We Do not say we are the only church , because any church that is under the cross of Jesus as the Christ and savior belongs to Him, and men are not the police over anyone's salvation. We are not the only Church of God. We are that church anyone can read about in the Scripture 1Cor. 1:2- Gal 1:13. Some people ask if they can help with the Old Church of God of the New Covenants Expenses? The answer is , Yes, but do not send up a Tithe. We are all Christian and all New Covenant and do not pay Preachers, or any Clergy, we do not Tithe , that was a old Covenant way of life, But it was never Money, they had a treasure and people gave to it , so do we but only for the help of the churches work.
- Doctrine of scripture creed from God's word. Makes it His creed, so we say it with bible saying it is also. God has His creed of Doctrine. The inspired Word of God. The Bible does not merely contain the Word of God, but it is the Word of God (2 Peter 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Samuel 23:2)
The revelation of God to humanity in the divine Trinity:
as God, the Father (Matthew 6:9; Romans 8:15; Ephesians 3:14-15)
as God, the Son – true God and true man (Isaiah 44:6; John 20:28; Romans 9:5; 1 John 5:20; Revelation 1:7-8; Revelation 1:17-18)
as God, the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 63:10; Matthew 12:30-32; John 14:26; Acts 5:3)
All mankind has sinned and can be saved through Jesus Christ. One can be delivered from the power and penalty of commiting sins, an instantaneous, miraculous change of the moral nature through repentance and faith in the atoning death of Christ. Only through and by him is salvation possible. (Romans 3:9-12; Romans 5:18-19)
Entire sanctification, i.e, Holy Spirit moral cleansing and Holy Spirit baptism subsequent to forgiveness and conversion, “Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost”. (Romans 15:16). (See also John 14:16-17; Acts 2:38; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24)
The salvation offered by God enables one to lead a victorious life over sin (Romans 6:14-18; 1 John 3:6)
All truly saved Christians, are members of the Church of God, the body and bride of Christ (John 1:12; 1 Peter 2:9-10; Ephesians 2:19-20; Ephesians 4:3-6; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:18; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Acts 20:28)
The Lord gave his Church 3 ordinances – not sacraments – to be practiced:
Water baptism of the believer by immersion signifying death to the world and resurrection to the new life in Christ (Matthew 3:16; Acts 8:38-39)
The Lord’s Supper as a memorial for the suffering and death of Christ for our sins (Matthew 26:26-28; 1 Corinthians 11:25-29)
Foot washing, an example of christian, humility exemplified and expressly commanded by Jesus Christ (John 13:14-17; 1 Timothy 5:9-10)
Divine physical healing, in answer to the prayer of faith (Isaiah 53:4-5; Matthew 8:14-17; James 5:14-15)
The second coming of Christ will bring the end of this world. Then the time of grace will have ended and the final judgement of the dead and the living, both believers and unbelievers, will take place in order that they receive their eternal rewards in heaven or everlasting punishment in hell. (John 5:28-29; Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-5:2; Luke 16:19-31) We do stand on , The Doctrines stop men from taking over the salvation of mankind. The Doctrines put all humans under what God will receive as the way of obedience to the next life with Him if we do not follow what He requires we will receive the other place called HELL. Welcome to the Old Church of God of the New Covenant ** Sean-Eagles-de-Dia-de-an-Nua-Cunant We have nothing for sale. We do not pay the Clergy, We do not pay tithe, we are all Christian and all New Covenant as a church people. We have no such thing as clergy who has more than one living mate. Any human may have had more than one mate in this life and still be saved, marriage has nothing to do with salvation, any person can repent of any sin as long as they are in the flesh as a human, but no clergy can stay the clergy when they take a new, honey, no clergy can have more than one living mate, this is the rule for the clergy from God and the church has to obey. We are working on the many typographical errors - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind typographical error - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typo. some of the teachings are hundreds of years old. !------Email- simonkiddoldchurch@gmail.com call anytime. 859-274-2617 Care of -box 463 East Hight St. Owingsville Ky 40360 __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ And we do need to look at the men and women who are the clergy at any church.
God will not be mocked, and the clergy has to do as God says and ask for. it must begin with the clergy. He tells those who He has saved to His Church to keep that Church clean, in that they will not let a man make the rules, for the clergy, the Preachers are under the Rules that God gave for the Clergy, One Mate living is God's rules. Read Timothy, and Titus for the answers. SPIRITUAL EXAMPLE
We will demonstrate our commitment to Christ through our practice of the spiritual disciplines; we will demonstrate our commitment to the body of Christ through our loyalty to God and commitment to His church; and we will demonstrate our commitment to the work of Christ through our being good stewards.
PRACTICE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
Spiritual disciplines involve such practices as prayer, praise, worship, confession, fasting, meditation and study. Through prayer we express our trust in God, the giver of all good things and acknowledge our dependence on Him for our needs and for the needs of others (Matthew 6:5-15; Luke 11: 1- 13; James 5:13-18). Through both private and public worship we bless God, have communion with Him, and are provided daily with spiritual enrichment and growth in grace. Through periods of fasting we draw close to God, meditate on the passion of Christ, and discipline ourselves to submit to the control of the Holy Spirit in all areas of our life (Matthew 6:16-18; 9:14-17; Acts 14:23). Through confession of our sins to God we are assured of divine forgiveness (1 John 1:9-2:2).The sharing of our confession with other believers provides the opportunity to request prayer and to bear one another 's burdens (Galatians 6:2; James 5:16). Through meditation on and study of the Word of God we enhance our own spiritual growth and prepare ourselves to help guide and instruct others in scriptural truths (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:2; 2 Timothy 2:15, 23-26).
LOYALTY TO GOD AND COMMITMENT TO THE CHURCH
The life of Christian discipleship calls for the fulfillment of our duties to the body of Christ. We are to unite regularly with other members of the church for the purpose of magnifying and praising God and hearing His Word (Matthew 18:20; John 4:23; Acts 2:42, 46, 47; 12:24; Hebrews 10:25).
Sunday is the Christian day of worship. As the Lord's Day, it commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead (Matthew 28:1) and should be employed for worship, fellowship, Christian service, teaching, evangelism, and proclamation (Acts 20:7; Romans 14:5, 6; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Colossians 2:16, 17).
We are to provide for the financial needs of the church by the giving of tithes (Malachi 3:10; Matthew 23:23) and offerings (1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 8:1-24; 9:1-15).
It is our duty to respect and to submit to those whom the Lord Jesus has placed over us in the church (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13; Hebrews 13:7, 17). Our exercise of authority must be as a spiritual example rather than as a lord over God's flock (Matthew 20:25-28; 1 Peter 5:1-3). Furthermore, our submission must be a manifestation of the spiritual grace of humility (Ephesians 5:21; 1 Peter 5:5, 6). Finally, we are to avoid affiliation with oath-bound societies. Such societies may appear to have spiritual character, but by being oath-bound and secretive, they contradict Christian spirituality (John 18:20; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18). Christians must not belong to any body or society that requires or practices an allegiance that supersedes or excludes their fellowship in Christ (Matthew 12:47-49; John 17:21-23).
BEING GOOD STEWARDS
In the Scriptures, the virtues of thrift and simplicity are honored, but the vices of waste and ostentation are solemnly prohibited (Isaiah 55:2; Matthew 6:19-23). The living of a godly and sober life requires the wise and frugal use of our temporal blessings, including time, talent and money. As good stewards we are to make the most of our time, whether for recreation or for work (Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 4:5). The idle use of leisure time degrades (2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; 1 Timothy 5:13), but the edifying use of it brings inner renewal. All our work and play should honor the name of God (I Corinthians 10:31). As good stewards we must use fully our spiritual gifts (Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, 27-31; Ephesians 4:11-16; 1 Peter 4 : 9 - 11) and natural talents (Matthew 25:14-30) for the glory of God. As good stewards we must recognize that the wise use of money is an essential part of the Christian's economy of life. God has committed temporal blessings to our trust (Matthew 7:11; James 1:17).
MORAL PURITY
We will engage in those activities which glorify God in our body and which avoid the fulfillment of the lust of the flesh. We will read, watch and listen to those things which are of positive benefit to our spiritual well-being.
GLORIFYING GOD IN OUR BODY
Our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and we are to glorify God in our body (Romans 12:1, 2; 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20; 10:31). We are to walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). Examples of fleshly behavior which do not glorify God are noted in several passages of Scripture (Romans 1:24; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10; Galatians 5:19-21; Revelation 21:8). Sinful practices which are made prominent and condemned in these scriptures include homosexuality, adultery, worldly attitudes (such as hatred, envy, jealousy), corrupt communication (such as gossip, angry outbursts, filthy words), stealing, murder, drunkenness and witchcraft. Witchcraft has to do with the practices of the occult, which are forbidden by God and lead to the worship of Satan.
READING, WATCHING AND LISTENING
The literature we read, the programs we watch and the music we listen to profoundly affect the way we feel, think and behave. It is imperative, then, that the Christian read, watch and listen to those things which inspire, instruct and challenge to a higher plane of living. Therefore, literature, programs and music which are worldly in content or pornographic in nature must be avoided. A Christian is not to attend (or watch on television) movies or theatrical performances of a demoralizing nature (Romans 13:14; Philippians 4:8).
BENEFITING SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING
The use of leisure time in the life of a Christian should be characterized by those activities which edify both the individual and the body of Christ (Romans 6:13; 1 Corinthians 10:31,32). We are to avoid places and practices which are of this world. Consequently, a Christian must not be a part of any other types of entertainment which appeal to the fleshly nature and/or bring discredit to the Christian testimony (2 Corinthians 6:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 22; 1 John 2:15-17).
PERSONAL INTEGRITY
We will live in a manner that inspires trust and confidence, bearing the fruit of the Spirit and seeking to manifest the character of Christ in all our behavior.
TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
A Christian should be trustworthy, dependable and a person of his word (Matthew 5:37; 1 Peter 2:11, 12). Therefore, the swearing of oaths is contrary to a Christian's trustworthiness and should be avoided (Matthew 5:34-37; James 5:12). Christ, by precept and example, taught that we love our enemy and prefer our brother (Matthew 5:43-48; Romans 12:10; Philippians 2:3, 1 John 3:16). We should behave in a way that will point others to Christ (Matthew 5:16; 1 Corinthians 11:1).
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
If we live in the Spirit, we will manifest the fruit (attitudes and actions) of the Spirit and will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Galatians 5:16, 22-25; 1 John 1:7). Trustful relationships with others are a natural outgrowth of our positive relationship with the Lord (Psalm 1:1-3; Matthew 22:37-40). A lack of fruit-bearing in our lives will be judged (Matthew 7:16-20; Luke 13:6-9; John 15:1-8).
CHARACTER OF CHRIST
Love for others is the hallmark of the Christ-life (John 13:34, 35; 15:9-13; 1 John 4:7-11). In His relationship with His Father, Jesus displayed submission (Luke 22:42; John 4:34; 5:30). In His relationship with others, He demonstrated acceptance (John 8:11), compassion (Matthew 9:36; Mark 6:34) and forgiveness (Matthew 9:2; Luke 5:20). We cannot bear the fruit of the Spirit and manifest the character of Christ without being spiritually joined to Christ (John 15:4, 5) and without having the seed of the Word planted in our heart (John 15:3, 1 Peter 1:22, 23).
FAMILY RESPONSIBILITY
We will give priority to fulfilling family responsibilities, to preserving the sanctity of marriage and to maintaining divine order in the home.
PRIORITY OF THE FAMILY
The family is the basic unit of human relationship and as such is foundational to both society and the church (Genesis 2:18-24). The divine origin of the family, along with its foundational character, makes it imperative that we give priority to ministry to the family, both from a personal and corporate standpoint. The practice of Christian disciplines and virtues should begin in the home (Deuteronomy 6:6, 7). Therefore, our families should establish some pattern for family devotions and should endeavor to provide a Christian environment in the home (1 Timothy 3:3, 4; 5:8).
SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE
Marriage is ordained of God and is a spiritual union in which a man and a woman are joined by God to live together as one (Genesis 2:24; Mark 10:7). Because of the divine character of marriage, it is a lifelong commitment with the only clear biblical allowance for divorce being fornication (Matthew 5:32; 19:9). Sexual involvement, either before marriage or with someone other than the marriage partner, is strictly forbidden in Scripture (Exodus 20:14; 1 Corinthians 6:15-18). Understanding the sanctity of marriage, partners should strive to maintain a happy, harmonious and holy relationship. Should divorce occur, the church should be quick to provide love, understanding and counsel to those involved. The remarriage of divorced persons should be undertaken only after a thorough understanding of and submission to the scriptural instructions concerning this issue (Matthew 19:7-9; Mark 10:2-12; Luke 16:18; Romans 7:2, 3; 1 Corinthians 7:2, 10, 11). Should a Christian desire to remain single, this decision should be respected and should be seen as a viable scriptural alternative (1 Corinthians 7:8, 32-34).
DIVINE ORDER IN THE HOME
When God created man, He created them male and female (Genesis 1:27). He gave them distinctly different characteristics (1 Corinthians 11: 14, 15; 1 Peter 3:7) as well as different responsibilities (Genesis 3:16-19; 1 Peter 3:1-7). In God's order, the husband is head of the home (Ephesians 5:22-31; Colossians 3:18, 19), parents are to nurture and admonish their children (Ephesians 6:4, Colossians 3:21), and children are to obey and honor their parents (Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:1-3; Colossians 3:20). In order for harmony to exist in the home, God's order of responsibility must be observed.
BEHAVIORAL TEMPERANCE
We will practice temperance in behavior and will abstain from activities and attitudes which are offensive to our fellowman or which lead to addiction or enslavement.
TEMPERANCE
One of the cardinal Christian virtues is temperance or self-control (1 Corinthians 9:25; Titus 1:8, 2:2). It is listed as fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:23). We are admonished to practice moderation and balance in our behavior (Philippians 4:5). The Scripture indicates that it is within our prerogative to control our thinking (Philippians 4:8), our anger (Ephesians 4:26) and our communication (Ephesians 4:29; Colossians 3:8). To exercise self-discipline reflects the power of God in our life (1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Peter 1:5-11 ).
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR
The Bible speaks clearly that we are to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others as a demonstration of our love for them (Matthew 22:39; Romans 12:9-21, 13:10; Philippians 2:3-5). At times it is necessary for us to control our behavior so as not to bring offense to others (Romans 14:13-21; 1 Corinthians 8:9-13). As we know Christ after the Spirit, we are also to know others in the same manner so we will not judge them after their outward behavior alone (2 Corinthians 5:16). A respect and tolerance for differences in others should characterize our relationships (Romans 14:2, 3; 1 Corinthians 8:8; Ephesians 4:2; Colossians 3:13; 1 Timothy 4:1-5).
ADDICTION AND ENSLAVEMENT
One of the primary benefits of our liberty in Christ is freedom from the domination of negative forces (John 8:32, 36; Romans 6:14; 8:2). We are counseled not to put ourselves again under bondage (Galatians 5:1). Therefore, a Christian must totally abstain from all alcoholic beverages and other habit-forming and mood-altering chemical substances and refrain from the use of tobacco in any form, marijuana and all other addictive substances, and further, must refrain from any activity (such as gambling or gluttony) which defiles the body as the temple of God or which dominates and enslaves the spirit that has been made free in Christ (Proverbs 20:1; 23:20-35; Isaiah 28:7; 1 Corinthians 3:17; 5:11; 6:10; 2 Corinthians 7:1; James 1:21).
MODEST APPEARANCE
We will demonstrate the scriptural principle of modesty by appearing and dressing in a manner that will enhance our Christian testimony and will avoid pride, elaborateness or sensuality.
MODESTY
According to the biblical idea, modesty is an inner spiritual grace that recoils from anything unseemly and impure, is chaste in thought and conduct, and is free of crudeness and indecency in dress and behavior (Ephesians 4:25, 29, 31; 5:1-8; 1 Timothy 2:9, 10). Therefore, modesty includes our appearance, dress, speech and conduct and can be applied to all situations. The essential issue is, does our style of life please or displease God?"
APPEARANCE AND DRESS
Our life, character and self-image are reflected by our apparel and mode of dress. The admonition of Scripture, "Be not conformed to this world," reminds us that our manner of dress must be modest and decent (Romans 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:22, 23). It is not displeasing to God for us to dress well and be well groomed. However, above all we must seek spiritual beauty, which does not come from outward adornment with jewelry, expensive clothes or cosmetics, but from good works, chaste conversation, and a meek and quiet spirit (Philippians 4:8; 1 Peter 3:3-5).
PRIDE, ELABORATENESS, SENSUALITY
As godly people we are to abstain from all lusts of the flesh and avoid dressing in a manner that encourages immoral thoughts, attitudes and lifestyles (Galatians 5:13-21; 1 Peter 2:11, 2 Peter 1:4). Our beauty does not depend on elaborate, showy dress extravagant, costly attire or on the use of jewelry or cosmetics, but on our relationship with Christ. External adornment, whether clothing or jewelry, as an outward display of personal worth, is contrary to a spiritual attitude (James 2:1-4).
SOCIAL OBLIGATION
It should be our objective to fulfill our obligations to society by being good citizens, by correcting social injustices, and by protecting the sanctity of life.
BEING GOOD CITIZENS
As Christians we are members of the kingdom of God as well as a social order of this world. Obedience to God requires us to act in a responsible manner as citizens of our country (Mark 12:13-17; Romans 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-17). Therefore, we should support civil law and order; hold our leaders in respect and pray for them; participate in school, community and governmental activities; exercise our voting rights; and speak out on clear-cut moral issues. God's law is supreme, but we are to obey the laws of our country insofar as they are not in conflict with obedience to God (Acts 5:29). When it becomes necessary to disagree with practices and requirements of government, we should do so out of a concern for the promotion of righteousness and not out of delight in discord and controversy.
CORRECTING SOCIAL INJUSTICES
Love for others and the recognition of the equal worth of all men in the sight of God (Acts 10:34; 17:26) should compel us to take steps to improve the situation of those who are underprivileged, neglected, hungry, homeless and victimized by prejudice, persecution and oppression (Matthew 22:39; Romans 13:8-10; 1 John 3:17). In all of our dealings, we must be sensitive to human needs (Luke 10:30-37; James 1:27) and guard against racial and economic discrimination. Every person should have freedom to worship and participate in the life of the church regardless of race, color, sex, social class or nationality.
PROTECTING THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
God alone confers life (Genesis 1:1-31); therefore, we are responsible to God to care for our physical life and that of others. If the circumstances require, we must be prepared to risk our life in the service of our neighbor (John 15:13); but the general rule is that we must respect our physical life and employ every worthy means to maintain it. Since God alone confers life, God alone must decide when it is to be ended (Psalm 31:14, 15). Because a human fetus is sacred and blessed of God, we believe that we have the responsibility to protect the life of the unborn (Jeremiah 1:5; Luke 1:41). It is our firm conviction that abortion and euthanasia of aged, mentally incompetent, terminally ill and otherwise handicapped, for reasons of personal convenience, social adjustment or economic advantage, are morally wrong. Furthermore, we believe it is our Christian responsibility to care for the earth and its resources. In the beginning God gave man dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:26-30). This does not, however, give us license to pollute our natural environment or to waste the resources of the earth. The clergy have turned the church kitchens into a place to sell food to the poor--
We have church colleges and the Bible does not have such a thing. God says He would call His Jer. 3:15-16- Rom. 10:14-16, no one human was to teach their flavor of what God is.
The clergy have abused children, and are still called the clergy, they have more than one living wife and are let be the clergy, people act as if it is what God calls for, to let such a clergy be anything because He is above God in their eyes. This is why Jesus also gives us another command, one often taken too literally by the Christian antinomian: “judge not, lest you be judged yourself.” So, the hard question of “can we know who belongs to Jesus?” is only partially answered for us.
Ultimately we cannot know, but in the meantime, we seem to be called to try and discern the best we can, and that based on the fruit of someone’s labors, which will potentially show their moral character, and maybe give us a glimpse of their spiritual estate. We do know that any clergy who is not under the rules for the clergy in the Bible is not of God, they would know that God does not let them do as they please as the clergy, when they took the new honey they should remove themselves from the clergy, so to show that God’s way does work and that the church will stay clean before Heaven with a clean Clergy.
Spiritual & Moral Judgment in Our Popular Culture
Today it is fashionable to judge people based solely on their public persona. __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ _________
Sanctification does not make the human who is a God or who can’t sin. All humans can and do come short of what God requires of them, but as long as we are in this body of flesh we can repent. This is God’s way out for the Human Race.
However, it is not just that Christians can have expectations too high when it comes to the process of moral cleansing and perfection in this life. Rather, it is also the case that we have seen too many examples of Christians who on the outside have appeared to be quite moral indeed, only later to be revealed as something entirely different. Sin comes when we humans make a bad choice, sin is the choice we fall down in.
It is in this sense that Christians must exercise caution and wisdom when trying to discern “fruit.” For moral rottenness does not necessarily translate into spiritual rottenness, as moral excellence, or the appearance of it, does not necessarily translate into spiritual purity.
This is to all Humans and God had rules for the clergy to stay clean.
Who God Chooses is Not Who You Would Choose
It simply is not the case that every good person will simply look or act like a clergy. This would be simplistic and reductionist discernment. It would also be foolish and naive. __________ __________ __________ _~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ In the end, there will be many who display all forms of moral failure, yet whose heart and will is more aligned with God’s heart and will than those whose outward personality seems pure and untainted. The Human can Repent but God has rules for the clergy that take us, humans, out of the clergy, and keeps us out, His Rules not the church rules.
Appearances, and even good works of a tremendous kind and variety, simply will not be sufficient for us to know with any certainty the heart of another. ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
But God did let humans have church the way they wanted it, with Him calling them back to Him or those who John 3:16 their way to Him before the end Rev. 18:1-4
He did not tell them to have, or start a college, but many did so, they could have their flower and flavor of what God is.
DEFINITION: The New Testament, New Covenant church defines the Church as the physical manifestation of Christ, and that the church is the bride, also called His Body and as the Bride, the people are who He will return for, they are the all Christian all New Covenant people of Christ.
People can be in the church anywhere. Matthew 18:20 because the church is in the people. __________ __---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -********** ********** ********* FACTS ABOUT CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: God places a human into His book of Life and only God and Heaven can take us out. The church itself can't save. the Pastors can’t save, only Jesus can.
Becoming a church member does not save you, John 3:16 will start you on the way to be saved.. Salvation only comes through confessing, repenting, and accepting Jesus Christ as Savior (John 3:16; Romans 10:9).
Doctrinal Truths of the Old Church of God of the New Covenant Hebrews 8:1-13-1 Cor. 1:2!
Repentance. Mark 1:15; Luke 13:3; Acts 3:19 this will happen when one John 3:16, The Holy Ghost will see to it.
