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Today!

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Americans spend a great amount of effort and time constructing Christmas for themselves.  Is this admirable?  Without service to the will of God in Christ Jesus, I can say, NO!  Yet consider the following:

When all is said and all is done our work for Him is not complete.  We strive for things that will provide for the needs of today and we often consider providing the needs of a tomorrow.  Perhaps your tomorrow of providing is next week.  Perhaps you even provide for your retirement.  You might have even gone so far as to have your headstone carved and located and bought the plot of ground your body will rot in.  But what about that “Day”? 

I’m speaking of the day when you will give full account of yourself.  Absolutely everything you’ve done, though, and spoken will be demanded from you.  How much thought have you given to that place?  We have been warned and I am sent to warn.   Even your own conscience stands to warn you of that coming day.  What have you done to give a good report of yourself?

There is one aspect to give all importance in this preparation for that Day.  God sent His Son to die for the sins of those who would accept His sacrifice on their behalf.  What are you doing with that gift?  All men will stand guilty before the Great God of Glory and Life.  All men will stand bare naked and helpless before Him, except those who have done the will of God in believing Jesus. 

Find shelter in Him now.  For today is all you are given to do so.  I tell you a truth.  As the Lord Himself said, “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.”

By His Grace.

The Whole Truth

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If you have read my posts you know I hate the wickedness of men.  And it is not hard to see that I believe most men will continue to walk in their sin no matter how much truth you feed them.  I confess there is a tiredness in me regarding today’s view of God’s Holiness.  He is so very beautiful in all His ways.   Yet man hates Him before they give God a chance to speak. 

The Lord speaks to me about this blog.  He assures me that what is being posted is true.  But He also reminds me to also speak of the “choosing”.  When He said that to me I was struck at the reluctance within me to do so.  But I will give it a solid shot.

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There are always three elements to all situations.  We find all creation yelling at the top of it’s lungs as it points to the Glory of God.  God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which is given the task of speaking the will of God in men.  These three testify as One for the Holiness and Perfectness of God.  And in all creation we find everything ringing clear with that same trio.  Want examples?  Ok:

Earth, water, air.  No table can stand on less than three legs.  You may have more and you might have less.  But a minimum of three is efficient for stability and mobility.  The egg has three parts: the yoke, the white, and the shell.  Animals come in three categories: land, water, and air. 

Given the time and inclination I could go on for years about this subject.  But we would find it unproductive and futile.  What we are digging at is the “Choosing” of hope in Christ Jesus.  Allow me to relate this to the three.

Look at man.  By himself he is enough to provide for himself from what is available.  Yet we know he is more.  Man is also wicked beyond our wildest imaginations.  So providing for himself is an utterly selfish task.  And now we mention the third, the “choosing”.  If man allows himself to listen to God’s words, he stands the chance of becoming a great deal more than mere man.  He will find, if he chooses, he becomes a god man.  He will begin to experience an inner desire to rid himself of wickedness and learn to hate evil.   While there will begin a serious craving for righteousness and the Glory of the God who guides him.

This “Choosing” is right at the door of everyman’s life, every moment of every day until he dies.  I have written a great deal of the warnings of what is coming, so I don’t have to hash it over in this post.  But what I encourage everyone to do is consider what is true and to believe that there is hope in God for eternal peace.  Without Him we have no peace.  We only continue developing our wickedness so that it begins to look like righteousness.  But with Him, through forgiveness of sins and the teaching of the Holy Spirit, we stand to become men of God. 

I will testify to you that sleeping on a pillow of clean conscience is a marvelous thing.  It is available to you at this very moment if you will but humble yourself and accept His Glorious Gift in Christ Jesus.

Now hear me!  I am not about pleasing men with my words.  And I stand where I do in that for a very good reason.  But I am compelled to agree with the Lord that there is also a need to remind folks of His enduring love.  What I have written before stands!  There is litterally “hell to pay” for not turning to God in Jesus.  But there is also a GREAT love available for all who will come to Him and receive His gift. 

Contrary to what one might begin to believe by what I write, I do not want men to die for eternity!  I want you to live!  Come taste.  I assure you Jesus is worthy of all our worship and honor.

By His Grace.

PS……. I guess that wasn’t so hard to do after all.  Thank you Lord for your love.

The Day of Doom.

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What is the scene of the judgment day?

Who is there?

What type of people?

What ages?

What status did they have among men?

What manner of death did they experience?

Open your imagination and see them standing there.  Clothed in perfect souls, they await His entrance. 

