Hear, Believe, Obey!

 

There is a fundamental and biblical way of being converted to Christ, that sadly is not being taught to those who desire to enter God's Kingdom. One needs to hear the good news of the Kingdom of God, believe with their hearts what they hear and then obey the commands and teachings of Jesus Christ that are contained within the bible.

So many hear the word, even believe what they hear or read, but don't obey it or do what it says! The scriptures have no value in and of themselves UNLESS you apply them to your life! 

Jesus said that those who hear His sayings and put them into practice are wise!

Matthew 7:24-25

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock."

The scriptures written in the bible are just words in a book like any other book in the world, until you DO what they say and when you start practicing what Jesus taught is when truth can start working in your heart and mind!

James said the same thing!

James 1:22-25

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does."

It's not enough to just go and sit in a church pew and sing a few songs and say amen a few times or nod your head in agreement and then leave out the building and just keep doing what you've been doing all your life, remanining carnal minded and walking in your flesh. What's separating you from the ungodly and the wicked? Do you think just because you GO TO a church that you are a Christian? Or just because you profess to be a Christian, you ARE a Christian? 

If you don't have all three things how can you enter God's Kingdom? 

John 3:3-5

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

Jesus said if you love me you will OBEY my commands!

John 14:15-23

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.  And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me."

The questions are these:  Have you been born from above? Do you love Jesus?

In Christ,

Tyrone