We have been set free from this world, and the lust there in. We have freedom from the darkness, that once surrounded us. Shall I covet what is not mine, shall I set my possessions above the one that gave them to me? Shall I hold money, or furnishings, as gods to me?

Does not our freedom come from the Lord? Has He not promised to rebuke the Devourer for our sakes? Shall I hate my brother, who has much goods? So then,What is it, If I Lose it all?

“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,”. (Php 3:7-8.)

Those that have not put their total faith in God, weather they be Christian or an unbeliever, have this worlds goods in mind. They have money, power, status, goods of various kinds, but the thing they do not have, which is more valuable, is freedom from sin, and Satan.

If I lose my home, I still have freedom, if I lose my finances, I still have freedom, If I am on the street, I still have freedom, If I lose all my family, and loved ones, I still have freedom. I rejoice, when I have no food, for I know that the freedom, that I possess will see me threw. If I have no friends on this earth, I still have freedom, and the greatest friend of all. For I believe, as it is written; “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:.”

So what is it, if I lose all that I possess, I have been declared, by The Spirit of God, that I am, A Child of God, I am a King, and a Prince, not of this world, but of the next. Have I suffered loss, have I been persecuted, have I been hated, have I been in need? Yes, but I have endured all things by the mercy of the Lord. When I have been naked, He has clothed me, when I have been hungry, He has fed me, when I have suffered loss, He has comforted me. He is all in all, and is the Great rewarder to all who seek Him.

Am I not more than food and clothing? Am I not more than earthly possessions? Am I more than I am, or ever will be? I am, who I am, by the Grace of God.

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” (Rom 8:16-19.)

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” There are multitudes in need, who are in suffering, who are engulfed in wars, and conflicts. There are many that say, we, as Christians are to be wealthy in this life, as well as the next. These people that preach these things have overlooked one major commandment by the Lord.

“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? Or, What shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles (Unbelievers) seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Mat 6:31-34.)

Who shall say that, a man who is wealthy, is better than the man who is poor? Who shall say that, a Christian who is wealthy, is better than the Christian who is poor? Who then has made us judges of right and wrong, rich or poor? “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.” (Pro 13:7.)

Have you forgotten that your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things? This teaching, of earthly Christian wealth, and lack of faith, has brought about a great rift between the rich, and the poor. The false teaching of mans imagination, has set many mens minds to believe, if they bring tithes, and offerings, into the House of God, then they shall become rich. It is stated in prophecy, and in the testament of Christ, that the rich shall bring the poor before judges. The physicians, hospitals, and the rich, persecute the poor, for often the debts from them, are oppressive to those without, making them, as many say, second class citizens.

“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” (Rev 3:17, Rev 3:19.) Read and understand; “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.”

“And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” (Luke 18:8-14.)

I leave you with this thought;

“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” (Act 20:26-27.) ars.

When we become accountable for our actions, words, and thoughts, this is called the age of accountability.

The foundation that all Christians build upon is standing firm. What I worry about is the works that many try to build upon it. “For we are labourers together with God: ye are Gods husbandry, ye are Gods building.”As workers in the vineyard, we have the responsibility to reach out to others and ourselves. We exercise many levels of faith, and must build upon it.

A Christian knows, even those of low faith, that there are rules of conduct ,we must all abide by. We cannot change nor take away from the Commandments of God, nor His Christ. For as it is written; “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. For as it is written; “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Idolatry, covetousness, and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually An apostate church is an adulteress and the Jews are styled “an adulterous generation”

Fornication

In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols .

Those that say; “We are followers of Christ”, cannot commit adultery. We cannot live with a man, or a woman, that are not our spouses. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. We cannot follow after false doctrine for we there-fore commit adultery against God. This is adultery, and will be punished as such.

Adultery;

A married woman cohabiting with a man not her husband. The prevalent polygamy in patriarchal times rendered it impossible to stigmatize as adultery the cohabitation of a married man with another besides his wife. But as Jesus saith, "from the beginning it was not so," for "He which made male and female said, “They twain shall be one flesh.”

"So the Samaritan Pentateuch reads Gen. 2:24, as it is quoted in. A fallen world undergoing a gradual course of remedial measures needs anomalies to be pretermitted for a time, until it becomes fit for a higher stage, in its progress toward its finally perfect state. God sanctions nothing but perfection; but optimism is out of place in governing a fallen world not yet ripe for it. The junction of the two into one flesh when sexual intercourse takes place with a third is dissolved in its original idea.

There are those that are committing sins, that will never be allowed into the Kingdom of Heaven. Why? Lack of understanding of the scriptures, and teachers teaching false doctrine to maintain a large congregation. This is stated in Scripture, as a fault of the end day Church.

Adultery of the flesh and of the Spirit.

Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Do you commit adultery and say, your a child of God? Do you seek out, or add, other doctrines, that are against the teachings of Christ, and say the Bible is the truth? Do you call sin, good, and righteousness, evil?

As it is written for our rebuke;

“Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?” “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

Do you not remember the teachings, of the only, sound doctrine?

When you marry a wife, you have found a good thing, but whores, and whoremongers, God will Judge. You have a writ of marriage and a writ of divorce, this is scripture, but there are those that teach and those that believe, a marriage certificate is just a piece of paper. They have not studied, nor understood, that a marriage between, man and wife, between, God an you, are binding.

When you commit adultery in the flesh, you have also committed adultery in the Spirit. Can this be forgiven? Yes, but as you ask for forgiveness, you must stop the action that you have committed. God will not allow any sin to enter into the Kingdom. God sanctions nothing but perfection; The sins of the flesh will never be sanctioned by God, no matter what doctrine you abide by, no matter who you say you love, no matter weather a man, or woman.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Effeminate; To make womanish; to unman; Gays, Lesbianism.

There is a man suing a Bible publisher saying that the Bible has caused him to become depressed because it states that a gay man cannot go to heaven. I would rather offend that kind of thinking, and save his soul, then to turn away, and let him believe, that is it alright.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

We shall be judged upon our works, weather they be good or evil. As it is written; “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Just a thought.

(1Co 3:9-20.)(Gal 5:19-21.)(Rom 2:22.) (Jer_3:6, Jer_3:8, Jer_3:9; Eze_16:32; Hos_1:1, Hos_2:1, Hos_3:1 Rev_2:22).(Isa_1:21; Eze_23:4, Eze_23:7, Eze_23:37),(Mat_12:39). (Compare Rev. 12.)(Lev_21:9; Lev_19:29; Deu_22:20, Deu_22:21, Deu_22:23-29; Deu_23:18; Exo_22:16). (See ADULTERY.)(Isa_1:2; Jer_2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos_1:2; Hos_2:1-5; Jer_3:8, Jer_3:9) (2Ti 4:3-4.) (Mat_19:5)(Mar 8:1

(Easton, Fausett,Webster,TSK.)(Rom_3:25, Act_17:30) (1Co 6:9-10.)