"FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A MAN TRAVELLING INTO A FAR COUNTRY, WHO CALLED HIS OWN SERVANTS, AND DELIVERED UNTO THEM HIS GOODS. AND UNTO ONE HE GAVE FIVE TALENTS, TO ANOTHER TWO, AND TO ANOTHER ONE.......AFTER A LONG TIME THE LORD OF THOSE SERVANTS CAME, AND RECKONED WITH THEM.....THEN HE WHICH RECEIVED THE ONE TALENT CAME AND SAID, LORD, I KNEW YOU THAT YOU ART A HARD MAN, REAPING WHERE YOU HAVE NOT SOWED, AND GATHERING WHERE YOU HAVE NOT PLANTED. AND I WAS AFRAID AND WENT AND HID YOUR TALENT IN THE EARTH, LO, HERE IS WHAT WAS YOURS...." (MAT. 25:14-30).
MANY WOULD SAY THIS HAS TO DO WITH "WORKS" AND YOUR REWARD - NOT SALVATION.
BUT WAIT, THE WORDS IN 26 HARDLY SOUND LIKE IT IS JUST "WORKS" HERE BEING TALKED ABOUT...."HIS LORD ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, YOU WICKED AND SLOTHFUL SERVANT; YOU KNEW I REAP WHERE I'VE NOT SOWN, AND GATHER WHERE I'VE NOT PLANTED."
THE SERVANT OF GOD SURELY CANNOT BE REGARDED AS WICKED JUST BECAUSE HIS "WORKS" WERE NOT LIKE OTHERS, OR VERY VERY LOW COMPARED TO OTHERS.
THEN THERE IS THE END OF THIS PARABLE, THAT IS WAY MORE SERIOUS THAN JUST NOT HAVING VERY LITTLE "WORKS" - NOTICE IT:
"AND CAST THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT INTO OUTER DARKNESS: THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH."
NOW ONCE MORE WE MUST LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET THE BIBLE. WHAT IS THE BIBLE'S INTERPRETATION OF "UNPROFITABLE SERVANT"?
NOTICE IT - LUKE 17: 6-10.
READ IT ALL. NOW NOTICE VERSES 9 AND 10.
"DOES HE THANK THAT SERVANT BECAUSE HE DID THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE COMMANDED OF HIM? I THINK NOT. SO LIKEWISE YOU, WHEN YOU SHALL HAVE DONE ALL THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE COMMANDED OF YOU, SAY, WE ARE UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS; WE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS OUR DUTY TO DO."
PUT THE TWO SECTIONS OF SCRIPTURE TOGETHER..... NOW YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT JESUS WAS TEACHING.
THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT WILL BE OUT IN THE COLD, OUT IN DARKNESS; TRULY THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN.
TRULY YOU ARE SAVED BY GRACE, NOT BY WORKD; BUT - THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS FROM THESE TWO PARABLES JESUS GAVE - IF YOU DO NOT MOVE FORWARD IN YOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE; IF YOU JUST STAY PUT; IF YOU DO ONLY THE BARE MINIMUM, JUST PUTING THE ONE TALENT - THE BEGINNING SALVATION TALENT IN THE GROUND, AND ONLY GIVE THAT FIRST DAY SALVATION TALENT BACK TO CHRIST AT HIS COMING..... WELL THE WORDS OF JESUS TELL YOU PLAINLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THAT SERVANT IN THE DAY OF CHRIST'S RETURN FROM THE FAR COUNTRY, TO RECKON WITH HIS SERVANTS.
SALVATION IS NOT A ONE DAY EVENT. AND YOU ARE NOT GIVEN ALL TRUTHS IN ONE DAY. WHEN YOU HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR, WHEN YOU COME UNDER THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU ARE TO MOVE FORWARD; YOU ARE NOT TO STAND STILL; YOU ARE TO MOVE FORWARD AT LEAST TO SOME EXTENT [EVERYONE MOVES FORWARD AT DIFFERENT PACES; SOME TWO PACES, SOME FOUR PACES; SOME EIGHT PACES], MOVING FORWARD - OR AS PETER PUT IT, "GROWING IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST" (2 PETER 3:18).
AS PAUL SAID, "HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE. IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION...." (HEB. 2:3). AND.....
