Whynot

Most people don't think for themselves because they are mentally lazy and it's easier to side with those you like or respect than to forge the pathway to return to the truth when most would rather hear what makes them feel comfortable - it's human nature. But Jesus wants us to become all we were created to be. Jesus never taught a feel good doctrine. His message divides spiritual light from spiritual darkness - that's the nature of what He taught. Jesus said if we don't believe Moses, we can't believe Him either. One has to be firmly based on what Jesus taught if they belong to Him. He came to call everyone to repent and do the will of God because the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Those who are of God will hear Him and follow Him. That 'Prophet' spoken of by Moses and Peter (Acts 3:22,23) is the Living Prophet, Jesus Christ. So the issue is to abide in His teachings given to the disciples when preaching the message of God in His earthly ministry, as well as the further revelation from heaven about those things which are outlined there. Have you carefully considered if you are abiding in everything He taught? One Disciple to Another If you do what He said you will be His disciple indeed. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. It's the same for everyone - His words are true, and He gave those original disciples the eternally extant words of the Father to His children. Those who are His will hear, those who are not His cannot accept them or do them. Those of the light will come to the light that they may see their deeds are done in God. Those not of the Father will not come to the light of His word because they can't face the fact of their darkness, but will seek their own kind to follow. Jesus said His words were imperishable by any means. Do you believe Him?

John 14:23,24; "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words, and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me." . Jesus gave hundreds of teachings, and each has important lessons in our discipleship to Him. We are not to be hearers only, but doers of His word. Surely Jesus came to manifest the righteousness and truth of God so that we have reason and hope in our faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Micah 6:7,8 we are told: "Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?" Surely Jesus came to show us exactly what these things mean: to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God and our fellow man. We can have emotional love towards the Lord, but we also need to show our love by our actions of keeping His words - after all, love is a verb:-)