Walking in God’s Law!

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”  Psalms 1:2

How is your walk in the law of God? Did you know walking in God’s law is walking against the council of this world? When God said, “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”  Luke 16:13 Have you ever studied this verse, you ought too. It means that your heart will be either wholly taken up with God, or wholly immerse with the world. That is because you’re not serving God if you are pleasing-self and the world, one will cause you not to properly serve the other. God said, “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  Romans 8:4 But the question is, are we walking after the law of the Spirit? It is a question we must all ask ourselves, how is our walk in God’s law, are we truly satisfying God in our daily walk? If we are failing God then we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, we ought to fall on our face before God and ask His forgiveness and correct our walk. God said, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” Romans 8:7, 8 I know some will say this is talking about the lost souls, but even saved people can be “carnal minded” and are every time they are not walking in the flesh. Adam Clark said these words, “Because it is a carnal mind, and relishes earthly and sinful things, and lives in opposition to the pure and holy law of God: therefore, it is enmity against God” Even a Christian can love worldly things more than the things of God. Paul wrote this to the church at Corinth, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.”  2 Corinthians 13:5, 6 The word “reprobate” means worthless, but how could a child of God become worthless? They become worthless to God because God is not receiving glory from their salvation thru their life. Because if you’re pleasing yourself in the world then you’re not pleasing God in the Spirit. You’re not bringing glory to Jesus Christ Who died to make you holy and living, Who delivered you from being a reprobate to start with. Lots of Christians mistake God’s blessings with human mammon, if it goes against God’s word it is not God’s blessing, Satan has the power to bless us against God. Lots of time we make excuses because we cannot obey God’s law and rather, please the flesh. If God’s glory from us is following His word and God receives no glory from unholiness, then why would God bless us with life events that causes us to be unholy? James wrote, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”  James 1:13 - 15 Sometimes God will send trials and temptations us to call our attention to Him and His word, our mistakes in life, but never to lead us to sin. God knows our frame and our weaknesses; He knows our limits and how we will react. These trials and temptations are to show us our weakness or strengths not to show our Omniscient God whether we fail of pass. If we fail to please God in our walk-in life, do not let us blame God or credit God for our breaking of His law.

As Christians our life-walk is about serving God and bringing glory to our Saviour Jesus Christ. It is not about our self-serving life or our self-pleasures, God saved us for Himself, and Christ Jesus died that we would bring glory to Him. As we go through life, we all need to ask ourselves in our examination of ourselves, is my living life pleasing to God, is my choices in life bringing glory to my God and Saviour? Remember these word’s “But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Because the only way for a Christian to satisfy God and bring glory to Jesus is to WALK IN THE WORDS OF THE SRIRIT AND TO DISOBEY THE SELF-SERVING SPIRT!

 

The Pureness of the Gospel.

“For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.  1 Corinthians 1: 17 – 18

What is the most important message in the bible? It is without question the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God detailed this gospel thru the Apostle Paul, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1 - 4 This is the message of the gospel, nothing more or nothing less, Paul said “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received…” Paul said this gospel is the same gospel that he believed and was saved by, nothing added and nothing less. God said of the gospel thru Paul, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  Romans 1:16 The gospel is the only power we as churches, ministers, pastors, has to bring the lost soul to salvation. However, without the power of the Holy Spirit our preaching the gospel is powerless. “For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.” Romans 15:19 Only God’s Holy Spirit can give increase to the gospel or any message to flourish.

Paul said, “lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.” What could make the gospel message “of none effect.”, to add to it or take away from it. God gave us the gospel and it is all about Jesus Christ and His glorious sacrifice of how He died to suffer our hell penalty, a debt we could never pay on our own. Adding to it in any form will only destroy the power of the gospel message. Paul said, “but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words…” but why would Paul say this? Paul was very educated, a very intelligent man, he said this because the gospel it pure in its original form. The Holy Spirit is its power, it is He that makes it accomplish anything that is accomplished. God gave us the gospel as He wanted it preached, adding to it cannot advance it because God gave us the complete message to preach. Therefore, the Apostle Paul refused to do anything but to preach the simplicity of the gospel as God wrote it. Nothing we do will advance the gospel, we cannot make the gospel more fancy, more attractive, or more believable by changing it with enticing words. Our preaching of fear will not make a sinner repent and come to Jesus Christ seeking salvation. Only the Holy Spirit can bring a lost and condemned sinner to Jesus Christ for salvation. “Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:43 - 44 No choice, no decision, no change of heart, no work, no anything on our part will cause us to believe the gospel and be saved, only God’s drawing us. Jesus said to lost people, “Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.” John 8:43 If they would not hear Jesus, they will not hear us.

However, it is by the gospel message and the power of the Holy Spirit that the lost sinner will repent and come to Christ for salvation. This makes the gospel message the most important message in the entire bible. Jesus said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”  Matthew 6:33 because without salvation the dead and lost sinner gets no value from other doctrine. “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”  Mark 16:15