WORK
Written in 2009
by Tony Alamo
aka Bernie Hoffman
I come to you in the name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who is the WORD of GOD, for the purpose of clearing up matters pertaining to GOD’S WORD, which is GOD (John 1:1).1
We, as humans, are not able to save ourselves from the eternal torments of Hell. Only by accepting GOD’S blood sacrifice for us, can we be cleansed from our former sins.2 But after we have been delivered from such a horrible fate, we begin a new life and become yoked together with the LORD, following HIM and working with HIM to do the works of GOD.3 This is very important, because we are to obey GOD’S WORD, the LORD, if we are going to escape Hell and the Lake of Fire.4
I will list some of the marching orders which are given to us by JESUS, which are recorded in the Bible, so we may continue in the WORD of GOD. Before JESUS ascended into HEAVEN, HE said, “ALL power is given unto ME in Heaven and in earth.”
The final marching orders of JESUS to us all before HE ascended into HEAVEN are in Matthew chapter 28. In verse 19, HE commanded the disciples—all disciples—to go to work. “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY SPIRIT: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:18-20).5 Here JESUS is telling us to work, but Jezebel, the devil’s cults, say we don’t have to do any work for the LORD. Those are false prophets. This fallacy is why there has been so much sin and corruption in the world for so many years.
Why does the world population believe the weak and beggarly spirit of the devil, Satan,6 when JESUS, who has been given all power in HEAVEN and on earth, tells us to work—to teach, preach, baptize, and observe ALL of HIS commandments?7 If you will “observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you [to do MY work]…lo, I [JESUS] am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:20.) But if you are fearful of persecution, death, or prison, JESUS reminds us throughout the gospels, “Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for MY sake shall find it” (Matthew 16:25). Revelation 1:3 says, “Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, AND KEEP THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN THEREIN: for the time is at hand.”
JESUS warns one of the seven churches which are spoken of in Revelation chapters 2 and 3, the church at Ephesus, that HE knows all of the good works they have done, and their labor, and their patience, and how they can’t bear those which are evil: and knows they have tried them which say they are Apostles, and are not, and have found them liars: And have borne, and had patience, and for JESUS’ name’s sake have LABORED (WORKED), and have not fainted. Yet JESUS has something against them, because they have lost their first love (for JESUS, and have not zealously continued doing HIS work).
JESUS says, “Remember therefore from whence thou art FALLEN [JESUS says this church has FALLEN away from HIM, from GOD!! The false prophets say you can’t fall away, but JESUS says you can and are fallen away!8 HE tells us all to] repent, and do the first WORKS [like the Apostles and new converts in the book of Acts]; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick [church] out of his place, except thou repent” (Revelation 2:2-5).
James 2:14 says, “What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one GOD; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?… Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only… For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:14-20, 24, 26).
The LORD continues in Revelation chapter 3: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the AMEN, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of GOD; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of MY mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:14-17). You are in this condition because you are not following the LORD’S commandments and/or the church rules from the book of Acts. You are not walking in the HOLY SPIRIT, and if you don’t repent (report back in), I will spit you out of MY mouth (MY body) (Revelation 3:16).
If everyone who calls themself a Christian would get busy as JESUS commands, there would be a world-wide revival. Satan is a defeated foe (Hebrews 2:14-15).9 But we must continue resisting him, for if we resist him, he will flee from us (James 4:7). Give no place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27).10 Keep oil (the HOLY SPIRIT) in your lamps, which means keep the HOLY SPIRIT flowing in and through you.11 If we diligently follow the LORD’S final command to preach HIS WORD, then HE promises: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:20).
If you are an inactive Christian, then repent. And if you don’t personally know the LORD and SAVIOR, then say this prayer and you will be saved:
Prayer
My LORD and my GOD, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. 1 I believe that JESUS CHRIST is the SON of the living GOD. 2 I believe that HE died on the cross and shed HIS precious blood for the forgiveness of all my former sins. 3 I believe that GOD raised JESUS from the dead by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT 4 and that HE sits on the right hand of GOD at this moment, hearing my confession of sin and this prayer. 5 I open up the door of my heart, and I invite YOU into my heart, LORD JESUS. 6 Wash all of my filthy sins away in the precious blood that YOU shed in my place on the cross at Calvary. 7 YOU will not turn me away, LORD JESUS; YOU will forgive my sins and save my soul. I know because YOUR WORD, the Bible, says so. 8 YOUR WORD says that YOU will turn no one away, and that includes me. 9 Therefore, I know that YOU have heard me, and I know that YOU have answered me, and I know that I am saved. 10 And I thank YOU, LORD JESUS, for saving my soul, and I will show my thankfulness by doing as YOU command and sin no more.11
After salvation, JESUS said to be baptized, fully submerged in water, in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY SPIRIT.12 Then study the King James Version Bible, and, for your benefit and the benefit of others, do what it says.13
CHRIST and GOD the FATHER now live in you through the HOLY SPIRIT. There is a way you can receive a fuller portion of the divine nature of GOD in you. The more the divine nature of GOD lives in you, the more you will be able to stand against the temptations that have so easily moved so many millions of Christians away from salvation. Pray for the baptism in the HOLY SPIRIT.14 For instructions on how to receive the baptism in the HOLY SPIRIT and to receive more of GOD’S holy nature, ask for our literature or call. For without holiness, no man shall see GOD (Hebrews 12:14).
