My Lord:
Seek and live, for why would anyone choose to perish? The message stands fast and holds true, from beginning to the end. Nothing new have I but be ye faithfully obedient unto death. Till when? The End! Let the heart rejoice to all who seek the Lord, for in so doing Life is found. Rejoice and be careful for nothing of the Lord, but speak the Truth in all things freely. Do not hide, do not cover, be bold as a lion, speak the Truth. They who desire Life will seek the Lord and find it. They will rejoice in all things good, God is good. 1 Chronicles 16:10, " Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. " Cease not to seek the Lord, but diligence, but continually, always a mind stayed upon the Lord, ever aware of His presence, His gaze, He hears it all, sees it all, knows it all, nothing is hidden. Depart not from the battle, ever affirm to be in the faith that works by love and is proven by deeds out of love. For out love one obeys from the heart the doctrine received of God. Always speaking in Psalms to thine heart, let the Word not depart from your lips. There is a Way, it is one, and it is good. For they who do a thing are that thing. They who do righteousness are righteous even as He is righteous. They who put on the mind have it upon them by doing, by putting. They who put on clothes are wearing clothes. They who walk as He walked are doing as He did, walking circumspect. Be aware, watch, wait, prepare, stand ye fast in the faith that works. It is not by the works of the flesh, it is by the works of the Spirit, works worthy of repentance. It is not by the works of sacrifice, it is by obedience. One can not do the works of Christ that set us free, that has been done once and for all. But one can do the works of Christ through the Spirit; Go and Sin No More. The strength to be able, to actually do, to stand when none will, to speak the Truth when none will. To be overcome through obedience of doing the will of the Father. To be about the business that one is here to be about. Strength to hold and move not. Strength to be harmless when harm surrounds. Strength to be counted as sheep for the slaughter and stand in it, knowing and being offended not. Strength to be amongst the wolves and yet shine the light of the Truth. Strength to Go and Sin No More and be faithful, to have fidelity, loyalty, monogamy, to be trusty, sincerity. Strength to give up thine life, to sell it and give it freely. Strength to work not just for ones own riches but anothers. Are ye able? yea Lord we are. 1 Chronicles 16:11, " Seek the LORD and his strength, Seek his face continually. " What was His strength then? He ate of the butter and the honey to know to refuse the evil and to choose the good. It was suffering and remaining obedient, He humbled Himself, submitted His will for another and was obedient to that will. If ye love Me, keep My Commandments. This day is the forth day, there remains a rest for the people of God. Nothing new just as it ever was, ever is. If you believe, then you bring forth the fruits that prove it. If you have faith, then you bring forth the fruits of it. If you hope, then you bring forth the fruits of it. If you trust, then you bring forth the fruits of it. If you love, then you bring forth the fruits of it, keeping that which has been said and heard. Doing all you can to stand in each day. Hebrews 5:8, " Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; " Philippians 2:8, " And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. " Romans 15:18, " For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, " 1 Corinthians 14:34, " Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. " Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: " Isaiah 1:19, " If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: " What is obedience? Righteousness. Obedience: Greek - G5218 Word: ὑπακοή Transliteration: hupakoē Phonetic: hoop-ak-o-ay' Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Definition: obedience, compliance, submission, obedience rendered to anyone's counsels, an obedience shown in observing the requirements of Christianity Compliance with a command, prohibition or known law and rule of duty prescribed; the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance with the command or prohibition. To constitute obedience the act or forbearance to act must be in submission to authority; the command must be known to the person, and his compliance must be in consequence of it, or it is not obedience obedience is not synonymous with obsequiousness; the latter often implying meanness or servility, and obedience being merely a proper submission to authority. That which duty requires implies dignity of conduct rather than servility. obedience may be voluntary or involuntary. Voluntary obedience alone can be acceptable to God. Who speaks evil of dignities? Of them that are doing righteousness for they are righteous. Who says sanctimonious in the sight of true obedience? Who mocks the works of faith with liberty to do as they please? Righteousness: Greek - G1343 Word: δικαιοσύνη Transliteration: dikaiosunē Phonetic: dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Definition: in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God. Obedience unto the end, if you love Me, obey Me. My Commandments are not grievous. a. the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God b. integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correct... Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. righteousness as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law. It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion. What ought a man be, what ought ones state be? Integrity, that moral fortitude, make an oath and keep it, barrow and pay it back. Virtue, that effectual state of being, of producing fruit, proof of ones state of being efficacious. Purity, sinless, clean, clear, though one absolute way, obeying the Commandments. They are given out of love, kept out of love and they are His love. Rightness, correctness, to be doing what is right and correct, this day rest with Me. No other gods before Me, no other images but you being Mine. Take not My Name in vain, do not make it useless, of not value and vanity is perfectly useless but to please the eye, the desires, to consume it upon ones lust. The knowledge that must be held in thine hand, what is the good, acceptable and the perfect will of God? That lack of knowledge is why His people are destroyed. Carried off by the cares of the world. The riches, the distractions, the afflictions, the persecutions, the mocking, derision, the fear of loss, the fear of death. In the end, the love of something before the love of God. To love anyone more than the Lord, father, mother, brother, sister, friend, life, then you are not worthy of Him. Take your hands from the work and you are not worthy of Him. Endure not till the end then you are not worthy of Him. It is lawful to do good this day. Whom do you serve? Whom are you servants that ye obey? Sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness. Whom do you yield? Whom is Lord? Whom is King? Be ye harmless as doves and wise a serpents. Strive is the message to enter in. Many will try but few will be ABLE, there will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Take that narrow and straight Way, for many go in at the broad way to destruction. Resist not evil, it is not my place to resist evil. Let evil be evil but put forth the warning, shine forth the Truth. They who do evil will not inherit Life but death. There are multitudes in the valley of decisions, choose to refuse the evil; be ye not evil. Choose the good, be ye good. What is evil and what is good is written in a book. The conscience speaks loudly if one will listen. The harm of the innocent will be an awful reward to bear. Matthew 10:16, " Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. " Philippians 2:15, " That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; " Hebrews 7:26, " For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; " Having heard I have no choice but to tell, yet I could be silent but God forbid I am silent. Woe indeed is me if I do not what I was asked to do, tell. Having heard I can not but speak, but write. Having tasted of the graciousness of the Lord I can not but speak of the wonders that are, of the beauty, of the pleasure, of the delight, of the joy. I can not but warn and beseech. I can not but run the race and give chase, for I never felt love till I found Christ. That thing I know everyone longs for, true love, to truly be loved. The joy I felt, the smile that I could feel upon my face ( I can feel it not ), I was never so happy, never so peaceful, never so content, Christ in me, that reveal. It is very difficult to know that such beauty exists and to be kept from it. It hurts, it causes all sorts of questions in me to arise. It also lit a fire that I am terrified deep within to lose. A candle lit can be blown out, a fire started can be drenched dead. God help me, let me not lose it, let it not go out. Let me speak honestly and express perfectly what I was given and what I now bear. Hoping that someone might experience what I did and find some solace of likeness to that which they have received and it ground them upon the Rock, sure, certain, unwavering. Some comfort to help carry them through to the next day or even better, till the end. Or that someone who has not received might be inspired to inquire of the Lord, might seek out the Truth and find Life. To encourage them, they who have heard and they whom have yet to hear. To shine a Lamp upon the ability, the being able, the obedience, the faithfulness, the battle. So none are offended when they see. That they know out of the starting gate a true servant of the Lord is faithful till death, till the end. That they who Name the Name of the Lord are to DEPART from all iniquity. You do it for it is NOT done for you. One is to do all they can to stand in the dark and terrible day of the Lord, to love His appearing and not desire to be hid from Him. To have that conscience clear before God and all men. That they know are to be preparing, for the bride prepares for the wedding. That they are to be watching, waiting on the Lord. Be at the door even now, hand upon the door to open instantly upon hearing the Masters return. Encourage all the cost must be counted and to know it is worth all. It is worth all a man possess, heart, mind, body, soul, and might. I always hear Acts 8, if you will believe with ALL your heart you may. It places a cost, it places a requirement, it