IT’S NOT ABOUT RELIGION…

IT’S NOT ABOUT RELIGION…

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:  and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:  and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:  naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:  for I was hungry, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Did you see them? Did you see all the religions that were represented there that day? Every man that ever lived was there…every nation that ever existed was there…and every religion that ever existed was represented by someone in that crowd!!!

That crowd was composed of christians, buddhists, muslims, and on and on…but religion was NOT the ‘standard’ used to determine who went to Heaven, and who went to Hell. The standard that WAS used was that one commandment which Jesus brought…that we love one another…which translates simply into treating others as YOU would like to be treated!!!

There were christians, buddhists, and muslims who DID treat others as they would have liked to be treated…and they all went to Heaven…and there were christians, buddhists, and muslims who did NOT treat others as they’d like to have been treated…and they all went to Hell. And the same holds true for every religion that was represented that day!!!

Nobody was judged that day by their religion, or lack thereof…everybody was judged instead…by those words which Jesus spoke…just as He had said it would be!!!

And…surprise…every atheist that ever existed was there on that day; but they weren’t judged by what they called themselves, nor by what they said…they too were judged by that SAME standard…there were atheists there that day that HAD treated others the way they’d like to be treated, and they went to Heaven…and those atheists who did NOT treat others as they would have liked to be treated, went to Hell.

The same applies to lesbians, homosexuals, thieves, and EVERY other type of SINNER…for they were all there that day…and those who DID ‘love’ went to Heaven…while those who DIDN’T ‘love’ went to Hell. Because it’s not about religion…it’s ALL about DOING what Jesus commanded!!!

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SOMEONE OTHER THAN JESUS…II

SOMEONE OTHER THAN JESUS…II

According to Paul…a thief can’t enter the kingdom of God…

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind…nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  I Corinthians 6:9,10

According to the Bible…there were two thieves crucified with Jesus…

Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.  Matthew 27:38

And Jesus told one of the thieves:

Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.  Luke 23:43

So…was Paul wrong???  No!  God ‘made’ those 7 nations to whom Paul was sent…SAINTS…they became Saints on the day that Jesus was crucified. And for them to become thieves, or any of the other things Paul mentions above…after having been made Saints; then they would not be able to enter the kingdom of God.

But Jesus was sent to SINNERS…and everybody in this world except those 7 nations to whom Paul was sent…were sinners!!! And Jesus taught a WAY…to sinners…by which sinners could enter into the kingdom of God!!!

That WAY is found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John…yet not one in a million know of that WAY. That WAY has not been taught in this world for more than 2000 years now…not by any pastor, church, or religion!!!

Do YOU ‘know’ the way to Heaven…or, are you just ‘believing’ what someone OTHER than Jesus has told you???

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Could it be like Jesus says in another place…???

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…

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WAIT UNTIL YOU TRY HELL…

WAIT UNTIL YOU TRY HELL…

“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.” John 15:22

It is written in the Bible that Jesus came to take away the sin of the world…and yet, Jesus taught that the world wouldn’t have sin if He had not came and SPOKEN to the world…how can both of these statements be true???

It’s simple really…Adam, by disobeying God’s commandment, put everybody born into this world UNDER sin…God knew that this wasn’t ‘fair’…so He sent His only begotten Son to die for the sin which Adam placed all men under (Hebrews 9:15)…

Once Jesus died on the cross, He redeemed ALL mankind from the sin which Adam had placed them under…because at that time, DEATH was the penalty for Sin.

But…before Jesus died on the cross…He had given us a new Commandment from God, which superseded the 10 commandments which Moses introduced to the world. If a man kept this NEW commandment…he would automatically keep the 10 given by Moses!!!

The NEW commandment was that we LOVE one another…and since it was and is a COMMANDMENT…anyone who disobeys that commandment will be guilty of SIN…just as Adam disobeyed God’s commandment, and it was counted as SIN!!!

Therefore…though Jesus cleansed us from sin…Jesus could also say truthfully…If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin…

Only NOW…under the New Covenant…death is no longer the punishment for Sin…as Jesus died ONCE for all Sin!!! The punishment for Sin now is…HELL…and Hell is seven times worse than Death…as stated by Jesus in a parable!!!