"OF WHOM WE HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY. AND HARD TO BE UTTERED, SEEING YOU ARE DULL OF HEARING. FOR WHEN FOR THE TIME YOU OUGHT TO BE TEACHERS, YOU HAVE NEED THAT ONE TEACH YOU AGAIN WHICH IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD; AND ARE BECOME SUCH AS HAVE NEED OF MILK, AND NOT STRONG MEAT. FOR EVERYONE THAT USES MILK IS UNSKILFUL IN THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; FOR HE IS A BABE. BUT STRONG MEAT BELONGS TO THEM THAT ARE OF FULL AGE, EVEN THOSE WHO BY REASON OF USE HAVE THEIR SENSES EXERCISED TO DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL" (HEB. 5:11-14)
NOW I DID NOT WRITE THESE WORDS OF PAUL AND PETER; I DID NOT WRITE THE WORDS OF JESUS IN MATTHEW 25 OR LUKE 17.
THEY ARE THERE; THEY ARE INSPIRED; THEY MEAN WHAT THEY SAY AND SAY WHAT THEY MEAN. NO YOU CANNOT EARN SALVATION BY WORKS - BUT YOU CAN LOOSE IT BY STANDING STILL, BY DOING NO MORE THAN WHAT IS REQUIRED OF YOU. JESUS DOES NOT EXPECT YOU TO STAND STILL, HIDE SALVATION IN THE GROUND, AND GIVE BACK TO HIM NO MORE THAN WHAT YOU HAD ON THE DAY YOU WERE GIVEN SALVATION.
AFTER THE DAY ON WHICH YOU RECEIVED SALVATION, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO READ GOD'S WORD, TO BE TAUGHT, TO BE CORRECTED EVEN MORE, TO BE LIVING BY EVERY WORD OF GOD, TO BE GROWING IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE, TO BE MOVING FORWARD OUT OF BABYHOOD TO MORE SPIRITUAL MATURITY, TO PUT AWAY THE MILK OF THE WORD AND TO BE EATING THE MEAT OF THE WORD.
DOING ONLY THE BASICS OF WHAT IS COMMANDED OF YOU, IS BEING AN UN-PROFITABLE SERVANT..... AND WE HAVE SEEN FROM JESUS' OWN MOUTH WHAT HAPPENS TO THE UNPROFITABLE SERVANT.
YOU NEED TO STUDY MY STUDY CALLED "SAVED BY GRACE" - AND GET THE WHOLE PICTURE OF SALVATION.
YOU NEED TO READ THIS STUDY AGAIN, SLOWLY, MEDITATING ON IT.
YOU CANNOT EARN SALVATION BY A MILLION GOOD WORKS, YET SALVATION, IS NOT JUST AS EASY AS FALL OFF A LOG, AS THEY SAY.
ONCE SALVATION IS GIVEN YOU, YOU ARE EXPECTED TO NOT STAND STILL - YOU ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE FORWARD. STANDING STILL WILL ONLY MEAN YOU ARE AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT, WHO WILL GET BLACKNESS, WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.
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PARABLE OF THE JUDGMENT...... Mat. 25: 31-46
THE SETTING IS CHRIST'S RETURN ON HIS THRONE [THE THRONE OF DAVID] AND BEFORE HIM ARE ALL NATIONS.
A DIVIDING OF SHEEP AND GOATS.
THE RIGHT HAND ARE THE SHEEP; THE LEFT HAND ARE THE GOATS.
SO JESUS HAS RETURNED..... THE RESURRECTION OF THE SHEEP FROM ADAM TO HIS RETURN HAS TAKEN PLACE.
THERE IS MORE SEPARATION OF THE SHEEP AND GOATS TO COME ALL DURING THE NEW AGE, THAT HAS NOW ARRIVED ON EARTH.
GOD IN HIS PERFECT RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER THAT NEVER CHANGES, WILL USE THE SAME MEASURING ROD AS BEFORE TO BRING THE SHEEP INTO HIS FOLD.
THIS PARABLE IS FOR THE PAST, FOR THE NOW, FOR THE FUTURE.
JESUS TELLS THE ATTITUDE, THE MIND-SET, THE LIVING WAY OF LIFE, THAT ARE THE SHEEP; HE RELATES TO THEM WHAT THEY AT FIRST "DON'T GET" - WHEN DID WE DO SUCH THINGS TO YOU. THEY HAVE LIVED IN SUCH A WAY, THAT WAS SO NORMAL TO THEM, THEY KINDA DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHEN THEY LIVED THAT WAY TO SERVE CHRIST IN THE WAY HE RELATES TO THEM. JESUS ANSWERS THAT AS THEY DID IT TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, THEY WERE DOING IT TO HIM - VERSES 31-40.
