...continued
from Questions, Page 1.What
about faith being made perfect by works?
...The Old
Testament Mosaic Law worked wrath:.Romans
4:15; Hebrews 3:7-10. Because of
Romans 4:15, Christ had to do this:.Galatians
3:13. And because of that, this:.1Thessalonians
5:9; 1:10; Romans
5:9. And because of those, this:.1Thessalonians
5:11.
The wrath of the Creator
is only for the children
of disobedience, which includes those allowing
others to place them into bondage without being forced into it:.Ephesians
5:6 "Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things
comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.".Romans
9:22,23.
Revelation
16:1 "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven
angels, Go your ways and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the
earth."
Revelation
14:8 "And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication."
Revelation
11:18 "And the nations were angry that your wrath is come and the time
of the dead, that they should be judged and that you are to give reward
unto your servants the prophets and to the saints and them that fear your
name, small and great and destroy them which destroy the earth."
Hebrews
3:11 "So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest."
1Thessalonians
5:9,10 "For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by Emmanuel the Christ."
1Thessalonians
1:10 "And to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead
and by whom we are delivered from the wrath to come."
Ephesians
4:31 "Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking and malice,
be put away from you."
Like humans, some children
need to be dealt with a little more sternly than others. And yet others
may have severe trials to bring out
even greater character qualities to enable them to receive a high
position in God's coming kingdom.(government).on
Earth:.Colossians
3:6. God's wrath however,
has a good purpose for those who cannot bring themselves into line.
We were once under His wrath
too:.Ephesians
2:3;.John
3:36 "He that believes on the Son has everlasting life and he that
believes not the Son sees no life.(*);
but the wrath.(original
Greek is 'to deeply desire'; to 'be indignant
accompanied with intent to cause change'; in other words God deeply wants
a
relationship with each of us in His creation and He's extremely concerned
when He sees us unhappy and even hurting ourselves when He has provided
a great life for all who stop rejecting {Romans
1:18} what the death and resurrection
of His Son made possible).of
God abides on him." Psalms
106:36-45;
Ephesians 5:1-8;
Colossians
3:1-6; Revelation 14:10.
It is through faith that an individual has life:.Romans
1:17 "For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." 1John
2:24 "Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the
beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning remains in you,
you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father."
It is not the wrath of the
Creator that 'wakes people up'.(examples
in Emmanuel's time:.John
7:7).and
brings them into His
family of spiritual beings, but rather the Creator's goodness towards
people:.Isaiah
63:7; Romans 2:4;.Ephesians
5:9 "For the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth."
Psalms
52:1 "...the goodness of God endures continually.".1Corinthians
2:9; Deuteronomy 32:4.
God is good and is with the good. Who's
good?
Find what's good in life:.1Chronicles
22:11,12; 2Chronicles 19:11.
There is a
good God and a bad god. The bad god is with the liars and the deceivers:.John
8:44; Revelation 12:9. Follow
the good. How?.Matthew
5:44.
"People come and say 'Mr.
Groening, prove that to us, then I'll believe'.(*).
I'm not in need of the good, because I own it. But, you need it. And I
should prove it to you?.(*)"....Bruno
Gröning.
How
to become good? Learn to be good always:.James
4:17. Pray/praise to God
about others. Your good thoughts for others is your prayer. Good actions
of help and concern for others lifts both you and them into
a
higher consciousness.
Why bother?
What is the good one should
stick with throughout life? Doing good shows that one's heart is affected
by faith he or she holds:.Galations
5:6. If you want to be good, do good.(Romans
13:10; Hebrews 13:16).and
avoid satanists who may be around you out to get you to be like them with
their pursuits,
examples.
1Peter
3:9-11.
Good people are those having
God's guidance, who use it to do and create good things that help, heal
and support humanity. How? By being kind, caring, compassionate and loving
in all they do and think. These are some of the things
of love.
Evil people are those who
respond to the promptings of those on the dark side and create and do that
which harms, hinders
and deprecates
humanity. They are jealous of humanity
because those of humanity have a true full soul, something these others
never have had. They hate humanity and want most of humanity replaced and
the rest kept as slaves to them. They are so evil.
It's good to get
well. It's good when you do
good and others do so
to you:.Psalms
82:2-4. It's good when your life is aligned
with God:.John
10:10. God is always
powerfully
on the side of good, but never
overrides, never disturbs,
one's belief structure. You have choice.
It's always your choice.
You are left alone in that
until you wake up. Your belief
structure is what you think to be true.(Proverbs
14:12).and
a lot of that is because we all have been conned
into a framework
of beliefs that suited those
conning us.
Once into good, it's constant
growth in more of it. How so?.Hebrews
9:14. Trust God that you'll be able to stay on the right track because
God will never forsake you:.Hebrews
13:5.
Just as God is with Christ
and as close as they could be.(John
17:5), so it also
is with us.
It's all good for you and
for others:.Romans
13:10 "Love works no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law." Micah 6:8 "He has showed
you, O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to
do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?"
