How to "Live by Faith" Today # 009September 8, 2007
Article By: Tom Demeter The Just shall "Live by Faith" Dear Friend,
My articles
are intended not just to be read, but to study
to gain a new perspective on life and a new set of believes,
to become a “new
man” preparing you
for eternal life. The
Anti-christ’s final kingdom is very close.
Only the three and a half years “work”
of God Acts.13:41 done by His Two Witnesses Rev.11:3 needs to be
finished, that the Anit-chirst may appear.
You must gain a new perspective
not to live the “Anti-god’s
way” based on codes, credit and insurance. “God’s way”
is based on laws, money and faith.
The two Gods and their ways are
opposites. This is why Satan
is the Anti-god, or the opposite of our Creator
Eph.3:9 in every way. As a true
Christian, Jesus gave your priorities for this life.
Your FIRST
priority is to “hallow,” serve
God’s NAME
in you Mat.6:9, by becoming
“perfect” Mat.5:48 in
His sacrificial love Jn.15:13, by overcoming your
“fears” IJn.4:18, for
the fearful can’t be in the resurrection to eternal life
Rev.21:8! Your
second priority
is to seek the Kingdom of God Mat.6:10,
33 and to establish it physically and politically on this earth, to serve Him
because we are all living in the
kingdom of the Anti-god 2Cor.4:4, and
forced to “obey “
him and it. Your third
priority is that our Creator’s
“will” be done
on earth as it
is in heaven Mat.5:10, thanks to
YOUR efforts.
This
requires a Christian, YOU
to “live
by faith” Rom.1:17, and go opposite to the religious, legal and financial
system of this world, and its Anti-god.
You must fight the “fight
of faith” ITim.6:12,
believing that you will be rewarded at the coming of Christ Mat.16:27, in one of His three
(3) governments. I have shown before that Christ has THREE (3) laws, the “laws of flesh” Rom.7:25 for unconverted people, given to Israel. Then comes a “higher” spiritual “laws of faith” given to Christians, and its laws preserved by the Greeks / Gentiles, who have God’s “holy spirit” in them Rom.3:27, and the “laws of the spirit” Rom.8:2 God’s “highest” laws given to the Godhead, the God family Rom.1:20; Acts.17:9. On these three laws are based God’s three religions, and on them His three governments. These three laws, religions and governments are opposites of each other, just as our Creator’s laws are to the Anti-god’s lawlessness, or “iniquity” Mat.7:23. You can’t mix God’s laws with the Anti-god’s or God’s laws with each other, what our churches are doing. Knowing this you know that “living by faith” is different if you keep God’s Old Testament laws, or His New Testament laws or His Mystery of God’s laws and their corresponding gospels and governments. We were totally blind to this truth until now! This is why Christ had to send His “Two Witnesses” to “restore” the truth to us Mat.17:11, that we could be saved because we are all “deceived” Mat.24:37; Rev.12:9. How to Live by Faith in the Old Testament Since
God’s Old Testament was given to “carnal”
people without the “holy spirit” of God,
the holy spirit was only “on”
them but not “in”
them ISam.10:6; 2Kings.2:9! This
is why Elisha asked that he would receive a double portion of Elijah’s spirit.
This is why king
David pleaded with God not to take His holy spirit from him Psa.51:11.
The “holy spirit” to be “in”
us came later after Jesus, our Creator Eph.3:9
died that the our “comforter,” (not the person of the trinity)
the “spirit of God,”
like our “spirit of man” ICor.2:11 could be sent,
after Jesus “qualified”
to became our Christ Jn.16:7. The Old
Testament administration was a physical
administration, not spiritual, executed by the angels of God.
The angel of God spoke to Moses,
not Jesus our Christ Acts.7:53. Daniel’s
friends in the furnace in Babylon were also saved by an angel, that not even
their clothing smelled of smoke, yet the handlers who threw them into the fire
were killed by the heat of the furnace Dan.3:16-30. Please
NOTICE that the Old
Testament offered
NO salvation
to Israel, only
“blessings and curses” for their obedience or disobedience Deut.28.
