how do you know?
Rob, you are compelled to be honest, and i trust you will be.
how many churches have you personally attended long enough to know
1) what they preach
2) how transformed the congregation is?
i asked you elsewhere, and you may have answered:
you assert, and rightly so, that part of obedience is preaching the GOSPEL, baptising converts and making disciples:
how many have you baptised?
Ive attened quite a few churches, and the holy spirit also is a witness agasint MOST churches.
I do what the LORD leads me to. Howmany have i baptised? none yet. However the LORD has brought me HERE to preach obedience. TO PEOPEL who dont get that message.
HOW do you know that peopel dont get that message? THEY HATE IT, they attack it, they call it WORKS.
OBEYING JESUS(which is only posible IN JESUS) is called works of the LAw? Thats insane. JESUS commanded we obey him. and WE obey him, SIMPLY, buy DYING!! DENYING self DAILY, and SEEKING HIM, COMMNG before the throne of GRACE and HEARING HIM, having HIM teach us.
Ephesians 4:21
If so be that
you have heard him, and
have been taught by him,...
WE must DAILY, deny ourselves. SOME peopel do this.
MOST, the MAJORITY does not. THE MAJORITY never hears this message. THE MAJORITY hates this message. if YOU do this, then i dotn understadn why you are agaisnt it.
JESUS said YOU will be JUDGED by MY WORDS. JESUS said the one who HEARS and OBEYS builds his house on ROCK. DO YOU HEAR JESUS?
WE can properly HEAR HIM if we DENY US. if WE are about US, if WE dont deny ourdesire adn HUMBLE ourselves before JESUS CHRIST DAILY, even hourly, to know HIS will, to be sanctified by HIS WORD, then HE is not LORD, WE are.
WE ARE NOT TO BE LORD OF OUR LIVES. WE MUST MAKE SURE THE LORD is pleased with all we do. TO DO HIS WILL. HE WILL LET US KNOW. But MOST are not taught this, the ones who DO baptise them, then send them out, into the hands of wicked men(they themselves may be wicked men)
There is MANY fasle gospels out there. Reformed is a part of it, as is Armenian. NOT MANY preach the TRUTH, they preach PART of it. the TRUTH is simple.
JEsus only. NOt US, Not our desire, not our wnats, not our worry and Fears of food, or clothign, or THIGNS desire, lusts of the eyes flesh adn pride of life...THAT is what needs to be denied DAILY, and intead JESUS is put first. IF you have a family, OF COURSE take care of them, you are worse then a heathen if you DONT.
But JESUS comes first, ALWAYS. NO ONE TEACHES THIS, they say you CAN have your cake and eat it too. YOu CAN have YOUR LIFE, and Christs life. ITS A LIE. YOU CAN NOT. its one or the other. And the ones who Try to have both are going AGAISNT the majority of the new testement.
I was never here to do anything but preach obedience(which is LOVE OF GOD),And teach about the Babylon church system. but, becasue i was dissobedeint to the CALL i got side tracked by the goings on in the world. all of which doesnt matter if you ARENT obeying JESUS.
YOU say you ARE. So why stand agaisnt it? MANY are not. If WE arent humbling ourselves DAILY, and going to God daily to remove ALL deception from us, and SEEKing HIM then we arent showing him we WANT him. TO BE washed and cleansed, and SPEDNING TIME IN HIM WITH HIM daily. To KNOW him, to taste him, to feel him to be LITERALLY COVERED by him...then we dont love him.
If you WANT to obey you WILL. HE will give you the power to do so. And the above list of NT comandments is repetitive. and a great majority WILL be automatic IF you have the holy spirit, HOWEVER there is ALSO a great majority that WE MUST DO. Like RESIST TEMPTATION JESUS gave us the power to do so...that power is HIM. WE NEVER HAVE TO GIVE IN. its a lie to say We DO have to.
All outbursts of anger, all angry saracasm, all selfish carnal actions works of the flesh, Selfish seeking desire fro OURSELF is NOT of GOD. I know its tough sometiems, i know its NOT goign to be autimatic in babes i n christ, they are GROWING to maturity, but even YOU Zone must admit the majority of Chruches DO NOT PREACH OBEDEINCE niether do they preach repentance. NOR TRUE FAITH
Its heresy to teach that YOU SHOULD NOT OBEY JESUS.
The Gospel is
REPENT = Turn From SIN
Beleive in JESUS who is LORD
OBEY JESUS Who is lord. (DENY SELF. EMBRACE HIM DAILY)
Teach others to do the same.
WE MUST BE TAUGHT BY JESUS. YES the LORdD uses men somtimes but if we AUTOMATICLY go to MEN, then we are BYPASSING JESUS and relyign on the arm of FLESH. we are trusting MAN in whom has breath, and NOT being still and waitng for JESUS to speak and teach us, SPENDIGN time at HIS THRONE, HE made that possible.
But hardly anyone preaches it. REPENT and OBEY. Thats it. TURN FORM YOU and LOVE GOD. THAT IS THE GOSEPEL, as WE LOVE HIM, TRULY and seek to love him MORE, HE makes it possible that we obey BETTER.
The MORE YOU GIVE TO HIM, the MORE HE CAN SHOW YOU HISMELF. if YOU hold onto idols then you remain blind. IDOLS can be a teaching, a GOAL, an activity, a person. We must depelte our selves of ourselves DAILY and be fileld with HIM DAILY. Repent DAILY and obey DAILY.