James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God;
thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”
Throughout the world, and in our own Nation we find many religions,
but few Christians. I have been strong in repeating this very fact, salvation
is not believing in God, salvation is believing in Jesus Christ. Salvation is
not in believing only in the name of Jesus Christ nor in the actions of Jesus
Christ, but truly trusting Him for Who He is and His actions on the cross to
save you from your sins. Anyone can be taught to believe, anyone can be taught
to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour, but salvation is more than that, salvation
is about trusting Jesus Christ as Saviour in totality. Believing in God is
simple, god can be anything, I remember John Denver believed in nature as God,
some people believe in other people as God i.e. the Pope, anything or anyone
can be god to people. People can even believe in Jehovah as God, but they refuse
to believe in the true Jehovah. Satan knows God, most demons are fallen angels and
they know who God is, and Satan’s earthly servants knows who God is because the
fight Him. Religious people know who God is, assemblies are filled every week
with people that knows who God is. But they still do not know God, because they
do not genuinely believe in God as God, neither do they believe in Jesus as
Saviour. It is one thing to know God or to know Jesus because hell is full of
people who know God, but they really do not know Him. No one truly knows God
until they know Jesus Christ as their Saviour, no one! Paul wrote these
words, “For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10 No lost person
understands this verse. What is the “heart” God is referring too, it is the inner
person or as God calls it the inner man? “That he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man;” Ephesians 3:16 When God speaks of the heart He is not
speaking of the blood pumper as we do, He is speaking of the inner person which
is actually your spirit. Look closely what Paul wrote in Romans 2:28 - 29 “For
he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is
outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision
is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise
is not of men, but of God.” Here notice Paul is speaking to two things, he
is speaking of our stance as Christians, we are not fleshly Jews but spiritual
Jews as Christians, and second Paul is not talking about our cutting out in the
flesh but in the spirit. But notice Paul said “circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit” Paul is saying the “heart of the spirit” which is the
outward actions of the inner man. People sometimes say “they have a good heart”
but I ask, “in what way” is it pumping well, is the arteries not stopped-up, no
their talking about their actions being good. They are believing that their
actions are good because they look or sound good to them because their doing
what their mind tells them. True believers in Jesus Christ have a living
spirit which is their heart as God calls it, God is not talking about the
blood pumper but the spirit. The spirit or inner person or heart was given in
creation, Adam and Eve were created “upright” or righteous in God’s image. It
was in the fall they died in two ways, eventually physically but immediately spiritually.
They were separated from God, or “hid themselves from God” no longer desiring to
be with God. While they still lived physically, spiritually they were dead to
God, loosing all access and communication with God, and no longer desiring God.
Everything we are to God is spiritual and not physical. We are saved
spiritually not physically. God said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit,
and they are life.” John 6:63 In Ephesians 2:1 God speaks of quickening
our dead spirits, which is our only communication link with God because they
were dead. Everything we do in this life for God we do it spiritually. “For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is
of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”
1 Corinthians 2:11 - 12 And even in our true worship it is spiritual not
fleshly, “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such
to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23 – 24 Lost people cannot
worship God, neither can they know God nor His Beloved Son Jesus Christ.
Therefore, please let me close with this, if the Holy Spirit
has not quickened your dead spirit then you cannot know God. People who are
lost can know God, Jehovah God as many things, but to know Him intimately they
cannot and do not know Him. They do not recognize His Authority, His Sovereignty,
His Works, or even His True Being. They do not recognize His Son Jesus The Christ,
His death, burial, and resurrection, they do not understand the cleaning power
of His blood, nor do they truly trust Him for their salvation. They do not know
or trust the Holy Spirt, and the power and works He accomplishes, nor do they
trust Him to deliver them to the gospel to be saved, they do not believe Him as
teacher of the scriptures nor the spiritual leader of their works in life. Because
they believe they have all these glorious powers in their own spiritually dead
selves and their own depraved powers, to do what God does for us. Therefore,
while they may know of God, they do not know Him, and this is why they reject
God and depend on themselves until they open their lying and depraved eyes in
the fiery pits of eternal hell. “Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen.” Romans 1:25
