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[The Immediacy Of The Necessity For Doing The RIGHTEOUS WORK Of The KINGDOM]
INTRODUCTION:
If you, as one who CLAIMS to BE a CHRISTIAN, and/or BELIEVER, were asked, what would you tell THIS Teacher is your concept of RIGHTEOUSNESS? Along with this consideration, what would you say is a RIGHTEOUS WORK?!? Is there even such a thing?!? In TRUTH, The Holy Bible Is Replete with the consideration of these Things; and, yet, so MANY CHRISTIANS/BELIEVERS either have NO real KNOWLEDGE of what amounts to such, they merely THINK that they know the answer, or they are taught to deny the necessity of even considering the thought of RIGHTEOUS WORKS, at all! They are taught that FAITH, alone, is all that is required of them to enter The KINGDOM of HEAVEN. So, then, they tend to do very little in this area of Spiritual Endeavor, and The Body of Christ [The TRUE Church of GOD], Suffers lack, because of their failures to attend to demonstrations of their FAITH.
So, then, with the various teachings regarding conflicting considerations, in just this area of information on Spiritual Understanding, alone, isn’t it incumbent upon us, and even long past time, for us to EXPLORE the TRUTH of such?
The SHADOWS of TIME are lengthening, and fast closing in upon each and everyone of us! Whether we like the thought, or not, our lives, lived in these bodies of flesh, are rapidly drawing to a close: The Darkness of Death is nearing. Denials, and the ignoring of such things as WORKS, will not serve to drive away this reality. TIME is winding down for you, and for this Teacher, as well. We have so brief an opportunity remaining to learn that which we need to know, and ETERNITY is so very long. What is the POINT?! The Point is that we NEED to get this matter straight, NOW!!! As THIS Teacher has said, so often, we DON’T have time to procrastinate, any longer, to assume that we know, or simply to take things for granted! WE DON’T HAVE FOREVER TO CHOOSE FOREVER!
Today’s Lesson is one that this Teacher hopes will encourage each Student of the Great Grace Bible Study Group, and, perhaps, some others outside of this Group, as well, to focus upon what will amount to just another area of UNDERSTANDING, that will expand our Spiritual Comprehension, and enable us to increase our grasps of greater TRUTH From GOD’s WORD.
Precious Hearts, YAHVEH GOD Wants HIS Children to be Intelligent Spiritually Enlightened Individuals, well-equipped for The KINGDOM of HEAVEN, similar to what we desire of our Earthly children, during this current lifetime. Always bear in mind that YAHVEH GOD Is A FATHER, Too – OUR FATHER (Matthew 6:9). This is WHY we call HIM “HEAVENLY FATHER”. So, let us put on our Spiritual Thinking Caps, and seek to gain whatever THE FATHER and Son Would Have us learn, today. May YAHVEH GOD Bless us, and Make us increasingly Wiser in The Things of GOD, which is among our most fervent Prayers. Amen.
And, now, we begin today’s Lesson.
LESSON:
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Students, we open today’s Lesson by directing our attention to the words of The Apostle, named Paul, as he addresses the Members of The Church of GOD at Colossae. There is something that Paul wants them, as well as us, to know. The Apostle begins to connect the genuine nature of KNOWING GOD along with the matter of doing GOOD WORKS. These two areas are actually inseparable, when one UNDERSTANDS The Word of GOD. This is WHY The Apostle James says what he does in James 1:22-25. Hopefully, each one of us is recognizing that WORKS are ESSENTIAL to one’s FAITH!
Colossians 1:9 “For this cause [reason] we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to Pray for you, and to desire that ye might be FILLED with The Knowledge of HIS Will, in ALL Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding;”
10 “That ye might Walk worthy of THE LORD unto ALL Pleasing, being Fruitful in EVERY GOOD WORK, and increasing in The Knowledge of GOD;”
What do you THINK the phrase “Walk worthy of THE LORD…” MEANS??? This verse shares with us the fact that it is GOOD WORKS that serve to Be PLEASING To YAHVEH GOD, as well as FAITH, because such WORKS speak to the reality of the existence of The Development of The KNOWLEDGE That Truly Comes Through one KNOWING GOD. What is THIS Teacher saying? It is this: KNOWING GOD Means WORKING For HIM; it is just that simple a matter, Beloved. This is WHAT Yeshua/Jesus was indicating in the words of his PARABLE in Matthew 20:4.
