We live in a society where most express belief in God. By and large, that belief is a personal belief; this personal belief, it is thought, does not allow any other person (including a preacher) to say what is believed is wrong. Of course, all beliefs are personal to some varying degree. Personal beliefs can, however, be very much wrong. For instance…..
There are some who believe in God just like the demons, and these people are wrong in their application of what it means to believe in God. Unfortunately, many of these people call themselves Christian (cf. James 2:19)! How can a person say he is a Christian and NOT do what the Lord said? It is simple, really. One’s personal belief also redefines what a Christian is and does. Just like that which the Israelites did, these people do the same, that is, they seek to establish and walk in accordance with their own way of thinking. (Romans 9:30-10:3). Paul did not think this way (Acts 27:25; 26:19) and he certainly did not teach this way (Romans 10:17). Neither should we think we will escape God if we think and operate this way.
God Spoke on Marriage, but marriage in our society is a very confusing social contract. In truth, we live in a society that seems to hardly know what marriage is. One female to another, one male to another, one man to many women, one woman to many men. How long before a human to an animal? The Lord does not and will not regard favorable anything about what society thinks concerning marriage when it compromises His word. In the beginning God made the male and female, joining them together in communion to perpetuate the human race, thereby creating the basic foundation of a civilized community, the family (Genesis 2:21-24. Matthew 19:3-12).
God Spoke on human behavior also. Human behavior is a consequent to many contributing factors in life. What is taught, observed, responded to, developed, experienced are all contributions to one’s behavior. The best teaching known to man is that which comes from the Lord. There is absolutely no way a man, any man can improve on what the Lord provided with regard to educating a person. Human behavior for a Christian is based on a higher will than anything man can produce. It is a holy and righteous way of thinking (Romans 6:16-18).
God spoke on repentance, and many have called this God’s hardest command. I suppose it could very well be God’s hardest command when one thinks about. Consider that repentance is directly associated with one’s will (man) submitting to the will of another (God). It has been my observation that males have a more difficult time with this than the females, but whether that is the case or not, it is still the same that God demands that everyone repent of their sins (Acts 17:30-31). If one does not, then the consequences are eternally deadly. This change of thinking is easy when there is something one wants. What do YOU want?
While some think that God’s hardest command is repentance, there are many who will die in their sins before they give ground on baptism—something else that God said a good bit about. Baptism is a burial in water of a person who willingly submits to the Lord’s authority, seeking to please Him who is Lord over all of the material and non-material universe. Blessings received in this submission are the forgiveness of sins (Acts 22:16), a new set of clothes (Galatians 3:26-27), a seal of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) and a good conscience (1 Peter 3:21). In short, if one is not baptized in accordance with the Lord’s revealed will, that one is not saved!
These are just a few topics on which the Lord spoke. Do you believe Him? Then let your mind, words and life reflect that you do. otherwise, why would you call Him, “Lord, Lord, and do not what it is that He says”? RT
you speak about the things God spoke and which people should believe, though is it not that the majority of christians does not belief what God said? For example when god said Jesus was His only begotten beloved son, the majority of Christians do take that Jesus to be the God, an incarnated figure in a tri-une god whilst the Holy scriptures clearly say that there is only One True God?
Difficult though it may be, take note of John 1:1-3 and what it says about Jesus.
“In the beginning existed the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was a god.” (The Monotessaron)
And the word became flesh, and tabernacled {” Tabernacled ” for ” dwelt “ } among us ( and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father ), full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition)
“the Word,” who became flesh, lived on the earth as the man Jesus and was seen by people. Therefore, he could not have been Almighty God, regarding whom John says: “No man has seen God at any time.” — (John 1:14,18).
For me John in his first chapter is speaking about the Word which is a result of speaking. For me it is also clearly when you compare it with the other books of the Bible, that John is composing his working the lineage of Moses his writing about the beginning of the universe and what happened there. It was in the Void that God spoke and the universe came into being + it was there at the beginning of times that in the garden of Eden God spoke to the first human beings when they had opposed God. There God made a first promise for a solution against their transgression.
The apostle John saw in his master teacher that that Nazerene man had to be that promised solution, the promised Kristos or Messiah. It is in this context that the apostle, being convinced that now with the offering of Jesus new times had come. for this reason he looks at Jesus to be the fulfilment of God’s promise, God’s Word, spoken in the past, and now having come into being by Jesus in the flesh, being born to bring salvation for all people.
John in the first and 14th verse lets us know that the promise made or the Word spoken, which was from the beginning, that which we should have heard, that which we should have seen with our eyes, that which we should beheld, and which have many of lovers of God their hands handled, that he as apostle for his master, concerning the Word of life, has written unto those who knew Christ from the beginning but also unto us, because we should know him who is from the beginning. Jesus not only like us written from the beginning in the Book of life and death, but also being the promised one in the most earliest days of history of man. Therefore John has written unto the young men in his time but also to us, because we should be strong, and the word of God should abide in us, us having to overcome the evil one, like Christ did. (1 John 1:1; 1 John 2:13-14 )
when looking at what John further says about Jesus, there is no doubt that Jesus cannot be God, Who is has always been the Most High and always shall be the Most High, whilst Jesus was lower than angels and was made higher than angels and man, to come to sit next to God, to be a mediator between God and man. If Jesus is God he cannot be a mediator between himself and man, is it not?
Look at what John writes. Do you than not believe what Jesus himself says?
Clearly you do not seem to believe that the Elohim sent Jesus, but are convinced that God Himself came down to earth to do as if He was a man of flesh and blood, though God has no flesh and blood and is a Spirit. So why do you not believe God is an eternal Spiritual Being, like the Bible says?
“17 But Yahshua answered them, My Father works till now, and I work. 18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Yahshua and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for whatever things he does, these also does the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and revives \@them;\@ even so the Son revives whom he will. 22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son: 23 That all \@men\@ should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation. 30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.
31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he bore witness to the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than \@that\@ of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.” (John 5:17-36 KJBPNV)
“27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 ¶ You have heard how I said to you, I go away, and come \@again\@ to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go to the Father: for my Father is greater than I 29 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it has come to pass, you might believe. 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go away.” (John 14:27-31 KJBPNV)
“God \@is\@ a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship \@him\@ in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24 KJBPNV)
Therefore lovers of God should give each Biblical the right honour and reverence and should only worship One true God of gods.
Jesus being a god, like angels, Poses, Pharaoh, Baal, Apollo, Zeus, and others in the Bible are called god, should be taken for what he is and for what he has done. According to God His Word Jesus is the Way to God and not the way to himself (which cannot be.)
Again taking the writer of that Gospel and of the Book of Revelation.
“Yahshua said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6 KJBPNV)
“Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24 KJBPNV)