“Most times we live our lives as upstanding citizens. We adhere to laws and statutes according to governmental authorities. Sure, we may not always do the right thing in every instance; God forgives us. God exists we know He’s real and yeeeaaah we have faith in Him. Besides, once we’re saved…we’re ALWAYS saved. Nothing to be too concerned with when it comes to our eternal souls…”
– Many Believers In The World
Parts of this phrase may sound all too familiar. Its root is a false doctrine that is founded in man-made traditions, ambitions, and distortion of what used to be or may have at one time been the Gospel.
Grace through Faith is the proud and confident banner nowadays…
But who’s to blame for such a falling away from the faith? After all, if someone makes a point to actually be a part of a congregation isn’t that a gesture in good faith that one would want to know the Truth of God’s Word and not a cherry-picked, candy-coated version that the Bible literally says is another gospel?
According to 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, the falling away comes first and in Hosea4:6 The Lord is very clear,
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
The unfortunate part is not only are the teachings diluted but most people don’t want to accept the Truth….and The Truth is not only His Light that shines in the darkness revealing our iniquities but also conquers death…and we know the world as a whole rejects Messiah and embraces the very thing that God hates…sin.
Why?
Because sin separates us from God and He desires that no man perish but have everlasting life. God loves us…He is The Creator of all and He doesn’t want the very thing He created to spend an eternity in hell; but rather in His Kingdom eating from the Tree of Life. (Revelation 2 & 3)
2 Peter 3:9 NKJV
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
We are warned of Antichrist deceivers. (2 John 1:7-11)
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. 9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
We are warned of the Deceptions in The Last Hour ( 1 John 2:18-22)
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
So what is TRUE GRACE THROUGH FAITH?
Ephesians 2:1-10 NKJV
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
God’s Word is very clear and concise. Because of His abundant mercies…because of His everlasting love [for He first loved us, 1 John4:17-19], we have been given the GIFT OF SALVATION, Who Is Yeshua. Salvation after all is the meaning of His Name.
Through our Messiah King, we are given the GRACE of receiving salvation. Let us remember that God’s grace falls upon the just and unjust (Matthew 5:45), for He allows the saint and the sinner to wake up and see another day that we may in humility come before His Throne of Grace asking forgiveness, repenting daily, turn to Him and show our love and appreciation for Him through obedience [Take up your cross and follow Him]. Obedience is the outworking of love, the good work of faith for there is a BIG difference between the gift of salvation and the process of sanctification, therefore be sanctified that you may embrace and may hold onto your gift that has been given by The Most Holy One of Israel through His Beloved Son, King Yeshua our Messiah.
To live without The Glory, The Holy Spirit, The Promise of God (John 7:37) is to live in lawlessness and if one is found to be lawless, then he/she is in a spiritual state of unholiness, God cannot and will not dwell in unholiness because HE IS HOLY. This is why we are commanded to be holy for He is Holy. So His Presence will be IN US for we are living temples of God. This is a great mystery revealed to us and one of many that should not be taken for granted.
For by Him we know our heritage in Yeshua Jesus for He is Love and The Father and Son are in the Hebrew biblical context “ehhad”, meaning UNIFIED, other transliterations of this word translate it as “ONE”. The Son is in The Father and The Father is in The Son. This mirror image is the unification that God wants with us…
This is The Consummation of Love (1 John 4 17:19) as the bride of Christ and the one new man engrafted into The True Vine…(The Wedding Feast; Marriage Supper – Leviticus 23 [Feast of Tabernacles] / Matthew 22 & Matt. 25 / Revelation 3:20 & Rev. 19:7-9)
Rev. 19:7-9 NKJV
7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9 Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
Are You Living Without The Glory?
Would you rather be handed over to your own understanding; your own mind given to strong delusion that you may believe a lie? (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NKJV)
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 NKJV (Key Verses 9-12)
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Take heed that no man deceives you in this last hour, for many embrace the spirit of error and reject The Spirit of Truth…
BUT you child of The Most High God Who is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, The Great I AM (translated I EXIST, HE EXISTS) is The ONE Who gives of Himself that we through the teaching and comfort of His Holy Spirit may know and therefore show the evidence of Him in Us…ehhad…unified…and this is Outworking of Love.
THE OLD TESTAMENT IS A SHADOW OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
John 3:13-14 NKJV
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NKJV
6 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1 John 3:16 NKJV
6 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
OUTWORKING OF LOVE
1 John 3:16-23 NKJV
16 By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. 20 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. 22 And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
Know The True and reject the false as it is written
(1 John 5:18-21)
BE HOLY FOR HE IS HOLY
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