What is God all About?

Jesus told us that the two commandments that all of the law and prophets (teachers (teaching)) hands on is Love:

Matthew 22:36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

Matthew 22:37 And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and

with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Matthew 22:38 This is the great and first commandment.

Matthew 22:39 And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets

What do we get for believing in God and seeking after God?

All of His promises, first and foremost is life eternal with Him on the new earth (as described in Revelation).

His Love,, His Forgiveness, His Peace (the type that takes you through any storm) His Faith (confidence), His Knowledge, His Wisdom, His Spirit.

Imagine having a man who is the richest in the world, can give you anything in the world, but most of all he wants to adopt you, love you as his own and treat you as his very own child.

That is what God wants to do with us.

How?

That is easy, this is where so many make a mountain out of a ant hill.

Matthew 10:32 Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess

before my Father who is in heaven.

Yes there is more but it is dealing with your faith (confidence) so no one can ever rock your belief in Jesus or God.

Basically what happened was Satan got via Eve, Adam to eat of the one thing he should not which disconnected Adam and all who followed from God.

A better way to understand this is, there was a bridge between Adam and God and Adam due to what he did destroyed the bridge. God not being a man so he can not lie or even go back on His word had to build a new bridge for all mankind.

Some may be thinking "but I did not do this so why am I in this spot" it is something we inherit from our biological fathers in the seed that is the problem.

So God in His wisdom figured a way to send Jesus into the world and build a new and different bridge.

All we have to do is accept Jesus, why do we have to accept Jesus, because He is that new bridge and without Him there is no way to God any longer.

What you will discover when you seek God, after you truly believe in Jesus, accept Him you will start to be fed by the Holy Spirit, and in time God goes from being that rich business owner you call by MR. Doe (or in this case God) to father ( or with God, Father).

And as time goes on you will learn to call your heavenly Father Abba as Jesus did and others do which means Daddy.

So you have two choices follow after Love the one true Love as God can offer, love of God and your neighbor or follow after the love this world offers which is of things that are not forever but temporary. Material things, physical love, addictions, idols, etc.

There are two paths Jesus told us about one to live and one to destruction:

Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that

leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.

Matthew 7:14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are

they that find it.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are

ravening wolves.

One to destruction is led by false prophets (teachers, preachers, etc) that appear to be of the Lord but are not, they are of the world and the world system.

Which is what got us in this mess in the first place or should I say got Adam in trouble and us in this mess:

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had

made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may

eat:

Genesis 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall

not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Notice how Eve add they could not even touch the fruit, that is not what God said and God never told Eve she would die only Adam so Satan used what he knew to be true and a lie and let it work against them mislead them. Just as false teachers do today, just enough of the lie to change the truth but plenty on the truth to confuse you.

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the

day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Notice God did not say to Adam; "you and your spouse" or "you and your dependants" or even "you and anyone else" God directed not to eat of this tree only to Adam, and never a word about touching it just do not eat it.

Satan using fear and lies to manipulate, mislead us he comes to steal our hope, kill our faith and destroy our salvation(John 10:10) so we are in fear only and lost to God.

Faith is the only way we can accept Jesus, it is our confidence in the word, in God, and in the next life that drives us to seek God.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that cometh

to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

So as long as we have confidence (faith), stay in the word and believe it over what the world says, our confidence will grow.

Romans 10:17 So faith [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Read, listen and believe and you will grow not only in your confidence but also in peace.

Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the

promise.

The will of God is to Love, John 3:16 "For God so loved the world" Matthew 22:36-40 Love God and Love your Neighbor.

If you Love as God Loves you will not steal, kill, destroy, break any commandments of the law or any of the law at all.

 

 

Sin

Sin is what separates us from God, it is that which when done is not of God but of the world and cuts us off from God.

To help you better understand sin, I will use terms used in this life.

Sin takes us deeper and deeper into the darkness (evil) and out of the light (goodness).

Sin can become like an addiction, that is hard to overcome.
But in the beginning sin can be overcome easily. The problem is to overcome sin you must first know what sin is to overcome it.

Before we continue understand that people are inherently good that can do evil. And the more evil one does the more they become of the evil.

Just because one fixes a plumping problem does not mean they are a plumper. Just because one commits a sin does not mean they are a sinner.

