The apostle Peter tells us: "Be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless." No one knows the day or hour that Jesus will return. But when JESUS returns we must be found by Jesus, at that moment, to be in peace, without spot, and blameless. We must live that way constantly. Otherwise we might be left on this present earth to go through the great tribulation while others in the church are taken out and placed in the New Jerusalem. For after the great tribulation, this present heaven and earth will be destroyed by God by fire according to Peter. II Peter 3
In this Podcast, we see ways that we live without spot and blameless.
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Jesus says:
Matthew 7
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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II Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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We must not worship church idols and superstitions of men:
Idols practiced in today's churches: Not in the New Testament Bible
* Crossing yourselves
* Lighting candles with prayer, or any other time as a part of religion
* "Holy" water to cross yourselves
* Wearing crosses or "religious" medallions
* Praying to anyone other than God
* Calling crackers & grape juice "The Lord's Supper" (The Lord's supper is partaking of the Word of God.)
* Christmas has become an idol greatly observed: Not in Bible to do this at all. Easter is not in Bible to observe this. (Unger: Easter was added to the church by men in 8th century. Easter was taken from the pagan goddess of spring.) In Acts 12, the word Easter means " The Passover". Lent: Jesus paid sacrifice for us in today's church. To pay your own sacrifice by stopping doing something at "Lent" is an abomination and denies the sacrifice paid by Jesus with HIS own blood.
* Graven images: Setting up statues in the church building and kneeling before statues in religious ceremonies
* Music: when used as entertainment in the church
* Calling men "Reverend". New Testament calls ministers, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher (Ephesians 4:8;11) no calling of ministers "Father" or pope, archbishop, cardinal...all made up by humans and set in church as "idols". ]
Idols practiced in today's churches: Not in the New Testament Bible
* Crossing yourselves
* Lighting candles with prayer, or any other time as a part of religion
* "Holy" water to cross yourselves
* Wearing crosses or "religious" medallions
* Praying to anyone other than God
* Calling crackers & grape juice "The Lord's Supper" (The Lord's supper is partaking of the Word of God.)
* Christmas has become an idol greatly observed: Not in Bible to do this at all. Easter is not in Bible to observe this. (Unger: Easter was added to the church by men in 8th century. Easter was taken from the pagan goddess of spring.) In Acts 12, the word Easter means " The Passover". Lent: Jesus paid sacrifice for us in today's church. To pay your own sacrifice by stopping doing something at "Lent" is an abomination and denies the sacrifice paid by Jesus with HIS own blood.
* Graven images: Setting up statues in the church building and kneeling before statues in religious ceremonies
* Music: when used as entertainment in the church
* Calling men "Reverend". New Testament calls ministers, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher (Ephesians 4:8;11) no calling of ministers "Father" or pope, archbishop, cardinal...all made up by humans and set in church as "idols". ]
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God removed Saul from being king and set up David as king because Saul disobeyed God in one "little" point ... and God removed from Saul the Holy Spirit and gave him an evil spirit "from the Lord" and gave David the Holy Spirit.
An example for us concerning how important each small instruction from God is:
II Samuel 15
10 Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
11 It repenteth ME that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following ME, and hath not performed MY commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night.
I Samuel 16
1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (David) in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (David) in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
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Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
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Proverbs 31
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
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I Corinthians 6
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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II Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(falling away: church groups will fall away from scripture and set up other doctrines opposite from scripture, thus allowing the "man of sin" into their churches. They eliminated scripture such as: Matthew 5:32 Jesus said: "But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.")
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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Fearful fate for those who stay in church groups where antichrist reigns by removing scriptures:
II Thessalonians 2
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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