The eighth
proof for genuine and true faith is spiritual growth.
What is
spiritual growth?
In
Wikipedia we find the following word description for the mentally: "Mentally is on the mind (in the
Christian sense) based, which is the translation from the Greek pneumatikos and
Latin spiritualis. In the Bible and in religious texts is carnally often the
opposite from spiritual (carnally means not always just the body, but also
sometimes the complete unredeemed people)." (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geistlich)
For Growth
I found in the Internet, also a beautiful statement: "growth as a human being means, that we are learn, train ourselves
and thus expand our capabilities and settings."
Thereby
resulting for spiritual growth that we should base on the spirit learn to and
train our capabilities and settings to expand. To can start spiritual growth
requires first a good seed, as Jesus Christ tells us in Luke 8, 15: "But the seed on good soil stands for
those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by
persevering produce a crop."
The word of
our Lord Jesus Christ, we can hear to best when we read in the Bible. The risk
of false teaching is not given. No one needs to fear that he does not
understand the words of Jesus Christ, the Lord himself has us even in John 15,
1 - 6 communicated: "I am the true
vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears
no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will
be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken
to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you
remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and
I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone
does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers;
such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned."
Thus we see
that if we abide in Jesus Christ, we will understand all his words and
teachings by him. But if we are not in Jesus Christ and remain, then no one can
help us to understand the words and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Unfortunately
many people in our time for that reason alone in danger Jesus Christ not to be
found, because they do not want to take the time, to look in the Bible his
fellowship. Much rather they let tell stories and explain the Bible from
others.
You disregard
the warning of the Apostle Paul, which he in Ephesians 4, 12 - 16 put it: "to prepare God’s people for works of
service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in
the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining
to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be
infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every
wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful
scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up
into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and
held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love,
as each part does its work."
For many
centuries, most people are already seduced by deceitful scheming, because they
know the word of God from the Bible not or too little. Therefore they sanctify
not the Shabbat God's and celebrate feasts for Jesus Christ which God has not
willed. It does not matter to them, that they find not a word in the Bible on
the by them practiced rites. It is enough for them, that churches, which accept
rules, invented by people, teaching them that this is ok. This rites been
seemingly have always been there, therefore they think, this rites must to be
right.
I say to
you, searches the real Jesus Christ in the Bible and remains in him and if ye
shall ask in prayer, he will guide you to recognize the truth. This is exactly
what we call spiritual growth!
The truth does
not come from humans, from God comes the truth. The truth can only be found,
those who seriously looking communion with God and his son. This community but
can only be found in prayer and in the Bible. Jesus Christ has nothing that is
in the Bible repealed or abolished. He did only away what people who call
themselves scribes, had by false interpretations to God's Word added.
I pray that
you wish to accept and love the word of God. God bless you! Shalom
(Proverbs 3, 1 – 12)
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