Holy and Righteous Living

Holy and righteous living are woven throughout the Holy Bible storyline. From the Old Testament into the New Testament, the living God of Heaven has called and commanded His people to live and follow His holy ways with good fruits of love, truth, mercy, forgiveness, and peace towards one another. The living God of Heaven is described as holy, righteous, and good because holiness and goodness are God’s very nature, name, and character. Christ Jesus taught His disciples that when praying to His Father, they should always keep His Father’s name holy (hallowed) with respect and honor. The ways and thoughts of the living God of Heaven are always holy, good, and faithful. Following Satan’s sinful and wicked living separates one from God’s goodness and holiness, leading to death. Notably, the book of Revelation teaches that those who will be invited to the joyous wedding banquet of Jesus the Lamb in the new heavens and earth will be God’s holy people (the bride of Christ) wearing the fine linen, bright and clean of the righteous and good deeds.

The living God of Heaven commanded all people to be wholeheartedly and totally consecrated as holy, which means dedicated and set apart with obedience to Him as their LORD and King, and their holiness and faithfulness were to be expressed in their daily lives with a harvest of good deeds, good actions, and good fruits which lead to divine blessings and healing. In other words, the living God of Heaven stated in Genesis and throughout the Holy Bible that He wants our wholehearted love, truth, faithfulness, mercy, humility, obedience, and goodness toward Him and others more than our rituals, fasts, offerings, ceremonies, and sacrifices. The living God of Heaven wants a heart of faithfulness and obedience to Him that is fully committed and faithful as our King and LORD!

Heroes of the Faith

The heroes of the Holy Bible like Abraham, Noah, Moses, Joshua, and Samuel understood the importance of wholehearted faithfulness and obedience to the living God of Heaven’s commands, and they instructed everyone to have a heart of love, obedience, and commitment to the living God of Heaven and His holy commands as instructed in the Holy Scriptures. Significantly, King David from the Old Testament understood that the key to a right relationship and closeness with the living God of Heaven was not through sacrifices, ceremonies, offerings, and rituals but through honor and loving obedience to God and His commands from a humble, dependent, and devoted heart by faith. King David’s heart was always faithful and obedient to the living God of Heaven, and he obeyed the commands and ways of the living God of Heaven, except in the shameful affair concerning Uriah and his wife Bathsheba, where he later repented for his sins against God. Significantly, King David had a humble thirst and desire for righteousness and knowing the ways of God, and he encouraged everyone to always trust in the LORD. Because of King David’s heart of obedience and faithfulness, the living God of Heaven blessed King David with an eternal kingdom and blessings, which came through King David’s descendant, Christ Jesus our Lord. Notably, Christ Jesus our Lord, like King David, wholeheartedly followed the ways and commands of the living God of Heaven, and He never sinned and was perfect in all His ways, and He calls everyone to follow His example for holy living.

REPENT! Let EVERYONE repent and come with a surrendered and humble heart to the living God of Heaven and His Son Christ Jesus our Lord and find blessings and oneness with the God of Heaven because this is what God wants. The living God of Heaven wants everyone to embrace and love Him and His Son Christ Jesus from our whole hearts with faithful obedience and also love one another with forgiveness and kindness more than any rituals. Even more, Christ Jesus wants everyone to sin no more and lead holy and good lives for His Holy Father’s glory and honor. Jesus is Lord!

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear and honor God and keep His commandments, for this is humankind’s all and duty. For God will bring every work and deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

