Getting to the Truth

Hello my fellow citizens,

I have heard reports that about 70% to 80% of the people in the United States claim that they are Christian. How is that possible when the United States has become so evil as a whole. If this statistic was right, we would not be having all the problems we are currently having.

I think it is time to stop soft shoeing around the issue of who is a Christian and who isn’t. Even though the definition of a Christian has been blurred by man’s understanding, God’s definition of a true born again Christian is very clear in His Word. Below are some biblical verses and questions to help you determine if you are a believer and where you are in your walk with God. This is an evaluation for yourself and on yourself.


First Question:

Do you believe in God and that Jesus His Son died on the cross for all our sins, and that Jesus Christ rose from the grave and is now our holy spiritual High Priest?

If you answered YES to this question, then go to question 2.

If you don’t believe in God and His Son Jesus Christ, then you should stop here and delete this email.


Second Question:

Do you believe that the Bible (the King James Version from the original Greek and Hebrew) is God’s infallible Word of God and that His Word doesn’t contradict itself?

If you answered YES to this question, then go to question 3.

If you answered NO, then you are not a Christian and should not call yourself one. If anyone believes they are a Christian, but they don’t believe God’s Word is all true, then you have no real belief in God and also no basis to evaluate your beliefs and/or morals to live by. Like many others, you have beliefs, but they could be based on anything, and they probably are. You should stop here and delete this email.


Third Question:

Have you given every part of your life over to God?

Luke 14:26-27 - If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be my disciple . And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Luke 14:33 - In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.

Rom 12:1 - Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.

James 4:4 - Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Have you already killed all your selfishness or are you working intensely to die to all your selfish sinful ways? Have you or are you currently striving intensely to put Jesus (God) as Lord over every aspect of your life? Are you unwilling to accept any unrighteousness in your life?

If you answered YES to all these questions above, then go to question 4.

If you answered NO to any of the questions above, then you are not a mature Christian or a true Son of God yet, because you haven’t let go of some of your evil ways. You evidently have some belief and faith in God, but not the full belief and faith required for maturity. You can be considered a baby Christian that still feeds on spiritual milk. If are not a new Christian and you have considered yourself a Christian for awhile now, then you should really take a closer look at your current beliefs. God accepts us in the condition we are at when we first came to Him, but God expects you to keep growing ever like Him.

Matt 12:50 - For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

Rev 21:7 - He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

If anyone doesn’t agree with any of these verses or think that you don’t have to give up all and be willing to kill all of your selfishness to be a mature Christian, then you probably don’t believe in God’s Word. If this is the case, stop here and go back to question 2.


Fourth Question:

Has God fully filled you with His Holy Spirit and His love where you no longer sin? Has God’s love fully taken over all your desires where you no longer desire sin, but only desire good and God’s righteousness?

1 John 3:9 - Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. NKJV

1 John 5:4 - For everyone born of God overcomes the world.

1 John 5:18 - We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. NKJV

2 Cor 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

1 John 5:3-4 - And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world.

Have you come to this point in your salvation, where you no longer sin? Are you now living in the power of God’s love alone? Have you been born of God?

If you answered YES to the above questions, then you are truly a born again Christian. God’s grace and your persistence for His righteousness have resulted in a true Christ like being. Congratulations on your overcoming, your son ship, and your inheritance into God’s kingdom. Please go on to the “We are the light” section below.

A person that has been born of God no longer sins against God’s will. Some people might have a problem believing this, but this is what God’s Word clearly says. If you have a problem believing these scriptures, then stop here and go back to question 2.


We Are The Light:

The few of us that have got this far, we must now understand that we have to be God’s main and brightest lights for Him. We must be bold for God’s glory and bold for the benefit of others that might eventually search or are searching for God’s righteousness. If there is going to be any hope for our country and/or world, we must not shrink back from our callings and use the mighty gifts that God has given us to do His work. God has released us from our internal spiritual war within ourselves to fight the battle out in the world for His glory. We are the ones that are now a slave to God’s righteousness and actually love being in bondage of doing His work. We have been given so much more of God’s Holy Spirit because we have been found worthy. Because God has given us much more, God also expects much more from us. We are called and have been freed to serve God and do His work alone. We are God’s elect to do His mighty works, with God’s grace let us be worthy of Him.

