Ye shall not add unto the
word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that
ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
(Deuteronomy 4:2)
It's amazing how much so called "Christians" believe that isn't even in the Bible... then they wonder why their lives aren't going the way it should...
One person believes its ok to drink as a Christian... another that its ok to sleep around with people you're not married to... another believes "once saved always saved"... & yet another "I'm nothing more than a sinner saved by grace, trying to make it through"... "everybody has to sin a little"... "just gotta love"... "just be happy with whatcha got"... "don't ask God for more"... "everything that happens is God's will"... and everything else they can think of to rationalize why they CHOOSE to disobey God. Well, God's answer is the same in both the Old and New Testament...
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
(Revelation 22:18-19)
For those of you who use that lame excuse "well I just can't understand the Bible the way its written"...
What its saying is that if you add to God's word (like you do when you tell God you think its to drink, sleep around, party, etc...) he is going to put all the curses on you that the Bible talks about are for people like you (poverty, sickness, depression, oppression, etc...) and if you remove from God's book (like people who take out the scriptures telling us not to sin or not to be worldly...) God is going to remove your name from the "book of life"... which is that book your name has to be in if you want to get into heaven.
But...
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
(Deuteronomy 28:1-2)
If you CHOOSE to obey God, he will CHOOSE to bless you with EVERYTHING! I don't know about you... but it sounds like a common sense choice to make... but that's just me.
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
(III John 2)
