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Brother, Paul said "BE NOT DECEIVED" into thinking you can live in sin and enter the Kingdom of God. God's Commandants are not a burden to those that are saved. Its are curse to those who ignore & break his laws and dont repent while claiming to know Him. They are his instructions for living godly. Is it okay to server false gods? worship Idols? Commit adultery and sexual sins? Dishonor your Parents? Murder? Cheat/steal? Lie against your neighbor? Blaspheme HIS name? NO!!! If you think its okay to do these things and think your going to enter the Kingdom of God then you have been deceived..not my words but Paul's. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. - 1Co 6:9-10 KJV

Good question! Start with the Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John)....God's instructions are in there! Earnestly and humbly seek God in prayer. The bible says to draw near to him and he will draw near to you. The bible also says we are to baptized this is symbolic of you dying to old self and sin and starting a new walk/life with God even if you were previously baptized, your starting a new walk. I recommend you find a good fellowship that teaches and lives according to the teachings of Jesus that you find in the Gospels.

Amen! Many would have you believe the Law of God has been abolished when God says his law is eternal (Ps 119:160). Jeremiah through the Holy Spirit prophesied under the New Covenant that God is going to put his Law inside of us, not take it away. That means he was going to give us the power, ability, desire to keep his law faithfully by his Holy Spirit. HalleluYah! [Psa 119:160 NIV] 160 All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.

I did not say keeping the commandments saves you...go back and read what I wrote. Abraham was justified by Faith. We are saved by faith unto good works, which produces repentance and obedience to God. Faith that does not produce fruit is not real faith. If we say we know God but live in disobedience to God that makes us a liar according to Scriptures. Being justified by faith does not give you a pass to continue in sin, quite the opposite. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ... Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. - 1Jo 2:3-4, 7 NKJV Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. - Mat 7:17-19 KJV

I didn't mention anything about justification. Obeying the Law is not going to justify you of your past transgressions. If you were guilty of murder and you decided to stop murdering and start obeying the law, you would still be guilty of murder...you still need justification for your past crime of murder, your still guilty and God demands justice! It would not be justice or fair to let you go unpunished for your crime of murder. This is why God sent his son "The Lamb of God" to pay for your crime you committed so that you can be made right with God the Judge. So say now that you have been justified for your crime of murder by God's mercy though is Son by taking on your crime's punishment, does these mean your free to go back to murdering or does the mean you repent and to live the way God intended for you to live which is according to his righteous law? How will God deal with you if you continued to ignore and break God's laws after freely showing you his kindness mercy? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. - Mat 7:17-19 KJV

Cease from work and honor God by assembling with other believers to worship God on his appointed day of worship (Sabbath).

Correct the commandments were to show you what is SIN and what God disapproves of. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. - 1Jo 3:4 KJV

Correct which means if your keeping these Two commandments means you are keeping the Ten Commandments...because as you quoted "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:36-40)

Did Paul teach and keep the Ten Commandments? Let us exam: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. - Gal 5:19-21 KJV Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. - 1Co 6:9-10 KJV **Paul specifically names the breaking of SIX of the Ten Commandments -- IDOLATRY, ADULTERY, STEALING, MURDER, COVETING, HAVING NO OTHER GODS (Which is Idolatry & witchcraft) and says those who do those things WILL NOT inherit the Kingdom of God and warned "BE NOT DECEIVED" by thinking you can do this things and still enter the Kingdom of God. Lets exam further. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, - Col 3:5-9 NKJV **Paul names and condemns disobedience to TWO more of the Ten Commandments -- bearing FALSE WITNESS or LYING, and taking God's name in vain through blasphemy and filthy talk. This makes EIGHT of the Ten Commandments Paul teaches to that we are required to keep and says the wrath of God is coming upon those who do such things. Let us exam further. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise: "that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth." - Eph 6:1-3 NKJV **HONOR YOUR PARENTS is one of the TEN COMMANDMENTS that Paul taught to keep. That makes NINE of the TEN COMMANDMENTS that Paul taught that to keep. **This leaves one more Commandment which is Keeping the Sabbath Holy (Set-apart). Did Paul teach or exemplify that we are to keep the Sabbath? Let us see. And Paul went in, AS WAS HIS CUSTOM, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, - Act 17:2 ESV So He (Jesus) came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as HIS CUSTOM was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. - Luk 4:16 NKJV And he (Paul) reasoned in the synagogue EVERY Sabbath and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks. - Act 18:4 ESV **Paul just like Jesus went to synagogues ON THE SABBATH DAY. Therefore Paul kept the Sabbath set-apart just like Jesus. Paul said to follow his example as he follows Christ's example. Imitate me, just as I also [imitate] Christ. - 1Co 11:1 NKJV **That makes TEN for TEN of the TEN COMMANDMENTS that Paul taught. Paul taught we are to obey the Ten Commandments just as Jesus and the rest of the Apostles taught. John the Apostle: Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ... Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. - 1Jo 2:3-4, 7 NKJV By this, we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. - 1Jo 5:2-3 NKJV Peter the Apostle: For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. - 2Pe 2:21 KJV James the Brother of Jesus, Disciple and Church leader/Apostle: But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. - Jas 1:22-25 NKJV If you really fulfill [the] royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one [point], he is guilty of all. For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. - Jas 2:8-12 NKJV Jesus: If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ... Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.- Jhn 14:15, 21 ESV Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds [the righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. - Mat 5:17-20 NKJV And someone came to Him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?"... He said to him, "if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." - Mat 19:16-17 NASB Revelation: Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. - Rev 14:12 KJV Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. - Rev 22:14 KJV

