This is so profound, but yet so simple—we make it hard. God says without faith it is impossible to please Him. Here is the patients of the saints: Here are they who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. The state, the condition of our mind is where the faith is. GodContinue reading “This is so profound!!!”
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Rest
The Lord is our righteousness The Sabbath (The seventh day of the week—Saturday) is the sign of Jesus in us. It is our faith that ignites the Power, the grace of God to move in us. The Sabbath is evidence of our faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. We are saved byContinue reading “Rest”
Put off the old
Christian lifestyle: The lifestyle of the saved of God. “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnessContinue reading “Put off the old”
The penalty paid is not automatic deliverance from sin
The soul cannot serve, cannot love two masters. One cannot belong to God yet dine with, play with, fornicate with, gossip with, be resentful with, angry and hateful with, and unforgiving with Satan. The wages of sin is death. Saved from the penalty of sin: Christ died the second death paying the penalty for sinContinue reading “The penalty paid is not automatic deliverance from sin”
Demeaning Others to Promote Self
Read Luke 18:9-14: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p14175.52430&index=0 “Unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others,” Christ spoke the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. The Pharisee goes up to the temple to worship, not because he feels that he is a sinner in need of pardon, but because he thinks himself righteousContinue reading “Demeaning Others to Promote Self”
The “example” lived, to be lived
Christ our example, His written word: All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. The Holy Spirit brings to our remembrance what God has said, and tellsContinue reading “The “example” lived, to be lived”
Before, after, and then what?
Baptism is a demonstration/symbolic of dying, and resurrecting a new creature in Christ. There is first to be acknowledgment of sin, confessing known sins to God; repenting having true godly sorrow, forsaking all sin. True repentance works in the soul conversion by the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit obeys God just likeContinue reading “Before, after, and then what?”