"(Matthew
26:69) when Peter denied Jesus three times, he denied the Son of God. Not acknowledging Jesus breaks the First,
Second, and Third Commandments.
When a
foreigner approaches you with the doctrine of quoting :“Mary is the mother of
God”-- “No” we must say – “she is the mother of Jesus on the earth.” She has been exalted to high places which God
did not intend for her. Leave her alone,
for she has done her job and mission on the earth – let her rest in peace. Do not pray to her, nor any other dead saints
– believers of Jesus – for He alone is the Lord-and the Lord alone-is our God.
We cannot
assume whatsoever for our intercession, any dead saints – for they are now in
their final resting place, they have completed their earthly tasks for God.
Jesus is
the author of our faith, so the Scripture says: (Matthew 7:21) “Not everyone
who calls Me “Lord, Lord” will enter the Kingdom of heaven but only those who
do what My Father in heaven wants them to do.”
Which brings us to the Ten Commandments:
1.Commandment
One- “You shall have no other gods before Me. (Exodus 20:3 to 17).
If you think
that idolatry is a thing of the past because we aren’t dancing around golden
idols, consider this; one form of idolatry today is worshipping ourselves,
other people, and our material possessions instead of worshipping God.
To keep the first Commandment
today, we must acknowledge Jesus Christ alone as the God whom we worship and
serve, Jesus made an exclusive claim when He said, “I am The Way, The Truth,
and The Life.” No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John14:6)
2. The Second Commandment
–“You shall not make for yourself a carved image. Do not
bow down to any idol or
worship it, for I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals.
I bring punishment on those
who hate Me and on their descendants down to the third and
fourth generation. But I show My love on thousands of
generations of those who love Me.”
This means, don’t worship any
idols like the Buddha statue or any images of false gods such as idols which
stand representing false gods from other religious denominations.
3. The Third Commandment –
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”
We keep this Commandment by
not using fowl, language or cursing with God’s name in any way.
4. The Fourth Commandment –
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
Christians should dedicate
one day out of seven as a day of worship and rest.
5. The Fifth
Commandment—“Honour your father and mother, that your days may be long
upon the land which the Lord
your God is giving you.”
This is a special Commandment
with a blessing attached to it.
We all need to honour and
respect our parents through our obedience to their requests – so that all goes
well in our own lives and that of our children, by teaching them to respect
honour and obey you too, if you have children of your own.
6. The Sixth Commandment –
gets more serious – with “You shall not kill.”
We have never murdered
anyone, but Jesus taught that if you hated anyone it was murderous thoughts
from that hate that could lead to murder.
7. The Seventh Commandment –
“You shall not commit adultery”. Jesus confronted this issue by teaching
against the inward desires and the lustful thoughts which make a person guilty
of adultery.
This means that the saying,
“It’s, okay to look as long as I don’t touch,” is wrong.
8. The Eighth Commandment –
“You shall not steal.
We are not to steal to
acquire wealth, but to work for it. Work
is a four letter word, but it’s not a bad thing.
9. The Ninth Commandment –
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.” This means not to tell any sorts of lies – no
matter what colour, white or black lies.
10. The Tenth Commandment –
“You shall not covet.”
Covet means wanting and
desiring what’s not yours – being jealous.
Symptoms for this are –
-Experiencing a gnawing
anxiety for what we don’t have.
-Being ungrateful,
complaining because we don’t have what other people have.
-Abusing the use of credit
cards in spite of growing financial debt.
-Hoarding what we own and not
being generous.
All of these have been broken by us all at
some point in our lives – but if that is so, I invite you all to repent just like
Jesus instructed us in His last words to His disciples in Luke 24:46-47, “This
is what is written, the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death on the
third day, and in His Name the message of repentance and the forgiveness of
sins must be preached to all nations.”
This is beneficial to all, and God loves us
so much that “He gave His only Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life!” (John 3:16).
I invite you now to make a
commitment of faith –
1. *“Lord Jesus, I recognise
that you are God and have the right to govern my life. I know that I have sinned against you in
thought, word and deed.
Please Lord Jesus, turn me
from my rebellious ways so that I can follow Your Way and have eternal
life. I believe that through Your death
on the cross, You have forgiven me, loved me, and accepted me. Amen!”
