Nibesh Maharjan Gracing Period Is Ending.
Smile,
End Time Is Near.
Believe It Or Will Be Betrayed
Jesus says in John 8:24, "For if you do not believe that
I am He, you will die in your sins." In order to do the will of the
Father, we must believe in God and in Christ, otherwise we will die in
our sins and be lost. If we don't believe in God and in Christ, we will
certainly not do what They tell us. If God is to be believed at all, He
must be believed fully. Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it
is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." We
must diligently seek to know all that God wants us to do and then gladly
do it.
Do
you believe in God and Christ with all your heart? Do you believe in
Them to the point that you have all the confidence in the world in Them
and that you will do anything and everything They tell you to do? Not
what we choose to do, but what God tells us to do. If we will not, then
we are no different than those people that we read about in John
12:42-43, "Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him
(that is on Jesus), but because of the Pharisees they did not confess
Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the
praise of men more than the praise of God."
Many
people believe that redemptive faith is merely a willing disposition to
trust in Christ as their personal savior, independent of any further
acts of obedience. This notion is completely alien from the truth found
in the Bible. A belief that will not accept and do all that God tells us
to do is not enough. If this is the case, then we are no better than
the demons in James 2:19, "You believe that there is one God. You
do well. Even the demons believe and tremble!"
Our
belief is a work of God that God requires of us. John 6:29,
"Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God, that you
believe in Him whom He sent." Our belief must be an obedient belief in
all the things that God tells us to do. We cannot have selective
obedience and be pleasing to God. Our obedience is how we show our love
to God and Christ. John 14:21, "He that has My commandments and
keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved of
My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
Just
before Jesus ascended back into heaven, He commanded His apostles in Matthew
28:19-20 to "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded
you." Our faith in Him must lead us to observe all things the Lord has
commanded us to do in order to be pleasing to Him. We cannot select just
certain commands of God to obey. We cannot ignore or rationalize away
any of His commands that we don’t like and expect to be saved. To
believe in Him is to obey Him fully.
How to Know God
In
the Bible, God tells us that he created us to have unending fellowship
with him, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy within our family
relationships, and to have dominion over the world in which he placed
us. But we chose to go another way.
We learn in the same Bible that we, through our forefathers,
chose to live our lives for ourselves, rather than to have fellowship
with God. This choice of selfishness lead to our earthly death, to no
peace with our fellow man, to disharmony and sadness within our family
relationships, and to a lack of proper care of the world in which he
placed us. Because of this, our future changed to one of eternal
separation from fellowship with God after death, completely without
hope of joy or peace.
The Bible goes on to record how God provided the remedy for
our chosen path of selfishness. He came to us in the form of his son
Jesus Christ. This son lived a life of fellowship, peace, harmony, and
joy in full fellowship with God. Though innocent of any wrongdoing, he
voluntarily allowed himself to suffer and die as a guilty lawbreaker,
and received upon himself the full penalty of our selfishness by death
on a cross.
The wonderful conclusion recorded in the Bible is that this
Jesus rose from the dead and returned to God. He is forever our
representative before God. He enables us today to enjoy fellowship with
God, peace with our fellow man, harmony and joy within our family
relationships, and to exercise proper dominion over this world in which
he has placed us. We need only to pray and ask him to come in and rule
in our hearts and lives.
Simply talk to God and say,
"Thank you, God, for loving me and sending your Son to die
on the cross for the wrongs I have done. I now choose to make Jesus
the Lord of my life. Help me to be the kind of person that You want me
to be. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
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