Understanding God’s Word Ministry

Submission to Authority pt. 2

The Need to Mature in Christ pt.2

Submisson to Authority

The Need to Mature in Christ

Are You Wrestling With God?

Whoever Believes (heart acceptance) that Jesus is the Christ, is Born of God

1 John 5THE NEW BIRTH
WHOSOEVER believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God (the word “believeth” is not a mere intellectual assent to the fact of the Incarnation, but a heart acceptance of all that is implied in its purpose—the substitutionary death of the Incarnate One for sinners): and every one who loves Him Who begat loves him also who is begotten of Him. (This simply states that those who love God as their Father also love God’s Children.)2 By this we know that we love the Children of God (we know we love God if we love those who bear His Image), when we love God, and keep His Commandments. (Jesus said the same thing in Jn. 14:15.)3 For this is the Love of God, that we keep His Commandments: and His Commandments are not grievous. (This is easy to do, providing we look exclusively to the Cross. Otherwise it is impossible [Mat. 11:28–30].)4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world (if we follow God’s Prescribed Order, we will overcome the world): and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our Faith. (John is speaking here of Faith in Christ and the Cross, which then gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives [Rom. 8:1–2, 11].)5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (It is not he who “does,” but who “believes.”)
Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (pp. 2174–2175). Baton Rouge, LA: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

Building on the Right Foundation - Jesus Christ and the Cross

Luke 646 And why do you call Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Both the True Prophet and the false prophet will freely use the title “Lord,” but Christ is “Lord” only to those who obey His Word.)
TWO FOUNDATIONS
47 Whosoever comes to Me (truly accepts Christ), and hears My sayings (the Word of God), and does them (the hearing must culminate in the doing), I will show you to whom he is like (the end result):48 He is like a man which built an house (we ought to grow in grace and knowledge), and digged deep (deep into the Word), and laid the foundation on a rock (that “Rock” is Christ and Him Crucified [1 Cor. 1:23]): and when the flood arose (problems will arise), the stream beat vehemently upon that house (Satan will try to destroy the house), and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock (once again, “that Rock” is “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified,” which must ever be the Object of our Faith).49 But he who hears, and does not (doesn’t obey the Word), is like a man that without a foundation (the object of his faith is not the Cross of Christ) built an house upon the earth (outwardly this one looked identical to the one built on the rock); against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great (if our Faith is not in the Cross of Christ, things may go well for awhile, but sooner or later the storm will come, and Satan will win the day).
Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (p. 1775). Baton Rouge, LA: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

Know Ye Not to Whom Ye Yield Yourselves Servants to Obey, His Servants You are to Whom You Obey?

Romans 6
16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey (the Believer is either a slave to Christ, for that’s what the word “servant” means, or else a slave to sin, which he will be if he doesn’t keep his Faith in Christ and the Cross); whether of sin unto death (once again allow us to state the fact that if the Believer attempts to live for God by any method other than Faith in the Finished Work of Christ, the Believer will fail, no matter how hard he otherwise tries), or of obedience unto Righteousness? (The Believer is required to obey the Word of the Lord. He cannot do that within his own strength, but only by understanding that he receives all things through what Christ did at the Cross and his continued Faith in that Finished Work, even on a daily basis. Then the Holy Spirit, Who Alone can make us what we ought to be, can accomplish His work within our lives.)17 But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin (slaves to the sin nature, what we were before we were saved), but you have obeyed from the heart that form of Doctrine (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified; understanding that all things come to the Believer from God by the means of the Cross) which was delivered you (the Lord gave this “form of Doctrine” to Paul, and he gave it to us in his Epistles).18 Being then made free from sin (being made free from the sin nature; it has no more power over the Believer, but only as we continue to look to the Cross), you became the servants of Righteousness (whereas you were formerly a slave to the sin nature, you are now a slave to Righteousness; if Faith is maintained in the Cross, there is a constant pull of the Believer toward Righteousness).
Swaggart, J. (2005). The Expositor’s Study Bible (p. 1979). Baton Rouge, LA: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.