IT IS OBVIOUS THEY WERE LIVING IN SUCH A WAY THAT WHEN ZEROD IN ON IN SPECIFICS, THEY COULD NOT PER SE SEE IT. ONLY WHEN JESUS SAYS THEY LIVED TOWARDS OTHERS AS HE DESCRIBED COULD THEY SEE IT WAS TOWARDS HIM.
SALVATION AND CONVERSION IN THE SHEEP, MEANS A NEW WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS; IT MEANS THIS NEW LIFE BECOMES SO AUTOMATIC, SO NATURAL, SO EVERY DAY A MIND-SET, THAT IT IS..... WELL JUST SECOND NATURE AS THEY SAY; IT IS JUST A PART OF THE NEW CONVERTED LIFE IN CHRIST, THE SHEEP DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT; IT JUST GOES WITH BEING A TRUE CHRISTIAN.
WOW IT IS SO NATURAL TO THEM, THEY ASK CHRIST, "WELL WHEN DID WE DO SUCH THINGS TOWARDS YOU?"
CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY OF LIFE; IT IS A WAY OF THINKING, ACTING, TALKING, DOING, SERVING, IN THE WAY OF THE LORD, THAT IT BECOMES THE VERY NATURE OF THEM, AND THEY NO LONGER THINK ABOUT IT.
THAT IS WHAT CHRIST IS HERE MAKING A PARABLE LESSON ABOUT..... A LESSON FOR THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS.
VERSE 41. OH JESUS PULLS NO PUNCHES - THE GOATS ON THE LEFT HAND ARE TOLD: "DEPART FROM ME YOU CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS [NOW CALLED DEMONS]"
THE TRUTH ABOUT "EVERLASTING FIRE" IS EXPOUNDED FOR YOU IN THE STUDIES CALLED "DEATH - THEN WHAT?"
JESUS REITERATES WHAT HE TOLD THE SHEEP, BUT IN A NEGATIVE CONTEXT - THEY DID NOT LIVE THIS WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS, IT WAS NOT A PART OF THEIR NATURE.....AND BECAUSE IT WAS NOT, THEY FAILED IN LIFE.
THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!
THIS IS NOT SOME FLUFFY THING THAT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE - IT HAS PROFOUND MEANING AND END RESULT.
FOR THOSE NOT THINKING AND LIVING THE SHEEP'S WAY OF LIFE, BUT THE GOAT'S WAY, SHALL BE PUNISHED WITH "EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT" [THE PUNISHMENT IS EVERLASTING NOT THE PERSON] BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO LIFE ETERNAL!
JESUS SHOWS HERE THAT TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS A WAY OF LIFE!
YOU DO NOT ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD, AND CONTINUE TO LIVE TOWARDS OTHERS IN THE SAME OLD GOAT'S SELFISH WAY.
FOLLOWING JESUS MEANS YOU HAVE A WAY OF LIFE TOWARDS OTHERS, THAT IS LOVE, SERVICE, TOWARDS OTHERS. THIS SERVICE BECOMES SO IN-GRAINED WITHIN YOU, IT IS JUST AUTOMATIC.....IT IS SECOND NATURE AS THEY SAY.
THE CHRISTIAN LIVES FRIENDLINESS TO OTHERS, AS PAUL SAID, "IF IT BE POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS LIES IN YOU, LIVE PEACEABLY WITH ALL MEN" (ROM. 12:18).
YOU SHOW KINDNESS TO OTHERS, YOU SHOW POLITENESS TO OTHERS, TO SHOW RESPECT TOWARDS OTHERS; YOU LIVE TOWARDS OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WISH OTHERS WOULD LIVE TOWARDS YOU. YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY; YOU ARE SORROWFUL WITH THOSE WHO SORROW; YOU WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP.
CHRISTIANITY IS NOT JUST A TWO HOUR JOB IN CHURCH ON ONE DAY OF THE WEEK.
JESUS WAS TEACHING IN THIS PARABLE, THAT TO SERVE HIM, YOU MUST SERVE OTHERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY.
THE NEW TESTAMENT IS BRIM-FULL OF ACTIVE LOVE AND SERVICE TO OUR FELLOW MAN.
JESUS WAS TEACHING VERY PLAINLY, THAT IF YOUR MINDSET AND WAY OF LIFE DID NOT HAVE LOVE AND SERVICE TOWARDS OTHERS, YOU WOULD GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.
