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What is your favourite subject? What’s your passion? What drives you?

 

I believe most but not all primary information - (what I see and or hear directly), 

I believe very little secondary information - (from a direct source, someone who was there), 

and basically no tertiary information - (from sources that were not even there).

I try not to forward any information that I didn't get as a primary source.

 

Now, all I know is that I don't know. 

I can't be certain of anything, so I choose to accept. 

I’ll explain that, but my explanation may be difficult for some to understand

I see a fair amount within my potential illusion, but I can't even prove that either you or I exist; 

My or your entire life may be a physical dream. I could be somewhere else in existence and just dreaming a physical dream; I may be able to touch in my dreams, and this existence I consider life may be just a dream. Having said that, I’ll now say I don’t believe that, but I can’t prove that as true or false, as I believe that I have enough evidence to the contrary. I can't prove that the moon exists or that men have walked on it, but I believe there is enough evidence for me to accept that as true. 

So again I say: All I know is that I don't know. 

I can't prove anything, so I choose to accept.

 

So if you are real [I believe you are], why not choose to believe that you can have a wonderful life after death by believing in the Bible and if you find value in that, I say believe it entirely and intently, not just a shallow belief, but a committed belief. 

Therefore, understand faith, grace, bond service and commit totally to such. If it isn't everything to you, you either don't understand it or don’t accept it.

 

If you both understand it and accept it fully, you will never see the world the same way again. You will see everything from the biblical viewpoint, which is very unlike the world's viewpoint. But for this change of view, you must truly understand and accept those three things: faith, grace and bond service.

 

Maybe you can even feel the truth of this message moving you internally. If so, you may even be feeling that urge to say yes, I too can't prove anything, and I too am willing to accept because I too can see the benefit not just for me but for the entire world. 

There is something inside that draws you to this, which makes you want to say that you agree, even if there is not enough evidence. The bible tells us that is how God moves through the holy spirit upon our hearts.

 

We all filter many things. The King James Bible writers also filtered their beliefs; they made a rather direct translation, but still filtered out certain aspects. If you look at the many literal translations, there are many references to slaves, yet in the King James version, there is only one.

 

We all filter everything through our understanding. The messages we give are subject to those filters as well. This message I give is subject to my filters, but I believe that I am suppressing those filters as much as possible to deliver the most relevant true message of the Bible that I can.

 

So I’ll now focus on faith, grace and bond service, for just a moment, as I could expand on these for many hours. 

 

Firstly, grace is delivered through faith (grace is like water coming through the pipe of faith)

 

Eph_2:8    For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; 

Rom_5:2  Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God's glory.

Rom_4:16  Therefore, the promise is based on faith, so that it may be a matter of grace and may be guaranteed for all of Abraham's descendants—not only for those who were given the Law, but also for those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. 

 

The Greek word for faith is pistis, which is; moral conviction, fully persuaded. 

 

The Greek word for grace is charis, which primarily means 

the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in life. 

 

So salvation comes by letting God influence your heart to a point where it is obvious in your life, through first being fully persuaded and convinced morally. 

Rom 10:17 says; Then faith is of hearing, and hearing through the Word of God. So salvation is total belief in the bible, which then becomes your lifestyle. 

 

Let me fill this in more with the scriptures that lead to this verse.

 

Rom 10:13-16  For everyone, "whoever may call on the name of the Lord will be saved." How then may they call on One into whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without preaching? 

And how may they preach if they are not sent? Even as it has been written, "How beautiful", "the feet of those preaching the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things." But not all obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" So now we have most of the jigsaw. Salvation comes through a declaration of Jesus as your lord in full belief of the bible, letting God direct your heart, to such a degree that it becomes your lifestyle.

 

Hear, believe, call, then importantly…  obey

 

2Co_8:7  but even as in everything you abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace you may abound;

 

Please allow me to simplify this verse… have full belief in the bible, do what it says so that God can direct you.

 

Now here’s the kicker, the missing piece, 

for Jesus to be your lord,    you are giving your whole life as a bond servant,     in the Greek Doulos, a slave, your will is to serve, both God and others, without pride 

Mark 10:44, and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to everyone,

Gal_1:10  For do I now persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a slave of Christ. 

 

This may seem contradictory; we serve others, but in a godly way to please God. Help them, but not be like them, and the best way you can help them is to bring them to a commitment to God. What also may seem a contradiction here is our other positions in relation to God.

 

1Pe_2:9  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

 

A royal priesthood, sounds impressive, but this is the only verse that says that, Doulos occurs 125 times in the bible, many are referring to Christians. Let’s also put aside the potential ego here, your service as a royal priest is “to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you”. 

 

I’ll present just a few of those verses that use doulos

 

Rom_1:1  Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to the gospel of God, 

 

The bibles writers called themselves slaves, but note also for what? separated to the gospel of God, which means to proclaim God.

 

Rom_6:16  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 

 

Which slave are you? Do you mostly obey sin or God?

 

Rom_6:19  I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification. 

 

By offering your life, including your body, to God by acting in a righteous way for “charis”, “grace”, God's influence, you are led to sanctification.

 

Another verse that calls us slaves as a whole

Rev_1:1  A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show to His slaves things which must occur quickly. And He signified by sending through His angel to His slave, John,

 

And lastly 2Pe_1:1  Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those equally precious with us, having obtained faith in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ: 

 

Here we can see, yes, we are precious… “as slaves”

 

There are many verses on how to live as Christians, what to avoid, how to find the faith that delivers grace, leading to righteousness, which leads to sanctification, “salvation”... as a slave.

 

Now, if you truly understand and accept what I have just revealed, which is just a proverbial drop, I ask again, what is your favourite subject, what’s your passion? what drives you? 

 

Is it really, Jesus and or the bible, do you have a passion for evangelism?

 

As I have found almost no one is truly living a Christian life, and you may be that one in a thousand that is (in which case you know this is not condemnation), 

 

I also ask, Why is it that you are not doing what you are called to do? I don't mean in a minor way; I mean it in a major way. 

Is God constantly on your mind, influencing your every thought and action? Now, why is it that you are not worshipping god fully, through your lifestyle, every action, every way, constantly?

 

When you truly find Jesus (Yeshua), all you want to do is study more, learn more and tell everyone you possibly can about everything you have learnt and about salvation. You want to walk fully in the ways of god.

 

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