The Word of God, and doctrine

   There has been a lot of changes in my life.  Through this journey of growing in my spiritual life, some of the things I have grown to trust, are not trustworthy anymore.  Some of the friends that I've grown to cherish, are now far from me.  And I have learned new things from the Word of God, and I never stopped learning.  It has changed the way I think, my faith, and the entire way of how I live my life.  I have left my church and my fellowship.  Now I am beginning to feel the loneliness that comes with spreading the gospel.  That comes with standing for the truth, and nothing but the truth.  I can feel a little of what Paul felt in his writings, when people who were called "brothers" turned away from him, and he was all alone(1 Timothy 1:15).  But still, he pressed on for the crown.  The crown that he has been running for.  Paul never quit, even when he was all alone.  When was dragged out of the city, stoned, and left for dead, he got up again, and went back into the city to preach the Word of God (Acts 14:20).  Oh how I wish I was as couragious as him.

        This is what we should be doing as Christians.  Be bold and courageous, spreading the gospel, so that people can hear it, and believe.  Christians are so busy today doing so-called "Christian" things.  Some of them are even so busy that they don't have time to share the Word of God.  The only way that people can believe is by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17).  That is why Romans 10:15 says,   “ How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”. 

   Pauls says in Romans 1:16
¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

    And might I ask how many of us are ashamed of  Him on a daily basis?  Ashamed to be seen praying in public.  Ashamed to sharing the gospel with our friends when the Spirit has prompted us.  Even ashamed at times to let our employers or teachers or leaders know that we are.  We all have been guilty of this, I know.  If not in words, then in our hearts, we have.

    There is nothing else that saves, you guys.  A person needs to hear the gospel, so that they can have faith and believe in God.  It is our duty to spread the gospel to all people.

     It's about time we take up what Paul wrote to Timothy.

2 Timothy 1:7-9

⁷For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

 ⁸So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, ⁹who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, ...

Most important of all, how can you spread the gospel as a Christian if you don't even know thet gospel?  Every Christian is suppose to be continuingly growing in the Word of God.  The Word of God teaches us who God is, what His will is, and how we should go about living in it.

    Christians are not free to do whatever they want.  Sure they do human things, but their mind should be Christ-like.  We live in the Spirit, not in the flesh.  Do not let your flesh consume your life. 

Romans 8:5

 ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Do not continue to live wordly as the rest of the world.  We do not set our minds on things of this world, but of things in kingdom of God. 

James 4:4-6

 ⁴You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?^{[a] 6}But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
   "God opposes the proud
      but gives grace to the humble."^[b]

  So what do Paul say to this?:

   Galatians 5:16-21
¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,^[ fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

We are all human and we all have sin:

Ecclesiates 7:10

²⁰ For there is not a just man on earth who does good
      And does not sin.

     But if you are in Christ, you are a new creature, and therefore you will not continue to live a life of sin.  If you call yourself a Christian, but find yourself living in a continous life a sin, you must examine yourself again.  Because the Word of God say whoever born of God, cannot continue sinning.

1 John 3:9

 ⁹ Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Galatains 5:24

²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

       We should know the gospel we are preaching!  How do we know?  By studying the Word of God, so we will not be as Ephesians 4 says" that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,..."  Anyone who do not know God's Word will not know truth from untruth, and will not be able to stand up from the Truth against falsehood. 

      Many people still do not know what they believe in, or the doctrines taught to us from God's Word even though they have claimed Christ for a long time.  A lot of us are still confused with doctrine, and what God's Word allows or do not allow.  This is milk, and we have not grown to take in food.

   Hebrews 5
¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. ¹³ For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. ¹⁴ But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

         We should continue growing in His Word, so that we can take in solid food, know the foundations of our faith, and be able to spread the gospel.  By taking solid food, we will be able to know Truth from untruth, and know how to discern both good and evil, and that is by knowing the Word of God.  How can we go on to teach others when we do not even know the foundations of our faith, the doctrines and principles we shall live by that the bible teaches?  Some people are even puzzled that we use the bible to give us doctrine to live by and believe.  Doctrine is the similar to "teaching."

John 7:16

Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Romans 16:17

 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

1 Timothy 4:6

 If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

1 Timothy 4:13

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

1 Timothy 4:16

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Now there is no question whether we should use the doctrine in the bible in our daily lives.  We are to live by them, and learn and know them.  Doctrine is important.  Because only the Truth shall set people free.  And in order for them to be free, they have to hear the Words of Truth and believe.

-Adaneth

   There has been a lot of changes in my life.  Through this journey of growing in my spiritual life, some of the things I have grown to trust, are not trustworthy anymore.  Some of the friends that I've grown to cherish, are now far from me.  And I have learned new things from the Word of God, and I never stopped learning.  It has changed the way I think, my faith, and the entire way of how I live my life.  I have left my church and my fellowship.  Now I am beginning to feel the loneliness that comes with spreading the gospel.  That comes with standing for the truth, and nothing but the truth.  I can feel a little of what Paul felt in his writings, when people who were called "brothers" turned away from him, and he was all alone(1 Timothy 1:15).  But still, he pressed on for the crown.  The crown that he has been running for.  Paul never quit, even when he was all alone.  When was dragged out of the city, stoned, and left for dead, he got up again, and went back into the city to preach the Word of God (Acts 14:20).  Oh how I wish I was as couragious as him.