Justification. Rom. 5:1; Titus 3:7 because of Faith, and faith is what we can’t see but we still believe that is we John 3:16 alone with the love He powered to us through Jesus.
New birth. John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 3:9 forgiveness makes us new.
Regeneration. Titus 3:5 is the work of God in the world.
Sanctification Is what God does so the human can know they are forgiven for the sins they have done.----- Rom. 5:2; 1 Cor. 1:30; 1 Thess. 4:3; Heb. 13:12
Holiness. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The doctrine of truth as God's Creed to all Humans! Holy Living can be what the saved person can do. The saved person still has to repent and will want to once God forgives. This Is what the human can do and live after they are forgiven. Luke 1:75; 1 Thess. 4:7; Heb. 12:14
Baptism with the Holy Ghost subsequent to cleansing; the endowment of power for service. Matt. 3:11; Luke 24:49, 53; Acts 1:4-8
Water baptism. Matt. 28:19; Mark 1:9,10; John 3:22,23; Acts 8:36,38
Speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance as the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. John 15:26; Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:1-7 this is in other tongues, not some noise Spiritual gifts. 1 Cor. 12:1, 7, 10, 28, 31; 1 Cor. 14:1 they will begin to show up in our life. Signs following believers. Mark 16:17-20; Rom. 15:18,19; Heb. 2:4
Fruit of the Spirit. Rom. 6:22; Gal. 5:22, 23; Eph. 5:9; Phil. 1:11, If the spirit is there it will show. ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
Divine healing provided for all in the atonement. Psa. 103:3; Isa. 53:4,5; Matt. 8:17; Jas. 5:14-16; 1 Pet. 2:24
The Lord’s Supper. Luke 22:17-20; 1 Cor. 11:23-26 the all Christian all New Covenant way in the Lord. Washing of the saints’ feet. John 13:4-17; 1 Tim. 5:9,10 Under the all Christian all-new Covenant walk the person must begin with 1 Timothy 5:7-8 as the first thing with money under the all-new covenant walk. all other things. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Tithing was an old covenant way but not under the all Christian all New Covenant because we have no such thing as a High priest in a man, so Alms and giving. Gen. 14:18-20; 28:20-22;
Food as the Tithe and not as Money under the Old Covenant!
Mal. 3:10; Luke 11:42; 1 Cor. 9:6-9; 16:2; Heb. 7:1-21 in today's way for the saved. The old covenant Tithe was just food, not money food for the Levites Deut. 14:22-26 and they did put it in a storehouse.
For the entirety of the great tribulation period, it Will be after the return of Jesus, to get His church people. He is good for His word. ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ Money for salvation is the work of the Beast the Antichrist, those who call for a tithe are not of Christ Jesus but of the devil and out for self. God has nothing for sale. Under the all Christian All New Covenant the clergy does not seek the Tithe of the People. {The New Covenant was not to pay the clergy.} ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** * The Beast (Antichrist) has broadcast an endless stream of deceptions (Revelation 13:5 - 6). His subtle lies, coupled with the performance of evil supernatural wonders, have led the world to worship him as both god and savior (Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 4). But the John 3:16 people are in the work that God has for the world and will see a fake, this is why they go door to door with their Jesus or their God, to keep the human from doing the Repent that a who-so-ever will do when they John 3:16 and the Holy Ghost take them over because they did it God's way. His" the Devil Satan has authority over the fakes of this world, it is absolute and no one dares challenge him militarily (Revelation 13:4, 7).
The Antichrist is aware that his authoritarian and violent rule over the earth will be interrupted by the return of Jesus (Revelation 12:12). Satan, however, is forever the optimist when it comes to pursuing evil.
The devil has never let his perfect record of defeats, or prophecies guaranteeing his future What is one of the primary deceptions they will promote before the return of Christ? Men will not receive sound Doctrine there are already some who say that God has no doctrine and the church will not have such a thing. What is the false Christ?
False Christs are usually those who appropriate Jesus' name for credibility's sake yet promote lies (Matthew 24:5). The Apostle Paul (1 Timothy 1:7, 2 Timothy 4:3), Peter (2 Peter 2:1), John (1 John 4:1), and others have warned Christians about false teachers. Our responsibility is to "test the spirits" (1 John 4:1) to determine if what is stated is the truth.
The chaos caused by false Christs and their clever deceptions is real. One day the disciples questioned Jesus in regard to when they would know his return was imminent. The first words out of his mouth were, "Be on guard so that no one deceives you" (Matthew 24:3, throughout). Later he stated, "For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets . . ." (Matthew 24:24).
failures (Revelation 19:20 - 20:3, 7 - 10), stand in his way. He believes he can repel the return of The truth of the last days!
The phrase "the last days," as it relates to prophesy, occurs exactly seven times in the Bible. Remember that the saved people of God will be taken at the Rapture and will not see the tribulations to come on the earth. ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** *** HE WILL RETURN FOR HIS! It occurs in Isaiah 2:2, Micah 4:1, Acts 2:17, 2Timothy 3:1, Hebrews 1:2, James 5:3, and 2Peter 3:3. Jesus directly discusses the last days and the events that both lead up to it and are in it in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.
The last days (also referred to as the End Time or the Great Tribulation) is a period of roughly 3 1/2 to 7----years or 42 months first (Revelation 11:2 - 3) that will shortly come upon the entire earth. It will be a time, just after Jesus' Second Coming, when the Beast and the False Prophet will rule the world through their counterfeit version of God's kingdom. God's people have nothing to worry about this time because He will this come when Men says it will the answer is no, men do not know when. ________---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- -------_________ What have men done to the Doctrine of the Last Days? ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ We can see a fake teacher when we see them and hear them teaching the end their way. 1. They will say the earth is dying can't you see it. 2. The signs are so strong now and the evidence is so clear that any person willing to accept the truth can see that the end of the world, as we know it, is near. 3. They talk of 2 Peter 3:3-4 ... as if it is not them. God's saved people are not saying or will they ever say where is Jesus because we already know He is alive and the head of His church people. 2Peter 3:3-4 says this ' Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last day's scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' ... Do we live in a day of scoffers? Most certainly! Talk about the end times and the majority of people, do not laugh it off, this is including many Christians who will say you do not know the end, only God does. to them, they are the one who is saying that "all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." in PERFECT fulfillment of this Bible prophecy above are the end timers' own words in play! Revelation 11:3, 12:6) of the last or final period before Jesus' return can further be divided into two relatively distinct pieces. The first piece is about two years (24 months) in length. The second or last piece,
Biblically called "the day of the Lord" (Isaiah 2:12, Joel 2:11, 2Peter 3:10), is about 18 months in duration. This second part of the great tribulation represents God's direct punishment of unrepentant humanity.
Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour knows no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
1 Corinthians 15:52 - This our Easter Sunday Jesus the choice of God for the savior will Do this first in the end. ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **** In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Matthew 25:13 - Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 24:27 - For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Hebrews 9:28 - So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Matthew 24:44 - Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Revelation 20:4 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Jesus and maintain his earthly reign.
No longer a taker! the doctrine of what the saved will do. Restitution where possible. Matt. 3:8; Luke 19:8,9 saved people will not be takers anymore. The premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the dead saints and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. 1 Cor. 15:52; 1 Thess. 4:15-17; 2 Thess. 2:1. All of these things and times will come on the earth ***End Times Chronology on the earth in God's time for the salvation of the Human Race. 1. The Rapture 1 Thess. 1:10 All of these times will come on the earth but God will have them when He says not when men think they should Be. 1. The Rapture is God's work and man has no way of making it happen, we only can let Jesus through the Holy Ghost get us ready. 2. *****Amillennialism is the truth but also Armageddon, Premillennialism is the work of God on this earth along with the Postmillennialism teaching, the Tribulation we now have, as the saved and a Great Tribulation is to come there will be a Heaven that city not built by Humans Hands, and it will come down where the earth is now. Dispensationalists are telling the truth God will have a Kingdom He already has one. ******0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000***** __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ _____ But no one thing is to be what the church clergy teaches as the truth because it is God who tells us all of these things in the Bible. One thing is this, we all should remember is this, Men will do anything to be the boss, and to get what they want. Men can teach you just one of the things God will do and keep you to themselves but if you teach all of them God will be in it and man will just be men who are the servants of God only speaking what God says. and so under the all Christian all New Covenant Jesus is alive and the Holy Ghost is the teacher a human view has nothing to do with what He * God will do it the days of salvation on this Earth. the New Covenant tells men they are not the savior, Jesus is and that they do not police the salvation that this Jesus came with to this earth because He is the Lord, and God does tell the Clergy there was no such thing under this new Covenant as money tithe, it was only food under the old covenant Lev. 27:25-31 and you are just a fake for turning it to money. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years. Zech. 14:4; 1 Thess. 4:14:2; 2 Thess. 1:7-10; Jude 14:15; Rev. 5:10; 19:11-21; 20:4-6
While Christians agree on certain points of doctrine such as the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, they are far from united where the end times are concerned. End times beliefs vary from one group to the next and even differ within a single denomination. WHY? Because all of them are in the scripture and all of them are what God has for this earth in His time, where all Humans have been redeemed from the sins of Adam and can seek the choice He gave this world for the Savior, this Christmas Jesus was that Gift for the sins of Adam Luke 2:1-33 tells us this and God calls all who are alive after that His who-so-ever and done say that John 3:16 is the way to Him through this Sunday Easter Jesus, but men want the big life and the power that God did not give them they want the job of police over the salvation of man. they want the money it gives them they want to rule others but this Jesus is alive and all who do receive life with God will have to come to this Jesus who is the only way and only savior men cannot save. Many have to do with the "Kingdom of God," believed by some groups to be a literal 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth. Christians are divided into premillennial, postmillennial, and amillennial groups.
What is the truth?
The truth all them will come to pass, men only want the one that agrees with them but God holds all truths and will have His People His way. Rev. 18:1-4 The Millennium and Christ's Return
The book of Revelation describes a period of 1,000 years during which God binds Satan and Jesus Christ rules over the earth. While this 1,000-year "millennium" reign is mentioned only once, some groups of end-times scholars believe that other biblical passages referring to the "Kingdom of God," such as those found in Mark 24 and scattered throughout the rest of the Gospels, also apply to this millennium. Views on the end times tend to revolve around this concept and its relationship to Christ's return.
Historic Premillennial Beliefs
Historic premillennialists believe that Jesus will return at the end of this age and institute a 1,000-year earthly kingdom. Some believe that Jesus could return at any moment, while others believe a 7-year "Tribulation Period" will occur before Christ returns.
During this Tribulation, the Antichrist will rise and take over the world. Early Christian writers such as Papias, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus seemed to hold to this belief. More recent advocates of historic premillennialism include Walter Martin, John Warwick Montgomery, and Theodore Zahn.
Dispensationalist Premillennial Beliefs
Other Christians believe that Jesus Christ will return and take away or "rapture" believers from the earth prior to the 7-year this is the truth because God has said it will come on the earth 1Thess. 1:10 Sanctification God’s way!!!!! From the Elder. Thank you, this is a question that many need, the holy biblical answer to this question is very clear. . . God Prepared the Way This Jesus of the bible is that way, John 3:15 -17 is where Jesus makes us more than what we were, more than what we have done , more than what someone has done to us. Could we say that righteousness is obedience? Yes, and we are not taking anything away from it. God has made a way through His Son, Jesus Christ, to make us obedient to His will, to His law. Kidd Family Ministry, 463 East High St. Owingsville Ky. Rightness is doing what God has said to do in Holy Living.as we see in the book of Job. Only someone who has sinned , has to repent, Ezek. 18:1-21. You working on it is not God forgiven you, it would be you doing it. Sin was not made into a priest hood of God. A clean temple is human if God cleans it. Brokenness would not be fixed by God if you are doing it yourselves. When God forgives a person they will know it, and all people should repent and be forgiven before they are baptized , Sanctification , is the proof one was forgiven. God through His Sanctification , His way has a great purpose for the life now and for the way we receive His completed salvation at the end of our lives, in fact God gives this to those He forgives of their past sin so they can go all the way, until the end of human time on this earth, that ,*** In order for us, who He fixed to win the battle of holiness in our lives, we need a good strategy. We need to have specific battle plans to succeed. Below are some specific action plans we can implement. To be saved by faith one has first come to Jesus as John 3:16. Some day sanctification where you do something is not the biblical truth, Ephesians 2:8 says, For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— this is true or, you are doing it.Romans 3:21–28; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8–9 the same thing. In our choices, is the working out of how we leave this world saved, Our character will determine our destiny. (2 Peter 1:1,Romans 1:1) So to learn about Sanctification read this, This Is the Foundation Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 3:11 Christ Governs, and is boss Ephesians 1:22-23; Isaiah 9:6 God Admits the Members, and all saved people are His. I Corinthians 12:13-18 Sin Puts You Out of It Romans 11:22; Exodus 32:33 When God forgives a human it is as if they are born again, New birth. John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 3:9. Sanctification does come after this Christmas , Easter Jesus came to bring justification. Romans 5:2; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Hebrews 13:12. Holiness is only possible after someone has been forgiven. Luke 1:75; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Hebrews 12:14. It lets the saved person do this in the human time we have on earth. We now can Yield to God’s power – ask the Holy Spirit for power and strength. Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7). And walk in obedience, Bible Passages: Deuteronomy 13: 4; 1 Samuel 15:22; Proverbs 19:16; Acts 5:29; John 14:14; 15:14; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 13:17 bible Passages: Deuteronomy 13: 4; 1 Samuel 15:22; Proverbs 19:16; Acts 5:29; John 14:14; 15:14; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 13:17 Every day commit yourself to putting the flesh to death. Likewise, count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lust (Romans 6:11-12). Decide to be holy every day. Pray: “Today, I offer my day to you, Lord – I want to consecrate it to you, and I want to be holy, and I will be holy today. Today I will make a covenant with my own eyes before you Lord” (see Job 31:1). Guard your hearts always, be aware when temptations come, where your weak points are – and flee. But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness (1 Timothy 6:11). If the salmon stops swimming, it will be carried back by the current – if you let your guard down, you will fall. Be conscious of your thoughts: submit them to Christ. Do not sugar-coat or justify sin. Call sin a sin and do not make excuses for yourself. Count yourself dead to sin. [Say to yourself: “I do not do those things anymore – I am dead to those things.”] We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). Live life with accountability now – live in the light! Make commitments and be accountable to one another for those commitments; we can help each other – not judge, but help. You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord’s people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light, for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth. Try to learn what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the worthless things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light (Ephesians 5:8-11). One day, everything that we do in darkness will be brought to light; God will expose all our hidden thoughts and actions. It is better to be accountable here now (where we can change) rather than when God judges us. There is nothing that can be hidden from God; everything in all creation is exposed and lies open before his eyes. And it is to him that we must all give an account of ourselves (Hebrews 4:13). Get rid of all our grudges, resentments and lack of forgiveness and live in freedom! All these are chains that bind us in prison and prevent us from growing in holiness. Fill your mind with God’s word. As it says in Philippians 4:8: Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, and whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things. Guard your eyes always – especially with the media: “I have made an agreement with my eyes. Then how can I look with lust at a virgin?” (Job 31:1) Develop good holy habits – for new Christians, this will include habits of prayer, reading Scripture, and doing service. For older Christians, habits like simple living, generosity, dying to oneself, simplicity, humility, and being Christ-like in all that you do are things for you to grow in. Review your day before you sleep. How did the battle for holiness go today? Were there battles lost and is there anything you need to repent of? For married people, decide to be a “one-woman man” or a “one-man woman.” We should not have any intimate or special relationship with anyone of the opposite sex aside from our spouse, including those in fantasies and daydreams. For all men, God desires us to treat “older women as mothers, the younger as sisters in all purity” (1 Timothy 5:2) and the same would go for women in their relationships with men. For single people, you need to offer your sexuality to God daily and decide to be chaste in all of your relationships. Unless you are in a courting relationship in preparation for marriage you should have no intimate or special relationship with anyone of the opposite sex, including those in fantasies and daydreams. Avoid situations and circumstances that are not healthy for purity. “Wax melts before fire.” One pitfall many Christians face daily is the area of media, especially the use of the internet. While there are many good things the internet provides us, there are also many bad things available out there – where the flesh and the world can cause havoc in our lives. You need to live a life with accountability in the way you use the internet. Live in the present and not in the past – do not re-live the “sins of our youth.” Consider yourself dead to sin, including your past sins. Avoid the passions of youth, and strive for righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who with a pure heart call out to the Lord for help (2 Timothy 2:22). Be patient – never give up; it is a battle for a lifetime. God still gives choice to all Humankind, He is seeking Obedience to what He says to the human race. Obedience is a central theme throughout the Bible. God calls His people to obey His commands and walk in His ways. But what exactly does it mean to be obedient according to the Bible? In this comprehensive article, we’ll explore the meaning of obedience, why it matters, the blessings of obedience, examples of obedience, and what the Bible says about obedience and disobedience. Read it , Obedience *** God commands all people everywhere to repent and believe the gospel (Mar 1:15; Act 17:30; 1Jo 3:23). Therefore, faith in Christ is obedience; unbelief is disobedience (Act 6:7; 2Th 1:8; Heb 5:9; 1Pe 4:17). Having exercised faith in Christ, true believers will give clear evidence of this by lives of constant obedience to God (1Pe 1:14-16; 1Jo 5:1-3). Save people are told as Christians to have a responsibility to submit to the various kinds of authority that God has established in human society. In the family, children are to obey their parents (Eph 6:1; Col 3:20). In the sphere of work, employees are to obey their employers (Eph 6:5; Col 3:22). In any community or nation, people are to obey the laws of that community or nation (Rom 13:1; Tit 3:1; 1Pe 2:13). In the church, Christians are to obey their leaders (Phi 2:12; 1Th 5:12; Heb 13:7). John 14:15 - “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. God is bring the proof of, Our true love to God, Our true discipleship, Our true fruit of the Spirit, Our true born again character, Our true prayer toward God, Our true rest in peace(fulfills our life here on the earth), Our true happiness – Ps 40:8; John 13:17 Our true knowledge in Christ – John 7:17, Our true Sacrifice – 1 Sam 15:22; Jer 7:21-23 1 Peter 1:14 - As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, Acts 5:29 - But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. 1 John 5:3 - For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. Isaiah 1:19 - If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; Luke 6:46 - “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? We needed a savior to save us , no one could save themselves. In the flesh mankind still is. 1. Sin brings dishonor to the name of the Lord Jesus. The outside world is justified in associating the disciple with his Master. If the disciple sins, people reproach the Master and drag His name in the mud (2 Samuel 12:14). 2. Remembering what our sins cost the Savior. No thinking believer would want to continue in that which nailed the Son of God to the cross (1 Peter 2:24). If the shedding of His blood was necessary to pay sin’s penalty, how can His followers ever tolerate or condone iniquity? 3. Christ’s love for us should constrain us to live in purity. He demonstrated His love by paying an enormous price to redeem us. He has provided everything necessary for a life of godliness. He couldn’t love us more than He does. It is a miserable response to such love to go back over the bridge to our former way of life (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). 4. Sin breaks God’s heart. Sin not only breaks His law, but His heart as well, whereas holiness delights Him. He said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). 5. When we sin, it stumbles other believers. It hurts people who have trusted us, whether in the family or the church. A young believer especially feels betrayed and shattered when the one who led him to the Lord brings disgrace on himself. 6. The life of holiness is the best life. Holiness is good for the spirit, soul, and body. It saves us from remorse, guilt, shame, and many forms of disease. It leads to fullness of joy and pleasures for evermore (John 10:10; 1 John 1:4). 7. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Never lose the sense of amazement that one of the members of the Godhead is our permanent indweller and constant companion. This realization will motivate us to “cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1). 8. Sin destroys our testimony. Holiness gives liberty in serving the Lord, but sin shuts it down. The guilt and sense of unfitness that accompany unconfessed sin paralyze a person’s outreach. His witness is temporarily destroyed, and his credibility is called into question. 9. Holiness gives confidence in prayer. “If our heart condemns us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight” (1 John 3:21-22). The flip side of this is that if we regard iniquity in our heart, the Lord will not hear us (Psalm 66:18). Sin disconnects the prayer line. 10. Godliness is the best preparation for eternity. Some day, perhaps soon, we are going to see the Lord Jesus. We are going to stand before His Judgment Seat. That means that we should be living now in the light of that awe-inspiring event (1 Timothy 4:8; 1 John 3:3). These then are some of the reasons why we should never relax in the pursuit of holiness and why we should be highly motivated to grow in likeness to our blessed Redeemer. 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8, put into simple language, means this: God’s plan and purpose for His children is that they should live holy lives and He has given His Holy Spirit to make that possible. There is no more important truth for us to understand and experience than this biblical doctrine of holiness. Throughout Scripture we hear God calling His people to holiness, yet today this great doctrine has been almost lost sight of; consequently many of God’s people are living joyless, powerless and fruitless lives, and the Church’s witness in the world is weak and ineffective. When Paul wrote to the young Christians at Thessalonica who had recently been engulfed in all the darkness of paganism, he longed that they should be holy. In verses 1 – 12 of this chapter we can see the meaning, the motive and the method of a holy life. A holy life has many characteristics. Here are eight prominent characteristics that are continually maturing in the holy life. Love. God’s love in and through our life becomes so prevalent that many theologians make perfect love synonymous with holy living. You can read more about that love right here. Obedience. I know this is not necessarily the most popular concept in our culture but holy living means we are following Jesus every day and are obedient to his perfect will for our lives. There is no disappointment in this obedience. Power. As you will discover below, holy living is a consequence of having the Holy Spirit reside in your life. The Holy Spirit is God and has all his power which means the power of God resides in you as you live a life of holiness! Intimacy. When we are holy, we have a perfect fellowship with God. He shares himself fully with us as we share ourselves fully with him. Throughout scripture, the imagery of husband and wife is used to illustrate the relationship with God and his people. Devotion. By this, I mean we have a great desire to be in worship, to participate in prayer and be employed in the reading and study of the Bible. Devotion enriches our lives in ways that cannot even be measured. Compassion. You cannot be participating in holy living and be mean spirited. Jesus is our greatest example of holy living and he had unending compassion for everyone. He was even grieved in his heart for his persecutors and forgave those who executed him as he hung from the cross! Focus. Holy living gives a new focus in our lives. We recognize that all we do is for the purpose of God and the glory of God. We don’t follow every trend but only follow Jesus. Purity. The holy life is a life that is free from sin. To be holy means to be fully separated for God’s purposes. We know that God is sinless. He uses the word holy to describe himself and his people. Anyone can see if God has forgiven them and set them aside, because each one of us can see in ourselves this taken place in our lives, *** The fruit of the Spirit. Imagine your life with the fruit of the spirit growing and maturing. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Who doesn’t want an increase in these areas? Blessings on others. Holy living also means your life becomes a powerful and encouraging blessing on many others. God will use you in ways that you cannot even imagine to change the eternal destiny of people around you. The presence of God. When we live a holy life, God is with us in a personal and powerful way. He is near and shares his insights with us and helps us to live the life he has called us to. Eternal glory. When Paul was thinking about this life he said that we will experience an eternal glory that far outweighs any pain, persecution, ridicule and misunderstanding that we experience in this life (2 Corinthians 4:17). Let’s ask ourselves: What are the marks and characteristics of a holy life? (1) A life that is pleasing to God (verse 1). Do you desire to please Him? – then you must be holy and you must have a testimony like that of Enoch (Hebrews 11:5). (2) A life of going on with God. Verse 1 tells us that it is a life of increase and of progress. How many people are born again, have the assurance of sins forgiven, but they never seem to grow in grace! Are you going on with the Lord and growing? – look up 2 Peter 3:18. (3) A life of clear-cut separation from evil. In verse 3 we are exhorted to “avoid sexual immorality”; verse 5 speaks of “passionate lust”; verse 6 warns us that a Christian should not “wrong his brother or take advantage of him”; and in verse 7 we are solemnly called to cut out every form of impurity. Because God calls us to a life of purity, we must do something about it – look up 2 Corinthians 7:1. (4) A life where the body is kept under control (verse 4). Have we presented our bodies to the Lord for Him to give us mastery over them (Romans 12:1)? – compare Romans 6:13. (5) A life that is transformed (verse 5). God calls us to live an entirely new life, a holy life (Romans 6:4). (6) It is a love-filled life (verses 9 and 10). To be holy is to be healthy, and the secret of spiritual health is love (Romans 5:8). (7) It is a life of absolute honesty (verse 12). No-one can say that this is not practical – holiness in action! – becoming more and more like Christ. Can we by our own strength make ourselves holy? No! Verse 8 states that God gives us His Holy Spirit, and this holy life is not produced by our trying or our struggling, but by the empowering of the Holy Spirit; He is the secret of a holy life within us, to make us holy. Does that mean there is nothing for us to do? Surely there is, for there are three steps into this holy life, each related to the fact that the Holy Spirit lives in us: (1) We must Recognise His Presence. We may not feel His presence, but verse 8 makes it clear that He indwells us – and this is true of every real Christian. (2) We must Respect His Person – it is the Holy Spirit, the Holy One Himself, and this will call for adjustment of life and for a drastic dealing with all those things which would grieve Him. Everything unholy must be turned out of our life and we must give up every known sin, but only in the Holy Spirit’s strength are we able to do this. (3) We must Receive His Power. We must count on Him to make and keep us holy by drawing upon His infinite resources; and as we by faith receive His fullness we must trust Him to make us holy. Finally, notice these two things: (1) We can begin to live a holy life now, but this requires a crisis – a definite act of surrender and of faith on our part, which takes place in a moment; but (2) we must go on to live a holy life – that is, as moment by moment we recognise His presence, respect His person and receive His power. How wonderful it is that God who called us to live a holy life has given us His Holy Spirit to make such a life possible! Up front I will tell everyone, anyone this If God does not give you sanctification, you will play church,and be in the hands of evil men. Evil men have built what they call God’s colleges and schools, when saved sanctified humans , God says would be called to teach and preach this way after the new covenant was put into play, He says this Jer. 3:15-16- and Romans, 10:14-16 is what He would do but men made up their own ways. Note, no preacher was ever to police human Sanctification. Or Salvation, or do we teach that once forgiven always forgiven, and the person can't sing anymore, That’s why the Bible says, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.“ Psalm 103:12 “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” Isaiah 43:25 God does remove the sins of the past. For sure, Holiness living, is the Working out one salvation is done so one can leave this world save, because Sin will take anyone from God, it took angles out of heaven, it caused mankind to fall, in the garden, the way to work out your salvation here below, Phi 2:12-13 is to live a holness life, Literally, holy living means that the Christian lives a life that is set apart, reserved to give glory to God. It is a life of discipline, focus, and attention to matters of righteous living. Surely you would fall for someday you would be good enough to be forgiven. One of the clearest verses in the Bible concerning God’s total forgiveness is Colossians 2:13-14. “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you ALL TRESPASSES; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross;” Colossians 2:13-14 the forgiven past is given to those God sanctifies. Beware of False clergy, they have used this fake way to God’s forgiveness, to live large with people who seek to have a forgiveness from God, it is the devils way to get between a human and God. To add to all of that, according to the Apostle John, it is actually possible to share in the wicked work of a false teacher: Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work" (2 John 9-11). As we obey the command not to be gullible, but to "test the spirits" (1 Jn. 4:1) so that we won't be deceived, we will have to carefully evaluate teachers and ministries by the Scriptures, which are always final authority (2 Tim. 3:16, 17). It is important to test everything and hold on to the good. (1 Th 5:21) Jesus wasn't joking when he said beware of false prophets and teachers that come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ferocious wolves (Mt. 7:15). They are here NOW! Be on guard. It's a matter of life and death. Learn the Scriptures, so that you won't be deceived. Eternity hangs in the balance. We do not teach that God has once forgiven and a person can't sin anymore, When God forgives our sins those we have it if once forgiven always forgiven, “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of SINS THAT ARE PAST, through the forbearance of God;” Romans 3:24-25 “But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his OLD SINS.” 2 Peter 1:9 The true plan of salvation is repentance towards God and faith in Christ Jesus (Acts 20:21). We prove our repentance was accepted by our deeds (Acts 26:20). The Lord Jesus taught the road to life is hard and only a few will find it (Mt. 7:13,14, Many get saved, but afterwards fall away (Lk. 8:13; Jn. 6:66; 1 Tim. 1:19; In other words, after initial salvation we must endure to the "end" to enter the kingdom of God and escape the lake of fire (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 2:10,11). Eternal life comes to the repentant the moment such believe on Jesus for salvation (Jn. 3:16; 6:47; 1 Jn. 5:12,13), but there is another important aspect of eternal life that many are totally unaware of in our day because of the false teaching of once saved always saved According to true grace teaching, eternal life is also a HOPE (Titus 3:7), yet to be REAPED (Gal. 6:8,9) in the AGE TO COME (Mk. 10:30) for only the ones who PERSIST IN DOING GOOD (Rom. 2:7) and DO NOT GROW WEARY AND GIVE UP (Gal. 6:9). It is only a trusting, submitting and enduring faith in Jesus that will get us an entrance into the kingdom of God. We need to get saved and stay saved to escape the lake of fire. If a saved person sows to please his sinful nature he'll die spiritually (Rom. 8:13; Gal. 6:8,9). The prodigal is a clear example of this (Lk. 15:24,32). The end result of sin is spiritual death, so DO NOT BE DECEIVED (James 1:14-16). For more information regarding the believer's security, see our book, The Believer's Conditional Security, the most exhaustive and comprehensive refutation to OSAS ever written. It will not be refuted! Can you repent multiple times? John 2:19 - Even if a true believer falls into sin for a while, they will always come back. They won’t remain in their sin. Here is what you will see when the devil preacher, who we call slick, is preaching false someday Sanctification !!! They are out to make a living on you and yours. They will always have you prove you are good enough. It never ends that is your gift to them and that next dinner, next thing for sale that gets their name in the news. We will not teach that someday when you may get good enough God will forgive. There is no such thing to God as progressive sanctification We teach just as the bible teaches, that Sanctification is what God does when He forgives the human of their past sins. . Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, a forgiveness for what a person has done in sins. and a return of dedication unto God because He has forgiven them. . Read this, Romans 12:1,2 1Thessalonians 5:23 Hebrews 13:12 Past Sins NOT Future Sins are what God is telling us, if we sin after we are saved from our past we have to repent again of that, as well. What the Bible teaches about past sins being forgiven at the point of repentance and a submissive faith in Jesus (Acts 20:21 26:20) is shown in the following Scripture: But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins. (2 Pet 1:9) That Scripture was written about any person who had been saved but since has forgotten he was cleansed from his past sin. Please note, a Christian at the point of salvation is cleansed from all his sins up to that moment - his past sins, according to Peter. Similarly, Paul stated below: When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins (Col 2:13) All our sins were forgiven in a moment's time when we got born again. If a Christian is afterwards deceived or yields to the devil's temptations to sin, the following is given as a remedy: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9) The Apostle John put himself in on that Scripture by using the plural pronoun we. In other words, if we don't confess those sins to God, which are committed after conversion, then we won't be purified from their effects. (Apparently, no person who believes what the security-in-sin teachers proclaim about this will confess his sins to God and renounce them to get purified, since he thinks they are already forgiven.) He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. (Prov 28:13)There are other indications that a Christian's future sins are not forgiven and that sin can spiritually defile a believer, even though Jesus died for all sins nearly 2000 years ago: See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. (Heb 12:15) Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. (2 Cor 7:1) Also, notice the following Scripture which shows that the Apostle Paul knew of some who wandered away from a pure heart. In other words, sin can adversely affect a pure heart. That would be impossible if their future sins were already forgiven:The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. (1 Tim 1:5,6) As Christians, we are also to have a certain frame of mind, a certain type of hope that will purify: He says, , now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. (1 John 3:2,3) Jesus taught openly that sin can drag any person guilty of lust to hell: But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. (Mat 5:28,29) The Lord also stated the stipulation for a Christian to get his sins forgiven, that is, he must forgive others who sin against him. Such a teaching would be impossible if his future sins were all automatically forgiven even before they were committed. If that was true then there would be no conditions to get forgiven, unlike what Jesus stated: For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. (Mat 6:14,15) Then the master called the servant in. "You wicked servant," he said, "I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?" In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart. (Mat 18:32-35) That is not all we read about a Christian's sins getting forgiven. The prayer of faith can bring healing to the body, as well as forgiveness of sins: Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. (James 5:14,15) Forgiveness brings any person to the place The Scriptures teach a life of “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14 By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command: “Be ye holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15,16 Another deathblow to the lie that a Christian's future sins are already forgiven is the following passage: If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. (Heb 10:26, 27) Clearly, Heb. 10:26,27 is referring to people who had been converted then decided to deliberately sin in a certain way. Instead of believing the ear-tickling deadly lies of our day, let's all cleave to the message of the Bible. Among other things it will show us the following, which also would be impossible if a Christian's future sins were already forgiven: So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. (2 Pet 3:14) Being found spotless, blameless and at peace with God is not automatic. Christians under grace are to put forth every effort to remain in this condition: Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. (Luke 13:24) Unless your understanding of John 3:16 equals the same message Jesus declared about salvation in Luke 8:21, you have been misled somehow. If that is the case, please revise your understanding of John 3:16. Here are additional truths: Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. (John 5:29) The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. (Mat 13:41-43) All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Mat 10:22) But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. (Mat 10:33) Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?" He said to them, "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to." (Luke 13:23,24) Sanctification is realized that they can be forgiven, after they repent, by and being as a believer John 3:16 there a Holy God see them by recognizing his/her identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.Romans 6:1-11, 13, & 8:1, 2, 13 Galatians 2:20 Philippians 2:12, 13 1 Peter 1:5 Sanctification, as defined by these statements, is an act. More than this, we see in scripture that it is specifically an action where the person John 3:15-17, makes the choice to go to God. (1Cor. 6:11) To be sanctified is to be made holy. Men cannot do this. We cannot do this someday, and it will be good enough. It is a separation from evil as the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). It is also a dedication to God as God fulfills his purpose in us. After this forgiven we know we have this in us, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:” (1Pe 2:9 Beware of men looking for a free ride on you. We can see , as time has gone on this doctrine has been added to so that it also includes our spiritual growth and our maturity. Holiness living is the only way to have God’s favor, and have spiritual growth. . Adding the someday aspects of our Christian life under the heading of sanctification adds confusion and dilutes the necessary instruction for equipping the saints to live holy lives and enjoy the freedom that God has provided for us in Christ Jesus. A person knows when they have received the experience of sanctification, just as surely because it is when they were saved, even. The divine love of God floods their hearts. The bias or inclination to sin is gone, and a deeper peace, rest, and joy comes into his/her soul. The Spirit of God witnesses with his spirit that their heart has been cleansed. True Sanctification is not in the hands of the preacher, no clergy was given the job of overseeing this work of God for the proof of His forgiveness. Jesus says that it was God who did this, Sanctification means to set something aside. Once we have established a proper definition, then the different applications explain themselves. When referring to sanctification in a biblical sense, it can be synonymous with a wide variety of different terms. Baptism, or ceremonial immersion, can not be considered a form of sanctification due to the fact that cleansing something with water was a part of dedicating the original priests in their service to God. (Exodus 30:21) but needs to be next. This was later demonstrated by Jesus to be the means by which He dedicated Himself to the ministry His Father sent Him to this world to accomplish. (Matthew 3:13-17) . (John 17:17-19) Marriage is not another. (1 Corinthians 7:14) However, in regards to the question of terms used to describe these various forms there is only one sanctification, the focus is on the form of holy living known simply as the Christian life. This is who Paul says does the sanctifying, Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ( When God truly forgives a human he let them know by sanctifying them, this in not a joke, it is this upfront John 17:17; 2Cor 3:18; 7:1; Phil 1:6; 1 Thes 4:3–4, 7; Heb 12:14; 2Pet 3:11). Ultimate sanctification corresponds to glorification (., Phil 3:21; 1 Thes 3:13; 5:23; Jude 24). The very reason Jesus came, and to begin all one has to do is John 3:16- and Romans 10:9-13 will follow. Think of how 1 Peter 2:9 picks up and applies Exodus 19:6 (where their holiness is to be based on what God has done in rescuing them): his readers are a holy nation—they are not becoming a holy nation. Think of 1 Corinthians 1:2, where the Corinthian Christians are spoken of as already sanctified, especially given that in 1 Corinthians 1:30 Paul points out that Jesus has already become for us wisdom from God. Paul expands this as including not only our righteousness and redemption but also our sanctification! 1 Corinthians 6:11 famously reminds them and us that despite our habitual sinful past, Christians have been washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (This has sanctification as an entire, completed event on view.) And note that in both 1:30 and 6:11, sanctification and justification are mentioned entirely in parallel, apparently as the status conferred on Christians through the work of Christ on the cross. In Hebrews 10:10, it is said that “we have been sanctified” through the “once for all” (i.e. unique, unrepeatable) sacrifice of Jesus’ body. Then Hebrews 10:14 goes on to say that by this one sacrifice Jesus “has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified”. This last reference is a reminder that there are a number of Scriptures that speak of holiness in progressive terms—as something to become, or grow in, or live out. But by my reckoning, those Scriptures that focus on growth in holiness are in the minority in the New Testament. Ask yourself this? Is God pleased with me? Is he smiling on me with fatherly favor? The answer to that question is an unqualified yes. God is smiling on you with fatherly favor. He is pleased with you because he sees you as holy and without blemish in Christ. Do you want to talk about performance? Then consider that Jesus could say matter-of-factly and without any pretentiousness, “I always do the things that are pleasing to him” (John 8:29). When our Father looks at us, he does not see our miserable performance. Instead, he sees the perfect performance of Jesus. And because of the perfect holiness of Jesus, he sees us as holy and without blemish. So is it the holy God we are talking about or men? When A Holy God forgives it is forgiveness. . The concept of sanctification has its roots in the nature of God who is entirely separate from His people. Thus people or objects which are given over to God's service must be used for Him alone. Furthermore, they must not act or be used in any way that is contradictory to His moral character, which is marked by love, purity, and selflessness. People and objects thus devoted to God are referred to as sanctified (that is, "made holy"). We know that God, by sovereign grace, regenerates (Eph. 2:4-5; I Pet. 1:3), justifies (Rom. 3:24), and adopts (Rom. 8:15-16; Gal. 4:4-7) guilty sinners through faith. But who does the sanctifying? Is it left up to us? The Bible teaches that God is the author and finisher of our sanctification (Phil. 1:6; I Thess. 5:24). Sanctification is a work of God’s free grace, and not a work of the believer’s autonomous moral strivings We do not perfect “by the flesh” what was begun “in the Spirit” (Gal. 3:3). Just as a sinner cannot justify himself, so also he cannot sanctify himself. Sanctification is a work of God. Christ promises to sanctify his bride, the church (Eph. 5:26). He is faithful, and he will surely do it (I Thess. 5:24). Of course, sanctification, while a work of God, is not devoid of Spirit-empowered effort on the part of the believer. We will only teach this about sanctification , Progressive sanctification is not a biblical concept. However, Paul does talk about being sanctified in the past-tense, which is often called positional sanctification. Here is a verse often used to support this type of sanctification: "Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God." (1 Corinthians 6:11 (Hebrews 10:10 However, the same author who makes this statement in Hebrews 10 proceeds to then immediately say, "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries...How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:26-29 Furthermore, in 1 Corinthians 6:11 above, Paul is arguing with some of the Corinthian believers who are sinning, telling them to stop sinning (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). What Paul is really doing is warning them about falling into sin again. He is not trying to develop an entire theology of "being sanctified," but instead his goal is simply to say, "You have repented; Be careful you don't fall back into sin." Therefore, neither of these scriptures used to support the concept of sanctification actually support it when read in context. Furthermore, Jesus' words in Revelation make it clear that positional sanctification, as taught by some modern theologians, is also not biblical: "Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come on you. Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes will be arrayed like this in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." (Revelation 3:3-5. Every human has to repent when they sin after they are forgiven for their past sin, The Scriptures emphatically refute all forms of perfectionism. 1 John 1:8 says, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” In this text, John includes himself by saying, “if we say,” using the first person plural to signify that he does not exclude himself from this prediction. As a holy apostle of the Lamb, writing in the peak of his maturity toward the end of his life, John knew that his sanctification was not yet so complete so as to consist of perfect freedom from all sin. Furthermore, he indicates that he is speaking of the believer’s present experience by speaking of “having sin” in the present tense. Furthermore, an indispensable evidence of walking in the light in fellowship with God is the continual recognition of sin and confession of it within the context of a lifestyle of ongoing repentance (see 1 John 1:4–9 ). According to John, not only is it not possible to attain to sinless perfection, it is deception to claim to have attained it (See also 1 Kings 8:46; Ps. 130:3 ; Prov. 20:9 ; Eccles. 7:20 ; 1 Cor. 4:4 ; James 3:2). Confessing sin continually is both a biblical pattern and an imperative. It is a pattern that is evident in the lives of such eminent saints as Job (Job 42:6) David (Ps. 32, 51), Isaiah (Isa. 6:5), Daniel (Dan. 9 ), and Paul (Acts 23:3–5). That it is an imperative can be seen in no less a prominent passage than the Lord’s Prayer, by which the Lord teaches His apostles and disciples to pray “forgive us our debts” (Luke 11:4). This is immediately following the petition, “Give us each day our daily bread,” implying the propriety—even necessity—of daily making such requests. The Lord’s Prayer clearly teaches that all believers have a daily need to recognize and confess their sins, to lament their remaining sinfulness, and to place their hope and trust in the grace of the gospel. The believer who claims to be perfectly sanctified and too holy to need to pray for daily forgiveness for daily transgressions, as the Lord’s Prayer teaches, has embraced a dangerous delusion. Though every true believer longs for holiness and strives to walk in obedience to the commands of His God, he is conscious of an intense inward struggle as sinful impulses manifest through his yet unredeemed flesh and wage war against his soul (1 Pet. 2:11). The sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit and the desires of the flesh are at odds with one another (Gal. 5:17), and this battle never ceases until he enters through the gates of eternal glory. The Biblical Framework This acknowledgment of lack of perfect holiness must be understood within the framework of Scripture’s teaching on sanctification. It is only by understanding the different aspects of sanctification that we can be spared from falling into the errors of perfectionism on the one hand, and the errors of lawlessness on the other hand. Fake slick clergy, would, need to get between you and God before He grants forgiving, you because once a human has God’s forgiveness, and He has set them aside, men or the devil's workers cannot deceive you any longer, they would have Sanctification is a widely accepted belief that bridges the gap between the biblical mandate for obedience to God and the practical application of living a Christian life as an "imperfect person. to go through God to get you after God forgives you, they are out for you to follow them. God gives His Grace, and forgiveness when a person repents. Keep this in mind!!!!! *** —--“Salvation is the work of God that delivers us from sin and its penalty, restores us to a right relationship with Him, and imparts to us the new beginning so we can be ready for eternal life” The Bible teaches that the believer in Jesus Christ is completely justified before God. We have peace with God (Romans 5:1) and have no condemnation (Romans 8:1). I have everything I need to stand before a holy God as “not guilty” as the God declares the verdict “righteous” over me. I have Christ’s righteousness. As we sing in the hymn, He shows his wounded hands and names me as His own. So if I have all that, why should I be concerned with sanctification? Does it even matter? There is a species of wrong teaching out there that says if you believe Jesus is your Savior, you are so completely saved that even if you live your entire life without obeying any of Jesus’ commands, you are still truly saved. Sanctification is like a bonus. Doesn’t really matter but it can be a nice extra. To counter this, let’s point to some Biblical reason why sanctification is not only important but a necessary part of my salvation. So when anyone repents, and God consecrates, or sets apart, and makes holy for God’s service and glory it is Him who is doing it, the person has nothing to do with making the self clean . This aspect relates to the supernatural outcome of the “second birth”… when we were “…baptized into one body” spiritually placed “in Christ” (1 Cor. 12:13); “…sanctified in Christ Jesus.” (1 Cor.1:2). “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor. 6:11). At this one-time event: the regeneration process, we receive God’s own uncreated life into our spirit. God’s eternal Spirit permanently fuses to our spirit. “…he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). This union, John 3:16- constitutes our standing or position, what we get from God when we repent and trust Christ. Read all of this, the believer is given a new heart that is righteous, holy and pure. Leviticus 20:7,8; Ephesians 5:25-27; 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24; John 17:2,6-9,14-17,20; Luke 10:20; Matthew 16:15-17,21-23; Mark 10:35-43; Luke 9:49-54; Ezekiel 36:25,26; 1 Corinthians 3:1-3; 2 Corinthians 7:1; John 17:9,10,16,17,19,20; 1 Thessalonians 5:22-24; Psalm 51:6-8,10; Isaiah 6:1-7; Ezekiel 36:25,26,36,37; Jeremiah 29:10-13; James 1:6-8; Psalm 24:3,4; Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:1-3; Titus 2:11-14; Colossians 3:1-4; 2 Timothy 2:19,21,22; Hebrews 2:9-11; 12:14-17; 13:12-14; John 17:17,21-26. When someone is in the hands of the devil, slick can use them. But God is God and He always has the way out of the control of evel men, sanctification is that way out or away from the power of evel 1 Corinthians 6:11 tells us something about sanctification that is not often considered. “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” The person who is washed from sin, who has been cleansed by the blood of Jesus, who stands justified and pardoned in the sight of God, is also sanctified in that very act. One of the meanings of the word "sanctify" is to set someone or something apart for a holy use. When we are justified and washed, we are set apart for use by God. God looked at us, not in our filthy garments of sin, but now clothed with the pure righteousness of Christ. We are declared to be sanctified, or set apart for holiness, just as we are declared to be justified, or pardoned from our sins. In this way the thief on the cross was both justified and sanctified, because he had been set apart for holiness. In Acts 26:18, Jesus speaks to Paul on the road to Damascus. “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 mission God gave Paul was to bring the Gentiles to forgiveness of sins and salvation. If the Gentiles would turn from Satan to God, they would be called sanctified by faith in Christ. Just as justification is declared by God at the moment of conversion, so sanctification is declared by God at the same moment he forgives. We are set apart for holiness, and God views us through the holy character of Jesus Christ. In this way we can have complete assurance of salvation. It is often said that this gospel deprives us of assurance, but this is totally false. When the heart is surrendered and we wear the robe of Christ's righteousness, we have perfect peace and assurance, as we continue to grow in Christ through Holiness living.. In this living as God tells us , When a person has already prayed through to forgiveness that brings salvation from the past sins, , they receive the assurance that their sins have been forgiven, and the Lord will not hold them against them any longer. God gave them His pardon—absolved from the wrongdoings in their past. Still, there remains in them that carnal nature from which those deeds sprang in the first place. That is why sanctification is needed. Salvation deals with the