Therefore Choose Life

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Philip PhD Vermaak. Therefore Choose Life

GOD’S WAY TO EVERLASTING LIFE. GOD’S PLAN FOR YOU

GOD’S GIFTS FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

INIQUITIES. THE ROADBLOCK TO EVERLASTING LIFE

GOD’S LAW. FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

GOD’S MYSTERIES. DISCOVER THEM FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

RIGHTEOUSNESS. GOD’S WAY TO EVERLASTING LIFE

THE MIND OF CHRIST. ESSENTIAL FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

FAITH AS A MUSTARD SEED. FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

THE BREAD OF LIFE. GOD’S GIFT FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

LOVE. THE GREATEST GIFT OF EVERLASTING LIFE

THE WILL OF GOD. FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

THE SABBATH. FOR EVERLASTING LIFE

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF EVERLASTING LIFE

CONCLUSION

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It is my intense desire to see the body of Christ the “church “ reach the full measure of the stature of Christ and come into perfection and maturity in Christ Jesus and the things of God so that His plans for His children will be fulfilled.

I do firmly believe that God would want us to discover all the good things that He has for us so that we can be a blessing to others. God has a definite “way” for us to live and His way leads through holiness and righteousness into His presence. The “church” I think has to get an understanding of God’s holiness and righteousness and stop functioning under “man’s” righteousness, religion, and what man perceives to be holy and righteous. Clearly God’s ideas of holiness and what is righteous are very different to what we are being taught and told to believe today.

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This is exactly where the “church” is at today, we have confessed our sin, baptized and done every other kind of programme but we have refused to repent and turn from our wicked ways, our iniquities, our inherent unknown sin. We refuse the truth and the voice of God. It is so obviously evident and yet the so-called “leadership” of the churches refuse to change and thereby they lead the whole flock astray. Proverbs 16:25 25There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. We have come to believe and think that death is a natural and normal consequence to life; God has other thoughts on the subject of death. Man’s wicked ways of sin and unbelief are the very issues of life that God wants to deal with. The ways of man even in the post crucifixion times are the issues that Jesus himself dealt with. Man in all his self-righteousness and pride is still not able to believe the very words of Jesus, the truth because of the iniquities of man.

Solomon was praying a prayer from an upright heart for all the people of Israel, God said now I see and now I hear and because He is a holy God He declares the verses 19 to 22 19But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. 21And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? 22And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them. These verses speak of the consequences of disobedience and to me they give a very clear picture of the times we are living in. Here I must emphasize that we do not forget that God cannot and does not change, he is the same today and forever, yet it seems we think we can force his hand and bring change just by “prophetically” proclaiming those things that we believe and we have decided are right. The truth is that God cannot be mocked and we need to hear as did Solomon the voice of God.

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