Mon, Nov 30th - 11:54AM

Mt. 12:30 IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME...

1: John 1: 9 If we confess (G3670) our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We clearly understand our confession is made to the High Priest/Mediator of the New Covenant, not the disannulled Old Covenant high priest of the Law. We gain the understanding that our confession does not mean to ask God for forgiveness over and over again for our sins, like the penitent sinners of the Old Covenant of the Law. New Covenant confession means to turn from sin to God; to fully agree to covenant with His Son Jesus christ:  Confess: G3670 homologeō, meaning: to assent, i.e. covenant, acknowledge: - con (pro) fess, confession is made, give thanks, promise.

This confession (G3670) unto salvation even, after salvation, is held fast as finished. Ro. 10:8 confirms that this is the confession unto salvation:

 Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess (G3670) with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Heb. 10:23  let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, (for he is faithful that promised). This profession that we hold fast is G3671 homologia, from the same as in G3670. To hold fast means G2722 Katecho, to hold down fast, (lit. or fig.)- have, held (fast), keep (in memory), possess, retain, seize, and stay. This is a one-time permanent confession we must make to God, who offers a one-time atonement-the sinless blood sacrifice of His Son Lord Jesus Christ. 

CHRIST’S FORGIVENESS IS COMPLETE, PERMANENT, FINAL, AND FINISHED, ONCE FOR ALL TO ALL WHO BELIEVE. His forgiveness is the eternal termination of the wrath of God against sin; it is the eternal release from the guilt of sin which oppresses the conscience, and the eternal remission of the punishment of sin, which is eternal death.  Through faith in Jesus Christ we have rested from our fleshly works for righteousness and have entered into the eternal rest of God to find peace and reconciliation with Him forever.

In his justification of all believers, then, all our sins past present and future are forgiven permanently; and the guilt and punishment thereof permanently removed: Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

God sees the believer as without sin and guilt in Christ: Rom. 8:33: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 

His righteousness is unto all and upon all them that believe. See Ro, 5: 17-21; 1 Cor. 1:30-31.

Once sinners confess (G3670)and repent of their sins believing in the name of Jesus Christ who imputes His righteousness to them- all their sins are forgiven by God the Father, once for all and they receive the indwelling gift of the Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus’ imputing of the one-time offering of His sinless atoning sacrifice is completely sufficient for taking and washing away all of our sins. He has nothing else to offer because there is absolutely nothing else to offer, or can be offered other than His one sacrifice.

His one offering of His incorruptible sinless blood for sin is absolutely finished and final. He is not like those sinful old high priests under the annulled Mosaic Law, whose work was never finished because they could not obtain permanent forgiveness for the people through the offering of corruptible animal blood.

God absolutely forbids adding anything to His Son’s sinless sacrifice or taking anything away from it which rejects its eternal absolute truthfulness. Any selfwillful additional works to obtain forgiveness after salvation is received, is in actual fact rejecting the absolute truth of Christ's shed  SINLESS blood on the cross, death, burial and resurrection and despising the Holy Spirit's work.  

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serola

Thu, Nov 26th - 12:33PM

Mt. 12:30 HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME...

In spite of the everlasting eternal truth, brethren, that Christians are eternally forgiven by God, some try to dispute this. They in error claim that our forgiveness from God is dependent on whether or not we forgive others:

Mt. 6: 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

 The ignorant brother or sister sees this and wrongly interprets it to mean our forgiveness from God is unstable/conditional, and is taken away from us when we don’t forgive others and is restored when we do forgive others. Round and round they go having no assurance of eternal forgiveness.

Jesus Christ tells us the rest of the eternal truth.

Tue, Nov 24th - 1:43PM

MT. 12:30 HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME...

Well did Lord Jesus speak of John and his brother:

Heb. 13:  5[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 

Christians must never ever believe the satanic lie that our Triune God will leave, separate, or  forsake His Children in any way or manner whatsoever. The everlasting truth is that our God will be with His people forever and nothing  and no one can take us from Him. There is NO power that can take us from God, He is faithful.

