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It is
important to understand that there is a lower self in all humanity -
controlled by fear, and a higher divine Self in spirituality, available
in faith.
For all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times. And he is entirely fair and just in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus.
Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
After all, God is not the God of the Jews only, is he? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is. There is only one God, and there is only one way of being
accepted by him. He makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles. Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.
(Romans 3:23-31)
Several
of the important aspects of the preceding scriptures are about God's
glorious standard not being a part of our lives, but also that God
declares us not guilty, and his glorious standard is available to us,
through faith.
A
nutshell of the noahhite concept is that this message is about reconciliation
to God, through faith, in anonymous recovery. Our
message does not and cannot apply to our family, career, education,
politics, religion, gender, age, race, nationality, poverty, wealth, or
intentions.
One sad
fact about this concept is that it ties into the concept of Levitical
priesthood, meaning, since we are from the seed of Abraham, God provides all
for us, without any effort on our part. We have learned how to
depend on God, as we understand him, betraying the ways of this world,
including our ways of manipulation, deceit, worldliness, popularity, and
worst of all, financial security.
Can
remember at age fifty, being concerned about not having a retirement fund,
at all, other than Social Security. Ten
years earlier, real estate had been developed, over a period of many
years, that would have provided many tens of thousands of dollars per
month retirement income, that went by the way side, in a divorce. But
after a three year struggle, the only way for peace to be increased was to let go
and let God; "And
we have ceased fighting anything or anyone...." (page 84 bigbook
- step
ten)
Learning how to trust
and depend on God, and God alone, is
the only way to a faith that can determine that we are acceptable to God.
If we are
not depending on God, we are depending on the ways of this world.
This is not acceptable to God. Do we depend on God to heal, circumcise,
and supplant our human heart for purity, or the medical community to give us a new heart? Do we depend
on God for pain management and resolution, or medicine for pain
control. Thinking that we know how to control things got all of us
into all of our original state of hopelessness and helplessness.
That is why the only path for any of us is ANONYMOUS RECOVERY.
The
noahhite concepts are about offense into God's Kingdom with the Holy Word
of the bible of his choice for you. But all of that is meaningless,
unless the spiritual awakening comes to each and every individual, through
the appropriate anonymous fellowship, prior to our advanced noahhite
spiritual effort, on our journey to God. And all spiritual anonymous
fellowships have twelve steps and twelve traditions.
Possibly one of the best benefits, along this path, is as follows:
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins! But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace.
He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.
He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. From prison and trial they led him away to his death. But who among the people realized that he was dying for their sins—that he was suffering their punishment? He had done no wrong, and he never deceived anyone. But he was buried like
a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave.
But it was the LORD’s good plan to crush him and fill him with grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have a multitude of children, many heirs. He will enjoy a long life, and the LORD’s plan will prosper in his hands. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of what he has experienced, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among those who were sinners. He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners.
(Isaiah 53:4-12)
After we get this dependence on God thing into our daily routine - 24/7, many
years are required to learn how to be obedient to the leading of the Holy
Spirit, even on the most trivial of matters, no matter how much we
might object to or question the command! Oh, how rebellious some have been.
And some of the most ridiculous inspirations come, a few of which we think
might even be against some moral standards, but we must find the courage
to follow through with what we do understand, and believe.
"My child, never forget the things I have taught you. Store my commands in your heart, for they will give you a long and satisfying life. Never let loyalty and kindness get away from you! Wear them like a necklace; write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will gain a good reputation. Trust in the LORD with all your heart;
do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths."
(Proverbs 3:1-5)
So, let
us see how we are doing, respecting where we might be on this path.
Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic?
Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and
working together with one heart and
purpose. Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing.
(Philippians:2;1-4)
"Anyone who isn’t helping me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me."
(Matthew 12:30)
Wow, do
we need to consider democrats and republicans, doctors and lawyers,
medicine and tobacco, capitalism and socialism, lawlessness and lawfulness,
and we could not resist thinking about the terrorists and peacemakers -
but not the activists? The list of opposites - conflicted or at war,
could go on forever couldn't it?
All the believers were of one heart and mind, and they felt that what they owned was not their own; they shared everything they had. And the
apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great favor was upon them all. There was no poverty among them,
because people who owned land or houses sold them and brought the money to the
apostles to give to others in need.
(Acts 4:32-35)
scribe's
note: god grows tobacco and money grows medicine - man made. we urge the
following web pages to be read, when study time is available: apostles
purpose
rope.
but we do
not believe that god will change this thought; "you
will either love god and hate money, or you will love money and hate
god."
anybody detect any gray area in that statement?
Let us
close this web page, with this thought:
For the love of money is the first step towards of all kinds of sin. Some people have even turned away from
God because of their love for it, and as a result have pierced themselves with many sorrows.
(1 Timothy 6:10 TLB)