acts and guilt of committed sins, while sanctification deals with the nature of sin, the inward tendency inherited from Adam. it also leads the person on to live Holy. In many New Testament references to sanctification and holiness, the definite nature of sanctification is evidenced in the original Greek text by the aorist tense of the verb, which indicates a specific and completed act, rather than an ongoing one. Though spiritual growth continues throughout a Christian’s life, the cleansing work of sanctification is not a gradual process; it is accomplished in an instant. In every phase of his life, a sanctified Christian continues to learn to apply what he has received. Christian growth begins when a person prays through and is saved, and it should continue until that person steps into Heaven. Holiness is more than morality. Morality is limited because people use differing standards to define what is moral and what is immoral. In contrast, holiness is defined by God’s Word and is imparted through sanctification. Holiness is a state of the heart that is commanded, and it is what every Christian needs (Hebrews 12:14). Sanctification provides it; there is no other way to be holy. What does sanctification do in a life? When a person has been sanctified, the old man, the carnal nature, no longer dominates him because it has been eradicated. Sometimes the phrase “Christian perfection” is used, referring to the standard of life imparted to the sanctified believer. In Hebrews 13:20-21 we read, “Now the God of peace . . . make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ” Sanctification provides a perfect heart—a state of living where a person loves the Lord with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength; where every deed is motivated by his devotion to God. It provides restoration of the pure nature that mankind enjoyed before the fall. The sanctified heart continually seeks after God and His will. Sanctified individuals cultivate purity in spirit, soul, and body, and they turn away from anything that would contaminate any part of their beings. It is important to know what sanctification does, but it is also helpful to know what it does not do. Sanctification does not raise a person’s IQ. A diminished intellect was the result of the fall, but the provision for restoration does not deal with man’s head; it deals solely with the heart. So a person must not become discouraged and conclude he is not sanctified just because he does not perfectly understand something. Sanctification does not deal with physical man but sets that man apart with God’ forgiveness for real. , even though physical limitations were the result of the fall. People are not mentally, physically, or emotionally perfect as a result of sanctification: they are morally perfect. Sanctification deals with man’s moral nature and his need for moral restoration. That is why sanctified individuals continue to face physical, mental, and even emotional limitations that were a result of the fall. It is important for a person not to search his head or his mind when going through a trial or a challenge, but rather to search his heart. If the motivating and underlying theme of his life is to love the Lord with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength (Luke 10:27), God put that purpose there when He sanctified him. Sanctification does not eliminate the possibility of being tempted. Look back again to Adam, who was created in a pure moral state, but still was subject to temptation. Adam had the power to overrule what he knew was right in his heart; he did so and chose to do evil. The sanctified person, with that pure moral condition, can still choose to overrule what he knows is right, and fall back into sin, but it is certainly not necessary. Heart purity, obtained at sanctification, establishes an intense desire to correct personal shortcomings. The proof of sanctification is that when a person sees some shortcoming in his life, rather than resisting the reminder or check of the Lord, the first and heartfelt response is to immediately go to his knees and say, “God, help me to do better next time, because I love You with all my heart, and I want to please You in every way.” That deeply rooted desire to please the Lord describes sanctification. This is not to excuse behavior that springs from a carnal nature. God knows the difference. Sin is an act of deliberate enmity and rebellion toward God, and it is dangerous to call any and every behavior just a “mistake.” Rather than spending too much time trying to tag it, a person should quickly come before God, acknowledging his shortcomings and asking for His “grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). God will help. There is victory in the Gospel! Sanctification gives the proper channel In 1 Thessalonians 4:3 it says, “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.” God created the human family with certain natural appetites and desires—put there by God to serve a purpose. In Adam and Eve’s case, there was nothing wrong with desiring pleasant food. There was nothing wrong with desiring to be wise. God gave them those desires. Paul’s reference to fornication addresses the desire planted by God whereby the human family would be propagated. No matter what human behavior is considered, a person needs to be sanctified in order for that desire to be properly channeled. With sanctification, God puts within a Christian’s heart the “want to,” the proper desire. When Paul says, “This is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication,” he is not just saying that a person needs sanctification, but he is telling why it is needed. Sanctification is needed so that this desire—and all others—are directed according to God’s law of love. Left to themselves, natural appetites and desires can run rampant through people’s lives. Even a cursory look at society reveals the results of the fallen nature: God-given appetites and desires have been completely unrestrained in many cases. Man needs to be forgiven for past sins and then he needs to be sanctified so his life can be lived according to the way God intended man to live. When a person is sanctified, it is not hard to live a holy life. It is spontaneous! Paul wrote to the Thessalonian believers, expressing his desire that their “whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Preservation is a function that sanctification accomplishes. To preserve is “to keep in perfect or unaltered condition, to maintain intact, prevent from decaying or spoiling.” So the prayer is for the God of peace to sanctify wholly and to keep a person in that blameless condition unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. That experience is the preservation: God keeps the heart without moral fault. The core of the teaching of sanctification is that it gets to the heart and addresses the heart’s needs. A forgiven person who knows that God forgave them will not let a man bring up their past. A saved person knows that God is God and can see through a fake. When God truly saves someone, that person has nothing to prove to preachers. Saved people know who the savior is. Salvation is what God does for humanity. Based on His sovereign will, He has already reconciled all humankind because He has redeemed to Himself all mankind- (Romans 5:6-11; Colossians 1:20-23; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21). God’s saving plan is grace toward all those who receive Him with faith in Jesus Christ (John 3:15-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:9, 10; Romans 1:16, 17; Ephesians 2:8-10). The Word teaches us that salvation has three stages: justification, sanctification, and glorification (Romans 8:29, 30). Salvation is not complete without the complete plan; every part is essential. Thus, sanctification is indeed essential for salvation. Sanctification may be the most challenging part of God’s plan for many to understand. Often believers can grasp quickly that justification and glorification are both works completely dependent upon God. But that the same is true of sanctification seems harder to accept. It may be because both justification and glorification appear to be implemented in a moment of time. Sanctification, on the other hand, is a process over a lifetime. All the time, it is God working for us. It is helpful to note the same Greek word hagiasmos and its half-dozen related terms are often translated as “sanctification,” “holiness,” “purification,” “holy,” or “sanctify.” Something sanctified is purified, set apart, and made holy by God for a specific purpose. Objectively, God sets apart those chosen in the Son, Jesus Christ (1 Peter 2:9; Psalm 4:3). While the goal of one’s sanctification is so a human can go on in the pursuit of holiness — that is, becoming Christlike — one’s objective holiness is found in Christ alone (Acts 26:18; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 30; 6:11; Hebrews 10:10). For some, to be holy as God is holy may be a challenge experienced as a felt human responsibility (1 Peter 1:14-16; Romans 12:2; 15:5, 6). But in that responsibility, how will obtaining God's holiness be accomplished? The apostle Paul explains in Romans 7 and Galatians 5 about the frustration between the person’s flesh and their new spirit nature in Christ. The felt responsibility is the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in one’s conscience (Ephesians 1:13, 14). Only when the believer walks by the Spirit and not by the flesh do they achieve the goal of sanctification, growing more and more like Jesus. The flesh of man will need to be glorified to reach the holiness of our sinless Savior. Becoming like Christ can be and must be done, but only by the Spirit’s work in us. The truth is, one cannot receive salvation aside from being a new creation in Jesus Christ. Salvation means one has been justified, is being sanctified, and will be glorified. God’s finished work in salvation is a new creation in communion with God eternally. When it is God who is doing the work of a person, the outcome will be a sure thing.Consecration means setting something apart from the world to serve God. without God’s forgiveness, no one could live up to what God calls Holness, God is holy and calls his people to be holy. Holiness is the attribute of God that binds all others together. Holiness does not define God’s character, rather God’s character defines what it means to be holy. God is holy. Holiness is godliness. Sanctification is the process of becoming holy like God. The following Bible verses about Holiness help us to understand God’s character and our calling. In the scriptures, Those who have been sanctified are called saints, or “holy ones.” In the New Testament, the term “saint” applies to every follower of Jesus, not just exemplary Christians (Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2). God sanctifies people from their sins and sets them apart from the world to serve Him alone (Romans 6:5-14). God calls every Christian to set themselves apart from the world in order to honor God with their lives (2 Timothy 2:21; 1 Peter 2:9). Has this happened to you, are you free, or is someday, for you, the truth to anyone can live free from the past sins. John 3:16 is to everyone, it says who-so-ever When the Holy Spirit stirs our hearts, we confess that we are sinners and admit we can never “earn” our way into the presence of a holy and pure God. Because of the Holy Spirit’s work, we can receive the grace and forgiveness that He freely gives through faith in Jesus Christ. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”—John 14:6 “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”—Acts 4:12 Sin is a heavy burden that God never intended for you to carry. He wants you to release any… Shame Guilt Doubt Unbelief Anger Sadness … to Him. Once you accept Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to live within you. He will teach and guide you in this life. We need to look at what God says. To Be Forgiven by God… it has nothing to do with men in the clergy, as your boss. Confess to God that you are a sinner in need of forgiveness and ask Him to cleanse you. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”—1 John 1:9 Understand that Jesus is the source of your forgiveness. “Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins…”—Acts 13:38 Trust in Jesus by faith that His work on the cross saves, frees, and forgives you. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”—Ephesians 2:8-9 Receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, who will guide and teach you. “Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’”—Acts 2:38 Sanctification is the action of setting something or someone apart as holy, purifying it, and dedicating it to God’s service. Without holiness, no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14). We are in need of God’s sanctifying grace to be made holy as God is holy. Consecration, calling, and holiness are related terms that help us to understand the Biblical concept of sanctification. The following Bible verses about sanctification teach us that God calls people to be holy, sanctifies us from sin, and empowers us to serve Him through faith and obedience, and forgiveness now, not some day later. . The sanctification of the church saved people, who God truly has forgiven . God sets people apart from the world to honor him through sacrificial service (John 17:15-18; Romans 12:1-2). People are purified from their sins by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 9:11-14) and are conformed to the image of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:29). As Christians submit to the life of the Holy Spirit they grow in godliness reflecting God’s holy character more and more (Galatians 5:16-24; 1 Peter 1:14-16). So it is with God a done thing, 1 Thessalonians 4:7 This anyone can see in themselves, if a Holy God forgives them, As a result of putting your faith in Jesus, you receive forgiveness from God! You have been given new life and access to the throne of God (see Hebrews 4:16.) God’s forgiveness… Blesses you “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”—Psalm 32:1-2 Adopts you into His family there is no such thing any of us into a man's family told to us here. “… having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will…”—Ephesians 4:5 Already placing or Positions you as a co-heir with Christ “…and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”—Romans 8:17 Count you as righteous not going to someday. “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.”—Romans 3:21-22 Restores your relationship with God “For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”—Romans 5:10-11 Gives you an inheritance “…He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.”—Hebrews 9:15 Makes you a citizen of heaven “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.”—Philippians 3:20-21 These are only a few of the ways God’s forgiveness transforms you. Forgiveness also releases freedom and allows you to forgive others. Meditate on the goodness of God’s forgiveness today. Do you want to know more about God’s forgiveness and how He sees you? Discover your identity in Christ and start walking in freedom. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. God says this to the truly forgiven person, a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. Hebrews 12:14 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” God purifies us from sin of the past, and when He forgives us for our sins, and all of it comes to us, through the blood of Christ, empowers us with the Holy Spirit to grow in holiness, and sets us apart from the world for Christian service. Once again God is who gives sanctification and it is now, not when men say, God establishes our holiness before him through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Jesus died, once and for all, that we might be sanctified from sin. sanctification is a completed work of God’s grace that is accepted by faith when we receive Jesus as our savior. Jesus takes our sin upon himself and gives us his righteousness. Because of Christ’s righteousness, we are acceptable and blameless before the Lord. We are set apart as holy, for service to the Lord. As Aaron and the priesthood were anointed by oil and consecrated for service to God in the tabernacle, followers of Jesus are anointed by the blood of Christ, and set apart to serve God in the world. Hebrews 9:13-1 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. sanctification is Completed before anyone can grow in godliness, as we become more like Christ, expressing his character as our own. Jesus breaks the power of sin in us, once and for all. We are no longer under sin’s dominion. God fills us with the Holy Spirit who empowers to do what is right and pleasing in God’s sight. As we learn to submit to the power of the Holy Spirit and resist the sinful desires of our flesh, we grow in godliness. Progressive sanctification requires our ongoing cooperation with God. Ezekiel 36:26-27 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. Romans 6:19 For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. Romans 8:29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 1 Corinthians 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. Philippians 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. Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. Humans were Sanctified from Sins of their past. Holy living turns us to what God calls obedience, As we grow in godliness our lives will look different from the prevailing culture. We conform to God’s ethical standard for our lives by submitting to the Holy Spirit. God purifies us from sin and sets us apart from the world so we might honor him through faith and obedience. 1 John 3:1-3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” This is God’s will that all humans, seek His forgiveness before they receive Baptism, Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God. Anyone will know when God forgives, we should not let men place our sanctification somewhere down the road, there is a reason men do this and it is so they can police you in your salvation, but God say this, Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. Galatians 5:16-24 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. It's your Eternal Life that we are talking about!!! God is getting people ready , men just want another paycheck, The final aim of sanctification is the glorification of believers. On the day of resurrection, followers of Jesus will receive a glorified body like his and our sanctification from the world will be complete. Romans 3:22 1 Thessalonians 5:23 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 For believers today If you have been born again, sanctification is an experience that is for you today. It is required for all Christians, for God has commanded, “Be ye holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16). Consecrate your all to Him, and pray until the experience is yours. What a wonderful difference it will make in your life! There is joy in the sanctified heart. Acts 16:25 says, “At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.” Paul and Silas had been arrested, beaten, and put in stocks. At first glance, one might wonder, How could they sing in that condition? Yet, a little closer look at the sanctified heart might prompt the question, How could they not sing? That is what a sanctified heart does! It just happens. What do birds do? They chirp. What do stars do? They shine. The sanctified heart sings; that is its natural behavior. If a person is sanctified, the song is there, even though it may be deep inside when trials are great. When a person with a sanctified heart gets down to pray, there is a praise to the Lord that wells up in his heart. What will happen when a heart comes before God in that manner? The Holy Ghost can be expected to descend upon that pure vessel and fill it with His Spirit. That is what happened in the Early Church when they were all “with one accord in one place” (Acts 2:1). God’s Spirit came down and filled those believers with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, because that is what the Holy Ghost does. People can expect the same today. The Holy Ghost comes down on a pure sanctified life and endures that one with power from on high and sends him on his way to win souls for Jesus. Sanctification provides unity, a oneness among God’s people. In John 17, Jesus prayed that his followers might be sanctified, that they might be one as He was one with His Heavenly Father. That prayer was definitely answered, for before the Day of Pentecost they “all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication” (Acts 1:14). When people are sanctified, they are one in their desires for the furtherance of the Gospel. They will be in it together, pulling with the same goal in view. That is what a group of sanctified people does! While there still will be individual preferences and perspectives, it will not be a tug-of-war. Between sanctified individuals, unity and harmony will prevail. Ephesians 5:25-27 Until next time the Elder. Tribulation. The Antichrist will rise during this time, only to be defeated by Christ and the armies of heaven when Christ returns at the end of the Tribulation. Immediately following this return, Christ will set up the millennial kingdom and rule the earth for 1,000 years.
There is only one dimension of the Church. The universal Church and the local Church are as one, because they are all Christian and all New Covenant in their walk, and each place was to govern the self there was never to be a big headquarters for God on earth. there was to be no such thing as a man as boss over salvation. Jesus is the savior and Jesus is the head of the church people.
- The universal Church is just another group of local churches and is composed of all true believers in Christ–those now living and those who have preceded us in death. This is any church that is under the cross and that person has John 3:16 their way to Jesus.
-The local Church is composed of a local congregation living in a specific area and meeting together regularly, whether it be in a church sanctuary, a home, or even outside under a tree!
One of the greatest things one could do in our day is to buy a boat and go to the lake on Sunday and have a church with the family before God and be a true servant of the Lord.
Many because they can read that the tithe was only food now see they can just go to the lake and worship for the same money they once gave a church pastor.
All born-again believers are automatically members of the universal Church. Believers become part of a local church through meeting together with them and/or a formal process of joining the local congregation. Various groups of churches have organized into what is called “denominations”. Although this was not done in New Testament times, modern churches have opted to do this for purposes of administration and organization.
The Body of Christ and the Bride of Christ are other names used in the Bible for true believers who are part of the universal Church.
Jesus Christ is the head of the Church. “And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way” (Ephesians 1:22-23). Jesus loved the church and gave His life for it (Ephesians 5:25).
The Church fulfills Christ’s mission to the world. The book of Acts and the epistles record how God worked through members of the First Church to extend the Gospel around the world.
Christians are directed to assemble with other members of the Body of Christ. The Bible warns: “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).
Which local congregation one should be a part of is between you and God. The question is where does He want you–both for your spiritual benefit and for the benefit of others? This may change from time to time. You may fulfill your purpose in one church and move on. When you leave one congregation for another, however, it should be because of the direction of God and for accomplishing His purposes in and through you. Always leave a church right–that is with a good reputation and without making accusatory statements regarding the congregation from which you are departing.
There is no perfect church. If you are looking for a perfect church, you will not find one. The church is composed of men and women just like you–people who are imperfect. The “perfect” church is one where believers are following the mandates of God’s Word, seeking to mature spiritually, and fulfilling the Great Commission to the world.
Chastening means to discipline in order to correct errors or faults.
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God disciplines believers through His Word, trials of faith, and adverse circumstances.
The purposes of chastening and discipline. It leads you to repentance and corrects sin (1 Corinthians 8:9; 2 Corinthians 7:9). It keeps you humble (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). It teaches you spiritual discernment (1 Corinthians 11:31-32) and to obey God’s Word (Psalm 119:67). It encourages you to be faithful (1 Corinthians 5:6-7); protects the testimony of the church (1 Timothy 3:7); and is restorative (Galatians 6:1; Matthew 6:14-15).
Chastening and discipline confirm God’s love for you. It confirms that you are a child of God and that He cares about you (Hebrews 12:8, Psalms 94:12; Proverbs 3:11-12). If the offense is serious, the offender may need to be removed from active ministry until he sets his own life and home in order. If he is rebellious and does not repent, he must be removed from leadership and possibly, the church fellowship.
-Private problems and public sins should be handled differently (Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 5; Galatians 2:1-14; 1 Timothy 5:20). In the passage from Matthew, it seems the problem was between two individuals. It was to be dealt with by enlisting the aid of other believers and, if the offender would not listen, by excluding him from fellowship. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21)
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him, all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:16-20)
… you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. (1 Timothy 3:15)
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another–and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25)
But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. (Hebrews 12:22-24)
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When we become Christian we are a member of Christ and His church.
The saved is the church, Forgiveness from God makes the human under the new covenant the church and we can have church anywhere Matthew 18:20.
Becoming a member of an Old Church of God of the New Covenant?
Many churches teach that to be a member of something is wrong, but we do not have a doctrine of such :
Why?
To be a member of the local church body does this for you, and will identify all with you and with us.
Identifies you as a believer (see Ephesians 2:19, Romans 12:5). Together, not separated, we are His body (1 Corinthians 12:27).
Provides a spiritual family to support and encourage you in your walk with Christ (Galatians 6:1-2, Hebrews 10:24-25).
Gives you a place to discover and use your gifts (1 Corinthians 4:7).
Place you under the spiritual protection and guidance of its leaders (Hebrews 13:17, Acts 20:28-29, 1 Peter 5:1-4).
Involves you in the lives of others and provides accountability (Ephesians 5:21, James 5:19).
There are four ways to join The old Church of God of the new Covenant!
Remember we all need fellowship. The Local church is there for all in fellowship.
How to join? All humans are, to begin with, John 3:16!
Affirmation of Faith: will be a part of you when you John 3:15-17-Rom. 10:9-13.
This is the decision to publicly profess one's faith in Christ; it is available to those who have not previously joined a church or made a profession of faith.
Baptism is what God requires of a saved person, this will be a work in you after you have been saved from the sins of the past.
Baptism is required, in water, and the very will of God for the saved person. prior to or at the time of membership.
This is for the newcomer and all who-so-ever John 3:16.
Reaffirmation of Faith: This will also happen when one has fallen away.
This is the means available to those who have baptized Christians and/or have held previous membership in a church under the cross, and have been inactive for a number of years, in their own life, and want to return to the Lord, or whose church will not grant a letter of transfer.
Note most churches will not say go, so it is on your word that we hear you are saved. so you are to just say here is where I want to be.
Transfer of Membership: from an Old church of God to another, or, from any church that is Christian. For those who presently have an active membership in a church that will grant a letter of transfer that is great but it also is for those who just need a church and are already saved.
It is up to you!
Just tell the church what you are going to do.
Associate Membership: This is available to those who desire to continue their membership in a home church and also wish to become a member of our church.
What we offer you on your journey:
The old church of God of the new Covenant operates as a family. This means that we operate on the basis of relationships rather than rules. And we do see God and Jesus as the savior, not churches or pastors and preachers.
You will find spiritual brothers and sisters here. If you hurt we will hurt!
The old church of God operates as a fellowship. We are diverse, but united because the same Spirit has given the grace to the whole. You will find people who support one another and who will support you. Our go is to love as He loves.
The Old Church of God operates as a body. As different parts of the body of Christ, we are different from one another, yet we each contribute what no other could to the united whole.
What we ask our members, and ourselves, to pledge:
Your actions: to live Christian lives, if God said it we are to believe it, and God does not say you have to be at church every week but that, He will see to it that you do attend regular church worship at home or with one another, or with us, and celebrate the Lord's Supper, the washing of feet even if it is just with your own family.
