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        All Of Our Rituals,                              Are An Abomination To The Eternal God.

      All Of Our Festivals,                          Are An Abomination To The Eternal God.

      All Of Our Pagan Practices             Are An Abomination To The Eternal God.

 

      The Eternal God Is Not A Robotic Moron, On Whom We Make Demand,

      And Whom We Obey, As We Like And, When It Is Convenient To Us.

 

     

      The Eternal God Is Not A Robotic Moron, On Whom We Make Demands.

 

      He Is Our Living, Loving, Personal Saviour.     There Is No Other.  

      Christ Is The Solution To All Our Problems.     There Is No Other. 

 

      1 Timothy 2:5  For there is  One God, and

                                                         One Mediator between God and men,

                                                         The Man Christ Jesus;

 

      If This Verse Is Not In Your Bible, Your Bible Is Corrupt.

      Throw It Away.

      You Have Been Deceived Into Serving Satan, the god of this world.

   

      Sincerity Is Not The Issue. You can be sincere, and still be wrong.

     To Live A Lie Is To Die. – It Is That Simple.   

 

                         We should all be sighing and crying about the sad state of our world.

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             Grace And Works                                                                         31/05/2008 

 

 

Romans 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant

according to the election of grace.

Romans 11:6  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: otherwise work

is no more work.

These verses show that we are elected, and saved simply by the Grace of God.

These verses are saying that Works are Works and Grace is Grace.

Although works will never result in salvation or being part of the warrior bride.

It is by the Grace of God that we are allowed to be part

of the works of God.

This is an incredible underserved blessing of stupendous proportions.

 

What is ‘Grace’?

Grace has several meanings, amongst its meanings is unmerited favour.

The primary meaning as far as I am concerned is that ‘Grace’, is Christ.

 

Grace and Truth came into the world, because Christ brought them into the world.

That is what this verse says.

 

John 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus

Christ.

 

A couple of verses previously in verse 14 we were told that Christ was

full of grace and truth.

 

John 1:14  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.

 

See our documents on these important related subjects.

 

   Jesus Christ Is The Holy Spirit     Jesus Is God     The Holy Spirit Is God

 

As we state on our documents and most videos, Christ is the solution to all

our problems because, He personifies, love, mercy, faith, truth, grace,

patience, wisdom, life, and every necessary quality which we not only need,

but are critical necessities.

Without Christ we would not have life, either physical or spiritual.

It is as simple as that.

 

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

 

This is not symbolic language it is an absolute truth.

In Christ’s human body dwelt the fullness of the Godhead.

 

John 3:34  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God

giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

John 3:35  The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

John 3:36  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that

believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

 

Christ was the human body that the father

chose to clothe Himself with, when He came into the world.

It is for this reason that Christ did not have the spirit by measure.

 

By contrast, we, as born from above believers also do have the Godhead

dwelling in us, but it is by measure.

 

The analogy I used to try to explain this miracle is that it as if we were

a bit of iron, and we had been magnetised by a gigantic magnet of unlimited

size, and power.

 

When we are born from above on repentance, we actually become the

living ‘Temple of the Living God’ , which is our created purpose.

Before that we were simply the walking dead, like most of the world today.

 

A piece of iron can be magnetised a little bit, or a great deal,

but you cannot have a single piece of iron, certainly under normal

circumstances, have only a percentage of the iron magnetised.

Regardless of how you consider it, we were created to be the temple of the

living God. Unfortunately most of us are living a ‘Defeated Life’ ,

as explained in my Video:  The Defeated Life

Most are just walking dead.

 

1 Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the

Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

 

Grace is unmerited favour.

It is not license to do our own thing, but unfortunately that is exactly

what we are doing, under the guise of worshipping God.

We have made this god in our own image, and likeness.

We tell Him, our demands, and harass Him to fulfil, what often is nothing

more than our lusts, and we want instant gratification.

It is normal to refuse correction.

It is normal to be rebellious.

It is in this state we were called.

 

We have our created God in our coat pockets, and we pull Him out whenever

some trouble or difficulty arises.

Of course if He does not comply immediately we then

blame Him for the mess into which we have gotten ourselves.

This concept is an extension of the Roman Catholic doctrine, that they are

not only God, but they pull His strings. Of course most of us feel that we do

not have anything to do with that Church.

 

Here is an example of grace.

You say that in the garden, there are some fruit on a tree.

Let us say cherries.

It is a good crop. There are masses of cherries.

