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| − | <p>Opinions range widely about who and what was Jesus Christ—as well as who and what He is today. But few disagree that He forever changed the course of history and civilization.</p> | + | <p>Youshall have no other gods before me." <br> |
| − | <p>In the first century A.D., huge throngs of listeners followed Him in every city, in awe of the powerful miracles He performed and the words He spoke. Demons were cast out. People were raised from the dead. Food was multiplied. People were healed. Myths were shattered. Lives were changed.</p> | + | <br> |
| − | <p>Through the centuries, thousands of books, stories, novels, television programs and films have been written and produced about Jesus Christ. Hundreds of thousands of churches have been erected in His name. Millions have claimed to be His ministers. Billions have professed Him “Lord and Saviour.”</p> | + | <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Exodus%2020.3" data-reference="Exodus 20.3" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Exodus 20:3</a><br> |
| − | <p>Today, Jesus is renowned the world over, commonly known in one way or another in every culture of the world, whether one professes to be Christian, atheist, or of any other religion. Many have positive comments about Him, regardless of their beliefs about who He was and what He taught. His name also stirs great controversy and debate.</p> | + | <br> |
| − | <p>Yet, despite worldwide recognition—despite billions professing to be His followers—despite all the knowledge circulating about Him—Jesus Christ remains unknown—even to Christianity!</p> | + | This commandment is addressed to each person in particular, because the commandment concerns everyone, and God would have each one take it as spoken to him by name. Though we are forward to take <em>privileges </em>to ourselves—yet we are apt to shift off <em>duties </em>from ourselves to others!<br> |
| − | <p>We must ask: Is it possible the central figure of a religion could be unknown to almost all who profess to follow Him? If so, how did this happen?</p> | + | <br> |
| − | <p>Many have accepted without question what they have heard, read or were taught throughout their lives about Christ and the teachings He brought. These same people usually vigorously defend their beliefs while feeling no need to examine PROOF of why they believe what they do—or to consider how they came to such beliefs. Human nature follows the crowd, which follows what is popular.</p> | + | We come now to the commandment, "You shall have no other gods before me." This may well lead the van, and be set in the front of all the commandments, because it is the foundation of all true religion. The <strong>sum </strong>of this commandment is, <em>that we should sanctify God in our hearts, and give him a precedence above all created beings. </em>There are two branches of this commandment:<br> |
| − | <p>This has been the case with virtually every one of the widely accepted teachings, traditions and practices of mainstream Christianity. Few are aware—or even care—that these have been taken almost entirely from paganism, false customs and human reasoning—and not from the Bible. Most of the teachings of Christendom have no biblical basis whatsoever—and in many cases Jesus actually commands the exact opposite!</p> | + | <br> |
| − | <p>Thus, the Jesus Christ of the Bible has been left out of professing Christianity—unknown to vast millions, hidden in a cloud of deceit, confusion, lies and commonly accepted falsehoods.</p> | + | 1. That we must have God for our God.<br> |
| − | <p>What is your view of Jesus? What image does His name evoke? Perhaps you picture a weak, long-haired, sickly-looking man in a flowing white robe. Maybe you think of “baby Jesus” in a manger, with three “wise men” giving Him gifts on December 25. You might think of a figure in a loincloth hanging from a cross with trickles of blood oozing from His side and the crown of thorns piercing His head. Maybe Easter eggs and sunrise services come to mind, or the Christmas season.</p> | + | <br> |
| | + | 2. That we must have no other God.<br> |
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| | + | <strong>1. We must have God for our God.</strong> It is manifest that we must have a God, and "who is God save the Lord?" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/2%20Sam%2022.32" data-reference="2 Sam 22.32" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">2 Sam 22:32</a>. The Lord Jehovah (one God in three people) is the true, living, eternal God; and him we must have for our God.<br> |
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| | + | <strong>[1] To have God to be God to us, is to ACKNOWLEDGE him as God.</strong> The gods of the heathen are idols. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%2096.5" data-reference="Psalm 96.5" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 96:5</a>. And "we know that an idol is nothing" (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Cor%208.4" data-reference="1 Cor 8.4" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Cor 8:4</a>); that is, it has nothing of Deity in it. If we cry, "Help, O Idol," an idol cannot help; the idols themselves were carried into captivity, so that an idol is nothing. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Isa%2046.2" data-reference="Isa 46.2" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Isa 46:2</a>. Vanity is ascribed to it, we do not therefore acknowledge it to be a god. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Jer%2014.22" data-reference="Jer 14.22" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Jer 14:22</a>. But we have this God to be God to us, when, "from the heart" we acknowledge him to be God. All the people fell on their faces and said, "The Lord he is the God! the Lord he is the God!" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%2018.39" data-reference="1 Kings 18.39" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Kings 18:39</a>. Yes, we acknowledge him to be the only God. "O Lord God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/2%20Kings%2019.15" data-reference="2 Kings 19.15" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">2 Kings 19:15</a>. Deity is a jewel that belongs only to his crown.<br> |
