To begin this web page, as
relates to it's topic, let us start with these Scriptures in Hebrews
11:1-7;
What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see. God gave his approval
to people in days of old because of their faith. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not
come from anything that can be seen. It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. God accepted Abel’s offering to show
that he was a righteous man. And although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us because of his faith. It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without
dying—“suddenly he disappeared because God took him.” But before he was taken up, he was approved as pleasing to God. So, you see, it is impossible to please
God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
(TB)
For many decades, religion
taught us that because of what God's son did for us, at his crucifixion, we
were forgiven. And they did a perfect job of convincing us, in that respect.
But it is the biggest lie that has ever been told. Please stay with us,
and see if the scriptures convince you of the truth that we now believe.
Hopefully, you will detect the liberal attitude that the serpent convinced
Eve of, and the liberal attitude that the religious community has. But
we are convinced that God is a conservative, when it comes to the
scriptures. We do not believe that we can bend the rules at all.
Should you like to try, please feel free to do so.
The way
that faith seems to be important to God, is a much bigger deal, than we could
possibly have imagined. There was one minor flaw in forgiveness though,
considering what most religions taught us, compared to actual scriptures. Let us
reveal God's truth, in Luke 24:44-48;
Then he said,
“When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me by Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must all come true.”
Then he opened their minds to understand these many Scriptures. And he said,
“Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah must suffer and die and rise
again from the dead on the third day. With my authority, take this message of repentance to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem:
‘there is forgiveness of sins for all who turn to me.’ You are witnesses of all these things."
(TB)
Most of us had experience
in turning to religion, education, career, family, the government, the
medical community, the legal profession, the banks, politics, and romance, ad
infinitum. Being allowed to turn to God's son's spirit, in repentance
- during seemingly unstoppable tears while praying an evangelical sinner's
prayer, wholeheartedly, was our solution; our vital
spiritual experience. But that pure privilege has purpose
for all noahhites.
Once the spiritual awakening began, which started when we were allowed to
repentantly stand at our turning point, because we learned to voice the third
step prayer of the original fellowship, wholeheartedly and without reservation, obviously to God's
satisfaction, we were given a new employer and
teacher. Yes, we had never before been as desperate as we were, at that
point in our life. Now let us bring to the forefront Matthews 11: 28-30;
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am
humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke fits perfectly,
and the burden I give you is light.” (TB)
Possibly the strangest thing about the preceding Scripture is that each
individual has to be taught what to believe - let
me teach you, as relates
to what God would have each individual believe, pertaining to faith that is
light years beyond what religion could possibly teach, because it is so
personal. And that does require the spiritual awakening. That is
what we call our higher power - the seed of spirit that comes alive in us, so
that God's will can be fulfilled.
Need we mention that our biggest job
now is to learn how to stay out of the way of trying to manage our lives
anymore, since we do not know how to get to the destiny of what God knows,
that we do not have a clue about, when the process starts. But please
rest assured, that God must prove his love for us, so that we can understand
it, as individuals, so that we can begin to trust him, rather than continue to
trust in the ways of this world.
In the spring of 1935, the co-founders of the original unnamed anonymous
fellowship studied the Scriptures in 1 Corinthians chapter thirteen. Now
let us reveal verses 11-13 in the aforementioned chapter:
It’s like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does.
But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see
everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know
everything completely, just as God knows me now. There are three things that will endure—faith,
hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. (TB)
Many years into recovery, when we finally understood that we had to aim at the
very best that we knew, or could learn, in step six, we finally decided that we
had to learn how to aim at love. At last we understood that God is love,
and God is Spirit. Need we mention why spiritual growth is
important? Finally we perfectly understood that claiming the scriptures
let us learn how to claim spiritual progress.
Later on, we learned how
to grow along spiritual lines. Our experience concerning growing along
spiritual lines is explained in a book, which will hopefully be published in
our last book, soon - 2007
or 2008, entitled VISION QUEST; or when God authorizes it's publication. Other books that have
been published by Fulfilled Mansions are HIS FATHER'S TEMPLE and GOD
EXPERIENCE. useful
noahhite tools
Faith is mentioned close to two hundred and fifty times in THE BOOK, published by TYNDALE HOUSE
PUBLISHERS, INC. And we finally
understood that the only thing that makes us acceptable to God is faith and
faith alone. Certainly good deeds are an important part of faith, but
since all good deeds, from God's perspective, are inspired, they have nothing
to do with our closeness to God. Completed faith brings us what God
created when he thought of us, before the world began. But to receive
those deep truths, we have to experience a complete and perfect rebirth.
Let us now introduce these important Scriptures, in the Gospel of John
14:15-17;
“If you love me, obey my commandments.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, who will never leave you.
He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him.
But you do, because he lives with you now and later will be in you." (TB)
The
noahhite concept is that the first counselor - comforter - gets us through the
first nine steps of anonymous recovery, and then the Holy Spirit comes aboard,
when the promises are fulfilled, so that we can be lead into all truth.
Considering that the medical community's portion of the GNP has increased,
in recent years, here in America, from three percent
to sixteen percent, at the beginning of the twenty first century, it
makes us wonder how sick and addicted to prescription medicines this nation really is.
Of more concern is
the trend that seems to be mushrooming, or ballooning. When you have time, we hope you will read our web page
about Purpose.
Jesus clearly states, "Your
faith has healed you." Wonder
why he also said, "Physician,
heal thyself."
What the world does not see, since the "no smoking agenda" of the
medical community has been in effect, which gave the lawyers wind fall profits
too, is God sitting in the throne room wondering why so many people have
lost trust in the product that Christ grows, called tobacco. Wonder if
they are the same people that do not like to see the Ten Commandments in
public view either?
But the fact is that during the "no smoking agenda," the gross
national product - GNP - portion of the national economy relative to the
medical communities take has grown from three
percent to sixteen percent. Wonder what an additional thirteen percent
of a twelve trillion dollars economy might be, annually, and growing by leaps
and bounds?
Faith has many perks, and is priceless. And please dear
friends, let us not confuse God's rewards - heavenly blessings and
eternal riches, mentioned in the first scriptures above, with Satan's
perks in this corrupt world of envy, greed, jealousy*,
lust, anger, hate, and fear,
which are the underlying cause of all crime,
and ill will. Left unchecked, ill will turns into di-sease.
However, all dis-ease has a spiritual solution in the anonymous recovery
community, when the appropriate Twelve
Steps
are applied to an individual's life.
A large crowd followed and pressed around him.
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed."
Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked,
"Who touched my clothes?"
"You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' "
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
While Jesus was still speaking, some men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher any more?"
Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, "Don't be afraid; just believe."
He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.
When they came to the home of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.
He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep."
But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
He took her by the hand and said to her,
"Talitha
koum!"
(which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" ).
Immediately the girl stood up and walked around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
(Mark 5:24-43 NIV)
*
Each might pray about it, having the other one's happiness uppermost in mind. Keep it always in sight that we are dealing with
that most terrible human emotion
- jealousy. Good generalship may decide that the problem be attacked on the flank rather than risk a face-to-face combat.
(bigbook page 82)
