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Choice not chance determines your destiny.

Ben Stewart
Mar 8
2 min read

Choice not chance determines your destiny...

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate...Titus 1:15-16. Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. Add you not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and you be found a liar...Proverbs 30:5-6. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. You shalt keep them, O LORD, You shalt preserve them from this generation forever. The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted...Psalms 12:6-8.

Have you heard of Nadab and Abihu…

These were priests of God…they offered their own version of what God said and were killed for adding to God’s words. They said it does not say we cannot, but when God specifies, He excludes all other forms…And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD...Leviticus 10:1-2. These priests offered their own version of offering and were killed for it because it was strange fire instead of the fire God specified. Let us not stray from the specifics of God’s word but adhere to it perfectly in obedience to the truth from God.

Prayer

Creator we renounce any form of strange fire before You…please give us a sound mind so we can understand and remember your word…so we can obey the truth without hesitation and be in Your will not outside of it…grant to us that we add not nor take away from Your words, but speak and obey what is written…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

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Love of God...what is it...

Ben Stewart
Feb 23
3 min read

What is love of God…

And this is love, that we should walk after His (God’s) commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it (love). For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist...2 John 1:6-7. And he (Jesus) said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men...Mark 7:6-8. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God (died and resurrected from the dead) : and every spirit that confess not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already...1 John 4:1-3.

It is a Who not a what as to the source of love…

God is the source of Love for He created all things. How do we reciprocate or respond properly to love by keeping His commandments we show our love for God. We tell the truth…we do not steal…we do not commit adultery…we do not want what God has not given us…we do not murder…we respect our dads and moms…we keep ourselves Holy so we can approach God and worship Him in Spirit and Truth…we do not worship the created…we do not use God’s name except in prayer and teaching…and we have no other God but our Creator and His only Fathered Son Jesus…this is how we show love for God by keeping His commandments. For it is written… In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made...John 1:1-3. Jesus is the Creator of all things made and became a man born of a virgin named Mary. Jesus never violated or broke one of the Ten Commandments and remained sinless His whole life…then offered His life as a ransom or sacrifice for all those who have broken any or all the Ten Commandments. So that if you obey Jesus teaching you can be forgiven…of any sin.

Jesus said…He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieves shall be condemned...Mark 16:16.