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FAITH AND OBEDIENCE

  Tonight I am going to write on a subject that I feel many of us don’t clearly understand, faith and obedience. Faith and obedience is one subject, not two. The reason why I say that faith and obedience is one subject is simple. How can you separate the last name from the first name of an individual and get the same individual or the same result? Faith and work go together. Work or obedience is the evidence of faith. Faith without work is incomplete or dead. Saul of Tarsus has a different idea. He wrote, “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. The only person in the Bible that Jesus saved by grace and no work was the thief on the cross. He did no work because he is hanging on the cross. He's dying . Or does Saul believe that everyone is saved by faith, grace, and no work? What did Jesus say? "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the ...

ONE COMMANDMENT

  “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, `You shall not eat of every tree of the garden' ?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; "but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, `You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. "For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make [one] wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.” Genesis 3:1-6. Readers. How many commandments did God give to Adam and Eve? One, not more than one. Did they keep it? No. Why? Be...

WHY WE GO TO SCHOOL?

  Readers, I want to start this short article by asking you this first question. Why do you go to school, to be informed or to be misinformed? I am sure all of you will say to be informed. Now if I ask you this next question why do you go to church, to be informed or to be misinformed? I am sure you will say to be informed, but you may be misinformed if all you do is just swallow what your teacher or pastor says. And not only that Satan will make sure that you stay uninformed and misinformed. That was the reason why Psalm 1:1-2 says, “Blessed [is] the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.”  No teacher, pastor, preacher, or priest can fool us if our delight [is] in the law of the LORD, and in His law we meditate day and night. Satan is working day and night using the church to deceive us. There is no bet...

WE DON'T KNOW

  We don’t know that Satan has deceived us until we are deceived. Adam and Eve did not know that the serpent had deceived them until they found out that they were naked. It’s too late by then. Many Christians, including their pastors, don’t know that Satan has deceived them until they are deceived. How do we know that Satan has deceived us or not? Follow the rules . That’s it. Follow the rules. What are the rules? 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. “ Matthew 7:21. The rules can be found in the will of Jesus’ Father, YAHWEH . Doing the will of God is work or obedience . Doing the will of the serpent is no work . “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. Doing the will of Jesus’ Father involves a lot of self discipline . God, not Paul, will tell us what we...

IS GOD A JEW?

  We all agree that we are the descendants of Adam and Eve. Some of us were still  worshiping Yahweh as our God after Adam and Eve were evicted. Some of us worship the sun as our god, and others worship other objects as their gods. The Jews, under their prophet Abraham kept the Jews faithful to their God, Yahweh . Therefore, it should not surprise us at all why Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a small town in Judea God knew that after Adam and Eve were evicted from their home and separated from God people were worshiping other gods, the sun, a large stone, and other objects as their god. “And God spoke all these words, saying: "I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. "You shall have no other gods before Me. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness [of anything] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them ...

CRIMINALS

  I am going to write this morning about something that I have never written before. I got this idea just now. I am already tired, but I have to write it before I forget. I have to write it before He calls me home. God said to Adam, “Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Genesis 2:15-17. “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, `You shall not eat of every tree of the garden' ?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; "but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God has said, `You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it,...

SEPARATION

I have a feeling that billions of Christians, whose number [is] as the sand of the sea,  hated Jesus’ Father because of what He did to Adam and Eve, took eternal life away from them, and made them and us suffer. What has Jesus done for us? He wants to save us, and sacrifice His life for us so we can get back our eternal eternal life that we once lost because Adam and Eve made the fatal error when they disobeyed God the Father. What must we do? 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 .“ Matthew 7:21. Adam and Eve lost eternal life because they disobeyed God the Father. They disobeyed the will of God the Father. Here comes Jesus. He gave us another chance for eternal life, and that is the same, do the will of Jesus’ Father. Are we doing the will of Jesus’ Father? No, we are doing the will of Saul of Tarsus. Is that not insane? Are we that stupid? Satan tried to separate Jesus from...

PSALM 1:1-2

  “ Blessed [is] the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.“  Many, if not most church goers know very little about God’s law. They are usually good listeners , but they know very little about the law. Many pastors/preachers don’t know much about the law either, but they are good talkers . They can make you believe that apes in the jungle of Borneo can fly. Many Christians are deceived or fooled by pastors who know less than they do simply because the pastors can persuade them to believe in some idea that they would otherwise not believe. They are good talkers. I called these pastors/teachers false prophets . There are millions of them. There are millions of satans, but only one Satan, referred to in the Bible as the beast. This is the same beast that deceived Adam and Eve. So, how do we know which Satan is ...