And what if you get off track,
off of the the good path?.1Corinthians
10:13.
Bruno Groening.(English
spelling of German 'Gröning').here
has his mind on everyone's individual responsibility to convince
themselves, meaning, it's our
decision to respond to things in the way we
decide, good or bad:.1Thessalonians
5:21; James 1:22-24.
Ok, but what is good?
Good is when there is nothing unwanted going on:.Romans
14:19; 1Thessalonians
5:15; 1Timothy 6:11; Hebrews
12:14; 3John 1:11. When you do
good, you are committing
your soul to Father-God:.1Peter
4:19. The good things of the true God in heaven are everywhere to know
about. Start with seriously considering your
body. Start with health,
wealth, love, joy, expression.
Start with your effect upon
others. Do they feel comfort from you? Are they encouraged after being
with you? Do they have less fear about life and are more confident? Are
they happy you're around having a small part in their lives?
Matthew
Henry's Commentary:."Do
not excuse yourself with the good you have done, from the good you have
further to do."
Psalms
33:5 "He loves righteousness and judgment. The Earth is full of the
goodness of the Lord."
Here's why you can trust
that only good happens to you:.Romans
8:28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.".Proverbs
12:21.
Wrath or the Creator taking
a severe hand in your life.(Romans
9:22).is
designed to get you to stop that which will hurt you.(why
evils increase).and
get you thinking about some things as the Creator thinks about them. Then
you will come to see the goodness of Him and of life, everywhere:.1Thessalonians
5:18. To be renewed, we
need to focus on good things:.Psalms
103:5.
It was the same all throughout
the Old Testament:.Jeremiah
18:10. The Old Testament is a history
lesson for us all.
It is because of the hard
hearts of some that they expect God's wrath:.Romans
2:5.
But now we are
delivered
from sin thanks to Christ
abolishing
the law and this wrath of God has dissipated
through believing in Emmanuel the Christ and having received the gift of
salvation:.Romans
5:17. But first, you've got to prove to your heart God exists, that
God
is real.
Thanks to the gift of faith.(Ephesians
2:8), we are to proceed with vigor
in doing good works to gain the highest reward,
working as best we can to use as much of Christ's spiritual nature as we
have been able to bring forth:.Ephesians
2:10;
Ephesians 4:7;
Romans
12:3;
Philippians 3:9.
Doing good increases the
fruits of your righteousness.(the
righteousness of Christ that you now have),
but doesn't increase your righteousness:.John
15:4,5. The work of righteousness was performed/finished in Christ
and given to you as a gift -again, Romans
5:17. But like any gift, one can be thankful for it or just reject
it.
So we do good things. We
give not to be blessed, as is the case with those who believe in required
giving, as tithing is. We
give because we are blessed. If you haven't been really blessed
yet, don't give, or at least not too much. Giving is always good for you.
We pray because.we
have
a relationship with the Father, not because we are trying to gain His
fellowship. We do good things because we are right with the Creator,
not trying to get right with God.
One can only be right with
the Creator through belief in Emmanuel the Christ:.John
6:47;
7:38;
11:25;12:44;
14:12;
1John
5:10. Belief is righteousness, as was the case with Rahab,
the harlot.
We are all the workmanship
of He whom the Father has given responsibility to:.Ephesians
2:10. One thing He is working out of us is dead
works:.Hebrews
9:14. Notice it doesn't say 'evil' works, as all sin has been looked
after and no longer counts. But dead
works are works that one's conscience should be purged
from and those works are the works of the
ego, which include the
mindset, the attitude, that operates as no package of
high consciousness being necessary, no direct asking of the true God
required, only adherence to doctrines, purported as necessary to achieve
what you may have been duped into believing would come if you followed
some advice and turned over some of your money.
A lifetime of adherence to
what has been so-called
'necessary intentions' advanced as what we've heard to be 'the way' to
achieve wealth, health, love and right place in life for individuals, has
proven woefully inadequate. One eventually begins to realize this as he
or she travels on in life. For example, many having followed Bob
Proctor's plan to a prosperous life and many having complied with Dr.
Joseph Murphy's advice and/or Deepak
Chopra's information in order to get ahead, end up disillusioned when
things do not work out as expected from their advice:.1Timothy
6:5.
The fault producing this
mess was us. We looked not to Christ, but to some man or woman and what
they told us about, that they said would work. What they said may
have been true for them and made to appear valuable enough to others for
people to fork over money for their books, courses and practices to further
be a guide for you from their philosophy of success. But after time and
no results, many are let down. There comes a point when one must look at
what is being produced in their life by following guidance from such gurus
who get rich at your expense:.Matthew
7:16-20. Perhaps overall, there is just a different pathway for you
and that you should simply trust God with it.
Would these be the things
that make one happy and free or the things that make one feel guilty?
The
law made one feel guilty:.Romans
3:19. Some weekly church 'goers' feel guilty. What
are they being taught?
-James
2:24.seems
to indicate that works are needed to be saved.
Yep! It does seem
to say that and so does verse 25.