John is speaking in absolutes of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. There are those who in error interpret 1 John 1: 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – to mean all Christians are to keep begging God for forgiveness each and every time we sin, even if it is the same sin committed again. Furthermore it is falsely interpreted that we are separated, lose fellowship with God when we sin. The final stumble of those who believe these falsehoods is that they sincerely believe, (but are sincerely wrong), that through their multiple continual confessions they will CLEANSE THEMSELVES, AND RESTORE THEMSELVES BACK TO FELLOWSHIP WITH God-UNTIL THE NEXT SIN AD NASEUM.

These are lies, hideous error, because the same John that wrote 1 Jhn. 1: 9, thunders with the inerrant truth of scripture through out.

As for those who insist on the error of the  practice of continually giving their confession to God to be forgiven of sins and restore a so-called broken fellowship with God over and over after salvation; John states unequivocally: 1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

John, minces no words, leaves no room for misinterpretation. He completely destroys forever the error of the Christian still being identified as a “sinner” and/or "saved sinner", continually needing to beg Lord Jesus Christ  over and over for further forgiveness after receiving salvation. John continues on

 1 Jhn. 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he Cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Those who have been in igorance of the everlasting truth of the New Covenant,  God is able to  powerfully illuminate with the truth of our salvation in Jesus Christ, and bring them fully into the joy of 1 John 1:9.

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serola

Sat, Nov 21st - 10:28AM

MT. 12:30 IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME...

Gal.3:21[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. 22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 

23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

All Christians are absolutely commanded by God to be firmly settled in the righteousness of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, and not vainly or in error seeing or believing that  grace is in any way whatsoever in  conflict with the Law.

The Law sends the urgent message that ALL sinners need a saviour.

Those who receive and believe in the Saviour, are no longer sinners but SAINTS (G40 hagios), children of God, believers, followers of Jesus Christ, etc. and  are PERMANENTLY delivered from the Law for all time. Therefore God absolutely forbids the comingling of the Law with grace, and defends His gospel against all from doing what He forbids, trying to substitute the Law for Grace-God forbid.

Brothers and sisters let us rejoice in Jesus Christ as we continue on the road with and to the book of John, within the context of righteousness through  faith in Jesus Christ, Author and finisher of our faith gained through His New Covenant, not the Mosaic Law.

1John 1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

John attests that anyone claiming to absolutely never having any sin at all is self-deceived, and totally devoid of truth, in other words they are Liars. 

What John is declaring here is that there are those who falsely claim that they have no need of a Saviour to take away their sins, because they absolutely never had any sin. This cannot possibly be true since we know that Jesus Christ is the only sinless human being that ever lived, who came to take away the sins of the world. Again except for Jesus Christ all men are born sinners: Ro. 3:23:  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God… 

Now some might think that John was only addressing some folks called "Gnostics", who contradicted God's message. The Gnostics, it is said, did not believe in sin or that Christ’s death was necessary for salvation. This is an extremely narrow understanding of John's passage and is actually in error of it. This highlights the problem of trying to authenticate the Gospel, by comingling it with history derived from non-biblical sources. Christians must check all teachings against scripture, without exception.

God's word authenticates God's word alone. God's word confirms, interprets, clarifies, and backs up God's word.

John speaks clearly in biblical New Covenant absolutes, without apology. It is clear that John is not writing about just one certain kind of group of so called "Gnostics", he is writing in absolute terms.  ALL persons (except for Jesus Christ who is absolutely sinless); who claim they have absolutely never had any sin, therefore having no need for a Saviour to take away their sins is lying. Most profoundly, such persons are self-deceived and absolutely have no truth in them at all.

 Those in gross error, are deceiving themselves that they are sinless, and shall die in their sins without exception, because they deny themselves of that sinless cure, Jesus Christ, who takes away the all sins for all who believe.

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serola

Fri, Nov 20th - 8:20AM

Mt. 12: 30 HE THAT IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME..

Holy brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ, has made it abundantly clear, over and over, that He will never negotiate, He will never compromise, He will never accept any alternatives to His New Covenant, written in His sinless. Blood, with anyone or anything ever: Mat. 12: 30He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. 

Luke 11: 23He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

John is swinging with both fists against the twisted blasphemies, and the satanic lies that falsely say that  God has created spiritual monstrosities, spiritual Franken steins, or spiritual Dr. Jekylls and Mr. Hydes  instead of holy people, washed in His sinless blood.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from ALL sin.

