Posted on 02/28/2015 4:57:14 PM PST by kindred
My friends, the longer I walk with the Lord and exercise His Word in my life, the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY are ever more clear to me (Psalm 119: 98-100, Prov. 1:5-7, 1 Cor. 1:18-31). No matter who you are, whenever one seeks to abide and take on the Lord of ETERNITY'S yoke (Matt. 11:28-20), one will be illumined beyond ones wildest dreams to the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY.
The REALITIES of time and ETERNITY are absolutely horrific! No wonder men love darkness instead of light.
The REALITIES of time and ETERNITY are absolutely horrific! No wonder men love darkness instead of light and seek to hide themselves from the accountability of Almighty God (John 1:5, 3:19-21, Rom. 1:18-32)! ETERNITY awaits mankind yet they are totally consumed with the now, temporal and vain (Eccl). All that is done outside of the ETERNAL Creator's will in the end is absolute vanity (John 3:16-17, Acts 17:30, 1 Tim.2:3-4) and all that is done outside of Almighty God's saving grace is ETERNAL ruin (Rev. 20:11-15). In today's America, the horror of all horrors is that Americans and all of mankind have fully embraced death and ETERNAL ruin and want nothing to do with their Creator (Prov. 8:36, John 1:10-12, Rom. 1:18-32, Rev. 20:11-15).
They have zero desire to turn to Him and they have fully embraced Satan's "do as thou wilt" godless philosophy.
They have zero desire to turn to Him and they have fully embraced Satan's "do as thou wilt" godless philosophy (Rom. 1:18-32). From progressives to conservatives, from moderates to liberals, from Jews to apostate Christians, from secularist to atheist, from Muslims to Buddhists... etc... etc... these have absolutely no room for ETERNAL REALITY, ABSOLUTE TRUTH, Almighty God's saving grace and solution (Rom. 1:18-32). They are no different than their fathers of old from Babel, who chose to live out a godless existence and delusion saturated in vanity without their Creator and His RIGHTEOUS absolutes (Gen. 11:1-9, Rom. 1:18-32).
They are no different than their fathers of old from Babel, who chose to live out a godless existence and delusion saturated in vanity without their Creator and His RIGHTEOUS absolutes.
My friend, UNBELIEF is UNBELIEF no matter who you are or no matter how sincere you are. Sincerity without TRUTH and REALITY is satanic and one's good intentions are the brinks that pave the way to ETERNAL damnation (Prov. 12:15, 16:25, Matt. 7:13-14, 26-28).
The bottom line for all of Adam's fallen race is that we as fallen human beings need salvation, redemption and the COMPLETE PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS which Almighty God has provided in His perfect propitiation, the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:12-21,1 Cor. 1:29-31, 1 John 4:10).
My friend, UNBELIEF is UNBELIEF no matter who you are or no matter how sincere you are.
It has been my personal exercise and experience over the last 24 years that the overwhelming majority of humans love their delusion and its destructive fruits of death, darkness and ETERNAL destruction (John 3:19-21). They absolutely love it and WILL NOT LET IT GO! They WILL NOT repent and turn to the Savior! Whether they be liberals, moderates, conservatives - who adhere to many different spiritual philosophies (aka religions) - they all seek an existence removed from the sound Biblical REALITY of ALMIGHTY God's basic ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS ABSOLUTES and ETERNAL destiny (Rom. 1:18-32).
Whether they be liberals, moderates, conservatives - who adhere to many different spiritual philosophies (aka religions) - they all seek an existence removed from the sound Biblical REALITY of ALMIGHTY God's basic ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS ABSOLUTES and ETERNITY'S future.
In this day in which society is traveling at EXPONENTIAL speeds, man's EXPONENTIAL advances in technology, abounding resources and abundance for the majority of the common man have advanced EXPONENTIALLY! The majority of Americans today think that they have no need for the ETERNAL things that their Creator offers them in RIGHTEOUSNESS and have deceived themselves into believing that their dead works are sufficient for the redemption of their souls (Rom. 3:23, 6:23, 10:2-4, Eph. 2:8-9, Rev. 3:14-22) Today's EXPERIENTIAL advances have opened wide the door for apostate christian Americans and the West to gorge themselves on their basest desires, material wants and narcissistic ambitions and have left them deceiving themselves and rejecting the Christ they claim to profess (1 Tim 4:1-3, 2 Tim 3:1-7, Rev. 3:14-22).
Today's EXPERIENTIAL advances have opened wide the door for apostate christian Americans and the West to gorge themselves on their basest desires, material wants and narcissistic ambitions and have left them deceiving themselves and rejecting the Christ they claim to profess.
In this last day "Laodicean Church Age" - which sets the stage for the Day of the Lord - professing Christendom proclaims that because of increasing goods and wealth that they have need of nothing from Almighty God (Rev. 3:14-22). Is this not our day! We as a post Judeo/Christian nation have EXPONENTIAL technological advances in medicine, farming, social conveniences, world and national travel, the sciences, tools, an abundance of all foods that are accessible to all from top to bottom and our souls are famished, ever wanting NEVER being satisfied (Eccl. 3:11). The average government dependent today lives like a king and has access to nearly all the luxuries of this day. It is this very complacent mindset of being content that has deceived Americans from top to bottom from their desperate need for the Savior (John 3:6-17, 8:24, Rom. 10:2-4). Once the Rapture takes place, these will be left behind to face the EXPONENTIAL REALITIES at hand, the ravishing of the Four Horsemen and the EXPONENTIAL catastrophes of the seven year tribulation period (Rev. 6-16).
