Incorrect Theology

Incorrect Theology

In worship we sang a song with the lyrics, “In the morning give me Jesus…When I’m lonely give me Jesus” This is theologically incorrect.

GOD is omnipresent; He is everywhere at all times; past, present and future! GOD created time; the seasons (the cycle of years), the division of day and night and the division of days and weeks into monthly (moon) cycles.

GOD is omniscient; He knows everything, nothing is hidden from Him and the dark is as light to Him, there are no secrets.

GOD is omnipotent; He is all powerful, nothing can overcome Him, He cannot be defeated, nothing He holds or claims as His own can be taken from Him.

Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of GOD the Father where He has seated us with Himself; where He has given all believers His victory over death and hell, where we rule with Him over principalities, powers and rulers of darkness.

The Spirit of GOD (Holy Spirit) lives in us; making us a living temple of the presence of GOD, reminding us of everything that Jesus said, bring forth His fruit so that we can grow and serve in GOD’s Kingdom and giving us His gifts for the work of GOD’s Kingdom.

We are often asking GOD to do what He has given us to do. It is part of having a free will; if we get to chose then we have to make up our mind to do it. I’ve heard Pastor Robert Morris say, “You cannot cast out a habit and you cannot disciple a demon.” That is the key if we have a bad habit we must discipline ourself to break it; if we are under spiritual attack we need to press into the ever presence of the LORD. To avoid bad habits and mitigate spiritual attacks we must disciple ourself or submit to someone qualified to disciple us in the Word of GOD, prayer and fasting and fellowship with other believers. If we cannot get the victory that Jesus has already given us then we may need deliverance from spiritual bondage and oppression.

When we say, sing or pray such things as, “Come LORD Jesus. Holy Spirit Fill us to overflowing. Father fill us with Your presence.” We should already have these things in our life; it’s not calling on the Father, Jesus or Holy Spirit to come to us or fill us–it’s us breaking through our distractions, working past our laziness and pressing into the Father’s will for us at that moment.

We have to do as Jesus commanded, “Take up you cross!” It is not easy, the process of being conformed to Christ’s image is through the fellowship of His suffering and being conformed to His death, but it is in the power of His resurrection.

We should not be asking GOD to do for us what He has given us to do! Jesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of GOD and all these things (provision for life) will be added to you.” We are often putting the responsibility on GOD for our blessings and gifts and to bring forth fruit in our life and GOD tells us to seek Him because He has already provided all that we need to live and serve in His eternal Kingdom.

I heard a TV pastor talking about life is a choice, “GOD does not make us do anything but He gives us choices. If we chose good we will be blessed, but if we chose the other; well we won’t talk about that.” Wrong! The first part is correct, but if we chose good we can still not be blessed, if we chose the other we can still be blessed. Why? GOD’s grace and blessings rain on the good and the bad the same. Life is not about good or bad it’s about GOD or not GOD. Jesus said, “Whoever is not against us is on our side.” There are only two sides, GOD’s side and not GOD’s side!

Study Luke 9:49-50, 11:14-23, 14:26-27; Matthew 6:25-34, 12:22-30; Mark 9:38-41; John 6:36-40; Hebrews 13:5; 1 Corinthians 12:30; Ecclesiastes 9:1-4; Job 2:9-10; Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 139:1-12

Philippians 4:8-9

Philippians 4:8-9

“Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy–meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do and the GOD of peace will be with you.” NKJV

There is a lot in these verses, when I first memorized verse 8 I did not really think about what all of these words meant to me and for me. Years later when I rememorized verse 8 I still did not think about the words and what they mean. Now I have it learned as a paraphrase rather than verbatim, yet until this morning (11/24/2018) I did not really think about what the words of these verses meant to and for me.

Today as I was thinking about verse 8 I thought of “good report”, this came right after I had asked the LORD to forgive me for thinking critically of someone. A good report is not thinking critically or judgmentally about another person or ministry. A good report is thinking of their good points and virtues and speaking only those things.

