02/23/23 DOERS, NOT SIMPLY HEARERS

02/23/23 DOERS, NOT SIMPLY HEARERS

"Clinging" to your Bible does not make you a force for God or good. Holding fast to Jesus and His truth, along with believing and following God's revelation in the Bible makes you a force for God and good. 

Great numbers of people "cling" to the Bible as an icon or an idol. The Bible is God's word, it is not an icon or an idol, but the cultural, religious, superstitious view and treatment of the Bible by unnumbered nominal and professing "Christians" is a pagan substitute for faith and salvation.

Simply clinging to the idea of Divine revelation is not a Christian position or action. God commands us through James to be doers of the word and not hearers only. (Yes, the book of James is God's word to New Testament followers of Christ, in spite of sinning religion's denial).

You cannot hold fast to God's word while living contrary to God's word. Slavishly clinging to a literary work is not the same as being filled with God's word or being enlightened by God's word or being guided by God's word or being empowered by God's word. Holding fast to God's word includes trusting, submitting, obeying God's word,

Those who simply "cling" to a claim to believe the Bible have not made a Christ centered influence in this world for truth and godliness; they have not stemmed the tide of Humanism, Statism (in all of its wicked forms), Paganism, Hedonism, Infidelity, Anti-Bibilical faith. They have professed faith in Jesus, but they have substituted Biblical faith for dependence on the flesh, the world and the powers of Darkness.

It has been this counterfeit Christianity that has sold-out America and sacrificed the children and youth to Moloch. None of the gods of this world have saved our children, our faith or our nation. The Arm of Flesh and the wisdom of this world has enslaved our society and is taking us further from God than we have ever been as a nation.

This failure of faith is not only seen in the personal lives of those who profess faith (though they have abandoned the possession of New Testament faith), it has been promoted by a silent pulpit or a pulpit that has denied the call of God to Biblical faith and action.

Considering the state of the State and the state of the organizational Church in America, I urge everyone to abandon the sinking ships of Secularism and Humanism, both personal and religious. Find a truly Biblical, Christ centered, Spirit filled and led local church and commit yourself totally to the Jesus and salvation of the Bible. 

1 Thessalonians 5:21
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

2 Timothy 1:13
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 

Hebrews 3:6
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 

Hebrews 4:14
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 

Hebrews 10:23
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

Revelation 2:25
25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. 

Revelation 3:3
3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.