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 Preparation for Heavenly Living Correspondence School 
http://www.geocities.com/bibleloverbillPFHL Course 233-- True Christians’ Responsibility for Righteousness(special compilation of verses by Bill Stevenson)
Jesus said to His disciples that if they love Him, they would keep His commandments and the Epistlewriters indicated that true Christians should become more and more Christ-like by thinking and doing inmoral and ethical ways-- Sanctification. Read John 14:6 & 21-24, 15:9-17 and 1 John 2:1-6 & 5:2-3 before going on. Most church-going Christians do not know what it takes to live a Heavenly lifestyle because they are not studying and their church leadership are not teaching the New Testament Gospels andEpistles verse by verse. I believe that this is because the commandments in the just mentioned Scriptureare too convicting or/and controversial for most individuals. Usually just the stories in the Bible and prophecy are the only Bible teaching in most Christian churches. So I decided to collate a collection of thecommandments that will help true Christians understand what changes are required before Jesus Christcomes back. Sanctification is not automatic!! Bad habits need to be stopped and replaced by good, God- pleasing habits.Jesus Christ did not come on Earth in Human form in the beginning of the New Testament times to onlysatisfy His Father’s death penalty of sin and He did not come to destroy all of the Old TestamentCommandments by His unfair, necessary, crucifixion death for those who believe in the Gospel. [Matthew5:17-20] His life exemplified perfect unselfish righteous living, obeying all of His Father’s expectationsand hopes for human beings in living to loving Him and for His pleasure. As each true Christian gets toknow Jesus Christ and the Bible better, he or she should gradually make changes in his or her thinking anddoing in obeying more of the right attitude and action commandments found in the Word of God. Then heor she will be pleasing God the Father more and more because they love Him increasingly. Please readPhilippians 2-3, Ephesians 1:4-14, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Ephesians 4:1-16, and 1 John 4:6-21 before goingon.This implies that true Christianity is based on special relating, not just going through religiousceremonies and traditions in church. Thus the attitude and action commandments are grouped in types of relationships indicating by sub-headings. Not all of such commandments are included because many aresimilar or even identical in both Old and New Testaments, others are hard-to-understand ones which areactually indicated in other commandments, and others were just directed to certain individuals. Consider each commandment below and on the following pages as a goal and decide what frequency you shouldremember it-- daily, more than once daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. You should want to obey each just because you love God and want to please Him, not because you want to impress others. Thus, this is notlegalism; it is voluntary individual change because of love for God and His forever Word.
 Directions:First try to determine why each verse is in the section it is in and how it can be applied to living in today’s world. If you really believe most of the quotes and other Bible versesreferred to in this course, please tell me which ones and indicate any questions or doubts you might have about the ones you don’t. Or/and write an essay as if you had theopportunity to try to persuade a new Christian to want to be more Christ-like everyday.This assignment is worth 4 units, so write at least 7 quality pages (single spaced linesand no redundancies).
Commitment to righteousness (confession and repentance) is a true Christian’s need to experience“the Kingdom of God
”--
 Romans 14:16-19“Let not then your good be evil spoken of: For 
the Kingdom of God 
is not meat and drink;but 
righteousness
, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he [or she] who in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God,and approved of people. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,and things wherewith one may edify another.”
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 Luke17:20-21“Now when He [Jesus Christ] was asked by the Pharisees when
the Kingdom of God 
would come, He answered them and said, ‘ 
The Kingdom of God 
does not come with observation
 
;nor will they say, “See here!’ or ‘See there!” For indeed,
the Kingdom of God 
is within you
 
.’”
2 Timothy 3:1-9 & 16-17“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.For men [and women] shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers,false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded,´lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.For of this sort are they whocreep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,are ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,so do these also resist the truth:men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.But they shall proceed no further:for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was....All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness
:that the man [or woman] of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”Ephesians 2:8-10“For by grace are you saved through faith;and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:not of works, lest any man should boast.For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,which God hath before ordainedthat we should walk in them.”Galatians 5:19-26“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these:adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like;of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,that they who do such things shall not inherit
the Kingdom of God
.But the fruit of the Spirit islove, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:against such there is no law.And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.If we live in the Spirit,let us also walk in the Spirit.Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
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Proverbs 3:5-7“Trust in the Lord with all your heart;and lean not unto your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge Him,and He shall direct your paths.Be not wise in your own eyes;fear the Lord,and depart from evil.”
***Commandments For God-Pleasing Righteousness
Proverbs 2:20“Thus you will walk in the ways of good menand keep to the paths of the
righteous
.”Proverbs 4:14-19“Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men.Avoid it, do not travel on it;turn from it and go on your way.For they cannot sleep till they do evil;they are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall.They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.The path of the
righteous
is like the first gleam of dawn,shining ever brighter till the full light of day.But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;they do not know what makes them stumble.”Proverbs 24:15-16“Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a
righteous
man's house,do not raid his dwelling place;for though a
righteous
man falls seven times,he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity.”Hosea 10:12“Sow for yourselves
righteousness
,reap the fruit of unfailing love,and break up your unplowed ground;for it is time to seek the LORD,until He comes and showers
righteousness
on you.”Zephaniah 2:3“Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land,you who do what He commands.Seek 
righteousness
, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD's anger.”Matthew 5:13-20 & 6:1Jesus Christ said, “‘You are the salt of the Earth.But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
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