Christian Duties for the Servants of Christ

By A. Samuel Morris

Christian Duties for the Servants of Christ is about the responsibilities of Christians in their faith walk with Christ. One must be humble and steadfast in performing these duties. Morris discusses these duties in great detail.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664298088

A. Samuel Morris

A. Samuel Morris is a devout Christian who has written several books about the Christian faith. He resides in Connecticut with his wife and children.

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Christian

DUTIES

FOR THE SERVANTS OF

CHRIST

A. SAMUEL MORRIS

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WestBow Press rev. date: 12/12/2023

To my granddaughter,

Na’zya Fearon.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 A call for service

2 The great awakening

3 The wisdom from above

4 Service with conviction, doing the will of the Lord

5 The power of God’s word

6 Christian duties

7 The sanctity of our petitions

8 The principal message from the word of God

9 The True Gospel

10 The assurance of faith

11 The power of the Christian order

12 Advocacy for the truth

INTRODUCTION TO THE GODLY PATHWAYS OF LIFE

2 Corinthian 2: 6-16.

Before I proffer this book for the target market of any interested reader, Moreover, I want to stand against the indifference of unbelief that subjugate the atheist and all unbelievers, which are spiritually blind, as the influence of the Christian faith will shine the light of the gospel of Christ Jesus into the darkness of their unbelieving heart. Let them at least learn what the religion is before they oppose it. If this religion boasted of having a clear vision of God, and of possessing him directly, and without a veil, it would indeed be opposing it to declare that we see nothing in the world which discover with such evidence. But since religion says on the contrary, that men are in darkness, and far from God, where he has hidden himself from their knowledge, that the very name he gives himself in the scriptures is absolute, an fine, as religion equally labors to establish these two things, that God has established perceptible signs in the church, in order to make himself known to those who seek him sincerely, and that nevertheless, he has so far concealed these signs that he will be found only be those who seek with all their heart. What advantage do the opponents of religion gain they professedly neglect to search after the truth, they cry out that nothing discovered them, since the obscurity in which they are, and which they bring an objection to the church does but establish one of the things which she maintains without affecting the other, and, far from ruining, confirm her doctrine?

The opponents of religion, in order to combat it, should be able to affirm that they have used their utmost endeavors in seeking it everywhere. Even in what the church proposes for instruction, but without any satisfaction. If they could say this, they would indeed combat one of her pretentions. But I hope to show here that no rational person can affirm this, and I even venture to assert that no person ever did. We know very well how those people act, in an affordable manner to absorb the truth who are in this spirit. They think they have made great efforts to instruct themselves, when they have spent a few hours in reading some book of the scriptures, and have put a few questions on some truth of the faith. And after this they boast fruitless searches in books. But in truth, I cannot help saying this negligence is insufferable. But which is reason for the dissention man that does have the interest in the activities of the church, or the unbeliever or the man with atheistic inclinations? But the devil is the master deceiver that keep men in spiritual blindness and decline from accepting the truth. So, if you are an unbeliever, the immortality of the soul is a thing which is of so much importance that it touched the true believer with much respect for the truth of the gospel, but the atheistic, which have no respect for the knowledge of God, has been held captive by the devil within the dominion of darkness. Because God is in the light, he determines that such folks are fools, because they deny his existence.

In Psalms 14-1 the psalmist says, The fool said in his heart there is no God, they are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Therefore, there is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain! As the scripture said, To you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in them all that believe, because our testimony among you was believed in that day, 1 Thessalonians 2: 7-10. Oh, the awful reality of hell, thus, no one knows how the awfulness of the intended consequences awaits them on the day of judgment as it will continue throughout all eternity, because the Holy Spirit have drawn a vail over the suffering that humanity cannot bear. In Luke 16-24, Jesus said, the rich man cried out Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. So, reading a book like Christian Duties for the servants of Christ will redress and refresh the choice by keeping Christ as the grand object in the enlightening divulged by the knowledge gained from reading this book. The apostle Paul assimilated the difference judgment that occur in the first few verses of the chapter, of 1 Thessalonians that set the stage for judgment for every unbeliever, between salvation and Christian’s that obey the truth, saying that there is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain. The word of God said little about heaven, because heaven it is so glorious, Christian’s will not be able to comprehend it. For he said, Wherefore also we pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power. That the name of Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, (1 Thessalonians 1: 11-12.) And in continuing with his exhortation to every true believer. The apostle Paul says, Behold I show you a mystery; we shall all not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which give the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord as much you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. For the Lord God is a sun and a shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will withhold from them that walk uprightly, (1 Corinthians 15: 51-58 and Psalms 84-11.)

