The Unfiltered Truth

By Maurice Antony Ross

So much is in disarray in this world that we live both inside and outside the church building. People have watered down, twisted, misinterpreted, and misrepresented the main point of God's message to us. There has been a major inability to fellowship, study, and grow together in God's Word while remaining unified in love. This display is shown only in people filled with information and not with the spirit of love. Here you will take a close look at what God speaks, the words He chose to use, and the effect of this process.

This is a down-to-earth conversation about what God has to say concerning who you are, how to know His voice when you hear Him, and what it is exactly that He wants from you in this life. Let's redirect focus from all the things we commonly tend to focus on and direct all of our attention to what the Lord teaches us to focus on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 15, 2024
• ISBN: 9798888515853

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Author's Note

Prologue

Chapter 1: This Is Where It Starts

Chapter 2: Promises

Chapter 3: A Holy Spirit

Chapter 4: Words

Chapter 5: Growth

Chapter 6: Remember Love

Chapter 7: It's Personal

Chapter 8: It's All Love

Chapter 9: A Strong Desire

Chapter 10: Endure

About the Author

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The Unfiltered Truth

Maurice Antony Ross

ISBN 979-8-88851-584-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88851-585-3 (Digital)

Copyright © 2024 Maurice Antony Ross

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my daughters, Maliya and Malana, that one day you will read your father's book and be strengthened in the truth of God. Always study His Word in the Holy Bible and pray because when you talk to Him, He will talk to you.

I sincerely want to thank my mother, Marguerite Ann Ross, for raising me as a believer and instilling in me a right faith in God's Word, causing me to eventually seek for myself. The following list of names are some of the strongest people I've known, who cultivated me in the Spirit and walked with me through various times in my journey. Thank you, Uncle Donald Ross, Dorothy Caldwell (my late grandmother), Canden Duncan, Reggie Barnhill, Jason Costello, Pastor Stanley (CUM), Brother Larry (ATCMD), Pastor Jonathan and Audrey Gray, and the Bishop and Pastor of my home church, Joel and Ylawnda Peebles.

Utmost thanks and praise go to my heavenly Father now and forever. Amen.

Author's Note

What Do You Believe?

There are so many people who could care less about God. Everyone can feel Him, and everyone lives because of His breath of life. The choice that each person has in life is to stop and take heed to that small inclination or to ignore it and drown it out with the distractions of today's world. To put it simply, you will either seek God, or you will not. Faith is a subject to be taken very seriously. Many different people have faith in many different things. Eventually, we all reach the developed age, where we can cognitively think and make decisions for ourselves. When we are first introduced to the thought of God's existence, how much do we care? Everyone comes across the thought of God in some way, shape, or form during their life. In fact, it's an inescapable notion that everyone will constantly be presented with throughout the entirety of their lives.

It doesn't matter where you are in the world. It doesn't matter what culture you are raised in. We all have a responsibility to seek God and know the truth or to be satisfied with ignorance. A lot of people simply adopt traditions and claim them, having no idea what it is they claim to believe. If you call yourself true, then all your effort should be put into knowing the truth. There are tons of options out there for you to choose from. There are so many different so-called gods for so many religions. They are all characteristically different, with doctrines worlds apart from one another. You will find different personalities of various false gods, different practices, and different teachings. Among them all, you will easily find endless conflictions. This means that everything cannot be connected, and that everything cannot all be the truth. Please be sure you put in a considerable amount of effort into knowing the truth because the outcome of your soul is nothing to be taken lightly. Be honest with yourself, and make sure you know that your faith is in the right place.

It's not difficult if you just take a moment to think about it. The most famous characteristic of God is that he is all powerful. I'm pretty sure this is one thing that majority of religions agree on. Now, if the almighty, all-powerful God has a message to deliver to mankind, there is nothing capable of stopping that message from being delivered. This is another thing that I'm sure can be unanimously agreed upon. Therefore, we have an all-powerful God whose message cannot be stopped. All religious systems of belief are built on writings or text that are believed to be divinely given. Almost all of them have completely different gods, teachings, and storylines. Everyone believes their text comes from the true God, yet most of them remain unheard of to the masses. The characteristics of God in all these various systems of belief greatly differ in many extreme ways. This negates the commonly used excuse of it's all the same. The teachings of a lot of the world's religions are nowhere near the same. So when the almighty, all-powerful God sends His message, we agree that it will not, and cannot, be stopped. Also, it will come with real power and be heard throughout the earth as a message clearly delivered. So out of all the various religious texts, let's take a close look at what this unstoppable power of Gods message looks like.

Over the past 2,400 years, despite any advancements mankind has made, one book, one man, and one belief has dominated the earth in reference to followers and lives changed. The ancient scripture of the Holy Bible is the foundation of Christianity, and today, it remains the world's strongest book. This is the power of an almighty, unstoppable God, with a message that rings out loudly over time. To add more evidence, look at the world's three top systems of belief: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These three separate religions dominate the world concerning number of followers. The interesting thing here is that Christianity remains the greatest book and greatest belief on earth, with Judaism and Islam following in numbers.

Another interesting thing is that these top three are all connected through certain portions of scripture. They are all different practices that completely reject one another, but they are all linked through the storyline in scripture. The opening storylines of Judaism and Christianity are identical. Islam's opening storyline is also very close in similarity, despite its various name alterations and adjustments to the story. The basic storyline consists of creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, and Moses, the prophets, and Jesus. All three of these beliefs share the same people, the same stories, and the same order of events in their scriptures.

Upon further inspection, you'll learn that God has left us his name, or what I like to call as His signature. The scientific world calls it the tetragrammaton; you may have seen it more commonly written as YHWH. It has been pronounced many ways; some say Yahweh, some say Jehovah, some say Jahweh, etc. You don't see it in most Bibles because it has been translated and written in the Bible as Lord (all caps), mostly in the Old Testament. This is God's signature, which is contained in both the Torah and the Bible. It is not in the Islamic book, the Quran. We can clearly see the power of God here and give recognition to his dominance. He has signed His work, and He has given us His name (however, it is you who'll choose how to pronounce it). He has done something that mankind has been unable to copy or do better even today. He has more likes and follows than any person and any company will ever see. His Word comes with power, and to deny it would be unfathomable.

Now, let's consider Jesus Christ, the world's most famous man. Many people in the world today reject and don't know of Jesus. Both Judaism and Islam acknowledges Jesus but rejects Him as Messiah and savior to humankind. Even today, there are many in and outside of religion who reject the blatant power of God in Jesus Christ. The Holy Scripture teaches that Jesus is most literally the Word of God in the form of human flesh. He is the physical representation of God for mankind. Searching for the truth requires more than just a little effort or believing whatever