Do You Want the Right to the Tree of Life?
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Blessed are they that do his commandments. The commandments are the royal law and all commandments of Jesus stem from them.
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Sin is a transgression of the law.
If sin still exists, the law still exists. You can't have sin without the law to sin against.
We can't do away with the law, the royal law, the ten commandments that hold all the love of God, if we do, then we embrace sin wholly whether we comprehend this or want to believe it or not, it's truth.
The first and great commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and mind-- these four laws expound upon that first and great commandment.
1 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
JESUS kept all these laws perfectly. He had NO new laws to keep. He was there when the TEN commandments were given.
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Christ was THERE! You cannot divorce Christ from the Royal Law, the Ten Commandments. Christ did away with the sacrificial law, the sacrificial services that all pointed to Him, He did NOT destroy the ten commandments at all whatsoever, but Satan would have men and women believe that He has. Satan wants people to believe that Jesus destroyed the ten commandments and replaced them with a more superficial broad spectrum just love concept that holds them to know true standard. FROM love we keep each commandment, if we keep any of the commandments without love we aren't keeping them at all whatsoever. LOVE is of God, God created the laws, the laws are love! To say the ten commandments are not love is to say God created laws that aren't perfect.
Psa 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
5 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
6 Thou shalt not kill.
7 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8 Thou shalt not steal.
9 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Love of others, the perfect law embraces this, Christ expounds on all His laws, but never destroys them, never does away with them, only fulfil each and every one of them as we are to fulfil them as well.
To hold up the ten commandments and say Christ did away with them, that Christ replaced them, that Christ changed them is a LIE. Christ lived each law perfectly and because of this HE was able to defeat Satan and save us! Satan would have had the victory over Christ if Christ could not have kept the royal law perfectly, because Christ would have sinned if he'd broken any of the laws, in any way, the heart of each and every law was kept by our Savior and He wants us to keep them too, and will enable us to do so through the Holy Spirit! Christ in us our Hope!
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Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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"We Would See Jesus" A. T. Jones
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The Goodly Land
There is a land which stands in a wonderful contrast to this. "Oh, how unlike the present world Will be the one to come!"
There are fields smiling in living green, trees majestic in their wealth of verdure, flowers dazzling with their rainbow hues, and on neither field nor tree nor flower is there the touch of frost or the pale hand of decay. There are no footprints of the curse, no scars of sin. No pestilence walks in darkness, nor destruction wastes at noonday. There are no forms distorted with pain, nor brows furrowed with anxiety and care. I see no mournful shafts, telling where weary forms and sad and broken hearts have in darkness moldered into dust. There are no painful messages passing over that land, telling that a friend, a brother, a fellow-laborer has fallen beneath the cruel stroke of a relentless foe. There is no darkened room where the tide of a precious life is ebbing slowly away. There are no bosoms heaving with anguish, no badges of mourning, no funeral trains, no yawning, insatiate grave. But, on the other hand, there is a glorious company, who bear bright palms of victory over death and the grave.
There every eye is sparkling with the fulness of the joy that reigns within. On every cheek is the bloom of eternal youth and everlasting health. Every limb is lithe and. strong. The lame man leaps as an hart. I see the blind gazing with rapture on the celestial glory. I see the deaf listening enchanted to the heavenly melody. He who was once dumb joins with loud voice in the anthems of praise. The mother clasps to her bosom the children she had lost awhile in the land of the enemy, but now recovered forever. Long-parted friends meet in eternal reunion. There is the river so pure and clear, so charged with every element of refreshment and life that it is called "the river of life." One overarching tree is so healing in its leaves, so vivifying in its fruits, so potent in its ministry, that it is called "the tree of life." There is the great white throne, in whose effulgence there is no need of moon or sun to give us light; and from its center a voice is saying to that victorious company, "This is your rest forever, and you shall no more be acquainted with grief; for there shall be no more pain or death, and sorrow and mourning have forever fled away." And in all the universe there is thenceforth no trace of sin or suffering, but from every world and from every creature rises a joyous anthem, like the sound of many waters, going up to God; and they say, "Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever."
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