Audra, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Facebook. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. First, I thank my God, for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. I have been preaching the Gospel of Christ to you for almost a year now and I have made it clear that you are to “ be perfect even as your Father which in heaven is perfect” and as it is written “Be holy for I am holy”. For God has called you not unto uncleanness, but unto holiness ~1Thessalonians 4:7~ For God has given me truth and I have been sent and spoken it to you, and you believe me not. I have given you my testimony in which God has showed me the way. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Christ is my shepherd: He cares for His sheep, who would not flee but will lay down His life for them. And now I tell you, I lost my life for Him. “He who loses His life for my sake shall find it” and I have found it. God is love and to love is to be like God; and to be perfect in love is to be perfect as God is perfect. All God’s moral attributes consists in love acting under certain circumstances and for certain ends. God’s justice in punishing the wicked, His anger at sin and sinners, are only exercises of His love for the general happiness of His kingdom. Hatred of sin and sinners is only love of virtue acting itself out in opposing whatever is opposed to virtue. True faith implies and includes love, and faith that has no love in it or does not work by love has no part in Christianity. Repentance that does not include love is not true repentance toward God. True repentance implies obedience to the law of love and opposition to sin. I have given you the nature of faith required in the bible for your justification. The faith is the committing of the will, or ultimate intention. This is the true idea of faith that worketh by love. Love seeks not its own. It abides in Christ and Christ abides in him. We never fulfill the demands of conscience except as we live to please God. His pleasure is always wise and good. Nothing pleases Him that is not wise and good. He never desires anything that is not wise or good. Now, with the honest intention to please God you cannot commit sin. If the Heart is so set to please Him, the mind is in an honest state, your will is His will which is His highest happiness and well-being. This is the real idea of faith that works by Love to God. This is true devotion to God and His good. That is why the bible says, “Whosoever abides in Him sins not”. My only intention in all of this is the highest happiness of God and His well- being. My will is His will and His will is your entire sanctification. I am a child of God who manifests this spirit in zeal for His honor and glory. My heart beats Higher for lost souls and defending or advancing God’s honor. As a friend of God, the burdens of my prayers are always for the glory of God in the salvation of sinners. If you know nothing about the spirit of prayer for sinners, you are not the true friend of God and man. Sinners are going to hell on every side! Don’t tell me you are truly Holy when your prayers are murmured monotonously and your iniquities have hid His face from you He will not hear you. Such a man as this deceives Himself when he talks about being a true friend of God and man. My main objective isn’t to gain heaven and avoid wrath; it is to save souls and honor God. If this is not my objective, I am in pain. I am always grieved when I see professing Christians and churches doing nothing for the salvation of sinners. I know it is impossible to do anything considerable for the salvation of sinners while the church is in darkness. Those of you who have other objectives in view may think things are going very well. You are not grieved when you see professed people going after show and folly. False converts are willing to be rocked to sleep and let their ministers preach smooth, flowery sermons with no point or power. But no, a Child of God is not satisfied unless he preaches in powerfully, pointedly, and boldly, with longsuffering doctrine. My soul is not fed, edified, or satisfied with anything that does not take hold of and work for the ministry appointed by Jesus Christ. And now I ask you before God, Do you have these characteristics of a child of God? Do you know they belong to you? Can you say realistically, “O, Lord, You know that I love You and that these are the features of my characteristics”? And remember Jesus says, “The one who has my commandments and keeps them is he who truly loves Me and he who loves me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifest Myself to Him” I have showed you that the first covenant requires of the creature perfect and perpetual holiness. The new covenant promises to the believer perfect and perpetual holiness in this life. "Jeremiah 31:31- Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jer. xxxii. 39, 40,—"And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them and of their children after them; and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, and they shall not depart from me." c" Deut. xxx. 6,— "And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul." Jer. i. 20,—"In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found." I Thess. v. 23, 24,—"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." And you do not believe God nor do you believe me in whom God has sent. You have made a great mistake of supposing that when Christ has been revealed to your mind and you confess with your mouth that your work is done. But unless you actually receive Him, take hold of these great and precious promises and commit yourself to Him as your shepherd and entire obedience to Him you will find it to your shame that nothing has been done to help you stand in that hour of temptation. I have proven God in this and He is my shield in whom I trust in that hour of temptation in which is essential. My father and I have spent hours on our knees with our bibles before us laboring and praying to understand the mind of the Spirit. I don’t say this to boast but as a matter of fact to show that the sentiment here advanced is no novel of opinion with me. We have gone to the author to have it explained. You have this blessed privilege everyday just as often as you choose