HOW TO RECEIVE and GAIN TRUE FAITH in Jesus Christ from
THE WORD OF GOD to BE WORTHY in the Second (2nd) Coming of Christ ?
If you have your own belief you must first set aside it and need to empty first your mind to fully understand this lesson, If you really want to have True Faith in God?
See the pictures below as an illustration of how to gain True Faith which is the way and the Key to inherit the Kingdom of God for Eternal Life in Heaven:
1) An Empty Mind :
An empty mind is like an empty vessel, through the given source why your mind has that kind of belief. Because belief is a product of the mind. So you need to empty first your mind in order to gain the “True Faith” that the Lord wanted us to receive.
Why ?
Because there is a False Belief or a Religious Faction from wrong or misinterpretation.
Galatians 5:18-21 New International Version (NIV)
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ( false belief or religious factions) 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
false belief - a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning, fallacy. Pseudoscience - an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions. Misconception - an incorrect conception. Logical Fallacy - a fallacy in logical argumentation. This is why even Apostle Paul himself is not only Minister of God but also a debater :
Acts 17:2 King James Version (KJV)
2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.
Acts 18:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 And he reasoned and debated in the synagogue every Sabbath, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks;
2) Belief :
Going straight to the point, we are discussing about Religious Belief, means the belief in a religion's central articles of faith base on each one’s kind of doctrine.
Religious Beliefs originate from what we hear - and keep on hearing from the preacher that we or they think that he or she is a True Minister from God, a prophet or prophetess in the Old Testament Time, and in the New Testament up to our Present Time - Apostle, Prophet (Prophet by the Spirit), Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher, including Bishop, Deacon, Presbyter, Elder, and Messengers of the Churches, as Co-Workers and Ambassadors.
In the world their belief only simply either True or False, but many of them believing in Superstitious Belief.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE OF BELIEF AND BELIEVE ?
“Believe” is a verb. It means to have confidence from what they heard is the truth. Then, “Belief” is a noun, refers to the act of accepting something as the truth. Belief can also refer to accepting something even without proof and evidence ( deceived by lies and mis-interpretation ). (The main difference between belief and believe is that belief is a noun (that became a Religious Sect, a denomination establishing their own), and believe is a verb.
The belief and believe must be base on the truth :
3) Truth :
What is truth? In the New Testament, the Greek word for truth, aletheia, refers to the truth in thought and speech; it also refers to moral uprightness in what a person does. Hence, truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, and being of God whose very nature is truth. It thus comes as no surprise that the Bible speaks of truth as that which is revealed from God to man.
In Religious Belief, they base the truth on what they heard and read from the Holy Scripture, believing that the Scripture where the source of their belief came from has no error and contradiction, these also are reasons of both for Christians (believers and followers of Christ Jesus) and Muslims (Islamic Religion Believers using Quran), and others are base on the books they also believed as an additional Holy Scripture like Deuterocanonical (Roman Catholic), Book of Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints) and others.
I will quote a verse about the truth that many of them usually used as their stand using the Bible (Holy Scripture) of which they think that using or carrying the bible already possesses the truth:
John 8:32 New International Version (NIV)
32 “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
LET US KNOW THROUGH JESUS WHAT REALLY THE TRUTH IS ?
John 18:37 - Pilate asks, “So You are a king?” Jesus then replied, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this, I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
This is the reason why Jesus Christ Himself told us that He is the way, the truth, and the life, because the truth is not just a portion but Jesus Himself is the whole truth. Many quote a verse not considering the context that causes misinterpretation, everyone must know first that the Scripture is not just of private interpretation :
2 Peter 1:20 King James Version (KJV)
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
The one who can interpret fully the whole truth is whom God commended and not just commended himself :
2 Corinthians 10:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
Even by interpreting what was written in the Old Testament by the Holy Prophets still through the Apostle’s Sent by the Lord Jesus Christ :
2 Peter 3:2 New International Version
2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
So where is the basis of truth ?
As Jesus Himself is the “Whole Truth” we must be base the “Truth” to the “Whole” and not just to the “Portion”.
Psalm 119:160 (KJV)
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.
Psalm 119:160 (NIV)
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.
Psalm 119:160 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The sum of Your word is truth [the full meaning of all Your precepts], And every one of Your righteous ordinances endures forever.
As you can see and read even to Bible’s different version with the same thought and message that the Truth is not just a “Portion” but must be “ Every One, All, and The Sum of His Word is Truth”, we will not just consider one text to say that it is the whole truth, it must also be base on the context of what the Lord trying us to understand fully.
4) Knowledge :
Where does knowledge be found ?
Proverbs 2:6 (KJV)
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
It is through the Sent One Living Apostle where the Lord God speaks to whom and where the Word of God out of His mouth comes Knowledge and Understanding :
John 3:34 (KJV)
34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Through knowledge everything is smooth and plain to understand, even the mysteries will be unfolded through God’s Sent One Living Apostle, in him and through him you will receive and gain the True Faith with Sure Word of Prophecy :
Proverbs 8:9 (KJV)
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Romans 16:25-26 (KJV)
25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
2 Peter 1:19 (KJV)
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.