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If you want the world saved, as JESUS commands, then don’t rob GOD of HIS tithes and offerings. GOD said, “Will a man rob GOD? Yet ye have robbed ME. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed THEE? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed ME, even this whole nation [and this whole world]. Bring ye all the tithes [a ‘tithe’ is 10% of your gross income] into the storehouse, that there may be meat [Spiritual food] in MINE house [souls saved], and prove ME now herewith, saith the LORD of HOSTS, if I will not open you the windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of HOSTS. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of HOSTS” (Malachi 3:8-12).
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footnotes:
1. John 1:1, 14, 1 John 1:1-3, 5:7, Rev. 1:10-16, 19:11-16 return
2. Matt. 20:28, 26:28, John 1:29, 3:14-17, Acts 5:30-31, 20:28, Rom. 3:21-26, 5:6-21, Gal. 1:3-4, 4:4-5, 1 Thes. 5:9-10, 1 Tim. 2:5-6, Heb. 2:9-10 return
3. Ezek. 36:27, Matt. 11:28-30, John 15:1-8, Rom. 8:1-14, 12:1-2, 1 Cor. 3:8-9, 16, 15:10, 57-58, 2 Cor. 6:1, Gal. 2:20, Eph. 3:20-21, Phlp. 2:12-13, 4:13, Col. 1:27-29, 2 Tim. 4:1-5, Titus 2:13-14 return
4. Psa. 103:17-18, Prov. 19:16, Matt. 3:10, 5:20, 7:13-23, 10:28, 13:41-42, 24:48-51, 25:14-46, Luke 13:24-28, John 8:51, Eph. 5:3-6, Col. 3:5-6, Heb. 2:1-3, 6:7-8, 10:26-29, James 2:10, 12-13, Rev. 20:11-15 return
7. Prov. 24:11-12, Ezek. 3:17-21, 33:2-9, Matt. 5:13, 12:30, 33, 24:45-51, John 15:1-6, Rom. 1:18, 12:1-13, 1 Cor. 1:21, 3:9-17, 9:16, 2 Cor. 5:18-20, 2 Tim. 4:5-8, Titus 2:11-15, James 2:12-26, 1 John 2:3-6, 3:6-10 return
8. Ex. 32:33, 1 Chron. 28:9, 2 Chron. 15:2, Matt. 5:13, 12:43-45, Luke 9:62, John 15:6, Rom. 11:22, Gal. 2:17-18, 4:9, Col. 1:21-23, 2 Thes. 2:3, 1 Tim. 1:19, 2 Tim. 2:12, Heb. 3:6-19, 4:1-11, 6:4-8, 10:26-31, 38-39, 1 Pet. 4:17-18, 2 Pet. 2:20-22, 2 John 9, Jude 5-6, Rev. 2:4-5, 3:2-3 return
9. Isa. 14:9-17, Ezek. 28:13-19, Matt. 8:28-32, 25:41, Mark 1:23-26, 1 John 3:8, Jude 6, Rev. 1:18, 12:9-12, 20:10 return
11. Lev. 24:2, Matt. 25:1-13, Luke 12:35-36 return
Prayer footnotes:
1. Psa. 51:5, Rom. 3:10-12, 23 return
2. Matt. 26:63-64, 27:54, Luke 1:30-33, John 9:35-37, Rom. 1:3-4 return
3. Acts 4:12, 20:28, Rom. 3:25, I John 1:7, Rev. 5:9 return
4. Psa. 16:9-10, Matt. 28:5-7, Mark 16:9, 12, 14, John 2:19, 21, 10:17-18, 11:25, Acts 2:24, 3:15, Rom. 8:11, I Cor. 15:3-7 return
5. Luke 22:69, Acts 2:25-36, Heb. 10:12-13 return
6. I Cor. 3:16, Rev. 3:20 return
7. Eph. 2:13-22, Heb. 9:22, 13:12, 20-21, I John 1:7, Rev. 1:5, 7:14 return
8. Matt. 26:28, Acts 2:21, 4:12, Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14 return
9. Matt. 21:22, John 6:35, 37-40, Rom. 10:13 return
10. Heb. 11:6 return
11. John 5:14, 8:11, Rom. 6:4, I Cor. 15:10, Rev. 7:14, 22:14 return
12. Matt. 28:18-20, John 3:5, Acts 2:38, 19:3-5 return
13. Deut. 4:29, 13:4, 26:16, Josh. 1:8, 22:5, 2 Tim. 2:15, 3:14-17, James 1:22-25, Rev. 3:18 return
14. Isa. 28:11-12, Joel 2:28-29, Luke 3:16, 11:9-13, John 1:29-34, 7:37-39, 14:15-29, 15:26, 16:7-14, Acts 1:1-8, 2:1-18, 32-39, 5:29-32, 19:1-7, Rom. 5:3-5, 15:13 return