From the Old Testament into the New Testament and continuing today, the living God of Heaven has commanded our wholehearted love and obedience to Him as LORD with a humble and repentant heart, and also loving others with holy and true lives more than any rituals, ceremonies, or sacrifices. The Holy Bible teaches that the living God of Heaven does not delight in our legalistic offerings, rituals, ceremonies, feast days, and sacrifices, but He delights in our dedicated love, with faithful obedience to Him and His commands (laws) as our LORD and King, and doing His will with kindness, fairness, truth, and love toward others. Notably, the Holy Bible sees rebellion and disobedience against the living God of Heaven and His commands as evil of idolatry (worshipping other gods) and as wicked and dark as divination, witchcraft, sorcery, pride and arrogance, which all lead to God’s wrath of disease, depression, and death. The living God of Heaven wants ALL PEOPLE as His creation to have a true and pure heart of full devotion and obedience that is loyal, humble, and faithful to Him as our only LORD and King. Only as we wholeheartedly seek and love with trust and obedience with purity of heart to the living God of Heaven and forsake following Satan’s evil deeds and selfish living do we find true life, victory, blessings, divine peace, and light from heaven. Faithful obedience to the living God of Heaven and His commands is the key to a long and blessed life with divine wisdom and revelation, and reveals that we are truly followers of God. In other words, the Holy Bible not only commands everyone to listen to God’s teachings, but also to submit and surrender to the living God of Heaven by obeying and doing what the Holy Bible teaches and commands. The living God of Heaven is close and near to those with forgiveness, restoration, blessings, and His Holy Spirit, who comes to Him with a repentant and humble heart of obedience that turns from and forsakes Satan’s evil deeds of darkness. The living God of Heaven wants a heart attitude of wholehearted love, obedience, and devotion to Him and His commands (voice), and Christ Jesus our Lord continued this same message and teaching in the New Testament. Continually obeying and following Satan’s sinful, dark, and selfish living makes all your fasting, religious rituals, feasts, sacrifices, tithes, and ceremonies worthless to the living God of Heaven. However, the living God of Heaven promises that seeking Him first and always doing what is good and right with a commitment to live a holy and blameless life leads to His blessings, peace, and an abundant life. The moral character, integrity, and conduct of a person and not the number of their religious activities are most important to the living God of Heaven. Jesus is Lord!

The living God of Heaven is the Sovereign and Almighty King of the Universe, and He is also the Holy Father of our Lord Christ Jesus our Savior. As the King of the Universe, Christ Jesus our Lord taught that His Holy Father, as the living God of Heaven, must be worshiped, obeyed, and loved with wholehearted faithfulness, obedience, and allegiance as the only true God and Creator of heaven and earth, which brings our eternal salvation, divine wisdom, and true life from heaven. In other words, the living God of Heaven must be our FIRST love with our whole hearts! Importantly, Christ Jesus our Lord is also God - the Great I AM and the Alpha and Omega, like His Holy Father, filled with God’s glory and truth, and He deserves our also our faithful love and worship because He is ONE with His Holy Father and the Holy Spirit of the living God. The living God of Heaven is filled with eternal love, goodness, and mercy, but He will not allow the sinner to go unpunished unless that sinner repents and turns away from Satan’s evildoing and wicked living with a genuine and wholehearted commitment to follow and love Him and His holy ways, producing good fruit for His glory and honor. The living God of Heaven is forever holy and pure, and He will not become united by His Holy Spirit with sinfulness nor unrepentant sinners who continually follow and do Satan’s dark ways and evil deeds with unholy fruits.

Here is the Good News: Our repentance, with faithfulness and obedience to God the Father and His Son, Christ Jesus, brings forgiveness and salvation, new life from heaven, and also makes believers in Jesus justified (declared righteous) and sanctified (made holy) through the Holy Spirit of the living God. Because of believers in Jesus’ holiness and righteousness, the living God of Heaven commands believers in Jesus to continue in God’s holiness by living holy, good, and pure lives that flee evil, sexual sins, and lies, as the living God is holy and forever good. Christ Jesus our Lord redeemed and purchased our bodies from Satan through His sacrificial death on Calvary’s Cross, so we can live holy and righteous lives, bearing a harvest of good fruit and good deeds for God’s glory. Christ Jesus is Lord and God!

The Sovereign LORD God is alive and lives forever, reigning and ruling as the living Almighty God and only true Majestic King and Supreme Creator of the heavens and earth. The Holy Bible calls the living Sovereign LORD God the Everlasting and Eternal God, who created the heavens and earth, and He lives and reigns forever with ALL power, dominion, and authority. The Sovereign LORD God is the living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), and the living God and Holy Father of Christ Jesus our Lord. Job, in the Old Testament, discovered during his times of trouble and suffering that God our Redeemer lives, and that He is the living God of all comfort, with faithfulness, compassion, and tender mercy. The Sovereign LORD God is the living God and Commander of heaven's armies - the LORD God of Hosts (Sabaoth), and He fights for and protects His faithful people throughout the world.