The fruit is absolutely mouth watering, just waiting to be eaten.

You look at a bunch of cherries and you select this one and that one.

You did not just say any cherry is a cherry and start eating.

You cherry picked your way to whatever it was that attracted you,

the size, the colour and so on.

 

It is exactly the same with us.

Christ said, I want this one, and that one.

These are the ones I want and these are the jobs that I want them to do.

These are the ones I want to be in my bride.

The two groups are not necessarily the same at all.

 

What did we do to get selected?

Absolutely nothing at all.

 

Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, were all called by God to do specific jobs.

The Eternal God called them His servants.

 

To be Called,

To be Chosen,

To be part of the Warrior Bride of Christ, is all a matter of grace.

It literally has nothing whatsoever to do with works, status or anything at all.

 

The apostle Paul is the classic example of someone called to be a Christian.

We are told a great deal about him.

It was while he was in the horrific situation of persecuting and killing

Christians that he was called.

 

Acts 22:4  And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering

into prisons both men and women.

 

Acts 26:11  And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them

to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them

even unto strange cities.

 

Paul had to reap what he had sown, and he certainly did that.

 

Forgiveness does not necessarily do away with the penalty of any sin.

 

2 Corinthians 11:23  Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool)

I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons

more frequent, in deaths oft.

2 Corinthians 11:24  Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

 

2 Corinthians 11:25  Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice

I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

2 Corinthians 11:26  In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of

robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils

in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among

false brethren;

 

2 Corinthians 11:27  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often,

in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

 

We have to understand that it is in spite of our pitiful condition, and when we

were in that thoroughly messed up state that we were called.

I have spoken to people who, see themselves as somewhat special.

They know they are sinners but they do not see themselves as bad as some

of the people, who have been involved in witchcraft etc.

This is quite an interesting concept, which is not very different from being

a little pregnant!!

 

James 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one

point, he is guilty of all.

 

The Eternal God, knew precisely how we would turn out when we arrived

on planet earth. He knew the utter mess that we would make of our lives,

because He knows the end from the beginning.

He is not concerned in the slightest with the ‘image’ which we like to project

of ourselves. That is meaningless and pointless.

 

The Eternal God says of Himself that He declares:

 

Isaiah 46:10  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times

the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand,

and I will do all my pleasure:

 

So in spite of seeing the nightmare that we were going to be to Him, others,

and ourselves, He still wrote the names of His ‘called out ones’,

which is what the word church means, in the book of life.

 

This is Grace.

 

Revelation 17:8  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend

out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the

earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from

the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not,

and yet is.

 

There was no uncertainty in what we would do, and what Adam and Eve would

do. It is for this reason we are told that Christ was slain at the foundation of

the world. We have to keep remembering that the Eternal God, Christ lives

in Eternity and not in time and space. Events which take place in Eternity are

then brought into Time and Space, at the appointed time.

 

Revelation  13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,

whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the

foundation of the world.

 

This is Grace.

When I was in the Worldwide Church Of God, you have to go through much

‘counselling’ and bible correspondence courses, before you could be deemed

to be ready to be baptised and become a member of the church.

In fact one friend who was having some serious financial persecution, was told

to sort out the financial problems and then contact them again and they would

see if it was ok for baptism to take place.  

 

Those were the restrictions of joining that Church.

There is no such restriction to join the genuine Church of Christ.

 

Can you see the problem with this?

This Baptism depended on works.

The church was not putting out a hand of support.

 

Similarly I was told in a nutshell that I had to go through a process,

and as it were. If I were successful I would be considered for baptism.

What utter nonsense.

In fact many of these ministers who promoted this are now doing their own

thing, with Sunday worship and all sorts of rebellion, which they previously

preached against.

 

We have to ask ourselves if in our daily living, whether we are actually living a

life of the works ordained for us from the foundation of the world,

or our own works, which we might well find to be utterly important,

convenient, and sometimes even pleasant.

 

Learn from Paul’s experience.

The Word of God cannot be broken.

You can play as many games with it as you wish.

Ultimately you will be held accountable for your works and your words.

There is no escape.

In my recent video The Book Of Revelation & How It Affects You ?

I explained the condition of the true church.

 

I was not addressing the great whore Babylon, the false church.

 

Every church was told that the Eternal God knows their works, good or bad,

and every church was held accountable. Repentance was called for.

We have to become overcomers or suffer the consequences.

Read it in Revelation chapters 2 & 3.