IT WAS THE RIGHTEOUS [THIS LOVE AND SERVICE TOWARDS OTHERS BEING A PART OF RIGHTEOUSNESS] WOULD ENTER INTO LIFE ETERNAL.
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"ALL POWER IS GIVEN ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. GO YOU THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM INTO THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU: AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE AGE [WORLD]" MATT. 28:18-20.
THERE IT IS IN SIMPLE FORM. THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S TRUE DISCIPLES HAVE A COMMISSION.
YOU ARE PART OF A WORK THAT GOES TO ALL NATIONS; IN WHATEVER WAY GOD HAS GIVEN YOU, YOU ARE PART OF SENDING THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ALL NATIONS.
YOU MAY HAVE LITTLE PHYSICAL GOODS, YOU MAY HAVE LITTLE MONEY, YOU MAY BE OLD OR YOUNG AND FEEL YOU HAVE NOT MUCH TO OFFER.
BUT YOU DO!
YOU HAVE PRAYER!
YOU CAN PRAY FOR ME; YOU CAN PRAY FOR HEALTH AND LONG LIFE FOR ALL OF GOD'S MINISTERS, WHOEVER AND WHEREVER THEY BE. YOU CAN PRAY FOR THE SERVER OF THIS WEBSITE, TO BE PROTECTED, SO THIS WEBSITE CAN GO TO THE WORLD.
YOU CAN PRAY THAT THE DOOR REMAIN OPEN FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD TO GO FORTH.
YOU CAN PRAY AS JESUS SAID, THAT AS THE HARVEST IS GREAT, PRAY FOR MORE LABORERS TO GO FORTH INTO THE HARVEST.
SO YOU HAVE AT LEAST PRAYER!
AND IT IS WRITTEN, ".... THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILS MUCH" (JAMES 5: 16).
ARE YOU STUDYING THE WORDS OF CHRIST; ARE YOU STUDYING TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMANDS OF JESUS ARE, THAT ARE TO BE GIVEN TO ALL NATIONS?
ARE YOU READING THE WORDS OF CHRIST AS IN THE FOUR GOSPELS?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE TAUGHT?
ARE YOU LIVING BY EVERY WORD OF GOD, AS JESUS SAID WE SHOULD [MAT. 4:4]?
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD OF GOD? I HAVE GIVEN YOU A TWO PART STUDY ON HOW TO DO THIS, IN THE LIGHT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. YOU SHOULD KNOW THOSE BASIC KEYS, THEN YOU CAN ANSWER THE SCEPTICS AND THE FALSE PROPHETS THAT JESUS SAID WOULD COME, AND WOULD DECEIVE THE MANY.
IT IS NOT THE IDEAS OF MEN THAT ARE TRUTH; IT IS NOT THE CLEVER DECEPTIVE WAYS OF TWISTING THE BIBLE THAT IS TRUTH; IT IS NOT THE TRADITIONS OF MEN THAT ARE TRUTH.
IT IS AS JESUS SAID IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, "THY WORD IS TRUTH"!
YOU NEED TO BE STUDYING ALL OF GOD'S WORD, SO YOU CAN KNOW WHO TEACHES IT CORRECTLY, AND WHERE THE WORK OF GOD IS BEING DONE TODAY.
THEN AS I'VE SAID, YOU CAN PRAY THAT THE TRUE WORK AND WORD OF GOD WILL GO FORTH TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
"AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE AGE" - JESUS CHRIST - MATTHEW 28: 20.
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CONCERNING THE SABBATH DAY
"And it came to pass, that He went through the corn fields on the Sabbath day; and His disciples began as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto Him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful? And He said unto them, HAVE YOU NOT READ WHAT DAVID DID, WHEN HE HAD NEED, AND WAS HUNGRY, HE, AND THEY THAT WERE WITH HIM? HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD IN THE DAYS OF ABIATHAR THE HIGH PRIEST, AND DID EAT THE SHEWBREAD, WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL TO EAT BUT FOR THE PRIESTS, AND GAVE ALSO TO THEM WHICH WERE WITH HIM.
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH: THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH" (MARK 2: 23-28).
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POINTS TO COMMENT ON HERE.
FIRST: THERE IS NO LAW ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO PLUCK THE EARS OF CORN AND EAT THEM, AS YOU WALKED THROUGH A CORN FIELD [WHEAT IS HERE MEANT BY "CORN"]. THIS LAW OF NOT DOING SUCH WAS A LAW OF THE PHARISEES NOT A LAW OF GOD. IT WAS ONE OF THE 600 PLUS LAWS THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES HAD MADE UP ON OBSERVING THE SABBATH.
