Love Your Neighbour (CW52)

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Love Your Neighbour

Rom 13:9-10  For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

   When a Christian loves his neighbour as himself, he has already fulfilled the Law.

    God is love, and since the creation of man, God showed His love to Adam and Eve and also to all their descendants.

    Enoch pleased God so much that He took him back to be with Him without Enoch tasting the pain and fear of death. Similarly, all Christians who love Him by keeping His words will not taste death.

John 8:51-52  Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death." Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.'"

Deu 9:7  "Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord."

   God loved the Israelites and ensured that when they were brought out from Egypt they saw His power of making Pharaoh to set them free, parting the Red Sea and the destruction of the whole Egyptian army. They also saw His ability to feed the two million souls in the wilderness for forty years.

    God gave them the Mosaic Law so that they had no excuse that they were not aware of sin. Out of His great love for the Israelites, He dwelled amongst them. He encouraged them to believe and love Him and to keep the Law by allowing them to see a column of cloud in the day and a column of fire at night above the tabernacle of God during His presence.

    Yet they murmured and rebelled against Him and even threatened to kill Moses.

   

Jer 5:23, 30-31  But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; they have revolted and departed... "An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?"

    The final straw came when the rebellious Israelites loved lies of the false prophets and the abominations committed by the priests. So God allowed the Babylonians to raze Jerusalem and the temple of God to the ground and the complete destruction of Israel.

    Similarly in the last days, if Christians have lost their love for God and for brethren by becoming worldly, covetous, carnal and wicked and are rebellious to His words by believing lies and false prophecies and accepting wrong doctrine and heresies, then God will allow World War 3 to judge Christians.

2Tim 4:3-4  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

Some Other Scriptures of Fulfilment of the Law

Mat 7:12  "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

   Our Lord Jesus told us that to fulfill the Law and Prophets we only need to do this;  whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them which is the sign of care, concern, mercy, compassion and love for one's neighbour (friend).

Mat 5:43-44  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you"

   The Jews must love his neighbour but can hate his enemies. Our Lord commanded us to love our enemies which is a higher calling.

Resurrected Jesus (CW51)

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Jesus the Sinless Jew

   Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah. On the eighth day He was circumcised to be a Jew.

   He kept the Law and His works, teachings and doctrines were given to Him by the Father, so He was sinless at His death.

John 5:19  Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

Jesus Fulfilled the Law and Prophets

Luke 24:44  Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

    Immediately after His resurrection, He taught His disciples how He had fulfilled the Law and the Prophets. Every Jew who has believed the Gospel of Christ must not keep any of the Law for he too has fulfilled the Law in Christ.

   Any converted Jew (or Christian) who keeps any part of the Law is cursed for he has not believed that Christ Jesus had fulfilled the Law for his sake.

Gal 5:4  You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Luke 24:45  And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

    For 40 days our risen Lord was with His disciples. He opened up their understanding of Scriptures and the knowledge of truth in His gospel, teachings, words, commands and parables.

   He taught the truth of the New Covenant of His blood and why the Old Covenant was obsolete:-

1. The Gospel

   Our Lord Jesus in the flesh kept the Law by preaching, "Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand"

so that repented Jews would believe the Gospel of Christ and be saved.

   Our resurrected Lord Jesus sent out His disciples to preach the Gospel of Christ and no longer the Repentance and the Kingdom gospel of John the Baptist.

Luke 24:46-47  Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

2. Eternal Ordinances

Exo 12:14   'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.'

   In the Old Covenant there were many sacrifices, feasts and Sabbaths with everlasting ordinances. If the Old Covenant was obsoleted by the destruction or rejection of the Temple of God at the death of Jesus without the New Covenant, then the Jews will not be able to keep those everlasting ordinances.

     Our eternal Lord Jesus Himself fulfilled this everlasting ordinances in the law so that every Jew in Christ Jesus has also fulfilled all these ordinances.

Rightly Dividing the word of Truth

2 Tim 2:15  Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

    We must be able to rightly divide the word of truth of Jesus for some of them were meant for the Jews and others for Christians. The teachings, doctrines and works of Jesus while in the flesh must not contradict the Law.

Calling of Apostle Paul

Acts 9:15-16  But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name's sake."

   On the road to Damascus Jesus miraculously saved Paul. Jesus, having taught him personally for three years, sent him to reach out not only to Jews but to Gentiles and kings and to disciple them.

Brethren, just like the four Gospels, all the Epistles of the Apostles in the Bible are also the teachings of our Lord Himself and are inspired by the Holy Spirit. Read, meditate and keep them, for in Christ, they will help you mature.

Do You Know Jesus? (CW50)

   World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for the fall and destruction of Iran to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

 

Jesus the Man

John 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

   As predestined before the foundation of the world that men would be adopted as sons of God, the Almighty God Creator of heaven and earth must come as a human being. Jesus was the Word made flesh to become a Man.

    Jesus was born of virgin Mary of the tribe of Judah in a stable amongst the animal as the sacrificial Lamb of God (wrapped in swaddling cloths). He was placed in the manger as folders (Bread of Life) for His sheep.