What is being said to them? 

Jesus said there will be those at the wedding feast who are not clothed with wedding clothes.  He will ask them “Friend, how did you get here?”.  But they will not be able to answer Him. 

Jesus also tells of those who did not consider service to Him in this world to be of value.  For they hid their gifts instead of using them for His Glory.  What is His response?  “He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.”  In cutting him to pieces we see no forgiveness of sins.  The man will be exposed to the judgment of God as though he never knew about Jesus.

The judged stand on an open place and wait.  There is no place to hide.  No place to run.  No shadows to blend into.  The light from 7 suns floods their place.  All their thoughts, words, attitudes,  and deeds are fully and painfully disclosed.

Their eyes stretched wide as His Majesty is revealed.  Watch their eyes slam shut.  Yet they cannot cease His presence.  They are unable to bear the sight and awareness of His Holiness. 

Now you tell me there is no hell……. fine.  Have it as you will.

By His Grace.

Look!

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Look how every wicked heart is so afraid of Jesus.  Look at them scamper from His Holy name.  Look how they put a muzzle on His people in the workplace or at school.  Look how even households refuse to let the new convert speak of the joy found. 

Men fear what is greater than them.  They say they want proof of Jesus and His Father.  Yet watch them leap away at the sound of His people speaking of His Glories.  Look how they killed the prophets.  Look how they tear at the fabric of Christianity and try to leave it gutted and powerless. 

If men have never seen God in all His Splendor yet reel back at the very mention of His name, what will they do when they stand on the field of judgment?

By His Grace.

What is the Gospel?

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The Gospel means Good News.  And that’s good. But whoever got good news without it being better than the bad news?   A guy tries to sell a painting he’s made on consignment.   The owner of the shop where the painting was displayed calls up and says, “Hey, I got good news for ya”.   Now, we can be sure he’s not gonna tell the painter that everyone thinks the painting sucks.  After all, it wouldn’t be good news at all.  No, he’s likely got some really good news about the painting.   Maybe the shop burned down and insurance is gonna cover the guy’s painting.  That would be good news for the painter.  But that isn’t what the owner of the shop said.  He said, “Hey, I got good news for ya”.  This is better news than: “Hey, your painting sucks and it’s takin up space. Come get it”.

Millions of people, strike that, Billions of people think of the Gospel as a religious theme; just another set of dos and don’ts.  But how is that different from what we already hate?  The good news of the Gospel is above anyother good news we can ever get.  I’m not gonna try to lay out all the details of the Gospel in this post.  Instead, I’m gonna leave a tiny note of what it is so the reader doesn’t have to spend 10 hours trying to eat what can be too much for a sitting at any table.

Look in yourself.  See all the guilt you carry for things you’ve done wrong?  That guilt is proof that you’re a law breaker.  One who honors the law is not prone to feel guilty for something he didn’t do.  That guilt will not leave you when you die.  It will remain in you when you stand before the God of Perfect Holiness and give testimony regarding yourself.  Now, how bout that!  What a wonderful pleasure it will be to stand before the very source of perfect law and tell Him why you refused to obey Him.  Not likely.  It doesn’t take a great imagination to realize that you’re in BIG trouble.  Because your soul, that is your very essence, is not mortal.  It will not die . . . .  ever.  And the guilt you now feel will remain part of you for this same forever.  (I know I’m making light of this subject with the language I’m using.  It’s on purpose.)  In short, if you remain apart from the Lord Jesus, You’re Toast!!!!!!!!

You have, at your disposal today, a way out of this encounter.  The purpose of life is not to gain all kinds of stuffs or to become important, or to invent some obscure religion.  The purpose of life is to weed out those who hate God and those who love Him.  He is telling you, right now, that Jesus is available to forgive your sins and cause you to experience a clean heart toward God.  Through this clean heart you can begin to seek what God demands of all men.  With the guilt you presently carry, you got no choice.  You can’t come to God without that guilt removed. 

Now don’t be foolish.  Don’t think that heaven is a place where some POOFFY magic happens and you become a righteous person.  He’s openning the door to that for you NOW.  Take it or leave it, it means very little to me.  My task was to leave you this message and hope you wise up and grab His offer.

By His Grace.

What if?

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The majority of man is living under the umbrella of the ways of this world.  There are a few who live by the rule of God.  And these few speak of things from a radically different perspective.  The majority rail against the words and ways of the few.  But let’s ask an important question:

What if these few are right?

By His Grace.