Thursday, April 11, 2019

INTERACTING WITH GOD


Many people believe in God and call themselves Christians but  they
have no interaction with God. Their faith is based on what others
have told them and on Bible scripture. They do not know the One in
whom they profess to believe. He is not real to them, Many believe in
Jesu s but they do not experience Him as ALIVE. They are doing
religion, a one sided exercise where they perform certain religious
acts. Their prayers are a monologue. They pray but do not experience
any interaction, no reply or clear direction. They assume and believe
many things from Bible verses and from what others have told them but
they do not experience clear direction from God. They do not have a
REAL relationship nor any INTERACTION with God'

God
is Holy. Sinful man is separated from God and has
no interaction nor fellowship with God.
 Sin
separates us from God.  We all have sinned and come short
of the glory of God.
 The wages
of sin is death . The only way that we can come into
the presence of God, have fellowship with Him and have life
is to have our sins removed. 
 
The
only One who can remove our sins is Jesus. Jesus took the sins
of the world on Him and paid the ultimate price
 by
dying on a cross. He became the perfect sacrifice because He had
no sin.
 After three  days He
was resurrected from death and He
 lives
for all eternity. All power and all authority has been given to
Him
 and He gives eternal life to those
who believe in Him, accept  Him and obey Him.
 He
takes away their sin by forgiving their past sin. He makes them
new inside, they are born-again
 to
become children of God.  Having been cleansed
from
 their past sins, they
are HOLY, just as He is holy and can come into the presence
of God  and
 have fellowship
with Him.
 
Jesus
said
 to His disciples: 21He
who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and
he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and
will disclose Myself to him.”
…“If
anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him,
and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. 24
He
who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you
hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
” John
14:21-24
 
If we accept Jesus,  love Him and obey Him,
He and the Father will  come and dwell with us, in us and
be with us, INTERACT with us.
 How
will this happen?
 We read in John
14:16
Jesus said to His disciples:
I will ask
the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with
you forever; 17that
is
the Spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but
you
know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
 26But
the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I
said to you.
” 
It
is only through obedience to Jesus that we
can have INTERACTION and FELLOWSHIP with God. 
 
God
has revealed Himself and continues to do so IN and through
Jesus. Jesus  said He who has seen Me has seen the
Father; how can
you say, ‘Show us the
Father’? 10
Do
you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The
words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the
Father abiding in Me does His works. 11
Believe
Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe
because of the works themselves. 12
Truly,
truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he
will do also; and greater works
than
these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13
Whatever
you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. 14
If
you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
  15If
you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
 
Once
again
 , it is only through
obedience to Jesus that we can have INTERACTION with God.
 God
is SPIRIT.  The Holy Spirit,  which is the Spirit
of God will come and dwell in you if you OBEY Jesus
and STAY IN OBEDIENCE to Him. 
 
Disobedience
and sin SEPARATES you from God. Without holiness no one will see
the Lord. The KEY to INTERACTION and FELLOWSHIP  with
God is HOLINESS, which can only be attained through obedience
to Jesus, by ABIDING in Him,  living in obedience to
Him. His words and commandments were recorded in the
gospels, Matthew,  Mark, Luke  and John.  The
Holy Spirit,  the  Spirit of God,
 will
come
 and dwell in every one
who OBEYS  Jesus. 
 
Salvation
is to be
 brought into INTERACTION,
FELLOWSHIP with God.
 How then shall a
person be saved?
 Acts
2:38,39. 
 “Repent, and each of
you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39
For
the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off,
as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
 The Holy
Spirit will GUIDE, TEACH, COMFORT and stay with you, but
you have to OBEY Him or He will stop INTERACTING with you.
 
Sin
and disobedience separates us from God. Sinners have no fellowship
nor INTERACTION with God. Sinning Christians are in danger
of hell fire. Without  holiness no one will see God.
 
Jesus
is the WAY  the TRUTH  and  the  LIFE.
 Obey
and
 follow Him  in
holiness and you will have INTERACTION with God. You will
PRAY and He will answer. He will guide you in all things and teach
you His ways. Jesus is God.
Have
you come to know Jesus? Does His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, dwell in
you. Do you HEAR from Him and do you obey Him?
 


May Jesus bless you.



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