May God Bless You!

Brethren, above all we must realize that a creed is that which one practices (summing up of religious belief) and must be established among you as the people of God. “A people” means a group who has come to the conclusion that certain principles must be followed. And to follow these principles is to be that kind of people God will claim as his Own. If you follow evil practices you are an evil people. If you follow righteous practices, you are a righteous people. The creed is that you lay aside malice because malice will make you speak evil when there is no evil to speak about. Therefore, to be a people you must have a principle to follow. And being the People of God, we must accept the principle which God set for His People to follow. And the One God set up is Christ. And unless you follow in the steps of Christ, you cannot be God’s People.

Today we are establishing a creed for us to follow as the People of God. Turn to I Peter, second chapter. It begins by saying: “WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, AND GUILE, AND HYPOCRISES, AND ENVIES, AND ALL EVIL SPEAKINGS.” To be a hypocrite is to pretend to be what you are not. Therefore, you must lay aside hypocrisy…you must be true, or else you cannot follow the creed set by Christ whom God gave as an example.

The creed in here is to be that you lay aside malice, because malice will make you speak evil when there is no evil to speak about. A person who harbors malice is malicious… and to be malicious is to be devilish…deliberately mischievous. The creed says too that you must not possess any guile…Do not make believe to be a friend to a person just to get something out of them.

In order to obtain our creed, you must desire the sincere milk of the word that you grow thereby. And anyone who desires and will study it will grow, be respected, be recognized, regardless to who they are. Therefore the Word of God is a foundation for every man’s salvation.

In order that you can get the substance of our creed turn back to the 2nd chapter of 1st Peter and read the 6th-8th verses, “UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS: BUT TO THEM WHICH BE DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE SAME IS MADE THE HEAD OF THE CORNER, AND A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK OF OFFENCE. EVEN TO THEM WHICH STUMBLE AT THE WORD, BEING DISOBEDIENT: WHEREUNTO ALSO THEY WERE APPOINTED. BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIEST HOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT YE SHOULD SHEW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT:” Now you are a chosen generation. If you desire to be what the Lord would have you to be, He makes a choice of you. Sometime I just Thank the Lord for making a choice of me.

One of the rules the people of God must be governed by is don’t worry about people who do wrong. There is no need to take their word nor reject their word. Just leave them with the word of God. These words which we speak now will judge you in the last days. The only way God judges is by His Word. His word is based on experiences that you can find in the Book, the experiences of the other men who have gone that way. You can find them in the Book, or if you don’t want to look it up, the just look all around you. God doesn’t even tell you anything which you cannot find. So let us follow the Lord.