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Once Jesus took you from under the Death sentence by dying in your place…and gave you eternal life…you were ‘clean’. But if you don’t KEEP that commandment which He brought…in the end, you’ll be PRAYING for Death…but it won’t be an option!!!

If you thought death on the cross was ‘agonizing’…wait until you try HELL!!!

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REALITY…

REALITY…

I don’t care who you are, or what you believe, or don’t believe…there is some Reality you must deal with at some point during your existence in this world…

First, you are going to die someday…that’s reality. Second, you don’t and can’t know anything about what lies beyond Death…therefore you MUST rely on your Creator for THAT information…your intellect CANNOT tell you anything about what lies beyond Death.

Yet, you’ve been trained to believe that your intellect can seek out and find ALL knowledge. You’ve been told, and believe, that God gave you intelligence for the purpose of seeking knowledge…and in a way, that’s true, in that Intelligence WAS created by God…as the OPPOSITE of His Wisdom.

Then God gave Adam, the first man, Wisdom…He told Adam to NEVER choose the opposite of His Wisdom…or Adam would die. But Adam disobeyed God and by doing so gave EVERY man Intelligence…which is the opposite of God’s Wisdom!

After Adam chose Intelligence, then God placed him down here on earth, which is the world of Intelligence. That’s why Intelligence is confined to knowledge of this world ONLY…and can’t tell you, or anyone else, diddley squat about the NEXT world. You MUST rely on God to give you that knowledge…and God has!

But God knew that because of Adam’s disobedience, ALL men would be born into this world…ALREADY believing the Lie, or the Devil…because Adam and Eve believed the Devil. Therefore God could NOT send the Truth into this world by ANY man!!!

It therefore became necessary for God’s only begotten Son to be born into this world…to bring the Truth to those born under the Lie, because of Adam…

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth.

For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ.

God did NOT send the Truth into this world by pastors, churches, or religions…God did NOT send the Truth into this world by the Bible…therefore you can study the Bible intellectually for eternity…and will NEVER obtain the Truth by doing so!!!

Like it or not…believe it or not…understand it or not…God sent the Truth into this world by His only begotten Son…Jesus! That’s Reality!!!  And according to God Himself…the great majority of mankind won’t realize that was the reality…until after they are dead!!!

Why???  Because the Devil has, and will continue to deceive mankind into believing that God gave them Intelligence…(when in reality, it was Adam that gave you Intelligence, not God)…and they are supposed to use their Intelligence to obtain the Truth!!!  That’s Reality, too!!!

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JUST THINKING…

JUST THINKING…

You know…the Bible teaches that there is Christ…and there is Anti-christ. And it says Anti-christ will be in this world…

So I’m wondering…where do we find Christ?

Then I consider…this world teaches of a Christ who came to die for our sins…and if we believe that…and repent, and ask Him into our hearts, and the rest of the formula…then we’ll go to Heaven!

But the Bible teaches of a Christ that didn’t teach anything even close to that…in fact…He teaches just the opposite of that!

So I conclude that…the Christ in the Bible must be the Christ…and the Christ this world teaches MUST be the Anti-christ…by the process of elimination…plus He is the Christ of this world.

But…if the Christ this world teaches is the Christ…then the Christ in the Bible MUST be the Anti-christ…also by the process of elimination…only…this world doesn’t teach the Christ that’s in the Bible…so He’s NOT in this world!!!

But don’t pay any attention to me…I’m just ‘thinking’…out loud.

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CLUES…

CLUES…

There is an old internet joke that says: He doesn’t have a clue…and he couldn’t get a clue if he bathed himself in clue musk, and did the clue mating dance, in a field full of horny clues!!!

Well, God has given you some ‘clues’…are you aware of them?

God sent Jesus into this world with the Truth about Life…and Jesus taught that on the other side of Death there are two places…one place is good, and the other place is evil…or in other words, Heaven and Hell.  Has God given us a ‘clue’ in this world?  Yes…in this world there are only two forces in existence…one is good, and the other is evil…one is God, and the other is the Devil. That’s a ‘clue’ from God in this world about how it will be in the next world!