Also, the Resurrected Christ Jesus our Lord is the Lord of All, and He also is alive and lives forever, reigning and ruling at the right hand of His Majestic Father in the heavens with ALL power, authority, and dominion. Christ Jesus our Lord is also the living God and the Author of Life, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who holds the keys of life and death. The prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament saw Christ Jesus’s glory, predicted Christ Jesus’s coming to bring salvation, and called Christ Jesus the Everlasting God and Prince of Peace. The Gospel writer John called Christ Jesus the Holy One of God, the Light and Life of the world, like His Righteous Father in heaven. Christ Jesus is our Living Hope, and He lives and reigns forever as our eternal High Priest to bring our heaven’s salvation, grace, and mercy for everyone who comes to Him by faithful obedience.

Moreover, the Holy Spirit of God is living and is called the fountain of Living Water that flows directly from the living Sovereign LORD God and His Righteous Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. The book of Revelation calls the Holy Spirit the “Water of Life” that comes from the Throne of the living God. Also, the Holy Spirit is the Living Water that baptizes, and the source and promise that bring God’s salvation, new spiritual life (rebirth), regeneration, cleansing, and spiritual gifting into our hearts and minds from living God the Father and His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. The living Sovereign LORD God gives and freely pours out His Holy Spirit with blessings into the lives and hearts of those who humbly come to Him and His Son Christ Jesus with faithful love and obedience. However, the Holy Spirit departs and leaves those who are disobedient, rebellious, and unfaithful to the living God, leaving that rebellious person with a tormenting spirit of depression, anxiety, and fear. The Old Testament prophecy predicted the outpouring of the Holy Spirit when the living Sovereign LORD God’s salvation arrived with the Messiah (Christ) Jesus, which was fulfilled at Pentecost in Acts 2 after Christ Jesus death and resurrection. Importantly, the Holy Spirit is the Holy Presence and Power of the living God within His faithful and obedient people with holy fellowship to continue His good works and deeds with good spiritual fruit here on earth for His glory and honor.

The living Sovereign LORD God and His Righteous Son, Christ Jesus our Lord, as One, deserve all our first love, allegiance, and worship as the living LORD and Supreme Ruler and King of the heavens and earth. As One, the Sovereign LORD God and Christ Jesus our Lord are the living Great I AM (Yahweh), the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, and the Beginning and the End. Together, the living Sovereign LORD God and His Son Christ Jesus with the Holy Spirit of God created the heavens and earth. The living Sovereign LORD God and Christ Jesus our Lord together love faithful believers in Jesus, freed (redeemed) us from Satan’s darkness and evil, and made us a holy nation and kingdom of priests for God’s glory and service to the world. God’s love is an unending and unbreakable love for those who remain wholeheartedly faithful and obedient to Him.

Let EVERYONE seek and love the living God with all faithfulness, obedience, and humility so you can find divine heart peace and rest. Only a commitment to live a life of faithfulness and obedience to the living God leads to receiving God’s righteousness, mercy, abundant blessings, true life, and salvation from heaven. Jesus is LORD!

The Holy Bible describes the living and eternal God of Heaven as “holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty” in the Old and New Testaments. The living God of Heaven is perfectly holy with absolute moral virtue and holiness in all His ways, nature, and character. Holiness with order and peace also describes the living God of Heaven’s character because He is without chaos, confusion, and discord. In fact, holiness is a fundamental and central attribute of the living God of Heaven, for He is morally and ethically pure without sin, wrongdoing, or evil. Moreover, the Spirit of the living God of Heaven is holy and true and without any sin, darkness, and evil. Christ Jesus our Lord addressed the living God of Heaven as His “Holy Father” while praying for His disciples (followers), and He also instructed His disciples to address His Father as Holy Father also during our daily prayers.

The living God of Heaven is called the Holy One, and He is majestic in holiness, goodness (righteousness), and truth. The Holy Bible has many names for the living God of Heaven including Adonai, Elohim, El Shaddai (God Almighty), and Yahweh (translated as the LORD, Jehovah, and I AM WHO I AM). The Name of the living God of Heaven is holy and good. The Holy Bible commands everyone to worship and praise the living God of Heaven with wholehearted fear and forever keep His Name in the highest honor, love, and respect at all times, including our prayers. Importantly, the Law of God, with the commandments and teachings of the living God of Heaven, is holy and good. The Holy Bible commands everyone to keep and obey the living God of Heaven’s holy Sabbath (Shabbat) to honor and worship Him.