shines forth action on anyones part who will come after the Lord Jesus. It is righteousness and that is obedience, to find what is to be done and to do it with all thine might. That is the image Christ shinned forth to be good, acceptable and perfect. Acts 8:37, " And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. " One always hears Acts 2, Acts 17 and the knowledge of the Truth, that it is more than just one thing, it is all of it. So many sell parts that feel good, just to feign, to have pretense but their hearts are not near but far from the Lord. One must always put others in remembrance and be in remembrance themselves, a daily battle. DO NOT FORGET! FORGET NOT! Many will try to enter but few will be able, and one trembles at the mention of the Truth of it. Many think they are in the service but are not. Many will say but Lord: He knows not them that work iniquity. Acts 2:37, " Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. " What shall we do? It is written for us, better to obey than to sacrifice. It is obedience to the faith, if you love Him, keep His Commandments. He hath said Go and Sin No More. It is said to do the works worthy of repentance. To be a good tree and produce good fruit. Commanding all to Repent, confess, forsake, cease from that which you have repented, rule over your bodies through the Spirit, bring it into subjection of the Will of God. Acts 17:30, " And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: " A little here and a little there. This goes with that and that with this. It is by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord God. Isaiah 28:10, " For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: " Point being it is not just believe, not just have faith, not just by grace, not just repeat some words, not just accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. It is not what they say, what I heard many times through out my life and to many times since actually finding the Lord. It is just as the Lord said, it is with all thine heart, all thine mind, all thine body, all thine soul, all thine might. It is warfare, it is a battle, it does cost and we are to count that cost and if we be willing to pay it, come after Him, give chase, set thy sight, abide indeed till the end Amen. Do not be in the service of lips but with all thine heart. It is the GREATEST OF COMMANDMENTS! Matthew 22:36, " Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment. " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me sayeth the Lord God. No other image but My image. Do not take Me in vain. Keep the Sabbath and keep it holy. The importance of a little here and a little there is understood. Not any one thing but every word. When I truly believed with all my heart for the first time, it was instant. I can recall it, I had never came to any conclusions so certain before in my life of something I have never seen and yet heard all my life of, but had always doubted, that question that sadly, to all my shame, many question. Many who say they believe still question, still have doubt. One can find to many preachers who come to disbelief after a life of saying they loved the Lord. After doing many works in His Name, yet they never truly believed, never truly had faith, never truly trusted, never truly acknowledged the whole Truth. Never truly departed from iniquity, never believed in the power of the Spirit. I surely do not have all the answers, but I know what I lived. I know how I came to find the Lord and what took place before it and after it. I know all that I have testified of is the Truth and God is my witness. I know there is nothing greater than God and that all men teach as truth is a waste time. Look where the world is this very day, nothing else needs to be said of it. The proof is in the pudding, the lack of God, creates a complete lack of rectitude in all the world. It has made it hard to bear and yet it will be much worse. A plague is coming, much greater then what is being pretended this day, a famine and many are going to suffer. Seek while He can be found, store up what can be gathered. Build upon that Rock, a storm is coming and it will put one to the test. When I heard the knock and examined, looked to see, I realized the Truth is and was not like anything I ever believed. I know not words for it, but it was absolute. I came to understand in my heart absolutely that God was and is. In that very second, instantly I heard that I was forgiven within me, no words, is was said within me. Instantly I had a vision and fell to the floor as if I were dead, flat, face down, thanking God over and over as I cried like I never in my life cried before. Holy tears I call them, and every emotion all at once filled me, the joy and the pain overflowed, it could not be contained. I could no more hold back what took place then by my hand hold back the tide. It was wonderful, beautiful, and I would gladly do it all again. Pray all come to know that, to have that moment with the Lord that they may know without question the beauty of being set free indeed by the acknowledgement of the Truth. The Truth that God was and is, many do all they can to hide this Truth from themselves. By the wisdom of men, utter foolish ideas are held as truth and sadly keep many from acknowledging the whole of the Truth. Truly for the lack of knowledge the people of God are destroyed. The presence of the false witness that give an appearance of holiness, of righteousness and yet DENY the power of holiness and righteousness and godliness, and faithfulness, and sincerity, and monogamy, and making an oath and keeping it, borrowing and paying it back, and trust, and loyalty, and submission, and truth, and uprightness, and moral fortitude, rectitude, obedience. If you love Me, keep My Commandments. Flee from them, do not partake of their sins. From them that live in error withdraw thyself. 