In verses 2 thru 7 Paul admonishes believers to be united, to be joyful and to pray, “…and the peace of GOD which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”, verse 7. But, verse 9 says that if we meditate on the words of verses 4 thru 8 then, “the GOD of peace will be with you.”

It is good to have the peace of GOD, but it is best to have the GOD of peace with us.

Right thinking is a problem in the Church, there is much incorrect and even evil thinking in the Church therefore we have neither the peace nor the presence of GOD in Christ Jesus as we should. That does not mean that we do not recognize and pray about false doctrine and ministries, we must speak against false teachings and those who espouse them.

David did not speak evil against King Saul, even though he had been anointed by Samuel the Prophet to replace Saul as King of Israel. But, he did speak to Saul of his evil in the presence of others. Paul when dealing with sin in the Church at times called people out by name and told the Church to be careful around them and even to avoid those who were teaching false doctrine. In verse 2 of this passage Paul calls the Church to minister unity and peace between two people by name; study chapter 3.

Jesus said that we must and would recognize people by the fruit of their lives and ministries. It is our responsibility to know the truth so that we can be set free. If we do not know the truth (GOD’s Word the Bible) and we do not have His Spirit (Holy Spirit) whom He sent to all believers, then we can be easily deceived and fall into the same judgment as those that teach lies as truth and self satisfaction as doctrine.

Song - Jesus King of Eternity

Jesus Christ King of Eternity

To the tune of Davy Crocket from the 1960s TV Show

Jesus   Jesus Christ King of eternity

Born in a manger in Bethlehem preached the Word throughout the land raised the dead healed the sick

Jesus   Jesus Christ King of eternity

Went to the cross for humanity rose from the grave for you and me ascended on high to the Father’s right hand

Jesus   Jesus Christ King of eternity

Gave the Church His victory sent His Spirit to lead the way He is the Way the Truth and the Life

Jesus   Jesus Christ King of eternity

Why do people want to go to hell?

Why Do Some People Want To GO To Hell?

The personal internal reasoning will be different and not obvious to Christians or even others that reject GOD, but the underlying reason is that they do not truly understand GOD and hell.

The do not care that GOD loves them and has a plan for their life, they want to live their life as they please. Not that they are evil, some will live good, happy, moral lives; but they reject the life that GOD has for them. Some are ignorant of GOD’s love and desire to give them a better life; they just want to be left alone. Some are evil wicked people who want to take advantage of others for their own gain and pleasure.

What do they all have in common, whether they are atheists or follow some false religion or just think they know best how to live their life and fulfill their desired destiny? It that they actually know there is a GOD but they reject Him for whatever their reason is.

He who believes in Him (Jesus) is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the only begotten Son of GOD. And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light so that his deeds are not exposed. But he who does the Truth comes to the Light that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in GOD.” “For the wrath of GOD is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and  unrighteousness of men who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of GOD is manifest in them for GOD has shown it to them.”  (John 3:18-21; Romans 1:18-19)

Now it would seem that my statement in the second paragraph contradicts the scripture in John 3:19-20, but they are not contradictory. In the world there are many who reject GOD but live happy moral lives, helping others and serving humanity and what they see as our great needs. While even Christians will look on them as good and decent people with moral motives; before GOD they are lawless. How are they lawless? This has nothing to do with man’s laws; they are lawless because they reject GOD’s Law, the Ten Commandments, maybe not all of them but the important first four. Those who are lawless before GOD are the same as the wicked and evil people. “Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” (Matthew 23:28) Also study Exodus 20 & 21:1-9; Deuteronomy 5:1-22; Matthew 7:21-23, 23:1-33; Hebrews 1:8-9; Psalm 45:6-7; Isaiah 61:1-3.