God’s blessings,
Michael W Reid

We Believe What We Want To Believe

I would like to start out this message and share some of my heartache for my fellow man. Ever since God has placed the Word of God in me, I have been writing about God and His Word. The Word of God that has been placed in my heart has motivated me out of love for all my fellow man. This Word of God that is inside me has shown me how deficit and lost I was before I was born again and I realize that most people are lacking this born again experience - like I was before the Truth of God came to me. It is this very Truth of God that motivates me, because my spiritual eyes have been opened to the real truth and I know most are still on that wide and fast road to hell, because they are still letting themselves be deceived by the devil. I tell you this, because I want to let you know how I hurt deeply for the lost. Sometimes I hurt so much that almost all my energy is taken up by this passion that God has put in me.

Through this passion and sharing of God’s Word with other people, I have realized that a lot of people won’t believe the Truth, mainly because they don’t want to believe it. Of course there are the people that believe there is no God, no heaven, and no hell. My mother is one of these new age thinking people and no matter what I say, she will not believe. Why won’t she believe – because she doesn’t want to believe. My mother knows that if she were to believe what I was saying, she would then have to change her lifestyle and that is not something she is willing to do. So she has found some other books that her lifestyle agrees with – so she can have some contentment that she is OK.

Another group of believers is where they believe there is a God, but might believe that there are no consequences for sin, no judgment to hell, and no rewarding of heaven. These people also might believe that there is more than one God and Creator. They also might believe that there are many ways to get to heaven. They believe that if there is a God, that He is a loving God and will allow everyone into heaven. They say - how could a loving God send anyone to hell – if there is a hell. These people are imagining up their own idea of what God is like. The God they make up is a God that serves them and He will be a God that suites what they want to believe a God is. Again, why do people believe this way – because it is what they want to believe. This kind of god allows them to live what ever selfish lifestyle they choose without the worry of eternal consequences. These people can usually have temporary contentment in acting out their selfish lifestyle and have no remorse about their actions. A person with this belief can feel they are OK with the world and God because they are of the world and see most people acting just like them – so they must be OK too.

Still, there is another big group of believers that call themselves Christians. Even though they call themselves Christians, they have not yet become Christ like or a slave to Christ, as the name “Christian” implies. They are not yet true followers of Christ, since they have not yet picked up their cross (they have not yet died to all their selfishness). Of some of these people, you could say that they are on their salvation path, but until they put away all their own wants and human beliefs and believe in God’s Word alone, they cannot be a disciple of Christ. This group of believers believes the Bible only in part. Most of this group might listen to the Sunday Church message and take some of it to heart, but they don’t get serious and read God’s Word for themselves. They will spend part of their time for God on Sunday, but will live like the rest of the world all the other days of the week. A lot of these people say they don’t understand the Bible. That they would rather hear it interpreted from someone else. The reason they don’t understand the Bible is because the Bible is Spiritual and they are not. God’s ways are not like man’s ways, so when they read the Bible, they cannot understand it because they are trying to accept it and reason it out with man’s selfish way of thinking. Some of these people will accept some verses of the Bible, but will reject other verses of the Bible. They end up believing the Bible verses they want to believe and leave the rest of the Bible verses in the dust, because they seem to conflict with the verses they believe or they just can’t bring themselves to believe in those verses – because their selfish thinking will not allow them to believe the truth.

Then there is the smaller group of believers that believes that every Word of the Bible is true, inspired by God, and that there are no conflicts within God’s Word. These believers have surrendered their lives to the power of God’s Word and they live by it’s every Word. They have laid down their lives in faith of God’s Word, even before God has gave them the total understanding of His Word. I have found that when people act on this faith (hope) in God’s Word, it is after this act of obedience - that God usually opens up His Truth and reasoning of His Word to that person. We usually receive the understanding of God’s Truth after we have been obedient to that truth in faith. We receive the understanding of God’s Truth by the acts of our faith, but after we receive the knowledge of the Truth, we are then acting on Truth and not just something we hope to be Truth. These believers also know that there are no conflicts in God’s Word. If they seem to find a conflict between certain verses of God’s Word, then they know that they must have a misunderstanding of one or both of the conflicting verses. I said in the beginning of this letter that I had received the Truth of God (the Spirit of Truth) and I can attest that there are no conflicts in God’s Word.

Most people will only partially believe or not believe in God’s Word at all, because their selfishness blocks them from believing. This is what is meant when the Bible says the lost are blinded and walking in the dark. They are blinded by their own selfish wants. They can’t see the truth, because they don’t want to see the truth. If they would take the blinders of selfishness off of their spiritual eyes, then they would see the truth and the truth would set them free.