Let us start with an anomaly from the deviation of religion, when Christianity has opened the door to the spiritual proximity of knowing the truth that is reserved in the bible. In John14: 11-12, Jesus said, Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believe on me, the works that I do shall he also do; and greater works than these shall he also do: because I go unto my Father. To understand this statement, we must observe all the tremendous miracles Jesus performed when he was on the earth. His disciples did the same things, they raised the dead and healed the sick. But Jesus said, they would do greater works. What is the greater works they should do? Simon Peter preached a sermon on the day of Pentecost and over 3000 people became believers. Think of all the missionaries that sacrificed their time for the triumph of the gospel to heathen nations, who preached Christ as the risen savior, so that the hearer may gain salvation for their sin-sick souls. This is a greater miracle than healing the body, when the soul is refreshed with the everlasting gospel. Christians can revolutionize this expediential challenge of the great commission by accepting Christ’s requirement of going, baptizing and teachings of the true gospel, when it comes to greater things. Of which the word of God said in Isiah 52-7, How beautiful are upon the mountains are the feet of him that bring good tidings, that publish peace that bring good tidings of good that publish salvation, that saith unto Zion, thy God reigneth!. Salvation is the most important preservation or deliverance of the human soul from the power of spiritual death, which is the power of sin of sin unto death in a place reserved for unbelievers, determined to be a place termed to the abode for the devil and his hosts of demons. In Psalms 119-155 the psalmist said, Salvation is far from the wicked. This is the best gift that God has offered to man the crown of creation, of which the true Christian can say, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he have covered with the robe of righteousness, (Isaiah 61-10.) Having a right relationship with Jesus Christ, means that Christian’s can have fellowship with the master in fellowship divine, as salvation which is of the Lord make this warranted blessing a token of life, which is revealed in the thrilling experience for being in the kingdom of the commonwealth of grace, which God provide for his elect. Salvation should be the most sought-after entity in the world. But so many Christian fall short of God’s expectation, because of sin in their lives, and for the lost world, they are only a hear-beat away from the blessings of salvation.

Christian authors can proffer literature to substantiate the key ingredients for the target market, relative to the masses of all the people that have any interest of inclusion for upholding the inerrant word of God, as the revealer of doctrines that portrays the remarkable truths of his revelations for successfully living the Christian life. It is important to note that spiritual discernment pervades the rationality of the mind that will embolden the life of every true believer for purpose and direction by the author that present the truth in a condescending manner for doing the will of the Lord. Therefore, they can present biblical based insights from an interactive book like the bible that will help the readers gain the initiative for knowing the comprehensive theological information for the human mind and spirit. For this cause, Christian literature can engage the man with an open mind with conversation that inhibit godly issues, as they permeate the elevations of the Christian’s life, which can be an expediential challenge for anyone that have the desire for adhering the truths revealed within the word of God. The crucial points of contentions of service and direction of living the Christian’s life, must be adhered to in this passage of the scriptures. In Matthew 10: 37-39, Jesus said, He that loveth father or mother is not worthy of me: and he that love son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and follow after me is not worthy of me. He that find his life shall lose it: and he that lose his life for my sake shall find it. Therefore, Romans 10-17 says, Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Thus, it takes faith to believe with the steadfastness of holding to something firm with confidence and conviction, as Christians trust the written contents of God’s words and believe by faith in the confident reliance of all the applications of the language, which is given in the transformation of edification, as it renews the mind and transforms the heart for all that believe the truth that resonates within the word of God. Moreover, salvation is the medium that hold anarchy in check from the satisfying demands of God’s judgment, because the bible said in Matthew 25-31, When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angles with him, then shall he sit upon his throne of his glory. And before him shall he gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divide his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the king shall say unto them on his right hand, Come you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. In verse 41 of Matthew 25, then he said unto them on his left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. In this life, handing the servants of Christ a cup of cold water may be meaningless, but there will come a time when such things will be a tremendous value for anyone that take a stand for Christ, for he said, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me," Matthew 25-40. Such things will determine that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. It is so important for the sage of the gospel to read the bible, so they will not be ignorant of all the applications of the truth scriptures give humanity in this life.