5) Faith :
This is what I quote from the google search what faith is ?
Faith is a product of the spirit. The mind interferes in the process of faith more than it contributes to it. Faith uses spiritual senses, believe uses physical senses: seeing, hearing, or touching. You believe in something because you read books, see presentations, listen to the radio, touch the object or etc..
Faith uses spiritual senses, a supernatural intuition, where you able to say or do things without the need to read, hear, see or touch first.
People that got healed by Jesus, have similarity, they have supernatural intuition, they knew exactly how the healing process should be done, and even directing Jesus to follow their healing method :
Hebrews 11:1-3 (KJV)
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
QUOTING WORDS FROM SOME BIBLE CHARACTER WHERE BY FAITH IN JESUS MANIFESTED :
a) Faith in Jesus with Strong Conviction ;
“If I touch His garment, my bleeding will be gone’
“If Jesus touches my daughter’s forehead”…
“If Jesus just gave the command, my servant will be healed”…
These are the kind of faith with conviction, a strong faith that Jesus can’t deny or make His believer grant what they ask for, that even the Lord Jesus was surprised to the kind of faith they have shown to our Lord Jesus Christ.
This one also I quote from google - Christians believe right belief comes first, because Jesus offers more than mere behavior modification, this faith is not about obeying verbal instruction, but spiritually believing what does someone can do with confidence, trust with conviction by having positive stimulus that anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change, stimuli can also be external or internal.
That is why we must not be surprised by why many even not in the True Church who is the subject to perfection to be accounted worthy in the Second (2nd) Coming of Christ by faith Jesus miraculously works in them ? Especially now, many numbers Muslims became Christians which is now uploaded on YouTube, they experienced the Miraculous Works of Jesus in their lives and now testifying that Jesus Christ is true, real, and alive.
Others claiming True Church testify that they were healed from sicknesses when they believe by faith in Jesus and it happened.
But do not be offended that this is not the basis of claiming that you are in the right and True Church, because it is only The True and Glorious Church who “Watch” and “Pray Always” who attained Perfection is the only Church will be “Caught Up” in the said “Rapture” to the Second (2nd) Coming of Christ – Ephesians 5:27 / Revelation 3:2-3.
Luke 21:36-38 (KJV)
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38 And all the people came early in the morning (devotion) to him in the temple, for to hear him.
Ephesians 5:27 (KJV)
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Revelation 3:2-3 (KJV)
2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Why are there innumerous, a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred's, and people, and tongues, who were left and suffered Great Tribulation and were beheaded even they have the Word of God and a Testimony of Jesus if just by faith in Jesus is enough ? - Revelation 7:9.13-14/Revelation 20:4
Revelation 7:9.13-14 (KJV)
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 20:4 (KJV)
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Because they did not “Watch and Pray Always” and not attained the Perfection of their Works of Service to our Lord : “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Jesus)”, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God”.
b) Faith By Works :
As what is written :
James 2:18 (KJV)
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
James 2:22 (NIV)
22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
James is not saying that justification is by faith plus works, but rather that a person who is truly justified by faith will have good works in his/her life. If a person claims to be a believer but has no good works in his/her life, then he/she likely does not have genuine faith in Christ (James 2:14, 17, 20, 26). James is emphasizing the point that True Faith in Christ Jesus will produce a changed life and good works.
Some see a difference between Paul (salvation is by faith) and James (salvation is by faith plus works).
It is by grace we are saved through faith, not of works – Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)
But to be worthy when Jesus returns is finding us doing His Command :
Matthew 24:46 New International Version
46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
Philippians 1:6 King James Version
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
To find us worthy in His Coming is to “Watch” by having Perfection of Works in Serving Him by Pray Always without ceasing (everyday early morning devotion) and continuously Serving Him by spreading His Gospel of Salvation :
THIS TRUTH THAT WAS KEPT SECRET EVER SINCE THE WORLD BEGUN WAS REVEALED BY JESUS TO HIS WISE AND FAITHFUL SERVANT — ”THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE” IN ORDER THAT THE CHURCH OR HIS HOUSEHOLD WILL NOT SUFFER A GREAT DESTRUCTION THAT WILL COME TO THIS WORLD.
Matthew 24:43 King James Version
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
This faith by works is a faith with action according to Lord’s command and instruction to the goodman of the house where and to whom His household was entrusted, and that act of faith by works is to “Watch” in order that the Church will not be broken up to the coming “great tribulation” that will come to this world, to the people who did not obey His Words in Knowledge through Instructions given to the goodman of the house (the sent one apostle of the Lord Jesus) in order to escape from the destruction that will come unto the people in this world :
Luke 21:36 (KJV)
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Romans 10 14-15 (KJV)
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent ? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Romans 10:17 (KJV)
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
So this faith by works with action must come from hearing to the preacher who is sent by the Lord Jesus Christ as it is written—“And how shall they preach, except they be sent” ?
