016 — 

CONTRIBUTION BY GARY OF AUSTRALIA

 Thank you Lee, for inviting my comment on this much misunderstood subject, as I see it.

We have a law here in Australia that everyone who drives a motor car must keep to the left hand side of the road. It is not peculiar to Australia, but someone visiting from the States may find it a bit strange and off putting in relation to their personal experience of driving. And if a visitor might drive on the other side of the road inadvertently, they will be stopped by our highway police and dealt with according to the penalty system in place in Australia.

The Ten Commandments were given through Moses to the fledgling nation of Israel. (Ex 24:1-18; Deut 4:5-14) It was not obligatory on people of other nations unless those people visited or resided within Israel’s boundaries. (Num 15:14-16)

“While the Law was given specifically to Israel, its implications were intended to extend beyond the nation. Israel was called to be a "light to the nations" (Isaiah 42:6), demonstrating the wisdom and righteousness of God's commandments. The Law was meant to be a testimony to the surrounding nations of the greatness and holiness of the God of Israel.” (https://biblehub.com/topical/ttt/t/the_law_of_moses—given--to_no_other_nation.htm)

Driving on the left hand side of the road might be considered wrong in the USA, but it is not here in Australia. The issue is not ‘Who is right, or Who is wrong’. Rather, it is how we adjust our practices and attitude to drive safely and harmoniously in whichever country we are in.
 

The IMPLICATIONS of the Ten Commandments, it seems, are what Jesus drew attention to in his interchange with the scribe recorded in the gospel according to Mark:-

One of the scribes went to Jesus during the argument with the Sadducees. He saw how well Jesus answered them, so he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of them all?" Jesus answered "The most important is, 'Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the only Lord. So love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'The second most important commandment is this: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these." The scribe said to Jesus, "Teacher, that was well said! You've told the truth that there is only one God and no other besides him! To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices." When Jesus heard how wisely the man answered, he told the man, "You're not too far from the kingdom of God." -(Mark 12:28-34)

So, I agree that being motivated by God’s love for people we should not need to rely on written rules to conduct ourselves lovingly, caringly and humanely toward others, nor insist others follow those rules just to satisfy our expectations.