For this cause the apostle Paul said, Study to show thyself unto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. and the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God will peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth: and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will, 2 Timothy 2-15, 24-26. Bible studies allow the true servants of Christ to fully grasp the true witness of the word, when the manifestation of the truth of God’s revelations becomes real to the receptive heart for the man that believe by faith. This is where a Christian’s can find joy in the daily struggles of life. Throughout the scriptures, the knowledge of divine revelation has been made neigh in the lives of men through the manifold wisdom, of whom God has committed his word as the stamp of approval for living the Christian’s life by the righteous actions of Jesus Christ, which attains to the disciplines for living the Christian life by faith as a testimony of holiness. The same is true when we take the inerrant word of God to the capstone level for biblical insight with all the given principles obedience for a healthy balance for successfully doing the will of the Lord. Therefore, All scripture is given by inspiration, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works, says, 2 Timothy 3: 16-17. Men should spark interest in the word of God, which is emanated in the bible for conquesting the will of the Lord. The deepen living experience of this inspiration, which is given in the text by human authors, composing the errancy of the scripture that is without error by the spirit of truth, encased by the living worth of God’s revelations. In the historical emphasis of religion, Christianity stands out with the worthiness of all the undeniable facts of reality, which is done in ascent of the truth that is bindingly accurate in terms of God’s revealing’s words. For the notable observations of these things, are hinged only on the threshold of prophesy, that is foretold, in the putative concern of things that came to fruition, which dominate the truth of God’s word.

Dialogue in this manner, make the Christian faith real, in the prophesy of Isaiah, foretold the spiritual adaptation of salvation in this manner, Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The prince of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this, Isaiah 7-14 and 9: 6-7……In the fulfillment of this prophesy, we read of the story where virgin Mary was with child, and her husband, wanted to put her away privately, But the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us, Matthew 1: 20-23. Therefore, in the observation of the truth that is backtrack hundreds of years prior before Joseph encounter with the angel. It was already prophesied by Isaiah, through the spoken word of God. and while unbelief may discount the reality of the virgin birth, Mary’s husband knew that the child within her was not his, but the angel of the Lord influenced his mind with this hypothesis that she was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost, which is another testament of God’s divine power to consolidating his plans and purpose in the world he created.

Christ Jesus, the man of sorrows, full of grace and truth, suffered shame, humiliation and death that every believer might be made partakers of indescribable glory, came into this world for a purpose in the soaking experience of all the prophesies absolved through the truth of the word which the Lord have spoken, where nothing amiss has proved out of character beyond the reasonable doubt, for it flows in the natural course of all the existing momentum of the truth which is livid with the right accomplishments in Psalms 22, where all the passions of the coming messiah is lamented by the psalmist in his struggles with the prophetical description the crucifixion of Christ, hundreds of years in Roman times, when he says, They pierced my hands and feet. In Psalms 22-16 on Calvary’s cross in Matthew 27-35. Belief accredits the central ideas of knowledge or the adaptation by of purpose with conviction through divine imposition by the spirit of truth, while it is supplemented through the wiser platform of faith, that men will believe the truth of the gospel of Christ and his atoning sacrifice for human transgressions that revolutionize earth’s destiny of two possible outcomes, which is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun! For as food must be masticated before indigestion, therefore, the intake of the word of God must be applied to the heart to reconcile the imagery of the truth that comprehend the holiness of the Lord, which is animated and compounded by the infringement godly wisdom, knowledge and understanding in the training fields of righteousness. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness: and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, Romans 10-10. Moreover, the psalmist, said, Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy law, Psalms 119:11,18.