11 “Strengthened With All Might, According To HIS Glorious POWER, Unto all Patience and Longsuffering with Joyfulness;”
The GLORIOUS POWER Of YAHVEH GOD, Operating Within the lives of HIS Children, Leads HIS Children to become more PATIENT, and LONG-SUFFERING, while still remaining JOYFUL, while undergoing those times when there is a need to wait upon certain developments. Do you remember what THIS Teacher once told you regarding the DIFFERENCE between PATIENCE and LONG-SUFFERING? Briefly, PATIENCE means simply WAITING for something to occur, at some more appropriate time, while LONG-SUFFERING means experiencing DIFFICULTIES during the waiting process.
12 “Giving Thanks Unto THE FATHER, WHICH [WHO] Hath Made us meet [suitable] to be Partakers of The Inheritance of The Saints in LIGHT;”
13 “WHO Hath Delivered us From the power of Darkness, and Hath Translated [Transferred] us Into The KINGDOM of HIS Dear Son:”
Look At What YAHVEH GOD Has Done For us, For Which we SHOULD be most THANKFUL. It Is YAHVEH GOD WHO Has Done EVERYTHING Required, That Affords To us SALVATION, and ETERNAL LIFE, Within HIS KINGDOM. HE Has Broken the power of Spiritual DARKNESS / SIN that once held sway over us, and Like A GREAT SPIRITUAL BRIDGE, Has TRANSPORTED [Translated] us Over Into The REALM, or KINGDOM, of HIS Dear Son. For this Reason, we, as
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BELIEVERS/CHRISTIANS, are able to Walk [Function] In The LIGHT, which MEANS to FUNCTION in The KNOWLEDGE of Spiritual UNDERSTANDING of GOD’s WORD of TRUTH. Beloved, can we not SEE that any meaningful degree of Understanding, regarding GOD’s WORD, and WAY, will involve LEARNING? There is NO WAY around the fact that one MUST LEARN, if, or when, one intends to be in ANY TYPE of Service To GOD! Attending church services, wherever, and having simply an emotional, “Feel Good”, type of religion, IS NOT ENOUGH! LEARNING is ESSENTIAL for EVERY Child of GOD! (Isaiah 1:17) It is just another PART of one’s RIGHTEOUS WORK.
Colossians 1:14 “In Whom [The Glorified Yeshua/Jesus] we have REDEMPTION, Through His BLOOD, even The Forgiveness of SINS:”
What are we to LEARN from THIS verse, Students? We are to LEARN that The BLOOD of Yeshua Ha Meshiach [Jesus The Messiah] was ESSENTIAL To The WORK of REDEMPTION (Hebrews 9:11, 28), Which Allowed YAHVEH GOD To FORGIVE The PENALTY of death, that hung over every person, for SINS, which was much greater than the danger of The Sword of Damocles, as king Dionysius hung it suspended, by a single horse hair, threateningly, above the head of Damocles.
15 “Who [Yeshua] Is The Image of THE INVISIBLE GOD, The FIRSTBORN of EVERY creature:”
16 “For By Him [The Logos/The Living Word of GOD/Yeshua] Were ALL things CREATED, that Are In HEAVEN, and that are in [upon] Earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: ALL THINGS Were CREATED By Him, and For HIM:”
Do we UNDERSTAND, Beloved, That Theos/The Logos/The Living Word of GOD/The Pre-Incarnate Yeshua/Jesus Was WORKING LONG BEFORE He Ever Came Into this World, as these two verses indicate?!? He Was Doing The WORK of CREATING, While He Was WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER, Within THE HEAVEN of Heavens. What THIS Teacher would like for Students to grasp, as well, is the Idea That Yeshua Was/Is “The FIRSTBORN of EVERY creature”. What is the MEANING behind this phrase? It means exactly what it says: Yeshua Was The FIRSTBORN of every other creature that was ever to come into existence. REMEMBER that He CAME OUT OF GOD, or WAS BORN OF GOD, Long BEFORE anything else, Other Than THE HEAVENLY FATHER, existed!
