Where Did You Get That Idea?
What is the truth about salvation?
When my son was in middle school, I had a terrible time keeping him focused on his school work. He had been born with learning challenges, and had worked very hard in elementary to catch up to his classmates. In some subjects, he actually pulled ahead of the average for his grade on standardized tests. However, after he had been in middle school for about half a semester, he just did not seem to care about his school work any more. When I got his first report card, and I found out, that he was making low grades, because he had not even bothered to do most of his assignments, I was pretty mad. After I cooled down, I confronted him about this, and his apparent lying to us, when we asked him, if his homework was done every night. He answered, that his grades were not that important, and that he had done enough of his homework to pass, so he felt, that he had done his homework every night. He proceeded to explain, that what he did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on his high school transcript.
At this point, I grabbed him by the shoulders, so that he was looking at me, gently shook him once or twice, to make sure that I had his full attention, looked him in the eyes, and asked him this question:
Where did you get that idea?
His response was, that everyone in his middle school was saying, that what they did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on their high school transcript.
It was time to set the record straight. I explained, that every class mattered, because they were preparing him for high school. I explained, that if he developed poor study habits in middle school, then he would carry those poor study habits into high school. I explained, that if he lacked the discipline to succeed in middle school, then he would lack the discipline to succeed in life.
Since this was so important, I told him, how he would be rewarded at home for doing the right thing. I also explained to him, the consequences that he would face at home, if he continued to do the wrong thing. This was simply too important to treat with casualness.
It was a long and trying three years, but he did finally get back to caring about his school work. It was only on the last day of middle school, while I was up there to meet with his teachers for one last time, that I discovered the root of the problem. His middle school counselor explained, that what the students did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on their high school transcripts.
At this point, I wanted to grab her by the shoulders, so that she was looking at me, shake her, but not at all gently, until that I had her full attention, look her in the eyes and ask her this question:
Where did you get that idea?
My wife intervened, and prevented me from getting in her face to set her straight. I was furious, that our efforts at home had been sabotaged for three years, by a school authority that had planted a destructive lie in the mind of my son. No wonder, we had so much trouble convincing our son of the truth, when he was frequently hearing the opposite message in school. Those, who should have been working with us to set my son on the path of knowledge, were actually working against us. These educators did not get this idea from his parents.
In similar manner, the efforts of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) have often been sabotaged, by religious professionals who have planted destructive lies in the minds of people. It is no wonder that the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) has so much trouble convincing people of the truth, when they are frequently hearing the opposite messages in church. Those, who should have been working with the Father of Truth to set His children on the path of knowledge, have actually been working against Him. These religious professionals did not get these ideas from the Father of Truth.
Perhaps you believe that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was raised from the dead and have called the Man of Truth your lord so you can be saved (Romans 10:9). Now that you have been born again as a Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him), you may think that is all you have to do to be saved. You might think that you can never fall away from the grace of the Father of Truth, once you become a Child of Truth.
The Man of Truth is taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. You must prayerfully seek to do the will of the Father of Truth on this Earth (Matthew 6:9-10). It is not enough to say, that the Man of Truth is your lord, to be saved (Matthew 7:21). You must do the will of the Father of Truth to be a Child of Truth (Matthew 12:50). Why do you think, you can call the Man of Truth your lord, and not do what he says (Luke 6:46)?
You must endure until the end to be saved (Matthew 24:13). You must endure being hated by all kinds of people to be saved (Mark 13:13). You must endure hardship as a worthy soldier in the army of the Man of Truth (2 Timothy 2:3). You must endure so that others can be saved by the Man of Truth working thorough you (2 Timothy 2:10). You must endure so you can obtain the promise like Abraham (Hebrews 6:13-15). You must endure so you can obtain the resurrection of salvation like the Prophets instead of the resurrection of damnation like the world (Hebrews 11:35-38). You must endure so you can obtain the joy of saving others like the Man of Truth (Hebrews 12:2-3). You must endure whippings from the Father of Truth when you do wrong if you are a Child of Truth so you can become like the Father of Truth (Hebrews 12:7-10). You must endure so you can receive the crown of life (James 1:12). You must endure so your life will be acceptable to the Father of Truth (1 Peter 2:19-20).
You must forgive people if you want the Father of Truth to forgive you (Matthew 6:14-15). You must forgive people every time they ask for forgiveness until the Man of Truth returns to rule the Earth at the end of the seventy times seven weeks spoken of by the prophet Daniel (Matthew 18:21-22). You must forgive people if you do not want to be delivered over to the tormentors by the Father of Truth (Matthew 18:34-35). You must forgive people if you want the Father of Truth to hear your prayers (Mark 11:24-26). You must forgive people because you have confidence in the Man of Truth that leads to action (Luke 17:4-6). You must forgive people because the Father of Truth has forgiven you for the sake of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 4:32).
You can fall from the position that the Man of Truth has placed you in by going into sin (Acts 1:25). You must take heed to find the way of escape that the Father of Truth has provided when you are tempted to keep from going into sin (1 Corinthians 10:12-13). You can believe in vain if you do not keep the Word of Truth in your heart (1 Corinthians 15:1-2). You can fall from grace after you have been born again (Galatians 5:4). You must be on your guard at all times to keep from being deceived into thinking that you cannot be tempted (Galatians 6:1-3). You will not please Father of Truth if you draw back from following the Man of Truth (Hebrews 10:38). You have to be diligently looking for the way of peace and holiness to keep from failing His grace (Hebrews 12:14-15). You will be destroyed after you were saved if you do not continue to believe (Jude 1:5).
You might think that the Man of Truth only came to save you from the penalty of your sins. You might think that it is impossible to stop sinning. You might think that you are only a sinner saved by grace. You might think that you can continue in sin and inherit eternal life by only believing in the Man of Truth.
The Man of Truth is taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. The Man of Truth came to save you from your sins (Matthew 1:21). The Man of Truth was sent so you could serve the Father of Truth in holiness and righteousness all the days of your life (Luke 1:74-75).
The Man of Truth warns you to sin no more so that Hell will not come upon you (John 5:14). He commands you to sin no more after he saved you from the penalty of sin (John 8:11). He came to set you free so that you can stop sinning (John 8:34-36). He has set you free from sin if you are a Child of Truth so you have the ability to serve the Father of Truth in holiness and righteousness (Romans 6:17-19).
If you are a Child of Truth, then you were a sinner that the Man of Truth died to deliver from sin (Romans 5:8). If you are a Child of Truth, then perhaps you feel that you were the worst of sinners that the Father of Truth has saved by his grace (1 Timothy 1:13-16). [The Greek word translated as "am" does not have a specific tense and should be translated as "was" to match the past tense of the actions of Shaul (aka Paul) that defined Shaul (aka Paul) as the chief of sinners. This same Greek word is translated in the past tense in many other places in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament).]
You are not the same person if you have been born again that you were before so that you are no longer as sinner (2 Corinthians 5:17). You have been made the righteousness of the Father of Truth in the Man of Truth which is the very opposite of being a sinner (2 Corinthians 5:21). You can live in the righteousness of the Father of Truth instead of the wickedness of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) that defines being a sinner if you will start thinking that you can live righteously with the help of the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 4:22-24). You can live as a new person by living according to the knowledge that comes from the Father of Truth because you are no longer a sinner (Colossians 3:10).
You must realize that sin defines the behavior of the children of the Father of Lies that do not know the Father of Truth (Romans 1:28-32). You must consider that the wages of sin is death and they will never change (Romans 6:23). You must not be deceived into thinking that you can act like the Father of Lies while still inheriting the kingdom that the Father of Truth has laid up for the Children of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). You must not be deceived into thinking that you can be righteous without doing what the Father of Truth calls right (1 John 3:6-8). Even the Father of Lies believes that the Man of Truth was raised from the dead but it brings him terror instead of comfort because he does not do what is right (James 2:19-20). If you act like the Father of Lies then you will be tormented forever with the Father of Lies in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8).
If you do fall into sin after becoming a Child of Truth, then repent immediately. The righteous man gets back up after the Father of Lies deceive him into falling down (Proverbs 24:15-16). The Man of Truth would not command you to forgive others when they sin and repent more than once if he would not do the same (Matthew 18:21-22). You will be forgiven and cleaned of all unrighteousness by the Man of Truth if you will confess that you have sinned to the Man of Truth (1 John 1:9-10).
Perhaps you think that these ideas that contradict the Book of Truth about how you must live after you are born again came from men who got these ideas from the Father of Truth. Perhaps you think that these men got their ideas from the Man of Truth. Perhaps you think that these men were lead to these ideas by the Spirit of Truth.
I am taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. These ideas have plainly been shown to be lies that contradict the Book of Truth. The Father of Truth is abundant in truth (Psalm 86:15). The Man of Truth is full of truth (John 1:14). The Spirit of Truth guides the Children of Truth into all truth (John 16:13).
All lies come from the Father of Lies including these ideas (John 8:44). Those that will not agree with what is written in the Book of Truth are not from the Father of Truth (1 John 4:6).