SECOND: WHAT DAVID DID. MANY THINK DAVID DID WHATEVER HE LIKED AND WHENEVER HE LIKED; THIS IS NOT TRUE. THE EXAMPLE JESUS GAVE ABOUT DAVID IS FOUND IN 1 SAMUEL 21. IT IS ONE FINE EXAMPLE OF GETTING THE WRONG IDEA, BY NOT READING THE ENTIRE CONTEXT OF 1 SAMUEL 21, WHICH IN THIS CASE MEANS READING INTO CHAPTER 22.
LET ME EMPHASIZE NOT READING THE CONTEXT OF SPECIFIC VERSES WILL MANY TIMES LEAD YOU ASTRAY INTO FALSE IDEAS OF THEOLOGY!!
NOW LOOK AT CHAPTER 22 AND VERSES 9, 10.
"Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I SAW THE SON OF JESSE [DAVID] COMING TO NOB, TO AHIMELECH THE SON OF AHITUB. AND HE [THE PRIEST] INQUIRED OF THE LORD FOR HIM [DAVID], AND GAVE HIM VICTUALS, AND GAVE HIM THE SWORD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE."
THIS WAS NOT SOME "I'M HERE AND YOU WILL DO WHAT I WANT" ON THE PART OF DAVID. NO, ENQUIRY TO THE LORD WAS MADE, AND THE LORD ALLOWED DAVID AND HIS MEN TO EAT THE SHEWBREAD IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. THE LESSON HERE IS ALSO THAT CERTAIN PHYSICAL LAWS, CAN BE PUT TO ONE SIDE IF THE SITUATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PHYSICAL. DAVID AND HIS MEN BEING VERY VERY HUNGRY, AND NEEDING FOOD, WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SOME PHYSICAL LAW IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. BUT ENQUIRY WAS MADE.....GOD GAVE THE ANSWER!
WHAT A LESSON OF CONTEXT READING IS HERE GIVEN. I'M TELLING YOU MANY MANY THEOLOGICAL ERRORS ABOUND EVEN TODAY IN CHRISTIANITY, BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL NOT READ THE CONTEXT OF VERSES!
THIRD: THE SABBATH WAS MADE..... IT WAS MADE WAY BACK IN GENESIS 2. THE 7TH DAY SET APART AS BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED, WHICH THE 4TH COMMANDMENT OF EXODUS 20 ALSO MAKES VERY CLEAR. AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, HAVING TO LEARN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BY MEMORY AS IN EXODUS 20, IT WAS TO ME EASY AND SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE COMMAND OF THE SABBATH. AS A KID READING THE GOSPELS WITH A RED LETTER NEW TESTAMENT [ALL THE WORDS OF CHRIST IN RED], I COULD SEE PLAINLY JESUS NEVER CHANGED THE SABBATH COMMAND. HE HAD NO PROBLEM WITH THE SABBATH BEING THE 7TH DAY OF THE WEEK; HE OBSERVED THE SABBATH ALONG WITH ALL RELIGIOUS JEWS OF HIS TIME. THE ISSUE WAS NOT WHEN THE SABBATH, BUT HOW THE SABBATH SHOULD BE OBSERVED.
THE SABBATH WAS MADE - STILL STOOD ITS GROUND IN JESUS' DAY.
FOURTH: THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH.
AS JESUS WENT ON TO SHOW THE PHARISEES, IT WAS GOOD TO DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH WHEN THE SITUATION CALLED FOR DOING GOOD - IT WAS THE PROVERBIAL "OX IN THE DITCH" AS ONE EXAMPLE JESUS GAVE TO PEOPLE AT ANOTHER TIME.
YES YOU OBSERVE THE SABBATH AS HOLY TIME WITH GOD; A TIME FOR PRAYER, STUDYING THE BIBLE, MEDITATING ON THINGS OF GOD, HAVING FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS IF YOU CAN. BUT IF THE SITUATION COMES YOUR WAY TO DO GOOD, TOWARDS SOMEONE WHO NEEDS A HELPING HAND, YOU DO IT - YOU SERVE AND HELP.
TWO THINGS WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE JEWS; CIRCUMCISION AND SABBATH OBSERVANCE. THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH HAD TO CALL FOR A MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE TO SETTLE THE ISSUE OF PHYSICAL CIRCUMCISION - ACTS 15. IF THE SABBATH, THE 4TH COMMANDMENT, WAS TO BE "DONE AWAY WITH" OR "CHANGED" FROM THE 7TH DAY TO THE 1ST DAY, YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER MINISTERIAL MEETING TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE CHRISTIANS THE NEW RULE CONCERNING THE SABBATH.