Did you notice something in the way in which THIS Teacher highlighted Verse 16, Students? Did you really?! WHY did this Teacher write “…Were CREATED By Him, and For HIM”? What do you notice, in particular? Did you notice that THIS Teacher has written it so that one portion of the verse speaks of “Him”, and the other of “HIM”? Do you see the DIFFERENCE?!!? REMEMBER the words of John 10:30. When The Logos/The Living Word of GOD/Yeshua CREATED For THE HEAVENLY FATHER, He Was CREATING For Himself, As Well. We might also FLIP it to say: When The Logos CREATED For Himself, He Was CREATING For THE FATHER, Also. THEY Are ONE With Each Other In ALL Things (John 17:21), Even Though THE FATHER Is THE GREATER ONE.
17 “And He [Yeshua/Jesus] IS [Existed] BEFORE ALL THINGS, and By Him [Yeshua/Jesus] ALL THINGS Consist [Have Been Made To Exist/ Were Created].”
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Colossians 1:18 “And He Is The Head of The Body, The Church: Who Is The BEGINNING, The FIRSTBORN from the dead; that in ALL THINGS He Might Have The PREEMINENCE.”
These two preceding verses continue to speak of The PRE-EMINENCE of Yeshua Ha Meshiach To ALL OTHER THINGS. NOTHING ELSE, Other Than THE HEAVENLY FATHER, YAHVEH, existed before Yeshua. This is The TRUTH, admit it, or not, which SO MANY persons, CALLING themselves “CHRISTIANS”, and “BELIEVERS”, WILL NOT CHOOSE TO ADMIT; but, THAT TRUTH Is Precisely WHAT These verses are telling us! This is WHY Yeshua Has PRE-EMINENCE, and SUPERIORITY, Over EVERYTHING ELSE, Except YAHVEH GOD! (John 14:28) This is WHY His NAME Is GREATER Than ANY OTHER name! (Philippians 2:9-11)
19 “For It Pleased THE FATHER That IN Him [The Son] Should ALL FULLNESS [of ALL Righteousness and Power] Dwell;”
We read this verse, regularly, but the question comes in whether we actually understand it. What does it MEAN that “IN Him Should ALL FULLNESS Dwell”? What is this “Fullness” That Is Said To Dwell IN Him?!? Let’s read Colossians 2:9-10, together, shall we? Still, the QUESTION remains: “What does this MEAN?!!?” Let THIS Teacher begin to ANSWER, for you, the question that is being asked. Look back at Colossians 2:2-7. Herein is our ANSWER! IF one is IN Yeshua Ha Meshiach/Jesus The Messiah/Christ, one is COMFORTED By GOD, and BOUND TOGETHER With other BELIEVERS/CHRISTIANS In The LOVE of GOD (Verse 2); one Is Given WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, and UNDERSTANDING, so that one begins to truly KNOW GOD (Verse 3). At such a point, one begins to have, infused into himself/herself, The Spirit of ORDER (I Corinthians 14:40), and a Steadfast FAITHFULNESS in Christ. Also, we have what is provided to us in Colossians 2:11, as we begin to dispel, from our thinking, hearts, and our lives, Through The Presence of Jesus The Christ [Yeshua Ha Meshiach] Within us, the many SINS that once held such strong sway over our flesh and emotions. The Glorified Yeshua Ha Meshiach, Has Now Become ALL THINGS That Are Necessary For SALVATION, To each one of us! (Ephesians 1:22-23)
There is NOTHING that is currently lacking, in the area of our SALVATION; Meshiach FULFILLS EVERYTHING That Pertains to GODliness, and the lives that we live, on a daily basis!
20 “And, Having Made PEACE, Through The Blood of His CROSS, By Him To Reconcile ALL THINGS Unto HIMSELF [THE FATHER]; By Him [The Son], I say, whether they be things in Earth, or Things in HEAVEN.”
WHAT is the MEANING of this verse, Beloved?!? WHAT is there, within HEAVEN, that can possibly be capable of Being RECONCILED [Reinstated/Reunited] To GOD?!!? Aren’t ALL Things That Were CREATED, To Exist In HEAVEN, Currently ONE With GOD?!? So, you THINK so, huh??? If you do think this, then please explain to THIS Teacher the MEANING of THIS verse! WHY is there a JUDGMENT necessary, and even REQUIRED, for ANYTHING That Is To Exist In HEAVEN?!!? Isn’t EVERYTHING There RIGHTEOUS, PURE, and HOLY?!? WHY must ANYTHING There be JUDGED?!!! To this, the Members of the Great Grace Bible Study Group SHOULD already know the
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answers, but there are MANY other persons who WILL NOT know! Students, think REINSTATEMENT! Now, let’s read the following TWO verses, from two different Books of The Holy Bible, as we continue to seek to find our Answer:
I Corinthians 6:3 “Know ye not that we shall Judge Angels?!? How much more things that pertain to THIS life?!”