Jesus is the perfect Saviour; there is no sin of any kind in Him. Jesus came to take away the sins of everyone who believes in His name. Not some sins, but all sins for all time.

John is quite bold to declare that for believers the blood of Jesus Christ cleans them from all sin. All means in the whole, entirely, without exception.

It is obvious, beloveds, that those who believe in Lord Jesus, God considers them to be walking in the light, and enables them to have eternal fellowship with Him and one another. According to God’s finished and final standards these are the only persons that God considers walking in Jesus Christ, the Light of the whole world.

Wed, Nov 18th - 7:34AM

IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME

Jhn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

John is not treading daintily, he is rampaging, stomping, and pounding away with the Holy Ghost power of the everlasting, complete and final truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, Author of the everlasting New Covenant.

John is not touchy feely, warm and fuzzy regarding the truth of the New Covenant. John is putting forth the megawatt spotlight on the indisputable word of God for all time, and it is impossible for God to lie. NO ONE who walks in darkness has any fellowship with God, nor will ever have fellowship with God.

John’s message plainly declares that just saying we are saved doesn't cut it. All who believe must do the word in deed and truth, out of obedience to God, and out of love for Him and all men.

 Easy believe-ism, beloveds, is out of the question here because John tells us plainly without exception, if anyone says, "I am a child of God; I am walking in the light, just because I say so, and my word alone is good enough to make it so, even if I choose to walk in darkness”, he or she is an outright LIAR, LIAR, LIAR.

Does John say such persons, are just confused, back sliders, or oh well we are all sinners? No, John jumps up with the Holy Ghost knockout punch and calls them what they are by the everlasting standard of the gospel-they are LIARS, LIARS, LIARS, ALL OF THEM. 

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serola 

Tue, Nov 17th - 4:39AM

iIF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME

God’s plan is that His people should and absolutely must  rest in the everlasting truth of His Son Jesus Christ, author and finisher of the New Covenant. It is time for those still wrestling with the word of God to stop, and come BELIEVING AND resting in the everlasting truth of scripture. And this we will do by the grace of God.

Through Jesus Christ by way of the Holy Spirit we continue on the road to and of 1 John.

 1 Jhn. 1:5 this then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Does God say His kids are in and out of the light; in and out of darkness; broken fellowship, quasi- fellowship, partial fellowship?

No- absolutely not. Other books of scripture backs up and agrees with the book of John:

Eph. 5: 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

1 Thess. 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

The word “no” here and also in John’s passages means G3756, a primary word, meaning the absolute negative, i.e. absolutely NOT. John is speaking in absolutes without question and unapologetically. He is not being politically correct, and has no intention of doing so. John is setting forth and in agreement with the absolute truth of the New Covenant of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Old Covenant also backs up the New Covenant.

Dearly beloveds, God has no hybrid saints ( G40 hagios) or in- betweeners;  that is half-light and half dark or sometimes dark and sometimes light children. Those in God, God declares that they are light, those not in God, God declares to be dark, without exception. God trumps in His declaration of this everlasting truth: THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DARKNESS IN GOD.

Those who disagree with the New Covenant, will in error,  try to drag the ignorant believer back to the Old covenant of the Law that God no longer applies to the faithful in His Son Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, saints (G40 hagios) resist those who try to wrongly, and falsely label believers as “ back slid” or “back sliders”, one foot in light and the other foot in darkness. Such creatures do not exist through the power of Jesus Christ who has rooted us in Him and regenerated us in the Holy Spirit. The fact that believers are light is the absolute truth AND spiritual reality that must be manifested in the daily lives of every believer.

Salvation is instant, but it takes time and diligence for believers to study and understand scripture, and grow thereby. It is the will of God that we all learn of Him, trust in Him, grow in Him, understand His will in the full message of His Son Jesus Christ and live the message to do His will and glorify Him.

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serola 

Mon, Nov 16th - 8:35AM

IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME

Beloved brothers and sisters, let us pray to our God, that the ignorant brothers and sisters will come and join the rest of us in rejoicing in our Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, High Priest, and shepherd over the house of God. Let us pray brethren, that the ignorant brothers and sisters will understand that they can knock all night long on the door of the house that King Solomon built, looking for God, but they will never find Him there. For God Himself has said that He never has nor ever will live in the house that King Solomon built. Neither has God ever planned to do so from before the beginnings of the foundation of the world.

