You must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received - Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving, love and compassion. Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some secondhand, empty, rational, philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ alone is the true head of men and angels.

In his body lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment, in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power. - Colossians 2:6-10 -

Live your life according to the true faith in Christ Jesus, NOT according to the half true, fairly tale story of the Lord Jesus Christ, that emanated from and based on false teaching. "There was a lawyer who, to disconcert Jesus, stood up and said to him, 'Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' Jesus Christ said to him, 'What is written in the Law? What do you read there?' The lawyer replied, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour (brothers and sisters) as yourself'. You have answered right,' said Jesus 'do this and life is yours.'" - Luke 10:25-28 ; Matthew 22:34-40 -  

One day while they were offering worship to the Lord Jesus Christ and keeping a fast, the Holy Spirit said, 'I want Barnabas and Saul set apart for the work to which I have called them'. So it was that after fasting and prayer they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So these two, sent on their mission by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus. They landed at Salamis and proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; John acted as their assistant. 

They travelled the whole length of the island, and at Paphos they came in contact with a Jewish magician called Bar-jesus. This false prophet was one of the attendants of the proconsul Sergius Paulus who was an extremely intelligent man. The proconsul summoned Barnabas and Saul and asked to hear the word of God, but Elymas Magos-as he was called in Greek-tried to stop them so as to prevent the proconsul's conversion to the faith. Then Saul, whose other name is Paul, looked him full in the face and said, 'You utter fraud, you impostor, you son of the devil, you enemy of all true religion, why don't you stop twisting the straightforward ways of the Lord Jesus Christ? Now watch how the hand of the Lord will strike you: you will be blind, and for a time you will not see the sun.' That instant, everything went misty and dark for him/Elymas Magos, and he groped about to find someone to lead him by the hand. The proconsul, who had watched everything, became a believer, being astonished by what he had learnt about the Lord Jesus Christ. - Acts 13:2-12 - 

Saint/Apostle Paul does more than denounce false teaching. The best medicine is a firm grip on who Jesus Christ is and what He did for our salvation. In Christ Jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and "in Him all fullness" dwells. In fact, "The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God." He has stripped every power opposed to Him, wiped out every accusation against us, and actually reconciled all things to Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is not only head of the Universal Church, but He stands all time and above every power, and at the end of all history. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all creation.

He is the image of the unseen God
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers -
all things were created through him and for him.

Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.

As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross. - Colossians 1:15-20 -

Work for your salvation 'in fear and trembling'. It is God for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and then you will be innocent and genuine, perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhand brood, and you will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life. - Philippians 2:12-16 -

If anyone is ignorance and skeptical of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, it is mainly because today, peoples had turned the church into a free enterprise or has become a business operation. Try to access the Internet and by no surprise, anyone, who claimed he and she read and knows the Bible well and have faith, he or she can be ordained as pastors by another pastor, and will help linking them to some churches and simultaneously help them to start or establish a new church. Our faith, hope and love of our Lord Jesus Christ should be in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church that established by Him (the Lord Jesus Christ), not by any person or anyone or because of any person influences and feeling good.

Many try to imply that it was Peter's faith on which Jesus established the Church. But closer examination of the words of Jesus reveal that the selection and appointment was of divine nature. Christians, clinging to the notion that the Church was build on the faith of Peter. Sorry and sad to said, their thinking and understanding is entirely and completely on their own merit, without God's grace.

 - Matthew 16:15-19 - 'But you,' Jesus said 'who do you say I am?' Then Simon Peter spoke up, 'You are the Christ,' he said 'the Son of the living God.' Jesus replied, Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you; You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld can never hold out against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven. - Matthew 16:15-19 -

"This is what you are to teach them to believe and persuade them to do. Anyone teaches anything different, and does not keep to the sound teaching which is that of our Lord Jesus Christ, the doctrine which is in accordance with true religion, is simply ignorant and must be full of self-conceit - with a craze for questioning everything and arguing about words. All that can come of this is jealousy, contention, abuse and wicked mistrust of one another, and unending disputes by people who are neither rational nor informed and imagine that religion is a way of making a profit.