Here, The Saints of GOD have the ANSWER to the Question of What There Is In HEAVEN That will NEED to Be Reconciled To GOD. The following verse provides us with what we should know about those whom The Saints of GOD will ultimately Judge. We will read that verse.
Jude 1:6 “And The Angels, Which Kept Not Their FIRST ESTATE, but Left Their Own Habitation, HE Hath Reserved In Everlasting Chains, Under Darkness, Unto The JUDGMENT of The Great Day.”
Students of the Great Grace Bible Study Group should already know, but it bears repeating, that there were actually THREE GROUPS of Angels That Are To Be Considered, at this point of our Lesson. Those Three Groups Are: (1) The Holy Angels That Remained Faithful To YAH [THE HEAVENLY FATHER and Son], and Continue To Do So To this very day; (2) The Unrighteous Angels That Followed Lucifer, who became Satan the Devil, in his Rebellion against YAHVEH GOD’s HEAVENLY Governmental Structure; and (3) Those Angels That DID NOT remain within HEAVEN, To Do Battle Against Satan and his Angelic followers, but chose, instead, to abdicate Their responsibilities, and to flee from the scene of The Most Cataclysmic Battle That Has Ever Taken Place [“…The Angels, Which KEPT NOT their First Estate…”], as Michael, HEAVEN’s ONLY Arch Angel, followed by The Righteous Angels, Fought To Dislodge Satan, and to Throw Satan, and his Angels, From their HEAVENLY Abode, for Them NEVER AGAIN To Be Permitted to return There! (Luke 10:18)
II Corinthians 9:8 “And GOD Is Able To Make all GRACE Abound Toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to EVERY Good Work.”
Here is another REASON for GRACE, Which Is YAHVEH GOD Providing to us, Both, TIME and OPPORTUNITY To CHANGE ourselves, and to ACHIEVE that which Is Pleasing To HIM. Beloved: GRACE Provides To us GOD’s FAVOR In Aiding us in acquiring all of those Wonderful Spiritual Benefits that will enable us to perform The RIGHTEOUS WORK That YAHVEH GOD Has For each one of us to perform, and to continue to INCREASE in the doing of such.
I Corinthians 3:13 “Every man’s Work Shall Be Made Manifest: for The Day shall declare it, because it shall Be Revealed By Fire; and The Fire shall Try every man’s Work of what sort it is.”
Beloved, one of the great fallibilities, or character flaws, with us, as Man-Types, is this: We always think that our efforts will be overlooked, by others, and that our work will ultimately be minimized, marginalized, or completely ignored. The Bottom Line is that we WANT to receive recognition for whatever we do. THIS verse tells us that YAHVEH GOD, Through HIS Righteous Son, Will NEVER
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Overlook ANY PORTION of what any one of us does, during this lifetime. But, YAHVEH GOD Wants us to KNOW, without ANY doubt, that EVERYTHING that we do, Is Being Recorded Upon The Pages of HEAVEN’s Record Books! (Revelation 20:12) This is NOT done for GOD’s Purpose, but for our own, as PROOF that CANNOT be denied.
As we continue to discuss this issue of WORKS, we come to the reading of this verse. All of this is being done, by THIS Teacher, to DISPEL the comments of those persons who continue to want to insist that “The need for any consideration of WORKS is done away, through the existence of FAITH”! They WANT to make James’ comments completely irrelevant, which they CANNOT DO!!! (James 2:14-17) THIS Instructor grows increasingly TIRED of hearing a number of preachers’ words, as they continue to try to be “slick” with The Word of GOD, deceiving the people (Revelation 12:9), while so many others of them simply attempt to “huckster” persons into believing that which IS NOT TRUE, by twisting The Word of GOD, in their efforts to make It Say What It DOES NOT Say. They employ their humorous anecdotes, and smooth verbiage, to disarm their listeners, as the people listening to them, laugh their ways through the Spiritual Minefields of Error and Deception, and further into The Darkness of Deception!
I Corinthians 3:14 “If any man’s Work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a Reward.”
