The Just Shall Live By Faith

By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze

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Some of the parts of this writing appeared in some other books or texts. At times, writings are re-arranged, and edited, to fit a particular purpose or audience.

Introduction

Often, you hear people say that ‘the just shall live by faith’. It is quite unfortunate that people say this without knowing the meaning of faith, and without knowing the implications of what they are saying. It is like the ignorant multitudes who are everyday claiming or singing ‘Abraham’s blessing are mine,’ without fulfilling the necessary and compulsory conditions for Abraham’s blessings. See Deuteronomy 28:1-14, for the comprehensive list of Abraham’s Blessings and the conditions ( Note the word, “If… if…”).

As Jesus said, many are like the blind man leading a blind multitude. And what many call faith is nothing but stubbornness. The persistent refusal to do what God has said.

The True Meaning Of Faith
         For many years, you have been told that faith is the evidence of thing hoped for. This is quite true, but it is not the perfect definition of faith. What you hope for may not manifest. That does not mean that faith is not working. Instead, it means you were hoping for what is not true. Here are the true meanings of faith:

1. Faith is the certainty of Truth. Therefore, faith means assurance, knowing or believing that Truth is unfailing. God is ever caring and trustworthy.

2. Jesus spoke of building your house on the solid rock. That solid rock is Truth. Therefore, faith is knowledge of truth and abiding by the Truth.

3. Faith is believing that God has spiritually completed something, before it become physically manifest.

4. Faith is believing that with God, all thing are possible, in goodness and righteousness. Herein is warning to those who accuse God, falsely, by saying that God created both good and evil. “Evil is not from me,” says the Almighty.

5. Faith is the confirmatory evidence of Truth. Hence, faith is the acceptance of Truth.

6. True faith includes the demonstration of one’s beliefs: believing and doing. Otherwise, a faith without good work is either useless or dead.

7. Faith is believing that the worst can become the best; that the devilish can become saintly; and that the worldly can become heavenly. Believing the opposite of these is evil, false belief and blind faith.

Examples Of True Faith
         They are:

1. Reading the scriptures (sacred texts) and living according to the word of God.

2. Obeying the directive from the Holy Spirit.

3. Believing that the devilish can become saintly.

4. Believing that the worst can become the best.

5. Believing that the ignorant can be educated.

6. Believing that what is currently not manifest is possible.

7. Believing that with God all good things are possible.

8. Believing that you can see God.

9. Believing that it is possible for a living person to visit heaven or other planets.

All the while, humanity have being belittling God,
thinking that they praise Him,
because they follow the imaginations of their hearts.

The Following Are Not Faith
         Below are examples of what people call faith, which indeed are not faith:

1. Today, many people believe what is false and claim to have faith. That is why I say that so many churches are practicing the figments of imagination, the fabrications of falsehood and the deceptions of the enemy And what many call faith is nothing but stubbornness - the persistent refusal to do what God has said.

2. People fabricate all kinds of religions and keep themselves busy practicing their man-made doctrines. They think that they are pleasing God by so doing. Indeed, they burden themselves. Jesus warned against such beliefs and practices, saying, 8 "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" Matthew 15:8-9

3. Faith is not about believing everything your church or religion says. Faith is knowing what God says and living by it. It is the same as knowing the Truth and abiding by the Truth. For the time being, what many call faith is nothing but stubbornness. – The persistent refusal to obey what the holy spirit is saying. When you give some people message, they tell you that their church or religion does not believe in such things. “That is not how our church does it,” some would say. You should ask yourself, “Between what God says and what your church says, which one should be done?”

4. Doing a wrong thing and refusing to take correction. And there are many wrong things people believe and practise. The worst part is that they refuse to take correction.

5. Believing what is false about God, and insisting that it is right.

6. Believing that your church is the best and greatest religion. The greatest religion is Truth, and the best church is the Holy Spirit. Today, most of the churches are for away from the Truth. How can they claim to be the best when they have not seen or heard the Truth? When they have not become one with the Truth?

7. Refusing to go for deliverance and hoping that all is right. The enemy comes uninvited, arrives unnoticed, works undetected and yet pretends to be a friend doing a good work.

8. Learning and doing evil and still believing that there shall be no consequenseces.

9. Sowing the seeds of violence, whether in the name of God or because of religion.

10. Joining others to do wrong because everybody is doing it. “If a multitude commits sin, do not join them,” says the Lord.