Reading the bible, the source book of God’s revelation, which is crucially mandated for metering out the truth of his infallible word, in the varying degrees as the of every statement that is mentioned as the continual witness to earth’s inhabitants for the spiritual reformation of the soul. In Hebrews 10: 19-24 we read, Having therefore brethren boldness to enter holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way, which he consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say his flesh; and having a high priest over the house of God; let us near with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering: (for he is faithful that promised:) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Therefore, the adequacy of the word speaks volumes in its message of appeal to the receptive heart as the supreme law giver for holiness in action. Therefore, it will spark all the principles of righteousness, given in the primary views of the knowledge gained through spiritual adherence of the truth which is predicated by the pivotal concept of understanding and adhering to the written concepts of inspiration that cohere the emphatic awareness of the message of resolve, for the reformation of the soul. Because the spirit of truth will join the true believer from the old life that was in Adam, unto the newness of life in Christ Jesus. This is God’s pathway for honoring the designs of communication, while giving us the initiative for understanding the missing link that the devil has perverted mankind from knowing the truth, that evades the longing heart to have peace with God. Christ was the medium by which provide the propitiation for the conduct of sin, as God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, (2 Corinthians 5-19.)

The devil would have you believe, that there are certain things in this life are meaningful to support the longing heart with pleasurable concerns of life, given with all the things that support the ideas of vanity-fair, like fame and fortune. In other words, no one would need God, because all these things would suffice our physical accomplishments. However, Christ is the missing link of justified the morality that perpetrate the longing heart with the heart-beat of having the desire of knowing the plural of majesty of the living God, of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which could accomplish the Christian’s redemption with the sanctity of light that luminate the godly pathways of life. Jesus Christ is the only one that can satisfy the spiritual needs of men, with the desire of giving men the potential of fellowship with God through the harmony of the scriptures, as the defining doctrines for integration of the teaching authority of the Christian church. Christianity begins with Christ, as the literal function of the truth that ground itself within the scriptures. For Christ has mastered the will of man, through the indoctrinating power of the truth that purpose the asymmetrical desires of his will to adjudicate God’s true purpose in this world. If we take this man, by his words, we will certainly have something to work with by believing in his deity after his resurrection from the dead, for while the door was closed, Jesus appeared to his disciples, not as mind over matter, but with the engraving power of God that beat the odds of impossibility in the reified experience of divinity. Thomas was the one his disciple that believed not that the Lord was risen from the dead. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach thither thy fingers, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. Thomas could only respond with these words, My Lord and my God. Jesus, then saith unto him, Thomas, because thou have seen me, thou have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed, John 20: 27-29. Thomas had to reckon that Christ was God, the one that was able to enter in the midst when the doors are closed, raised the dead and forgive our transgressions. Moreover, he made belief and faith the livid experience as the precedent a lifelong engagement of reckoning with his deity, and for making him known to all the endeavors of spiritual life and his true purpose for coming to this sin cursed world. Thus, Jesus said in John 10-10, The thief come not, but for steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Let us take life from the sacred truth from the scriptures, which began in the Genesis era, given through the distinction of the word of the Lord, where the human culture is associated with sin, for it begins with this divine condemnation, Dust thou are, and to dust thou shall return, Genesis 2-7. This is the undeniable fact of reality, or the truth which gives the assurance that the word of God that meets all the credibility’s answers of life’s illustrations to be trustworthy, because all men will die and eventually return to dust. Dust to dust makes the theological doctrine of death real in its conformation of all the things written within the whole landscape of the scriptures, which goes far beyond the understanding of men that the errancy of his word is true above every reasonable doubt. Therefore, the obvious quest for inquiry, is to find the true meaning of life, by signifying the will of obedience to the reveal will of the Lord given in the compelling platform of faith to believe in the inspiration of the scriptures that will keep men alive in every lighted path of godliness. The nobility of this distinction underscore obedience as the point of departure that regulate the human will, where the Lord said, And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For the Lord said unto the first man Adam, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die, Genesis 1: 9, 17. So far there is nothing to circumvent the reality of this provocative statement that apprehend all the generating questions regarding reality of God’s existence, as these words of truth is closely adjoined with the proof that giving in wake of God’s revealing word…… which are the undeniable facts of reality. Therefore, the truth comes to mankind by inspiration (2 timothy 3: 16-17,) from God’s perspectives, in his whole-hearted concern for man, the crown of his creation, given through the express purpose of making us to know the frailty of our being. This is the way the focus is stressed about life within this world, and the specific purpose of knowing it from a human vantage point. For the world in which we were born does not offer much to lean on. Therefore, it is equally important for us to know that the truth of the scriptures, which was written to prove that all the plausible purpose of our identity is real, it is relative to the overwhelming evidence recorded in account of our designation in this life, wherefore. the word of God said, Man that is born of a woman is of a few days, and full of trouble. He come forth like flower, and is cut down: he flee as a shadow, and continue not. Seeing his days are determined, the numbers of his months are with thee. Thou has appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be four scores years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we flyaway. Who know the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Job 14: 1-2 and 5. Psalms 90: 10-12. Speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, this man Job looked far beyond the hidden veil of time and space, and said, For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, Job 19: 25-26. Therefore, the quest for understanding the reality of this phenomenal discourse, is relative to the given inquiry of the examination, which alludes to the fact that it is God’s signature of inspiration, that emerge in the arousal of our faith to believe in the analysis of the resurrection from death to life eternal. The bible assures that there will be a general resurrection of the dead, for it assures us that there is more to this with credible evidence that all men will have the conscious moment of recollection, when Christ return to this world a second time, because he became your surety for life everlasting as the liability for human transgressions.