Notice something about the wording of this verse, Students. WHY does The Apostle, named Paul, tell BELIEVERS/CHRISTIAN persons that they are to have BUILT upon WORKS? Did you observe that?!? Please, read the verse, once again! We SEE that the man/woman who HAS built upon RIGHTEOUS WORKS will receive a REWARD. Beloved, GOD’s REWARDS ARE NOT Given To persons for merely “Showing Up”, but for doing NOTHING!!! REMEMBER the words of Matthew 20:4! The MEANING of Yeshua’s PARABLE [Story] of Matthew 20:1-16 Lives! GOD Has SAVED NO ONE for that individual to lounge around! GOD Has Called EVERYONE, that IS Truly SAVED, to WORK!!! Find our WHAT you are to DO, as a BELIEVER/CHRISTIAN, and DO IT, with ALL of your might!
15 “If any man’s Work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he, himself, Be Saved; yet so as be Fire.”
What if one should find oneself having wasted/wasting a lot of valuable TIME, doing a lot of what THIS Teacher calls “Busy Work”, but NOT the type of RIGHTEOUS WORKS That Promote The KINGDOM of HEAVEN? What then?!? This verse provides us with the ANSWER to that interrogative. Those UNproductive Works Will Be BURNED UP, for they have ALWAYS been vacuous and MEANINGLESS! They will be comparable to the old adage about the Rocking Chair: It gives one a lot to do, but one doesn’t go very far, or accomplish very much while doing it.
I Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my Beloved Brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in The Work of THE LORD, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in THE LORD.”
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Again, It Is The WORK of THE LORD That Really Matters! It ISN’T a lot of the “Religious Stuff” that persons engage in doing, within the various denominational churches, and there are MOUNDS of such things that are being done, for persons to consider! While those things might not necessarily be WRONG to do, in and of themselves, they still CAN’T be Determined to BE RIGHTEOUS WORKS! They amount to being nothing more than FRUITLESS efforts, on the parts of those persons doing them. They are similar to the foods that one eats, which provide only empty calories, but absolutely NO nutritional value, whatsoever! THIS Teacher submits to you that numerous church activities, today, are simply “fillers”, and DECEIVE persons into THINKING that they are doing The Work of The KINGDOM, and are being Pleasing To GOD, when nothing could be further from The TRUTH! Beloved, allow THIS Teacher to make it most EMPHATIC, once and for all: RIGHTEOUS WORKS Are WHAT YAHVEH GOD Declares, In HIS Word, The Holy Bible, To BE RIGHTEOUS WORKS!
Galatians 6:4 “But let every man prove his own Work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
Answer these questions, for this Teacher: “What ARE RIGHTEOUS WORKS?!? Can a Work be declared to BE a RIGHTEOUS WORK simply because someone, within a church somewhere, says that it is a ‘Righteous Work?’ Is this what qualifies it to be ‘Righteous’?” NO! Not at all, Beloved! What makes ANYTHING “Righteous” is BECAUSE YAHVEH GOD Has DECLARED it to be such! GOD NEVER Leaves It for you, someone else, or THIS Teacher, to set the parameters of RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! This, of necessity, most certainly INCLUDES RIGHTEOUS WORKS, as well. It is like being HOLY, Students: Something is ONLY HOLY When YAHVEH GOD DECLARES It To BE HOLY! Like HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUS WORKS are ONLY RIGHTEOUS WORKS When GOD Has DECLARED them to be such! NEVER allow yourselves to forget this fact!
The UNDERSTANDING of this reality causes us to consider HOW it is that anyone is ABLE to “PROVE” his WORK, as this verse states SHOULD BE DONE: The ANSWER is that he/she COMPARES his/her WORKS to What Is WRITTEN Within GOD’s WORD! NOT to what the pastor SAYS, or THINKS, or to what ANYONE else says, or thinks; but strictly to GOD’s WORD, Alone! NOTHING ELSE!!! This, BY NO MEANS, is meant to suggest that one is to ignore one’s pastor’s views, or those of other Members of the congregation; it means only to provide Students with The GOLD STANDARD of Righteous Comparison. We are NEVER to forget what is written in Hebrews 13:17.
I Corinthians 16:10 “Now, if Timotheus [Timothy] come, see that he may be with you without fear [alarm/grave concern]: for he Worketh The WORK of THE LORD, as I also do.”
