IT'S ABOUT
CHARACTERCHARACTER
Most of us have spent the majority of our life living the way we want to live or living in the way we were taught to live. A lot of that living is contrary to how we were created to be. We were all created in the image of God. So, naturally, we should figure out what that is, stop living contrary to that, and live a life according to his ways.
Repent.
Let's cut to the chase.
Most people do not have an accurate understanding of the Bible. We certainly didn't and we were likely in worse shape and more mixed up than most. Like many things, we turn to experts to gain a better understanding of a subject. So with the Bible, that's what we ended up doing.
Yet, after years of lectures, questions, and study, we realized we had everything we needed to understand Scripture right from the very beginning. We had the tool we needed, we were just using it wrong. To be blunt... the experts are wrong.
Almost everyone in the world has access to this amazing tool... and almost everyone in the world gets intimidated and overwhelmed when they pick it up. This tool is the Bible itself.
It's old, it's huge, numerous translations, tens of thousands of different churches and denominations that understand it differently. It's intimidating. Most people don't even want to open the thing. Yet when they do, guess where they are encouraged to start? In the middle of the book.
We think that's one of the main reasons there are 45,000 denominations and counting. We should ask ourselves, how do so many people get so many differing opinions from one source?
Thankfully, there is a simple solution that may solve all these problems...
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Start reading from the beginning of the book.
Ask God himself for all the answers to your questions.
When you read, you'll find out what God has already said.
Apply God's instructions.
Read the Bible.
Obey God.
Live like Messiah.
Simple.
The goal of Scripture has always been: REPENTANCE.
You were made in the image of Almighty God.
You were made in the image of Almighty God. Scripture, from beginning to end, is all about walking in the image of God. God himself calls these instructions his ways... and he commands us to keep all of them.
Simply: Be just like the Son of God, our Messiah.
"Let Us make humans in Our image, according to Our likeness..."
WHAT SHOULD ONE STOP DOING?
- •Stop all forms of false god worship
- •Stop eating or drinking blood
- •Stop all forms of sexual immorality
WHAT IS ONE CALLED TO START DOING?
- •Read the whole Bible from beginning to end and obey it
- •Learn and begin keeping the 10 Commandments
- •Keep the true Sabbath Day
- •Only eat plants and animals that God defined as food
LOVE GOD & LOVE THOSE AROUND YOU
How do we love God?
How do we love others?
Keep Torah.
IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
Learn and Keep the Instructions of God (Torah):
• Apply the 10 Commandments
• Honor and keep the Holy Days and Feasts of God
• Remember and keep the Sabbath Day
• Repent from any and all false god worship practices
• Regularly read & meditate on Torah (instructions of God)
Develop your Character; Be like Messiah & God.
If you truly strive to keep the perfect, unchanging instructions of God, you will bear the fruit of the Spirit:
Will you make mistakes? Fall short of perfection? Of course. Yet, when you truly strive to honor God by keeping his instructions... you'll be doing your best, loving others better, and bearing these beautiful fruits more and more every day.
PSALM 1
"Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the Torah of Almighty God, and on His Torah he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers."
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome."
What's the Goal?
Be a loving child of God.
"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness... No one born of God makes a practice of sinning... By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God."
YOU CAN DO THIS.