As I take you on this biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, I am aware that I am sharing biblical Truths with you that you most likely have never been taught before…or worse yet, someone did share them with you in the past, but you ignored what they had to share! Now unfortunately…because I am sharing the Truths of God’s written Word thru podcasts, I do not get the opportunity to go over those ‘new’ biblical Truths with you personally (i.e. face to face)…even though I would like to. Now, I do quite often leave my contact email address with you on those podcasts in case you would like to have further discussions or clarifications on what I shared on my podcast site. And praise the Lord, some of you have taken the opportunity to contact me at which point we were able to go over what you didn’t understand when you first heard it shared on my podcasts!
As I share quite often…I have been studying the Truths of Scriptures for a long, long, long, long time! (Boy, am I getting old!) And as I also share quite often on my podcasts, I do not claim to know everything that there is know about the Truths of Scriptures. However, I have learned much in forty plus years of seriously looking into the Truths of God’s written Word. And not just the Truths of Scriptures. All truths in general. I could give you numerous examples of historical, grammatical, or archeological truths that I have learned (over the years) which ‘helped’ to establish the Truths of Scriptures. The best example of that was when I learned the historical reasons why most English Bibles have the fake name Jesus in them.
We live in a time when a lot of God’s people just don’t see the need to diligently study their Bibles. A lot of God’s people foolishly ‘decide’ what biblical ‘truth’ is based on what seems right or feels right to them. Isn’t that sad? We have a whole bunch of Believers in the Church of the Living God who have decided that either they are wiser than God…or that they have ‘words’ that are more ‘powerful’ than God All-Mighty’s Words!
A lot of God’s people don’t have ‘spiritual fires in their bellies’ to want to learn everything they can about the Truths of Scriptures. Oh, the Church has lots of Believers in it who ‘accept’ the basic third grader knowledge of the Truths of Scriptures. But they start to ‘sink’ biblically when they are challenged with biblical Truths any ‘deeper’ than their ankles or knees! Also, the Church is loaded with God’s people ‘playing’ church. But very few of those Believers are ‘doing church’ according to God’s biblical instructions and teachings (i.e. commandments!) I just wonder how many true born-again Believers even realize that all those DO’S and DO NOT’S that are found in the New Testament Church Epistles are commandments from the Lord?
In the Bible Yeshua Christ taught us that those Believers who accept My commandments and then obey them are the ones who really show Me that they love Me. Christ goes on to say that those Believers who show Me that they love Me (by being obedient to My commandments) will be loved by My Father. And those Believers who accept and obey My commandments will be loved by Me…and I will reveal myself to each of them.
Church, you can't 'love on God' with knowing and then doing as He says. And you can't know and do what He says...unless you know the Truths of Scriptures! There are no commandments, teachings or instructions (from the Lord) found 'outside' of Scriptures! And until you know at least some Truths from God's written Word...there is no way for you to know if you are doing as He says!
A true friend in Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are!
As I take you on this biblical journey thru the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, I am aware that I am sharing biblical Truths with you that you most likely have never been taught before…or worse yet, someone did share them with you in the past, but you ignored what they had to share! Now unfortunately…because I am sharing the Truths of God’s written Word thru podcasts, I do not get the opportunity to go over those ‘new’ biblical Truths with you personally (i.e. face to face)…even though I would like to. Now, I do quite often leave my contact email address with you on those podcasts in case you would like to have further discussions or clarifications on what I shared on my podcast site. And praise the Lord, some of you have taken the opportunity to contact me at which point we were able to go over what you didn’t understand when you first heard it shared on my podcasts!
As I share quite often…I have been studying the Truths of Scriptures for a long, long, long, long time! (Boy, am I getting old!) And as I also share quite often on my podcasts, I do not claim to know everything that there is know about the Truths of Scriptures. However, I have learned much in forty plus years of seriously looking into the Truths of God’s written Word. And not just the Truths of Scriptures. All truths in general. I could give you numerous examples of historical, grammatical, or archeological truths that I have learned (over the years) which ‘helped’ to establish the Truths of Scriptures. The best example of that was when I learned the historical reasons why most English Bibles have the fake name Jesus in them.
We live in a time when a lot of God’s people just don’t see the need to diligently study their Bibles. A lot of God’s people foolishly ‘decide’ what biblical ‘truth’ is based on what seems right or feels right to them. Isn’t that sad? We have a whole bunch of Believers in the Church of the Living God who have decided that either they are wiser than God…or that they have ‘words’ that are more ‘powerful’ than God All-Mighty’s Words!
A lot of God’s people don’t have ‘spiritual fires in their bellies’ to want to learn everything they can about the Truths of Scriptures. Oh, the Church has lots of Believers in it who ‘accept’ the basic third grader knowledge of the Truths of Scriptures. But they start to ‘sink’ biblically when they are challenged with biblical Truths any ‘deeper’ than their ankles or knees! Also, the Church is loaded with God’s people ‘playing’ church. But very few of those Believers are ‘doing church’ according to God’s biblical instructions and teachings (i.e. commandments!) I just wonder how many true born-again Believers even realize that all those DO’S and DO NOT’S that are found in the New Testament Church Epistles are commandments from the Lord?
In the Bible Yeshua Christ taught us that those Believers who accept My commandments and then obey them are the ones who really show Me that they love Me. Christ goes on to say that those Believers who show Me that they love Me (by being obedient to My commandments) will be loved by My Father. And those Believers who accept and obey My commandments will be loved by Me…and I will reveal myself to each of them.
Church, you can't 'love on God' with knowing and then doing as He says. And you can't know and do what He says...unless you know the Truths of Scriptures! There are no commandments, teachings or instructions (from the Lord) found 'outside' of Scriptures! And until you know at least some Truths from God's written Word...there is no way for you to know if you are doing as He says!
A true friend in Christ, Brother Bob
Speaking the Truth in love because so few are!