What believer is receiving a blessing?...

The believer who is eating and drinking and doing everything else with a clear conscience before God and the Lamb. Christians often live in defeat. We can be—and should be—more than conquerors!

Much depends on our attitude and our words, as well as on our deeds.

The only attitude of mind and testimony of speech that bring success and victory in the Kingdom of God are the attitude and testimony of righteousness, of joy, and of peace.

We are to take a stand of absolute obedience and then confess our stand with our mouth. We are determined to please God. We are determined to obey God. We are determined that through Christ we will gain victory over all sin and disobedience.

Now we are doing God’s will. When we sin we confess our sin and then repent of it. Through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we do not keep repeating our sins.

If we believe something in our life is not pleasing to God, we get rid of it. By the Holy Spirit’s help we drive it from our life. We handle sin roughly and we handle our own flesh roughly. We do not pamper sin or rebellion in our life.

We never, never, never say, "I know what God wants me to do but I’m not doing it."

Why aren’t you doing it?

Are you a rebel against God?

Do you so despise the Emperor of the universe that you would acknowledge to Heaven and earth that you are joining the ranks of Satan and the fallen angels who refused to obey the Lord God?

Don’t you realize your words are condemning you and that they will become creatures and stand by you at the Judgment Seat of Christ and point the finger of accusation at you?

It has been stated that the world is waiting to see someone who will "go all the way with God," someone who will obey God perfectly and faithfully.

Such a statement reflects incredible rebellion, an awful, profound exposure of the depths to which the churches have fallen.

There is no such thing as a saint of God who is not doing God’s will perfectly and faithfully. Other "believers" are merely church members. To be a Christian is to be a disciple of Christ.

To be a disciple of Christ is to be a bond slave of Christ. Being a bond slave signifies absolute, total, utter, loyalty and obedience to the point of physical death.

There are deaths that the faithful followers of Christ are required to pass through that are far more difficult to endure than physical death.

Consider Abraham and his offering up of Isaac!

The only true Christian is the man or woman, boy or girl, who lives his daily life faithfully, loyally, as the bond slave of Christ. All else is "Babylon"—religious confusion.

If there are only twenty-five people doing God’s will on the earth today, then there are only twenty-five Christians. God never shall alter His standards because of the sin and rebellion in the churches of Christ.

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