THERE ARE
SEVERAL CLEAR REQUIREMENTS FOR ETERNAL LIFE AS
REQUIRED BY GOD. At our baptism
we
have not fulfilled these requirements. My wife and I
have gone to great lengths
to correctly divide the word of truth. We ask you
not to believe us; believe
the Bible which is the words of the Great God; He
cannot lie. The
requirements
are as follows: [1] BELIEF. Amazing as it
may
appear, we have found that practically no one
believes the bible. We believe
church doctrine, which does not always stand up
under close scrutiny. To
believe the bible will take us out of our comfort
zone and alienate us from
other members. [For example the God who gave the Ten
Commandments said He would
have no other gods before Him. This can only apply
to the Great God, not God
the Word. Do you believe it was God the Father who
gave the Ten Commandments?] Rev
21:8 But
the cowardly, unbelieving,
abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars
shall have their part in the lake which burns with
fire and brimstone, which is
the second death." The unbelievers
go in the lake of fire; that shows how God looks on
belief of His word. We can
see from this scripture that belief is a requirement
of eternal life. Believing
God is mentioned extremely frequently in the bible.
[2] FEAR OF
GOD. To fear God is
quite often mentioned in church sermons, but when
this subject is looked into
it becomes apparent that very few have a correct
fear of God. The correct fear
of God is to stand in awe and reverence of the
Almighty Creator God. The
correct fear of God can not be feigned, we have to
learn to fear God. Deut.
4 v 10, 14 v 23, 17 v 19, 31 v 3. Rev
11:18 The
nations were angry, and Your
wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that
they should be judged, And that
You should reward Your servants the prophets and
the saints, And those who fear
Your name, small and great, And should destroy
those who destroy the
earth." The reward goes
to those who fear God’s name. A careful study of
Psalms and Proverbs show that
a correct fear is required for every attribute of
God. Php
2:12 Therefore,
my beloved, as you have
always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now
much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling; A person who
fears God [stands in awe and reverence] will tremble
at the awesome power of
our great God, they will be afraid to disobey God. [3]
OBEDIENCE. Obedience to
God
is a requirement of eternal life. See Phil. 2 v 12
quoted above. Act
5:32 And
we are His witnesses to these
things, and so
also is
the Holy Spirit whom God has given
to those who obey Him." Notice the Holy
Spirit is given to those who obey God. 2Th
1:8 in
flaming fire taking vengeance on
those who do not know God, and on those who do not
obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 2Th
1:9 These
shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of His
power, Disobedience
leads to the lake of fire. [4]
COMMANDMENT KEEPING. Everyone in
God’s
church knows we must keep the Commandments and the
Holy Days, so we will not
dwell on this subject except to quote one scripture.
Mat
19:17 So
He said to him, "Why
do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that
is, God. But if you want to enter into
life, keep the
commandments." Jesus quoted
some
of the Commandments, but there is plenty of
scriptural proof that all the Commandments
must be kept as well as the Holy Days. Commandment
keeping, both physically and
spiritually is a requirement of eternal life. This
is also how we love God. But do we have
the strength to follow the truth and keep the holy
days when they fall?
Most of the churches which have broken away from
Worldwide, do not keep the Holy
Days on the correct days. There is confusion
and each person does what is
right in his own eyes. With the
restoration of all things, comes new knowledge about
the dates and meanings of
some of the Holy Days. GOD TELLS US
PLAINLY HOW TO CALCULATE THE HOLY DAYS The first of
the
month is always on the new moon. The new moon
time, is stated clearly by
the Government Astronomic internet site. Here in This is so
simple, when we know the 1st of the month we simply
count the days from there
for each Holy Day. Psa 81:1 To
the Chief Musician. On An Instrument of Psa
81:2 Raise
a song and strike the
timbrel, The pleasant harp with the lute. Psa
81:3 Blow
the trumpet at the time of the
New Moon, At the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day. The feast of
Trumpets is on the 1st of the month, it will be on a
new moon. Lev
23:24 "Speak
to the children of It is all so
simple when we are prepared to believe and obey God.
