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Faith is the only way
given to us to help build a pleasant relationship with God. In order
to touch God, we must have Faith in His pure word. When we have
Faith in His word; it means that: God we trust You, You are worthy
to guide our lives, we are Your creatures…
As human being, we have
got 5 functions by which nervous system conscientiously perceives
and analyzes external objects or phenomena. They are commonly called
the five senses which are: Sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
Therefore, at least one of these 5 senses must be used in order to
establish a relationship with a human being. But, for God there is
only one Sense to use to get in contact with Him, and that only
sense is Faith. What happened with the woman suffering from the
heavy bleeding in Luke 8:44-48 demonstrates to any believer that
touching bodily or handling the word of God has no effect if one
does not have Faith. Whereas crowd touched Him, it is written < <
And
a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all
her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came
behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately
her issue of blood stanched. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When
all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the
multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched
me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not
hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared
unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him,
and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter,
be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.>
> Luke 8: 44-48.
In connection with Faith,
Apostle Paul has provided to people of God a very good summary in
Hebrews chapter 11. He enumerates how since Abel till their time,
God turned up victorious those who touched Him by faith. In verse 6
he says: < < But without faith it is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. > >. In the sermon
entitled: The anointed of the end time, page 12(fr), the prophet of
God says that < < Faith is the revelation of the will of God
> >. And in the Ministry for the Lord, the aim of faith was
mentioned several time: Your faith has saved you, let it happen to
you according to your faith (MT 8: 13, Mc 5:34 etc), all these
people were saved because, they had believed and recognized the will
of God in their time. They were not mockers like Pharisees,
Sadducees and others whom did not have the revelation to recognize
the scriptures that God was fulfilling in the Ministry of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
If Faith, as apostle
Paul summarized from the whole testimony of the Bible, is a sine qua
non condition in establishing good relationship with God; Then, we
are right to question our selves and know: For which reason many of
religious leaders will be rejected? Why Lord will not even consider
that they were making miracles in His name!!!? (Matthew 7: 21-23)
Did they not have faith? In what their faith was it different from
the elect’s one ? This would be a question rising from a simple
common sense of whoever does not want to play or neglect his eternal
destiny. This is the question which should refrain each and every
one of us from euphoria and artificially created enthusiasm in some
mix of charismatic and Pentecostist meeting etc. in which
homosexual marriages and pastors are honored !!! Today is the
time to ask ourselves, honestly this vital question and correct our
trajectory because, indeed many will be disappointed, and many will
not be able to deny they were warned that their pastors were modern
Qoré, Balaam, and Pharisees.
However, generally, every
body has at least faith in something: There is faith in oneself or
confidence, faith in ones capacities to retain the biblical verses
and so on but, in the Holy Scriptures one can’t be saved by his
carnal competences, Proverbs 11:28 < < He that trusteth in his
riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
> >, Ezekiel 33:13 < <When I shall say to the righteous, that he
shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit
iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for
his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. > >
Then in Romans the apostle clarifies that being zealous in all that
is called work of God is null if there is not knowledge, and no
revelation to recognize and submit one self to God’s fulfillment of
scriptures in ones generation, he says < < Brethren, my heart's
desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's
righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. > >
Roman 10:1 – 3, Luke 7: 29-30.
The Faith that is
supported and spoken
about in the Holy Scriptures, consists in believing in
what comes from the mouth of Christ: < < So then faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God > >, Roman 10:17.
Believing that God exists etc. can be found in many people: In
political hypocrites as well as in religious believe all the same,
including the Devil. Prophets and apostles knew that, Saint James
speaks and explains about it: < < Thou believest that there is
one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. > >, James 2:19. Therefore, faith consisting in believing in oneself
and in the visible is significant for our carnal life but, it is not
sufficient because man is more spiritual than carnal. The body is
only an envelope of the man but, unfortunately we tend to be more
preoccupy by the envelope rather than its content! Therefore,
concerning the life of the interior man, the eternal life; We must
entrust, and completely found our faith in the word of God because,
< < … that he might make thee know that man doth not live by
bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
the LORD doth man live. > >, Deuteronomy 8:3b. Man should not
live by the word of religious institutions. Any honest person,
even novice, will note that preaching, from which believers are
nourished in several churches, do not proceed from the mouth of God.
They are in the contrary diametrically opposed to the biblical
foundation. But, God is always clear; He does not want our faith to
be founded on teachings of any so called church but, rather in His
pure word as It goes out of His mouth to nourish His children. Man
is not suppose to try and convert God, like this generation
misleads many people, man is rather supposed to convert his self
and listen to the voice of the good Shepherd who is confident of His
people as He says < < ...My sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, and they follow me > > They will not hear voice of a
religious organization, John 10: 26-27. He knows precisely the
mark of His people: < < He that is of God, listens to the words
of God; you do not listen, because you are not of God > > Jean
8: 47. And in connection with John 13:20, the apostle gives the same
mark of recognition of those who are really of God; 1 John 4:6.
Therefore, the faith
which will never disappoint anybody consists in approaching the word
of God with the intention to understand it the way He expects us to
understand, believe and practice it. But, they are rare to do so;
Many are those who approach the word of God to adapt it to their
own desires, thus twisting it, perverting it and understanding it
according the vision of this adulterous generation etc. So, the
very important lesson to retain from the Lord and the apostles about
faith, is that what ever we do in the name of God, will be useless
if we refuse to believe Him according to the written authentic
testimony of His word. If God is not honored with our obedience;
then one misleads an other by saying that the most important is
just to believe. God is not at all honored when people defy His
word and believe in traditions of men. Believing without obeying
His requirements one is not different from the Devil who believes
too, trembles, and whose discussions with God are described in Job
1:6-12. If because of a gift, one disobeys willfully the strict
recommendations written in the Holy scriptures; Then one is not
different from Balaam who had also visions etc. (Numbers 24), and
of whom the apostle Jude speaks: < < But these speak evil of
those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as
brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe unto
them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after
the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of
Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without
fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots > >, Jude 10-13.
Yes, it so well expressed
by the apostle; Also, nowadays such people can be found among the
people of God, false anointed, wolves, people who are not sent of
God to preach His word, working for their bellies, corrupts by
popularity, they scorn, they insult those who are really sent of
God, they prevent the children of God to get involved in the
Ministry of the promised prophet for our time, instead of correcting
their teachings and practices in the light of the holy revealed
word, they prefer to dwell in their antibiblical teachings and
behaviors in which they maintain believers unconscious and
suspended, cord in the neck, in top of the hell, thus wasting the
time of grace for several people! All evangelists who have become
famous and recognized internationally after the departure of Brother
William Marrion Branham know that he was the only man confirmed by
God, God showing signs and wonders, as to show people that this is
Elijah that was to turn the hearts of children toward their
fathers according to Malachi 3 :24, this ministry was still
confirmed in the future by the Lord in Matthew 17: 11. All elect of
God will listen to and support this Ministry which has only one
objective: To refuse all interpretations of man, and to found our
Faith in the infallible word of God, Ephesians 2:20. That is the
Faith which pleases God. This world will not be judged according to
various catechisms' of political churches but, well by the word of
God whose prophets and apostles gave testimony! Amen.
<< ¶Blessed is he that
readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep
those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand >>. It would be unwise not to arrange honestly ones own life with
God whereas the time of grace tends to its end!
It is still time to
follow what the Lord says: < < Therefore whosoever heareth these
sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man,
which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it
fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth
these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a
foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain
descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon
that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. > >
Matthew 7: 24-27.
God’s Fellow worker.
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