The law of the LORD
is perfect,
converting the soul;
the testimony of the
LORD is sure,
making wise the
simple;
the statutes of the
LORD are right,
Rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of
the LORD is pure,
enlightening the
eyes;
the fear of the LORD
is clean,
enduring forever;
the judgments of the
LORD are true
and righteous
altogether.
More to be desired
are they than gold,
yes, than much fine
gold;
sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb.
moreover by them Your
servant is warned,
and in keeping them
there is great reward.
Psalm 19:7–11
The
misunderstanding of the doctrine of original sin has been the cause for many
false theologies. Looking back on the blogs that I enumerated the various
heresies and false teaching in regard to God and how man is to have a
relationship with God we can find that they try to obliterate in the most and
to lessen the impact in the least as to the doctrine of sin; especially
original sin. It is not so different in the present age for man attempts to
replace original sin from them because they cannot fathom sin, a sin from the
original pair as to have any emphasis on their lives and then fill this lack of
understanding and desire to desire what this world has to offer. Man,
especially in this modern era, has fallen prey to an ideology that teaches that
man is independent and has within himself all that he needs to be successful in
this life. There is a replacement of Godly knowledge and desire to follow Him
with such thins as; “finding oneself,” or to find things that would raise their
spirits in such in such things as entertainment, playtime, drugs, illicit sex,
pornography, or just to not even think of God: it is to humbling to think of
oneself as a sinner with sin that he cannot remove. Men today are prideful,
they have assimilated into their thinking of their goodness, or supposed
goodness, and that they are somehow the center of their universe; but is this
so, or is it just pride and is this harmful? The writer of Proverbs gives this
warning: “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall”
(Proverbs 16:18). This was the problems with Adam and Eve, pride, a desire
to have what they were commanded not to have, a desire to be like God, and many
today act as if they are little gods. Remember the trial for Adam and Eve was a
simple one considering they had no need to eat of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge; it was a trial of obedience and a willing submission to the command
of God. Many today pick and choose which commandments they wish to keep and
those which they avoid. One such commandment that is so blatantly abused is the
commandment found in the Ten Commandments; OH! Most will keep the commandment
to not covet, to not murder, do not take the name of the LORD your God in vain,
to not commit adultery (although it seems as if this commandments is also being
abused by Christians), to not steal, to not bear false witness against your
neighbor, and even though there is a strong movement to teach our children not
to honor their father and mother, that they too are just an evolved creature
who is not to have any moral teachings other than to pursue their way and to be
prideful in all they do; but, there is this commandment that is not kept by
most Christians: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor
your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh
day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (Exodus
20:8–11). Some Churches even abuse the commandment not to make for yourself
any carved image and have icons of some saint or some supposed carving of an
Apostle, others have pictures of Jesus as though they are the real Jesus and
even give some form of homage to them; but then claim that they are just to aid
in worship to God, as though they needed them. This is a problem that began
with Adam and Eve, they in their pride and disobedience to the command of God
thought that they could have what Satan offered them and forgot that God loved
them and gave them simple commands, walked with them in the cool of the evening
and by keeping His commands they would continue to be blessed by God and have
immortality. How could they have immortality? They would keep eating the tree
of life. Do we have a tree of life that would give to us immortality? Yes!
Jesus Christ! It was God who came to earth, the Wisdom of God, the Second
Person of the Trinity, to pay the debt that man could not pay and then to take
the act upon the cross, His death, resurrection, and ascension bodily into
heaven that He is the tree of life from which His children dine upon and this
is everlasting life: “Jesus said to her, ‘ I am the resurrection and the
life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever
lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this” (John 11:25–26)?
Do you believe this? Will you keep His simple commandments? Or, will you like
Adam toss away your relationship with Him for that which Satan presents as
something better? I hope that the faith that God has given to you, the enabling
of you, and the drawing to Him will make cause for true worship of God and to
be an Authentic Biblical Christian.
Jesus answered them, “I told you,
And you do
not believe.
The works that I do in My Father’s
Name, they
bear witness of Me.
But you do not believe, because you are
Not of My
sheep, as I said to you.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them,
And they
follow Me.
And I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish; neither
shall
anyone snatch them out of My hand.
John 11:25–28
Prepare Now for the Sabbath and Then Rest On His Day
Richard L. Crumb
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