Israel and the Gentile followers of this contract with God was only
physical in nature. Israel is still looking for their Messiah or
SAVIOR, who will soon come,
to redeem a “few” of them, the 144,000
Rev.7:4 in this age or “dispensation” Eph.1:10, because in this age or dispensation only a
“few” are pre-ordained to find the way to eternal lifeMat.7:14.
In the Old
Testament, in Noah’s day only Noah “walked with God”
Gen.6:9, not even his sons. Noah
had the “holy spirit” on Him and this is why he was able to “believe”
God. Our Creator worked with Noah,
gave him victories over the world, by the help of His angels, that he may
fulfill God’s “calling” on his life, to become the second Adam.
Noah and the
other saints in the Old
Testament did not have the
same faith, as the saints in the New Testament, and specially like Apostle Paul
to whom was given God’s “Mystery Administration”
to experience the “reality” of God’s eternal life.
In the Old Testament to believe God was to SAVE one’s life, from physical death and the curses of God! Eternal life was not in the equation for them, because they could not fulfill its requirements. As we know from Apostle Paul, who was the most “spiritual” Apostle and Prophet of the Bible, that “flesh and blood can’t inherit the kingdom of God” in heaven ICor.15:50. The Old Testament’s function was to free humans from the bondage of Satan’s lawless government, with God’s laws. The Old Testament and its laws, religion and government was the first intervention of our Creator into the government of the “god of this world” 2Cor.4:4. This was the first time when mankind was freed from the yoke and the trap of the Anti-god and its fear, poverty, sicknesses, superstition, utter slavery and death. The “faith” of the Old testament was a “physical faith,” believing that if you are righteous, which is defined by laws, you will be blessed, as the contract God made with Israel. The Gentiles had no access to God, or to the “blessings and curses” given to Israel. This made it very attractive to become an Israelite. It is unfortunate that Satan was able to “deceive” Israel, to be his strongest supporter of his lawlessness. Faith is Required in the New TestamentAs a New
Testament Christian it is “required”
of you to “live by
faith” Rom.1:17!
Jesus’ religion is based on Mat.16:25, where you must be
“willing” to
LOSE your Life,
to FIND
eternal life. We know that “flesh
and blood can’t inherit eternal life!”
This is totally opposite to
the gospel given in the Old Testament where a believer of God was assured
that God will SAVE his/her
physical life. This is why Jesus
preached a new “Gospel of
Faith,” where
“what so ever is not of faith is sin”
Rom.14:23. This tells you
that the gospel preached in our churches is not Jesus’ gospel,
but the lawless “mystery iniquity” gospel of the Anti-god 2Thes.2:7,
not the “mystery of God’s” gospel given to Apostle Paul Eph.3:3. Apostle John
said that by “obeying” Jesus,
our Christ “it
is the SPIRIT that
quickeneth; the
FLESH profits
noting” Jn.6:63.
A Christian may be saved or not saved from his/her trials, depending on
his/her faith Mat.9:29, and
which of the seven churches of God he/she is in
Rev.2 & 3. Since
the “law
of faith”
is a temporary gospel,
as the Old Testament Gospel, and used
only until we advance to God’s
“highest” religion, where God’s
salvation is fully
“revealed” at the End of
the World Rev.10:7, most of the New
Testament Christians will be “martyrs”
for Christ. The New Testament
Christians can only “perfect
their love” IJn.4:18
to overcome their “fear of
death” Heb.2:15 through death. Only
the Philadelphia church of God Rev.3:7 is promised protection from the
destruction and the re-creation of the world V.10, which is now very close. What type of
a faith is required from a New Testament Christian?
Most people think of the faith of Abraham in the Old Testament.
He worked and obeyed God and His laws, and for this he was greatly
rewarded. His
faith manifested in
patience, believing in God’s words, that he will have a son no matter if
physically it is an impossibility. Abraham’s
faith is “required”
because a true Christian obeying Jesus’
“Gospel of Faith” in the
New Testament have to have even
more faith, for he/she will not be
rewarded in this life but when Jesus returns Mat.16:27.