Luke 2:7  And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Circumcised as a Jew

Luke 2:21  And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

    Jesus' Jewish parents decided that Jesus should grow up as a Jew, so on the eighth day by faith Jesus was circumcised (just as by faith we have our children baptized into the body of Christ).

    Jesus had to live the rest of His life keeping the law and the Prophet in order to stay sinless, so that He would be worthy to be the perfect sacrificial Lamb of God for the remission of the sins  of men.

Jesus Preached Repentance

Mat 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

    Not only did Jesus submit to the baptism of repentance of John the Baptist, He even preached John's kingdom message. He knew that unless the Jews repent and keep the Mosaic law, they would not believe Him as their Messiah and be cast into damnation.

   God had said that all those Jews who repent and believe Moses will believe Jesus after His resurrection.

John 5:46  For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.

The Sinless Man Jesus

John 8:28  Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things."

    All the doctrines and teachings of Jesus are given by God Himself. Jesus did not violate the Law nor the Prophets. He was sinless and the perfect sacrificial Lamb of God which was pleasing to God.

John 7:16  Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me."

 

Jesus Fulfilled the Law

Mat 5:17  "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

   Jesus at His death and resurrection fulfilled the Law and the Prophets in all the Feasts, Sabbaths and religious laws, rites, sacrifices, offerings, etc. so that all Jewish converts in Christ Jesus have also fulfilled them.

Luke 24:44  Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

Immediate Evidence of the Fulfillments of the Law and the Prophets by Jesus

Mat 27:52-53  and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

    Jesus at His death, immediately, became the sacrificial lambs offered by the saints of old, who had kept the Mosaic Law (Moses, Samuel - please read 1 Samuel, Daniel, etc.) and the Prophets (Abel, Enoch, Noah, etc.) so that their sins were also cleansed by Jesus' blood, and just as the repented and faithful Christians, they too were made righteous and holy by His blood. Only then, they were worthy to be raised from the depths of the earth and follow our resurrected Lord back to heaven.

Do you know God? (CW49)

     World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for the fall and destruction of Iran to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

Knowledge of God

Eph 1:17  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him

God is Spirit

2 Cor 4:18  while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  The physical body of man can be seen and is only temporary. The spirit of man living within his body cannot be seen and is eternal.  

   God is Spirit, so are His angels and the spirits of man. The devil, demons and the fallen angels are also spirits.

John 4:24  God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Mat 25:41  "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:"

    While those in Christ will forever be with Him in heavenly bliss, those departed spirits of rebellious, wicked and merciless men will be cast into the everlasting fire along with the devil and his fallen angels.

The Word was God

John 1:1-3  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

   In the beginning the Word was with God and the Word was God. God and the Word were Spirits from the very beginning and they are part of the Godhead.

Rom 1:20  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

The Word made Flesh

John 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

   Jesus was the Word made flesh. The Spirit of Jesus was the Word and His Spirit was 100% God. Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, so His physical body was 100% human.    

   Jesus, while He was living among us on earth, was the only begotten Son (2nd Man) of the Father because His Spirit was the Word, a member of the Godhead but His physical body was human.

1 Cor 15:47  The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.

The Triune Godhead

   Though God is One but He reveals to man as the Triune Godhead or Trinity. This will help mankind to enjoy the harmonious family values.

God reveals Himself:-

1. As the Father so that we as fathers follow from the OT His attributes of love, mercy, provision, delivery, salvation, teaching, protection, healing, comfort, care and chastisement. Whoever comprehends and practices the Father's perfect love, he too will be able to find the unity and harmony within his own family and also in the family of God.

2. As the Son - in complete obedience to every word of the Father just as Jesus did when He was on earth.

3. As the Holy Spirit or Helper - to teach us all things, guide us into all truth, and tell us things (end-time events) to come thereby freeing us from all worldly fears, bondages and heresies, and helping us overcome the deceptions and temptations of the evil one.

John 14:26  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

The above verse John 14:26 is one of many showing the existence of the Triune Godhead of the Father, the Word (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost).

   Unfortunately many modern translations left out 1 John 5:7 as recorded below, which is found in the original Greek Bible used in the Greek Orthodox church and the Latin Vulgate Bible used in the Roman Catholic church.

1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (KJV)

Manifold Grace of God (CW48)

   World War 3 is at Hand

While we wait for the fall and destruction of Iran to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.

John 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

    Grace is freely given to men so that we will know truth, which will set us free from the snares of Satan. Grace is the unmerited favour (empowering, mercy, etc.) of God at the expense of His Son Jesus, on condition that we believe and receive Him (New Covenant) .

John 1:12  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

A. Saving Grace - unmerited favour

Eph 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

   To obtain God's saving grace, we must walk out our faith by doing the following:-

1. believe that Jesus the Son of God was the Word made flesh, He died on the cross as the propiation for our sins and on the third day He rose having victory over death,

2. acknowledge that we are sinners by confessing our sins,

3. accept and confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior,

4. believe that we are now the temple of God with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as His seal.

