Salvation Through Works Gospel
When I was a Baptist youth pastor, I was really against anyone who was preaching salvation through works. I believed in the words of the Apostle Paul when he said that we are saved by grace through faith NOT by works so NO ONE can boast. One day my church put a poster up on their wall and that poster said; “Draw close to God by making right choices”. The poster made me upset because I believed that it was preaching salvation by works. I went into the other pastor and I had a talk with him, I said, “Why are we putting this poster up on the wall that is preaching to our congregation salvation through works? We can’t draw close to God by making right choices, that would be the works based gospel…” The other pastor said to me, “Actually that’s a rough paraphrase of James chapter 4 verse 8 that says; “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” When he read that passage to me it shut me up because I knew it was Biblical and I knew it was the truth. We are to draw close to God by making right choices. Jesus has NOT done everything for you on the cross. In fact Jesus has made the way for you and put the decision upon YOU If YOU will DO THE WORK to follow HIM! Are you doing the work to follow Jesus? Or are you like the hypocrite who believes that God has done everything for you through His Son and you can’t do ANYTHING? Don’t believe that FALSE GOSPEL! Don’t believe the “IN FAITH ALONE” gospel, not through works. Because IT IS by faith AND works that we are saved. Believe the TRUTH. YOU MUST REPENT. You must put your faith in JESUS and prove your faith by your works! Are you doing the works of righteousness? Or are you as I was, a hypocrite youth pastor? May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngHKh9-wWyY
Put Jesus Christ First in Your Life
There are not many rich or wise people that will make it into the Kingdom of God, making it into everlasting life. And the prideful certainly will NOT enter into His Kingdom. When Jesus prayed He said this in Luke 10:21-24, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to who the Son wills to reveal Him.” The only way we get to know the Father is through Jesus Christ, and that comes through humility, through praying to Him, seeking Him with all of our heart, being on our knees in prayer. We are not to worry about this life, but we are to concern ourselves with growing in JESUS and doing HIS will. I want to read to you what Jesu said in Matthew chapter 6:25-34, “Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more that food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore, do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Each of us need to give ALL our concerns to Jesus. WE NEED TO LIVE BY FAITH. Many people are concerned with all the things of the world. Let the word concern itself with the world, BUT let the children of God concern themselves with obeying their Father in heaven! Jesus is our Father. He loves us and He will take care of us. He knows all our needs before we ask. If we seek FIRST HIS will, HIS Kingdom and HIS pleasure, EVERYTHING else will be in line. May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GucX6DPxXAI
The Christian Bible is NOT the Life
For many centuries both Jews and Christians have searched the scriptures thinking that in the Bible they will find everlasting life, they think it will draw them closer to God. But I want to read to you what Jesus said in John chapter 5 starting in verse 37, He said this to the religious crowed; “And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. But you do NOT have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you don’t believe. You search the Scriptures for in them you THINK you have eternal life, and these are they which testify of ME. But you are NOT willing to come to Me that you may have life.” Christians constantly go back to the Bible, they think the Christian life revolves around the Bible. They think that they are feasting on the words in the Bible. They think the Bible is life, but they refuse to come to Jesus that they may have everlasting life in HIM. Don’t be like the religious folk. Don’t be like the Christians and the Jews who refuse to come to Jesus yet are so Biblical. The Bible NEVER brought life. JESUS is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE. You need to go to JESUS and receive the Holy Spirit! And IF you receive His Spirit and if He puts His truth in you, you will feast on Jesus’ flesh, you will drink His blood and you will have everlasting life. There is NO OTHER WAY to the Kingdom of God except through JESUS HIMSELF. May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPT2SQ4nKA8
Receive Back Your Inheritance: A Parable from the Holy Spirit
The Kingdom of God is like a man who went away to a far country and he left his children in charge of his household. Instead of taking care of the fathers household the children decided to maximize on the things that they could make and the things that they could do, so they allowed merchants to come into their house and to live on the land and to rent out the different rooms of that household. Now many years went by and after some time the father wanted to come home to give the children the inheritance. So, they traveled back to their own country. But when they came onto the property and into that household, they found merchants who had legally acquired shops, places to rent, they had a bakery, they had all sorts of merchandise and things for sale, and the children of that household and the father could not enter back into that household, because they would have to hire a lawyer in order to make it back onto their own property. So, one person standing by said, he said to the father; “Why don’t you not put up a fight, just give that entire inheritance over to those merchants and then purchase another property, another land, and give THAT to your children?” But the father responded and said; “This is all of our inheritance and if this is lost EVERYTHING is lost!” In the back of the father’s house was a river. The river was beautiful. And one asked; “Does this river belong to you or who’s river is this?” And the children answered; “The river is not God’s, the river belongs to the government.” Eventually the father himself put an end to it all. The father evicted those that were in his house, he got rid of all those who were selling merchandise and he gave back his inheritance TO THOSE CHLDREN WHO WERE WORHTY TO RECEIVE IT. For those who have an ear to her let them hear this parable, because God’s house has become a house of merchandise, thieves and robbers, and they will steal your inheritance away from you. What do you think will happen to those ungodly children who have willfully done this with God’s inheritance? God’s house shall be called a house of prayer, but the merchants and the men of this world have made it into a den of thieves and robbers and sorcerers. Will you be part of those that are worthy to inherit God’s house, the inheritance that is for you and your children? Or will you give it over to the merchants, like how the children of this world and how the worldly christens have given their inheritance over to the merchants?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reAFjGkiX88
Your Friends are a Catalyst to Sin
Jesus requires holiness out of us. If we are going to be His children, we have to be separate from the world, worldly endeavors and being connected to worldly friends. You can’t be a disciple of Jesus and keep friends that are ungodly and worldly. The problem that most people have with following Jesus is all their connections to the world. All their friends. Their friends act as a catalyst to encourage them to sin, and if it weren’t for their friends maybe they’d be able to really turn from their sin, turn from doubting God and really start doing the work of the Kingdom of God. Because people want to keep ungodly friends, they continue to eat the garbage of the world like how Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they entertained BAD company, and as it is written, “Bad company corrupts good morals”. Most of the problems of the world would leave if people were divided, if they were separated from each other, not all the problems but a whole LOT of problems. If people were not so close to other people, adultery would lessen, and gossip of course would not be there the same as it is. THAT is why God changed everyone’s languages, mixed it all up at the Tower of Babble. He slowed the corruption and the wickedness down dramatically. And one day God will do that again. If we choose willfully to stay separate from other people, then we will be able to hear our OWN conscience and hear the things MAYBE that GOD is putting on our conscience! People tend to distract themselves with what other people think, with books, with movies, and instead of listening to their conscience that GOD GAVE THEM, they listen to everyone else’s opinion through those books, through those friendships they have, through the television, movies, through the newspaper, through their smartphones and everything else they let into them through their EYES and their EARS. If all of these connections were taken away, if everyone was separate they would have to come to grips with their OWN CONSCIENCE, the things that they are thinking internally, and they MIGHT end up hearing from GOD, they might be convicted and they might REPENT. You need to be separate from the world, ungodly people, you need to keep yourself separate from PEOPLE if you want to listen to your conscience and hear from JESUS CHRIST. Jesus will speak to your conscience and He will tell you the truth. But unless you make Him YOUR ONLY TEACHER and really start going with Him you will stay connected to the world and disconnected to GOD. So what will it be? Will it be a connection with Jesus, communion with Him? Or a connection with the world and communion with the devil? May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZtoeROraQ