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Fundamentals
First, let's look at the definition so that we are all using the same language, the same tongue.
Fundamental
adjective
1. serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying:
fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
2. of, relating to, or affecting the foundation or basis: a fundamental revision.
3. being an original or primary source: a fundamental idea.
noun
4. a basic principle, rule, law, or the like, that serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part: to master the fundamentals of a trade.
Why is there so much criticism and bitterness against fundamental Christian laws and principles? The reason is because most of the critics are anti-Christian and have the spirit of anti-Christ. They are against law and order. They want to run their lives according to their own imagination or someone else's imagination not according to the will of God. Can it be expressed any simpler?
We learn of the will of God from the Bible, not from nature or the imagination of men. The will and lessons of God go beyond anything that nature or man can teach. God, through the Bible, gives us the Ten Commandments. These are fundamental, critical, essential, foundational, groundwork laws, rules, principles and commandments. They are required by all to do the will of God in order to be considered His sons and daughters and followers of Christ, Christians.
It is not for man to discredit the Bible. It is not for man to alter the Bible. It is for man to preserve the Bible, to know the Bible and to live by the Bible, the word of God. Many put in great efforts to do exactly what they should not do. Many more follow these charlatans. Many use the Bible irreverently, disrespectfully, to support or uphold their own personal pursuits and not the will of God. To whom God says:
Matthew 15:9 (AMP)
Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.
Heed the old warning of Psalm 101:7 (NKJV) He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence. Said king David a man after God's own heart.
1 John 2:3–6 (NKJV) says:
Now by this we know that we know Him (our Heavenly Father), if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He (Jesus) walked.
1 John 5:1–5
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves the father loves his child also. This is how we know that we love God’s children: it is by loving God and obeying (doing, carrying out, keeping) his commands. For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us, because every child of God is able to overcome the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith. Who can overcome the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
How do we overcome the world? How do we uphold and obey the commandments of God? Let Paul, the apostle, explain these fundamental concepts further.
2 Corinthians 10:3–6 (NIV84)
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We cast down arguments and every pretension (proud obstacle or high thing) that sets itself up (or that exalts itself) against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient (aligned or in agreement) to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
Test yourself and see if you can read, believe and obey God our Father's ten commandments without adding or changing or taking anything away from them in order to attempt to please anyone else, I mean anyone else. The only one you should try to please is the author, God our Heavenly Father.
Exodus 20:1–17 (NKJV)
1And God spoke all these words, saying:
2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 (1) “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 (2) “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 (3) “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 (4) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 (5) “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
13 (6) “You shall not murder.
14 (7) “You shall not commit adultery.
15 (8) “You shall not steal.
16 (9) “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 (10) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
If you failed the test you have a deadly problem because:
1 John 3:4 says:
Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
and Romans 6:23 (NKJV) says:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If you failed the test you need to repent or continue to repent.
Mark 1:14–15 (NKJV)
Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
1 John 1:9 (GNB)
But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.
1 John 4:10 (GNB)
This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son (Jesus) to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
God knows those who are His, those who obey Him, and they will someday hear His approval when they hear Him say:
Matthew 25:21 (NKJV)
‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
This is fundamental to salvation, fundamental to your receiving eternal life, fundamental to entering the Kingdom of God and fundamental to God our Father and His Son Jesus living in you, through you and with you forever.
2018 Jacques Gauvin
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