Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: November 17, 2015 02:08AM
Kboy,
I do not understand what you are saying in your first paragraph. Not your fault but if you will explain and break it down for me , that I might be able to understand this that you wrote to me.
However I do agree that Jesus spoke to Love God with all your heart and to love your brother, your neighbor, just how you love yourself.
True religion is to visit your orphans and your widows. But when you see that many of those who promote feeding the poor, visiting the widows and the orphan's make a big business for themselves, and you see them sounding their trumpets before them, advertising all the good they are doing so you will give to them to meet the needs of those in need, you know by the Word of the Lord, that they have not heard the Lord nor have they received what He taught and instructed because He said not to do this. But He did say, "When you give to the poor, give in secret. And when you pray go in and shut the door behind you and pray in secret. So when you give to the poor or pray, do so in secret where God hears and where God IS.
Matthew 5:18,19 Jesus also taught and spoke -
Do not think I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets, I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished. Who ever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and so teaches others, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven. And so I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Scribes and the Pharisees , you shall not enter the Kingdom of heaven.
To me keeping the Law is not a pass that gets me into heaven. The Law is a teacher, a tutor for me, until I become mature in my relationship with God even as Jesus was mature in His relationship with His God and Father. The Law reveals the "Righteousness of God." It is what makes me aware that I am created and that God (who is love) is the Creator.
The Law was not given to make men perfect it was given to reveal the righteousness' of God. And through the Law given by God - all mankind has been shut up under the Law of God that they might realize they need to be saved. And there is only One name that has been given both in heaven and earth by which a man can be saved. And this Name, God gave His only begotten Son. Who came to make known that GOD IS and He became the expression of the fullness of God's love, for all who are in this world.
So yes I agree with you in this, that whether it be Judaism or Christianity or any religious organization, whether cult or denomination, on the face of this earth - being a part of any is not a man's salvation nor is it the means of deliverance from the evil that is in this world.
This is what I think at this time.
I believe we can not love our brother as we ought to, until we love God as we are to love God.
And I think that without the Law - is lawlessness which becomes chaos - which opens the door to all kinds of evil deeds and to insanity. For the Law of God, affords us, a part of the foundation , for clear thinking.
Yes, Paleface, there is no doubt that the Scripture is directly related to one own natural parents.