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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

John 5:24
Truly, truly, I (Jesus) say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
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The prophet Isaiah said of the coming Messiah, Jesus, that the Spirit of the Lord (YHWH) would rest on Him—the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. {Is.11:2} More than anybody else who had ever lived, He would have understood that in the Hebrew language the word to 'hear' (shâma?) is also often translated as to 'obey' because we are to obey what we hear Him tell us to do!

Jesus would also say that those who hear what He says and then do what He has said will be like a wise man who built his house upon a rock. {Mat.7:24} He is the Rock! Or as James wrote, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.” {Jas.1:22} And let's add to that what the apostle Paul wrote saying that it is not the hearers who are just before God, but it will be the doers who will be justified. {Rom.2:13}

Following Jesus, being a disciple, is not a passive pastime! Christianity is an active, very active, faith which comes from hearing God and then requires putting into practice what we have heard. Faith without works truly is dead. {Jas.2:26} So when the Lord says in today's verse the root purpose of our life on this old planet is to hear what the Lord is saying we know that it is a call to action. It is the Spirit of God who is at work in us all, not me or your pastor or your favorite TV or radio preacher! Thank God for all those who faithfully bring the Lord's Word to you and I but we all have to hear the Lord speak through them!

So many preachers and teachers of the Word are promising God's blessings—and I will join in but making certain to add the codicil, the condition, that we not only hear the Lord's instructions but we then obey the Lord's instruction! {Deut.28:1-2}

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I (Jesus) have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” (John 6:63)

FAITH COMES BY HEARING THE WORD OF GOD