    Only after walking out this faith in Him, can we receive His grace of salvation.

Rom 10:9  that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

B) Manifold Grace of God

1Pet 4:10-11  As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

   Similarly, God will grant to those who fulfills the conditions for receiving each of His manifold grace.

1. Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts

Acts 19:2,5-6  he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"  So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.".. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

    The Holy Spirit and His gifts are given to those who are saved and also believe and desire them.

1Cor 14:1  Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

2. Empowering for good Works

1Cor 15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

3. Empowering for Holy living

Heb 12:14-15  Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

4. Building the Temple of God

1Cor 3:9-11  For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

    Brethren, these are only a few examples of the manifold grace of God given to help His sheep.

Knowledge of God (CW47)

     World War 3 is at Hand

  While we wait for the fall and destruction of Iran to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and understanding of His words.

Exceedingly Precious Promise

2 Pet 1:2-4  Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

   We thank God for the exceeding great and precious promises and His divine power through the knowledge of God, that men can be perfected, being partakers of the divine nature, which is our transformation into His image.

Obedience to Perfection

    In 2nd Peter, God has shown us a step by step to perfection. So, if we diligently follow the instructions and with the understanding of the seven Spirits of God, it will be easy to trace our walk with Jesus to perfection.

2 Pet 1:5  But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

1. Spirit of the Lord - Faith

    As soon as one is saved, he is giving the Holy Spirit. From the Bible he will begin to know Him and find his faith in Him and His word.

2. Spirit of Wisdom - Virtue

add to your faith virtue,

    a man of virtue is a wise man - one who does what he believes (faith) or doer of the word.

Mat 7:24  "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:"

3. Spirit of Knowledge

add to virtue knowledge

    Having kept His word, he now understand it. He can be a teacher

2 Pet 1:6  to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

4. Spirit of Counsel

add to knowledge self-control

    One who can control oneself from sins and evil thoughts, and helps and counsels his sheep to righteous living - a fatherly figure or pastor

5. Spirit of Might

add to self-control perseverance

    One who can endure pains and sufferings reaching out to the unreached - an evangelist

6. Spirit of the Knowledge of the Lord

add to perseverance godliness or godlikeness

    One who understands the very heartbeat of God - His will, delights, pleasures, ways and sadness. He is worthy to be His prophet

7. Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

2 Pet 1:7  to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

    One, who fears that his good and righteous works are done without the sincere love of the brethren - an apostle of the Lord.

Five Fold Ministries

Eph 4:11  And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

    These are Jesus' anointed servants.

Doers of the Word

2 Pet 1:8  For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    A doer of the Word of God will be fruitful in the knowledge of Christ, and he will be able to walk in the light with Him until perfection.

The Spirituality Blind

2 Pet 1:9  For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

    All those rejecting the words and commandments of Christ are spiritually blind. Without the truth and the knowledge of God, they are just mouthing out worldly opinions, which are outright nonsense in their walk with God. They will always distort the truth and promote wrong doctrines and heresies.

New Covenant of Jesus (CW46)

    World War 3 is at Hand

   While we wait for the fall and destruction of Iran to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith and doctrine.  

   The bible, both Old and New Testaments, comprises covenants of God made with men.

    The Old Covenant was made with the Israelites and followers of the Mosaic Law of the Old Covenant were called Jews.

   The New Covenant of Jesus' blood was made with all men and believers of the Gospel of Christ are called Christians.

Heb 8:13  In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Rev 3:20  "If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."

  So when we fulfill the 'if', then our faithful God will fulfil His part by granting us more grace. Heresies are usually doctrines where the 'if' is left out

John 14:23a  Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;..."

    We can sing, proclaim, declare and say that we love God. According to God, if we have not kept His word, we do not love Him.

    John 15:24a  "He who does not love Me does not keep My words;.."

John 15:14-16  "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."

'whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.'

    The above is the favourite verse of preachers of prosperity gospel, positive confession, extra grace and other heresies. This promise is given only to Jesus' friends who have kept His commands.

John 14:15-17, 26  "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.... But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you."

    Similarly, we cannot get the anointing of the Spirit of truth to enable us to understand His truth, will, prophecies, teachings, unless we keep His words.

John 16:13-14  "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you."

    Brethren, if you have signed a contract and yet without fulfilling the contract of payments, you demand the delivery of the house, then your action is lawlessness and wickedness.

    Similarly, all these blind, lawless and wicked Christians blaspheme God's name by demanding Him to keep His promise of blessing them when they have not kept their part of the contract of loving Him by keeping His word and commands.

Brethren, remember the 'ifs' , which will guide you to Him or warn you of sufferings, or damnation. Please keep away from all these wrong doctrines and heresies. Keep His word and commandments, and then our loving Father will manifest in you His joy, peace and love. He will also remind you of your needs, the help, miracles, and healing that you have forgotten to ask Him. Amen.