And You Shall Serve Him

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.” (Deuteronomy 13:1-5 ESV)

I was once resting in and putting my hope, faith, and trust in a covenant relationship with God which I believed to be the true covenant of God with his people under the New Covenant, i.e. the true message of the gospel of our salvation. It was mostly true, but there were lies in the mix, too, which gave off a false message of salvation in areas that are critical to us believing the truth and obeying the truth and having eternal life with God. And this included a false trust in a false church, too, and in false church leadership.

But then the Lord Jesus opened my eyes to the lies and deceptions which were being spread in the name of truth, and to the false church, which is of human origin and not of God, but is passing itself off as the true church, the body of Christ. He began showing me the twisting of truth and the lies and the deceptions, not only in the teaching of the gospel of Christ, but in regard to who his true church is, and with regard to how his true church, his body, is to function under the leadership and direction of the Holy Spirit.

And this is not a small matter. This deception is vast beyond comprehension, and it is being spread in so many different directions, with so many false christs, and false gospels, and false salvations, and false teachers and preachers and pastors and evangelists, etc. And, although I believe this is largely an American thing, I believe the “American gospel” is being spread across the world and that many people from multiple nations are buying into it, because it feels good to human flesh, and it requires little of us.

What I realized is that these deceptions were the direct result of human lives given over to corruption, immorality, adultery, dishonesty, wickedness, untrustworthiness, and to what is dishonorable. And so to appease human flesh and to console themselves in their wickedness, they altered the character of God/Christ, of his church (his body), and of his gospel message. And they altered morality and exchanged it for immorality so that they would not have to feel guilty for sinning against God and humanity.

Once the Lord opened my eyes to see the deceptions going on in the church, with regard to his gospel and who his church is, but which also included opening my eyes to many deceptions in my government and in other world governments, and in the media, etc., then the Lord had me begin exposing the lies for what they are while proclaiming the truth taught in his word, and in order to save human lives from hell and destruction, and from following after the lies and liars, and from following “Pied Pipers” to their deaths.

And this involves warning people against these liars and their lies, and to encourage them to seek truth and righteousness so that they do not fall prey to being deceived by these charmers and mind manipulators. And this is God’s calling on my life since 2004 to write down what he teaches me each day from my times spent with Him in his word and to post these writings on the internet. And this has not been without opposition and without certain people trying to tempt me to follow man (the flesh) instead of God.

So, please get your truth from the Scriptures, studied and taught in the appropriate context, and not out of context. For lies abound because so many charlatans and “wolves in sheep’s clothing” are deliberately teaching the Scriptures out of context, and they are twisting them to say what they do not say if taught in context. So, no matter what man or woman you are listening to, test their words against the Scriptures (in context), and then reject the lies of the enemy, and follow the truth of God’s Word.

Also, please understand that the biblical church, the body of Christ, is the people of God who have surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ to do his will. They are those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. For if we profess faith in Jesus Christ, but we do not obey his commands (New Covenant), in practice, and if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, we do not have eternal life.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

And the church is not a building. It is not a church denomination. It is not a social club nor a civic center. It is not a business being marketed to the world like any other business in order to attract the world to their businesses. And it is not incorporated under the state (the government). This is what it has largely been turned into here in America, but the church is the people of God, and we are to gather together to minister to one another to help one another to not sin and to walk in obedience to God.

[Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah 

 

Hymn lyrics by William Williams, pub.1745

tr. by Peter Williams, pub.1771

Music by John Hughes, 1907

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,

Pilgrim through this barren land.

I am weak, but Thou art mighty;

Hold me with Thy powerful hand.

Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven,

Feed me till I want no more.

Open now the crystal fountain,

Whence the healing stream doth flow;

Let the fire and cloudy pillar

Lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,

Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.

Lord, I trust Thy mighty power,

Wondrous are Thy works of old;

Thou deliver’st thine from thralldom,

Who for naught themselves had sold.

Thou didst conquer, Thou didst conquer

Sin and Satan and the grave.

When I tread the verge of Jordan,

Bid my anxious fears subside;

Death of deaths, and hell’s destruction,

Land me safe on Canaan’s side.

Songs of praises, songs of praises,

I will ever give to Thee. Amen.

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