So, as I am ending this letter, I am pleading with you to search out God’s Truth (if you haven’t already). It is for your own eternal benefit. Are you going to choose to believe what your selfishness wants you to believe or overrule your selfishness in favor of God’s Truth. It is for God’s glory that you be born again of His Holy Spirit and that you in turn receive the benefits of being His eternal son. When you have made the choice to leave all your selfish wants behind and act in faith and obedience to God’s love – then you will be born again of His Holy Spirit and all of heaven will rejoice – and I will be one of those rejoicing with the angels.


Michael Reid

What is meant by “believe in Him”

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

So who are the ones that have everlasting life – the people that believe in Jesus Christ. So the real question is – what does it mean to believe in Jesus Christ. I will try to explain the answer to this question in the most direct and biblical way.

Most people think it means - to believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the 2nd identity in the Trinity, and that He died on the cross for our sins. The devil and all the demons believe this also – so why aren’t they all saved? If this is the extent of your belief – you are still headed to an eternity in hell.

Everybody has beliefs in someone or something and as a result of those beliefs, we all act on what we believe. If we believe in our ability to reason out what is best for us and others, we will then act on our own reasoning over the truths of the Bible. If we believe in money and material things to sustain us and make us happy, we will then act on making and producing as much financial wealth as possible. If we believe in our own reasoning and/or financial wealth – then anyone that gets in the way of reaching our goals in these areas of belief will be trampled down under our feet so that they will be removed as an obstruction to our goals and beliefs. Anyone that believes this way is of the devil and not of God.

Belief in Jesus Christ is when you believe in Jesus as your Lord and forsake any human reasoning that contradicts the Word of God. When we truly believe in Jesus as our Lord, we in essence become a slave to His truth and ways. We believe the Bible as our road map to eternal salvation with Him. We no longer act primarily on our human reasoning and emotions, but primarily act on God’s Word and His Spiritual leadings.

If we say we believe in Jesus as our Lord and Savior, but do not act on His truths, we are a liar and the truth is not in us. If we believe in something – we will always act on that belief if we really believe it. If we don’t act on what we say we believe – then we really don’t believe what we are saying.

Through a true belief in Christ, we must love Him above all others and/or things in our life, otherwise we cannot be His disciple.

Luke 14:26-27 - If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Anyone that does not love God more than anyone else or anything else in their life – will not be worthy of receiving Him.

Matt 10:37-39 - Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind is not an option – it is a requirement.

Matt 22:36-39 - Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law? Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment.

If we truly believe in Jesus Christ, we will obey His Word and all His commandments. After we truly believe and act on that belief by being totally obedient to His commandments – then we will receive Jesus’ Spirit – “the Spirit of truth”.

John 14:15-17 - If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth.

If through our total belief in Christ we end up obeying every teaching of Christ – we then have the Spirit of God and Jesus come live with us forever. If we don’t obey His teachings – then we have not believed with our heart and will not become a home for His Spirit and in turn will not be worthy of entering an eternal life with God.

John 14:23-24 - If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching.

A relationship with God has become a possibility to everyone through Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins, but what you do with that relationship is your choice. You can come to a total belief and love for God and be saved unto eternal life or you can decide to reject God’s great gift of grace by rejecting even a portion of His love - because of a lack of belief in Him (faith). If you end up rejecting any of His truth and/or commands – then that shows that you don’t really believe in Jesus Christ and you will not be worthy of His eternal life. You have your whole life to come to this total belief. The question is - will you submit to Jesus Christ as Lord and when will you die?

You can tell when you have come to this total belief (faith) in God when you stop sinning. Sinning is when you have been brought to a knowledge of God’s ways and commandments by way of His Word and/or His Spirit and then you decide to reject that knowledge of God and do what you think best instead.

Because of the fact that we all act on what we really believe – then every time you knowingly sin – you are really saying to God that you don’t believe in Him and His ways. When you sin, you are really believing in your own self and not God. When you sin, you are still putting yourself and your own understanding and reasoning above God’s Word. When you sin, you are rejecting God by depending on yourself and not totally depending on God’s Word and all His promises. When you sin – you are simply saying that you don’t believe in God and His Son Jesus Christ.

God demands a total belief and love for Him. Anything falling short of this will condemn us to an eternal life in hell.

God’s servant – Michael Reid