As it is called the communion, with the washing of the saint's feet. Remember Matt 18:20 about the church and where Jesus is.
Your gifts are to be for all you should have God place in front of you.
This is your things, your words, your love, your help, your courage.
To share in the life and work of the Church, because you are the church, and to contribute regularly to the needs, of all and any human you see in need. support and the benevolences God will place in front of you. Do the work of God, but remember your giving just as Jesus has said 1 Timothy 5:6-8 before you do give. Your gifts are to serve others, it may just be a song, a good word in a time of need, and then you can give an offering to help the church with the needs of the church, and with the food bank.
Your service: to diligently pursue the spiritual well-being of the community, when you see a need it is God who is showing you the need so do as He asks to give to the needs you see, you don’t need a pastor to do your giving for you..
From the Elder:: Jesus is alive!
The saved is the church, Forgiveness from God makes the human under the new covenant the church and we can have church anywhere Matthew 18:20.
Becoming a member of an Old Church of God of the New Covenant?
Many churches teach that to be a member of something is wrong, but we do not have a doctrine of such :
Why?
To be a member of the local church body does this for you, and will identify all with you and with us.
Identifies you as a believer (see Ephesians 2:19, Romans 12:5). Together, not separated, we are His body (1 Corinthians 12:27).
Provides a spiritual family to support and encourage you in your walk with Christ (Galatians 6:1-2, Hebrews 10:24-25).
Gives you a place to discover and use your gifts (1 Corinthians 4:7).
Place you under the spiritual protection and guidance of its leaders (Hebrews 13:17, Acts 20:28-29, 1 Peter 5:1-4).
Involves you in the lives of others and provides accountability (Ephesians 5:21, James 5:19).
There are four ways to join The old Church of God of the new Covenant!
Remember we all need fellowship. The Local church is there for all in fellowship.
How to join? All humans are, to begin with, John 3:16!
Affirmation of Faith: will be a part of you when you John 3:15-17-Rom. 10:9-13.
This is the decision to publicly profess one's faith in Christ; it is available to those who have not previously joined a church or made a profession of faith.
Baptism is what God requires of a saved person, this will be a work in you after you have been saved from the sins of the past.
Baptism is required, in water, and the very will of God for the saved person. prior to or at the time of membership.
This is for the newcomer and all who-so-ever John 3:16.
Reaffirmation of Faith: This will also happen when one has fallen away.
This is the means available to those, who are now baptized Christians, and/or have held previous membership in a church under the cross, and have been inactive for a number of years, in their own life, and want to return to the Lord, or whose church will not grant a letter of transfer.
Note most churches will not say go, so it is on your word that we hear you are saved. so you are to just say here is where I want to be.
Transfer of Membership: from an Old church of God to another, or, from any church that is Christian. For those who presently have an active membership in a church that will grant a letter of transfer that is great but it also is for those who just need a church and are already saved.
It is up to you!
Just tell the church what you are going to do.
Associate Membership: This is available to those who desire to continue their membership in a home church and also wish to become a member of our church.
What we offer you on your journey:
The old church of God of the new Covenant operates as a family. This means that we operate on the basis of relationships rather than rules. And we do see God and Jesus as the savior, not churches or pastors and preachers.
You will find spiritual brothers and sisters here. If you hurt we will hurt!
The old church of God operates as a fellowship. We are diverse, but united because the same Spirit has given the grace to the whole person. You will find people who support one another and who will support you. Our go is to love as He loves.
The Old Church of God operates as a body. As different parts of the body of Christ, we are different from one another, yet we each contribute what no other could to the united whole.
What we ask our members, and ourselves, to pledge:
Your actions: to live Christian lives, if God said it we are to believe it, and God does not say you have to be at church every week but that, He will see to it that you do attend regular church worship at home or with one another, or with us, and celebrate the Lord's Supper, the washing of feet even if it is just with your own family.
As it is called the communion, with the washing of the saint's feet. Remember Matt 18:20 about the church and where Jesus is.
Your gifts are to be for all you should have God place in front of you.
This is your things, your words, your love, your help, your courage.
To share in the life and work of the Church, because you are the church, and to contribute regularly to the needs, of all and any human you see in need. support and the benevolences God will place in front of you. Do the work of God, but remember your giving just as Jesus has said 1 Timothy 5:6-8 before you do give. Your gifts are to serve others, it may just be a song, a good word in the time of need, and then you can give an offering to help the church with the needs of the church, and with the food bank.
Your service: to diligently pursue the spiritual well-being of the community, when you see a need it is God who is showing you the need to do as He asks to give to the needs you see, you don’t need a pastor to do your giving for you..
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What does it take for the human to come to Jesus?
John 3:16 says who-so-ever, Faith that He is the way and that He is the Choice for Savior.
So after one John 3:16 what will happen to the human? when any human comes to the savior He will see to it that the person does Romans 10:9-13 next. One thing that is for sure is that there are a lot of Jesus sold in our world. The Jesus of the scriptures is the savior, and the person we are teaching about! When a human comes to this Jesus, they will admit they are a sinner (have disobeyed God), this is where one does start John 3:16. Why did God do this? Sin separates man from God. Imperfect man cannot come into the presence of a perfect God.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." -1 John 1:8
Repent (be sorry for and turn from your sins to a new life in Christ).
"Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out." -Acts 3:19, so we see that it is God's way that He brings us to Him through Jesus, the savior. No man can sell this way to God, but men have many ways that they do sell to humans, it is strange but true, they will say just send seed money, put your hand on the TV. buy their next book, or you can save the people of another nation with your money to them. Salvation is available only through Jesus Christ.
"Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes unto the Father, but by me." -John 14:6
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." -1 Timothy 2:5
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other, the name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." -Acts 4:12
Accept the free gift of eternal life through Christ. You cannot earn salvation through your own efforts.
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." -Romans 6:23
"For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." -Ephesians 2:8,9
"That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart, man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation." -Romans 10: 9,10
We say Do it now. Go to Him Jesus He is the Savior. The Church Clergy or Pastor can’t save you , only Jesus can, Salvation is Only Found in Jesus Christ
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nothing by your builders, which has become the head of the corner. When Jesus came He redeemed all of mankind from the sins of Adam, A human now under the All Christian all New Covenant has to repent of only what they have done in sin, Ezek. 18:1-32. all of salvation is completed at the death of the person. NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby WE MUST BE SAVED (Acts 4:10-12). Salvation can only be found in the name of Jesus Christ. You CANNOT find salvation in the name of anyone other than this Sunday Jesus. You CANNOT find salvation in the name of the Pastor, Elder, . or church You CANNOT find salvation in the name of Church. You CANNOT find salvation in the name of a religion or a denomination. You CANNOT find salvation in the name of an evangelist. You can only find salvation in the person of Jesus Christ.
This is God’s plan. The very purpose! For human life.
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST our Lord, both theirs and ours” (1st Corinthians 1:2). We must call upon the name of Jesus to be saved... “For whosoever shall call upon THE NAME OF THE LORD shall be saved” (Romans 10:13). The word “call” here means “to believe.” The Scriptures are very clear that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven. We must believe this and personally make the decision to rely 100% upon Christ for salvation. We do this because of the blood sacrifice of Christ. He has paid for our iniquities that we might be saved. We must trust Jesus because He is the ONLY One Who qualified to pay for our sins. And thankfully He did! When we come to the Easter Jesus we will confess our guilty condition before God and believe in Jesus Christ to forgive our sins. Christ's work of redemption includes ALL the necessary things required to make our salvation possible—Christ’s virgin birth, His deity, sinless life, death, burial, bodily resurrection, blood applied, . All these precious items were necessary for our redemption to occur. Thank God for giving us a second chance through His Son Jesus Christ.
Redeemed already? But from what?
The Past sin that was from Adam to us as Humans, This Jesus the Gift from God Luke 2:1-52 The Blood of Jesus has that covered, and so much more.
God says He will save His people. The person who then comes to this Christmas Gift from God, Luke 2:1-24- Now after He has given His blood for the sins of the world ,( That is Jesus redeemed all humans from the sins of Adam up until us, and those who John 3:16 are saved from the sins they have in the human world in their time in the flesh, their past sins, and those who will repent when they fall down will leave this world saved. with a daily Repent of any sins we leave the world saved.
Jesus has not returned yet, and the full and final redemption of our bodies has not yet happened, let us, in the meantime, look at those areas of redemption, which He wants to accomplish before He returns.
Redeemed from the Now sins – Is what salvation offers. Daily Repentance is offered to humans so they can live free from and leave this earth free from sin.
1 Peter 1:17-19: “And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” The “fear” Peter refers to here is the godly fear of the Lord. This is the good fear that most do not preach on. One must be acknowledging that the Lord wants to deliver us from the ungodly conduct of our past life, John 3:15-17, and that the Lord shed His precious blood in order to bring us to a new place in our lives.
You know that Jesus has redeemed your past when he begins to take those things that the enemy meant for your destruction and now, somehow uses them for your good, and/or for the good of others. He does this in order to give others hope that He can and will do the same for them—as you share your testimony of what God has done for you and what He has graciously brought you out of.
2 Cor. 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.”
This does not happen overnight. It is a process that the Lord wants to take us through—until every area of our life is restored and renewed in Him. As we go through that process, the works of the enemy are completely dismantled so that we can be rooted and built up in Christlikeness. This should be preached all over the world.
Not only does God want to redeem our past, but He also desires that we be completely healed and set free from the effects of emotional pain, trauma, injustice, and the abuse, which we may have suffered in the past. If, however, by our own choice, we hold onto bitterness and do not allow this emotional healing to be completed, then we have not yet been fully redeemed from our past.
The Sunday Easter Jesus can and will make us more that where we have been, Make us more than what we have done, More than what done to others, more than what others have done to us.
Our prayers for us all in these days should be is that we will allow the spotlight of the Holy Spirit to shine into any areas of our past from which you have not yet been healed, forgive all who have wronged you or sinned against you, and allow the healing balm of the Lord to be poured out on you. He wants you healed and whole, with no emotional pain still attached to the memory of that abuse or injustice. Us to forgiveness is the way out of this pain we must forgive others for what they have done to us.
He wants you to share your healing testimony with others so that they, too, can have hope and know that Jesus alone is the one who redeems us from our past. Our friends can’t do it for us; our spouses can’t do it; nor can our pastor do it. Although godly ministers can help us get there, Jesus is the only one who can redeem us, heal us, and free us completely from those things of our past!
Redeemed out of the world – is to walk in the world but be living Holy. But when you make the choice to Go with Jesus the world will not be your friend . You can’t go back to what the world offers!!
Jesus tells us in John 5:19 that we are “not of this world,” but that He chose us “out of the world,” and he goes on to say that that is why the world hates us.
1 Cor. 2:12 has this to say: “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”
James 4:4 tells us that: “Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
The apostle Paul unquestionably makes it clear in 2 Cor. 6: 14 & 17 where he says, “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? ‘Therefore, come out from among them and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.’ “
How do we bring that down to “where the humans receive Jesus and God?” What does this mean in your own Christian walk? It may mean choosing different friends, severing some unholy alliances, or breaking some ungodly soul ties (which may have been formed through either controlling relationships or ungodly sexual relationships). It means, as believers, we should adopt a “biblical worldview,” rather than the prevailing humanistic worldly way of perceiving everything that we see going on in our world today. We must see through God’s open world to us!
Many things today that appear to be good, at first glance, actually have a distorted and deceptive motivation behind them. The enemy is an expert at masking his evil intent until it is too late! Recently, we have been praying and asking God to help us see all things through His eyes. That is we should always seek more of Him and less of us. We urge you to do the same because His insight and wisdom will help us to see things way beyond what they appear to be on the surface.
Redeemed from sin –
Can we really be “redeemed from sin?” Heb. 10:4 gives us a very important clue as it tells us, “It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.” So that means it was not possible for those under the Old Covenant to ever be redeemed from sin. Once a year their sins were to be “atoned for.” They had to keep Sabbath days, Holy days, Feast days, look for new moons, and place animals on the alter for sin so they could be forgiven.
But, the shed blood of the perfect sinless son of God is powerful enough to take away our sins! And the old covenant ways. In fact, Jesus appeared on the scene to do just that, according to 1 John 3:5-6 “And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Jesus came and laid down His very life, not only to forgive us for our past sins, but He came to give us the power to die to sin, so that we no longer make a habit of sinning. We know that Jesus also took on Himself the guilt of our sin…but how can we possibly be free from the guilt of sin…if indeed we keep on sinning?
Daily Repentance of sin is one of the New Covenant ways of life.
The answer lies in Romans 6:5: “For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.”
In other words, the “body of sin”—the embodiment of sin, the tendency to sin, our old Adamic nature—must be done away with—must be put off! There are at least three biblical truths that must be kept together simultaneously.
First, for those who have repented of sin and trusted in Christ as Lord and Savior, God declares them right before him on the basis of Christ’s righteousness and substitutionary death (Rom. 3:21–26; 5:1; 8:1, 30, 33–34). As a declarative act of God and not a process by which we are infused with righteousness, justification takes place in the believer once for all time (Rom. 5:12–21; Phil. 3:8–9; 2 Cor. 5:19–21).
Although everyone will stand before Christ’s judgment seat and hear the public verdict of whether or not we are in him (2 Cor. 5:10), for believers this end-time verdict has now been brought into the present. We have already crossed from death to life (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1). Justification once received cannot be lost. This does not say that humans can’t fall down in sins, and this does not say that He will let us God, because He will not let God of His.
Second, God commands us to confess our sins as we sin (1 John 1:9). This command not only applies to our initial justification, but, as the context of 1 John makes clear, confession is ongoing for Christians:
The Truth is if the saved do not repent He will call them out in this human time, one has not seen trouble like that where God calls you out. No human will make God a liar and go free….
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves if we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar . . . but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins (1 John 1:8–10).
Third, God not only commands us to confess our sins, but also promises to forgive us in the future and, in a real sense, hinges our forgiveness on whether we forgive others, after we have presumably been justified (Matt. 6:14; 18:15–35; 1 John 1:9; James 5:15). God says when we are anointed as sick folk we are Forgiven. James 5:13-20
Look at what God has Given us when we John 3:16 and let Jesus take us all of the way to Romans 10:9-13.
But how do we make theological sense of these truths without minimizing any of them?
Here are three Great truths.
First, from God’s viewpoint there is no problem with saying that when he declares us just, he forgives our future sins—as well as our past and present sins—since our future lies before him as an open book. Yet from our point of view, it’s best to think of our justification as the forgiveness of all our past and present sins, and as the judicial ground for the forgiveness of future sins.
As we live our lives and unfortunately sin, we need to return to God in repentance and faith and seek his forgiveness. Yet we do so on the basis of Christ’s work applied to us in our justification. Such an experience is not a new justification but a renewed application of our justification. When we have Revival it is us returning to God, it is Us taking time to repent. We return to Him.
When we sin, we lose our consciousness of forgiveness and our sense of peace with God. So when we confess our sins, by the work of the Spirit, we are reawakened to what Christ has done for us, and God revives our security in him and assurance of our salvation. Believers, then, continue to pray daily for forgiveness—not with the despair of one who thinks he is lost, but in the confidence of justified and adopted children approaching a heavenly Father who has declared them just in Jesus Christ.
Jesus linked repentance with salvation (Matthew 4:17; Luke 13:3; 17:3).
In Acts 2:38, the term repentance includes the element of faith. Paul in Ephesus preached turning “to God in repentance” and “faith in our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). Repentance is an ingredient of faith. It is a change of mind that involves both a negative aspect (a turning from sin) and a positive one (a turning to God). On Mars Hill, Paul declared that God “commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed; and of this He has given assurance to all men by raising Him from the dead” (Acts 17:30-31
To all believers, we know that Jesus calls people who have yet to believe in Him (Matthew 4:17) and that He brings them through what is call John 3:16 but given them a choice as God wants, and then helps Christians to repent when they have fallen away from Him (Revelation 2:5; 2:16; 2:21; 3:3; 3:19). So they can return to Him in the flesh and that after this we cannot repent that is after death it is too late to repent.
And yet, repentance seems like a rather unpleasant thing that we have to coerce ourselves to do. It’s like taking bitter medicine when we are sick. We don’t want to take it but force it down our throats anyway, because we know it’s supposed to be good for us. This kind of work is from the devil and not what God give to the human Race through Choice.
We should not think of repentance in this way, until We all realize what repentance really is. In a nutshell, it involves these things: Recognition of our sin, renunciation of our sin and returning to God.
The Sunday Jesus came with the same choice we were given in the garden, the Choice to live for God or self, Sin is a choice, and when we came to understand what repentance really is, the more we should realize that it is, in fact, a wonderful gift by God to us. Here are some reasons why.
Repentance lets God restore, forgive and purify us what a great gift to this world.
The saved humans do feel unworthy of God’s forgiveness when they have fallen into sin.
All who see what God has done think, How can we receive this forgiveness, but that is why the blood of Jesus has such power, in His blood we are not what we think we are , We are what God says we are.
“I’m already a Christian and yet I’m still disappointing and failing God in this way. How can I still expect Him to forgive me?” This is just human thinking. How big is your God?-1 John 1:9 is this big enough for you?
Thankfully, God assured us by reminding us of this truth: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
Since God is God , We must make it a point to confess our sins before God no matter how “unworthy” or “unclean” we might feel, knowing that He will forgive me and all of us our sins, and purify us , so that we will be righteous before Him again. This is what He is doing on this earth , God is getting us ready to be with Him forever.
Just as God reached out to us before we came to know Him, He is still reaching out to us and calling us to return to Him today if we’ve fallen in sin: “Return to Me, and I will return to you” (Zechariah 1:3, Malachi 3:7). God promises to restore us when we repent of our sins (Jeremiah 15:19).
. Repentance helps us to be humble, it cleans us as humans so we can leave this world saved and clean.
We all will find that when we have trouble repenting, it’s often because we have pride issues in our life. Pride is spiritual blindness that causes us to think our standards are better than God’s standards.
The opposite of pride is humility, and one definition of it, which I really like, says, “Humility means agreeing with the truth.” Perhaps that is why Paul says that repentance leads us to know the truth so that we can come to our senses (2 Timothy 2:25-26). When we repent and learn to agree with the truth of God’s standards of righteousness and sin, we are growing in humility. That is how it is done!
Humility is our job to seek and produce.
God values humility; He shows favor to those who are humble, but He opposes and mocks those who are proud (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6). So let’s be quick to repent, so that we may grow in humility and receive and enjoy God’s favor.
Repentance drives the devil away from us.
While willfully disobeying God, humans have found it so much harder to believe God’s truths. Instead, the voices of guilt, doubt, fear and condemnation would ring a lot louder in our hearts. Thoughts like, “God doesn’t love you anymore,” “You’ve really blown it this time. God won’t give you a second chance,” and “God has given up on you now” would keep harassing us , giving us no peace.
But when we have repented and returned to God, these deceptive whispers of the enemy would start to fade and we will be more able to perceive and receive the truths of God again.
Do you want the Devil off your back?
The Bible tells us, “Submit yourselves . . . to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). In this verse, submission to God means washing our hands and purifying our hearts from sin and double-mindedness (James 4:8).
When we sin, we’re actually giving the devil permission to draw near to us, for “the one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning” (1 John 3:8). The enemy is close to those who do what he does (John 8:44). And when he is near us, he “comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).
When we submit to God by repenting, we’re proclaiming that we belong to God and we can fight against the devil and his evil influences in our lives.
Repentance frees us from the torment of sin, Jesus condemns sin in us so we don’t do sin very well after we are saved. Our Consciences gets is the way of sins.
I’ve found this to be true in the life of all saved people . When we insisted on our own sinful ways, the one who suffered the most was the person who went their own way. Although sin may feel good, it ultimately hurts more than it seems to promise.
But when the Bible says when people weren't willing to confess their sins to God and others due to pride and shame, They found themself continuing in their sins because the devil had gained a foothold in the life of the person, to ensnare them in the darkness. It’s only when they brought these sins into the light by confessing them to God that they trusted, that those sins started to lose their power to further deceive and hurt them .
We should be thankful that God gives us confession and repentance as the means by which we can receive His mercy. Because Jesus is our great high priest who is always interceding for us before God (Hebrews 4:14; 7:25), we can “approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).
The Bible gives us this promise: “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord” (Acts 3:19). If we do not repent, we will not be able to receive help and relief from the torment of sin.
. Repentance leads us to fullness of life with Jesus
Once saved from the past is true but the sins after that we must repent of.
Sin will lead to spiritual death. God’s Word tells us plainly that “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23) and Jesus said, “unless you repent, you too will all perish” (Luke 13:3). On the contrary, repentance leads to life (Acts 11:18) and salvation (2 Corinthians 7:10).
John 3:16 starts this and us-Daily repenting keeps us there.
Ultimately, when we repent, we are inviting Jesus to have fellowship with us. After urging Christians to “be earnest and repent,” Jesus said, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they will be with Me” (Revelation 3:19-20).
The immeasurable joy of having intimate fellowship with God is what Jesus won for us through His death and resurrection, so that we “may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). It certainly beats the deceptive and fleeting “joy” of any kind of sin by any measure!
Eternity doesn’t start when we are saved from the past, but at the end of this life, and then we go to heaven. Salvation started when Jesus came with the New Covenant way. Salvation , It starts right now with having fullness of life with God, and repentance allows us to have that new Covenant way..
Jesus purchased us as slaves of sin, with a view for our freedom. He’s already paid for our release. “Redeemed” means that He paid the ransom price (with His own blood) in order to set souls free from the slavery and bondage of sin.
In order to be set free and stay free, however, we must make a habit of dying to the things that our (sinful) flesh might prompt us to do. We must do our part—which is “choose” to die to sin—because Jesus has already done His part at the cross.
Remember how Jesus told the woman caught in adultery, “Go and sin no more”? (John 8:11) And how He told the man He healed at the pool of Bethesda, “Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you.” (John 5:14)
One of the dangers of our time is where people think and preach that when they are sick in the church it is just God getting them ready, or that it is a sin in that person. Only the person can know if God is correcting them, or that they are outside the will of God. The sickness can be anointed and there is Forgiveness in it. .
Even so We, too, must make a quality decision to “go and sin no more!” Yet our determination and willpower alone is not enough. It is accomplished through the power of His shed blood, leaning on His grace (Him the Holy Spirit), and applying His Word to our lives, that we are able to die to sin.
If our “self-will” is so prideful, stubborn, and determined that we constantly reject the will of God and the Word of God, chances are we will never be completely free. We must choose to die to our fleshly ideas and desires, and submit our will to His in order to be redeemed from sin.