But the more a person learns plumping the closer they become to being a plumper. The same is true with sin, the more one does sin the closer they become to being a sinner.

Now there is two types of sin, the one the world calls sin and the true sin which cuts us off from God.

The world will try to confuse us about God, good, evil, and sin. The world will use the true laced with the lie to make us believe but to mislead us.

Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that

leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.

Matthew 7:14 For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are

they that find it.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are

ravening wolves.

Prophets in verse 15 above are teachers, they are prophetic, and they are either of God or Satan. Many are mislead themselves the rest are just evil.

Examples of the most apparent false prophets of the past is Jim Jones and David Koresch.

The problem with those who mislead is they believe they are teachers and they are mislead by mans doctrine.

Imagine your child lies to you, this is a sin against you, and is done to pervert the truth, but you do not hate the child you may hate the act, but not the child. So what you do is you teach the child why it is wrong and show them love and forgiveness so they understand they can trust and love you so instead of lying to you they tell you the truth.

But if the child instead continues to lie eventually the child will grow up and not know the truth from a lie and no longer be that child you loved but be something you do not even recognize.  Sin is like this, it starts with something small that can be continued easily and lead to worse or overcome. The problem is we a lot of times do not recognize when we sin until it is too late. The Spirit will try to convict us of the error of our ways so we can repent and stay on the narrow path. But the world will continue to try to get us into areas we do not belong to tempt us with sin to lead us astray.

2 Corinthians 10:5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the

knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

 

Cast down all thoughts (imaginations are thoughts that have grown into imaginations) that are not of God, or of the knowledge of God, and taking what remains into the captivity of the obedience of the Spirit. Christ is of the Greek word Christos which means anointing and in Luke 4:18 Jesus states He is anointed with the Spirit, so the anointing is the Spirit.

 

Once we learn God's word we can do this, but first we must learn His word not of man but of His Spirit.

 

John 14:26 But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he

shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.

 

We learn by the Spirit(anointing) not by man.

 

1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need

not that anyone teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and

is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

 

Remember the word is Jesus:

 

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of

the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

 

Jesus is the way and the only true way to God, as Adam sinned that cost all mankind, Jesus paid the price for all mankind and only through Him can we find the Spirit and God.

 

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the

Father, but by me.

 

So we seek God, but to get to God we first need to know Jesus, and through and via Jesus we are connected to God via the Spirit.

 

Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

 

Jesus in Revelation 3:19 said "as many as I love" how many, in John 3:16 we are told "all", next Jesus "I reprove" this is to show the errors of our ways as a loving parent would do with a child that is doing something that can lead them to harm. And then He said "and chasten" or to teach, lead us to a new way so we are not led to harm, and then we would "be zealous therefore" meaning have a new heart towards God, man, all, "and repent" to do a 180 degree change in our life and honestly try not to sin again.

So let's look at verse 19 Jesus loves us all, He will convict us of the errors of our ways, teach us a new way, we will have a new heart and we will not remain on the same path we were on.

 

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the

door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

 

Jesus is at the door knocking wanting to come in and until we listen for Him, take the time and patience needed so we can hear from Him we will not hear as well as we should and we will always wonder is it the world or the Lord we are hearing from.

 

Romans 10:17 So faith [cometh] of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

 

Faith comes of hearing and hearing by the word (Jesus) of the Spirit.

 

How do we know we are of God and hearing from God.

Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

 

So when we are of the Spirit God will reveal to us we are His children and we will have no doubt.

What is the will of God? Love is His will look at what Jesus said that all the law and the prophets rest on:

 

Matthew 22:36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

Matthew 22:37 And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and

with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Matthew 22:38 This is the great and first commandment.

Matthew 22:39 And a second like [unto it] is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.

 

So if you seek God, then you seek His Love, and if you have patience, read His word asking for His help, He will reveal Himself in His word, and His word will be revealed to you. But if you read His word without Him you will only get as the world has gotten the natural side of His word and not the supernatural side. And what is anything when it is only half, it is not whole and it cannot be complete in you.

 

This is how so much of the world has been mislead, reading His word and getting a worldly understanding, not one of God.
The truth is not of man, but of God, and can only be found in God.

 

Sin is just a problem we have to overcome as an addict needs to stop the drug early or even better never take it, the longer the addict takes the drug the harder it is to overcome. The longer we sin the harder it is to overcome. As soon as we have God showing us the errors in our ways the sooner we can overcome.

