“When you are done doing what you do, you will have done your best. If you could have done, better you would have done it.”
“Think eternity.”
“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”
“If you are not with God now, you will not be with God then.”
Monthly Archives: September 2014
It is Enough
You think:
..It is enough to pay your bills on time.
..It is enough to abstain from drunkenness.
..It is enough to abstain from lewd behavior in public.
..It is enough to give to charity as often as you can.
..It is enough to know what the Bible has to say.
..It is enough to raise your children in the same behaviors as these.
..These things, being enough, you pursue what pleasure you desire.
.. It is enough to apply what laws of God provide you the prosperity of your perception.
.. It is enough to come alongside a select few and teach them the things you know.
My friend, if these things describe your life, you have a religion that has no power. While all these things are perfectly sufficient in the world of men, they are but as filthy rags before the righteousness of the Holy Most High God in Christ Jesus.
What I have described are what men refer to as “good behaviours”. But they do not begin to touch the things of a man born of God.
Every one of those things relies on “self” to accomplish. Let the slightest complication come upon you, and there is no strength for defense. If this is so in the things of the world, how much more so on the Great Day of Judgement?
The power of prayer, to such people, is left as if an emergency switch. “If I run into trouble I will pray to God. Perhaps he will help me in my day of distress.” My friend, your day of distress is upon you even now, and you do not perceive it. It has been well said, “Life is not a dress rehearsal”.
If those things are the way you run your life, how are you any different then the Israelites who fell dead in the desert? What hope do you have that is more than theirs?
It is written, “They will have a form of religion, but deny the power of it”. For, those who fell in the desert did not combine their belief with a holy faith. They willingly desired the good things of men, while they willingly ignored the good and Holy things of God
Test yourself to see if this is true of you. How often do you pray? Do you crave the Living Word of the Bible? Do you yearn for the sermon you missed, because you were too busy to attend? Does your soul have confidence that your words are heard by the Most High God when you pray? Are you absolutely sure, that when you die, you will be with Jesus the Christ forever?
May the living God, in Christ Jesus, open your eyes to understand what I have written.
The Shameful Testimony
Got hope?
I walk into Walmart to get some water. 200 people, or more, pass me by. 400 eyes look the other way. They even teach their children well, “Avoid the weird man, honey”.
If this is what they do to a simple hat worn by a simple man, what will they desire to do at the blazing glory of the Lord Jesus Christ?
The Perennial, and Ominous Prayer
For well over two thousand years now, the holy men of God have been praying. Do you know what they’ve been praying for?
In Christ Jesus they have lifted their voice, almost as unison! And the Holy Lord of life has heard their words. Do you know what words he has heard?
“Even so Lord Jesus come quickly!”
Before you were born, 10 million holy men, and more, prayed those words to the Lord. Before you even knew there was a door to enter, there were men praying that it should be shut!
The wickedness of this place was more than they could bear. And the promise of the Holy One strains against the leash!
But the clasp will be undone, and the leash will go slack. The Vengeance of God will leap forth; irresistibly bent on conquest. Every muscle, sinew and bone is pointed in the direction of the wicked. And as the clasp is released, he will fly like lightning!
They prayed:
“Holy Lord God Almighty your law is being broken! Look and see! We testify to men of your holiness O’ beautiful God of all. Now we kneel before you to testify before your Holy Throne.
Look how they hate you, Sovereign God! Look how they ignore your Laws of Life. Look how they hate righteousness and love to be wicked.
Rise up oh Holy God and cleanse this place! Bring about your Holy promise. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! Even So Come Lord Jesus!”
Did you know there are men praying this today? Before you even know there is a door through which you must walk, men pray these things.
They do not pray this to injure you; as if by their prayer they may bring up your destruction. They pray this out of a sincere and deep love for God in Christ Jesus. In this prayer is the kiss of peace they desire to give to the God who has saved them.
I would strongly urge you to present yourself to God today. Look around you at the wickedness of this place. It grows exponentially now. What was considered forbidden only 30 years ago is now paraded in the streets! How much longer do you think it will take before the Holy Lord answers the prayer of these beautifully holy men?
Can you see?
One man percieves God as hideous monster; full of Holy law and demanding. Such a man does not know the law of God, he only knows his own hideous sin. He attributes what he knows to the Holy One. “Surely God is like me. He will strike me with death when I die”.
Explain to him that God is love, and out of the fear that is in his heart, he will nod in agreement. But there is no agreement in his soul. He keeps on in his way because he sees no hope of any change. If God is cruel then he is a dead man, even while he lives, and he knows it.
To another man, God is purely love. In this man’s mind, God throws His own Righteousness and Holiness aside to embrace the sinner. The man perceives that his sin will be erased by some miraculous working of God.
But he does not understand his own obligation to do “The Way” of Christ. He perceives “The Way” is too hard to walk, but he does not consider the power of prayer in Christ Jesus. This one hungers for acceptance. He does not hunger for righteousness.
This man thinks he will be granted entry into the perfection of eternity simply because he exists. Speak to this man of a necessity of holiness and righteousness, and he will count you a fool.
Still another man will perceive that God demands certain rituals from all his worshippers. This man may have started out in Christianity, by receiving forgiveness for his sins, but he has studied the law of God and has determined to do the law. This one will add to his worship “a little here and a little there”. In the end, he becomes far less a Christian then before he began.
Each man holds the perception of God that he has grown to love dearly. Some hold fear, some hold love, some hold law. As a man believes so he does.
Each of the above ways is flawed, and will suffer loss. How very sad, when the answer for wholeness in Christ lay so clearly before us. If a man will humble himself and pray, God will direct him into what is true.
But men love sin. Men love pride. Men love praise. All three of these, the Holy Most High God abhors.
You can have the perception of God you want. No one will stop you. They may try to teach you with all they have, but you will refuse. You men, as mentioned above, will do as you please regardless the will of God. The loss is yours.
What more is there to say
That is healthy to say?
What is written here is true.
What would you do?
Words From There 