Friday 031425
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by GRACE you have been SAVED through FAITH; and this is not of yourselves, it is a GIFT of God…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Let’s together, open the Word of God this morning, and study what we have been given. Allow me to help you in your study and search the Bible what God has intended for us to hear.
The verses we are going to study tonight:
Romans 10:9; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:8; 2 Peter 3:14-18.
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So, I think beginning in this lesson, we are going to add another Bible verse to the top of every study.
After this paper, you will begin to see Romans 10:9 at the top of every lesson.
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Over the years and after teaching many lessons, as well as sitting in on many lessons, I’ve found an easier interpretation for us to maybe understand.
Romans 10
vs9 ‘…The message is this: You must say clearly that Jesus is the Lord. Also, you must believe deep inside yourself that God raised him to life again after his death. Then God will save you…’ EASY (Easy English Bible)
I’ve done several lessons on all the different versions, printed in the English language and I’ve done a few on how many people are unable to interpret what they read.
So, this morning, I’m going to try and combine them both in a lesson I hope everyone will be able to take and use some of the lesson in their own life and walk with Jesus.
I hope there are those out there that know me well enough to know that I am not a person that does not believe in God.
I very much believe in God; I must admit what I fail to understand is how so many people can believe in such nonsense that so many churches are preaching today.
These so-called ‘men of God’ should be ashamed of themselves for the lies they spread each and every week onto the people of this world.
Now don’t misunderstand me, there are some churches that believe in the words written in our Bibles but there are some that preach what they determine to be true or not true.
To me, the number one failure on many churches is when they preach the only version, we should read in English is the King James Version.
Where did God write that we should follow that belief?
This is nothing other than a man-made lie told to many about what an individual believed in.
The KJV is nothing more than a translation that has been translated from a different language into English, very poorly used English today in the 21st century. Now if you really like Shakespearean plays: wherefore art thou Romeo, or you actually talk like this today, the KJV is the version for you.
But I don’t, and I don’t think there are a lot of Americans that do speak like that today, except maybe on Sunday mornings in some church buildings throughout our country.
I think if GOD had intended for us to ONLY read His Word in the KJV, He would have told us that, somewhere written in the Word.
But He didn’t. I’m pretty settled that I have addressed this issue.
The NASB has been said to be the most precise interpretation in English language compared to the original texts.
Once again, I think that is an interpretation, a viewpoint but it is a lot easier reading from the NASB than it is from the KJV.
I have written for years how each one of us, have got to get a Bible and open it and read for ourselves what God has written for us.
There are too many pastors preaching what they want us to hear instead of them preaching what God has already told us.
Just one example is how the church tells us we are supposed to tithe 10% of our income to that church … because the Bible tells us that.
WHERE DOES IT TELL US THAT?
It is no where between the covers of a Bible other than in some pastors’ mind that it should be in the book.
It is nothing more than false preaching from a false prophet or a false teacher.
We have been told we should give, but there has never been an amount stated as to how much we should give.
In fact, it has never been said that it was monetary, and it was supposed to be from our income, what we make financially for our family.
If we open the door for an elderly couple at Cracker Barrel, we give. If we help an older lady across the street, we give. If we shovel the snow or we cut the grass for someone and don’t expect any payment, we give. When we help a homeless person, with either money for food, clothes or shelter, we give.
There is so much today taught in man-made churches that are nothing more than Jewish rites that early men and women did every day from their Jewish religion.
Baptism, Sunday services, the Ten Commandments, eating certain foods or not eating certain foods, these are all Jewish beliefs that were taught and meant for them, the Jews.
None of this was ever given to us Gentiles as a nation, a people. These are all lies by these pastors.
The lessons I just did on the apostle Paul and why Jesus chose him, these are all things that are written in the Word for us Gentiles.
These man-made churches, they want us to be like the Jews, but God has told us that we are different but, in our difference, we are ALL the same.
In our past few lessons, I answered for myself, much why God chose the apostle Paul to be the one to teach us.
The original apostles just never wanted to leave Jerusalem.
They finally did after Paul began writing letter after letter to the Gentile churches.
The Bible is like a roadmap for us today. three quarters of the book was never meant for us to follow. We are to read how those in earlier generations failed God and we have been shown to do differently than they did, but there is nothing that they did that we are told that we are supposed to follow.
The apostle Paul, chosen by Jesus Himself, wrote thirteen (13) epistles that were meant for us and these epistles were meant to show us how to be saved.
Our two (2) verses are important for us today.
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
These two (2) verses were both written by the apostle Paul and they say a lot for us and for our future.
One of the original apostles, the apostle Peter, wrote in his 2nd epistle:
2 Peter 3
vs14 ‘…Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blameless by Him, at peace…’
vs15 ‘…and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you…’
vs16 ‘…as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction…’
vs17 ‘…You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unscrupulous people and lose your own firm commitment…’
vs18 ‘…but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen…’ NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Peter describes there are some things hard to understand in Paul’s writings (vs16) but he speaks of the wisdom that Paul received and is now writing to us (vs15).
The major thing we have been shown in the writings that are not meant for us Gentiles to follow, which is about three quarters of the Bible, we have been shown the foolish misguided mistakes that early man has committed against God.
In reality, we can read of the mistakes the Jewish nation has done to itself.
Demanding kings when God warned them about these man-made kings. So similar to our politics and our elections that we hold up to present time.
The younger generation destroyed so much of our history that we had accumulated over the centuries, and I must agree some of our American forefathers made some ‘very’ poor decisions against other men, different from them, but by destroying the history, all they accomplished is the same thing can be done over again.
Sometimes logic and common sense can mean so much. We may not think about it at the time but later it will make sense.
We are too fast paced … in too big of a hurry to do anything as long as we’re doing something. Sometimes we just need to sit back and reflect on what was done right and what was done wrong.
Tell yourself, you’re going to take the time today and start reading the Holy Bible and learn what God told us from way back in the beginning of time.
When you read the Word, read it as if it is God talking to you, don’t read it like you already know the answers, you already know all there is to know. Read the Word because you want to hear God talk to you.
Let me also voice this, because of time, we do not know when God will decide the time is up and pull the plug, begin reading in the Book of Romans that the apostle Paul wrote for us Gentiles.
Read all thirteen (13) of the books Paul wrote to us. Listen to the love that God is offering to us, all we have to do is accept and BELIEVE.
There is so much for you to learn from. Get yourself a good study Bible, in fact, download biblegateway.com and keep the Bible always on your computer, on your smart phones, on your tablets and every other kind of a device that we have today.
Keep your Bibles open and study the Word that God gave to us and read about what He has promised to us.
I love ALL of y’all. One day shortly, we’re all going to learn all that is involved in that simple four (4) letter word L-O-V-E.
Jesus, I pray that those ears and eyes, either listening or seeing this message today would be opened to the very fullest and allow Your love to come inside their lives and comfort them. Teach us Jesus. Protect us. We love You. Amen
InHIM. ><)))o>