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Do you give God honor with your lips or your heart and deeds…

Do you give God honor with your lips or your heart and deeds…

And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me...Mark 7:6. Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness...2 Timothy 2:19. And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will...2 Timothy 2:24-26.

 

How many Christians have honored Jesus with the great confession that Jesus You are the only Son of God and yet deny Him by our deeds. Jesus said to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, spirit, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. Is the church balancing love and law or are we just practicing law and not applying with mercy and love. There has to be a balance of law and mercy…listen to what Jesus said to the leaders in His day…

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel...Matthew 23:23-24!

 

How can we do better at treating those who are among us with Justice as in treating them just and showing mercy and exercising or rewarding faith?

 

Prayer

Father we confess we have not had a balance of law and mercy at times and we need You to meet our soul’s deepest needs so we can practice law with mercy and treating people justly (right) in exercising faith in Your only Son Jesus of Nazareth…In Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend



Why was Jesus the Christ of Nazareth baptized…

Why was Jesus the Christ of Nazareth baptized…

 

John the Baptist a prophet preached a message all Jews had to obey to be faithful to God…

Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way; The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight; John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the country of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins...Mark 1:2-5.

 

So If you were a Jew and Jesus being from the tribe of Judah was indeed a Jew you had to repent or stop sinning or doing evil and be baptized for the forgiveness or remission of your sins.

 

Jesus never sinned or did an evil thing…therefore He did not need to repent or be forgiven having His sins in remission…so why did Jesus get baptized of John…

 

John was a prophet with a new message of forgiveness repent and be baptized for the remission of sins…any Jew had to obey this message from a true prophet.

 

Jesus when He came to be baptized of John…John stopped Him knowing He did not need forgiveness or to repent…but Jesus said allow it to fulfill all righteousness sake. In my words…Jesus said I have to obey the same message or I will sin by being disobedient to a prophet from God who has commanded all to repent and be baptized. Jesus obeyed a command to repent and be baptized for the remission of sin out of shear obedience to the command…we should learn from His example and be obedient to baptism that is now preached in Jesus name.

 

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffereth him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased....Matthew 3:13-17.

 

Prayer

Father help us to obey your commands which include baptism for the remission of our sins and meet our soul’s deepest needs in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

 

Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend



Are you faithful…yes or no?

Are you faithful…yes or no?


If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us...1 John 1:6-10. Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working...James 5:16. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God....1 John 4:15.


Have you broken one of God’s commandments?

1. Have you received from any other table other than the Creator and His Only Fathered Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth…Yes or No?

2. Have you Blasphemed or used God name in anything other than prayer or teaching…Yes or No?

3. Have you worshipped the created…Yes or No?

4. Have you kept yourself Holy so you can approach God in prayer or worship…Yes or No?

5. Have you honored your mom and dad…Yes or No?

6. Have you murdered…Yes or No?

7. Have you had sex outside of marriage…no adultery…Yes or No?

8. Have you stolen…Yes or No?

9. Have You born false witness…lied or supported a lie…Yes or No?

10. Have you coveted or wanted something or someone God has not given you…Yes or No?


If you have answered in the yes to breaking on of these commandments then you need to stop in repentance and confess to Jesus your sin and begin walking again in the light as He is in the Light and His blood will cleanse you from all sin.


Prayer

Father please have mercy on us and forgive us our sins and meet our soul’s deepest needs and confirm these truths to us in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen,


Try…A…Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend



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