Again, as noted previously, scripture tells us the final answer about the house that King Solomon built:

 Acts 7:47But Solomon built him an house. 48Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 49Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?50Hath not my hand made all these things?

Lord Jesus Christ has built up His people to be His house. Our hope is in our Lord Jesus Christ: Col. 1: 27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory…

This is very important, because men still falsely claim to build so called “houses of God” today. Brethren, be sure God is not ever going to live in any of them either.

It is Jesus calling the ignorant brothers and sisters to the home He has built which is His body. It is Jesus who will end the search, the tears, the heartache, of the sincere but ignorant brothers and sisters, through the new and living way of the New Covenant of grace. And you are ready, you are willing, the Holy Spirit will enable you and every believer to come into the knowledge of the full covenant of the living God.

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serola  

Mon, Nov 9th - 10:02AM

IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME

A strange thing happened on the road to 1 John 1:4. I met two sincere sisters in the Lord, who admitted they were depressed, discouraged, and downright miserable. They were diligent in keeping “short accounts”, and noted that it was good to point out to themselves what miserable, lowly sinners they are to God.

They were so busy crying out to God begging for forgiveness and trying to get back in His good graces, it seemed to them immoral and unseemly to remotely think that they were entitled or deserving of any joy. They were certain that their state of self- imposed misery was ordained by God and right in His sight, and ought to be the portion of every sincere believer. Holy brothers and sisters, they relied strongly on these verses to justify their sincere, but incorrect belief:

2 Chr. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

It is undeniably clear that God is speaking to those under the Old Covenant of the Law. This was never meant for those believers indwelt by the Holy Spirit, through faith in Jesus Christ the Author of the New Covenant of grace.

In fear of being punished and plucked up and cast away by God these women labored to the point past exhaustion trying to avoid slipping up and being permanently separated from God by their sins.

And so fear and joylessness is the fruit of every ignorant believer who tries to deal with sin through the Mosaic Law. Christians are commanded by god to deal with sin the New Covenant way. It is absolutely clear that the house that our Lord Jesus has built is not made of brick and stone. Our God clearly tells us that He does not dwell in temples made with hands. There is abundant scripture that states the absolute truth of the everlasting house or temple built by our Lord Jesus Christ:   

1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

 2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Therefore let every one of us brothers and sisters believe all that our Lord has done to and for us by His power.

Let us go on to our apostle and brother John.

1 John 1: 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

John’s purpose in writing is that our joy may be full.

John clearly emphasizes that God's people would understand, and know God with such infallible certainty that each and every one would be filled fully of cheerful calmness, great joy and delight.

As we rest in God, children of light,  in believing the eternal truth of John’s message we find that our joy is full too. Joy, yes Joy, brothers and sisters, not sadness, guilt, shame, self-loathing and doubt.

Those Christians  who do not get the joy, have not comprehended John’s message either. Thank God no Christian has to remain ignorant for the Holy Spirit is able to open up the scripture so that all may know the Joy of 1 John.

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serola

Thu, Nov 5th - 9:36AM

IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME YOU ARE AGAINST ME

1 John 1: 1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2(For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us; ) 3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

In the book of 1 John 1:1-3, the apostle presents in meticulous detail, one could even say in minutiae, the foundation of our fellowship with God and one another, God being the sole authority of which this fellowship can be made or validated.

John gives an eye witness account, up close and personal of the reality that Jesus was, seen, heard, felt, and witnessed by the apostles as well as other saints. Jesus Christ is the everlasting, eternal, preexistent God, who was revealed to them in the person of God the Son.

John wants all of God's People to know that God is not some kindly person, who saves us and leaves us alone to our own devices, sink or swim, win or lose. No, no, and no. John declares God's purpose is that we are to have what God wants-commands, and provides, eternal unbroken fellowship with God and one another - and this is according to God's eternal standard alone.

Fellowship: meaning G2842 partnership, i.e. (literal) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction :- (to) communicate (-ation), communion, (contri-) distribution, fellowship).

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serola