Wherever the living God of Heaven dwells is holy. The angels of the living God are holy and are called His holy ones. Anything the living God of Heaven comes into contact with, including the ground, also becomes holy and consecrated (sacred) because of His Holy Presence. Notably, the Holy Bible calls Israel and Jerusalem to be holy as His treasured possession and will be renewed with Christ Jesus’s Second Coming.

Significantly, Christ Jesus our Lord, who is the Son of the living God, is also called the Holy One of God. The angel Gabriel announced to Mary at the birth of her Son, Christ Jesus, that He would be called the Holy One and the Son of the living God. The Holy Spirit of God, as a pure dove, descended upon Christ Jesus our Lord at His baptism and empowered Christ Jesus with a holy anointing for His ministry as the Promised Messiah of God (Anointed One) while on earth. The Holy Bible describes Christ Jesus as holy, without sin, and blameless, and commands everyone to follow His holy ways with truth in our daily living and conduct. The Apostle Peter called Christ Jesus the “Holy One of God,” the “Holy and Righteous One,” and God’s “Holy Servant” in the New Testament. The book of Revelation calls Christ Jesus our Lord “holy and true,” and He is the Gatekeeper with the keys to open the heavens for those who come to Him with trust and faithful obedience.

Let everyone continually live and worship the living God of Heaven with the beauty of holiness, truth, and goodness. Because of the living God of Heaven’s holiness, everyone must worship and honor Him along with His Son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God with wholehearted love, respect, obedience, and importantly, fear and not contempt nor disrespect. The living God of Heaven and His Son Christ Jesus our Lord are holy, and as One, the earth is filled with God’s Glory. Jesus is Lord!

The living God of Heaven wants His people to reflect His holiness, purity, and glory on earth because He is holy, pure, and glorious. The very nature and being of the living God of Heaven is holy and without sin. Here is the Good News: The living God of Heaven, as Redeemer, wants everyone to receive His gift of salvation and a new spiritual life from heaven by coming to His Son, Christ Jesus, through repentance (turning from sin) with faith and obedience in Him as Lord and Savior. Notably, the living God of Heaven makes believers in Jesus holy and righteous as saints when we trust and faithfully obey His Son, Christ Jesus, and His teaching as our Lord and Savior. Christ Jesus is our holiness, and He also makes us holy and righteous as we obey His truthful teaching, so we can dwell with His Holy Father, the living God of Heaven. The living God of Heaven and His Son, Lord Christ Jesus our Savior, sanctifies and makes us holy, clean, and righteous as we faithfully love and follow Him and obey His commandments and teachings.

The New Testament commands believers in Jesus to fully give our lives and whole hearts as a living and holy sacrifice to the God of Heaven, by living good and moral lives in truth that honor and glorify Him. As believers in Christ Jesus, the only sacrifice and offering the living God of Heaven commands is the sacrifice of living holy and true lives that love and honor Him, producing good fruits and loving deeds towards others, and worshiping and praising Him with spiritual songs and psalms from our whole hearts and mouths. Our faithful devotion and allegiance to the God of Heaven, holy living, and our good works for His glory are our sacrifices, worship, and offerings that please and honor Him.

Significantly, the Lord Christ Jesus, our Savior, taught that only those who repent of Satan’s evildoing and live holy in truth can enter God’s Holy Kingdom and see His Holy Father. Nothing impure or unholy will enter God’s Kingdom. Furthermore, the Apostle Paul’s teaching in the New Testament encourages believers in Jesus to live moral and holy lives, with goodness and humility, and to no longer follow Satan and the world’s dark living and deeds because of Christ Jesus’s abundant grace and sacrificial death for our sins, crimes, and wrongdoings. So let everyone live for Christ Jesus, wholeheartedly devoted to Him, producing an abundant harvest of His good and holy spiritual fruit in the world. Adonai and His Son Christ Jesus as One are our only Savior and Protector. Jesus is Lord!