[5] LOVE. Knowledge is
worthless without love. God the Father must be our
first love. If we do not
love God we can not love the brethren. 1Jn
4:20 If
someone says, "I love
God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he
who does not love his
brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom
he has not seen? 1Jn
3:14 We
know that we have passed from
death to life, because we love the brethren. He
who does not love his
brother abides in death. If we love the
brethren we have passed from death to life. Joh
15:13 Greater
love has no one than this, than to lay down
one's life for his friends. Joh
15:14 You are
My friends if you do whatever I command you.
Notice who
Jesus’
friends are. We must love all mankind, but God
expects a greater love for the
brethren. We cannot love the brethren without loving
God. [6] DOING
GOOD. Mat
25:46 And
these will go away into everlasting punishment,
but the righteous into eternal
life." Read Mat. 25 v
34
to 46 to get the full story. We will go into the
lake of fire if we don’t do
good when it is in our power to do so. [Pretty
serious stuff !] [7] KEEPING
THE PASSOVER. Joh
6:54 Whoever
eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal
life, and I will raise him up at
the last day. By keeping the
Passover
correctly we have eternal life inherent. A careful
study of this chapter shows
that the Passover must be kept correctly, on the
right day. Joh
6:57 As the
living Father sent Me, and I live because of the
Father, so he who feeds on Me
will live because of Me. To correctly
keep
the Passover is to live by Christ. [Christ must be
the one we emulate.] The Passover
must be kept on the correct day. Our
website shows the correct time for the Passover to
be kept, See Passover [1] It is extremely
plain that the Old Testament Passover was kept
[prepared] on the 14th and eaten
on the 15th. The New Testament is very clear on the
date of the Passover as
well. [8]KNOWING
GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON. We all know
that
knowledge without love is useless; nevertheless
there is knowledge required for
eternal life. If you believe the bible: You will
believe the knowledge of God
the Father and His son Jesus Christ. Joh
17:3 And
this is eternal life, that they may know You,
the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom You have sent. It might be a
good idea to read every word of that verse until it
sinks in. IT IS A
REQUIREMENT OF ETERNAL LIFE THAT WE KNOW THE ONE
TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST. The knowledge
of
God is given on our website. God the Father is the
God of the Old Testament.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God from the beginning,
not eternity. We may or may
not believe this, but according to God, we must
believe it to have eternal
life. There is one true God [one who has inhabited
eternity] and Jesus Christ
the Son of God from the beginning. Eph
4:13 till
we all come to the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
The knowledge
of
the Son of God is associated with unity. COMMENT. The firstfruits
are those who follow Christ where ever He leads.
Rev. 14 v 4. The knowledge of
God and Christ is revealed knowledge. This knowledge
has come to light in the
Laodicean era of God’s church, the era least likely
to accept it. It appears
certain that most professing Christians will not
accept this knowledge. It
doesn’t matter what we think, it only matters what
God thinks. The
Philadelphian era was not given this end time
knowledge. The overcomers in
that era are kept from the time of Jacob’s Trouble
and the Day of the Lord Rev.
3 v 10. Their reward is not as good as the Laodicean
era. We are in the era
that will go into Jacob’s Trouble. You have just
received the knowledge that God requires, to be a
firstfruit. It is useless to
have zeal toward God without knowledge. This is
revealed knowledge not academic
knowledge. We must come to the knowledge of the
truth. Heb
10:26 For
if we sin willfully after we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice
for sins, This article
has
given the knowledge of the truth. To those with eyes
to see. God
is offering us the chance to be
firstfruits. There can be no greater offer ever
made. This is the knowledge of
eternal life and also eternal death. God is not
interested in part time or
hobby Christians; He demands 100% commitment. Every
requirement
quoted in this article is a study in itself and the
bible gives much more
information on each subject. If we have purposely
put our own ideas into this
article and claimed them to be God’s ideas; God will
be against us. Eze
13:7 Have
you not seen a futile vision,
and have you not spoken false divination? You say,
'The LORD says,' but I have
not spoken." Eze
13:8 Therefore
thus says the Lord GOD:
"Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned
lies, therefore I am
indeed against you," says the
Lord GOD. Eze
13:9 "My
hand will be against the
prophets who envision futility and who divine
lies; they shall not be in the
assembly of My people, nor be written in the
record of the house of Do not
believe
me --------believe God--------He cannot lie. With this
knowledge comes great responsibility. Don’t let
God down. Luk 12:48 But he who did not know, yet
committed things deserving of
stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone
to whom much is given, from him
much will be required; and to whom much has been
committed, of him they will
ask the more.
