Wednesday, May 30, 2012

TAKE THE NARROW PATH OF ADOPTION AND BE PARDONED. AVOID THE WIDE PATH OF JUDMENT.


So what happens to billions that willfully reject, patronize, or pervert the gospel of Christ to suit their own will? Judgment of-course! All of us at one time or another have been guilty of physically lying, cheating, and stealing. And in our hearts having murdered, fornicated, and hating without cause. Do we really think that the few good things we have done will cancel out the evil we have committed in this life when we stand before a Holy and Righteous Judge like God, especially after offering us a pardon by sacrificing his only Son to pay the price for our sin, and make a way for use to receive power to change and become his adopted children. Do we really think that God is going to make an exception for those that have chosen to reject salvation through Jesus Christ, directly or indirectly?

"For God did not even spare the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment. And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah who preached righteousness for 120 years warning the world of God’s coming righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood. Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes, destroying them with fire. He made them an example of what will happen to the godless. But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and evil news he heard day after day. So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment. He is especially hard on those who follow their own lusts and despise God's authority."2Pet2 4-10

In this life we have human judges that would never accept the balance of good things done in the past to excuse crimes committed during our lives, why would we delude ourselves into believing that a Holy God would be slack in delivering righteous judgment. We are either pardoned by God through knowing Christ (walk the walk) or condemned for being only hearers of the word (talk the talk).

The popular public school slogan in the 1970's “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” used to try and stem the growing high-school dropout rate is nothing compared to the rate at which this country and the world is choosing to reject Jesus Christ as the ONLY-WAY to forgiveness and pardon from The Father (God). Eternal Life is truly a horrible thing waste in hell, almost too terrible to contemplate, yet what is actually at stake. Now the great news is that God has made a way of escape (salvation), into eternal life through the baptism of His Son Jesus Christ by receiving the Holy Spirit and becoming adopted children of  God, having that blessed assurance in our hearts from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that we are the children of God, a supernatural peace that surpasses all understanding.

Every one of us that are “Born-Again” and once walked in darkness realize that all the pain that this life offered either real or imagined was for our own good, driving us toward the “realization or self-denial” of a purpose driven life to know and walk with God, by the power of the Holy Spirit, because of what our savior Jesus Christ did on the cross. We are without excuse if we ignore so great a salvation. 

So in conclusion, what happens if YOU die in your sins and find yourself at the great judgment of God and change your mind? Well first off everyone, the saved and the unsaved will bow and confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God The Father. But God says that even if the unsaved who rejected their inheritance (salvation), if they should have a change of heart and seek to reestablish it, they will not attain it, it will be too late for them, even if they seek it sincerely with bitter tears. It is TOO LATE! Can you imagine the weeping of all those facing eternity, who's names are NOT written or Blotted Out of the book of life? 

DO NOT become guilty of godlessness like Esau did, who sold his own birthright and entire inheritance for single pleasure. Understand that later on, when Esau wanted his inheritance and blessing of God, he was rejected, and he could find no opportunity to repair through repentance the choice he had made,  even though Esau sought for it carefully with bitter tears.  Heb 12:16-17

We all were once little children, our hearts capable of recognizing the truth and totally willing to accept, believe, and follow God. This is why our hearts must be as a child to take back what we have allowed sin to take away from us. We must turn back to God and receive back the dreams and inheritance we lost to Satan. 
Jesus said, "I tell you the truth , unless you turn from your sins and become like little children(born again), you will NEVER get to the Kingdom of Heaven.


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