If you believe the bible which I think you do then its less than 6,000 years old. If you believe Science then you will probably go with the 4.6 Billions years old. I chose to believe God's word. Also, according to the bible the Earth is older than the Sun, Moon and Stars.

There are different theory's and teachings on eternal life/death. I hold to the teaching that we are all eternal beings created in the likeness of the eternal God. Fallen Angels and Demons are also eternal beings but they continue to exist with or without a physical body even in a fallen state. Death in a biblical since does mean cease to exist but separation from God who is the source of life. When people die their spirit/soul go to place called Sheol (which the bible teaches is inside of the earth) there they wait judgement. Sheol is divided by those of the righteousness dead and those of the wicked. One of comfort (paradise/Abraham's bosom) and one of torment (hell). Jesus refers to the place in Luke 16 (Lazarus and Rich man also to the person on the cross). Jesus also speaks of a future physical resurrection of all people of both righteous and wicked for the day of judgement (John 5/Mat 25). The final judgement will determine where we will spend eternity.

I was recently reading an article about America having a spirit of Jezebel. The article explained how this evil spirit or movement of Jezebel purpose is to undermine masculinity through radical feminist movements, LGBTQ, demonizing men in leadership roles in family, church and government, promoting gender & sexual confusion, abortion and divorce. If you dont know who Jezebel was, she was the wife of King Ahab and used her husbands position to rule and promote her own aggressive agenda (usurp of authority/feminism) in leading Israel to go astray (apostasy) from God in serving Baal, promoted sacrificing children to Idols (abortion), temple prostitution (sexual immorality), and killed many prophets of God and tried to kill Elijah the prophet (persecution of true Christians). According to the article Jezebel has made its way into many "churches" promoting radical feminism, abortion, demonizing male role models, promoting sexual 'liberty' perversion/immorality, confusing genders, promoting LGBTQ, and demonizing/persecuting true Christians who do not agree with radical feminism, LGBQT, abortion, divorce, sexual immorality and gender confusion. John the Apostles warning to the Church: But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. - Rev 2:20-23 ESV https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-evil-emasculating-spirit-of-jezebel-is-waging-war-on-america-says-michael-brown/

I would says Unbelief and Lack of Faith mean the same thing. We all have to grow in faith some have more faith than others yet many lose faith and fall away. What amazes me is that all the apostles lacked faith to some degree because Jesus told them multiple times that he was to be handed over to be crucified and then he would rise again on the 3rd day yet none of the apostles believed his resurrection would actually happen, even after seeing all the miracles signs and wonders for 3yrs plus the resurrection of Lazarus. Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. - Mar 16:14 ESV And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. - Heb 11:6 ESV

I am interested in taking an extended trip to Israel from one to three months maybe longer, if God willing. I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations for getting country clearance and a work visa. Also looking to maybe work with some outreach ministries already established there.

It does not mean he was preaching a different gospel than the other apostles. In fact all the apostles were told to go and preach to all the nations by Jesus. So they were Apostles to the Gentiles as well. If you do a little history you see that they all left Israel taking the Gospel to other parts of the world such as Asia, Macedonia, Rome, and Italy and India.