This verse serves, at least in part, to support the contention of THIS Teacher that doing GOD’s Will Is HIS WORK, Which HE Has Ordained That each one of us, as a BELIEVER/CHRISTIAN, is to do, and this, Timothy was engaged in doing, also. Students, While There Are Certain Basic Requirements That Are Standard for EVERY BELIEVER/CHRISTIAN, There Are Certain Other Aspects of GOD’s WORK That Will Ultimately Prove To Be DIFFERENT for some persons, Than It Will Prove To Be For others; in each case, however, it will be the furtherance of The GOSPEL of The KINGDOM of HEAVEN That
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is to be the Principle FOCUS of whatever is done. This is the MEANING of what Yeshua/Jesus stated in the conclusion to his Prayer in The Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:42).
Hebrews 6:10 “For GOD IS NOT UNrighteous To Forget your Work and Labour of Love, which ye have shewed [shown] toward HIS NAME, in that ye have ministered [given service] to The Saints, and do minister.”
We observe the words of this verse, and find that SERVING The Saints of GOD is to be an ON-GOING, EVERYDAY, ALL DAY, development and process, and IS NOT TO BE a temporary one, by any means. NEVER allow yourselves to THINK, for a single moment, that just because you might have done one, or possibly two, very kind deeds/acts, toward another BELIEVER/CHRISTIAN, or some other person in general, that you have SATISFIED all Biblical Requirements in this area (Galatians 6:9-10): YOU HAVE NOT! Whenever, and Wherever, there exists ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY for you to SERVE someone in need, YAHVEH GOD REQUIRES that you SERVE that individual, with a GRATEFUL Heart of Love, always keeping in the forefront of your mind/thoughts What GOD Has Done For YOU. The TRUTH Is That The EXISTENCE of HIS LOVE, Residing Within your heart/mind, Will Propel you to answer The Call of RIGHTEOUS Service for others!
Beloved, we, as BELIEVERS/CHRISTIANS, must STOP thinking, so fearfully, and divest ourselves of so many of those thoughts that persons we help will view themselves as having “Gotten Over” on us, “Played” us, or have “Outsmarted” us in some way! This is the VANITY of our HUMAN NATURES speaking to us, and is strictly FLESHLY THINKING, but it IS NOT GOD’s WAY! We MUST CRUCIFY [eradicate] such thoughts, on a DAILY basis! (Galatians 5:24-25; Romans 6:6) GOD SEES EVERYTHING, and KNOWS EVERYTHING that takes place within our lives, and EVERYONE involved in it: NOTHING Ever Escapes HIM! HE Is THE ONE WHO Has TOLD us WHAT is to be done, and HOW it is to be done, and It Is HE WHO Ultimately Has The REWARDS To Dispense For the ACTIONS, and not merely the THOUGHTS, of our RIGHTEOUS SERVICE.
II Thessalonians 2:16 “Now, our Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua Ha Meshiach, Himself, and GOD, Even our FATHER, WHICH Hath Loved us, and Hath Given us Everlasting Consolation, and Good Hope Through GRACE,”
17 “Comfort your hearts, and Stablish [Establish] you in EVERY Good Word AND Work.”
Look at the words of the verse, closely, Beloved. UNDERSTAND their MEANING, and enclose Them Within your Hearts/Minds/Thoughts! Lock them away, and NEVER let them escape! Do you SEE, with your Spiritual Eyes, that IT IS NOT simply about a case of BELIEVING [Word], but is ALSO about DOING [Work], as well?!? Do you SEE it?!!? TRUE FAITH Brings Along, With Its Arrival, The WORKS of RIGHTEOUSNESS [Right-Living], and there are MANY Righteous Works still to be done! As long as we are alive, we will NEVER be able to exhaust the totality of those Things That YAHVEH GOD REQUIRES of us, As HIS Children. When we properly UNDERSTAND, we will recognize that this is ALL just a small PART of what is stated in I Peter 1:15-17.
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Revelation 20:12 “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before GOD; and The Books Were Opened: and ANOTHER Book Was Opened, Which Is The BOOK of LIFE: and the dead Which Were JUDGED Out of Those Things Which Were Written in The Books, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.”
