When you find the Book of Life, you find the true God of life and through His Word eternal life. The holy Book of Life is the Bible. The Bible contains the truth and life of God. But it’s up to the people what they do with it. What happens when you find the Book of Life?
What is the origin of the Book of Life?
The Book of Life originates from the one and only true Almighty God, Who is the Giver of life and created out of nothing, the heaven and the earth and all there is within through the Word and the Spirit.
All life and everything you see around you have its origin in God, and the proof of the Father’s existence is revealed through the witness of His Word and Spirit.
The Word of life and the holy Spirit of life represent the Father and the Law of the Spirit of life, and proclaim His words and do His will.
The holy Bible is the Book of Life
In the holy Bible, you’ll find the life. Every word in the Bible is given by inspiration of God through the Holy Spirit, and quickens and brings forth holy lives and good works to everyone that believes, and therefore does what the Word says.
Because it is written in 2 蒂莫西 3:16, that all scripture, which means every word in the Bible, is profitable for doctrine, 为了责备, 用于修正, 为了正义的教导, so that the man of God may be perfect, 遍布所有的好作品.
所以, it’s important that Christians know the Word, and that the Word of God is the final authority in their lives, and that they hold forth the Word of life unto the end.
A lack of knowledge of the Word of life leads to lacking Christians that are not steadfast but are tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine and remain spiritual babies that always need attention and care, 和, 根据这个词, will be destroyed (何西阿 4:6).
If the Word of God is not the final authority in the lives of Christians, it leads to licentious lives full of sin.
凡事行事，不发怨言，不争执: 使你们无可指摘、无害无害, 神的儿子们, 没有责备, 在这弯曲悖逆的民族中, 你们在他们中间闪耀如世界之光; 传递生命的话语; 使我在基督的日子可以喜乐, 我没有白跑, 都没有白费力气 (腓立比书 2:14-16)
What happens when you find the Book of Life?
When you find the Book of Life, 你可以做两件事:
You believe that the Book of Life originates from God and is the truth and believe in the Son and His finished redemptive work and His blood, and you 悔改, 是 在水中受洗, and receive the 受圣灵的洗礼 and live as the new creation in submission and obedience to the Word in the light in righteousness.
You don’t believe that the Book originates from God, but consider it a lie and don’t believe in the Son and His redemptive work, and reject the Word, and continue your carnal life as the 旧造 in darkness and keep living in sin.
The result of finding the Book of Life in the life of King Josiah
In the life of King Josiah, finding the Book of Life brought forth a change and sanctified lives of people.
When Hilkia, 大祭司, found the Book of the Law of the Covenant and gave the Book to Shafan the scribe, and Shafan read the words of the Book of the Law of Moses to King Josiah, Josiah didn’t become angry or offended by the righteous and judging words of God, which were hard to hear.
Neither did King Josiah destroy the Book in the fire, as his son had done to the words of God. But the words of God from the Book of the Law of the Covenant brought him to repentance (哦. 2 国王 22, 23; 耶利米 36).
King Josiah received the words of God in his heart. The words of God didn’t only cause repentance, but the words of God also led to a massive cleansing in the land, 寺庙 (神的家), and the lives of people, from all idolatry, pagan influences, 和 (性的) uncleanness that entered the land through infidelity and adultery of the kings, 牧师, elders and people of the house of Israel and Judah with the pagan nations, entered the land and God’s house.
The words of God in the lives of the humble vs the pride
That was the result of the words of God in the life of King Josiah, and that is still the result of the words of God in the lives of people that are 卑微 and acknowledge God as Lord and believe in His Son and submit to Him, 因此, obey the words that are written in the Book of Life.
Because the words of God are still Spirit and life and bring forth holy lives and righteous work and eternal life.
然而, the people with an unbelieving heart that are full of pride and rebellious and belong to the world and love the world shall reject the words of God.
为什么? Because the words of God reveal sin and condemn the works of the flesh, which the old man loves so much, and reveal where the road of the carnal flesh leads to. And that’s something carnal people don’t want to hear.
They don’t want any inference from God, but they want to live their own lives with the will of the flesh as the captain of their lives.
是因为, Bibles remain closed, and another gospel of the senses with motivational self-help sermons and the associated experiences is preached that please, 提供, and enforce the will, 情怀, 欲望, and desires of the flesh of man.
对于世界上的一切, 肉体的情欲, 和眼目的情欲, 和生命的骄傲, 不属于天父, 而是世界的. 世界也消逝了, 以及其中的情欲: 但遵行上帝旨意的人永远常存 (1 约翰 2:16-17)
The preaching of another gospel that promotes ungodly lives full of sin
然而, this other gospel doesn’t produce changed lives and righteous works, as the true gospel of Jesus Christ does, but unchanged lives in sin.
These words of man don’t originate from the Well of Life. 所以, they don’t bring forth faith in God, loyalty, 圣洁, 和平, 喜悦, 统一, courageous soldiers and victors (over sin and the works of darkness), but they bring forth doubt, 不信, 情欲, 不忠, 不满, 焦虑, 沮丧, 不和谐, 妒忌, 愤怒, iniquity and victims (of sin and the works of darkness), and ungodly lives.
努力学习以表明自己得到上帝的认可, a workman that needech not to be ashamed, 正确地划分真理的话语. But shun profane and vain babbling: 因为他们会变得更加不敬虔 (2 蒂莫西 2:15-16)
The deceiving words of carnal preachers fuel wickedness in the church and produce corrupt lives
How many times do church visitors say that they can’t help it, 因为他们 live in a fallen world and are born that way and remain sinners?
This lie has been preached, 相信, and passed on from generation to generation, whereby people still believe this lie of the devil and keep living in this lie and keep doing the works of the sinful flesh and participate in the works of darkness.
The vain words of carnal preachers and this lie led to (性的) uncleanness and broken relationships, broken marriages, 破碎的家庭, in short, broken lives.
Broken lives, that didn’t have to be broken if they believed God and obeyed His words in the Bible and followed His words in their lives.
神出于爱赐下他的话语
It was not for nothing that God sent His Word. God gave His Word out of love for humankind to awaken the generation of fallen man and redeem them from the power of the devil and darkness. Because as long as people keep sinning, they are not redeemed and free but are still prisoners and bound.
And such an imprisoned and bound generation raises the next generation that deviates even more from the truth of God and acts more wickedly than the previous generation.
We live in such a generation wherein the people perverted the gospel of Christ and adhere to another vain gospel and think through humanism that they live a good life, while in reality the apostasy is enormous.
This can be seen through the evil works (罪) in the lives of church visitors that are no different from the lives of people that belong to the world and walk in darkness.
The words of God in the Bible are not read, understood, and not displayed correctly. 反而, the words in the Bible are interpreted from a prideful human mind and taken out of context and used for the will and lust of the flesh.
Just like the devil tried to tempt Jesus with the words of God by using His words for the flesh. 然而, Jesus knew the Father and His will and was lead by the Holy Spirit and perceived the wickedness and deception of the devil and defeated the devil with the truth of God’s Word.
所以, submit yourself unto Jesus Christ and the Father and follow and obey the words of God and bring the words of God to life in your life.
Obey the words in the Book of Life, so that your name will be written in the Book of Life of the Lamb
信仰, 这 新生, and obedience to the words and commandments of God that are written in the Book of Life and by your righteous works that derive thereof, your name shall be written in the Book of Life of the Lamb.
‘成为地球的盐’
