SEEK HIS FACE...HOLD FAST TO THE TRUTH

​GALATIANS 1:10

BUT THOUGH WE, OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE HAVE PREACHED UNTO YOU, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
AS WE SAID BEFORE, SO SAY I NOW AGAIN, IF ANY MAN PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT YE HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN OR GOD? OR DO I SEEK TO PLEASE MEN? FOR IF I YET PLEASED MEN, I SHOULD NOT BE THE SERVANT OF CHRIST.
BUT I CERTIFY YOU, BRETHREN THAT THE GOSPEL WHICH WAS PREACHED OF ME IS NOT AFTER MAN.
FOR I NEITHER RECEIVED IT OF MAN, NEITHER WAS I TAUGHT IT , BUT BY THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
COLOSSIANS 2:18-23
LET NO MAN BEGUILE YOU OF YOUR REWARD IN A VOLUNTARY HUMILITY AND WORSHIPPING OF ANGELS, INTRUDING INTO THOSE THINGS WHICH HE HATH NOT SEEN, VAINLY PUFFED UP BY HIS FLESHLY MIND.
AND NOT HOLDING THE HEAD, FROM WHICH ALL THE BODY BY JOINTS AND BANDS HAVING NOURISHMENT MINISTERED, AND KNIT TOGETHER INCREASETH WITH THE INCREASE OF GOD.
WHEREFORE IF YE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST FROM THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, WHY, AS THOUGH LIVING IN THE WORLD, ARE YE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES, (TOUCH NOT, TASTE NOT; HANDLE NOT; WHICH ALL ARE TO PERISH WITH THE USING;) AFTER THE COMMANDMENTS AND DOCTRINES OF MEN?
WHICH THINGS HAVE INDEED A SHEW OF WIDOM IN WILL-WORSHIP, AND HUMILITY, AND NEGLECTING OF THE BODY; NOT IN ANY HONOUR TO THE SATISFYING OF THE FLESH.
BEWARE LEST ANY MANSPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND VAIN DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITION OF MEN, AFTER THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, AND NOT AFTER CHRIST.
THE LORD JESUS CHRISST CAME WE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE LIFE AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY. HE IS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH. HE SAID FREELY HE HAS GIVEN AND THEREFORE WE SHOULD FREELY GIVE AND REJOICING BY FAITH. THAT’S THE KIND OF GOD WE SERVE. HE IS NOT A BULLY. JESUS LOVES AND CARES FOR HIS CHILDREN. HE IS THE GOOD SHEPPARD AND IS KNOWN OF HIS. HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. HIS ORDINANCES AND PRECEPTS ARE WRITTEN FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE AND HOLINESS. HE HASN’T GIVEN PRECEPTS TO CREATE TURMOIL AND CHAOS BUT TO BUILD UNITY AND STREGTH. HE HAS EVEN POURED OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO WHOMEVER WILL DESIRE TO RECEIVE HIM. WE MUST ALLOW HIS PURIFIED LOVE TO REIGN IN THE CENTER OF OUR LIVES. CLEARLY THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT THE PRINCE OF PEACE. WE CANOT CONTINUE TO ALLOW THE ELIMINATION OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR SCHOOLS AND AMONGST THOSE IN THE WORKPLACE AND STILL HAVE AN EXPECTATION OF RIGHTEOUS END RESULT. NO LONGER CAN WE ALLOW SUBSTITUTION OF THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD. HE DIED SO THAT WE COULD BE FREE TO DO HIS WILL AND HIS PURPOSE. HE DIDN’T INTEND FOR HIS CHOSEN TO USE THEIR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH RUDIMENTS AND ORDINANCES THAT WERE CONTRARY TO THE LIVING WORD OF GOD.
COLOSSIANS 3:5
MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH; FORNICATION, UNCLEANESS, INORDINATE AFFECTION, EVIL CONCUPISCENCE, COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY. FOR WHICH THINGS SAKE THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH UPON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE.
THE LORD PLEADS WITH THE CHILDREN TO WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO NOT FULFIL THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH. HE SAYS WHEN WE DO NOT PUT TO DEATH THOSE DESIRES OF THE FLESH, IT IS CONSIDERED TO HIM IDOLATRY. THIS TYPE OF IDOLATRY IS SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHEN A PERSON PUTS THEMSELVES BEFORE THE WILL AND PURPOSE OF CHRIST. BY DOING SO CAUSES THE WRATH OF GOD TO COME UPON THOSE WHO WANT TO WALK IN DISOBEDIENCE. THE LORD CHASTENS HIS CHILDREN BUT WE DON’T WANT TO WALK AS CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE BECAUSE WE WALK AFTER THE CARES OF THE WORLD INSTEAD OF SEEKING HIM FOR HIS SPIRIT OF HOLINESS.
PUT ON THEREFORE, AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES, KINDNESS, HUMBLENESS OF MIND, MEEKNESS, LONGSUFFERING;
FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER, AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, IF ANY MAN HAVE A QUARREL AGAINST ANY: EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU, SO ALSO DO YE.