You must come into the House of Truth to be saved. You come into the House of Truth by surrender everything to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
When my son was in middle school, I had a terrible time keeping him focused on his school work. He had been born with learning challenges, and had worked very hard in elementary to catch up to his classmates. In some subjects, he actually pulled ahead of the average for his grade on standardized tests. However, after he had been in middle school for about half a semester, he just did not seem to care about his school work any more. When I got his first report card, and I found out, that he was making low grades, because he had not even bothered to do most of his assignments, I was pretty mad. After I cooled down, I confronted him about this, and his apparent lying to us, when we asked him, if his homework was done every night. He answered, that his grades were not that important, and that he had done enough of his homework to pass, so he felt, that he had done his homework every night. He proceeded to explain, that what he did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on his high school transcript.
At this point, I grabbed him by the shoulders, so that he was looking at me, gently shook him once or twice, to make sure that I had his full attention, looked him in the eyes, and asked him this question:
Where did you get that idea?
His response was, that everyone in his middle school was saying, that what they did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on their high school transcript.
It was time to set the record straight. I explained, that every class mattered, because they were preparing him for high school. I explained, that if he developed poor study habits in middle school, then he would carry those poor study habits into high school. I explained, that if he lacked the discipline to succeed in middle school, then he would lack the discipline to succeed in life.
Since this was so important, I told him, how he would be rewarded at home for doing the right thing. I also explained to him, the consequences that he would face at home, if he continued to do the wrong thing. This was simply too important to treat with casualness.
It was a long and trying three years, but he did finally get back to caring about his school work. It was only on the last day of middle school, while I was up there to meet with his teachers for one last time, that I discovered the root of the problem. His middle school counselor explained, that what the students did in middle school was not important, since it would not show up on their high school transcripts.
At this point, I wanted to grab her by the shoulders, so that she was looking at me, shake her, but not at all gently, until that I had her full attention, look her in the eyes and ask her this question:
Where did you get that idea?
My wife intervened, and prevented me from getting in her face to set her straight. I was furious, that our efforts at home had been sabotaged for three years, by a school authority that had planted a destructive lie in the mind of my son. No wonder, we had so much trouble convincing our son of the truth, when he was frequently hearing the opposite message in school. Those, who should have been working with us to set my son on the path of knowledge, were actually working against us. These educators did not get this idea from his parents.
In similar manner, the efforts of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) have often been sabotaged, by religious professionals who have planted destructive lies in the minds of people. It is no wonder that the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) has so much trouble convincing people of the truth, when they are frequently hearing the opposite messages in church. Those, who should have been working with the Father of Truth to set His children on the path of knowledge, have actually been working against Him. These religious professionals did not get these ideas from the Father of Truth.
Perhaps you believe that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was raised from the dead and have called the Man of Truth your lord so you can be saved (Romans 10:9). Now that you have been born again as a Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him), you may think that is all you have to do to be saved. You might think that you can never fall away from the grace of the Father of Truth, once you become a Child of Truth.
The Man of Truth is taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. You must prayerfully seek to do the will of the Father of Truth on this Earth (Matthew 6:9-10). It is not enough to say, that the Man of Truth is your lord, to be saved (Matthew 7:21). You must do the will of the Father of Truth to be a Child of Truth (Matthew 12:50). Why do you think, you can call the Man of Truth your lord, and not do what he says (Luke 6:46)?
You must endure until the end to be saved (Matthew 24:13). You must endure being hated by all kinds of people to be saved (Mark 13:13). You must endure hardship as a worthy soldier in the army of the Man of Truth (2 Timothy 2:3). You must endure so that others can be saved by the Man of Truth working thorough you (2 Timothy 2:10). You must endure so you can obtain the promise like Abraham (Hebrews 6:13-15). You must endure so you can obtain the resurrection of salvation like the Prophets instead of the resurrection of damnation like the world (Hebrews 11:35-38). You must endure so you can obtain the joy of saving others like the Man of Truth (Hebrews 12:2-3). You must endure whippings from the Father of Truth when you do wrong if you are a Child of Truth so you can become like the Father of Truth (Hebrews 12:7-10). You must endure so you can receive the crown of life (James 1:12). You must endure so your life will be acceptable to the Father of Truth (1 Peter 2:19-20).
You must forgive people if you want the Father of Truth to forgive you (Matthew 6:14-15). You must forgive people every time they ask for forgiveness until the Man of Truth returns to rule the Earth at the end of the seventy times seven weeks spoken of by the prophet Daniel (Matthew 18:21-22). You must forgive people if you do not want to be delivered over to the tormentors by the Father of Truth (Matthew 18:34-35). You must forgive people if you want the Father of Truth to hear your prayers (Mark 11:24-26). You must forgive people because you have confidence in the Man of Truth that leads to action (Luke 17:4-6). You must forgive people because the Father of Truth has forgiven you for the sake of the Man of Truth (Ephesians 4:32).