Who said suffering is what saves you? There are many people that suffer but yet dont believe in Messiah. You are saved by your steadfast unwavering faith in the Messiah. He promised us as followers of Christ that suffering is apart of following him and if any person was not willing to suffer on his behalf then they are not worthy of him. Jesus said: Luk 14:26-27 NIV - "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Paul said: Phl 1:29 NIV - For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him

You dont get it there is no Paul's Gospel. Did Paul die for you sins? Did Paul save you? You reject the source of the Gospel. We are not to follow Paul we are to follow Christ, if Paul's gospel is different from Jesus and all the other apostles that would make him a false apostle. All the apostles were preaching the Gospel of Jesus not a different gospel. 1Co 1:12-13 NLT - Some of you are saying, "I am a follower of Paul." Others are saying, "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Peter," or "I follow only Christ." Has Christ been divided into factions? Was I, Paul, crucified for you? Were any of you baptized in the name of Paul? Of course not! There is only one Gospel and that's the Gospel that Jesus preached and taught and anything outside of that is a false gospel.

You have deceived yourself into thinking there is another Gospel than what Jesus and his apostles preached. You are following a false gospel if its not the teachings and commandments of Jesus. All that apostles of Jesus were sent to Gentiles preaching that same gospel that Jesus brought. Jesus said: Mat 24:14 KJV - And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Mar 13:10 KJV - And the gospel must first be published among all nations. Luk 24:47 KJV - And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations (Gentiles), beginning at Jerusalem (Jews). Mat 28:19-20 KJV - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations...Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen. Luk 6:46 KJV - And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Paul said: Rom 1:16 KJV - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Act 20:21 KJV - Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 1:5 KJV - By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: Act 11:18 KJV - When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

So your saying Paul preached a different Gospel than what Jesus and all his other Apostles preached. This flat out false. Jesus preached repentance and faith unto Salvation from the beginning of his ministry. Paul preached the same message of repentance and faith unto Salvation and so did all the other apostles of Jesus. The gospel that Jesus preached is the same Gospel that all the apostles took to all the nations. Are you a follower of Paul or Christ? Do you follow man or God?

I agree our greatest witness is our personal obedience and devotion to God. Like Paul said we are the living letters/epistles that all men read. If we claim to be Christians but yet live contrary to what Christ teachings we are stumbling block to those seeking God. They will see us just like the hypocrites of Jesus day that served God with their mouth but hearts were far from him. Jesus said, why do you call me Lord and not do the thing which I say? Let that sink in. Luk 6:46 KJV - And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Heb 5:9 KJV - And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

Correct, true Love is Obedience...otherwise it just fake lip service. Jhn 14:15 KJV - If ye love me, keep my commandments. 1Jo 2:3 KJV - And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 1Jo 5:3 KJV - For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. Rev 14:12 KJV - Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Your deceiving yourself and others their is no GENTILE CHURCH. The church is the body of Christ made up of both Jew and Gentile. You trying to discredit Jesus teachings by saying it does not apply to Gentiles. If it were true than salvation and and resurrection and everything else taught to the Jews by Jesus would also need to be discredited. The Gospel and New Covenant was for the Jews that was extended to Gentile believers out of the grace of God. It is not a different Gospel then what Jesus preached to Jews. Its the same Gospel and truth that he told is disciples to take to all the nations.

That is incorrect. All the apostle of Jesus were told to take what he was teaching them to all nations (Jew and Gentile). Its false to assume that Paul was preaching a different Gospel than what Jesus and the other Apostles were teaching. The Church is founded on Messiah/Jesus not Paul or any other Apostle. We are not followers of Paul but of Christ. Mat 28:19-20 KJV - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.

Jesus and the apostles all advocated suffering as part of following Messiah and if your not willing to lay down your life and suffer with him your not worth of him. Phl 1:29 NASB - For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake Rom 8:17 KJV - And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. 2Ti 3:12 KJV - Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Mat 10:38-39 NASB - "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. "He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it. Luk 9:23-24 NASB - And He was saying to all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. Jhn 15:20-21 NASB - "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. "But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. Mat 24:9 NASB - "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. Mat 24:13 NASB - "But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

And how do you get pre-trib rapture from that? Your proving more of a Post-trib stance, that there will be saints here on earth during the great tribulation. In correct reference of the great multitude before the throne of the Lamb you mentioned in Rev 7 of scripture it says this multitude are those whom came out of the Great Tribulation meaning they were in the Great Tribulation. Rev 7:9, 13-15 KJV - After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; ... And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.