God has great joy
in keeping you from falling:.Jude
1:24 "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy."
It is not believing that
one is pure and holy, righteous
and perfect that will eventually cause departure
from the Creator's spiritual
realm:.Hebrews
3:12 "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief, in departing from the living God.".It
is a heart of unbelief
that will take you away.
In believing, you
have a part in persuading
your heart. Without that, the Spirit of the Creator will lack major
influence in life.
But what if you want to believe
but just don't yet believe? What should you do? First, prove
God exists and then learn about God.
And while you're on that road, don't worry about doubts,
because you have help:."I
will believe for you until you can."....Bruno
Gröning,
the great healer from God of the 1940s & 1950s, passed on now, but
as everyone else passed on, is alive and can be called on:.Hebrews
12:1 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does
so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before
us."
Paul
was very concerned about what was going on regarding ways of thinking that
threatened to alienate
others from the loving influence of the Creator.
Some people back then Paul
was aware of in the churches he went to, began to follow deadly spiritual
teachings. These were about getting one's self right, apart from the Creator's
plan of righteousness.imputed
to them as a free gift:.Proverbs
20:9 "Who can say I have made my heart clean and I am now pure from
my sin?"
By allowing themselves to
become distracted from the house holding the ways of the Creator, they
were moving in their minds from the truth of the gospel
they had learned:.Hebrews
3:6,14 "But Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are we,
if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto
the end....For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning
of our confidence stedfast unto the end." Hebrews
10:35 "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great
recompence of reward."
When someone says he is not
as close to God as he once was, you can be pretty sure which one moved!
Colossians
1:20,21 "And, having made peace.(why?).through
the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile
all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in Earth.(physical
things).or
things in heaven.(things
beyond detection by the 5 senses, wherein
is the true reality).
And you, that were sometime.(original
'in time past').alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked.(original
Greek for 'wicked' is 'painful persuasions', things they had come to believe
in error {because they were basically selfishly minded which cuts
off the spirit's influencing of the soul, the result being they go
astray
from
truth}, which were harming
their relationship with the Creator and man, as well as causing their
life to be hard).works,
yet now has he reconciled."
Notice, the peace was made
by Emmanuel.(all
planned
long before by the Father).and
that all things have thus
been reconciled and that Ephesians
2:2,3 adds more. It adds to the."sometimes
alienated and enemies in your mind", that
is, we walked according to dark side influence, demons that influenced
the direction of humanity and that our nature when apart from Creator's
influence was just so predisposed,
as was Adam and Eve's at the beginning of humanity:.Genesis
3:1-6.
We grow up and become the
specific persons that we now are. This resulting from what we have been
exposed to in life, that is, the experiences we encountered and reacted
to as best we knew how respond to. The external environment had its hand
in molding us and we became just as much a part of this world with its
sideways, off center thinking as everyone else, including Adam
and Eve:.1Corinthians
15:22.
And overall, this satanically
influenced environment that molded us was not a loving and caring one.
Rather, it was that which was inherently
selfish, a 'me first', a 'me the leader', a 'worship me I'm greater than
you'.imbedded
nature. It was the nature of the dark side. It was influence coming out
of the consciousness
of all humanity in the invisible, but this part was negative.
In order to know what 'works'
please the Creator, one has to know what works wouldn't. And for that you
need a standard. And the standard most used then is much the same as many
use in error today, that of the
commandments, tithing,
etc., instead of the movement of the mind of God in a person, often referred
to as the movement of air, that is, you just sense
a movement in your mind as you would feel a movement from an unexpected
gentle gust of air.(you
know the air is there, just never thinking about its movement until it
does), just a sudden awareness of something
in one's mind, an awareness that alerts to something for consideration.
Creator-God moves in us as
much as is possible. Why
is that?
Religious works couldn't
reconcile people to the Father. Christ had to do that. It was hard toil
and effort to keep works that were not required and which couldn't reconcile
one anyhow. What a waste of time due to ignorance of the grace of God.
Only His blood makes a person holy, unblameable and unreproveable:.Colossians
1:22.
We now have been, thanks
to Christ's work, presented holy and unblameable and unreproveable
in His sight, if we continue in the faith grounded and settled and
be
not moved away from the hope of the gospel....." as Colossians 1:22
states.(*)
And sometimes to be 'not
moved away', one has to move on:.Romans
16:17,18 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid
them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Emmanuel the Christ, but
their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts
of the simple.(Matthew
10:16)."
If sin
is missing the mark and perfection is hitting
the mark, which road are you headed on? And where does perfection lie?
You are in perfection
when you are in Christ.
Paul says that even the scriptures
foretold the gospel of justification by faith.(belief
in Emmanuel the Christ).and.faith
alone:.Galatians
3:6-9 "Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for
righteousness. Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same
are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen
through faith, preached before the gospel
unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they
which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham."
Paul
was always set to defend the gospel:.Philippians
1:17 "...I am set for the defence of the gospel." Philippians
3:2 "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
Titus
1:10 "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers..."
Paul even wanted those who
were perverting
the true gospel cut off from influencing others; kick them out, in other
words:.Galatians
5:12 "I would they were even cut off which trouble you."
Paul
wrote Titus about the same thing and also had to write about it to
those called by God in the ancient cities of Rome
and Galatia.
It was then, as it is today,
a widespread problem, caused mostly by confusion
about grace
and law:.Jeremiah
7:19 ".....Do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their
own faces?" 1Corinthians 14:33
"For God is not the author of confusion.(well
who
is then?), but of peace..."
