The Bible and Life

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The Way Of Truth

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Here is an article from an unknown author that I wanted to share.

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Jesus Christ is the Way the Truth and the Life. The truth will make you free. Truth is defined as that which is fact. You can go no higher than truth. You can go no higher than Jesus, He is truth. Everything else is below Him. He is truth personified. He is truth in word and deed. The truth is absolute, complete, absent of any falsehood, pretense, or inaccuracy.

Truth is pure, free from the smallest inkling of an error. It is exact, precise. If we are to attain truth, we must build our pursuit on truth. The truth is the Word. Truth is every jot and tittle in its place. The God who has kept the word – kept His word.

Who is the Father? How would we describe him? A search of the entire book would yield two defining characteristics: He is the Holy one of Israel. He is Holy and He is a Spirit. Would it be correct to call Him a Holy Spirit? Yes. He is the ancient of days. Is it true the trinity is three co-equal persons? Jesus said my Father is greater than I. He was simply saying; my Father is a spirit, and the body I have taken on is flesh. The Spirit of God is greater than a fleshly temple.

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but He sent Me.

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God is an invisible spirit that fills the universe. He fills the heaven of heavens. At what time He chooses, He has manifested Himself in the form of angels and light. Jesus said, “I am the Way the Truth and the Life. Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Mark 8:36 What would it profit a purpose driven man to have his best life now and lose his own soul? You can absolutely, unequivocally , undoubtedly count on the Lord Jesus Christ to do everything He says He will do. He is Logos. He is the Word of God. He is our father. Malachi 2:10 says have we not all one Father? He is the everlasting Father full of grace and truth.

His word fails not. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail…Isaiah 34:16 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke 16:17. He will not fail. (tittle= the tiniest bit--A small mark used in printing and writing such as an accent or punctuation mark.

He is the Chief Shepherd. He is the lamb of God. There is no office He does not fill. He is the high priest that offered Himself as the sacrifice. Truth, do you want it? Truth, do you have it? He is the spirit of truth. He is the way the truth and the life. There is only one true church. That church was founded on the day of Pentecost. If we are brothers, truth binds us. There are no cousins in this church.

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Jesus said it was His church. On this rock I will build my-(singular possessive pronoun) church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The bible is one book written by one God.

The bible was written by 40 different writers, over a period of 1600 years. The single most important event outlined in the Holy Book is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The reason He came was not to live, rather He came to die. The culmination of the sacred thoughts of God were finally finished. When did it begin? He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. It was not written back then, but it was in the mind of God. He would one day manifest himself in flesh and be crucified for you and me.

The event of the ages has taken place. 2000 years ago Jesus Christ of Nazareth died on Mt Calvary. He was buried in a borrowed tomb. He arose on the third day.

He is God. He is God alone. There is none like Him. None can be compared to Him. None can give Him counsel. He will not share his glory with another. There is only one thing He does not know; another God. His breath is our life. Our lives are in the palm of His hand. In Him we live and move and have our very being. He made us a living soul. There is only one perfect, Holy, God breathed book in the entire universe. Let God be true and every man a liar.

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He is Logos. He is thought. But his thoughts are much higher than ours. If He thinks it, it was already there. He does not discover truth, He is Truth. He does not increase in knowledge. His thoughts are perfect. He does not think before He speaks. He doesn’t ponder, hesitate, wonder, experiment, He is perfect. He is complete. He is God. Every adjective fails to come close to matching his Glory and splendor. He is the only true and wise God, Jesus Christ our savior.

His ways are higher than ours are. He is beyond finding out. Our wisdom is foolishness with Him. There is only one thing to do. Worship Him. He is Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last, and beside Him there is no God. Who has given Him counsel? None. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels. Jesus Christ was born a man. His name shall be called Emmanuel. He was in the world, and the world was created by Him. He reveals Himself to select ones. He won’t slip trip or fall, and He doesn’t wear safety shoes.

If you know who He is, there would be no necessity of a revelation. No man can say Jesus Christ is Lord except by the Holy Ghost. This is the crux of the matter, the hinge point of Christianity. Do you know who Jesus is? He is God, Spirit, Holiness, and manifested in the flesh. He is not the second person in the trinity manifest. Not the son of a father. Answer these questions if you can. What form was the Son in the beginning? What form was the Father in? The Spirit? There was no form, there was no manifestation there was the thought of God which is invisible, the Spirit which is invisible. The Spirit, the Word are indivisibly one. Jesus said the words I speak are spirit and they are life. The Father, the Word, the Spirit are inextricably linked together.

