The Right Way To Obey God. Part [31] 01/22/2025 (Morning thought)

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

To reject Christ outright is the same as rejecting His commandments, because both are inseparable as far as the true gospel goes. In other words, if you were to remove the law from the gospel, there’s no need for Jesus for He came to save us from the consequences of God’s broken law. Thus, the fact is, that if there was not a broken law, we would not need The Savior. And therefore, the focal point of great departure in Christendom today, is the Sabbath, not merely the Person of Jesus.

Instead, the Sabbath issue is the point in particular that draws a dividing line between those individuals who acknowledge Christ in His capacity as Creator, and those who do not. Even though many are in ignorance about this issue currently, yet the facts are the facts, and because of the substitute day of rest that has been introduced by the man of sin, the servants of God must now be clear when presenting this issue to the people.

Christ is to be worshipped and honored as both The Creator and the Redeemer, and while Calvary puts our focus on The Redeemer, Mt Sinai focuses our attention on the Creator side of things, the fourth commandment being the only one which speaks of God in His capacity as Creator. Thus, as we delve into the issue of obeying God the right way, on the Sabbath issue, let us bear in mind that the Sabbath commandment is the only one of the ten, which lets us know by whose authority the law has been given.

Revelation 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!

The Right Way To Obey God. Part [30] 01/22/2025 (Evening thought)

Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

If the Scriptural record of the 6000-year age of the world is incorrect, as science currently claims, then the great facts about the creation would have to be dismissed summarily, and that will include throwing out the Sabbath, marriage, and God’s original instructions on diets and foods. Thus, we have science denying God on the one hand and the papacy discrediting His Creatorship, by the institution of a substitute day of rest that is entirely the brainchild of the beast in Revelation 13.

So, for all intents and purposes, God’s original day of rest, the 7th day Sabbath is under attack on two fronts. Therefore, the keeping of the original Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty to God, in these last days of earth’s history. In years gone by, the test of one’s allegiance to God was to believe, acknowledge, and accept, Christ, as The Savior of the world. But this is  no longer a test of one’s loyalty, in and of itself.

The claim to believe in Jesus has gone mainstream, but has been so watered down in the process that it virtually means almost nothing today, whenever the popular majority in Christendom make this claim. The other gospel, which teaches persons to believe, without obeying God’s commandments, has bred a multitude of professed believers, who now take to themselves the name of Christ, but who recoil from obeying His law.

Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!