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God’s Promise

Bible Matters 453 God’s Promise

God’s promise is eternal life!

Titus 1:2 – In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

1 John 2:25 – And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

God’s promise is made available for those that do the will of God.

Hebrews 10:36 – For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Your walk begins by doing the will of God.  You recognize that only God can change your life by serving him.  Serving him by living his gospel of Love.  God’s message is clear.   If you love him, then keep his commandments. 

John 14:15 – If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Do all you can do from this point forward to please God, do his will and live his gospel of Love.  God’s gospel of Love is simple.   The truth starts with the understanding the truth in God’s word from the testimony of the eight witnesses and prophets.

•     Believe in one God

•     Repent of your sins and surrender to God.

•     Judge no one

•     Love God

•     Love your Neighbor

•     Keep yourself in the love of God, unto eternal life.

Jude 1:21 – Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

All eight witnesses have testified the commandments of the New Testament. Using the preponderance of evidence from their testimonies, the commandments are these:  Do not commit adultery; Do not kill; Do not steal; Do not bear false witness; Honor thy father and thy mother; Love God; Love neighbor.  If you break one of these, then you break them all.  You are told to walk in the light doing the will of God with a pure heart and not serving the lusts of the flesh.   To abstain from fornication.

  1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 – For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Your work is to be directed in truth.

Isaiah 61:8 – For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Being transformed into a child of God by doing the will of God from the heart.

Romans 12:2 – And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Ephesians 6:6 – Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

1 John 2:17 – And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1 Peter 4:2 – That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

God’s promise starts with belief.  Belief in the one true God.  Belief in God’s gospel of Love.  Belief in serving God and man for entering into the kingdom of God.  

Matthew 5:20 – For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Your righteousness is your do by living God’s gospel of Love.  Belief that you can be saved by doing the will of God and bringing fruit to perfection. 

Luke 8:11-16 – Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.  They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.  And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.  No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2 – Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

To believe is to serve by baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit.  To love like God loves.  To preach God’s gospel of Love throughout the world.

Mark 16:14-16 – Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

To a God that loves you so much that he sends prophets to the earth, to make sure that you understand and believe on his power in the gospel of Love, so that the earth might be saved.  Saving the earth follows your recognition of God’s ability to save you. 

Acts 15:7-11 – And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.  And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;  And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.  Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?  But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Acts 16:30-32 – And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?  And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.  And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

John 12:47 – And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

May your deeds be found worthy of the blessings of God. 

John 3:16-17,19-21 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

May your heart be stabilized by the truth in God’s word and your works of love, pleasing him. 

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14,16-17 – But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:  Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.

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