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In the beginning was a throne? No. In the beginning was the heavens and the earth? No. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. In the beginning was the Word. In what form? A bible? Written words? None of these. The very essence of God is what makes him God; His mind. Logos.

That’s who He is. One single mind. In the beginning, if our finite minds can imagine it, there was nothing. There was only God alone. No heaven, no earth. Only God in his eternal form that never changes. He is the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God. Time was not yet on the clock. There was no light. There was no darkness. There was only God. There was only Logos. There was only a name. A name that would one day be revealed, the name above every name. His name is above every name in this world, and the world to come.

Isaiah would come the closest in describing that name. He shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace. His name heals, delivers, sets the captive free, heals blinded eyes, opens deaf ears. His name is the saving name. His name is the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved. There is salvation in no other name. Jesus! We must be saved by that name. The salvation is in the name.

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Who is Jesus? How would you describe him? He is the Word of God. He is the thought of God. He is God. He is all, everything, complete, perfect. He is indescribable. He is the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

He has exalted His word above all His name. His word is the very essence of who He is. He is the Word made flesh. His essence is His character. He is Love. He is the I AM. He is the creator of this universe. He is the creator of all things. He is the saviour of the world. He is the BRANCH. He is the door. He is the lamb. He is the high priest. He has a name and that name is Jesus Christ. He kept us, and died for us before we ever heard the Name. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Before His Name came from our lips, He was calling us.

William James Roop

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Jesus is God Alone

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Here is an article from an unknown author that I wanted to share.

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Jesus is God. He is God alone.

There is none like Him. None can be compared to Him. None can give Him counsel. He will not share his glory with another. There is only one thing He does not know; another God. His breath is our life. Our lives are in the palm of His hand. In Him we live and move and have our very being. He made us a living soul. There is only one perfect, Holy, God breathed book in the entire universe. The Holy Bible.

He is Logos. He is thought. His thoughts are higher than ours. If He thinks it, it was already there. He does not discover truth, He is Truth. He does not increase in knowledge. His thoughts are perfect. He does not think before He speaks. He doesn’t ponder, hesitate, wonder, experiment, He is perfect. He is complete. He is God. Every adjective fails to come close to matching his Glory and splendor. He is the only true and wise God, Jesus Christ our savior.

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His ways are higher than ours are. He is beyond finding out. Our wisdom is foolishness with Him. There is only one thing to do. Worship Him. He is Alpha, Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last, and beside Him there is no God. Who has given Him counsel? None. Jesus was made a little lower than the angels. Jesus Christ was born a man. His name shall be called Emmanuel. God with us. He was in the world, and the world was created by Him. He reveals Himself to select ones. He won’t slip trip or fall, and He doesn’t wear safety shoes.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah‬ ‭55

William James Roop

Friday, October 27, 2023

The Mouse that Ate The Church

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Here is a fun article from an unknown author that I wanted to share.

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The Mouse that ate the church

A Lion lay sleeping and a Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his paw angrily on the tiny mouse to kill it. "Spare me!" begged the Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was amused to think a Mouse could ever help him. But he agreed and let the Mouse go. Days later, while stalking prey, the Lion was caught in a hunter's net. Unable to get free, he filled the forest with angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free. Aesop’s Fable.

It’s small things that destroy. The little foxes spoil the vines. Conversely, it’s small things that make things great as well. Great success comes in small steps. Many people can do great things, however, doing small things consistently well everyday is where true growth takes place. 52 weeks. 365 days.

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A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a dime. It doesn’t take much to let unclean things into your life. A doorway has been used do describe letting the enemy in our lives, yet it doesn’t take a doorway.

The teeth of a mouse never stop growing. It’s life depends on keeping them small enough to function. If a mouse stops chewing on things their teeth will continue to grow to a size that won’t allow them to function and the mouse will die. If we would quit giving the enemy things to chew on in our lives... the small things in our lives would die and not grow into uncontrollable issues.

