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HOW DO WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR?

  Jesus said, `And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This [is] the first commandment. "And the second, like [it, is] this: `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31. Readers, do we know about these two greatest commandments: how to love God and how to love our neighbor? If you say that you know, then why are we not doing them? Why? Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments. "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Ou...

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Good morning readers. I hope I find you well and happy this morning after a long thanksgiving holiday. Holidays meant a lot to me when I was young and working. I like to drive and travel to different places in the US and Canada during my days off. Now I don’t travel much except going to the dentist, medical appointments, and once in a while to the barber shop. That’s my life now. But I like to write and ask questions. Readers, do you think Jesus was joking or kidding when He said these words in Matthew 7:21-23, “ Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. " Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness !'” Jesus said not everyone who says “Jesus, Jesus” will go to heaven except he wh...

WHO ARE THEY?

  Readers, yesterday I played the role of a psychologist and wrote an article entitled Simple Psychology. Today I want to play the role of a detective with my readers to determine who these people are that the Bible describes  in Matthew 7:21-23 . Jesus said, " Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness” First we want to know who their teachers are, who are they following? Because from my recollection of reading the Bible no apostle or disciple of God has ever said to forget about the law other than the apostle Paul. Now I can understand why the Catholic church leader changed the Sabbath to Sunday worship. They are not following Jesus...

SIMPLE PSYCHOLOGY

  Readers, good morning. How are you all doing? This morning I want to teach you all about psychology. Am I educated as a psychologist? No, but I am old enough to be a psychologist. Yes, I believe that God gives me a long life to be a psychologist specializing in the words of God. Thank you God the Father. Thank you God the Son. My family loves you Both, especially my mother who is no longer with me. Anytime when I talk about my mother I have to hold my tears back because she has never stopped helping and loving her children and grandchildren who needed her help. And I have no doubt, no doubt at all that His mercy will reunite us all when Jesus returns, me and my mother, and my chilren. God gave me children to raise for Him. Jesus said in Luke 6:46 "But why do you call Me `Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say”? Do we pastors, preachers, biblical scholars, and readers understand why Jesus said these words? He wants us to love Him. He wants us to obey Him. He want...

THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN

  Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. " Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness !'” Matthew 7:21-23.  Anytime when I see this text I am reminded of my college professor who gives us one or two hints about his upcoming test questions that will be asked in his test. What is it that we should pay very close attention to what Matthew 7:21-23 says? No, do not start to ask what is the will of Paul, Peter, Matthew, James, Mark, Luke, or the other disciples, or even the will of Jesus. DO NOT ASK! Instead, ask what is the will of Jesus’ Father in heaven. If there is no God the Father, there is no Jesus, there is no you, and there is no me. Do we do the will of...

THE TORAH

Christians and Jews believe that violation of the Torah is a sin. A sin is defined as the transgression of God’s law. The Torah is God's law. The apostle Paul believes that the Torah is dead. And here’s what he wrote. “For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to [her] husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of [her] husband. So then if, while [her] husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we wer...

THE LAW OF GOD

  The law of God, unlike the law of humans, is permanent. We see the law of God working in nature and in our lives. Jesus said in Luke 6:46, "But why do you call Me `Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say ?” He wants us to do the things which He says because what God the Father says through Jesus will never change unless we do, or do not do what He says. That is the nature of God’s law, holy, just, and good. The apostle Paul says, "Therefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.” Romans 7:12. Jesus can die one thousand times and we are still bound by the law. Why? Because God the Father gave us the law, not Jesus. The law has nothing to do with Jesus. It wasn't His law. And God the Father has never died. So, we are still bound by the law of God the Father . God’s law will never change, never! Why? Because Paul himself has admitted that the law [is] holy, and the commandments holy and just and good. Romans 7:12. Therefore, it is WR...

KNOW THE FACTS

  Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' "And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus sent these men/women of great faith to hell not because they were not doing the will of Jesus, but because they were not doing the will of Jesus’ Father, or YAHWEH. Now, don’t throw rocks at me because I am telling you what Jesus said, the truth! You may not like it, but that is something else. To Jesus GOD THE FATHER is more important than Jesus Himself. Why? Because if there is no God the Father, there is no Jesus. Yahweh appointed Jesus, and not the other way. This is a fact that no one can deny. So our appreciation and respect and praise shoul...