But God brought it even closer to home when He composed each of us of ‘good’ and ‘evil’…of spirit and of matter (flesh).  That’s also a ‘clue’ within yourself of what you’ll find in the next world.

In reality…the ONLY reason you’re in this world is to make your choice between Good and Evil. That’s the very meaning and purpose of life in this world…believe it or not!!!

But has God given us a ‘clue’ that that’s the reason we’re here? Of course! He made each of us in such a way that from the moment we wake up until we go back to sleep…we’re CONSTANTLY making CHOICES…whether we like it or not…and whether we’re ‘aware’ of it or not! That’s God’s way of giving us a ‘clue’ that that’s the reason we’re in this world…to make a choice…the SAME choice that Adam made…to obey or to disobey God!!!

Everybody knows that life in this world is only temporary…and should know that life in the next world will be permanent! Has God given us a ‘clue’ about this also? Of course…that’s what Dreams are all about! When you’re dreaming, it seems ‘real’…but when you wake up you realize that it was only temporary…the world you wake up in is the real world.

When you die…you’re going to ‘wake up’ on the other side of Death…and the ‘life’ you lived in this world will be the ‘dream’. You’ll realize that  though it seemed so ‘real’ when you were living it…in the end it was only temporary…and where you’ve awoken is the real, and permanent, world!!!

God allowed Adam to put us all under Sin…then He sent Jesus to die for the sin which Adam put us under. But Jesus also brought US a commandment from God…and if we don’t keep it, we’ll be guilty of sin…just as Adam was…only NOW the penalty for Sin is not Death…but Hell.

And that’s NOT a clue…that’s the TRUTH according to GOD!!!!!!!

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IS IT BECAUSE…

IS IT BECAUSE…

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Matthew 28:18-20

Jesus taught that ALL power is given unto Him…therefore…and the ‘therefore’ ties what He just said to what He says next…

Since ALL power is given unto Jesus…therefore teach ALL nations to observe whatsoever He taught the Apostles to observe.

Now…where in the Bible do we find what Jesus taught the Apostles to observe?  We find it in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Did Jesus send them to ‘teach’ the Bible? Did Jesus send them to teach what Paul taught? Did Jesus send them to teach what the churches of this world are teaching? Did Jesus send them to teach what the different religions of this world are teaching? Did Jesus send them to teach that which YOU are teaching?

Or…did Jesus send them to teach the world to do EXACTLY what Jesus taught the Apostles to do?

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. John 12:47,48

Is Jesus teaching that the words of the Bible will judge us…or, is Jesus teaching that HIS words will judge us on the Last Day?

If we’ll be judged by the words that Jesus spoke…doesn’t that make the words of Jesus the MOST important words in existence???

Jesus has clearly told us to do everything He taught the Apostles to do…because on the Last Day we’ll be judged by the words that He spoke…and that we should obey HIM because He has been given ALL power in Heaven and in earth…by God!!!

Can you give me one good reason WHY you’re listening to ANY other man than Jesus??? Is it because you don’t believe what Jesus taught…or is it because you don’t know what Jesus taught???

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HE WAS WRONG…

HE WAS WRONG…

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke 18:10-14

It seems to me that Jesus is teaching that if a person stands before God professing themselves to be righteous…God perceives them as exalting themselves…lifting themselves up above others…so God takes it upon Himself to cut them down…

But, if a person stands before God and profess themselves to be sinners…then God sees that they have already cut themselves down…so God lifts them up!

If you exalt yourself you’ll be humbled…but if you humble yourself you’ll be exalted…and…the humbling and the exalting will be done by God…or more precisely…by God’s Law!!

Jesus was always teaching His followers to humble themselves…in the previous chapter in Luke He had told the Apostles…So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Luke 17:10

Even after they had kept ALL the commandments…they were to SEE themselves as unprofitable servants!  But notice…Jesus didn’t say they would be unprofitable servants…He’s simply telling them HOW they should see themselves…and what they should call themselves!

Then, in the very next chapter…the 18th chapter of Luke…Jesus tells them of the two men who went up to the temple to pray…and that the one who called himself a Sinner, went home RIGHT before God…while the one who saw himself as a Saint…went home WRONG before God.