Man, that is born of a woman is of a few days, and full of trouble, says Job 14-1. The distinctive notions about the awareness of trouble means, it is a feature of the physical divide, of which every man will face the mountains of travail with all the things that plague the mind with all the upheavals of the uncontrolling situations, which is being bullish without any semblance of resolve to the conqueror, of all the deliberate inducement of the ills of this life. For when the mountains of trouble come, a man is helmed in the valley of despair with nowhere to turn. But with the bible observation of the man with the spiritual energy to satisfy his demand for answers to the mystery of life, because he has a regular diet of the word to afford his curious ambitions of leaning on the Lord in time of need. In Matthew 17-20, Jesus said, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you. In 1 Kings 17: 10-14. The widow of Zar’ephath, was gathering sticks to make her last meal. Then Elijah the prophet said unto her, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she began to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou have said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ‘The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail’, until the day that the Lord send rain upon the earth. This is one example, of the formidable mountain of despair where a widow faced in her quest to have her last meal because of the severity of the famine in the land of Israel; but she believed the prophet, Elijah, as her faith thrived with conquest, on the words of the God of providence, is capable of making the strangeness of the concord of his inspiration meters out the value of the importance of the language, which exclusively make the meal in the barrel and the cruse of oil last, until the day of refreshing, when the rain start falling. Proverbs 3: 5-6 declares, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

We know that these virtuous admonitions are true, because the God of providence, choose to elicit any means of satisfaction innated in the assuage of meriting his goodness to man, the crown of his creation. From a nation, that cross the red sea on a dry and solid pathway over to the other side for freedom of oppressions of the Egyptians, and to a lowly widow that is destined to die from hunger, until he steps in to resolve her situation with the growing benevolence of his lovingkindness, and to one that put her faith and trust in the affirmative legitimacy of his word. So, what about your mountain that inhibit the tough situation, validating the enormous struggles you face in the perils of life? The word of God, says, trust in the Lord and he will direct the right course in the mutual comportment for his prudential care to his own, given for the trajectory of the unspeakable grandeur of the objective of spiritual enlightenment from the spirit of truth, that bear the poignant directives in your life. For then, the sufficiency of the Lord will champion the Christian’s zeal of faith in Christ Jesus, by helping the true believer to endure all the obstacles of life, with a joyous attitude, which is a source of blessing, for all that take the Lord at his word. In Romans 5: 1-5 we read, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation work patience; and patience experience, and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