 

Never, ever think that you have time.

Your number can be literally pulled at any time.

Are you going to be an ‘if only person’?

 

Luke 12:19  And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for

many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luke 12:20  But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be

required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

 

There is a question I like to ask.

It is and then? or and then what?

This night thy soul shall be required of thee, and then?

 

It is a very good question to keep asking, when considering any situation.

 

What we ought to be doing now was declared from the foundation of the

world.

 

Hebrews 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said,

As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the

works were finished from the foundation of the world.

 

So many things were accomplished at the foundation of the earth,

and most are completely ignorant of these matters.

We have just referred to two events, here is another.

 

Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the

LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the

earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

 

Yes, what we should be doing was established at the same time the spirit

in man, which is in us, was created.

 

Ephesians 2:8  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of

yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Ephesians 2:9  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto

good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

 

A genuine Christian will perform works although it has nothing to do with

obtaining salvation or being part of the manchild, the bride of Christ.

 

This is all a matter of Grace.

 

So is going to a charity bash, be it a quiz show, a charity-run semi-clad, etc,

a soup kitchen, a bridge or coffee morning, what we should be doing?

 

If you honestly feel that the above activities are God ordained

then by all means do it, but I have to tell you that I strongly doubt it.

 

There is a primary specific objective that our works should accomplish.

They should result in our Father in heaven receiving praise and glory.

 

Matthew 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your

good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

 

Therefore if the good works that we do, do not glorify our Father in heaven,

then we can be assured that we are on to a loser.

 

Does running around the street half naked for charity for a sponsored

run glorify the Eternal God ?

I think not.

 

Does sponsored cycle rides, swims etc glorify the Eternal God?

I think not.

They might well exalt the ego even further, and in the process give massive

corporations publicity and financial benefit.

If the government stopped wasting money on false issues,

and stopped trying to control and manipulate us to a ridiculous degree,

and if they stopped feathering their nests in all sorts of subtle and not so

subtle ways, we would be considerably better off.

Fighting immoral wars on borrowed money, 

whilst claiming to be Christian, does not qualify as ‘good works’ .

In fact they will inevitably result in judgment.

That is what we are now seeing worldwide.

 

The works which genuine believers do, will often be motivated by the

indwelling Holy Spirit, as long as we are trying to walk the walk.

 

The apostle James makes the difference between works and grace quite

clear. The works that we do will be driven by faith, as often they will be

outside of our ability. This will be the faith of Christ, and the works

will be the works of Christ.

This is where a genuine Christian lives, doing things beyond his/her abilities.

This is because the Eternal God is involved.

 

Remember that works can seem a great idea, but that does not necessarily

make them right.

 

Our own works doing our own thing our better way delays Christ’s return.

 

Notice that the first two verses are speaking of those who are doing

‘Spiritual Things’.

 

1 Corinthians 13:1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,

and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all

mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could

remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

 

This verse then speaks of extreme physical things.

 

1 Corinthians 13:3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,

and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me

nothing.

 

The verses which follow then explain how we should be living, some of the

works that we should be doing.

 

1 Corinthians 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;

charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is

not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1 Corinthians 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

1 Corinthians 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,

endureth all things.

 

Finally we can see the link between faith and works.

 

James 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was

faith made perfect?

 

We have seen that Grace is Christ, He is our unmerited gift from the Father.

As a result we have Forgiveness, Salvation and the possibility of being

part of the warrior bride of Christ.

 

As a consequence of Grace, we will live a life of works, which have been

prepared for us from the foundation of the world as opposed to doing

our own thing.

 

This will give glory and honour to the name which is above all names,

Jesus Christ, The Eternal God.

 

             Be Humble      Repent      Listen To The Eternal God     Obey Him.    

   

            This is very easy to say, but I assure you that it is physically an impossibility without

               the empowerment of the Eternal God.

               Just going up to some altar call, running to some church, or isolating yourself

               in the hope that somehow it will all go away, will not do it. 

 

                            What are you going to do about it before it is too late?

                                     See Video:   Obedience Is The Only Way Of Escape     

 

      .           The only way out of this dilemma is Jesus Christ.

                              .                             He is the only way of escape.

      .              We have to be under His Care and Protection.          

                    .                     Salvation by any other name or means,

                    .                                     Simply does not exist.

                     .                          Complete Obedience is required

                                                                Praise the Lord.

                      .                                  Come soon Lord Jesus.

                       .                                                    Amen.

                              

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