Having done all that, if we happen to inadvertently sin, we must do what the Bible tells us in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Redeemed from , and we have no such thing as the enemy who has power over Jesus. –
. According to Luke 4:18, Jesus came to “set the captives free.” Who are the captives? Those who are in bondage to the enemy of their soul, and no matter how much they come to the altar and repent, it seems they simply cannot get free (or stay free). Yet 1 John 3:8 tells us that, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the enemy.”
He wants to annihilate, tear down, destroy completely the works of the enemy in your life and mine!
Col. 1:13-14 puts it like this: “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood…”
Then why isn’t every single believer walking in total freedom from the enemy the devil?
Why are some still struggling with fear, anger, pride, greed, sexual sins, or addictions?
Why isn’t every single person who comes to know the Lord instantly set free?
We Preach and Teach the answer is three-fold, yet fairly simple.
Because many don’t realize there is a greater level of freedom (than what they have already experienced) that is available in Christ. He is the Lord.
Because we cannot evict the enemy through the front door if we keep letting him in the back door of our life at the same time. We are to seek Him to do away with anything Evil.
We can’t expect him to just leave on his own accord because Jesus told us we would need to “cast him out.”
We need Jesus to do this through the Holy Ghost the other Him in the life of the saved person.
When we first commit to follow Jesus is when those evil spirits should be dealt with, not 20 or 30 years later!
Jesus cast seven demons out of Mary Magdalene and she then became one of His most devoted followers. Mark 16:9.)
We have been delivered from the “power” of evil (unless we are giving the enemy access to our lives), but no one has been delivered from the “presence” of evil. There is evil all around us in our world today!
(And it is definitely increasing!) So even after we get free, we must continue to obey God and resist the devil, according to James 4:7, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
When we have submitted to God and we use the name of Jesus and command the enemy to go, he must flee! This must be done in Jesus name not our name.
Because Jesus has already defeated every enemy at the cross, when we use His name, we, too, can put the enemy under our feet each day!
When we bind the power of the enemy in Jesus name, he is bound. To bind means “to forbid” and when we bind, he is forbidden to operate in our lives. But we must keep that door closed . if your words and anger bring him in stop the words and anger. Whatever it is, stop it.
We have also been given the power and the authority of God in Jesus’ name to set others free from the chains of the enemy—if they want to be free! Pray for your loved ones. Pray for those who you see in trouble.
It is a glorious freedom that Jesus came to give us, and as we get set free and stay free, we can live and move and walk in that freedom, never again to be entangled in a yoke of bondage!
The other area of our lives that must be fully redeemed—if we want to live in the glorious freedom that Christ came to give us and that is:
Redeemed from legalism – and looking to what others are doing to see if they are Christian
The all New Covenant takes us from what others are doing and makes us seek what God is given to all humans. Grace is to all and for all and God gives it to all and does not need a human to give it out , but we must have grace on others.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the difference between the Old Covenant (living under the Law) versus the New Covenant, living under grace. There are some who try to mix the two and do both at the same time.
Gal. 3:13 tells us that “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law…” That means He redeemed us from living under the law into a new and better way—a New Covenant, ratified and put into place with the shedding of Jesus’ blood at the cross. Gal. 2:16 says, “A man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ…” this is the work of Jesus and He has that job.
We cannot put do, and don’ts, on people.
Gal. 5:4 says that “We are estranged from Christ” and that we have actually “fallen from grace” if we attempt to be justified by the law. We simply cannot live under the law and under grace at the same time. Those who attempt to do so are constantly striving and always feeling condemned because they don’t ever feel they are good enough to be accepted by Christ.
Does that mean that God wants us to sin and not be concerned about it (since we no longer live under the law)? No! The apostle Paul made it clear that we are not to sin just so that grace will abound. Rom. 8:3-4 also clarifies:
“For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” (Rom. 8:3-4)
The need to repent of our sins is a central belief in Christianity. Accepting Jesus Christ into our life and asking Him to cleanse us of our sins is the only true way to live an eternal life in heaven. True repentance leads a person to say “I have sinned” in an honest, regretful acknowledgement of the sin with a commitment to change.
The Bible teaches us how to ask for forgiveness of our sins and the importance of doing so. God wanted to give us clear instructions on what we need to do when asking His Forgiveness through repentance. These Going back to the Bible for helpful understanding when teaching others about repentance or for understanding it yourself on a deeper level.
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach his message: “Turn away from your sins, because the Kingdom of heaven is near!”
Proverbs 28:13
You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.
Acts 8:22
Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that He will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Matthew 3:8
Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins.
Acts 3:19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that He will forgive your sins.
Luke 17:3
So watch what you do! “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."
2 Chronicles 7:14
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
2 Timothy 2:24-25
As the Lord’s servant, you must not quarrel. You must be kind toward all, a good and patient teacher, who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.
Mark 6:12
The apostles left and started telling everyone to turn to God.
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God’s gift, the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 38:18
I told you my sins, and I am sorry for them.
Matthew 3:2
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Isaiah 30:15
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it."
Luke 5:31-32
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
2 Corinthians 7:9
Yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us.
In other words, “Christ is the end of the Law [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the righteous fulfillment of its types, and in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him.” (Rom. 10:4 )
The Lord wants to work in us His righteousness, but the way we attain it is different under the New Covenant (under grace). It is no longer about striving to obey a set of written rules and regulations; we can’t do it in our own ability! We do it by putting on the “gift of righteousness” that Christ has freely given us, and choosing to walk in it.
Our willpower alone is not enough to radically and permanently transform us. But when our will comes into agreement with God’s will, His power comes on the scene to change us to be like Christ. Our lives are transformed as we yield to the power and influence of the Holy Spirit, who has come to live inside us. God expects obedience—and it is our choice whether we walk each day prompted and led by His Holy Spirit!
If we miss the mark and inadvertently sin, it is imperative that we quickly repent, receive God’s forgiveness, and get back on track. An Un- repented sin will hold a person back and keep them in a place where God’s blessings are withheld.
Redeemed from deception –
Deception and error are rampant today, as never before. Many are falling away from the truth – even the “elect.” People everywhere seem to know when they are “in sin,” but when they are in deception, they think they are okay—even when they are not.
Luke 4:18 tells us that Jesus came to “restore sight to the blind.” I believe this means not only the physically blind, but also those who are spiritually blind. One of the enemy’s greatest goals is to bring the people of God into deception. He tells us lies—hoping we’ll believe at least one of them. If we do not have a guardrail of truth (the Word of God) firmly in place in our lives, we are quite vulnerable to being deceived especially in these days of great apostasy!
Contrary to what some may think, or teach . God has promised to protect us from deception. This is done through us having a daily repent of our sins.
He has promised to give us the truth, but it is entirely up to us whether we receive the truth—or choose to believe a lie! God gave Adam and Eve truth, He gave them boundaries, and He gave them free will. If it was up to Him to protect them there in the Garden of Eden, He could have built a brick wall around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but He didn’t. The tree was accessible – it was Eve’s choice, and Adam’s as well.
Many Christian churches and denominations have different views on free will. ... The Bible tells us that Free will and Choice with that freedom and Liberty will show us that we have the ability to choose and have faith in God, being secure in our eternal life in heaven, or we can choose to turn from God and live apart from Him.
Man has Free will to receive or not, God will not make humans, sin free as humans, and God has made the way for humans to leave this world Sinner free, all they have to do is Repent .
Free will is the mind choosing to obey or not.
Men love to make fun of what God has given to the human world, the free choice takes them out of what God has given, they want to be that choice for you so they can sell it to you Money is their choice.
Danger is in the person who would have you think that God only let them show others the way to Him.
They are out for power, over others and sell God to others.
Here are several variations of free will discussed in theological debates. Here is a brief rundown of information regarding free will: Free will is God’s choice to humans.
Beware: We Preach of Humans who take your choice away from you.
God gave free will, Liberty, Freedom to all He made.
God will not make a human love Him and obey Him, He asks, and does give us the choice of Him and His ways.
To those who want to boss the people of this world, to be the big Rooster over the saved , have to take away your choice first, because when you John 3:16, you are His and you have made the choice to be His, and they can’t have after that.
What is this will, He gave to us?
Our “will” is the function of our choosing. Essentially, how we make choices. How these acts are determined can be looked at either by Determinism or Indeterminism. This, combined with viewing God’s Sovereignty as either Specific or General will determine what type of Free Will viewpoint you adhere to. God gave us Free will.
Indeterminism means free acts are not determined. This is Free Choice.
Determinism says that everything has been determined. All things but Choice.
God’s General Sovereignty says that God is in charge of everything but does not control everything. That is He will let us have a voice, and a choice , and those who do make the choice of what He has asks for the eternity with Him He will Give, He also says He will call an end to the time of Human life. And the Choice of Him will come to an end.
God’s Specific Sovereignty says that He not only has ordained everything, but He also controls everything. This is where He can make the end come . The Big Roosters hate the choice, just as the Devil hates the choice.
Compatibilism Free Will is one side of the debate that says that determinism and human free will are compatible. In this side of the debate, our free will is entirely corrupt by our fallen human nature and man cannot choose contrary to his nature. But they say this because they do not understand that the blood of Jesus has already redeemed the world from the fall of man.
Simply, that Providence and God’s Sovereignty is completely compatible with man's voluntary choices. Our choices are not coerced. Jesus came with forgiveness for the past sin of the world Just as the bible says, Luke 2:1-50
Libertarian Free Will is the other side of the debate, it says that our free will is affection by our fallen human nature, but man still has the ability to choose contrary to his fallen nature, and He does because Of the work on the cross.
Free will a concept where secular humanism has not , completely undermined the biblical teaching on the doctrine of man, it makes it stronger . Our God in the Bible teaches that man is able to make any choice, but it is not without the effects of sin and says that our will is neither good nor evil, but a neutral. What we make as the Choice is the bad or Good. The image of someone with an angel on one shoulder and a demon on the other where the man has to choose which side to listen to, from the vantage of his neutral will. Has a place in the mind of the saved person because choice is ours to make. Bad choice is sin. Sin is a bad choice.
But the Bible does clearly teach that the whole of man was marred by the effects of the fall., God so loves humans that He made the choice of Jesus to be in the human flesh and pay for the sins of the world. But God made a way for them in the Old Covenant church, they had old laws and Holy days, sabbath Feast days to pay for the sin in animals blood with the new covenant on the way.
Man’s soul, body, mind was what God wants, and with free will to be saved is what God wants and HE IS GOD.. His People His way.
Sin has ravaged us completely and utterly. Our entire being bears the scars of this sin profoundly.
We still have death because of it. We did need a savior and the Christmas Gift was given for the sins of the world.
The Bible repeatedly says that we are in bondage to sin in the flesh . But this is before we were given Jesus as the savior, this is what He is saving us from. Today is the day of salvation.
The Bible also teaches that man is culpable for his choices. Man has a responsibility to make wise choices and works with God in the process of sanctification. This is where we know we have been forgiven for the sins we have committed in our time on earth not for the sins of Adam, Jesus already came for that.
What Jesus came and done for the world:: What Man’s Responsibility and Culpability were and are:
What God did for the sinner, How the New Covenant let the sinner be the sinner, and not place the sins on others as it was under the old covenant , Sin was on the next generation under the old Covenant .
The new covenant promises, we now have in Jesus as Christ.
Ezekiel 18:20 “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.”
Free choice to each person!! Matthew 12:37 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
John 9:41 “Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.’”
The term “Free will” is not found anywhere in scripture. But we can see verses that describe the very heart of man, the core of his will. We understand that man’s will is limited by his nature.
Man’s nature
Some of the Elders of the early church described the state of man in relation to the state of his will:
1) Pre-Fall: Man was “able to sin” and “able not to sin” (posse , posse non ) He had a choice, and made the wrong choice this is the fall.
When Jesus came with forgiveness He did not take away the choice of free will. But gave His blood for that fall of the past, open the humans to John 3:16, as the way to forgiveness for what the person had done in sin. And Gave a choice for the sins we may have after that Daily Repent.
2) There is no fear of God before their eyes. In that they understand what God is doing so the fear the others have they do not have. all saved people do fear not doing what God says is to obey. Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may become accountable to God”
John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.” the Sunday Jesus is the savior not a pastor or church people.
Romans 9:16 “So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.” the Fall of Man God forgave us of.
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolish to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.” If one does not John 3:15-17 first one can’t come to Jesus and does not understand.
Angels too, had a choice and they are able to make decisions that are free from coercion, but they are also bound by their nature. The Bible calls them Good angels because they made good choices, bad angels where the one who went with Lucifer the Devil and will make bad choices because they were cast out . In Revelation 12 we read about when Satan and his angels fell from heaven from their choice to rebel. All sin is a choice. They made a choice that was consistent with their character. God was not surprised at their choice because God knows all things.
Who is this God who sees all? He gave the choice and will see those who do not choose Him and His way.
Job 36:23 “Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?”
Titus 1:2 “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
1 Timothy 5:2 “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.”
In the New Testament, all throughout, we are told: “Do not be deceived.” The responsibility is on us! God Himself may warn us; He may send other people to warn us; He gives us the gift of “discerning of spirits,” what some call discernment; He tells us to judge all things (not people, but “things”). He tells us not to believe every spirit, but to “test the spirits,” but if we ignore all of those things—it’s on us. Unfortunately, these days, we are seeing even those who were strong in the Lord fall into deception.
Because many Christians choose not to exercise the discernment God has given them, the enemy sees that as a weak spot in their armor and capitalizes on it. He is a master of deception. He doesn’t have to invent anything new, because the old lies he has used since the Garden of Eden are still working.
He has many “spirits of error” at work to try and bring the people of God into the bondage of deception. We must be lovers of truth in order to be saved from deception. To allow deception in our lives is to either refuse the truth of God, or to turn away from it!
Jesus said in Matt. 7:14 that it is a narrow gate and a difficult path that leads to eternal life. I saw a vision of this path. On one side was a big ditch called “sin.” On the other side was also a big ditch and this one was called “deception.” The enemy is hard at work to get us to fall into either ditch, hoping that if we do, we will not be able to get back out .
Are there any areas in your life where you have believed a lie—rather than God’s truth? If you ask Him, He will show you!
There is supposed to exist here on earth a fully redeemed people – a people of purity, love, and truth—so that the world can see what it means to be redeemed—a people who can sing from their hearts:
“I’ve been redeemed, by the blood of the Lamb…”
Can you honestly say that you have been fully redeemed?
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"...behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." -II Corinthians 6:2
(Jesus said) "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." -Revelation 3:20
Receive Christ as your Lord and Saviour By going to Jesus in the way God said John 3:15-17
After one goes to this Sunday Jesus , one can see what He has for us, and an open mind, and open heart lets us understand .
The Bible is the Word of God.
"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." - John 17:17
No Creed but God words of Doctrine in Christ as the creed of God
No Book but the Bible for all things of God.
No Headquarters but Heaven, no such thing as a general office they are the same thing as a Headquarters.
In Christ at the Cross all saved people have Unity unity is not in man but in Christ.
When you visit us, we trust you will find us to be:
A joyful church. God has done great things for us, and we are glad! Because we trust in Christ who died and rose again to save us from God’s just wrath for our sins, we now “rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory” (1 Peter 1:8). We may sing , dance, lift up our hands, and shout.
A serious church. Scripture says, “Rejoice with trembling” (Psalm 2:11), and the gospel makes this possible. We take the worship of God seriously, with careful attention given to the reading and preaching of Scripture, and we may have two or three Preach, children can stay in the church services, You will see children singing . and the expression of our dependence on the Holy Spirit through prayer. We do have a time of anointing with the oil.
You will see A loving church family. God’s love has been lavished on us in Jesus Christ, and through His Holy Spirit, God’s love is poured out in our hearts toward one another. We want you to experience the love of Christ among us, so welcome! Come as you are. You’ll notice some folks who like to dress up for church and others who don’t. Feel free to wear what’s comfortable for you, and you’ll fit right in.
A church that is centered on the gospel. Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead so that we can be justified (declared righteous) in the presence of a holy God. This is the gospel, that Jesus is the savior and Lord, and has come to save the world . As a church, we will never move on from this glorious gospel - only into a deeper and more profound understanding of it. So the songs we sing are focused on the gospel; the sermons we preach are all intended to take us deeper into the gospel; and the new life we live is motivated by the gospel. We live in and under the all Christian all New covenant .
In Opinions Liberty
In All Things Charity
Along with !!
The functional centrality of the gospel
The great commandment of wholehearted love for God and fellow humans.
The pursuit of holiness motivated by grace
The priority and profitability of sound doctrine, we seek the very Creed of God as His doctrine.
The active presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit He the Holy Ghost we seek.
The expression of our dependence on God through prayer
The eager cultivation of relationships marked by honesty, humility and joyful servanthood
The proclamation of the gospel to our families, community and the world
The demonstration of God’s redemptive mercy through compassion to our community
We see the Bible as our only source for God to talk to us today..
We Teach that the saved person has God put their name in the book of life and only He can take it out.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" -II Timothy 3:16
The nature of God is One God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
"And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." -Matthew 3:16,17 We will seek this time of baptizing .
"Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:" -Matthew 28:19
The Deity of Christ. The human flesh of Jesus.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." -John 1:1,14
"For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." -Colossians 2:9
The Virgin Birth.
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit." -Matthew 1:18
"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." -Matthew 1:23 (Isaiah 7:14)
Sin separates man from God. Sin was a choice the we all have made a bad one, a sinful one.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" -Roman 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." -Romans 6:23
The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures;" -I Corinthians 15:3,4
"Knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus, shall present us with you." -II Corinthians 4:14
"So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." -Mark 16:19
Salvation by God's Grace Through Faith in Christ. Us as humans going all the way until the end of this human life.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." -Ephesians 2:8,9 and the saved have work in them.
"And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise, grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace:" -Romans 11:6
Salvation only through Christ.
"Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes unto the Father, but by me." -John 14:6
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." -Acts 4:12
The New Birth.
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." -John 3:6,7
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever." -1 Peter 1:23
Assurance of Salvation from the past sin of Adam to us, and us if we John 3:16, through Christ's shed blood.
"But God commends his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." -Romans 5:8,9
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin." -1 John 1:7
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." -I John 5:13
God wants you to be saved Now.
"Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts," -Hebrews 3:7,8
"(For he says, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I scoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)" -II Corinthians 6:2
The Second Coming of Christ. He is good for His word. The Rapture will come, even if humans don't want it to, it is God who will send Jesus , man has nothing to do with it, other than the preaching of the Gospel and that is over 99& done in this world.
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." -I Thessalonians 4:16,17
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory... But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." -Matthew 24:30,36
The Immortality of the Soul and Eternal Judgment.
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" -Hebrews 9:27
"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: ...Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ...Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: ...And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." -Matthew (1.) The Bible is the Word of God, Inerrant in the original autographs.
Pure truth! The Truth that only a Christian will receive. Others make Him and His Doctrine into something else.
There is only One God, Creator of all creation: three Persons in Trinity; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
God became flesh in Christ Jesus; born of a Virgin, conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Christ atoned for our sins through His death and shed blood on the cross.
Christ rose bodily from the grave and ascended into Heaven; conquering death and proving that He is God.
Salvation is only through Christ; available now to all through repentance, faith towards God, and being born again as a new creation in Christ.
Christ shall return, there will be a final judgment of eternal reward and eternal punishment.
We are to believe in one God, and all now under the new covenant do know Him- Hebrews 8:1-13.
"I am the Lord thy God, which has brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me." -Exodus 20:2,3
"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." -Mark 12:29-31
Our Father Almighty,
"One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." -Ephesians 4:6
"Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us?" -Malachi 2:10
"And God said unto him, I am God Almighty:" -Genesis 35:11
Maker of heaven and earth,
"In the beginning God created heaven and the earth." -Genesis 1:1
"Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD, that makes all things; "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him:" -Colossians 1:16
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" -Romans 1:20
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, God only has one Jesus the Christmas Jesus all others are man made.
"Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;" -2 Corinthians 1:3
"Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." -I Thessalonians 1:1
"But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." -Romans 13:14
the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages;
" For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." -John 3:16
"And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him." -Hebrews 1:6
"Then they that were in the ship came and worshiped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God." -Matthew 14:33
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." -Revelation 1:8
God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God; begotten, not made,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." -John 1:1
"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." -I John 1:5
"Then Jesus says again unto them saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." -John 8:12
"And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." -John 20:28
" And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life." -I John 5:20
" I will tell you of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you." -Psalms 2:7
"For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?" -Hebrews 1:5
"He who has seen me has seen the Father." -John 14:9
being of one substance with the Father;
"I and my Father are one." -John 10:30
"Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." -Isaiah 44:6
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." -Revelation 1:8
"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:" -Philippians 2:6
"But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." -John 10:38
"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." -Colossians 2:9
by whom all things were made.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him there was not anything made that was made. ...He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." -John 1:1-3,10,14
"And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ." -Ephesians 3:9
"But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." -I Corinthians 8:6
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -Colossians 1:15-17
Who, for us all for our salvation, came down from heaven,
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," -I Thessalonians 5:9
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." -Acts 4:12
"And that from a child, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus." -II Timothy 3:15
"I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." -John 6:51
"For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." -John 6:38
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man;
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." -Matthew 1:18
"To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. ...And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." -Luke 1:27,35
"Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal
with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:" -Philippians 2:6,7
Who is this Christmas Gift from above that Easter Sunday Jesus?
"Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
seed of David according to the flesh;" -Romans 1:3
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." -Acts 2:36
"And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. ...Then released the Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified." -Matthew 27:2,26
"And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified." -Mark 15:15
He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, in accordance with the Scriptures;
" From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day." -Matthew 16:21
"And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock; and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre." -Mark 15:46
"And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek of the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spoke unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again." -Luke 24:5-7
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures;" -I Corinthians 15:3-4
and ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father;
"Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." -John 20:17
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." -I Timothy 3:16
" ...by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.” -I Peter 3:21,22
"And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." -Acts 1:9
"So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." -Mark 16:19
and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
"And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." -Acts 1:10,11
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." -Revelation 1:7
"For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:" -John 5:22
"And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be judge of quick and dead." -Acts 10:42
"And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." -Luke 1:33
And we are to believe in the Holy Spirit, and the Lord and Giver of Life; Who is this Holy Ghost? Him as a Person !!
"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." -John 14:17
"Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." -II Corinthians 3:17
"Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God." -Acts 5:3,4
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." -John 3:5
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" -Titus 3:5
who proceeds from the Father; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" -John 15:26
"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" -Luke 11:13
"Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" -Matthew 28:19
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." -II Peter 1:21
And we are to believe in one holy universal all Christian all New Covenant Church that was under the Old Covenant and was given the apostles and that was an apostolic Church, the Old Church of God of the New Covenant and we now are still this church built upon the foundation Eph. 2:15-21, But have no such thing as someone who has been with Jesus and so we can’t have an Apostle today.. The Church does pray for all saved people in all churches. The church goes on.
