FALSE SECURITY - 10 July 2019
1 Cor. 9:24 "Do you NOT KNOW that in a RACE ALL the RUNNERS COMPETE, but only ONE RECEIVES the PRIZE? SO RUN YOUR RACE that you MAY LAY HOLD of the PRIZE and MAKE it YOURS."
In 1 Corinthians 9, the apostle Paul wrote that he is hard on himself, disciplining himself, submitting himself continually to Yahweh God.
Like a boxer whose body is roughly handled - disciplined by hardship - Paul is writing that he is enduring hardship to be able to RUN the RACE of FAITH proclaiming the TRUTH of the GOSPEL and the THINGS PERTAINING to it - so that he himself would NOT BECOME UNFIT by NOT STANDING the TEST and being UNAPPROVED AND REJECTED as a COUNTERFEIT. (1 Cor. 9:24-27 AMP).
Paul's PATH was a SEVERLY DIFFICULT ONE. His RUN of the RACE of FAITH was filled with PERSECUTION and HARDSHIP. He was WRONGED, MISTREATED, REJECTED and OFFENDED. He was STONED, WHIPPED, and thrown in JAIL.
Paul gave his ALL - ALWAYS WATCHING himself - SEARCHING his INNERMOST BEING for HIDDEN sins and RUN the RACE till the END to RECEIVE the PRIZE - the CROWN of LIFE.
WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE AT EASE:
Today many people are on the WORLD'S PATH - THINKING they are in RIGHT STANDING with YAHWEH God. Amos 6:1 "WOE to THOSE who are at EASE ... and to THOSE WHO FEEL SECURE ..."
Many people STANDS CONDEMNED - NOT in RIGHT STANDING with YAHWEH God but THINKING that THEY ARE SAFE.
PRACTICING LAW-LESS-NESS:
Messiah WARNS us in Matt. 7:21-23 "NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS to Me, YAH (Lord), YAH (Lord), will ENTER the KINGDOM of HEAVEN, BUT HE WHO DOES the WILL of My FATHER Who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, YAH, (Lord) YAH (Lord), did we NOT PROPHESY IN YOUR NAME, and in YOUR NAME CAST OUT DEMONS, and in YOUR NAME PERFORM MANY MIRACLES? And then I WILL DECLARE to THEM, 'I NEVER KNEW you; DEPART from Me, you who PRACTICE LAW-LESSNESS."
LAW-LESSNESS:
This is a CLEAR PICTURE of people WHO THINK that they are in RIGHTSTANDING with YAHWEH, BUT are NOT.
Some may even KNOW SCRIPTURE by heart, but MISINTERPRET and MISAPPLY it. Others may THINK that because they BELIEVE in YAHWEH (God) and YAHSHUA (His Son) - they are SECURE and SURE of their SALVATION, but they are NOT FOLLOWING the COMMANDS in the BIBLE - not HEEDING the WORD nor LIVING like the BIBLE TELLS us to LIVE.
Modern societies have made its OWN SET OF RULES - its OWN LAWS - tossing YAHWEH'S PROCLAIMED LAWS ASIDE for they THINK that they do NOT NEED to FOLLOW the BIBLICAL LAWS ANYMORE - PROCLAIMING in their false security "we are NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVERS" ...
They LIVE in SELFISH PLEASURES - GRATIFYING their SELFISH DESIRES - LIVING IN SIN and SINFUL LIFESTYLES but PROCLAIMING "WE ARE CHRISTIANS" but in fact they are LIVING FAR from YAH (God). They have strayed ... they live according to the WORLD'S RULES ... Scripture forgotten - Scripture that clearly tells us that being the FRIEND OF THE WORLD, DOING as the WORLD DOES, is to be IN OPPOSITION to YAHWEH God for when we are in a RELATIONSHIP with the WORLD, we CANNOT be in a RELATIONSHIP with our heavenly Father - WE HAVE IN FACT MADE a CHOICE to STAND AS AN ENEMY of our FATHER - and ENEMY of our SAVIOR. (James 4:4)
HIS WORD SAVES:
"The SUM of Your WORD is TRUTH" (Ps. 119:160). To receive GENUINE SALVATION we NEED to DO ALL that HIS WORD SAYS is NECESSARY to be SAVED.
BELIEVE that YAHSHUA is the MESSIAH the SON OF YAHWEH GOD (John 3:16; 8:24)
REPENT OF OUR SINS (Luke 13:3, 5; Acts 17:30)
CONFESS OUR BELIEF in MESSIAH (Rom. 10:9-10) and BE BAPTIZED for the REMISSION of our SINS (Acts. 2:38; 1 Peter 3:21).