Religion, of course, does bring large profits, but only to those who are content with what they have. We brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it; but as long as we have food and clothing, let us be content with that. People who long to be rich are a prey to temptation; they get trapped into all sorts of foolish and dangerous ambitions which eventually plunge them into ruin and destruction. The love of money is the root of all evils and there are some who, pursuing it, have wandered away from the faith, and so given their souls any number of fatal wounds.

But, as people dedicated to God, you must avoid all that. You must aim to be saintly and religious, filled with faith and love, patient and gentle. Fight the good fight of the faith and win for yourself the eternal life to which you were called when you made your profession and spoke up for the truth in front of many witnesses." - 1 Timothy 6:3-12 -

Apostle/Saint Paul does more than denounce half true and false teaching. The best medicine is a firm grip on who Jesus Christ is and what He did for our salvation. In Christ Jesus are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and "in Him all fullness" dwells. In fact, "The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God." He has stripped every power opposed to Him, wiped out every accusation against us, and actually reconciled all things to Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is not only head of the Universal Church, but He stands all time and above every power, and at the end of all history. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of all creation.

Saving faith is also a personal commitment of one's life to following Christ in obedience to His commands. "But if anyone of you should suffer for being Christian, then he is not to be ashamed of it; he should thank God that he has been called one." - 1 Peter 4:16 - Faith is like that: if good works do not go with it, it is quite dead. 

This is the way to talk to people of that kind; You say you have faith and I have good deeds; I will prove to you that I have faith by showing you my good deeds - now you prove to me that you have faith without any good deeds to show. You believe in the one God - that is credible enough but the demons have the same belief and they tremble with fear. Do realise, you senseless man that faith without good deeds is useless. You surely know that Abraham our father was justified by his deed because he offered his son Isaac on the altar? There you see it: faith and deeds were working together; his faith became perfect by what he did. This is what scripture really means when it says; Abraham put his faith in God and this was counted as making him justified and that is why he was called 'the friend of God'. - James 2:17-23 -

To deepen the spiritual lives and while guarding against half true and false teaching and false prophets, test them, to see if they come from God. By emphasizing the divine nature of Jesus the false teachers and fake prophets appeared to be Christians and non-Christians; but they showed their true colours by denying that God became a true human in Jesus.(fully human and fully Divine.) Anyone who claimed to have the Spirit of God, they were actually false teachers and fake prophets.

It is not every spirit, my dear people that you can trust;
test them, to see if they come from God;
there are many false prophets, now, in the world.
You can tell the spirits that come from God by this;
every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the flesh
is from God;
but any spirit which will not say this of Jesus
is not from God,
but is the spirit of Antichrist,
whose coming you were warned about.
Well, now he is here, in the world.

Children,
you have already overcome these false prophets,
because you are from God and you have in you
one who is greater than anyone in this world;
as for them, they are of the world,
and so they speak the language of the world
and the world listens to them.
But we are children of God,
and those who know God listen to us;
those who are not of God refuse to listen to us.
This is how we can tell
the spirit of truth from the spirit of falsehood. - 1 John 4:1-6 -

What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. There can be no law against things like that, of course. You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit. We must stop being conceited, provocative and envious.  - Galatians 5:22-26 -

True Christian love is not something merely to talk about but to do. Active love gives us confidence before God. A person must examine various spiritual manifestation to determine if they are of God; only those who confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh are of God. In His love God sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for sin. As a consequence we are to love one another.

The presence of Antichrists, who deny that Jesus is the Christ, is a sign of the end times. But true believers rest secure in the anointing of the Holy Spirit which they have from Christ. When the Lord Jesus Christ returns, His children will be like Him. Whoever abides in the Lord Jesus Christ does not continue to sin habitually or constantly. Amen!