        This is what we should be doing as Christians.  Be bold and courageous, spreading the gospel, so that people can hear it, and believe.  Christians are so busy today doing so-called "Christian" things.  Some of them are even so busy that they don't have time to share the Word of God.  The only way that people can believe is by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17).  That is why Romans 10:15 says,   “ How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”. 

   Pauls says in Romans 1:16
¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

    And might I ask how many of us are ashamed of  Him on a daily basis?  Ashamed to be seen praying in public.  Ashamed to sharing the gospel with our friends when the Spirit has prompted us.  Even ashamed at times to let our employers or teachers or leaders know that we are.  We all have been guilty of this, I know.  If not in words, then in our hearts, we have.

    There is nothing else that saves, you guys.  A person needs to hear the gospel, so that they can have faith and believe in God.  It is our duty to spread the gospel to all people.

     It's about time we take up what Paul wrote to Timothy.

2 Timothy 1:7-9

⁷For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

 ⁸So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, ⁹who has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, ...

Most important of all, how can you spread the gospel as a Christian if you don't even know thet gospel?  Every Christian is suppose to be continuingly growing in the Word of God.  The Word of God teaches us who God is, what His will is, and how we should go about living in it.

    Christians are not free to do whatever they want.  Sure they do human things, but their mind should be Christ-like.  We live in the Spirit, not in the flesh.  Do not let your flesh consume your life. 

Romans 8:5

 ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Do not continue to live wordly as the rest of the world.  We do not set our minds on things of this world, but of things in kingdom of God. 

James 4:4-6

 ⁴You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?^{[a] 6}But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
   "God opposes the proud
      but gives grace to the humble."^[b]

  So what do Paul say to this?:

   Galatians 5:16-21
¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,^[ fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

We are all human and we all have sin:

Ecclesiates 7:10

²⁰ For there is not a just man on earth who does good
      And does not sin.

     But if you are in Christ, you are a new creature, and therefore you will not continue to live a life of sin.  If you call yourself a Christian, but find yourself living in a continous life a sin, you must examine yourself again.  Because the Word of God say whoever born of God, cannot continue sinning.

1 John 3:9

 ⁹ Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Galatains 5:24

²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

       We should know the gospel we are preaching!  How do we know?  By studying the Word of God, so we will not be as Ephesians 4 says" that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,..."  Anyone who do not know God's Word will not know truth from untruth, and will not be able to stand up from the Truth against falsehood. 

      Many people still do not know what they believe in, or the doctrines taught to us from God's Word even though they have claimed Christ for a long time.  A lot of us are still confused with doctrine, and what God's Word allows or do not allow.  This is milk, and we have not grown to take in food.

   Hebrews 5
¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. ¹³ For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. ¹⁴ But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

         We should continue growing in His Word, so that we can take in solid food, know the foundations of our faith, and be able to spread the gospel.  By taking solid food, we will be able to know Truth from untruth, and know how to discern both good and evil, and that is by knowing the Word of God.  How can we go on to teach others when we do not even know the foundations of our faith, the doctrines and principles we shall live by that the bible teaches?  Some people are even puzzled that we use the bible to give us doctrine to live by and believe.  Doctrine is the similar to "teaching."

John 7:16

Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Romans 16:17

 Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

1 Timothy 4:6

 If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

1 Timothy 4:13

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

1 Timothy 4:16

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Now there is no question whether we should use the doctrine in the bible in our daily lives.  We are to live by them, and learn and know them.  Doctrine is important.  Because only the Truth shall set people free.  And in order for them to be free, they have to hear the Words of Truth and believe.

-Adaneth

It's 2:14am.  My life is a mess!  I really need to get off night shift.  I'm really a night owl now...having no life in the day.  Yesterday I didn't go to sleep until 5am and I woke up at 4pm today.  It's like a cycle that's hard to stop.  And I'm suppose to wake up tomorrow early too.

Anywase, thanks for your words of encouragment everyone.  I didn't talk to my boss yet, I spoke to my sis, and she said that the mistake I made was not something incredibly serious that I should cry over.  I feel really relieved.  I pray that I will not be stupid enough to make the same mistake again! 

Anyways....what I learn:  The more you rush, the more probability of mistakes being made.

So I will tell myself to not rush anymore. Have a great night.  And have a great Sabbath.  Praise the Lord.

It's 2:45 in the morning.  I tried to watch movies on Netflix to make me feel better.  Actually I wanted to go do something...like go to the movies to make me feel better.  To get my mind off of things.