So the mouse chews on plastic, rubber, paper, wood, anything to survive. The spiritual mouse? It chews on our complaining, critiquing, attitudes, and anything unclean in our lives. A mouse contaminates and corrupts. It nibbles. We shouldn’t nibble at the Word of God, we should consume it all. Whether we like it or not. Don’t pick and choose what you’re willing to adhere to.

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The people of God were told the mouse is unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:29: These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse....

Here is the crux of the matter. If we will take care of singular issues in our lives and not allow issues to multiply, we can and will win the battle.

Only the Philistines had a mice problem:

Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land... 1 Sam 6:5‬ ‭

God never intended for us to have a mice problem. And preventing that means we must take care of issues that come our way. Unclean breeds with unclean.

We should keep our teeth sharp by chewing and consuming good things. O’ taste and see that the Lord is good.

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How to keep mice out of your life.

1) Shut the door and make sure there aren’t any holes in it. Shore up the walls. Repair any breaches.

2) If you make a mess clean it up. A mouse is drawn to the unclean. If you make a mistake, repent. To continue going down the wrong road will only invite the unclean into your life. Don’t sit around in a mess you made. Clean it up and go on.

3) Clean up the crumbs. Don’t leave any amount of food out. It will attract a mouse. Before you know it, you will have mice. And they multiply fast.

We attract the unclean into our lives when we leave the Word of God unconsumed on the pews. Empower yourself by taking heed to the Word of God.

Jesus said gather up the fragments that remain that nothing should be lost. Uneaten word of God can be served again and again.

When the preacher preaches consume it all.

Everyone has probably encountered a mouse in their lives literally and spiritually. It’s what we do after that, that determines if we will have a mice problem.

Don’t allow the mouse to loose the Lion!

William James Roop

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Dimensions of the Holy Spirit

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Here is an article by an unknown author I wanted to share.

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Dimensions of the Relationship with the Holy Spirit

1. The Holy Spirit is with us to bring us to Christ.

“...He dwells with you...” John 14:16

2. The Holy Spirit is in us to make us more like Christ.

“...and will be in you...” John 14:16

"And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.'" John 20:22

3. The Holy Spirit is upon us to empower us to continue the work of Christ.

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"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8

The Holy Spirit is in you for you.

The Holy Spirit upon you is for others.

The Holy Spirit in you is for your character.

The Holy Spirit is upon you for ministry.

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries.com

Monday, October 23, 2023

Modesty Of Dress

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Here is an article by an unknown author I wanted to share.

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Mary Quant, who took credit on inventing miniskirt and hot pants admitted that her aim of creating this was to entice men and promote licentiousness, it is designed to seduce men, whether you believe it or not.

Where in, the world accepted it and think it's fun, beautiful, gorgeous, trend and fashion!

It's the world, it's given - it's common.

But, Christian ladies, examine what kind of dresses you are wearing everyday, make sure it does not give any provision to the devil, to draw men to your body to lust thereof, but dressed Modestly in a way that every men may see Christ in you and start to think and be curious who is He that is in you!

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To say, "it's his problem if he lust" shows disobedience to God. Be not an stumbling block to your brethren.

1 Samuel 16:7 says, "...man looketh on the outward appearance." If Clothing is worn that attracts attention to the body, it can cause some men to sin just as surely as Bathsheba was instrumental in king David's sin.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 (KJV) In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

A Modest Choice

William James Roop

Saturday, October 21, 2023

The Father

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Here is an article by an unknown author that I am sharing.

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It is erroneously stated that Oneness Apostolics deny the Father. This is not possible. Without the Father, which is a title, there wouldn’t be a Son, which is also a title. The Father is a singular Holy Spirit. God is invisible and will NEVER be seen by anyone. The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, which is Jesus Christ, hath declared Him. The word declared means to unfold…. The Father is that one omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, invisible Spirit that is resident and manifest in the Son - hence the Son. The Son is not eternal. There was a day the Son was begotten.

It must be dismissed that The Father sits on the throne and Jesus is kneeling or standing next to Him. God is invisible and that will Never change. Jesus is the image, the only image, of that invisible God.