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me." -John 17:20-23
"I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism; One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." -Ephesians 4:1-6
"And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." -Colossians 1:18
"To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven," -Hebrews 12:23
"...they are written in the Lamb's book of life." These will be Rapture. -Revelation 21:27
"...and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life." -Philippians 4:3
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." -Matthew 18:20
"And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house:" -Philemon 1:2
"Likewise greet the church that is in their house." -Romans 16:5
"But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." -I Timothy 3:15
"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone;" -Ephesians 2:20
"And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." -Acts 2:42
I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins;
"And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" -Matthew 28:18,19
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism," -Ephesians 4:5
"For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." -Galatians 3:27
"For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." -Matthew 26:28
"And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." -Luke 24;47
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." -Acts 2:38
“The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:” -I Peter 3:21
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." -Romans 6:3,4
and we are to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
"Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" -1 Corinthians 15:12
"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." -1 Corinthians 15:21,22
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." -1 Corinthians 2:9
"For him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be the glory forever. ." -Romans 11:36
Priesthood of the Believer (Direct access to God through Christ Our Only Mediator: "Sola Christus")
The third great principle of the Reformation was that of "the priesthood of all believers" (it is understood in accompaniment to the Biblical teaching of "Sola Christus": "Christ Alone"; Christ Our High Priest, Christ Our Only Mediator).
The Scriptures teach that Christians are a "holy priesthood," (1 Peter 2:5). All believers are priests before God through our great high priest Jesus Christ. All people are to be what God is.
Both the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Communions also say that they believe in "the priesthood of all believers", for it is clearly taught in Holy Scripture, but Protestants see this doctrine as having many ramifications in Church practice not accepted by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic hierarchies.
"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." -I Peter 2:5.
There is no such thing as a human as the head of God’s people.
The Choice of God this Jesus is that head, and all humans who are His have equal standing in Him.
Regarding the priesthood of all believers, The Reformers taught that all Christians have direct access to God through Christ; that there then is no necessity for an earthly mediator. This is true and a return to what God did under the New Covenant. There is no big Rooster over the church in a human.
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus;" -I Timothy 2:5.
On the basis of these doctrinal teachings from Holy Scripture; "the priesthood of all believers" (I Peter 2:5) and the clear teaching that Christ is the one (only) Mediator between the believer and God (I Timothy 2:5); the Reformers rejected: and the Old Church of God of the New Covenant was already saying this for over a thousand years .
Eph. 3:8 what Paul was in the Bible as an Apostle.
He had no such thing as a Pope title.
Men make the authority of the Pope, He is not Jesus, and not Peter if He was one of Peter's ancestors He would be a Jew. a D&A test would show this. We teach that the Peter of the Bible never went to Rome.
There is the merit of good works, as obediences of what God says, but we do and are teaching that God’s people have a great work in them and will do it. It does not give forgiveness, or save one from sins.
indulgences, that is forgiveness for sale is not God’s way, no money is needed to repent.
the mediation of Mary and the Saints, no Saint worship is in the bible.
the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (not to be confused with the Virgin Birth, it instead refers to the Roman Catholic dogma that Mary herself was conceived without original sin), She was the choice of God for this Jesus to be born to but just one who was favored.
the doctrine of transubstantiation, The Communion is not the real blood but just resents it as the He Jesus says in the John 13:1-17
the mass as a sacrifice, there is nothing one can do but Repent and let God forgive.
the existence of purgatory, the Purgatory is not in the Bible Hell is.
prayers for the dead,
confessions to a priest, no Human can forgive the sins against God, and we are to have no such thing as a Priest. They did this to Get the money of the saved people of God.
required celibacy for priests. They can do this because God has only one Priest and that is Jesus.
We don't and the Protestants don't pray to Christians souls now in Heaven --- the Saints, including Mary --- or even ask them to intercede on their behalf.) This was a fake work of a Pope.
The Old Church of God of the New Covenant has also called them out on and have been in rejection of what they are doing, it was not how they started out.: they were once a part of the Church of God.
The Bible speaks for itself!
the authority of the Pope, Not in the Bible.
Indulgences, no human can sell forgiveness for sins.
All of these we have Rejected as false Doctrine.
the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary,
the existence of purgatory,
required celibacy for Priests, and to have a Priest in today's church is not in the Bible
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the doctrine of transubstantiation,
that Christ was sacrificed more than once for the sins of the world.
Adoration of the Host (Communion Bread).
Private Eucharists (a Priest may not celebrate Eucharist by himself).
Limiting Eucharist for the people to one kind (Host/Bread)
Knowing That You Are Saved is when God set His person aside.
Another important belief for Evangelicals, whether Protestant or otherwise, is in believing that you can absolutely know that you are saved. This is true God does show us when He Forgives us.
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." -I John 5:13 The Christmas, Sunday Jesus.
"We have learned the plan of our salvation, from the beginning, and that it was God who made the choice that Jesus is the savior.
This truth has come From no one else other than from those through whom the gospel has come down to us. For they did at one time proclaim the gospel in public. And at a later period, by the will of God, they handed the gospel down to us in the Scriptures --- to be ' the ground and pillar of our faith.' "
Eph 2:15-21. That time when we had Apostles .
Apostolic Era: (4 B.C. - 100 A.D.) This is the world of History telling us when or the Era of when , But we say and Teach and Preach that the time of Apostles started when Jesus called the first one, not when men say it was. They came to an end when John died. And the book of Revelation was completed .
What is the real History of the Time, as the Old Church of God of the New Covenant saw it? What the Old Church of God says about the History of the Church. And why we say the Catholic account is not all truth.
The catholic church made thing to make them look good. And all of it is not true.
4 B.C. - 30 A.D.
Incarnation of Christ the Choice of Heaven came as the Christmas Gift Luke 2-
He was just a baby in those days. Came in the flesh as a human.
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, who from all eternity was with God and was God (John 1:1-4), God the Son, is born as a human being, lives, ministers, is crucified, and dies, paying the penalty Himself for the sins of the entire world. He is buried, and rises from the dead on the third day, providing Salvation for any who will receive Him as their Lord and Saviour. Reconciling those who receive Him, with God the Father, through the forgiveness of their sins, by the offering of His shed Blood the sins of Adam and for their redemption in the days of their life as a human.
What did they, the Apostles do in their time on Earth?
30 -70 A.D. they were not a Pope!
Apostles' Missionary Journeys This Saul who became Paul was now all Christian, all New Covenant and did not keep any of the things of Moses, who He once had the Christians killed for . He now had this Sunday Jesus as His Lord.
Missionary Journeys of Paul and the other Apostles. Paul preaches in Turkey, Greece, and Rome; Thomas preaches in India; Mark in Northern Africa; Peter in Jerusalem . First to preach the Gospel to all the world .
69-70 -73 A.D. Matthew 24:14- comes true.
Destruction of the Temple / Beginning of Jewish Diaspora Jesus had told them this was coming as the Bible had said and He was telling them it was soon to come Mark 13:1-9 in their lifetime.
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM FORETOLD.
MATT. 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24.
The Roman General Titus captures Jerusalem and destroys the Jewish Temple (70 A.D.) and forbids Jews to live in Jerusalem, renaming Judea, "Syria Palestine." Many Jews are enslaved and sold in Egypt. Many more are forced to move to different areas throughout the Roman Empire (in 73 A.D. Roman Army ends the last remnant of Jewish resistance by capturing the fortress of Masada).
90-100- A.D.
Last Book of the Bible Written
The Apostle John receives and writes down the last of the New Testament Scripture, The Book of Revelation, on the Greek Isle of Patmos off what is now modern-day Turkey.
33? - 200? A.D.
What would happen in this world before Jesus would Rapture His and start the beginning of the End?
First the world should not let men tell them when the end is.
And that a war is not what we look for.
Matthew 24 1-56 Jesus describes general world conditions during the period between His Ascension and the time immediately preceding His Second Coming. He will come for His and Rapture them out before the Great Tribulations. The saved will not have to go through them.
And Jesus, answering them, began to say: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many. But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.”
Take heed that no one deceives you: Jesus warns of the danger of false messiahs who come in His name. They will pretend to be Jesus or representatives of Jesus, but they will not be true representatives of Jesus.
Wars and rumors of wars: Jesus reminded us that before He returned there would be many wars and threats of war on the earth. In troubled times, many people assume that the end of the age is near, but Jesus said that wars and rumors of wars are not signs of the end.
“Our Lord’s outlook upon this age was not that of one in which there should be a gradual cessation of strife between the nations, by the victory of the preaching of His Gospel, until the whole earth should be reduced by that preaching to a condition of peace.” He wanted to save all humans.
Such things must happen, but the end is not yet: Things such as false messiahs, wars, famines and earthquakes have certainly marked man’s history since the time of Jesus’ Ascension. In effect, Jesus said, “Catastrophes will happen, but these do not signal the end.”
Man has often thought that such things would signal the end, but Jesus would point to a more specific sign to watch for The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. The great falling away would come. Rev 18:1-4 would take place.
Beware of the End time Preacher Boogeyman Clergy, who do not Have God telling them when it is Coming or of the day it is coming!!
Do we watch ? YES!
These are the beginning of sorrows: Jesus said these calamities were not specific signs of the end, but were the beginning of sorrows, which is literally the beginning of labor pains. The idea is both of giving birth to a new age, and perhaps implying an increase of intensity and frequency in these calamities.
Matthew 13:(9-13) Jesus describes what His disciples must expect during the time between His Ascension and Second Coming.
“But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them. And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations. But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.”
Salvation will come at the end of life.
Watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils: Jesus told His disciples to be prepared for the persecution that would come against them before the end. This persecution was not the sign of the end, but simply should be expected.
The gospel must first be preached to all the nations: Jesus also promised that before the end the gospel must go out to the whole world. The presence of persecution does not relieve the Church of this responsibility.
. A powerful example of this principle is found in Acts 4:1-22, where Peter and the other disciples made a dramatic proclamation of Jesus before the hostile Sanhedrin.
Brother will betray brother to death: The followers of Jesus should expect the most painful kinds of rejection and betrayal as they sought to stand strong for Jesus. In the British Islands the Christian forgot this and was burned at the stake for not calling the Pope God.
It is easy for us to underestimate how difficult a time of persecution can be. While few Christians in the Western world face persecution, Christians in other parts of the world often face these trials.
· If you came from a strict Muslim family, you might be rejected by your family and be literally killed for choosing Jesus.
· If you came from a Hindu family in India, you could be rejected and martyred for choosing Jesus.
· In China, I would be allowed to practice Christianity only in the state-sponsored church – or be persecuted. My church might be one of the 1,500 destroyed or shut down since November of 2000.
· In Sudan, I might be killed or literally enslaved by a Muslim army.
· In Indonesia, you might be given a choice by Muslims: convert to Islam or die, or I might have my church bombed during a worship service.
· In Pakistan, you might be jailed by Muslim government officials.
. He who endures to the end shall be saved: Endures is translated from the ancient Greek word hupomeno, which literally means to “remain under.” When trials and persecution swirl about, we can’t be so desperate for an escape that we will compromise. Instead, we must remain under.
The sign of His coming and the end of the age.
Revelation 18:1-4 God will do first and Get His saved People ready for the Rapture.
Then will come The sign: The abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel.
“So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand),
We are standing on the word!!
This has already come this is what Jesus said to them and it did happen 70 AD.
When you see the ‘abomination of desolation’: This mention of the abomination of desolation is taken from Daniel 11:31: They shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation. This described a complete desecration of the temple, prefigured or just like it was by Antiochus Epiphanes in the time between the Old and New Testaments.
This Antiochus desecrated the temple in Jerusalem in a horrible way. “He desecrated the Temple by offering swine’s flesh on the great altar and by setting up public brothels in the sacred courts. Before the very Holy Place itself he set up a great statue of the Olympian Zeus and ordered the Jews to worship it.”
As bad as this was, it did not fulfill the abomination of desolation, because Jesus said these words long after Antiochus did this. This time Jesus said it would come. And it did.
The Hebrew word translated abomination in Daniel 11:31 is shik-koots. It appears in the Old Testament 29 times, and it has the idea of a filthy, disgusting idol. However, this is more than just an idol. First, it is an idol set in the holy place of the temple in Jerusalem – standing where it ought not, and as Matthew puts it, standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). Second, this is a filthy, disgusting idol that brings desolation – the complete and devastating judgment of God.
It is important to point out that this is not merely an idol set up in the Jewish temple. Passages like Jeremiah 7:30, Jeremiah 32:34, and Ezekiel 5:11 describe abominable idols in the temple – but they were not the abomination that brings desolation.
Something nearly like this happened in 40 A.D. when Caligula was the Emperor of Rome. He was a madman and decided to set up a statue of himself in the holy place of the temple in Jerusalem. He sent the statue by ship on its way down to Jerusalem, but he died before it arrived, and they never set it up. When you see the ‘abomination of desolation’: Essentially, the abomination of desolation speaks of the ultimate desecration of a Jewish temple, an idolatrous image in the holy place itself, which will inevitably result in the judgment of God. It is the abomination that brings desolation.
The abomination of desolation is “the object of religious nausea and loathing who has to do with desolation.” (Wuest) “The Semitic expression used in Daniel describes an abomination so detestable it causes the Temple to be abandoned by the people of God and provokes desolation. . . '' Jesus' use of this distinctive expression, however, indicates that the prophecy was not ultimately fulfilled by the events of the Maccabean period.”
Paul elaborated on the future fulfillment of this in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4: That day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Daniel 12:11 gives additional insight: And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be 1,290 days (until the end). When this sign is set up, the end can be determined – almost three and one-half years to go before the triumphant return of Jesus to this earth.
This is not a new understanding of the abomination of desolation. An early Christian writer named Irenaeus wrote this in the late second century: “But when this Antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world, he will reign for three years and six months, and sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and then the Lord will come from heaven in the clouds, in the glory of the Father, sending this man and those who follow him into the lake of fire; but bringing in for the righteous the times of the kingdom.” This was His words not what God had said, It was close to what the Bible said.. We know that that was not there and is not there today.
When you see the ‘abomination of desolation’: When Jesus described the abomination of desolation, there was the presupposition of an operating temple in Jerusalem. You can’t have the abomination of desolation without a temple. So that time will come to this world but those who are saved will already be Rapture out this will be on all of the humans who will not receive Jesus now ..
For centuries, there was only a small Jewish presence in Judea and Jerusalem. Their presence in the region was definite and continuous, but small. It was unthinkable that this weak Jewish presence could rebuild a temple. Therefore, the fulfillment of this prophecy was highly unlikely until Israel was gathered as a nation again in 1948. The restoration of a nation that the world had not seen for more than 2,000 years was a remarkable event in the fulfillment and future fulfillment of prophecy.
One of the more fascinating developments in recent history is the focus of Jewish and Arab conflict over the temple mount, where a rebuilt temple must stand. There is a small but dedicated group of Jews who are passionately committed to rebuilding the temple. Today you can visit the Temple Institute in the Jewish Quarter of the old city in Jerusalem. There, a group of Jews absolutely dedicated to rebuilding the temple attempt to educate the public and raise awareness for a new temple. They are trying to replicate everything they can for a new temple, down to the specific pots and pans used for sacrifice.
It is important to understand that most Jews – religious or secular – do not care one bit about building a temple. And if one were rebuilt, sacrifice would be difficult in a day of aggressive animal rights activists! Yet, there is a small, strong, highly dedicated group who live to see a rebuilt temple – a temple that will fulfill prophecy.
They want to make God send Jesus back and we have always said that will not happen God will send Jesus at His time.
Rightly, Christians get excited when they see efforts to rebuild the temple. At the same time, we should understand that the basic impulse behind rebuilding the temple is not of God at all – the desire to have a place to sacrifice for sin. Christians believe that all sacrifice for sin was finished at the cross, and any further sacrifice for sin is an offense to God, because it denies the finished work of Jesus on the cross. And this is true . But they will rebuild it after the saved people are Rapture out..
Spoken of by Daniel the prophet: In a sense, Jesus told us nothing new here. He simply called us back to what was prophesied in Daniel. The comment let the reader understand could have been said by Jesus Himself and not written by Mark, and we still would have His word because He is the Christ the Son , the person of John 1:1-4.
Let the reader understand: Some do say that the abomination of desolation was fulfilled in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem was destroyed, and that this ties in with the destruction of the temple promised in Mark 13:2. This is not an interpretation that must spiritualize Mark 13:19-27, which says that Jesus would return in glory soon after the abomination of desolation. This is the next time that the Temple is destroyed. We should always remember that to God there is no such thing as time.
“While Josephus mentions the sacrifices offered by the victorious Romans to their legionary standards in the Temple court, he does not describe this action as an abomination, whatever he may have thought privately.” it was.
Jesus warns of what to do when the abomination of desolation appears the first time. The Holy Ghost what does He do for the Humans?
What Does’ HE” the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit do in the humans time as saved people of God in the human world?
Jesus is the savior. God is the Father. The Holy Ghost is He the power and sources of power to the humans , He is the Teacher of all things . without Him there will be no fruit of Him in the human walk . Pastors , Churches, or any human can replace the Holy Ghost.
What He does in the lives of those who have Him?
1. He leads and directs. (Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 2:27; 4:1; Acts 8:29; Romans 8:14)
2. The Holy Spirit speaks – in, to and through. (Matthew 10:20; Acts 1:16; 2:4; 13:2; 28:25; Hebrews 3:7)
3. He gives power to cast out devils. (Matthew 12:28)
4. He releases power. (Luke 4:14)
5. The Holy Spirit anoints. (Luke 4:18; Acts 10:38)
6. The Holy Spirit “comes upon” or “falls on”. (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 2:25; 3:22; 4:18; John 1:32,33; Acts 10:44; 11:15)
7. He baptizes and fills. (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 1:15,41,67; 3:16, 4:1; John 1:33; Acts 1:4-5; 2:4; 4:8,31; 6:3,5; 7:55; 10:47; 11:24; 13:9,52; 1 Corinthians 12:12)
8. He gives new birth. (John 3:5,8)
9. He leads into worship. (John 4:23)
10. He flows like a river from the spirit man. (John 7:38-39)
11. He ministers truth. (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13)
12. He dwells in people. (John 14:17; Romans 8:9,11; 1 Corinthians 3:16)
13. The Holy Spirit gives comfort, health, and strength. (John 15:26; Acts 9:31)
14. He proceeds from the Father. (John 15:26)
15. He shows us things to come. (John 16:13)
16. He gives the gift of tongues. (Acts 2:4)
17. He releases prophecy, dreams and visions. (Acts 2:17,18; 11:28)
18. He can transport people physically. (Acts 8:39)
19. The Holy Spirit brings direction and guidance. (Mark 13:36; 13:11; Acts 10:19; 11:12; 21:11; 1 Timothy 4:1
20. He is Holiness. (Romans 1:4)
21. He is the Spirit of life and gives life. (Romans 8:1,10)
22. The Holy Spirit invites us to walk with Him. (Romans 8:4-5)
23. He groans, prays and intercedes. (Romans 8:26-27)
24. He is a Sword. (Ephesians 6:17)
25. The Holy Spirit produces fruit in our lives. (Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 5:9)
26. He helps us in our weakness. (Romans 8:26)
27. He bears witness. (Acts 5:32 15:28; 20:23; Romans 8:15-16; Hebrews 10:15; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-8)
28. He is the Spirit of Adoption. (Romans 8:15) How is this so? He is there or He is not. 29. He gives power to mortify the deeds of the flesh. (Romans 8:13) Are you the same thing you were before ?
He shows us if we are forgiven with the power to mortify the deeds of the flesh.
30. He provides power for signs, wonders and preaching. (Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 2:4)
31. He ministers love. (Romans 15:30)
32. He searches the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10)
33. He quickens the mortal body. (Romans 8:13)
34. He brings revelation. (Luke 2:25; 1 Corinthians 2:10,12; Ephesians 1:17-19; 3:5)
35. The Holy Spirit reveals to us what has been given by God. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
36. He washes, sanctifies, purifies and justifies. (Romans 15;16, 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Peter 1:2,22)
37. He gives gifts. (1 Corinthians 12:4-11; Hebrews 2:4)
38. He seals us. (2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 4:30)
39. He is liberty. (2 Corinthians 3:17)
40. He changes us into the image of Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:17)
41. He is the promise of the blessing of Abraham. (Galatians 3:14)
42. He releases a cry to the Father. (Galatians 4:6)
43. He gives access to the Father. (Ephesians 2:18)
44. The Holy Spirit builds us together for a house for God. (Ephesians 2:22) 45. He strengthens us with might. (Ephesians 3:16)
46. He is unity. (Ephesians 4:3-4)
47. He is wine. (Ephesians 5:18)
48. He supplies. (Philippians 1:19)
49. He is fellowship. (2 Corinthians 13;14; Philippians 2:1)
50. He is grace. (Hebrews 10:29)
51. He is glory. (1 Peter 4:14)
52. The Holy Spirit speaks to the churches. (Revelation 2:11,17,29; 3:6,13,22)
53. He calls for the Bridegroom. (Revelation 22:17)
54. The Holy Spirit has the power of conception and anointing for God’s purposes. (Matthew 1:18,20; Luke 1:35)
55. He teaches. (Luke 12:12; John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 John 2:27)
56. He gives commandments. (Acts 1:2)
57. He provides power to be a witness. (Acts 1:8)
58. He provides boldness. (Acts 4:31)
59. He gives sight. (Acts 9:17)
60. He commissions. (Acts 13:4)
61. He restrains. (Acts 16:6)
62. He appoints ministries and gives them authority. (Acts 20:28)
63. He releases love. (Romans 5:5)
64. He is righteousness, peace and joy. (Romans 14:17; 15:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:6)
65. He confesses Christ’s Lordship. (1 Corinthians 12:3) 66. The Holy Spirit brings the gospel. (1 Thessalonians 1:5-6)
67. He is keeping power. (2 Timothy 1:14)
68. He brings renewal. (Titus 3:5)
69. He moves on believers. (2 Peter 1:21)
70. He convicts the world. (John 16:8)
Many big dog pastors, who like to rooster, the people will have you use the Bible of their choice the one they can fool you with.
Why? so many churches? So God can stay in charge of the human salvation.
Me are not the boss over salvation Jesus is. One day God will call all of His people back out of the many churches- Rev 18:1-4 He said His people.
So what Bible should we use? The one we can understand the best for all of them say the very same thing!
When one takes a different translation of the Bible one can understand what God is saying better, this puts the fake devil pastors who love to be Jesus on the run.
Why is this ? Answer is they can’t fake the Holy Ghost, so they can’t do anything but the works of the flesh, they seek money , power, rule, when others are not looking there is Adultery, Fornication, Hate, and all of the works of the flesh --Why because of the fakeness there is no Fruits of the Spirit.
With the Holy Ghost one has power over the two Natures!
The contrast between these two natures is best pictured in the fruits of the spirit and the works of the flesh, our job is to learn, through the Spirit to master our weakness.