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| | + | Further, we acknowledge there is no God like him. "And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord; and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%208.22" data-reference="1 Kings 8.22" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Kings 8:22</a>, <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%208.23" data-reference="1 Kings 8.23" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">23</a>. "For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%2089.6" data-reference="Psalm 89.6" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 89:6</a>. In the Chaldee it is, "Who among the angels?" None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; "And hangs the earth upon nothing." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Job%2026.7" data-reference="Job 26.7" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Job 26:7</a>. It makes God to be God to us, when we are persuaded in our hearts, and confess with our tongues, and subscribe with our hands, that he is the only true God, and that there is none comparable to him.<br> |
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| | + | <strong>[2] To have God to be God to us is to CHOOSE him. </strong>"Choose this day whom you will serve: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." That is, we will choose the Lord to be our God. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Josh%2024.15" data-reference="Josh 24.15" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Josh 24:15</a>. It is one thing for the <em>judgment </em>to approve of God—and another for the <em>will </em>to choose him. True religion is not a matter of chance—but choice.<br> |
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| | + | Before choosing God for our God, there must be <strong>knowledge</strong>. We must know him before we can choose him. Before anyone chooses the person he will marry, he must have some knowledge of that person; so we must know God before we can choose him for our God. "Know the God of your father." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Chron%2028.9" data-reference="1 Chron 28.9" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Chron 28:9</a>. We must know God in his attributes—as glorious in holiness, rich in mercy, and faithful in promises. We must know him in his Son. As the face is represented in a looking-glass, so in Christ, as in a transparent glass, we see God's beauty and love shine forth. This knowledge must go before choosing God. Lactantius said, "all the learning of the philosophers was without a head, because it lacked the knowledge of God."<br> |
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| | + | This choosing is an act of mature <strong>deliberation</strong>. The Christian having viewed the superlative excellences in God, and being stricken with a holy admiration of his perfections, singles him out from all other objects to set his heart upon; and says as Jacob, "The Lord shall be <em>my </em>God!" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Gen%2028.21" data-reference="Gen 28.21" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Gen 28:21</a>. He who chooses God—<em>devotes </em>himself to God. "Your servant who is devoted to your fear." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%20119.38" data-reference="Psalm 119.38" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 119:38</a>. As the vessels of the sanctuary were consecrated and set apart from common to holy uses, so he who has chosen God to be his God, has dedicated himself to God, and will no more be devoted to profane uses. |
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SORCERY PHARMAKIA
Drugs Are SORCERY PHARMAKIA
Use of medicine and drugs used not for medicinal purposes , used in spells and religious rituals and ceremonies or for ones own pleasure. This includes the use of charms, amulets and occult powers. In Gal.5:19-21 it gives a list of practices that are from the fallen nature of man that are condemned. One is called witchcraft (sorcery) this word in the Greek language is Pharmakia where we get our word Pharmacy. These are things used to put people under an outside influence bringing them into an altered sate. That is a state that is not natural to mind but prompted by a foreign substance. this is called sorcery and is just as forbidden as drunkenness caused by another foreign substance, alcohol. Drugs can open one up to the spiritual realm as it alters the mind to function in a way unnatural to the how we were made.
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(The FIRST Commandment)
Youshall have no other gods before me."
<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Exodus%2020.3" data-reference="Exodus 20.3" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Exodus 20:3</a>
This commandment is addressed to each person in particular, because the commandment concerns everyone, and God would have each one take it as spoken to him by name. Though we are forward to take privileges to ourselves—yet we are apt to shift off duties from ourselves to others!