That so-called righteous man in the story reminds me of the church-going people of today…calling themselves Saints, and seeing themselves as better than Sinners!

What was the first thing the righteous man told God?…God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers…

He thinks he’s better than such people, in God’s eyes!  He was WRONG…and anyone who thinks like him…is WRONG!!!

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I DON’T KNOW BOUT YOU…

I DON’T KNOW BOUT YOU…

If God tells me that He will put His words in the mouth of Jesus…and require everybody to hear His words spoken by Jesus…and Jesus is the only man in the Bible God requires me to hear…

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Deut 18:18,19

And Jesus confirmed what God had said earlier…and added that the words He spoke were Spirit and Life…and Jesus is the only one in the Bible who says His words are Spirit and Life…

…the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

…the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are Life. John 14:10; 6:63

And God tells me that He has SPOKEN to me by Jesus…and Jesus is the only man in the Bible whom God says He has spoken to me by…

God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things… Hebrews 1:1,2

And Jesus tells me that I will be JUDGED by the words which HE spoke…and that the REASON I’ll be judged by His words is because they weren’t His words, but God’s Words…again confirming what God had said earlier…

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 12:48,49

And the Bible itself says that Jesus is NAMED the Word of God…

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.  Revelation 19:13

And even John the Baptist testified that the words of Jesus are ABOVE all other words…BECAUSE they are the words of GOD and they’re from HEAVEN above…

He that cometh from above is above all… he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. John 3:31,32

And, after all of the above…Jesus says that I can only get the Truth by hearing HIS voice…

Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. John 18:37

And the Bible tells me that Jesus gives Salvation only to those who obey HIM…

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him. Hebrews 5:9

Well…all of the above scriptures tell me that from the days of Moses, the beginning of the Bible…on through the middle of the Bible…even unto the book of Revelation…the theme of the Bible is ALL about Hearing that ONE man God says He requires everybody to hear!!!

I’ve been hearing, believing, and obeying Jesus for more than 37 years now…

I don’t know bout you!!!

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YOU’LL NEVER ‘LEARN’ THE TRUTH…

YOU’LL NEVER ‘LEARN’ THE TRUTH…

You know…in this world if a person doesn’t know anything about a particular subject…all they have to do is study and research that subject…then they’ll know plenty about it!  It’s all about ‘learning’…

But, can a person ‘learn’ the Truth about Life…the same as they do the subjects of this world? The Bible speaks of a people who are ever ‘learning’…but never able to come to a knowledge of the Truth. That’s because the Truth can’t be ‘learned’…it can only be ‘given’ by the Creator, God…our Father!!

The Bible clearly states that God has already…long before we were born…GIVEN us the Truth…He sent it by His only begotten Son.

But the people of this world…still believing the Lie…think they can obtain the Truth by studying and researching the subjects of this world…reading books written by other men!  You can’t get the Truth from other men…God sent it by Jesus, and Jesus said He’d send what He didn’t tell us by the Holy Spirit…because…ONLY a Divine Being can give you the Truth about Life!!!

You have two people seeking the Truth about Life…one studies the Bible and other religious and/or holy books…he ‘learns’ from his study and research…and the conclusions he reach…he calls them the Truth about God and Life…or…if he doesn’t go to the Bible first…he goes to ‘church’…listens to and learn from the pastor…and calls what he learned from pastor the Truth about God and Life…

The other person didn’t go to the Bible or church, first…he had ‘sense’ enough beforehand to know that neither the church nor the Bible nor his own study…could ‘give’ him the Truth…but that his Creator, his God, his Heavenly Father could give him the Truth about Life…so he simply went to His Father in prayer and ASKED Him to ‘give’ him the Truth about Life…

Which man do you think ended up with the Truth…and which man ended up with the Lie???

The only way you will ever get the Truth about Life is to ask God to give you the Truth…that’s why Jesus, who IS the Truth…said no man could come unto Him…unless…the Father draw him to Him!  You HEAR the Truth. You’ll never ‘learn’ the Truth!!! And even after you hear the Truth…you must still DO the Truth…to get the Truth!!!

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