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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.

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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...

Ben Stewart

Oct 183 min read

Can you receive the Holy Spirit any way…

Listen to some words from the New Testament of Christ as it is written…

Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

…When Jesus was here on earth He said the Father could give the Holy Spirit to whoever asks Him…

Acts 10:44-47 While Peter yet Spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision (Jews)…which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles (Non-Jews…those without God) also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

…Cornelius and those there were given the Holy Spirit just like Peter an Apostle but Peter having the promise found in Matt 16:19…where Jesus said to Peter…I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven…Peter already having bound baptism with the first message of salvation in Jesus name after Jesus ascension (Acts 2:37-39) with a promise…told Cornelius and them…who had the Holy Spirit to be baptized into water or they would be found unfaithful…

1 John 5:7-9 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

…If you find Jesus’ forgiveness then you have the blood…if you receive the Holy Spirit then you have the Spirit…but there is only one way to get the water and that is through baptism…

The first message of salvation with a promise… Acts 2:37-40 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Jesus said He that believes and is baptized (water) will be saved not he who receives the Holy Spirit…Have you been baptized into water for the purpose of salvation in Christ? Yes, or no? Will you be baptized into Jesus Christ? Yes or no…If you have been baptized into Christ do you still confess your baptism? Yes or no.

Will you pray with me…

Father, we ask for the Holy Spirit and for the blood and for the water that we may be complete lacking nothing…please remove anything that hinders us from obeying the truth…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...

Can you receive the Holy Spirt any way...