CHRISTIANITY OASIS
DENOMINATION AND DOCTRINE
GOD'S
GRACE
I am often asked, what my "doctrine" is and what
"denomination"
I am.
The answer is simple ... I am just a Christian. I realize that interpretation, pride and prejudice have
divided the TRUE Church into many different "denominations" but,
that was not what Jesus intended. That is
satan's plan and is
certainly not an
example of God's Grace and Love. Most of
the divisions are based upon interpretation of the Bible. Other
divisions stemmed from the pride of individuals wanting control,
dating way back.
Do not misunderstand me, there are many false
Religions that one should beware of and to find out what one's
beliefs are should be done, for we are taught to "Prove all
things."
And to
check the fruits (words and deeds) for a tree is known by it's
fruit.
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Matthew
7:17-20
Even so every good tree bringeth forth
good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. |
Therefore,
since it seems that the answers, to these questions, are so very
important to some.
I will share with you of that which
I believe in ...
GOD'S GRACE BIBLE VERSES
GOD'S GRACE BIBLE VERSES STUDY ON
GOD'S GRACE BIBLE VERSES MEANING WITH MESSAGE
I
believe
Jesus is the Son of the one and only Living
God
... I believe that
Jesus came in the flesh to die for our sins and was resurrected
after 3 days and will return for His elect during the
End Times.
I
believe in
God's Grace,
which He offers to each of us which comes from the
BLOOD OF JESUS
Although,
Christianity
Oasis
On
Line was created for
Christians, so that we could have a safe and pleasant
environment, by which to explore the Internet ... Do
not be deceived into believing that the lost sheep of God are
forbidden to enter our Oasis. These lost sheep are the potential Christians
which will wander in here and when they do, they will have an
opportunity to explore their own faith in an environment that
is FREE of judgment.
These potential Christians will be FREE to CHOOSE to
accept the
Grace of
God.
WHAT IS
GOD'S GRACE
For those who can hear ... I will reveal
to you the TRUTH of
God's Grace
today, and the TRUTH is this ...
God
sacrificed His only Son to get His children into Heaven.
Think
about that for a second ...
God's Grace sacrificed His ONLY SON to get YOU
into Heaven.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. |
But, why did God CHOOSE to sacrifice His Son?
GOD'S
GRACE TRUTH ON
GOD'S
GRACE PURPOSE
It is very simple ...
Because God loves us so very much and mankind had done so much bad, that all the sacrificing
in the world would not cleanse away the sin. See, long ago,
sacrifices were needed to cleanse away the sins that mankind
had committed against God. But now ... Jesus is the eternal
Sacrifice. Believing in Jesus, cleanses away OUR past sins. God
loved us so much, that even knowing the only sacrifice that
would suffice, was His own Son ... He decided to do it anyway as
to save His
children.
One more
thing to ponder on ...
Jesus Himself CHOSE to lay down His life for YOU.
The Bible
is CLEAR ...
The first step that you have to
do to get into Heaven is ...
Believe in Jesus
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John
6:28-29
Then said they unto Him, What shall we do,
that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said
unto them, This is the
work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. |
SELF PROCLAIMED
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
There are a few Self proclaimed,
Christian leaders, who have written to me, suggesting that
LAW and WORKS prevails over
God's Grace
and
say that I should preach LAW
and WORKS and these
rascals demand that the burden on Christians is to be heavy, so
that it makes it difficult to enter the gates of Heaven. These
individuals have no compassion, understanding or love for
others, in their heart. They have no concept of the love that God has
for His children. Their desire for self edification, blinds them
from the TRUTH.
My answer to these "wanna be" Religious leader's demands for me
to teach LAW and WORKS
instead of
God's Grace
is and will ALWAYS be ...
Not
A Chance !!!
The
Apostles learned from the
Holy Spirit that the Jewish customs
and some of the Jewish Laws were NOT to be placed upon the
Gentiles (Anyone who is not Jewish)
As well they should not be under
the Old Covenant as God has made a
NEW COVENANT and that is why it is said that the
Holy Spirit
directed
this:
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Acts
15:28-29
It seemed good to the
Holy Ghost, and to us,
to require no more burden than these necessary things,
that you
abstain from meats offered to
idols,
and from blood,
and from things strangled, and from fornication:
from which if you keep yourselves, you’ll do well.
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The
Apostles learned from the
Holy Spirit that the Jewish customs
and some of the Jewish Laws were NOT to be placed upon the
Gentiles (Anyone who is not Jewish)
As Peter said so eloquently ...
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Acts 15:10-11
Now therefore
why tempt ye God,
to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our
fathers nor we were able to bear?
But we believe that
through the Grace of the LORD Jesus
Christ we shall be saved, even as they. |
In short if you are not Jewish
... YOU are a GENTILE.
You are not BOUND to JEWISH customs of
the Old Covenant.
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John
1:17
For the law was given by
Moses, but GRACE and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ. |
As Christians, we are bound under the NEW
COVENANT (New Testament) not the Old Covenant just as our Father
said He has broken the Old Covenant.