The prologue of this book is about to begin with information that constitute ideas of mankind duration in a world corrupted by sin, and the remedy that will foresee that whole plan of salvation. Moreover, the justice of God, demand that every sinner faces the feature of death in the significance of the role of spending an eternity, in a place reserved for the devil and his host of demons in hell. In Mark 9-43, Jesus says, If thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never be quenched. In John 5: 27-29 Jesus said, You have that it was said by them of old time thou shall not commit adultery. But I say unto you, that whosoever look on a woman to lust after her have committed already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into hell. Christ had a message for man, in the observation of hell’s domain, which he created for the man of sin, namely, the devil, and by divine authority, he is giving us sketches of damnation for future concerns. For some, it is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun; from the true pointers of God’s directives in which a man can become increasingly aware of physical death that make everything fall into place, where the intending consequences are true in its appointed time. This is strong language, which is used to emphasized the comparison of a sinful act that resonate in the heart, because sin is so hazardous to our spiritual wellbeing, it leaves us in a state of condemnation, it would be far better to lose eyes or hands temporally than to lose life eternally.

Refraining from sin have two courses of action, we can keep God’s commandments or face the consequences of the intended judgment on sin. However, the great formative ideas of God’s love for man, the crown of his creation, begins with the atoning power of God to make known the richness of his grace in his unmerited favor towards sinful men, for if they only believed and put their trust in Christ Jesus, they can find the true meaning of heaven’s welfare from the awful predicament of spiritual death. Therefore, John 3-16 makes a worthy appeal for such considerations in the sacrifice of Christ, where belief unites the strangeness of life over spiritual death in hell. Thus, no one will be excused from the gates of hell, as an unwarranted expectation of divine judgment, for the Lord will connote the awareness of the word which they refuted, as a testimony that will prevails against every unbeliever, on the last day, (John 12-48). For some the attending power of life, transcend Christianity into a spiritual force, of which Jesus Christ, who said in Hebrews 10: 4-10, For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins, wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and burnt offering thou would not, but a body thou has prepared for me: in burnt offering and sacrifices for sin thou has no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God. Above when he said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou would not, neither have any pleasure therein. which are offered by the law; then said he, lo, I come to do thy will O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. The volume of the book is the bible written through the inspiration of the spirit of truth within the writer of each book of the scriptures to assure us that every word is dictated into the integration of life with proven illustrations of God’s directives. The scripture says in Hebrews 4-12, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts. The living and inspired word of God is operative by the power to discern the intents of the hearts of men, and to transform lives into the longing for God. The gospel of John personifies the term the word of God as proof that was readily available to convey the message that the God of creation, Christ is part of the plural of majesty although being distinct, from the Father, and the Holy Ghost. But as the relevance of Christ deity continues, he is the word, while communing with God as in the beginning, where the Plural of majesty said, Let us make man in our image after, our likeness, Genesis 1-26. And in John 1: 1-4, we read, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

The prophet Ezekiel was told by the living God what to be a watchman for the nation of Israel, and he is to warn them. And there the word of God said, Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib that dwell by the river of Chebar, and I sat and they sat, and remain there astonished among there seven days. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: to a rebellious nation that have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. for they are impudent children and stiff-hearted. I do send thee unto them, and thou shall say unto them; and thou shall say unto them unto them, Thus say the Lord God, whether they will hear or whether will forbear., (for they are a rebellious house) yet they shall know that there have been a prophet among them. And thou son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, thou briers and thorns be with thee. And thou does dwell among scorpions; be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, thou they be a rebellious house. And thou shall speak my words unto them. Whether they will hear or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee: be not thou rebellious like unto that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I gave thee. And when I looked, behold an hand was sent unto me: and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; and he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written lamentations, and mourning and woe, Ezekiel 2: 3-10. Although the people of Israel made his task difficult, because the watchman was to warn the city of all the impending danger, so the prophet was to warn Jerusalem of the coming destruction. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel. Therefore, hear the word of my mouth and give them a warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, thou shall surely die; and thou gave him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from the wicked way, to save his life. the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou has delivered thy soul. Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, I will lay a stumbling-block before him and he shall die, because thou has not given him warning. He shall die in his sin, and his righteousness, which he have done shall not be remembered, but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou has delivered thy soul.