Warning Satan and the world will use sin against you, try to convince you, that you are unforgiveable. But the only unforgivable sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit and why this is the only unforgivable sin is because anyone of the Holy Spirit would never blaspheme the Holy Spirit and only those of the Holy Spirit can be forgiven.

So remember God is your heavenly Father and He loves you and like with any Father He wants the same, respect, love, for us to seek Him for advice to be relevant in our life.

Sin is not a deal breaker it is just a road block or a speed bump to us getting closer to our heavenly Father.

God is ready to forgive and if you think you sin to much understand He forgives more than you can sin. Just do not sin to test His forgiveness because then you are of the world. But if you are trying to change then know He is there to work with you and to forgive you.

Do not let sin keep you down.

 

 

Fear VS Faith

First of all what is Faith?

 

Faith is your confidence. No matter if it is faith in something of the world or the word.

There is a natural faith and a supernatural faith, many confuse the two and fail.

Because faith in the natural is like riding a rollercoaster, faith in the natural only has your confidence in the natural to build on, and many things in the natural can come along to bring doubt and fear to kill faith in the natural.

Faith in supernatural has the word to grow it, between the word and patience supernatural faith is constantly going up instead of riding a rollercoaster it is like climbing a mountain always going up.

 

Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the

promise.

 

Hebrews 11

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

Faith is your confidence of things expected and conviction of that which is not seen to be true and real.

Such as the promise of the next life, the assurance of salvation and life everlasting.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that cometh

to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Fear is that which is the opposite of faith as dark is opposite of light.

When you have faith in something you  are doing and doubt enters fear follows and then you fail.
But when you have faith  and you cast down doubt as it tries to enter then fear has no way in.

But if you have doubted and fear is trying to enter you can still cast down fear and operate in faith.

Why so many fail in the world is because they doubt and fall into fear and then they give up.

Fear and dark are alike they both bring depression, doubt, and failure, fear keeps us from growing, from trying, from succeeding.

Where faith keeps us secure and confident, fear is doubt and makes us  insecure.

 

 

This study of Genesis is to help you understand how fear is your #1 enemy in life.

 

Genesis 2:15 And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2:16 And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

God is always specific about His commands, above God told Adam he could not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

Genesis 3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Genesis 3:5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Notice how Eve added to what God told Adam about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. She stated they could not touch nor eat.

God never said they could not touch only not to eat of the tree.

So who added the extra, the only one who could is Adam and he did it out of fear, he told Eve something like "we cannot eat, no we cannot even touch".

And why would it be added? Think of a parent with a child how they will add to what they tell them out of fear of the child getting hurt. IE: "Do not go in the street, no do not even go close to the street"

Genesis 3:9 And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree,

whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

 

God did give both Adam and Eve a chance to repent but instead they passed the buck. If they had been operating in faith not fear they would have never ate of the fruit and at least they would have repented.

Fear replaces faith as faith can replace fear.

So we are either of fear or we are of faith.

If Adam had operated in faith not fear he never would have added to what God said and had faith that what God said was enough, but instead Adam fell into fear. And when Adam entered into fear he allowed Satan to enter. Adam placed fear not faith into Eve by his comments  When Adam told Eve that she could not eat or touch he got her into fear over touching and as soon as she touched she then knew she could eat because she was told when she touched the tree she would die.
Fear allowed Satan to enter, Satan knew once he got Eve to touch she would eat since it was not touching  that they could not do.

 

Still not sure about fear how about Job?

 

Job 3:25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto

me.

 

Job feared his children were sinning and not sacrificing so Job did sacrifices for them and this fear opened the door for Satan to come in and mess with Job.

 

Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified

them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of

them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus

did Job continually.

 

Job was one of the most upright and perfect men of his day, but even for him fear allowed Satan to mess with him.

 

Job 1:8 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like

him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.

 

The above verse translated today would read "What is in your heart against my servant Job" which is the same as "Hast though considered my servant Job?" God was not pointing Job out to Satan to test but question Satan what Satan had in his heart against Job. And God had no choice but to let Satan do what he was going to do because Job was no longer operating in faith but in fear.

 

Romans 1:17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written,

But the righteous shall live by faith.