THE SABBATH QUESTION AND ALSO HOW TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH IS GIVEN IN DETAIL ON THIS WEBSITE, UNDER THE SABBATH AND FESTIVALS OF GOD SECTION.
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WHY PARABLES?
MARK RECORDS THE VERY PLAIN WORDS OF CHRIST AS TO WHY HE ALWAYS SPOKE IN PARABLES TO THE PEOPLE.
"UNTO YOU IT IS GIVEN TO KNOW THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD: BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT, ALL THESE THINGS ARE DONE IN PARABLES: THAT SEEING THEY MAY SEE, BUT NOT PERCEIVE; AND HEARING THEY MAY HEAR, AND NOT UNDERSTAND; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND THEIR SINS SHOULD BE FORGIVEN THEM.....BUT WITHOUT A PARABLE SPOKE HE NOT UNTO THEM; AND WHEN THEY WERE ALONE, HE EXPOUNDED ALL THINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES" (MARK 4: 11-12, 34).
THIS IS VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD LANGUAGE; A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND IT.
IT IS SHOCKING TO REALIZE JESUS DELIBERATELY SPOKE IN SUCH A WAY TO THE CROWDS, TO KEEP THEM SPIRITUALLY BLINDED, TO NOT CONVERT THEM, SO THEIR SINS WOULD REMAIN!
THESE VERSES SHOULD HAVE SENT MANY A THEOLOGICAL STUDENT, TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAN OF SALVATION GOD IS WORKING OUT HERE BELOW.
WITH ROMANS CHAPTERS 9 THROUGH 11 AND WITH 1 PETER 3:9 WHERE IT IS WRITTEN GOD'S DESIRE IS THAT NONE SHOULD PERISH, BUT ALL COME TO REPENTANCE; THESE SECTIONS OF SCRIPTURE SHOULD HAVE SENT BIBLE READERS FROM CENTURIES PAST, ON THE TRAIL TO SEARCH OUT AND FIND THE PLAN OF SALVATION GOD IS ON FOR ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH.
VERY FEW HAVE EVER FOUND IT!
WHAT YOU'VE HEARD FROM TENT PREACHING FIRE AND BRIMSTONE PREACHERS WAS, IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR, YOU ARE HEADING FOR HELL-FIRE, TO BURN AND BE IN ANGUISH FOR ALL ETERNITY. WHAT YOU'VE HEARD FOR MANY DECADES IS, GET TO THE LOST SOULS - THIS IS THE DAY OF SALVATION; IF WE DON'T GET TO THEM, THEY FACE ETERNITY IN HELL-FIRE.
FEW OVER THE LAST 2,000 YEARS HAVE SEARCHED FOR THE PLAN OF SALVATION GOD IS WORKING OUT HERE BELOW.
THERE IS A PLAN.....GOD IS ALLOWING MOST OF HUMANITY TO BE SPIRITUALLY BLINDED, TO REMAIN IN THEIR SINS, TO NOT BE CONVERTED!
THE VAST MAJORITY, OR TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, 99.9 PERCENT OF HUMANS THAT HAVE EVER LIVED, HAVE NEVER BE CALLED TO SALVATION, THEY HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY LEFT IN THEIR SINS, IN THEIR BLINDNESS OF HEART AND MIND, LEFT UN-CONVERTED!
BUT ALSO, EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER LIVED, WILL ONE DAY HAVE THEIR CHANCE FOR SALVATION.
ON THIS WEBSITE YOU WILL FIND THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, ABOUT THE PLAN OF SALVATION FOR ALL PEOPLES.
GOD THE FATHER WOULD LIKE ALL PEOPLE TO BE CONVERTED; THAT DOES NOT MEAN ALL WILL ACCEPT SALVATION, IT DOES MEAN ALL WILL BE GIVEN A CLEAR OPPORTUNITY FOR SALVATION; WE AS FREE MORTAL PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO DECIDE IF WE WILL ACCEPT SALVATION WHEN OFFERED TO US.
YOU CAN KNOW GOD'S PLAN OF SALVATION; FIND MY STUDY "THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT" UNDER THE SABBATH AND FEASTS OF GOD SECTION AND STUDY IT CAREFULLY. ALSO THE VERY FESTIVALS OF GOD GIVE YOU THE PLAN OF SALVATION.
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