but yet how little of the bible you actually know! Read the text and passages again, and then try and tell me you are not responsible for understanding the bible. Jesus says, “Where I go you know, and the way you know” Also it is said in First John ,” I have not written to you because you know not the truth but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth” The bible is very clear that the truth that I tell you is very near to you “it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it”. “ And herby we do know that we know Him, If we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him and keeps not His commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought to walk himself also so to walk, even as He walked”. You suppose that the Gospel of Christ is the doctrine of imputed righteousness which far from the truth. Under the Gospel, you are not justified by having the obedience of Jesus Christ set down for your account as if He has obeyed the law for you. You seem to think that you are accounted righteous in the eyes of God by having the obedience or righteousness imputed to you. This idea is absurd and impossible for this reason: Jesus Christ was bound to obey the law for Himself. It was His duty to love the Lord His God with all His heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love His neighbor as Himself (Luke 10:27). If He had not done so, it would have been sin. The only work He could perform for us was to submit to sufferings He did not deserve. This is called His “obedience unto death” (Philippians 2:8) and this is placed in our account. But if His obedience of the law is placed on our account, then why are we called to repent and to obey the law for ourselves? Does God exact triple service—first to have the law obeyed for us, then that Jesus must suffer the penalty for us, and then that we must repent and obey for ourselves? No, such thing is demanded! It is not required that obedience of another should be imputed to us. All we owe is perpetual obedience to the law of love. For this there can be no substitute. You seem to think that justification implies that personal holiness is set aside and God arbitrarily gets rid of the law and imputes faith as a substitute. But this is not the way. Abraham’s faith was imputed to him for righteousness (James 2:33) because it was itself an act of righteousness, and because it worked by love (Gal.5:6) and thus produced holiness. Justifying faith is holiness and produces holiness of heart and life. It is imputed to the believer as holiness, not instead of holiness because “without holiness no man shall see the Lord”. You seem to think that justification by faith is without good works or holiness. You have greatly misunderstood Paul when he insisted so vehemently on justification by the Jews, who expected to be justified by obeying the law. In opposition to this error, Paul insisted that justification is by faith, without works of the law (Gal. 2:16), but he did not mean that good works are unnecessary to justification. He meant that works of the law are not good works because they spring from legal considerations, hope, fear, instead of from faith that works by love like I have explained before. Your false theory crept into the church and James took up the matter and showed the believers that they had misunderstood Paul. To this, he took the case of Abraham in ~James 2:21-24~ You continue to overlook that Paul was speaking of works performed from legal motives. But everywhere he insisted that good works springing from the righteousness of faith are indispensable to salvation. I have stated this from the beginning and just like you misunderstood Paul you have greatly misunderstood me. For I have also told you faith without works is dead! The Faith that works by love is the fulfilling of the law. You suppose that you are under fatal necessity to sin, and you continue to drag along this load of sins to your death. You don’t directly charge God and say in words that He has made no provisions for such a case as this. But you appear to suppose that since Christ’s atonement covers all sins, if you continue in sin all your days, His forgiveness will make things just as well as if you had been truly holy. You do not see that the Gospel has made provisions to rid us of all sin forever. You look at it as a system of pardon, leaving you a sinner to drag your load of sins to the gate of heaven. Oh, how little use you have made of these “great and precious promises”! If only you would draw upon Him and take hold of these you would have all you need for your sanctification. You do not really believe much that is in the Bible, imagine you met God, and you knew it was God Himself. Suppose He held out a book in His hand and told you to take it. This book contained “great and precious promises” of all you needed to resist temptation, overcome sin, and become perfectly holy, and fit yourself for heaven. Then He told you that whenever you need anything, you only have to take the appropriate promise and present it to Him, and He will do it. Now, if you were to receive such a book directly from the hand of God, and you knew that God had written it for you, would you believe it? Would you read it a great deal more than you now read the Bible? How eager would you want to know what was in it? How ready would you be to apply the promises in time of need! You would want to know it by heart! You would keep your mind familiar with its contents and be ready to apply the promises you read. The Bible is that book! It is written by God and is filled with those “great and precious promises” Jesus is a complete Savior. All the promises of God are in Him to the glory of God the Father. God has promised them in the second person of the Trinity and made them all certain through Him. You need to understand what I am telling you because you lack wisdom, righteousness, sanctification (holiness), and redemption, only go to God in faith and take hold of these promises for you will save you soul and have everlasting life. ! “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him”. Now, it is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever, Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:58:53 +0000
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