Christians like Apostle Paul must let “God be true, but every man a
liar” Rom.3:4. The greatest application of the New Testament faith was shown by John the Baptist, who trusted Christ not man and “ate locust and wild honey” Mat.3:4. The New Testament church tired to live by faith, but they failed because the “flesh” got the best of them after Pentecost Acts.4:32-33. Ananias and Sapphira were killed for their carnality, to warn the rest of the saints Acts.5. As the disciples grew, carnality creped in with the weaker newcomers. Some of the Jews reverted to their old beliefs of superiority, thinking they were the only chosen ones. These Jews felt more equal to the Gentiles, causing the Greek widows to be “neglected” Acts.6:1. Your degree of faith depends on your “believes,” of what “doctrines” of Jesus and the Anti-god, Balaam you keep Acts.2&3. This determines which of the seven churches of God you are in Acts.2 & 3. This in turn determines the priorities of Christ you are keeping. Are you following Christ’s instruction to us by setting up His physical kingdom on earth and helping others to know why you do it. Your faith, and love is manifest in works, helping others to avoid the sure death and destruction coming. The Faith in Christ's Mystery GospelThis is
God’s ”highest” and full
gospel, based on God’s “highest” law, the “laws of the sprit”
Rom.8:2, given to the “Godhead,” the God family to live by Rom.1:20;
Col.2:9. This law is the
“law of love,” where you love others more than yourself, where you are
willing to “sacrifice”
your life for others, as Jesus did Jn.15:13.
This law produce freedom from death,
transferring us into the
eternal fifth dimension of the God kind.
As we
progressively “obey” the “law
of love,” as we are willing to
give up our carnal ways, we are transferred into God’s eternal limitless
dimension. This means that we are
starting to experience the “reality”
of eternal life. Since faith is the evidence of things not seen
Heb.11:1, as we change and experience
eternity, faith
is not need. This is why
this law is not based on faith or require faith. God’s
“highest” religion the
“Mystery” is
teaching us the
laws of love.
It has the full “knowledge of salvation” Lk.1:77, allowing us to know
how to overcome the “fear of death” without
us dying, to be in the resurrection ICor.15:52; IThes.4:17.
Here we learn to be “crucified with Christ daily”
Gal.2:20 that we would not need to die to be in the resurrection to
eternal life. The people
in Christ’s mystery gospel are in the Philadelphia church Rev.3:7, and are
the “elect of God” Mat.24:22.
These are pre-ordained to be in the resurrection without dying, to have a
“remnant” to God, to testify to the angels that they don’t need to die to
be “reconciliated”
to God Col.1:20 from their “alienation”
from God V.21. The “many”
of humanity is “sacrificed” for
the angels’ reconciliation, and the elect are “saved” Rev.3:10 to show
that the angels can be saved from death, as the elect are. The mystery
religion is a spiritual and physical religion.
Here all things are possible. You
can depend on Christ’s provision
for you, or you can work as Apostle Paul, to do God’s work Acts.13:41 at the
End of the World, not to be a burden on the other saints, since in this age God
supports us through others, as Elijah was by Zarephath.
The
rewards given
in this
administration in
the government
of the Godhead.
Our rewards will be to rule with Christ, being
“Joint HEIRS
with Christ” Rom.8:17 in the spiritual realm, over the nations,
and the angelic hosts, as they are “reconciliated” to our Creator, in
the next sixth thousand years. We
will be “pillars in the Temple of God”
Rev.3:11,12 in the New Jerusalem, when our Father comes down from heaven.
There will be self government by then of all and government as we know it
will not be necessary. This is when
we will be finally ALL
one with our Father and Creator. I pray that
you “hear” our Creator’s “call”
on your life, to be one of
His “elect,” and to be in Christ’s “better”
resurrection, now at the End of this World.
May Christ bless, Protect and SAVE you
at the End of the World. |