We come now to the commandment, "You shall have no other gods before me." This may well lead the van, and be set in the front of all the commandments, because it is the foundation of all true religion. The sum of this commandment is, that we should sanctify God in our hearts, and give him a precedence above all created beings. There are two branches of this commandment:
1. That we must have God for our God.
2. That we must have no other God.
1. We must have God for our God. It is manifest that we must have a God, and "who is God save the Lord?" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/2%20Sam%2022.32" data-reference="2 Sam 22.32" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">2 Sam 22:32</a>. The Lord Jehovah (one God in three people) is the true, living, eternal God; and him we must have for our God.
[1] To have God to be God to us, is to ACKNOWLEDGE him as God. The gods of the heathen are idols. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%2096.5" data-reference="Psalm 96.5" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 96:5</a>. And "we know that an idol is nothing" (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Cor%208.4" data-reference="1 Cor 8.4" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Cor 8:4</a>); that is, it has nothing of Deity in it. If we cry, "Help, O Idol," an idol cannot help; the idols themselves were carried into captivity, so that an idol is nothing. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Isa%2046.2" data-reference="Isa 46.2" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Isa 46:2</a>. Vanity is ascribed to it, we do not therefore acknowledge it to be a god. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Jer%2014.22" data-reference="Jer 14.22" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Jer 14:22</a>. But we have this God to be God to us, when, "from the heart" we acknowledge him to be God. All the people fell on their faces and said, "The Lord he is the God! the Lord he is the God!" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%2018.39" data-reference="1 Kings 18.39" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Kings 18:39</a>. Yes, we acknowledge him to be the only God. "O Lord God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/2%20Kings%2019.15" data-reference="2 Kings 19.15" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">2 Kings 19:15</a>. Deity is a jewel that belongs only to his crown.
Further, we acknowledge there is no God like him. "And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord; and he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%208.22" data-reference="1 Kings 8.22" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Kings 8:22</a>, <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Kings%208.23" data-reference="1 Kings 8.23" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">23</a>. "For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%2089.6" data-reference="Psalm 89.6" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 89:6</a>. In the Chaldee it is, "Who among the angels?" None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; "And hangs the earth upon nothing." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Job%2026.7" data-reference="Job 26.7" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Job 26:7</a>. It makes God to be God to us, when we are persuaded in our hearts, and confess with our tongues, and subscribe with our hands, that he is the only true God, and that there is none comparable to him.
[2] To have God to be God to us is to CHOOSE him. "Choose this day whom you will serve: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord." That is, we will choose the Lord to be our God. <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Josh%2024.15" data-reference="Josh 24.15" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Josh 24:15</a>. It is one thing for the judgment to approve of God—and another for the will to choose him. True religion is not a matter of chance—but choice.
Before choosing God for our God, there must be knowledge. We must know him before we can choose him. Before anyone chooses the person he will marry, he must have some knowledge of that person; so we must know God before we can choose him for our God. "Know the God of your father." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/1%20Chron%2028.9" data-reference="1 Chron 28.9" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">1 Chron 28:9</a>. We must know God in his attributes—as glorious in holiness, rich in mercy, and faithful in promises. We must know him in his Son. As the face is represented in a looking-glass, so in Christ, as in a transparent glass, we see God's beauty and love shine forth. This knowledge must go before choosing God. Lactantius said, "all the learning of the philosophers was without a head, because it lacked the knowledge of God."
This choosing is an act of mature deliberation. The Christian having viewed the superlative excellences in God, and being stricken with a holy admiration of his perfections, singles him out from all other objects to set his heart upon; and says as Jacob, "The Lord shall be my God!" <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Gen%2028.21" data-reference="Gen 28.21" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Gen 28:21</a>. He who chooses God—devotes himself to God. "Your servant who is devoted to your fear." <a href="http://biblia.com/bible/kjv1900/Psalm%20119.38" data-reference="Psalm 119.38" data-version="kjv1900" target="_blank">Psalm 119:38</a>. As the vessels of the sanctuary were consecrated and set apart from common to holy uses, so he who has chosen God to be his God, has dedicated himself to God, and will no more be devoted to profane uses.
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