When Jesus was on earth people heard and saw angels. People saw visions of the Lord. People received dreams from God. People marveled at Jesus. People were astonished at his doctrines and the way Jesus taught. People said, Jesus' word was with power. People rejoiced that such healing power was given by God to men when they saw the works of God thru Jesus. People spoke highly of Jesus. People stood in awe of Jesus. People said, Jesus was a mighty prophet and that thru Jesus God was visiting His people Israel. People praised Jesus for healing their loved ones and raising their children from the dead. Some people witnessed Jesus heal everyone in a certain city, as it is written, And Jesus healed them all. A man called Jesus GOOD MASTER, and asked Jesus what he needed to do to inherit eternal life, but that same man left the conversation saddened and UNSAVED. Friends, thousands and thousands of people said all kinds of nice and good things about Jesus and to Jesus. They witnessed him do all kinds of miracles of healing when he was ministering the love and power of God in earth. But friends it is so important to note that none of those nice words that they said of Jesus, or to Jesus saved a one of them. Even a man that Jesus said the words, "You have answered well", when that man had said the greatest commandment of all was, Hear O Israel, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, the bible said Jesus marveled at that mans sweet answer, but even that great answer did not save that man. Jesus said to him, You Are Not Far From The Kingdom of God. So many praise the Lord from time to time. So many even speak well of the Lord from time to time. Some people even are amazed and stand in awe at Jesus and some call him a good man, a great teacher, even a holy man and even a prophet of the Most High, yet those same souls, though they are so close yet have they not entered into the kingdom of God. Scroll Down.
It is those who repent and believe, it is those who live what they say they believe, and know and call Jesus Lord, the true Christ, the Son of God and obey him, and believe that he died for our sins and rose again from the dead, they are the ones saved. Just awing at Jesus, marveling at Jesus, praising Jesus, calling Jesus a good man, a good teacher, a good Master, or a holy man, or a prophet, those nice words do not qualify anyone unto salvation. So many are so close yet still far away. Have you been born again?....deno.....share freely.
.....As it was with Adam and with Eve, when things are going so sweet.
When the soul is rich with gladness for goodness and righteousness is
abounding for the presence and blessing of the Lord is in you and upon
your life. When oppressions find no place and afflictions cannot seem to
lay holt on us. When life's taste is holy and sweeter than the
honeycomb. When its all like paradise life, it is then friends, just as
it was in Adam and Eve, it is in those perfections, those blessed
high times that the serpent comes against us with trials and testings
and temptations in hope to impart his contamination's and poisons into
our souls and lives to turn our joy into sorrows, our sweet into bitter,
and to bring the soul down with a crush. But he needs our permission to
impart into us those wounds of affliction. ..... Had Adam and Eve
RESISTED the devil and had they never laid down the power and given not
into his words, his lies, then they would never have tasted affliction.
The good life would have remained the good life. Their sweet richness of
spirit would not have been turned into the bitter of poor in spirit.
.....Church let us all be reminded that the thief comes only to ruin
everything and rob us of our joy and of our milk and honey in Christ. It
is time to resist my friends that we can again all be restored as a
people and as a church and as a nation.....Jesus be honored and Jesus be
glorified.....Light is dawning.....deno.
3) For a long
time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them,
and without a law (It was a spiritually dry season in Israel in those
days. Sin had seemed to dry up their wells of living water of the
presence of Jehovah. But let us take notice of what they as a nation
did). 4) But when troubles and distress came, they turned to the Lord,
the God of Israel. They searched for him and THEY FOUND HIM. (Now let us
all notice the atmosphere of their
nation when they sought the Lord and FOUND HIM). 5) In those days no one
could come and go in safety (It was troubled times-tribulations),
because there was trouble and disorder in every land. 6) One nation
oppressed another nation, and one city oppressed another city, because
God was bringing and allowing trouble and distress on them. (Even when
they were being afflicted for their many transgressions, and when even the people of one city brought trouble on the next city, when friction and discord was abounding between the people, Still yet, when they came
to their senses to repent and to seek the Lord, God with favor responded
to their cry, to their seeking Him and THEY FOUND AGAIN THE FOUNTAIN OF
LIFE - JEHOVAH with them manifestly.
IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY
MY NAME....Friends we still have great and enduring hope in God thru
Jesus Christ......Jesus be honored and Jesus be glorified. Amen....deno.
Sometimes
telling it like it really is can hurt and be painful. But when Gods
truth is stood on, stood up for, and NOT COMPROMISED for any reason, God
will honor the upholders. Jesus upheld Gods word even to the cross and
not compromising that word got him the biggest and greatest reward from
God. He was given the greatest Name that is above every name and he got
the highest seat of honor forever, Jesus sits in the Throne of God at
Gods right hand. It pays to stand
up for God, to stand on His Word, to uphold and defend His Word in the
midst of all out opposition and to never compromise it no matter the
cost or the pain. How far are we willing to go to Stand up Stand up for
Jesus and all the Word of the Lord? The early church did not give in,
bend, or compromise the doctrines of Christ, nor the manifold counsel of
God even though fed to the lions. The times we live in now are not for
childish fantasies or church game playing or have you not noticed this
yet? Those in authority are purposely pushing the buttons of the Church
to see the level of our sincerity, commitment, courage, luke warmness, compromise, and toleration.
Remember the song of the three that took the great uncompromising stand in Daniels day? They didn't
bow, they didn't bend, THEY DIDN'T BURN......deno.....share freely.
If your raging disobedient child shouted to you while you were
chastising her these words, she said, "Mom, Dad leave me alone, after all the preacher said that Jesus
said, judge not and condemn not". Would you walk away from your child and
say well its ok for her to go to those wild parties, get drunk, get
pregnant, do all she wants with whomever and with whatever, after all
Jesus said judge not and condemn not? No you wouldn't do that, not if
you really cared for her. You would with loving parenting authority
discipline her and tell her RIGHT FROM WRONG. Many think judge not and
condemn not means to tolerate anyone and everything, but that is in no
way what Jesus meant by those words....REPENT. We cannot have the
believing part without the repenting part. We cannot have the believing
part and cast off the repenting part.The combination of the two is the
winning combination in the TRUE GOSPEL.
Before Jesus ever said the
word BELIEVE or said anything about BELIEVING, He said first the word
REPENT...Mark 1:14-15....My gospel idea for years was one of belief
without true repentance or holiness. Eventually I ran into Gods rebuke
about my gospel idea....So glad I did.....deno.
