Now we have a recipe, a formula we can use to get whatever we want. We have become so accustomed to trying to use Christ for our own religious ends we do not feel the love that is behind this statement.

The idea is to bring glory to the Father. Some of us may have a way to go before our motive is this pure. It is a time to die to our religious self-will that God and Christ may be able to live and move and have Their Being in us without having to struggle against our worldliness, lust, and self-will. However God wants to use us should always be fine with us, just as long as we bring glory to Christ and thus to the Father.

If you love me, you will obey what I command. (John 14:15—NIV)

The above verse needs to be engraved in steel and bolted to the front of every Christian church in America.

We are preaching error. We have perverted Paul's doctrine of grace, really an argument against the Judaizers, to mean Divine grace is an alternative to obeying the commandments of Jesus Christ and His Apostles.

We do not love Christ. We have found a way to go to Heaven apart from obeying His commandments. This is why America is about to fall from its place of world leadership and become a fourth-class power.

God will strengthen our enemies just as God strengthened the enemies of Israel when they forsook the Lord and trusted in themselves.

We will never become part of Christ until we are willing to obey His commandments—every one of them.

How are we to do this when they are so high above us? We find the strength and wisdom to keep the commandments of Christ by going continually to the Mercy Seat in prayer; by assembling with fiery saints on a regular basis; by meditating constantly in the Scriptures; by giving, serving, seeking the gifts of the Spirit, confessing our sins, resisting the devil, drawing near to God, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God. When we set ourselves to do these things, and, to the best of our ability, instruct our children in these Christian commandments, we grow in the ability to keep the commandments of Christ.

We never are to attempt to use grace as a crutch, as an escape from our obligation to do what we have been commanded. This is the mammoth Christian error and it has destroyed the moral strength of the United States of America in the latter part of the twentieth century. We of America are entering the twenty-first century in military, economic, educational, social, and governmental confusion because we are not obeying the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. (John 14:16,17—NIV)

To be continued.