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  The Whole World In my journey I have encountered many types of people, but rarely have I ever come across true Believers totally sold out and serving God with their whole heart, soul, mind, and strength.   Currently, I do not know anyone serving Him thus, and the ones I did know have fallen into one of the world’s superstitious religions.   It would be hypocritical for me to say that I have attained to the full measure of this goal, but it does drive me.    What is this goal of my worship to God and how is it evidenced?   To answer that question, I had to establish a baseline, and that baseline had to begin with this: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.   Joh 4:24. To understand this succinctly, a goal of the gospel is to transform a man from a natural man into a spiritual one, thereby allowing him to serve God.   Any failure to make a total transformation means you are settling for a lie (temporarily or habitually)

  THE LAST TEST The trying of our faith and why it is not the mere belief that there is a God or that His only begotten Son gave His life to save you from your sins. Even Jesus said, “ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. ” Mat 7:21. I am in the place I am right now, hoping that my faith has substance.   I still believe there are a few people out there that realize the futility of their lives in this world, it’s not pointless if totally given over to God, but senseless if living for yourself.   Loving God selectively and learning what we choose, and why truth is ignored or opposed, is the result of loving self more than God.   Consider this passage: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.   For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live .   For as