However when the person has not John 3:16 and not returned to their old ways, but continued with Jesus one has been given the power over the flesh.
Many Pastors do not have the Holy Ghost anymore because of ADULTERY::::: When they took the new honey Jesus said it is over Matt. 19:1-12
Marriage is what God has joined, and the person said I DO not until one gets sick.
What are the Fruits? What are the works of the flesh?
fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5;22-23)
works of the flesh (Gal. 5:19-21)
love
joy,
peace,
longsuffering,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
self-control.
adultery,
fornication,
uncleanness,
lewdness,
idolatry,
sorcery,
hatred,
contentions,
jealousies,
outbursts of wrath,
selfish ambitions,
dissensions,
heresies,
envy,
murders,
drunkenness,
revelries,
Without the Holy Ghost the world and the fake Preacher will attack the very Bible you can have and use. Because the saved person can see that God said the human does not know the end of time, has no insight into what God is doing, and is not called of God, Colleges can make fake preachers, school can teach one to use the Bible if one only used one Bible, But the called Preacher is God called under the New Covenant -Jer. 3:15-16-Rom. 10:14-17 and God said He would do the calling not the church , not the church school, or college.
Why the world, and Churches , attacks the Bible of Your choice?
The Bible today is a very controversial book in the eyes of the world, and fake Pastors, and many who want to police the people of God. Just its possession in some countries could mean a death sentence. While that is not the case in the United States, still the presence of a Bible causes an uneasy feeling for some. Why is this so?
Because if God said it, it should be good enough for us. And when we use different translation we learn more about what God is saying, and see men as what they are, and not what they say they are.
Because, God, is not dead and Just one man to copied out the word is not given in the Bible, but to have 66 books is given. The one Bible thinking is a work of the flesh and not God.
The Bible opposes and exposes the works of the flesh; the works of the flesh operate in darkness, while the word of God is light. Those who love the darkness, hate the light, because the Bible exposes the deeds of flesh.
"And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.20 "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
John 3:19-20
One problem Fake Pastors, have with the Bible is it says actions are right or wrong. And the difference between the Bibles is only the word made more clear but not changed as they will say. The Bible also claims there are eternal consequences for our actions, of changing the word , and beliefs. All Person who copied out know this because of the word, this is what they are coping.
The flesh is at war with the Spirit; therefore, the Bible is at war with the works of the flesh.
Two ways the world tries to subdue the power of God’s word is by diminishing it’s authority. One is to deny its authorship, declaring the Bible is a book written by man alone. Or not true, or some other one, The second is to misinterpret the words in the Bible. Answers to the charges of skeptics, is dealt with in the field of apologetics, there is, a tremendous amount of evidence for those who want evidence. The other issue is Bible interpretation or hermeneutics, the Greek word for interpretation.
Does the Bible mean what it says?
Most who hate the choice God, gave the humans, want to take away the choice of humans.
How many times have you heard the phrase, “that is your interpretation”? Since the Bible tears down the strongholds of the flesh, the flesh tries to tear down the Bible. When the Bible confronts issues in our life, or in the world, the world tries to diminish its authority by attributing the issue as a matter of interpretation. In this way, the issue is glazed over.
A popular issue today is Homosexuality, is it right or is it wrong? Well saying it’s a sin, can get you the title Homophobe in many circles. The Bible clearly states it’s a sin, so the Bible is at odds with the world. If its a sin, then why do many churches support homosexuality and gay marriage?
Money is why , not some good better Christian , but the money that the human will bring because of the sins., God’s people repent and come out of sin, and if they don’t God will remove them until they do repent for He has said Sin will not go to Heaven.
So they respond , its how you interpret the scriptures. While not outright denying the Bible, they claim to accept the Bible while at the same time denying the authority of its words. They have fallen to the deception of the enemy, Satan who has the goal of subverting God’s authority, causing people to enter a Christ-less eternity.
To grow in the Spirit, we need to submit our lives to the words of the Spirit, the Word of God. Unless we submit, we put a roadblock in the way of the Spirit.
So what is the Difference between the Bibles??
More than 60 English-language versions are available. We can divide them into three broad types: word-for-word, meaning-to-meaning (also called thought-for-thought) and paraphrased. Usually a particular Bible version will explain, on its introductory pages, which approach was used in preparing it.
In short is is there to help you.
The new Bibles are merely in different styles of writing; that they are simply easier to read than the KJV; God has said that He lets men do this and that nothing is being removed or changed in God's word. The Very gates of hell can’t bring down His work. The old church of God of the new Covenant was there when the King James Bible was under translation as most of us are of a Celtic background and came from the brit.ish Islands to the United State’s.
Languages of the Bible, is the best way to understand how they are all the same Bible, and we Should use what every Bible we can understand the best!!!
All Bible say the same thing!! Some just make it more clear to those who can read is a better language.
Did God know we would need all of these Bibles? Yes and He let other men do the same as others.
Obviously, the Bible was not originally written in English, Italian or any modern language. The Old Testament was written primarily in Hebrew with small parts being written in Aramaic. However, while Jesus most likely spoke Aramaic, and does understand all words from the humans, the New Testament was originally written in Greek. Thus, all modern Bibles are translations of the original languages.
Methods of Translation
Literal translation. Attempts to keep the exact words and phrases of the original. It is faithful to the original text, but sometimes hard to understand. Keeps a constant historical distance. Examples: King James Version (KJV), New American Standard Bible (NASB).
Dynamic equivalent (thought for thought) translation. Attempts to keep a constant historical distance with regard to history and facts, but updates the writing style and grammar. Examples: New International Version (NIV), Revised English Bible (REB).
Free translation (paraphrase). Translates the ideas from the original text but without being constrained by the original words or language. Seeks to eliminate historical distance. Readable, but possibly just as precise, as any other. Examples: The Living Bible (TLB), The Message.
Types of Bibles
Most translations are available in several different types of Bible. Here are just a few of the many different kinds of Bibles.
Traditional. Text only. Minimal footnotes.
Study Bible. Such Bibles usually have extensive footnotes and explanatory notes next to the columns of text. They may also have extensive cross references, a narrative commentary, and maps. (Some also have a cyclopedic index and/or a concordance—see Reference Bible.)
Reference Bible. Usually has a cyclopedic index (like an encyclopedia with a reference to the verse where the word or thought is used), a concordance (like a dictionary of common words with examples of their usage and verse references for each example), and maps.
"Place in Life" Bible. Has meditations and thoughts about issues of concern to people at a particular stage in life. There are versions of these Bibles aimed at men, women, sports players, recovering addicts, new believers, converted Jews, small group members, and many others.
One-Year Bibles. Divided into 365 readings for each day of the year, usually with each having a portion of the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs.
Chronological Bible. Entire Bible in one continuous story with narration to cover gaps and make everything flow. The four gospels are harmonized into one, for example, and the writings of the prophets are placed in the proper historical place in the books of history.
Pastor's Bible. Includes protocol outlines and recommended verses for hospital visits, weddings, funerals, and other events. Often has answers to frequently asked questions.
Children's Bible. Usually includes color drawings, maps, and simplified stories.
Parallel Bible. Has from two to eight translations side by side.
Other Specialty Bibles. The Serendipity Bible, The Quest, Key Word Bible, Leadership Bible, Hebrew-Greek Keyword Bible, "Here's Hope" Bible, Serenity Bible, and many others.
All can be used as one needs to understand. Let know one take your choice from you.
SEEK GOD’S Word in all things.
What We Believe about the different in Humans, and that there are but only one human race, of people is that all are now called to the Lord through Jesus , and any can be saved, and that God has all of us coming from one human race, with different color. Your Question on Racial Hate?
The Old Church of God of the New Covenant : has always taken a stand . We have always taken a stand on this Hate.
Racial Hate is Just another Evil, and it is an evil anyone can see.
The evil of racial hate tell the person that they are better than the other human, even if we all came from one man and one woman, and was made by one God. it tells them they are the good one, in this human race.. So racial hate is the evil of self love, it helps the person be better that anyone else, so it will not stop at just color, nations who have this self love, will turn on other nations and try to police them, the police person who has this evil will not stop at one color, the will turn on their same color just as soon as one of them says no to them. This is why God calls it sin Hate of the heart.
The Lord mentions hatred in the Sermon on the Mount: “But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment” (Matthew 5:22). The Lord commands that not only should we be reconciled with our brother before we go before the Lord, but also that we do it quickly (Matthew 5:23-26). The act of murder itself was certainly condemned, but hatred is a “heart” sin, and any hateful thought or act is an act of murder in God’s eyes for which justice will be demanded, possibly not in this life but at the judgment. So heinous is the position of hate before God that a man who hates is said to be walking in darkness, as opposed to the light (1 John 2:9, 11).
The worst situation is that of a man who continues professing religion that they are better than the other person who came to God, but remains at enmity with his brother. The Scriptures declare that such a person is a liar (1 John 4:20), and he may fool men, but not God. Because God made different colors, but one race the human race.
How many believers live for years pretending that all is well, putting on a front, only to be found finally wanting because they have harbored enmity (hatred) against a fellow believer, a fellow Human?
Hatred is a poison that destroys us from within, producing bitterness that eats away at our hearts and minds. This is why the Scriptures tell us not to let a “root of bitterness” spring up in our hearts (Hebrews 12:15). Hatred also destroys the personal witness of a Christian because it removes him from fellowship with the Lord and other believers. Let us be careful to do as the Lord advised and keep short accounts with everyone about everything, no matter how small, and the Lord will be faithful to forgive, as He has promised (1 John 1:9; 2:1). We are living in the days of salvation open to all humans.
It is an evil that takes over mankind, and takes over any color of humans..
God wanted the humans to have different looks, and He made them in different colors.
Just a human Race, is what God made with different colors. All Just the Family Of God, All His made. God made what He wanted and that is different flavors, but all from one male and one female. Adam -Eve God never ask you if He could make different colors He just did it.
Racial Hate is the one thing that a country or religion can use to control others, because it cuts the person off from God!!
The Made Human is not always good to its own, and it will use that hate of race to get what it wants, as we see in our day and in the past. In fact, the historical record is a grievous attestation to its place in our world. One Nation of people called Germany is but one example, of what humans can and will do when a *US and *Them gets its start in the human world, and the heart. One person saying it is better than the other , the so called *A “superior race” wants to cleanse itself of a “degenerate race.” Others think in terms of white and black races, . in this hate get a restart in the human heart!!
This country called Germany was not just one person doing this it was many who came together as one to do this, we have nations doing this today, it can start as a church, or Religion doing this , to nations doing it.
But, did you know that when it comes to race, all roads lead to Adam? Yes, it is true–we are all one family. We came from one man and one woman, and are all of one blood. This truth is not only biblically founded, but also scientifically proven. Scientists today admit that humans are biologically only one race. So Evil is getting us to hate ourselves.
God “hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.” Acts 17:26. While there are many nations, ethnicities, and cultures, we are all of but one single race–homo sapiens. Yes that one you hate is you.
This being the case, the term racism is a misnomer, a evil take over of the heart. One race better than another? A superior group of people? There is no genetic basis for it, yet people have long been conditioned to make divisions according to skin color, ethnicity, or culture. These divisions have bred deeply-rooted hatred and prejudices. Consequently, untold millions have suffered grievously at the hands of their fellow human beings. What have we done when we hate , we have killed Love.
And, let it be known that, despite common usage, skin color is not race. There is no black race, white race, yellow or red race. There may be countless shades of skin color, but that is simply because we have varying measures of melanin pigment in the epidermal layer of our skin. This outward difference by no means expresses an inward difference. Genetically speaking, we are all the same. Under the skin, we are the same. So is it not amazing that skin color–which is about the thickness of a piece of paper–has been, and continues to be today, the cause of bitter prejudices, division, and violence?
The Us and Them of one people over another was helped along by Evil Love killers the so called Better than other, philosophy. Think themselves, or letting others take from them what we should be, and that is of sound truth and sound science, even if one is evolutionists denied there ever was a real Adam and Eve–the first man and woman. In the evolutionary the blood does not lie. Those who see God see this father and mother of humankind as existed and made, as evolutionists imagine life began with slime from which, over long ages, higher life forms evolved can see one human race in the blood.
What Hate will do to the human heart!!
Hitler spread his beliefs in racial “purity” and in the superiority of the “Germanic race”–what he called an Aryan “master race.” He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal “Aryan” was blond, blue-eyed, and tall.
When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered “inferior.” Beginning in 1933, German physicians were allowed to perform forced sterilizations, operations making it impossible for the victims to have children. Among the targets of this public program were Roma (Gypsies), an ethnic minority numbering about 30,000 in Germany, and handicapped individuals, including the mentally ill and people born deaf and blind.
Race is a social construct derived mainly from perceptions conditioned by events of recorded history, and it has no basic biological reality.
“More and more scientists find that the differences that set us apart are cultural, not racial. Some even say that the word race should be abandoned because it’s meaningless.” The article further said that “we accept the idea of race because it’s a convenient way of putting people into broad categories, frequently to suppress them– the most hideous example was provided by Hitler’s Germany.
O vain man, what makes you think yourself superior to another? O that people would allow the deeply-grooved ruts of prejudice to be filled with the healing love of God! May the espousing of discriminatory hatred and bigotry cease!
We all have red blood. We all share the same human needs and face the same challenges and troubles. We are all passing through a brief life, as human, on our way to eternity.
What human being, of whatever color skin, does not experience fear, worry, sorrow, we all are the same? Who should we be as a human? We are to seek to turn , all men of like passions. And because what human being does not long to be loved and cared for?
We all need a helping of Love. Let us keep that love and set it free on others, we are to love even if we are not loved back for our love to others. So who are the saved humans of this new covenant time? What are they to be doing? “be engaged in mutual affection and assistance, as fellow-creatures and brethren.” Treat your fellow man as you would have him treat you, and it will be easier for all of us to make it through this life.
Jesus gave His life as a sacrifice that all nations–all people–might come unto Him and be saved from sin. He paid the price for our salvation, and out of all nations, He has built His one glorious church– and that church is the people, of the human race, for we are all who John 3:16 brethren!
But even here the devil has worked to divide mankind, separating Christian from Christian with his black church, white church, Asian church, German church, and so on. Shame on any professing Christian who would support such carnal division! Is there any such thing in God's eyes as Interracial of color ?
And interracial marriage? What is that? There is but a single race of humans.
Being of one race, we are all equal and worthy of mutual respect. Look around and behold your brothers and your sisters! All are precious in the sight of God, and all are souls for whom He died. Love like He Loves you.
Your servant: the Elder WHO's the boss over salvation? There is no such thing as a church or preacher who is the police over salvation, Jesus the savior has that job. No human has the charge of looking over others to see who the Lord saves, all humans already are God;s who-so-ever John 3;16 this God open to all not just some big church Rooster. The 0ld Church of God exists to see people of all cultures changed forever by the gospel of Jesus Christ, united by the love of the Father, and empowered by the Holy Spirit to find their place in the family of God and their purpose in the world. God made Jesus the choice for salvation in the new covenant . Some of our Values: Love. God is Love. And we believe that God is not mad at us; He is mad about us; He is madly in love with people and we want the world to know (John 16:27, Jer. 31:3, Deut.7:6) God's Word. We live by faith and the complete integrity of God's Word. (2 Cor 5:6, Hebrews 11:6; 6:19) Local Church. The Church is the family of God and Christ¹s body in the earth, we honor it. (Matthew 16:18, 1 Timothy 3:7) Community. The believers were continually devoted to the Word, prayer, fellowship and the breaking of bread with one another. That's community & family. (Acts 2:42-47) Generosity. Our life is to give, not to take. We are blessed in life to be a blessing. (2 Cor. 8:3-5, 2 Cor. 9:5-11) Covenant Relationships. We are committed to loving one another as Christ loved us. (1 Sam.18:1-5, John 13:34-35) Servant-hood. We are created to serve and minister to others resulting in lives that are changed forever. (Matt. 20:28) Character. Our character will determine our destiny. (2 Peter 1:1,Romans 1:1) Humility. Having a humble heart and teachable spirit will exalt us and enable us to teach others. (Prov. 4:1-2, 5-9 & 9:9) Selflessness. We honor one another by putting one another first. The way we treat others is the truest barometer of our relationship with God. (1 John 4:20) Our Beliefs are that to"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth."for we are in , an all Christian, all new Covenant church way of life in today’s world. We see the new covenant as the only way for our day, and see many who like to mix the two covenants into a church. 2 Timothy 2:15. We believe in one God, as three persons, revealed as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (1 John 5:7-8) We believe in the absolute inspiration and authority of the Holy Scripture, given by the Holy Spirit. (2 Timothy 3:15-16) We believe man was made in the image of God and is the crown of His creation. Man is, prior to salvation, by reason of Adam's sin, spiritually dead and alienated from his Creator. (Genesis 1:26; Romans 5:18-19) but has been redeemed through the very blood of Jesus the Christ. We believe that salvation and justification is by grace through faith in our Lord's blood sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary. (Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8) We believe God calls every Christian to be a member of a local church. Psalms 92:13 says, those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish. And Jesus said, in Matthew 16:18, the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church. So it has never been lost. Being a part of the physical expression of God¹s Church is vital for a victorious walk with God. We believe that water baptism is an outward sign of an inward change and identifies each believer with Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. (Romans 6:3-6) We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is available to all believers, empowering them for evangelism and equipping them for personal edification; and the edifying of the church. (Acts 1:5-8; 1 Corinthians 12, 14) We believe in the priesthood of the believer; that all Christians have equal status and direct access to God and the throne of His grace. (1 Peter 2:5, Hebrews 4:16) We believe God is on your side. We believe you can make it! (Romans 8:31) We believe God is not Mad at you but He is Mad about you! (John 3:16-17)
SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS::: The New Covenant Church , Jesus Organized It Matthew 16:18 Christ And we have always been around, Came to this country in early 1700 -from the British Island , This Is the Foundation Ephesians 2:20; I Corinthians 3:11 Christ Governs, and is boss Ephesians 1:22-23; Isaiah 9:6 God Admits the Members, and all saved people are His. I Corinthians 12:13-18 Sin Puts You Out of It Romans 11:22; Exodus 32:33 Only the Saved Are Members John 15:2-6 Membership Is Offered to All Revelation 22:17 Final Rewards Revelation 20:12-15; 21:3-4; 22:14 Bible Name of the Church Acts 20:28; Galatians 1:13; John 17:11
We are the same Church of God but of the New Covenant " and Church can be anywhere Matt 18:20.
Because God calls His people .
Exodus 19:5, 6; Psalm 22:22; Matthew 16:13-19; 28:19,20; Acts 1:8; 2:42-47; 7:38; 20:28; Romans 8:14-17: 1 Corinthians 3:16, 17; 12:12-31; 2 Corinthians 6:6-18; Ephesians 2:19-22; 3:9, 21; Philippians 3:10; Hebrews 2:12; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 1:6, 7; Revelation 21:2, 9; 22:17. What do we Teach as Doctrine?
Below are just a few doctrines we teach. New Covenant, Jer. 31:31- Heb. 8:1-13, Ordinance!
The seven Ordinance to the saved people of God.,
Repentance with Sanctification of forgiveness
Baptism
Holy Living
Laying on of hands
Communion
Washing of Feet.
Blessing of little Children.
Repentance. Mark 1:15; Luke 13:3; Acts 3:19. is what Jesus does when we come as God calls in John 3:16 Justification. Romans 5:1; Titus 3:7. Is what Jesus has done fro us all. Job 25:4. Acts 13:39.-Romans 3:24-28.-Acts 5:1-9-Acts 8:30.-Gal. 2:16.-1 Cor. 6:11. Regeneration. Titus 3:5. New birth. John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:23; 1 John 3:9. Sanctification subsequent to justification. Romans 5:2; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Hebrews 13:12. Holiness. Luke 1:75; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Hebrews 12:14. Water baptism. Matthew 28:19; Mark 1:9, 10; John 3:22, 23; Acts 8:36, 38. Baptism with the Holy Ghost subsequent to cleansing; the given of power for service. Matthew 3:11; Luke 24:49, 53; Acts 1:4-8. The speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance or as He needs, and as the initial evidence of the baptism in the Holy Ghost. John 15:26; Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:1-7., if one is saved one will be show as to it as the truth. The Church. Exodus 19:5, 6; Psalm 22:22; Matthew 16:13-19; 28:19,20; Acts 1:8; 2:42-47; 7:38; 20:28; Romans 8:14-17: 1 Corinthians 3:16, 17; 12:12-31; 2 Corinthians 6:6-18; Ephesians 2:19-22; 3:9, 21; Philippians 3:10; Hebrews 2:12; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 1:6, 7; Revelation 21:2, 9; 22:17. Spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 12:1, 7, 10, 28, 31; 1 Corinthians 14:1. Signs following believers. Mark 16:17-20; Romans 15:18, 19; Hebrews 2:4. Fruit of the Spirit. Romans 6:22; Galatians 5:22, 23; Ephesians 5:9; Philippians 1:11. Divine healing provided for all in the Atonement. Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:4, 5; Matthew 8:17; James 5:14-16; 1 Peter 2:24. The Lord's Supper. Luke 22:17-20; 1 Corinthians 11 : 2 3 - 2 6. Washing the saints' feet. John 13:4-17; 1 Timothy 5:9, 10. But NO TITHING FOR THE NEW COVENANT PEOPLE!! giving of an offering only . Genesis 14:18-20; 28:20-22; Malachi 3:10; Luke 11:42 ; 1 Corinthians 16:2 ; 2 Corinthians 9:6-9 ; Hebrews 7:1-21. There are seven decisive reasons for saying Christians are not required to tithe.
1. Believers are no longer under the Mosaic covenant (Rom. 6:14–15; 7:5–6; Gal. 3:15–4:7; 2 Cor. 3:4–18).
The commands stipulated in the Mosaic covenant are no longer in force for believers. Some appeal to the division between the civil, ceremonial, and moral law to support tithing. Yet these divisions, I would observe, are not the basis Paul uses when addressing how the law applies to us today. And even if we use these distinctions, tithing is clearly not part of the moral law. It’s true the moral norms of the Old Testament are still in force today, and we discern them from the law of Christ in the New Testament, but tithing is not among these commands. Restitution where possible. Matthew 3:8; Luke 19:8, 9. Premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the dead saints and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17; 2 Thessalonians 2:1. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years. where the old earth was. Zechariah 14:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Jude 14, 15; Revelation 5:10; 19:11-21; 20:4-6. Resurrection. John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:5, 6. Eternal life for the righteous. Matthew 25:46; Luke 18:30; John 10:28; Romans 6:22; 1 John 5:11-13. Eternal punishment for the wicked. No liberation nor annihilation. Matthew 25:41-46; Mark 3:29; 2 Thessalonians 1: 8, 9; Revelation 20:10-15; 21:8.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
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