We as a post Judeo/Christian nation have EXPONENTIAL technological advances in medicine, farming, social conveniences, world and national travel, the sciences, tools, an abundance of all foods that are accessible to all from top to bottom and our souls are famished ever wanting NEVER being satisfied.
Indeed my friend, the Lord Jesus stands at the door and knocks with an EXPONENTIAL knock in this EXPONENTIAL age via the Internet, TV ministries, Bibles and Gospel messages and studies in every language and tongue etc.. etc... but who will open their heart's door to Him? Near none.. and thus the present world is ripe for global judgment, for they are unrepentant and zealous to work lawlessness against their ETERNAL Creator (Rom. 1:18-32, Rev. 6-16).
What is wonderful to know is as our society and technology is moving at EXPONENTIAL speeds the GRACE and MERCY of Almighty God far exceeds those speeds allowing all to turn to Him.
What is wonderful to know is as our society and technology is moving at EXPONENTIAL speeds the GRACE and MERCY of Almighty God far exceeds those speeds allowing all to turn to Him (John 6:37, Rom. 2:4, Eph. 1:7). My friend now is the time of salvation! Today is the day to do business with the Almighty! For tomorrow you might not be. The Day of the Lord is TRULY at the hand and you do not want to be one of those who is overtaken and mowed down by the EXPONENTIAL destructive forces of a world in a supersonic death spiral (Rev. 6-19).
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
Ephesians Chapter 2
1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
11Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Belief is also belief and does not need to be a gilded lily.
So. Let me see if I can paraphrase:
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
No, more like;
John 3:
13And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Jesus and Nicodemus
John Chapter 3 : 14
15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Two can play at this game.
1) Satan says something terrible will happen to you for all eternity if you do not follow Satan.
2) And there’s just as much justification for this statement as there are for your infantile threats; designed to coerce other psychological infants.
As a believer who was born again far longer ago than just yesterday, I can point out that it is certainly possible to do almost any Christian ritual, even “exercising the Word,” to the flesh. If there was some folly in the supposed name of Christ, I more likely than not at least dabbled in it.
The spirit of the Lord is love. Love is the leading motif by far; everything else falls in line with that.
Unless love is accepted at face value, it cannot do anything about pride (i.e. the flesh).
The Lord Jesus call on all His saved sinners to preach His Word to all who would consider and receive salvation through Him only. Beleive on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Him only. There is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Him only shall you worship. As He said in the Scriptures;
John 14:
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Many Mansions
John Chapter 14 : 1
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
And, in contradistinction the spirit of the devil is hate.
The devil will never put himself out for you to forgive you of any sin. The devil uses morality for only one thing: to beat and whip you.
Some people won’t let God forgive them. And it leaves them as even worse wretches than they need to be.
Be careful to keep the causation straight. We love Him only because He first loved us. We can’t ever bestow even the same amount of love upon Him than He has for us, let alone more.
Some people, beginning to follow the Lord, are thrown off by people who make a big show of their devoutness but inside are hypocrites. Christ hates such misleading shepherds.
[Two can play at this game.
1) Satan says something terrible will happen to you for all eternity if you do not follow Satan.
2) And there’s just as much justification for this statement as there are for your infantile threats; designed to coerce other psychological infants.]
Those who generally rail against the Word of God, who is the person named Jesus Christ, generally make slanderous statements like this. Why, because they do not belive on Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, a mistake that cost any and all of mankind who do not call on God by Christ Jesus to lose their eternal souls to Satan, who hates both God and all who worship His Son as the Christ and King of Israel and the earth to come. Search the Scriptures lest you make the infantile and deadly mistake of trusting in yourself, a vanity that destroys millions of ignorant souls who refure the grace and wisdom of the Lord God of Israel and His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Proberbs 6:
12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
16These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Hello Redneck, what can I say that has not been said in the Scriptures.
2 Corinthians 10
3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
14For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
15Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
Satan did not rise from the dead
nor was Satan seen by over 500 people after rising from the dead
Nor was Satan seen to rise into heaven to be received by God the Father
Nor did Satan ever do the miracles that Jesus did and were recorded by faithful Jews
and if you do NOT believe Jesus, you will die in your sins
yet, if you believe Satan, you WILL die in your sins
It is what you believe IN that matters. Not that I just BELIEVE in Jesus Christ. Do you believe in His death, burial and Resurrection?? The blood shed on the Cross when He won the victory for us at Calvary over death, hell and the grave. Satan was a defeated thing after the resurrection. A personal relationship with the Christ. Call on His name and be saved. Not just show up on Sunday morning, toss $5.00 in the plate and have punched your ticket for the week. HE KNOWS who is really His and who is not. It is a KNEE thing. DID you get on your knees and ask Him to forgive you for your sins, change your life and start walking with Him. As He said, throw all the things of the world away, take up the Cross and follow HIM. And HIM ONLY!! It is about one word, FAITH. Do you actually believe? Have faith in the one and only, true Living God. Yeshua.
In man’s heart he knows God is higher than satan.
So are you one of those who think Catholics are headed to the Bad Place, or is it the Protestants who will be in the Big Barbecue?
BKMK
Yeah.
I was just trying to be uber brief. :-)
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Very succinct. Someone should write that in a book somewhere.
Of course, it needs elaboration. Lots of it. And ALLCAPS.
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