If your right eye causes you to sin,

gouge it out and throw it away.

It is better for you to lose one part of your body

 than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

 And if your right hand causes you to sin,

cut it off and throw it away.

It is better for you to lose one part of your body

than for your whole body to go into hell.

Matt 5:29-30

Jesus does speak of hell. We believe that there is a place called hell because Jesus taught it in His gospel. We take His words without doubt. The issue about hell cannot be settled by theological suppositions or modernistic interpretations. If man can make a jail to separate the bad from the good, hell then is in order.

Sin is missing the mark. The mark is the will of the Father. If you don’t do the will of the Father, you are sinning. This is the way Jesus viewed the act of sinning. We are always on the target when we follow the words of Christ. Jesus Christ is the Absolute; there is no other way but Him. He set the “Standard” for us to follow.

What causes us to disobey Him? We have to pin point the cause and discover the root of our evil doings. To sin is too late; we’ve got to find what is making us not to follow His teachings. Let us pay the price of giving away the cause of our disobedience. A preventive measure is better than involving you in a messy situation.

The extreme act of preventing to sin is the decapitation of our human body due to the severity of the spiritual jail sentence which is horrible and painful. Our website is faithful in publishing all the teachings of Christ. It is not our intention to scare anyone to believe in the Lord.  The hell is not our main menu; the love for Jesus is.

We love the Lord not because we are afraid of hell. We just love Him to death. We are willing to give up everything for His sake and His words. We have denied ourselves to follow our loving Master and Lord. Dying to self is our specialty in purpose.

But Jesus immediately said to them:

 "Take courage! It is I.

Don't be afraid." 

 "Lord, if it's you," Peter replied,

"tell me to come to you on the water."

 "Come," he said.

Then Peter got down out of the boat,

walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and,

 beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!"

 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.

"You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?" 

Matt 14:27-31

The hardest thing for a Christian to do is to put Jesus Christ ahead of the Bible. He can say that he is Christ centered but most often he is not. He knows the Bible and its contents more than what Christ teaches. His or her faulty equation of putting Christ in the same level of importance with the Bible is a major source of confusion and disillusionment.

It needs great courage to uphold Christ and His words over and above the Bible. Christ is the Word of God, the voice of His Father and the fulfillment of the prophecy. Technically, the Bible cannot be the Word of God. The Bible teaches good things but it has its limitation. A wrong interpretation of the Bible can lead a person to damnation, while following Christ is not subject to private interpretation. You just do what He says. Jesus can lead you all the way as you follow Him and His words.

It is taboo to question the Bible because to many it is an infallible divine message. Every single word is holy and any person must not add or subtract from the Book. The religious people search the Scripture to find life but rejected Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Even nowadays there are many church goers who hijacked the Christ to worship the Bible.

A true follower of Christ will not be lost even if the Bible is not 100% true. Their faith is built upon the Words of Christ. Do we owe the teachings of Christ to the Bible? Not really.  Instead, there will be no Bible if there was no Christ. Remove Christ from the Bible and all we can have are contradictory Jewish laws and religious practices. We love Jesus not because the Bible tells us so. We love Him because He tells us in so many ways.

Jesus Christ obeyed the commandments of His Father that were written in the Scripture. He clearly obeyed and fulfilled the wishes of His Father. Jesus had respected the Scripture. However, we should be careful to consider all the words in the Bible to be sacred. Take a good courage to break from old binding tradition. Our loyalty to the Bible ends when our loyalty to Christ begins.

Sanctify them through thy truth:

thy word is truth.

 As thou hast sent me into the world,

even so have I also sent them into the world.

 And for their sakes I sanctify myself,

that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

 Neither pray I for these alone,

but for them also which shall believe on me

through their word;

John 17:17-20

Sanctification is primarily a way of life according to Jesus Christ. It is more than a Pauline doctrine of the Christian church. A clean life is an order of the day. You start clean and end up the day with a clear conscience that you fulfilled the will of the Father. You are a stable man because you are a single minded person, committed only to follow the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctification is a big theological term. However it can be digested in two words, Pure and Perfect. We must be pure and perfect with His Truth/Word to be sanctified. A man purely dedicated in and to obeying the words of Christ. His decision is always guided by the rule of Christ in the gospel. We made perfect by practicing His Words. Practice makes perfect.

How did Jesus sanctify Himself? He sanctified Himself by devoting his life in obedience to the will of His Father. His meat is to do the will of the Father; nothing more, nothing less. He appeared separated from the world to manifest and magnify the beauty of the Father and Son relationship. He was focused to what His Father may tell Him to say.

Our message must be pure and simple so not to confuse the world. We are determined to propagate the word of life in Jesus Christ. The Word is the Truth. The Logos said, “I am the Truth”. Sanctification is not possible if we teach adulterated doctrines. How can we sanctify ourselves if we are filled with tons of teachings that we are not Christ-centered?

We have a “sanctified” Christ to show the world. He is the 100% light of the world. There is no darkness in Him. Let us exercise in our lives His living words that the world may glorify our Father in heaven. It is a shame for us to claim that we are Christ-centered if in fact we are far from it. Who do we deceive? Must be ourselves.