You can fall from the position that the Man of Truth has placed you in by going into sin (Acts 1:25). You must take heed to find the way of escape that the Father of Truth has provided when you are tempted to keep from going into sin (1 Corinthians 10:12-13). You can believe in vain if you do not keep the Word of Truth in your heart (1 Corinthians 15:1-2). You can fall from grace after you have been born again (Galatians 5:4). You must be on your guard at all times to keep from being deceived into thinking that you cannot be tempted (Galatians 6:1-3). You will not please Father of Truth if you draw back from following the Man of Truth (Hebrews 10:38). You have to be diligently looking for the way of peace and holiness to keep from failing His grace (Hebrews 12:14-15). You will be destroyed after you were saved if you do not continue to believe (Jude 1:5).
You might think that the Man of Truth only came to save you from the penalty of your sins. You might think that it is impossible to stop sinning. You might think that you are only a sinner saved by grace. You might think that you can continue in sin and inherit eternal life by only believing in the Man of Truth.
The Man of Truth is taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. The Man of Truth came to save you from your sins (Matthew 1:21). The Man of Truth was sent so you could serve the Father of Truth in holiness and righteousness all the days of your life (Luke 1:74-75).
The Man of Truth warns you to sin no more so that Hell will not come upon you (John 5:14). He commands you to sin no more after he saved you from the penalty of sin (John 8:11). He came to set you free so that you can stop sinning (John 8:34-36). He has set you free from sin if you are a Child of Truth so you have the ability to serve the Father of Truth in holiness and righteousness (Romans 6:17-19).
If you are a Child of Truth, then you were a sinner that the Man of Truth died to deliver from sin (Romans 5:8). If you are a Child of Truth, then perhaps you feel that you were the worst of sinners that the Father of Truth has saved by his grace (1 Timothy 1:13-16). [The Greek word translated as "am" does not have a specific tense and should be translated as "was" to match the past tense of the actions of Shaul (aka Paul) that defined Shaul (aka Paul) as the chief of sinners. This same Greek word is translated in the past tense in many other places in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament).]
You are not the same person if you have been born again that you were before so that you are no longer as sinner (2 Corinthians 5:17). You have been made the righteousness of the Father of Truth in the Man of Truth which is the very opposite of being a sinner (2 Corinthians 5:21). You can live in the righteousness of the Father of Truth instead of the wickedness of the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) that defines being a sinner if you will start thinking that you can live righteously with the help of the Spirit of Truth (Ephesians 4:22-24). You can live as a new person by living according to the knowledge that comes from the Father of Truth because you are no longer a sinner (Colossians 3:10).
You must realize that sin defines the behavior of the children of the Father of Lies that do not know the Father of Truth (Romans 1:28-32). You must consider that the wages of sin is death and they will never change (Romans 6:23). You must not be deceived into thinking that you can act like the Father of Lies while still inheriting the kingdom that the Father of Truth has laid up for the Children of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). You must not be deceived into thinking that you can be righteous without doing what the Father of Truth calls right (1 John 3:6-8). Even the Father of Lies believes that the Man of Truth was raised from the dead but it brings him terror instead of comfort because he does not do what is right (James 2:19-20). If you act like the Father of Lies then you will be tormented forever with the Father of Lies in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8).
If you do fall into sin after becoming a Child of Truth, then repent immediately. The righteous man gets back up after the Father of Lies deceive him into falling down (Proverbs 24:15-16). The Man of Truth would not command you to forgive others when they sin and repent more than once if he would not do the same (Matthew 18:21-22). You will be forgiven and cleaned of all unrighteousness by the Man of Truth if you will confess that you have sinned to the Man of Truth (1 John 1:9-10).
Perhaps you think that these ideas that contradict the Book of Truth about how you must live after you are born again came from men who got these ideas from the Father of Truth. Perhaps you think that these men got their ideas from the Man of Truth. Perhaps you think that these men were lead to these ideas by the Spirit of Truth.
I am taking you by the shoulders, shaking you to get your full attention, looking you in the eyes and asking you:
Where did you get that idea?
It is time to set the record straight. These ideas have plainly been shown to be lies that contradict the Book of Truth. The Father of Truth is abundant in truth (Psalm 86:15). The Man of Truth is full of truth (John 1:14). The Spirit of Truth guides the Children of Truth into all truth (John 16:13).
All lies come from the Father of Lies including these ideas (John 8:44). Those that will not agree with what is written in the Book of Truth are not from the Father of Truth (1 John 4:6).
You must come into the House of Truth to be saved. You come into the House of Truth by surrender everything to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Commitment, Eternal Security, Grace
posted by The House Of Truth @ November 17, 2012
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