Love and Truth NOT Pride and Empty Faith
Praise Jesus brothers and
sisters. There is a few words that I
wanted to share today of encouragement and righteousness to point brothers and
sisters of the LORD in the right direction.
First is we always have to remember what our goal and mission is; Remember
the greatest commandment, and that is to love the LORD our God with all of our
heart, all of our soul, all of mind, and all of our strength, and the second is
like it, to love our neighbor as ourselves.
What does that mean? Does that
mean that we go out preaching in a way to belittle others, or we want to just
sock the truth to others? Does that mean
that we refrain from loving people because we know that they are different and
they believe differently than we do and they have different doctrines than we
do? A lot of Christians do NOT have the
love of God in them, they have PRIDE and they hide a lot of their pride behind
what they pose as “FAITH”. But as true
children of God we need to make sure that we are actually keeping the
commandments of Jesus Christ, which is to love the Lord our God with all of our
heart, soul, mind and strength and to love our brother as ourselves. How can we do that without being judgmental,
hateful, prideful… because these are the things that make us fall into the
world, and satan loves it when Christians become prideful and divisive, holding
things from one another, wanting to gossip and slander others, being easily
angered, easily frustrated, walking over others, becoming bitter, angry,
holding things inside, instead of confessing, just holding it up and holding in
the bitterness. These are the things
that satan loves. But how do we refrain
from that? How do we PUSH OUT satan? Well, we have to remember the greatest
commandment which is LOVE. Loving GOD
with ALL OUR HEART, and our neighbor as ourselves. If we do this, we will be in right standing
with God. We have to remember to love
others. That doesn’t meant that we just accept all religions as the truth, or
that we go out and say; “I love homosexuals and they’re in the truth also, they
just have a different lifestyle…” It’s
not about justifying SINS, BUT IT IS ABOUT THE LOVE OF JESUS, and JESUS CALLED
SINNERS TO REPENT OUT OF LOVE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS! Jesus showed us how to keep the greatest
commandment of all, and that is also what we have to do as humble brothers and
sisters in the LORD. We need to make
sure that we are keeping the greatest commandment, and as part of HIS true
church, that we are not hiding behind our faith, saying; “It’s faith”, when in
reality it is PRIDE, it’s ANGER, it’s bitterness, it’s wanting to just put
others down for making ourselves look good.
We need to check our OWN hearts daily and make sure that we put on
humility, that we put on righteousness.
That we are not thinking ourselves as better than others. Not trying to prove that we are something
when we are nothing. In Jesus, we are
humble servants and we need to take His discipline well. So, for any brothers and siters in the Lord
who are hearing this message, I encourage you to keep the greatest commandment,
which is to love the Lord your God with ALL YOUR HEART.
Secondly
is this idea about “doctrines”; A lot of
Christians think that following God is all about doctrines, all about being
biblical. And that is why, when they
first start a church, they think that they have to write out all of their
beliefs, and they think that as long as they get people into their church that
believe LIKE THEM that they will get people saved, they will get people
evangelized, that they will get people doing mission trips and they will MAKE
people holy. We CANNOT make any
disciples of Jesus if we ourselves are not in the LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST. And we cannot teach people correct doctrine
if we ourselves are not really in the truth FAITH. It is better to have the LOVE OF JESUS IN YOU
and to have FALSE DOCTRINE, THAT IN HUMILITY JESUS WILL CORRECT, than thinking
you have ALL the correct doctrine, you know, believing all the correct things
about God, all the correct things about church and about the bible… being in
the KNOW about these things, BUT NOT HAVING TRUE LOVE. What is more important is that hour HEART IS
RIGHT BEFORE JESUS CHRIST, and that we allow Him to correct us and to mold us
and to discipline us in the truth. It is
about WORDS and DEEDS, ACTIONS AND TRUTH, not about just doctrines and
believes, you know; “I BELIEVE correctly, I was born as a Christian so I KNOW I
am going to heaven…” It’s not about
that.
Jesus can work with our funny
ideas, because all of us have silly ideas about afterlife or about who God is,
but those things will be corrected in time IF WE ARE HUMBLE TO BE TAUGHT BY THE
GOOD TEACHER. Those things are really
irrelevant, but what IS important is to keep humility on, righteousness on, and
THEN Jesus will correct all those things in us that are doctrinally not sound,
that are not even true, He will correct those things, but we need to make sure
that our hearts are ready to be molded by GOD and not by men.
The 3rd thing is… (this
is something the LORD has been showing me lately), TO NOT MISTAKE GOD’S MERCY
FOR HIS APPROVAL. And what I mean by
that is, when we go through our life with Jesus, a lot of times we make certain
mistakes, and because Jesus had mercy on us, and we didn’t fall into sin or we
didn’t fall into big trouble, we think; “We’re okay, God had His approval on my
life.” And maybe we were doing something
that was actually very harmful to others, very harmful to ourselves, and
because God had mercy on us and He didn’t allow us to fall back into the world or
do die, then we start to mistake God’s mercy for His approval, and just because
God has mercy on you or someone in your family or someone else, doesn’t mean
that He approves of our lives. (Some will say, “My dad did it and he turned out
okay.”) And if we know that, if we know
that we were doing something sketchy, something that really wasn’t within the
will of God, and we got away with it in our own mind thinking; “We got away
with it and God blessed it…” Really
inside of us we know something is wrong and we need to CORRECT IT, we need to
apologize for things that we have done that were wrong before God and others,
and make sure that we correct those things that are not right before God. We need to correct our mistakes.
I want to
encourage you as brothers and siters in the Lord to stay humble. Don’t think that following God is just about
correct doctrine, getting in a good bible study, knowing the bible more,
searching up more things on the internet… it’s not about sensations, it’s not
about just knowing things about God, knowing the bible, getting in a good
Christian gathering, a good Christian circle, IT’S ABOUT HUMILITY, LOVE,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, HONORING GOD WITH OUR LIFE. And if we have THOSE characteristics because
we are seeking FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, THEN He can work
with us. But God turns His eye away from
those that are prideful and arrogant, who think that they are self-entitled do
everlasting life. Most Christians are
FULL OF PRIDE, they are full of arrogance, they are full of themselves. They could care less about the Kingdom of God
and His righteousness and serving others.
Are we truly humble servants before the LORD? Are we where we are supposed to be, not
thinking much of ourselves, saying; “I want Jesus to become MORE, and I want
myself to become less.”? Is that where
we are today as brothers and sisters?
May the grace of Jesus be with you.
