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Oct 212 min read

Love the truth above all…

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus is not just a source of truth but He is the truth…no truth exists without Him…He is the Truth…

John 8:31-32 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Jesus will never ask you to do a wrong or immoral thing…he will lead in righteousness with the truth…He reveals the truth and then we must follow the revealed truth and do what is right…

Luke 14:26-27 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

We must love Jesus above all…we must love the truth above all…because Jesus is the Truth…We must follow Jesus…the truth above our own feelings and intentions…when Jesus reveals the truth, we must do what is right by Him…not ourselves, not our moms, not our dads, not our preachers…but we must love the truth Jesus reveals and do it.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

There is coming a person of no laws…no rules…and can do all kinds of powerful signs and wonders…this person will be using lies to deceive people…I imagine with magic and the forbidden things…the only way to overcome this strong delusion…which may manifest as a false Jesus…is to know the truth and be set free by obeying or following the truth not our situations. The only way to beat the liars is with the truth…Jesus…and Jesus said if you continue in my word you are my disciples indeed and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free…Love the Truth above all and then do what is right by God.

Father, I pray you would instill in me a love for the truth that cannot be quenched and help me to renounce and repent of any lie I have believed or participated in…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

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Ben Stewart

Oct 203 min read

Our works follow us if they remain in the eternal…Heavenly rewards for earthly deeds…listen…

Here are some words written from the New Testament of Christ which is the New Agreement (Covenant, Testament) between God and Creation through the hands of our Mediator (Heb 12:24) and Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Acts 22:7-8) …

Revelation 14:12-13 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.

If we do something that will remain in heaven…a holy work of God that remains or yields fruit eternal…then we will receive a reward…listen to what the Christians at Corinth were told…

1 Corinthians 3:11-14 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

May we all strive to enter in at the narrow gate…but may we remain faithful and have holy works of faith that produce fruit in the eternal rewards…listen to what Jesus said…

Mark 3:33-35 And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

Jesus in the parable of the talents which really should be called the parable of money…illustrates his parable with the judgement scene…those that received a reward for being faithful…received a rewards for feeding the hungry…clothing the naked…taking in the stranger…giving water to a thirsty man…visiting the sick…and visiting those in prison… Jesus said if you have done it to the least of these my brethren then you have done it unto Me…My best advice…Try and treat everyone like Jesus…then pretend what does baby Jesus need…listen there is a promise if you treat people like Jesus then you receive the same treatment…

Ephesians 6:5-8 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.

Father help us love others as Jesus and please above all may we remain faithful today…In Jesus of Nazareth’s name amen.

Try…A…Daily Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend...

Our works follow us if they remain in the eternal…Heavenly rewards for earthly deeds…listen…

Ben Stewart

Oct 192 min read

How to overcome the devil…only way to beat a lie is with the truth...

You got not buy his lies and by not wanting what he offers you…love the truth above all…listen to what is written in the New Testament of Christ…which is the new agreement between God and creation…

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders…there are those who love a lie and what a powerful lie can deceive others into…

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved…

the truth that saves you is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Jesus Christ died on the cross and was raised the third day…so you could choose right over wrong…good over evil…and his death and resurrection provided a way for all of wrongs to be forgiven and made right with God our Creator…

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness…

These people love a lie and not the truth. The only way to beat a lie is with the truth…you got to love the truth and do what is right when the truth is revealed…some people love to live a lie and share a lie instead of living in the truth of reality.

1 Corinthians 10:13-14 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:

…in John’s Revelation…there is the hour of temptation that all of the earth will be tempted with…but Jesus gives us the choice to say no to what the devil offers you or does to you…

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Jesus died and was raised so you could never do a wrong thing again and so you could choose truth over lies…right over wrong…good over evil…there is no reason to do a wrong or immoral thing…Jesus died so you could follow the truth and do what is right and His death and resurrection provide a way for all of wrong to be forgiven…so we can start over new learning the truth and doing what is right by God and our fellow man…

Will you pray with me…

Father we renounce any table that is not Your Son’s and ask to receive only from Him…in Jesus of Nazareth’s name Amen.

Try…A…Daily Pause for Prayer and Devotional a Wellsaid Christian Devotional about the teachings of Jesus… https://www.anopenbiblestudy.com/blog-by-ben-the-friend...