These words seem simple on the surface. But in the hands of one who had pondered the mystery and meaning of Jesus' existence in human form, they yield many deep truths. "Through your faith, God's power will guard you until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed at the end of time. This is a cause of great joy for you, even though you may for a short time have to bear being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that, when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will have been tested and proved like gold - only it is more precious than gold, which is corruptible even though it bears testing by fire - and then you will have praise and glory and honour. You did not see him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him, you are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described, because you believe; and you are sure of the end to which your faith looks forward, that is, the salvation of your souls." - 1 Peter 1:5-9 -

If you can have some share in the sufferings of Christ, be glad, because you will enjoy a much greater gladness when his glory is revealed. - 1 Peter 4:14 -

It is only on account of this that I am experiencing fresh hardships here now; but I have not lost confidence because I know who it is that I have put my trust in and I have no doubt at all that he is able to take care of all that I have entrusted to him until that Day. - 2 Timothy 1:12 -

No one can hurt you if you are determined to do only what is right; if you do have to suffer for being good, you will count it a blessing. There is no need to be afraid or to worry about them. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong. - 1 Peter 3:13-14, 3:17 -

We can boast about God's glory. But that is not all we boast about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. - Romans 5:2-5 -

I think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from its slavery to decadence, to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God. - Romans 8:18-21 -

But to tell the truth, even if I distressed you by my letter, I do not regret it. I did regret before, and I see that letter did distress you, at least for a time; but I am happy now - not because I made you suffer, but because your suffering led to your repentance. Yours has been a kind of suffering that God approves, and so you have come to no kind of harm from us. To suffer in God's way means changing for the better and leaves no regrets, but to suffer as the world knows suffering brings death. - 2 Corinthians 8-10 -

None of you should ever deserve to suffer for being a murderer, a thief, a criminal or an informer; but if anyone of you should suffer for being a Christian, then he or she is not to be ashamed of it; he or she should thank God that he or she has been called one. - 1 Peter 4:16 -

I thank my God whenever I think of you; and every time I pray for all of you, I pray with joy, remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you first heard it right up to the present. - Philippians 1:3-5 -

The Lord Jesus Christ continued to be the source of life. The New Testament expanded on the Old Testament idea of life. The word life began to refer to more than physical existence. It took on a strong spiritual meaning, often referring to the spiritual life that results from man's relationship with God. Eternal life means more than eternal existence. And it is refers to eternal fellowship with God.

Anyone who believe in the Son has eternal life,
but anyone who refuses to believe in the Son will never see life:
the anger of God stays on him. - John 3:36 -

Do not work for food that cannot last,
but work for food that endures to eternal life,
the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you,
for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal. - John 6:27 -

Eternal life is the highest quality of life. According to the Apostle/Saint Augustine of Hippo and Apostle/Saint Paul, it is freedom from sin, holiness and a positive relationship with God. This is in contrast to spiritual death, which results from a life of sin. In St. Augustine's classical expression: "These two cities were made by two loves: the earthly city by the love of self unto the contempt of God, and the heavenly city by the love of God unto the contempt of self." (Book 14, c. 28) The earthly city glories in its own power, the heavenly in the power of God. The Book of Life is a heavenly book in which the names of "all those whom God loves" are written. The concept of God's having a "BOOK OF LIFE" was probably first enunciated by Moses, who prayed that God would blot him out of God's book rather than dooming his fellow Israelites.

When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since that sort of behaviour ends in death. Now, however, you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to your sanctification and ending in eternal life. For the wage paid by sin is death; the present given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:20-23 -

In the New Testament, in which the Greek word for 'soul' is translated as 'life.' Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light. - Matthew 11:28-30 -

Anyone who loves his/her life loses it; 

anyone who hates his/her life in this world

will keep it for eternal life.

If a man/woman serves me, he/she must follow me,

wherever I am, my servant will be there too.

If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him/her. - John 12:25-26; Matthew 16:24-28; Luke 9:23-26 -

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Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!

Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 - 

If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 - 

I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -

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