Perfected in HIM by being born again
Hi Family
Here’s what the holy scriptures says about knowing His commandments.
The Bible says:
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
“You are my friends if you do what I command.”
4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. and for many of us who know will agree the next scripture (repeated from SERIES 1 with purpose) is one of the most chilling of all:
“22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”
So, if we don’t follow His commandments it is very clear that He will not recognise us.
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
To “fear God and keep his commandments” is to learn to be and to discover the secret of being a whole person.
List of The Commandments Of Jesus
In my previous writing I focused on the commandment of forgiveness.
In this second instalment let’s continue with a firm commandment of Jesus, where He says you must be born again:
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Jesus said clearly, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
Therefore the following is so alarming that I’m in shock
Different teachers , pastors, etc., who confess the Lord would make this commandment a blur, and overshadow it with different ideals and concepts to appease the age we are in.
For example, the prominent bible teacher John Hagee, – the Pentecostal ‘pastor’ of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas – issued a book in 2016 titled, ‘In Defense of Israel’.
Via a promotional video advert for the book, he states:
John Hagee – Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas
“In Defense of Israel’ will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a Calvary conspiracy between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?
Read this shocking expose’, ‘In Defense of Israel‘.
Now, view this video to see a rebuke from iThink Biblically on this:
The Houston Chronicle (4/30/88, sec. 6, p. 1) quoted John Hagee as saying:
“I’m not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith… In fact, trying to convert Jews is a waste of time. Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity”.
Michael A. Walrond Jr is a major pastor who leads more than 10,000-members of the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem.
He says, “Believing Jesus Is The Only Way To Heaven Is ‘Insanity’”.
Meanwhile, Joel Osteen speaking to Larry King on Jesus being the only way, delivers a confused message in this interview:
“I think it’s wrong when we go around saying, you’re not going, you’re not going, you’re not going, because it’s not exactly my way.”
The Vatican tells it’s followers:
Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight antisemitism.
In a major new document from the Vatican’s commission for religious relations with Jews, that draws the church further away from the strained relations of the past, the Vatican stated that Christianity and Judaism are intertwined, and God never annulled his covenant with the Jewish people.
“The church is therefore obliged to view evangelisation to Jews, who believe in the one God, in a different manner from that to people of other religions and world views,” it said.
“In concrete terms this means that the Catholic church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed towards Jews,” it stated.
THE MAIN TAKEAWAY
This is mind blowing.
In principle, all of these leaders are saying the Jews DO NOT NEED TO BE BORN AGAIN and that Jesus is not the only way.
This is a different level of heresy and I am scared for these people’s lives.
They must repent!
Why are they not holding firm to HIS commandments?!
The Bible says:
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”
“I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises”.
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
And,
The declaration in Acts 4:12: 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Therefore, saying that Jewish People have a different way apart from faith in Jesus is a lie.
Again, the Bible clearly states that there is no other way to reach the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob but through His Anointed Messiah, Jesus – and to say there are many ways to God is a lie.
Family, do not follow these men.
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN
Pay heed.
It breaks my heart that they are not following HIS commandments.
Blessings Ron
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