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Zechariah
11:10-13
And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I
might break my covenant which I had made with all the
people. And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the
flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if
not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of
silver. And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter:
a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the
thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the
house of the LORD. |
The Old Covenant ended when Jesus
died and Judas
Iscariot and the Religious leaders weighed His price for 30
pieces of silver and they crucified our Lord and He died for our
sins. The NEW COVENANT then began. So many fail to see this
TRUTH and prefer to teach LAW and WORKS as the way to enter
Heaven instead of God's LOVE and
GRACE
by sacrificing His Son as our ONLY way in.
Now, make no mistake
my friend ...
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BY NO
MEANS IS
GODS GRACE
A
"GET OUT OF HELL FREE" CARD.
YOU ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR
ACTIONS AFTER YOU RECEIVE
GOD'S
GRACE. |
God's
Grace
reveals that if you TRULY
believe in Jesus and the TRUTH that He was willing to die for
you,
and did, that you would know that He loves you so much
that you will want to do what He wants you to do
because you would know that He is looking out for your best
interests. You will try hard not to do things that would make
him ashamed or disappointed in you. You may fall, but always
remember that only a worm is free from the worry of stumble and
the real test is to see if you will get up, dust yourself off,
carry on and never surrender.
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SAINTS ... ARE JUST THE
SINNERS
THAT FALL DOWN AND GET UP !!! |
As time passes, you will find that
you begin to make the right choices, out of love
...
Not fear of punishment.
It will
be your FAITH that establishes your WORKS
HERE IS THE TRUTH ...
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Galatians 2:21
I
do not frustrate the Grace of God.
For if righteousness comes by the LAW ... Then Christ is dead in
vain. |
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Ephesians 2:8-9
For
by Grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of
God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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In TRUTH ...
It was some Self proclaimed Religious leaders, back in Jesus'
day, that were constantly following Jesus around quoting LAW.
His responses were so compelling that they ran away in fear and
confusion. They became so afraid of losing their high places,
that they devised a plan and had JESUS crucified ... They used LAWS to do it. They claimed
they were doing a God service.
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John
16:2-3
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that
whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these
things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor
me.
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THEY WERE WRONG !!!
But, God had a plan and His Will ... Was
done.
Jesus said it best, when the Self
proclaimed Religious
leaders of that time brought a woman before Jesus, to be judged
for a sin that she had committed. They asked Jesus what should be done
to her, knowing that the LAW said that she should be
stoned to death ...
JESUS SAID...
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John 8:7
He that is without sin
among you,
let him first cast a stone at her.
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So,
If you are one of the "holier than
thou" teachers of LAW
and
elect to judge the lost, which are potential
Christians ... Beware, lest you find
yourself being judged, as you have judged these lost souls, and
YOU losing
God's
Grace.
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Luke 18:10-14
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God,
I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust,
adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give
tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would
not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast,
saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down
to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that
exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be
exalted.
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Many Christians and even some Churches, judge other people by
the clothes they wear, length of hair, which side of town they
live on, the color of their skin, past experiences and mistakes
they have made, etc
...
It is very sad that these individuals, who consider
themselves to be better than another of God's children (even
though, they know in their hearts that they were also forgiven
of their sins of the past, and received
God's Grace
and still sin) and that these people would find it necessary to judge another,
in some vain attempt to appear to uplift themselves.
Pretending
to be doing a God service.
Their view makes the Cross, of no effect.
God
sacrificed His only Son to get His children into Heaven.
Now, tell me ... Do you think for a
moment that our loving God is sitting up there saying to His
children, "If you so much as make a mistake, I will put you in the depths of Hell"
... After, He let His son die a painful death to get His
children into Heaven?
Of course not ...
THIS REMINDS ME OF A STORY
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There
was a man, that we will call Mr. Smith, who was
sitting in Church with his wife. He had just
dozed off, during the pastor's sermon, when he
awoke to the sound of the collection plate coming
around. He watched as the people next to him put
in what they could afford, which was very little.
When the collection plate reached him, he cleared
his throat very loud, as to gain the attention of all
those around him, and put a hundred dollar bill
into the collection plate. When Church was over, he was
edging his way through the crowd towards the
front door and saw a statue of Jesus. He thought
to himself, "he needs a haircut and a
shave" ...
On the way to his favorite restaurant for
brunch, he came upon
a stoplight and saw one of THOSE people. You
know, the ones with a sign that says "will
work for food" ... This guy had long hair, a
beard and very dirty, worn out clothing. As he
came to a stop, Mr. Smith rolled up the electric
windows in his new Cadillac and turned his head away
from the poor looking man, who was now just outside his
window, with his hand stretched out towards Mr.
Smith. After what seemed like forever, to Mr.
Smith, the stoplight turned green. Before Mr.
Smith pulled off, he rolled down the window and
yelled out, "Hey,
ya bum ... get a job" and then sped off laughing.
A
few years later, Mr. Smith died of cancer and
ended up at God's Judgment seat. Jesus asked Mr.
Smith why it was that he thought he was worthy to
get into Heaven. Mr. Smith said proudly that he
donated a hundred dollars every time his wife
could drag him to Church. Jesus asked if that was
the only reason and Mr. Smith said, "Yes, of
course, I have paid for my way into Heaven" ...