There are even those who call themselves Christian who are lawless. How are they lawless? They serve GOD out of their own desires and motives as they will rather that as He wills. “In this manner pray; ‘Our Father in Heaven, holy is Your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done in the earth as it is in Heaven’” Then Jesus said to them (the Jews), “Truthfully I say to you the Son can do nothing of Himself but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does the Son also does in like manner.” “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear I judge; and My judgment is righteous because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.”  (Matthew 6:9-10; John 5:19, 30) Also study Matthew 6:25-34; 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46; John 8:31-36, 17.

What happens when we are lawless? Professing to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible GOD into an image made like corruptible man – and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore GOD gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of GOD for the lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever, Amen.” (Romans 1:22-25)

Good or bad is not the issue! Doing the will of GOD for our life is! For Christians it is also a matter of GOD’s will over our will. Many will find their works burned up, not because they were evil but because they were not GOD’s will for them. GOD’s gift and call are without repentance (even many non-believers find GOD’s gift and call for their life, but by rejecting Him they still go to hell) but they do not earn rewards or build up treasure in Heaven if they are not GOD’s will and purpose for your life.

GOD is Great and Reckless

1-25-2018        11:30PM

Lying in bed where we are currently living we have glowing stars on the ceiling and I was looking at them and thinking how GOD had hung the stars in the heavens and had named them all; but more than that He created the planets that make up their solar systems and the solar systems that make up their galaxies and the galaxies that make up their universes.

While I was thinking about this in the back of my mind without having thought about it the theme from the movie 2001 Space Odyssey started playing, it was amazing.

As humans and as Christians we think too small of GOD when we think about Him. Even our greatest, grandest thoughts fall short of who and what GOD is. Even our deepest understanding of who GOD is from the Bible and from our observation of all that exists and our personal experience, fall short of who and what GOD is. In our wildest and grandest imaginations we cannot fully conceive of who and what GOD is.

This morning in worship our congregation sang two songs that speak into this. One talked about GOD’s love is fierce as a hurricane, the second song talks about GOD’s love is reckless in His pursuit of us.

We think of hurricanes as violent destructive forces so how do we apply that same force as GOD’s love for us? GOD is relentless and there is nothing that can keep GOD’s love from us; Jesus said that no one can take us from the Father (John 10:17-30); Paul says that there is nothing that can take us from GOD (Romans 8:31-39) and Hebrews 13:5 quotes Deuteronomy 31:8 that GOD “will never leave us or forsake us”.

When we think of reckless we think unreasonable behavior or actions that endanger us or others, behavior that leads to great harm or loss risking everything on a gamble. Yet GOD’s love for us is so reckless that He risked creation on creating humanity with a free will; He risked everything in ordaining that Christ would be born a man and live in the midst of sin and temptation even before he created the earth or humanity; He risked all of His creation for the few that would follow the straight and narrow way by believing in Jesus Christ, confessing and repenting of being a sinner and serve His Kingdom in the earth as it is in Heaven (Romans 8:18-22).

As Christians we need to think and understand GOD beyond our understanding and experiences, we have to stop limiting Him by our understanding and experiences, we have to allow GOD to Be after all He Is and He revealed Himself as I Am (self existent), creator, Love, Light, Life, and Truth

The Law of Moses

The Law of Moses

Notes and Thoughts from Teaching by Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj 2018

Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His commandments fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 NKJV

“Remember the Law of Moses My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:4-6 NKJV

The Church has correctly and incorrectly taught that the Law of Moses was nailed to the cross and no longer applies to the Church. What is correct is that the ceremonial laws were nailed to the cross and no longer apply to Christians; Jesus continually chastised the religious leaders of Israel for following their ceremonial laws over the 10 commandments; the Sabbath, washings, eating, treatment of parents, and judging. Plus Jesus further defined the 10 commandments, murder is not just killing a person but hating them, sexual sin is not just doing it but thinking it, virtue in not public performance but private in the presence of GOD. Why would He discount their ceremonial laws and reemphasize the 10 commandments if He was going to nail them to the cross? In Acts 10 Peter had a vision of all kinds of animals being offered to him to eat by GOD and he refused because he had never eaten any unclean thing, but the LORD told Peter that, “What GOD has cleansed you must not call common.” Then Holy Spirit told him to go with some men without question and he did; he enter the house of a gentile (a Roman Centurion) and preached Jesus and all of the household were filled by Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. To this point the Church made up of Jews was still following many of the ceremonial laws; GOD brought persecution to the Church to get it out of Jerusalem and Judea into Samaria and into the rest of the world showing them that the ceremonial laws no longer applied to the Church. This was an issue all through the New Testament writings where the Jewish believers are trying to make gentile Christians obey the ceremonial laws of Moses like circumcision (which is not in the 10 commandments). The 10 commandments were not abolished and GOD expects His Church to keep and teach them.