11. Thinking that you can succeed and prosper by cheating others. Many do this and claim that they are making money. They are only heaping up curses and calamities for themselves.

12. Doing evil in secret and claiming that nobody sees you. The light all around you is a spiritual video, recording whatever you think, do or say. The same record it sends to the higher heavens, even while you are still committing the sin.

13. Refusing to learn the Truth from others or from the members of other churches.

14. Refusing to do what God said because that is not how your church worships.

15. Refusing to read a good book because it was not written by a member of your church.

16. Failure to attend to invitation, because the people inviting you are not your church members. However, do not associate with those who worship idols.

Faith And Contradictions
         Usually, if a thing is too different from what humans already believe, they will not believe it, and, not believing it, they cannot see it or understand it. So many people are unable to understand the religious viewpoint of others, because they have never had any experience that would dispose them to understand, and so they would like to be intolerant and pull everyone down to their own miserable state.
         In some countries, different sets of Christians kill each the others because the sets of Christians each think that only they are right. Both sides appear to believe in the same things, yet they fight and kill each other. A clear evidence that none of them, not even their highly respected reverend ministers, knows the truth about God and life. This world is God’s own school. Every school has so many classrooms. You, as a student, is expected to move from one class to a higher one, from time to time. That is how experience is the best teacher. But the churches are doing the opposite thing, holding people captives by making them ordinary members of their churches, which is in every way wrong.
         Today, at their old age, many adults and aged regret their lifetime on earth. They have come to realize that their spiritually blind religious leaders were more interested in increasing membership than in teaching people the truth. As Jesus said, and warned about, blind leaders mislead the innocent masses into the wrong way of life, pits of hell fire, and unnecessary rebirths into this world of increasing evil. "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the pit."

Truth Or Falsehood
         Leaders are afraid of being edged out of their positions of honour. So, they fabricate lies for the ignorant masses and deceive the unsuspecting ones,

         Why are they desperate of new ministers?
         Why are they uneasy about independent ministers?
         Something must be wrong somewhere.
         They know it and would like to continue hiding it.

         "In my Father's house there are many mansions," is a parable which means many planes of existence, many levels of spiritual life.
         It is even amazing that the gentlemen, who call themselves priests, would sit down together and formulate whatever doctrine they like, and go ahead to teach and spread the same all over the world, without consulting the Holy Spirit and without hearing from the Spirit of Truth.
         Unfortunately, the followers do not know that their religious leaders set down rigid doctrines in order to safeguard their own positions, honour and powers. They make the believers to accept being sinners, whereas God calls them “My beloved children,” who are learning in their school, called the earth.
         The Catholic priests hypnotise their members into a state of terror wherein they just dare not think for themselves. Before, the world was told that the Pope is infallible, in order to make people lose their power of independent thinking. Fortunately enough, the learned ones know that the papacy is not only fallible, but also full of fallibilities. Even the Pope nowadays seems to understand that there are so many things wrong with the Catholic religion. That is why the leadership is making so many changes. Pope John Paul II did not fail to bear testify to the world for all the wrongs and sins committed by the church in the service of Truth.
         The truth about reincarnation is available for those who are prepared to accept the truth with an open mind, and who do not go about with their spiritual eyes already closed with wrong religious beliefs.

Many Do Not Have Faith
How can you say that you have faith,
     when you do not know the truth?
When the evil spirits are controlling you?
When you reject the right things or accept the wrong things?
When you are not only dead in spirit,
     but also blind, deaf, dumb, lame and paralyzed?
When you are busy practicing man-made doctrines
     in place of God’s commandment?
When you reject what God has said
    because your church does not believe it?

Meaning Of The Just

Being just refers to living a life of righteousness.

Righteousness is the character of God. It is expressed in His words and actions. That means that whoever that wants to be righteous has to emulate God, follow His footsteps in his personal and collective life, everyday. Jesus made this clear when he was called righteous. He said no one, except God is righteous, because only God has the Holy Spirit, which is the spirit of righteousness, the spirit of truth, the spirit of prophecy and the spirit of holiness.
         This righteousness is expressed in God’s word, called scriptures or sacred texts. The same righteousness is generally classified as the law and the prophecy. The laws comprise the commandments, statutes and precepts as clearly stated in the scriptures. God said to Moses, “…the law, the statutes and the precepts…” Nehemiah 9:14
         Prophecy comprises Prophets and the Holy Spirit, who inspires the prophets. About the law and the prophecy, Jesus said, “I have not come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17
         On the importance of Holy Spirit, He said, “I still have many things to tell you, which you cannot now bear. But, when He, the spirit of Truth, comes, He shall lead you into all the truth.”

"Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness,
You who seek the LORD:
Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
2 Look to Abraham your father,
And to Sarah who bore you;
For I called him alone,
And blessed him and increased him."
Isaiah 51:1-2

Living A Righteous Life
         Unfortunately, majority of the religions, churches and people do not know what righteousness is. If you aspire to be righteous, then do the following things:

1. Learn the ways of God and emulate them.

2. Keep the laws of God, the original Ten Commandments as written in Exodus 20, and not as forged by the religious leaders, without people knowing that such an evil is being committed behind the scene.

3. Celebrate the seven annual festivals of God, as written in Leviticus 23, and as attended by Jesus.

4. Pray for the Holy Spirit to live a righteous life.

5. Live the life of a saint, by performing all your duties as service offerings to God, without expecting rewards, thanks, praises, force or persuasion.

6. Forgive easily.

7. Talk less and pray more.

8. Don’t keep malice. Do not bear grudges.

9. Live an exemplary.

10. Do not be a hypocrite.

11. Help those in need.

12. Observe quiet tiems and meditation.

Benefits Of Living A Righteous Life
         The benefits of a righteous life include:

1. You shall have inner peace and joy.

2. You shall attain heaven when you die, instead of coming back to the world of disappointments, diseases, death and decay.

3. Your prayer will be easily answered by God.

4. In times of need, God will make a way for you where there is no way. That is why people shall be of help to you.

5. You will easily overcome temptation, because you are in the world, but not of the world.

6. You will be respected by the Angels.

How To Know A Righteous Person
         Some people may appear to be righteous, but they are not. Here are some of the qualities of a righteous person:

1. He delights to attend to the needs of others, without expecting rewards, thanks, praises, force or persuasion.

2. He keeps the original Ten Commandments of God as in Exodus 20.

3. He celebrates the seven annual festivals of God as written in Leviticus 23, which festivals Jesus attended.

4. He walks in the righteousness of God, as directed by the Holy Spirit.

5. He lives a holy life.

6. The person is always be gentle.

7. He is not arrogant.

8. He no longer takes things of this world unnecessarily serious.

9. He overlooks many things, which others cannot easily overlook.

10. He thinks more of other people’s need than of his own need.

11. He takes things of spirit very serious.

12. He forgives and forgets easily.

13. He no more fears death, like worldly people do.

Meaning Of The Just Shall Live By Faith

The just people as already explained are the Saints of God. In the book of Revelation, Jesus made clear who the Saints are, saying, “Here is the patience of the saints ; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12

Therefore, the Saints are those people who keep the original Ten Commandments of God as in Exodus 20, and who observe the seven annual festivals of God, as written in Leviticus 23, which festivals were attended by Jesus.

Faith Without Works

The bible makes sit clear that faith without work is dead: “You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe — and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?” James 2:19-20

The meaning is that whoever claims to have faith in God, must demonstrate his faith by doing exactly what God said in the bible. Hence, those who shall inherit the kingdom of heaven are not those who read, hear or preach the word, but those who do it. That is why Jesus said, “"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” Matthew 7:21-22

About The Holy Books

Every religion regards their holy book as the final authority about God and life. The fact is that every holy book is only an introduction to God and life. And reading one holy book is not enough. There is still much to learn, to hear and to do.

After seeing God face to face, before more than forty (40) times, and now more than seventy (70) times, I have written over one thousand (1000) books and topics for the world. And most of the religious leaders, ministers of God and women in the ministry have not read these books. That is why I often say that most of the ministers parading about are ignorant noisemakers and hypocrites. And most of the churches s that claim to be the best are indeed among the worst. Be warned.

How To Live By Faith

1. Seek for the Truth, and continue to seek until you find.

2. Only Truth, not religion or church, can set you free.

3. No one ever finds the Truth by shying away from it.

4. Study Spiritual Science to know the realities in spirit.

5. Do you see the blind man, groping for his way, by darting his walking stick to the right or to the left, he is better than the man who is spiritually blind.

6. Repent from your sins.

7. Accept Jesus as your personal lord and saviour.

8. Grow in spirit, by observing quiet times and meditation.

9. Perform all your duties as service offerings rendered to God and humanity, without expecting rewards, thanks, praises, force or persuasion.

10. Etc.