These things are so important in our contemporary times, because preachers that stand in the pulpit are to faithfully expound the word of God, as a messenger of Jesus by making known the truth of the gospel, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners and warn them before they die in their sins. This is so important, as men will be the medium of transformation to lead the spiritually blind from the dominion of darkness in to the kingdom of light with Christ Jesus. preaching is important, because Romans 10-17 said, Faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Moreover, the bible said As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, Romans 3: 10 and 23. For since the law of God is an expression of his Character, sinful acts will disdained the character traits of God’s holiness, however, God has given grace to every true believer that repentance can restore fellowship unto all that transgress the laws of God, because 1 John 1-9 says, If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Moreover, the pastor, which is like the watchman in Ezekiel’s day, whose task was to warn the People of God’s impending judgment on their actions of sin. But in our day, every true believer that deny such things is being deceived by taking the word of God for granted, while they walk in darkness. However, because our God is in the light, Christian’s can walk in the light and find fellowship with Christ, who has been our advocate that petition every reformed child of the living God, when they confess their sin before the holiness of him that lovingly extend his wonderful outreach of mercy and grace. For every child of God can sing, Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine, oh, what blessed sweet communion, Jesus is a friend of mine.

The word of God, means revelation, of which, we read in Hebrews 1: 1-4, with this declaration, God, at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto then father by the prophets, have in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he had appointed heir of all things, by whom he made the worlds; who being in the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels as he have by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. According to the conjecture of prophecy, it affirms the revelations given by the spirit of God in lieu of the prophet which received the inspiration that guarantee the word of truth would prove its true worth in the interpretation that this man, Christ Jesus. Wherefore, Moses said, The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him shall you hearken; according to all that thou desired of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, let me not hear again the word of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the Lord ‘said unto me,’ They have well-spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Jesus Christ, the mystical one conducted his life in association with his mission to prove that he was the prophet spoken by Moses in his prophecy of the coming messiah. For the apostle Peter said, in Acts 3: 18, 22-23, But those things, which God before has showed by the mouth of his prophets that Christ should suffer, he had so fulfilled. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear in all thing whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul that which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

The uniqueness of prophecy proves that the important aspects of God’s handiworks, for it looks far beyond the waiting terms of redressing the positive fulfillment of all the things that came to pass. It is relative that God’s invocation of the law, bears witness of the offerings and burnt offerings, which were used as a token for the purging of our transgressions, back then as a substitute, where the blood of bulls and goats could not take way sin, but used as a sovereign analogy that epitomize the coming sacrifice that warrant no repetition, like the empirical evidence professed by the sacrifice of blood of animals, which could not take away sin. Therefore, the scripture said, But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal salvation redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify to the purifying of the flesh. How much more shall blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God, Hebrews 9: 11-14. For some, it is inconceivable how these things are being manifested in the text by the good pleasure of the Lord of things which they know not in stipulations of salvation for God’s people, when Christ had made all things for his own.

In our contemporary times we can appreciate the good pleasure of the Lord for making these things known with confidence regarding, the nature of God’s forgiveness of our transgressions. For the emphasis comes with the highest regard for John 3-16 which collaborate with the only means by which a man can be saved through God’s prior revelations, by the prophet, Isaiah. We must believe the truth that cite the faith that offered something to lean on in the emancipation from spiritual death, where Jesus affords himself as the substitute for our sins. For if these things take shape in a person’s mind, and they become intellectual in their endeavor to understand the outcome of the validity of this argument. The appeal must not be glamourized about religion, but with humility expressed thoughtfully, about the human transitions from death to life, which means, there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. Now there are only two ways of a man’s destiny is featured in the preservation of the human pilgrimage in the transient duration of a man’s life. It is relative that the passing of time connoting the root meaning of the word that transcend the distance of life on two fronts, considering Christ message to the world to repent and turn to the living God, or face the crisis of all the intended consequences that the gates of hell demand. This is where the law of love was written from God’s perspectives of the love that seeketh not her own, but is manifest in Christ Jesus. This is where many will experience the blissfulness in the commonwealth of grace, while others will face the intended consequences of God’s justice that are reserved for the unsaved in a place of everlasting torment.