Jesus
looked at Mr. Smith and said ... "I disagree ... You failed to
have compassion and love for your fellow man,
when the opportunity arose. You are greedy and
selfish and are not worthy to enter Heaven." Mr.
Smith, convicted by Jesus' Words, turned and
started walking away with his head hung low. Then
Jesus said ... "And, by the way Mr. Smith ... I
am no bum and I DO have a JOB."
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THE
MORAL OF THIS STORY IS ECHOED THROUGH THE ENTIRE BIBLE
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Matthew
25:40
... Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least
of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. |
Be kind to strangers, it could be an Angel testing you.
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Hebrews 13:2
Be not
forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares. |
LAW VERSUS
GOD'S GRACE
I have been told by many of the lost
souls, that I encounter, that some Christians and even some
Christian leaders, make it very difficult for those who would become
Christians to do so because they
elect to preach LAW to the
potential Christian instead of
God's
Grace
by saying such things as "If you have
ever done this or that, you are damned."
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Matthew
23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut
up the Kingdom of Heaven against men: for ye neither go in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. |
For example ... If a potential Christian had
ever
divorced their spouse, stolen anything, abused drugs,
had sex out of marriage, smoked, cussed or anything else one can
think of ... It somehow makes these Self appointed, "holier
than thou" teachers of law, feel that they have
the right to find the potential Christian
unworthy of God's
Grace and to pass
judgment. This causes the potential
Christian to walk away and never
consider becoming a Christian again.
My friend ... If any of this has ever happened to you, do
not let it prevent you from receiving
God's Grace
which is
FREE to EVERYONE.
When you truly believe in
Jesus and repent, God forgives your past sins ... PERIOD
!!!
LOST LOVE AND FAITH
Now, there are many people that were Christians and have stopped believing in God,
because something really bad happened. Perhaps they suffered
from ...
LOST LOVE. For example, they lose a
friend or family member to divorce or death. They decide to
blame God or say, if there is a God, why would He allow this to
happen. I want you to know that I TRULY feel your pain, for I
have lost that which was most dear to me, but I also know this
... Christians encounter tribulation and trials just like
everybody else, and to stop believing in God, will not explain
away the loss.
Sometimes these things are allowed to happen
for a reason, that we do not understand.
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Isaiah
57:1-2
The righteous perisheth,
and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken
away, none considering that
the righteous is taken away
from the evil to come.
He shall enter into peace:
they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his
uprightness.
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Reasons that we cannot even fathom. I
have found that nine times out of ten, it was caused by
negligence or a decision made on mankind's part.
Understand this TRUTH ...
Every day,
each of us makes choices that has the capability to affect
others. Whether the choice be good or bad. God allows mankind to
make their own decisions because He does not want puppets.
He allows us free will. The other one out of ten is what I call
the test or trial factor.
See the book of Job
I have no idea why God allows certain
things to happen, but regardless of why, it is His Will and
perhaps one day we will understand why certain things were
allowed to happen
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Until then ... We must trust HIM.
HOLY
SPIRIT
I will now reveal an
awesome SECRET.
Christians have been given a gift to defend themselves in times
of trial or tribulation. It is
called the ... Holy Spirit.
He is a gift, left here to comfort us
John 16:7
He will speak to you, if you will listen
Hebrews
3:7
He will help
you during your trials and tribulations.
John
14:16-21 John 14:26 John
15:26-27
John
16:13-14
He is here to help you face the trials and
tribulations that come upon every man, woman and
child on Earth.
HE
IS HERE FOR YOU !!!
SUMMARY
It all comes down to a choice. The choice
is yours. Nobody can make it for you. You can either deny this
TRUTH and be cast into the Lake of Fire ... FOREVER.
OR
BELIEVE IN JESUS, WHO DIED FOR US
And live
FOREVER in Heaven.
EITHER WAY ...
Forever is a LONNNNNNNG Time
Some people ask, but what if all
this is just a bunch of superstition or fairy tales. I ask you
this ...
What if it is not?
Be wise ... CHOOSE JESUS
Check out the New
Testament and in particular the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John and read all about Jesus and decide for yourself if He is
worthy of your belief and trust.
Check out this awesome
study about our Lord.
Now I ask you ... What do you have
to lose by just believing in Jesus? It sounds like a tiny
investment for great returns.
He is the best eternal life insurance
policy, money can't buy.
I
want you to think about something. I will gain no fame or
fortune by your
decision to make the right choice of believing in Jesus. In fact, I most likely
do not even know you and never will, at least on
Earth. And yet, I take the time and effort to
share this TRUTH with you today for you to consider and ponder
upon.
The reason for this is ...
It
is the TRUTH
Sooooooooooooo, to answer the original question ...
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This is my "Doctrine" ...
This is my
"denomination" ...
What I believe in, is ...
GOD'S
GRACE
Through our Lord Jesus
Christ
He died for us, was resurrected
and is coming back for us.
I ... like
those before me, am but a fisherman.
I catch them and God cleans
them.
Take care and may our Father bless you and yours.
Sincerely,
Servant of God
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