What we are being told, in the words of this verse, is that ALL PEOPLES, the World over, Will Be JUDGED from The Books of The Holy Bible [“…The Books Were Opened…”], and according to ALL that is stated, therein (Matthew 4:4). The FINAL BOOK To Be Opened Will Be The BOOK of ETERNAL LIFE, Which Will Declare the names of ALL of those who are to receive ETERNAL LIFE. THIS Teacher ASSURES you, According To The WORD of GOD, that MANY expected names will be MISSING from The Role (Matthew 7:21-23). Will YOUR name be Written There?!? Will THIS Teacher’s name be There?
Revelation 22:12 “And, behold, I Come Quickly; and My REWARD Is With Me, To Give [To] EVERY man/woman according as his/her WORK shall be!”
The QUESTION will be: “IN ADDITION to making the CLAIM of BELIEVING in GOD, did each one of us Honestly, and Faithfully, SERVE YAH [THE HEAVENLY FATHER and Son], and The KINGDOM of HEAVEN, through KEEPING The COMMANDMENTS, which is The Genuine SIGN of Loving GOD, and Loving one’s neighbors, as well, by doing for those persons, at every opportunity, as The HOLY SCRIPTURES Have COMMANDED that we should do for them?” (Matthew 22:36-40) On the other hand, have we found ourselves becoming comfortable with what we are doing, while failing to do what we SHOULD do, while actually LYING and PRETENDING about what we are doing to PLEASE GOD, whether intentional, or otherwise? Are we frequently trying to twist The Words of Holy Scripture, attempting to have Them Say what we WANT Them To Say, rather than That Which They Actually DO Say? It is happening far more often than so many of us would like to admit – even from the pulpits of so many of the churches!
READ your BIBLES, and listen, closely, to the words of so many of those who are on radio and television, who stand so arrogantly behind the rostrums in their pulpits, and pronounce that which is blatantly UNTRUE, when one KNOWS The TRUTH of The Holy Scriptures! Hear MANY of them TWIST The Words of Holy Scripture, and That Which Is WRITTEN, in an attempt to COVER their own UNrighteous ways, and that which they are actually doing, that is in direct VIOLATION of GOD’s WORD! THIS Teacher HEARS their words, quite clearly, and UNDERSTANDS the severity of the GREAT HARM that they do, particularly to those persons who are SEEKING to find The TRUTH of The Way, and GOD’s WORD! GOD Will JUDGE them for the UNRIGHTEOUSNESS of what they do, and teach, as they attempt to COVER their own COVETOUSNESS, and so many more of their egregious SINS! How DARE they take The NAME of THE LORD GOD in VAIN, through the UNRIGHTEOUSNESS of their WORKS!!! They have MUCH for which to give account!
CONCLUSION:
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up this Mantle of Preacher/Teacher, on his own volition, there is much that causes concern for this Instructor. There are SO MANY persons, who are attempting to fill the roles of Preachers/Teachers, whose words are diametrically opposite to that which is contained within The Holy Scriptures (I Corinthians 14:10). The problem, as this Teacher sees such, is that they do what they do with so much ease, and alacrity. There appears to be no reluctance, or trepidation, on their parts, at all, for what they do! They appear to have absolutely NO care about doing that which Is DISPLEASING To GOD, According to GOD’s OWN WORDS.
THIS Teacher has stated, previously, that this Instructor IS NOT ONE who claims that The END of TIME, and The Lord’s Return Is So Imminent That It Could Occur TODAY, as do so MANY Religionists. Bear in mind that this DOES NOT NEGATE the fact that The SAVIOR IS COMING, Again! This Teacher has Taught, however, and will continue to Teach, that The END will take longer to come than most persons contend will be the situation: Biblical Support has been provided, by THIS Teacher, on a number of occasions, for WHY this Instructor has adamantly taken this position. This Teacher has given Lessons that have been Taught on this very Issue: read them, and arrive at your own conclusions. Now IS NOT the time to, again, get deeply into this particular topic area.
What our concern is to be, on this occasion, in particular, is that of our WORKS. Are we, like our Savior, The Lord Yeshua Ha Meshiach, WORKING, diligently, before The Night of our lives settles in, when we will no longer be able to Work? When our Lord Returns, and He WILL Most Certainly RETURN; will WE be able to say what He said in John 17:4? Precious Hearts, THIS Teacher, who CANNOT speak for any one of you, but for himself, only, is willing to state, most emphatically: I MUST WORK THE WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT ME, WHILE IT IS DAY, FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK. Will you join me?
MAY THIS BE THE SONG THAT WE SING EACH DAY OF OUR LIVES.
AMEN
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