Is your heart veiled or unveiled?
God is a person,. He is not a religion.
His purpose is to draw you to Himself, not to convert you into a denomination of the doctrines of man.
Having a living relationship wth God will produce a life giving joy that no religion can even begin to offer you.
Religions and man made traditions will leave you fruitless in attempting anything for advancing the Kingdom of God.
Excerpt from my book, "Are you saved or deceived?"
Because deception is such a matter of great darkness of the heart, we must learn to approach our dealings with it by believing once again what the word says about it so we can be free from the deceptions we have believed and begin to walk in the freedom of God’s truth. If you have been deceived by religion, or anything for that matter, your need to allow God’s truth to challenge your heart to believe His word should not depend on whether or not you feel like it, but because you need Him. I challenge you to ask Him to give you an earnest desire to allow His word to penetrate your heart and mind through the subject matters I will address, that you may begin to see God’s way of thinking, and get free from the wraps of bondage over your minds.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 “This is good and acceptable in the sight of our God and Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
If you merely here truth and do not respond you become self deceived. I must insist on the importance that you must believe the inspired word of God that addresses this subject. This is what the word of God says about the condition of your heart and mind if you do not believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 “And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
Allowing God to change your heart from unbelief to faith begins with changing your mind and making a decision in your heart to believe. Whether you understand everything fully right now about His will for your life doesn’t matter. This is God you are dealing with and even in your whole lifetime, you won’t understand everything about Him. Just take that first step and believe the gospel. When you do, then God will remove the veil of darkness that has blinded your mind from seeing the truth of the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 3:13-18 speaks of the sons of Israel who had remained hardened in their minds, which had kept them blind (or veiled) to the gospel. This passage is so obvious that turning your heart to the Lord removes the veil. Turning your heart to the Lord removes your blindness. If you are a son of Israel, God would desire that you experience His glory. The key to intimacy with Him is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ, The Messiah, who by God’s divine plan was born of a virgin and died for the sins of the whole world, to bring us into the fellowship of His light and freedom. It is of great importance that you believe the scriptures that teach about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. The virgin birth Christ is a very central theme of the Bible and is important in helping us understanding how and why Jesus made claims of equality with God, His Father.
Perhaps this is what had created such an obvious root of unbelief in the hearts of the religious leaders in the time of Christ. Though Jesus claimed to be God, they simply believed that He was a mere man, the son of a carpenter named Joseph. He came to His own and His own received Him not. Had they received Jesus as Messiah, Isaiah 53 would be false prophecy. God came down to live among us in the form of a man named Jesus, born in perfection by the Holy Spirit, lived a perfect life without sin and was crucified by the shedding of His perfect unblemished blood on a cross to accomplish our redemption. Had He not been perfect God and perfect man, His death would have been in vain.
If you are not yet born again and have not invited Jesus Christ to abide in your heart and life, these truths may seem out of reach to you if indeed your heart is still in darkness. If that is where your heart is, that is where Satan would desire to keep you trapped. This is a huge matter of deception when you think you do not need God’s word or you see no need to have your heart exposed to His light.
The truth of the gospel will set you free from deception, when you yield your heart to it. Just simply hearing the truth is not enough.
You must act on the truth that you hear. That is faith. Faith is what pleases God and activates His help on your behalf.
Who in their right mind would lean on their own understanding rather than the truth of His written word?
That would be called pride, to think that we have a better answer about life's situations than He does.
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice,Righteous and upright is He.
God will never misguide you. His word will pan out true for you through any and every trial or circumstance that life has to offer.
We need Him. He wants us to love and obey Him, and walk in His favor.
Psalm 90:14-17
O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may )sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil.
Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.
His purpose is to draw you to Himself, not to convert you into a denomination of the doctrines of man.
Having a living relationship wth God will produce a life giving joy that no religion can even begin to offer you.
Religions and man made traditions will leave you fruitless in attempting anything for advancing the Kingdom of God.
Excerpt from my book, "Are you saved or deceived?"
Because deception is such a matter of great darkness of the heart, we must learn to approach our dealings with it by believing once again what the word says about it so we can be free from the deceptions we have believed and begin to walk in the freedom of God’s truth. If you have been deceived by religion, or anything for that matter, your need to allow God’s truth to challenge your heart to believe His word should not depend on whether or not you feel like it, but because you need Him. I challenge you to ask Him to give you an earnest desire to allow His word to penetrate your heart and mind through the subject matters I will address, that you may begin to see God’s way of thinking, and get free from the wraps of bondage over your minds.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 “This is good and acceptable in the sight of our God and Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
If you merely here truth and do not respond you become self deceived. I must insist on the importance that you must believe the inspired word of God that addresses this subject. This is what the word of God says about the condition of your heart and mind if you do not believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 “And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
Allowing God to change your heart from unbelief to faith begins with changing your mind and making a decision in your heart to believe. Whether you understand everything fully right now about His will for your life doesn’t matter. This is God you are dealing with and even in your whole lifetime, you won’t understand everything about Him. Just take that first step and believe the gospel. When you do, then God will remove the veil of darkness that has blinded your mind from seeing the truth of the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 3:13-18 speaks of the sons of Israel who had remained hardened in their minds, which had kept them blind (or veiled) to the gospel. This passage is so obvious that turning your heart to the Lord removes the veil. Turning your heart to the Lord removes your blindness. If you are a son of Israel, God would desire that you experience His glory. The key to intimacy with Him is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ, The Messiah, who by God’s divine plan was born of a virgin and died for the sins of the whole world, to bring us into the fellowship of His light and freedom. It is of great importance that you believe the scriptures that teach about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. The virgin birth Christ is a very central theme of the Bible and is important in helping us understanding how and why Jesus made claims of equality with God, His Father.
Perhaps this is what had created such an obvious root of unbelief in the hearts of the religious leaders in the time of Christ. Though Jesus claimed to be God, they simply believed that He was a mere man, the son of a carpenter named Joseph. He came to His own and His own received Him not. Had they received Jesus as Messiah, Isaiah 53 would be false prophecy. God came down to live among us in the form of a man named Jesus, born in perfection by the Holy Spirit, lived a perfect life without sin and was crucified by the shedding of His perfect unblemished blood on a cross to accomplish our redemption. Had He not been perfect God and perfect man, His death would have been in vain.
If you are not yet born again and have not invited Jesus Christ to abide in your heart and life, these truths may seem out of reach to you if indeed your heart is still in darkness. If that is where your heart is, that is where Satan would desire to keep you trapped. This is a huge matter of deception when you think you do not need God’s word or you see no need to have your heart exposed to His light.
The truth of the gospel will set you free from deception, when you yield your heart to it. Just simply hearing the truth is not enough.
You must act on the truth that you hear. That is faith. Faith is what pleases God and activates His help on your behalf.
Who in their right mind would lean on their own understanding rather than the truth of His written word?
That would be called pride, to think that we have a better answer about life's situations than He does.
Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice,Righteous and upright is He.
God will never misguide you. His word will pan out true for you through any and every trial or circumstance that life has to offer.
We need Him. He wants us to love and obey Him, and walk in His favor.
Psalm 90:14-17
O satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may )sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil.
Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your majesty to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.
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