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We have been programmed to conjure up images of the Father, which is natural. When you say Father and Son you automatically think of two. Yet, our God is one Lord. How can this be? That One Spirit became flesh. God sent His Son is rendered and understood to be by revelation that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

…until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

In his times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. 1 Tim ‭6.

The Father can’t sit on the throne because the Father is an invisible Spirit, He is an invisible Spirit and always will be. Who sits on the throne? The Son of God. Who is the Son of God? The manifestation, the declaration, the image or the icon of God.

Thomas wanted to see the Father, Jesus said when you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father. No man will ever see God, we will never see the light of God.

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His Name shall be called - Jesus shall be called - Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. These are names ascribed to the child that would be born. The government shall be on His shoulder. This was the cross that He would bear.

Jesus was

The Lamb

The High priest

Bread of Life

The Mercy Seat

The Blood on the Mercy Seat

The Veil that was rent in Twain signified His flesh.

How can Jesus be the Father and the Son? The same way He can be the Lion and the Lamb. The same way He can be the first and the last. The same way He can be the beginning and the end. The same way He can be All there is.

Jesus is the song of Heaven

Jesus is the light of Heaven

Jesus created the Heavens - all things were made by Him - Who is Him? Jesus - and for Him. Jesus made the throne that He sits on.

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Stephen saw the Glory of God - and Jesus. Would it surprise you to know that the one who is and was the first and the last, the Lion and the Lamb is also the the Glory of God? Jesus is the brightness of His Glory. Jesus is the visible manifestation of the Invisible God.

There is no office that Jesus does not fill. Pull back the curtain of the Father, you’ll find Jesus. The greatest name in this world and the world to come? Jesus Christ.

It’s blindness that causes anyone to say that God’s name is God. Jesus called Satan the god of this world. That’s emphatic, empirical proof that g-o-d is not a name. Judas is known as the son of perdition. That’s emphatical, empirical proof that s-o-n, is not a name.

There is only one name - Jesus. Is His name Jehovah? Jesus means Jehovah has become our salvation. All of the compound names of Jehovah in the Old Testament are found and revealed in Jesus Christ.

The compound names of Jehovah or Yahweh found in the Old Testament are fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jehovah Jireh - the Lord will provide - Jesus

Jehovah Rapha - the Lord who heals - Jesus

Jehovah Nissi - the Lord is my banner - Jesus

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These and many more reflect God's character and His relationship with humanity.

In that day there shall be One Lord and His Name one.

You can’t cast out a devil by saying father, son, or Holy Ghost.

Jesus said in my name you shall cast out devils

At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow

Repentance and remission of sins shall be preached in His Name

The lame man was healed by the Name of Jesus Christ, and it’s the only Name given under heaven whereby we must be saved.

“Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?

and there is no God else beside me;

for I am God, and there is none else.

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That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Isaiah‬ ‭45.

“that at the name of JESUS every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians‬ ‭2

“Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour - Isaiah 43:11 - Jesus is that savior.

Unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11

There is no office He does not fill

There is no sickness He cannot heal - that’s Jesus.

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There are no songs written about any other god. There are no sermons preached about any other name. Preach about Jehovah, it will lead you to Jesus. Preach about One God, it will lead you to Jesus. Preach about one Lord, you’ll be preaching about Jesus. Preach about healing? You’ll be preaching about Jesus. Jesus saves - Jesus Heals. Jesus delivers - it’s the Son that sets us free. That’s Jesus. Who died and rose again? Jesus. Who is Jesus going to present the church to? Jesus. Himself. From Genesis to Revelation, it’s Jesus. From the rising of the Son to the going down of the same it’s Jesus!

Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that emphatically means there is none above Him. He is subservient to none. That’s the voice of God. He thought it not robbery to be EQUAL with God. Jesus said my Father is greater than I - Jesus was saying The Spirit is greater than this flesh.

Who being in the form (external appearance) of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He was God manifest in the flesh. God revealed. Jesus is the only God we will ever see. There are not two - there is only one person of God. It was Job that said will you accept His person? There are not three persons. There is only one. There is only one Lord - Jesus is that Lord. There is only One Spirit, Jesus is that Spirit. There is only one name, Jesus is that Name. There is only one potentate. Jesus is that Potentate. There is only one King, Jesus is that King. There is only one throne - Jesus sits on that throne.

William James Roop