Who is GOD?

Who Is GOD?

Who is GOD? What is GOD? Where is GOD? Universal questions that have been asked and answered by people practically from the beginning of time. Every people group has answered that question by giving names and powers to fictitious beings to answer their questions about creation, nature, about death and the good and evil of life.

In ancient times there were gods like Molech (Milcom), Baal, Ashtoreth, Beelzebub, Chemosh, Ra, Osiris; then the Greeks, Romans and Vikings all had multiple gods, today Indians have over a billion gods like Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, and Krishna; Muslims have Allah and Mohammad; the Japanese have the Shinto gods; the Southeast Asians have the Buddha gods; and there are many more ancient and modern gods; including satan (lucifer).

All of these gods are vastly different and opposed to each other and the one True GOD based on the religious beliefs of the people that invented, discovered or were introduced to them. Some of them are outright hateful and evil in their treatment of their worshipers and non-worshipers alike.

So who or what is GOD? Actually, GOD is! There is only one true GOD, I AM! The GOD that created everything that exists just by His Word; the GOD who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable, invisible, invincible, immortal, truth, light, life, love, peace, holy, just and righteous.

The one true GOD reveals Himself to humanity by simply stating that He is and that He created everything; including humanity in His own image. In that declaration He reveals that He is triune in nature (The Father {Jehovah}, The Son {Jesus Christ}, The Spirit {Holy Spirit}). Throughout the Bible which is GOD’s instructions to humanity He reveals His personality and attributes through His numerous names: Jehovah, El, Elohim, Yahwey, Adoni, Christ (Messiah), Immanuel, Holy Spirit, Spirit of GOD, Son of GOD, Word of GOD and many more; there are also many compound names of GOD like El Shaddai, Jehovah T’sidkenu, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Rapha, Jehovah and Elohim Chaseddi.

There is no other GOD like the one true GOD, to prove that just do word studies of the names of gods of various religions. Then study the names of GOD in the Bible.

The GOD of Judaism and Christianity is the only true GOD! Jehovah is the only one who actually fulfills the definition of the title GOD. Different religions give different definitions of who or what god is but, only Elohim fulfills them all and only the Bible is the true revelation of GOD to humanity.

There are religions that have books that their followers adhere to but they were written by the person who is the founder of that religion during their own lifetime. There are religions that claim to be Christian but deny the divinity of Jesus or the tri-unity of the Godhead, or the existence of hell or eternity, again their books were written by one person in their own lifetime. Only the Bible which is a collection of 66 books that were written by 40 men over a period of 4000 years that covers the history of the world from creation to the recreation (from mortality to Immortality).

There is only one GOD and there is only one way of salvation (not going to hell for eternity), the straight and narrow way is easy and hard. Believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of GOD, that He died to forgive the sins of humanity and went to hell to take our punishment upon Himself (while He was there He defeated death and hell), He rose from the grave and ascended to Heaven where He waits for the Church (Christians) to complete the work of the Father in the earth. Believing is the easy part doing the work of GOD’s will in the earth is the hard part.

While GOD created humanity with the ability to chose for ourself (self will) the two decisions that matter are to believe in Jesus or not believe in Jesus. Believing results in eternal life with GOD (Heaven), not believing results in eternal life without GOD in torment (hell).

The choice is yours and only yours!