It is determined where many that worship the beast in revelation 13-8 and 17-8, whose names are not written book of life from the foundation of the world. What a frightening picture of doom that illustrate the elucidating point of death for every unbeliever? It is impossible for humanity to escape from the pit of sin, because the human heart is desperately wicked, who can know it? And who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. Only through the power of the holy spirit can make the unclean fit for the correctness of human behavior, which a heart that will manifest righteous attitude before the holiness of the living God. Therefore, there must be a power that works through the gospel, it is the power that comes from above, as Christ through his ministry, of which the spirit of truth can purify the heart with the forbearance of Christian graceful sanctity that quickens the lifeless faculties of the soul that possess the new life that comes from above. Thus, Christianity is not an abstract conviction, regarding the elicitation of religious dogmas, but it is a somber matter of great importance that deal with inerrancy of the scriptures, which is free from errors, but is given with the observation of the truth likened to all the undeniable facts of reality, reserved in all the historical contents written in the scriptures. The church begins with the supernatural order of faith that hinged on the threshold of Christ message to this grand institution of servitude to him. For when the apostle Peter had made the confession that Christ was the Son of the living God through divine revelation, Jesus Christ adjured him with divine intreat of God’s revelations, and said, by using the profession of faith in Christ to build his church. Blessed art thou Simon Bra-jo’na, for flesh have not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, Matthew 16: 17-18. The rock was Christ, the anointed one, who referred to the unfailing of this institution, that have thrived to this present contemporary time.

If you are troubled about your eternal security, you are not alone, because millions of people are faced with the same dilemma. When the emphasis of the intended consequences of divine judgment becomes the supreme evidence of the day of darkness which is pervades in Mark 9: 42-50. The Christian concept of justification by faith elucidate God’s primary record of his providence for humanity written in the scriptures. Jesus said, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. This is where hope is trivial in the sense of the longing for God, as the Lord makes the appeal at the crossroads of life, because Jesus the substitute for sin made this proposal and promise in John 6-37., All that the Father giveth me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For this group which constitutes election of being saved by grace alone, when the elucidation of promise warrants the best outcome of life’s unmerited favor with a two-prong approach to life by purpose of God’s grace and mercy and conviction of coming to Christ by faith, of which he promised not to cast you away. Jesus said in John 10-10 I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. And after all these promises of assurance, why did so many Christians fall short of God’s expectations? Jesus said in Matthew 7: 21-23. Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them I never knew, depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Doing the will of the Lord is practical in our Christian walk of faith reserved in Christ Jesus, it means more than going through the rituals of the church, when spiritual discernment intreats every true believer to be decisive about the nature of God’s way of adherence to his will. Therefore, the word of God lay out the principal features of Christianity, which is likened to the way the Lord treats humanity with compassion, forgiveness, and love. Love for thy neighbor is the abiding principle that beat back the ringing themes of his commandments that was first mentioned back in the Old Testament in Leviticus 19-18, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thy self: I am the Lord. And Jesus, when he was tempted by the Jewish lawyer, with this question, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? By answering, he said, Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thy self, Luke 10: 25 and 27. The way people treat others will be magnified on the day of judgment. Notice the contrasting effects of this language, For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses, Matthew 6: 14-15. For as God reigns in of the heart of men with the discerning rectification of unfaithfulness, Jesus said, Why call you me Lord, Lord and do not the things which I say.

It is indicative how the righteous one reads the intents of your heart, and have sketched out his intent of judgment on the children of men in the condemnation of all whom is not known of the living God, because of spiritual failure, by failing to take God seriously by his word. Therefore, if you