2 Timothy 3:5, " Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. " Matthew 23:28, " Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. " It is SPIRITUAL, not of the flesh, who hears. It is what is within thy heart, that throne evil wants to sit and show itself to be God. The powers and principalities, the high places, ones heart. To whom do you yield? To whom have ye yielded? A Jew in name and appearance is nothing, circumcision is nothing, but it be inwardly by the hand of God and of the heart. Who hears and understands? Overcome evil with good. Romans 2:28, " For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. " That mark, pleasure in unrighteousness, the calling of evil good, pleasant and to be desired. The affections and the lusts set upon that which is evil. Them that do evil and having pleasure in them. One who sighs not, cries not, mourns not at the appearance of evil. That image other than which is God. That mark, sighing and crying over the abominations in the world. The calling of good, good, pleasant and to be desired. Eating of the butter and honey. Refuse the evil and doing good. The affections of thine heart is upon that faithfulness of the heart to obey out of love. The image of God and no other image. The mark, Amos 5:14, " Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. " Are not the Words of Good, Pleasant and to be Desired of them that love Him? Are not the Commandments the Love of God, to work good in them that follow Him? Does God not love them that love Him? A Word given, a word obeyed; good arises from good and evil out of evil. Micah 2:7, " O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? " God knows them that love Him, in this, strength, a strong hold in the days of trouble. Trouble abounds, a plague is upon the hearts and minds. Nahum 1:7, " The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. " Proverbs 8:33, " Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. " Work and ye shall eat of the good. Work not and ye shall eat not of the good. The slothful is cast out into outer darkness. It is by choice, to choose one or the other, 1-1, 2, 0-0, it is obey or refuse. The call to work with God, to be a fellow laborer, to obey or refuse. Which did the will of the Father? Proverbs 21:25, " The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. " Matthew 21:28, " But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. Matthew 21:29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. Matthew 21:30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. " Turn from Him and He will turn from you. Confess Him and be confessed. Cast off what is good and the enemy will pursue. Hosea 8:3, " Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. " Who hates the good and loves the evil? Who sells the Truth for gain and causes so many to error? Who plucks the skin off and the flesh from the bones? Evil is upon them. Micah 3:2, " Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; " Who abhors judgment and not righteous judgement? Again, in the vision of lust, it was evil without measure and not a drop of that which is good. It was complete separation from the Lord God Almighty and it was horrific. The wantonness was disgusting to a perfect degree and the torment was instant and the smoke from it rose forever. It was dark pitch and yet I was able to see others. I pray none come to be there. Why will you choose to perish? None have to, Repent. Worship God in Spirit for He is Spirit, see the image? This is the seventh day, the forth Commandment. This is the day of rest and it is the day God rested from all His works. He made it for man and not man for it, it is a gift of God. It is love expressed perfectly, and it is not any other day. One can change times and laws, but that does not make it Truth. One can hire them that preach and who say evil will not come upon the wicked: sin is transgression of the Law. It is remission and not permission. Seek, Repent and Sin No More.. We are the words we speak.. Abide... Blessed be the Name of the Lord Amen and Amen. https://lesliewross.weebly.com/blog/spiritual-warfare
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All That Matters Is Christ...Weeks before my death the Lord knocked upon my heart, I heard and opened the door. My life has been forever changed, a new man indeed. Me a wicked man saved by the Grace of God, no more that wicked man. Died at 43 and was given a choice to stay or go. If I stayed I had to tell of the Lord Jesus Christ and here I am. I share my walk with my Lord, my candle is lit and I pray it be a light for all to know the Lord Jesus is the Way to the Truth to have Life, Amen. Archives
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