(Matthew 7:22-23) “When the Day of
Judgement comes, many will say to Me, “Lord, Lord! In your name we spoke God’s message, by your
name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles. Then I will say to them, “I never knew you,
get away from Me you wicked people.”
(Matthew 22:37) “When asked by the
Pharisees, “Which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
“Jesus answered, “Love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like
it: “ Love your neighbour as you love
yourself.”
“The whole Law of Moses and the teachings
of the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
We know from God the Father that Jesus
alone is His Son from (Matthew 17:5) “This is My own dear Son, with whom I am
pleased – listen to Him!”
And again in (Matthew 4:17) prior, we read
of God’s affirmation that Jesus Christ is His Son as well as before, He spoke
out from heaven, “This is My own dear Son, with whom I am pleased,” when He was
being baptized by John the Baptist.
Jesus alone is the concurrent (Agreeing;
attendant) author of our faith in all that we ask for, His name is above all
names. So therefore, when we ask for
anything in His name-Jesus, He grants it because He is the Lord Jesus over all
the world. His authority, in heaven, and
earth rules supreme. For our authority
in Jesus’ name is given to us while we are alive on this earth in (Matthew
18:19-20) “I tell you more; whenever two of you on earth agree about anything
you pray for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My
name, I am there with you.”
If any of us have accepted false doctrines
contrary to Jesus’s teachings about His authority from using His name alone to
pray and ask for His miracles and wonderments, then we should pray to Jesus and
ask for His forgiveness for using His name in a way which did not honour Him to
the Father’s glory:
*”Lord Jesus, I am truly
sorry for abandoning your way of truth from Scriptures. I have denied you as Peter did. Please grant me the pardon from denying you
as Peter was forgiven in his repentance, may I now be forgiven in Jesus’ name
Father God for accepting false doctrines of faith in other deities apart from
you, in worshipping the dead saints, including worshipping Mary as the mother
of God, which I now deny as being true, for you alone Lord Jesus are the
Lord-and the Lord alone- is our God.
I renounce all the programs I have
entertained with praying to the dead saints, and passing
those programs onto others, in Jesus’ name.
I now rededicate my life to serving you
Lord Jesus, and in your precious name Jesus, I declare that I am set free by the
blood you shed at Calvary for me which has atoned me back to the Father in my
forgiveness for all my sins past and present.
I now ask you Jesus to come into my heart
as the Lord of my life over all others.
I now ask you Jesus to wash and cleanse me
of all unrighteousness with your precious blood, and to make me the kind of
person you created for me to be in your purposeful ways, to be a blessing for
you Jesus to the glory of God the Father, and in Jesus’ name I forgive and
release myself and all others from the past and the present with whom I have
objected, which you sent on my path to correct me from my misguided ways of
false indoctrination.
Lord Jesus apart from you, I can do nothing,
so I ask you to send to me the Holy Spirit to guide and lead me in the paths
you have for me that, I may be all that you want me to be to the glory of God
the Father, Amen! I am now born-again in
Jesus’ name. So be it Lord Jesus do
it. And I draw the bloodline of Jesus
over the whole lot.”
With both prayers of
repentance spoken, you can be sure of your salvation to date. But if any of you fall into sin’s hold again,
please repent as disclosed herein with the first prayer said out aloud for your
transgressions pardoned and washed with Jesus’ atoning blood, so that you can
resume your service for His glory to the Father in Jesus’ name.
“THAT WHICH IS AN ABOMINATION
TO GOD CANNOT BE PARDONED BY HIS GRACE ALONE, BUT THROUGH REPENTANCE: THEY
SHALL BE CLEANED AND SET FREE FROM THE RAVAGES OF SIN’S HOLD IN THEIR LIVES –
OF UNCLEANNESS AND SORROW-FILLED LIFESTYLES.”
(Read Matthew 15:1-14) then:
According to (NKJV) (Matthew
15:15-20)
v.15, “Then Peter answered
and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
v.16, “So Jesus said, “Are
you also still without understanding?”
v.17, “Do you not understand
that “whatever enters the mouth goes to the stomach and is eliminated?”
v.18, “But those things which
proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.”
v.19, “For out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,
theft, false witness, blasphemies.”
v.20, “These are the things
which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