Because truly faith without work is dead :
James 2:22 (NIV)
You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
This kind of faith by works with action is what the Lord Jesus will be going to look to each one of His Believers base on what the Lord commanded and instructed to the “goodman of the house” for us to do :
Luke 18:8 (KJV)
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 King James Version (NKJV)
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain
faith without action is dead :
James 2:17 (NIV)
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
Revelation 1:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.
SO HERE IT IS HOW FAITH WORKS AND HOW IT GOES AND FLOWS AS A RESULTS WHO WERE SAVED FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT TIME, “1ST WATCH” WHO WERE KILLED AND SUFFERED TRIBULATIONS WHO ENTERED TO THE “2ND WATCH” AND SUFFERED TEN (10) DAYS TRIBULATION (Rev.2:10), UP TO THE 3RD WATCH (Renaissance), AND NOW IN THE PRESENT END-TIME PERIOD “4TH WATCH” — Luke 12:38/Hebrews 11:1-40 (KJV)
Romans 1:17 King James Version
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
a) Faith in Jesus (with Strong Conviction) : They are those who died and “call upon the name of the Lord” and who are faithful unto death, those who do experience the “Presence and Miracle of Jesus” in their lives even not in the True Church who were changed even in character and attitude, also healed from different kind sicknesses.
But for those who are still alive to be worthy in the Second Coming of Jesus or to be “Caught Up” (Rapture) is these :
b) Faith By Works : 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” - Luke 18:8 (NIV)
This Faith by Works is with Action into Perfection, the kind of faith what the Lord Jesus wants us to achieved when He returns, because there are Servants whom He is against for not perfecting his work of service Him, as it is written in Revelation 3:2-3 (KJV)
This is the kind of Apostle’s Teaching since before that Apostle Paul must attain by every Christian must attain, as what the Lord instructed and revealed to him :
Philippians 3:15-16 (KJV)
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Even up to our Present Time the Mystery Unfolded The Revelation is to Watch :
Who are those that Jesus will find worthy in His coming ?
They are “The One’s Who Watch and Pray Always” ( early morning devotion), “find them so doing”, attained “Perfection of Works by Serving The Lord” - Luke 21:36-38/Matthew 24:46/Rev.3:2-3 (KJV)
HERE IS WHERE THE STORY WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE “RAPTURE” TO THE SECOND (2ND) COMING OF CHRIST, AND I WANT YOU TO FOCUS ON THE THREE STATUS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB TO HIS BRIDE (THE CHURCH ) AND THE VISITORS :
Revelation 19:5-10 New International Version
5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, both great and small!” 6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready. 8 Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear.”
( Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people.)
9 Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!” And he added, “These are the true words of God.” 10 At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”
The "Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God’s holy people", the “Bride” of the “Lamb” as the bridegroom which is the Glorious Church presented without having a spot or wrinkle but holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27), the outworking of one’s faith, which are visible to the human eye, the good works and merely good deeds of His servants rendered to the Lord.
HERE ARE THE THREE (3) SITUATION OF PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE WEDDING :
Where do you want ? To be Jesus as a “Bride” or to be just an invited visitor as guest ?
1. The Bride ( True and Glorious Church ) who became unblemished — Ephesians 5:27
2. The Visitors as Guests ( were also saved but beheaded who suffered great tribulation, also will reign for a thousand years ) — Revelation 7:9,13-14/Revelation 20:4
3. The man who was not wearing wedding clothes doomed to hell — Matthew 22 :11-13
Matthew 22 :1-14 (NIV)
1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come .4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet. 5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murde-rers and burned their city. 8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are invited, but few are chosen.
I HOPE THIS TOPIC WILL WAKE AND ENLIGHTEN EVERY BELIEVER OF CHRIST FROM WHEREVER THEY ARE AND WHATEVER DENOMINATION THEY BELONG.
FOR OUR DUTY IS TO EVANGELIZE THE WHOLE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, THE FULLNESS WILL OF GOD TO BRING AND TO PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS, TO BE WORTHY IN HIS COMING AND ENABLE YOU TO ESCAPE FROM THE COMING DESTRUCTION - THE great tribulation such as nothing LIKE this terrible will ever happen again ON EARTH :
Colossians 1:28 King James Version
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 24:21-22 King James Version
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
The key and secret to be “Caught Up” in the Second Coming of Christ is to “Watch” :
In the whole world, only the Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ in the 4th Watch ( PMCC 4th Watch ) the only “Church” that is “Watching”.
So where will you WANT TO be ? In the “Church” who is “Watching” or “Slept” ? Just like in the" The Parable of the Ten Virgins ".
PROUD TO BE IN THE PMCC 4TH WATCH WHO WATCH AND PRAY ALWAYS — By Bro. Art Ron Herrera
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