"Are We Believing Or Are We Following"

"Are We Believing Or Are We Following" Text

I talk a lot about the Lord's Commandments and His Laws. If we say we follow the Lord, how can we not take His Commandments and His Laws seriously? A follower is always a believer but a believer is not always a follower. Believers' hearts may be in the right place. I am guessing they are. But believers follow too many traditions made by people. What is popular is not always what is right. What is tradition is not always what is right. I am not saying it is always wrong. But followers of the Lord base things on what God's Word, the Bible, says. Followers feel the need to compare things to God's Word. The Lord is the Creator. His Ways are right. I am not saying His Ways are always easy but they are always right. Even believers follow a lot of wrong ways. Nowhere in the Bible does it say even one of the Ten Commandments was done away with. The Bible actually says the opposite. All Commandments are still binding. God does not change. So His Ways do not change. Many say they believe in Jesus. That is great. But if you follow Him, He said keep His Commandments. (John 14:15 plus other Verses) The One that became Jesus in the flesh is the One that created the Ten Commandments. When He walked the Earth in the flesh, Jesus made the Commandments even more binding. No one has ever seen God the Father. It was the Son they saw in the Old Testament. The Lord never changed the Sabbath. That is one of His Commandments. People have no right to change even one of God's Commandments. Nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday. He was crucified and He was resurrected. If Jesus died on Friday and rose on Sunday how is that three days and three nights. Jesus said he would be in the Earth three days and three nights. That was the only sign He gave that He was Who He said He was. People assume the Sabbath mentioned was the weekly seventh day Sabbath. Look more carefully. There was more than one Sabbath that week. The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (known as Passover) is a High Sabbath. Read Leviticus 23 and John 19:31. Do people think the Lord was wrong? I would say people's interpretations are wrong. Being a follower of the Lord is often not easy. Followers cannot do what a lot of others do. We need to decide if we are followers of if we are believers. If we are followers, we need to go to the Word of God. If we are followers, we have to do things God's Way. We will never be perfect at that. Our hearts have to be to honor the Lord by doing things His Way. When we talk short, ask His forgiveness with a sincere heart. Then try again. Being a follower of the Lord is a commitment. Let us search our hearts. Are we believing or are we following?

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