Friday, July 15, 2016


Word of God
But he answering, said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The Gospel According to Matthew 4:4

Psalm 17:15
Prefaced & Edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades

But I will behold thy face in righteousness, and when I wake, I shall be satisfied with thine image.

Brethren:

It cannot be stressed enough that we have a duty to preach the Gospel of Christ. Our second most important duty is to avoid the paths of the carnal and worldly people of these times. We are to point out sin, but not take part in it. When we do so, we walk in His (Christ’s) ways of righteousness. That is an image we must forever behold and keep before us each and every day. When we emulate the ways of Christ, we show the world that His way is to be preferred over all the things of the world. It shows that we place our trust in Him to act faithfully on our behalf and in the end be our advocate on the Day of Judgment.
Dr. Riktor Von Zhades - Humble disciple of Christ

“As our duty and comfort in this world. We must in righteousness (clothed with Christ’s righteousness, having a good heart and a good life) by faith behold God’s face and set him always before us, must entertain ourselves from day to day with the contemplation of the beauty of the Lord; and, when we awake every morning, we must be satisfied with his likeness set before us in his word, and with his likeness stamped upon us by his renewing grace. Our experience of God’s favour to us, and our conformity to him, should yield us more satisfaction than those have whose belly is filled with the delights of sense*. As our recompence and happiness in the other world. With the prospect of that he concluded the foregoing psalm, and so this. That happiness is prepared and designed only for the righteous that are justified and sanctified. They shall be put in possession of it when they awake, when the soul awakes, at death, out of its slumber in the body, and when the body awakes, at the resurrection, out of its slumber in the grave. That blessedness will consist in three things.

The immediate vision of God and his glory: I shall behold thy face, not, as in this world, through a glass darkly. The knowledge of God will there be perfected and the enlarged intellect filled with it. The participation of his likeness. Our holiness will there be perfect. This results from the former (Read 1 John 3:2): When he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is**. A complete and full satisfaction resulting from all this: I shall be satisfied, abundantly satisfied with it. There is no satisfaction for a soul but in God, and in his face and likeness, his good-will towards us and his good work in us; and even that satisfaction will not be perfect till we come to heaven.”
Matthew Henry 17th Century Theologian

* - The carnality of those who put forth man’s wisdom and ways over those of God
Dr. RVZ
** - A God of righteousness and glory - Dr. RVZ

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