I wrote this earlier"  A sadness had come over me today.  I made a mistake.  The day was going so good.  It was too good.  Have you ever had a time when you tought that your feet was safe in the door. When you think that things are going fine,and then all of a sudden when you're not aware, it hits you ....and you feel as if everything might just crumble down? I feel like that today.  Made me kind of sick too.  Now's it's gotten to a be me pondering on and on about it, and I have this sick bitter sensation in my stomach.  Father take it all.  I have nothing but You.

I wonder who's awake right now.  In times like this I just want to go and sit on a curb and watch the sunrise by myself.  Maybe cry a little by myself in the country side.  Or take a drive on the highway to nowhere listening to Nora Jones sing.  In times like this I feel so lonesome and there is an emptiness in my heart."

I find that Xanga helps me the most when I am sad or lonely or broken.  It's where I come to spill my problems, life, stories, arguments, and my feelings. 

I'm developing cold sores.  I got a little sick today and that just made the whole thing worse. 

I'm afriad I could lose everything, and at the same time, I'm not because I have God.  It's weird.  Assurance with fear peeking in once and often today.  Overall I know that I will be okay in the long run, I'm just thinking about the short run now and am bothered by it.  Please pray for me that no one is hurt in my mistakes.  And that people will be honest and helpful.  Pray that God will fully take care of the situation and that I will trust that He will and leave it all to Him. 

I'm sick of churches and self-proclaiming "Christians" who cannot stand the fact that they are not suppose to celebrate Halloween.  So in order to satisfy their itchiness for worldy and evil desires, they make up other events that they proclaim is "NOT" Halloween......but looks everything like it...with just a little hint of GOD put in.  Which is suppose to make it all better.  And the church will do this on Halloween because their believers are so disobedient to God's will and desires that they think that if they don't have a similar event, then everyone will be trick or treating.  Since when did this evil leak into the churches throughout America and elsewhere???

What kind of Christians do this?  Since when did Jesus become like the world for people to accept Him?  When did He want to give out candy so that children will come and listen to Him?  I really cannot imagine Jesus getting dress in a Batman suit at church celebrating a "christian" Halloween event.....Or Jesus wearing a costume of Clinton, or the Ripper or Jason or the devil or even an angel?

Come on you guys!  What am I suppose to do?  Read out the history of Halloween for you guys?  You should know these things.  You should know it celebrates evils.  It's not hard to understand.  Even non-believers understand it!  The word of God is crystal clear about staying away from evil and anything that even looks evil.

It's not hard to believe that Halloween is one of those evils.  I have shame.  So much.  For people who claim to be brothers and sisters yet their house is filled with this wordly and evil stuff.  They even dressed their kids up for it and think it's so "cute."  I can't change anyone's mind.  Get made at me, but we know what God desires.  It's not hard, every bit of it is written in ink. 

It really bothers me.  I yearn and my spirit is crying to find the true church and body of Christ.  They're out there somewhere.  One that will obey Him and follow His desires, not be swayed by worldly thinking or traditions or cultures.  Not dance joyfully, partying and practicing things that the Lord had warn never to have anything to do with.  Don't you know that God hates sorcerey, evil spirits, demons, witches, any kind of evil act and activity.  But so-called "Christians" parade with the unsaved on streets at night, even dressing their kids up in costumes of fairies, ghosts, demons, cartoon characters...and very stupid costumes to celebrate a night that represents everything the Lord detests.  Is the blood of Christ nothing to you that you will go and celebrate the evil that brought us death.  The very thing that our Lord has been sacrified for, to break our chains, those that had kept us in bondage.  Think about it.  When you have a part in Halloween, are you pleasing God or Satan?

Long and hard I've struggled to find people who will stand only in the Word of God....and I've seen so few.  People hate people like that.  They hate them because they are convicted inside by what the Word says and they know it.  So therefore they hate the righteous, those who try living their life in line with God's Word.

I hate Halloween!  I have partook in it since I was a child.  And it tricked me.  It was a lie straight from the Devil.  I would think that it was funny to scare someone or to wear the mast of "satan" or the "devil."  What in the world was I thinking?  What were my parents thinking?   

If you take part in these things, how can I call you my brother or sister?  If you partake of what Satan tries to glorify himself with, who are you?

Father I am ashamed.  Ashamed at what your children engage theirselves in these days.  I've been seeking to find a family to belong to.  But the church is scattered throughout the world.  How did this lie enter into churches?  What are You thinking? 

May Christians stand this Halloween and proclaim You Father, and not satisfy him the father of lies.  Him who laugh because your children are so foolish.  May they resist the desire to be worldly, to be counted-in, to be cool, or scary this Halloween.....if not then, may they not proclaim themselves to be followers of Jesus Christ if they are not Yours.  Help us to not cause another to stumble.  Help us to humble ourselves and keep our eyes focused on you no matter how much "fun" the world is having or how "desirable" it seems.  I know that you say these things past away but Your Word will live forever.