“Secure and Undefeated”

 “Secure and Undefeated”

 

Those who trust in the LORD are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever.   Psalm 125:1

 

The Psalmist of 125 is informing us that those who BELONG to God and TRUSTS in Him are as SECURE as Mount Zion. The illustration of the SECURITY of God’s Children, is FAMILIAR to them.  Mount Zion will REMAIN even after the geographical changes that will be made during the RENEWAL of heaven and earth. And just as MOUNT ZION is SECURE so will be those who have BELIEVED and TRUSTED in the LORD JESUS CHRIST as their SAVIOR and LORD.  He is the BLESSED SON of the LIVING GOD.  And the ONLY ONE who is ABLE to bring God’s Gift of SALVATION to this LOST and DYING WORLD.  God’s Children will also be as SECURE as MOUNT ZION, they will NOT BE MOVED.  And just as MOUNT ZION is PERMANENT PLACE, God’s Children are a PERMANENT PEOPLE. 

 

The SECURE and PERMANENT PEOPLE will also be ruled by God’s DIVINE, BLESSED SON, who will rule in Zion from what is NOW KNOWN as the TEMPLE MOUNT, and this place is currently occupied by the Muslims.  However, when JESUS CHRIST comes back to earth.  He will set up His KINGDOM and will REIGN with a RIGHTEOUS SCEPTER, for ALL of ETERNITY.  And those who have given their HEARTS and LIVES to Him will become a SECURE, PERMANENT PEOPLE and also an UNDEFEATED and VICTORIOUS PEOPLE. And CHRIST will RULE with His RIGHTEOUS and VICTORIOUS SCEPTER FOREVER.  

 

Are you a part of the SECURE and UNDEFEATED PEOPLE?  If you have NOT GIVEN your HEART and LIFE to the LORD JESUS CHRIST then you are NOT a part of this group and are headed for an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  But if you will ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER (as we all are), in NEED of the SAVIOR, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and BELIEVE with ALL your HEART that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  Then CONFESS your sins to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  And be WILLING TO TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.   You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and become a SECURE and UNDEFEATED CHILD of the LIVING GOD.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!

“The Foolishness of Resisting Repentance “

  “The Foolishness of Resisting Repentance”

 

 

Therefore, let all the godly pray to You while there is still time, that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.  For You are my Hiding Place; You protect me from trouble.  You surround me with songs of victory. Psalm 32:6&7

 

This Psalm of David gives us a CLEAR picture of those who are RESISTING REPENTANCE and those who belong to the LORD GOD.  In verses one and two, we see that David knows that ALL of mankind has SINNED AGAINST God and that they NEED to CONFESS their sins to Him, and they SHOULD NOT RESIST the act of REPENTING of their transgressions.  David says when those whose DISOBEDIENCE is FORGIVEN, their SIN is put OUT of SIGHT.  And what JOY there is when the LORD has CLEARED their RECORD of GUILT. That is REPENTANCE!

 

In verses three through five, David explains his experience when he REFUSED to CONFESS his sin.  He says that his body wasted away, and he GROANED all day long.  Day and night God’s Hand of DISCIPLINE was HEAVY on David.  And David’s STRENGTH evaporated like water in the summer heat. But we see in verse five that David FINALLY CONFESSED his SINS to God, and he stopped trying to HIDE his GUILT.  David made the decision to CONFESS his REBELLION to God and God FORGAVE him! And ALL his GUILT was gone.

 

Then in verses six and seven David is ENCOURAGING ALL TRUE BELIEVERS to PRAY, while there is STILL TIME, that they may NOT DROWN in the FLOODWATERS of JUDGMENT.  Those in Noah’s day RESISTED REPENTANCE, they REFUSED to LISTEN and OBEY God’s COMMANDS.  And was therefore SWEPT AWAY by the FLOODWATERS of JUDGMENT.  But Noah responded to God and found himself and his family COVERED and PROTECTED by God, who became David’s HIDING PLACE and now he could rest easy, knowing that God would PROTECT him from his troubles.

 

The BENEFITS of REPENTANCE are; FORGIVENESS from GOD, INTIMACY with GOD, and JOY in GOD.  However, the WICKED, those who DO NOT have a RELATIONSHIP with GOD and KEEP RESISTING REPENTANCE, will SUFFER throughout ETERNITY.  But those who are OBEDIENT and TRUSTS in GOD will be bathed in His UNFAILING LOVE and can SHOUT for JOY.  Are you practicing the FOOLISHNESS of RESISTING REPENTANCE?  Or can you say with ALL CERTAINTY that GOD is your HIDING PLACE?

 

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, then you are experiencing the FOOLISHNESS of RESISTING REPENTANCE and your destiny is an ETERNITY in HELL with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there. But you have the OPPORTUNITY, NOW, to give your HEART and LIFE to GOD.  This is what you MUST DO:  You MUST ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER, in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, the SON of GOD, and the ONLY ONE who is ABLE to SAVE your SINFUL SOUL from an ETERNITY in HELL. You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to the LORD and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS. You MUST BE WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and STOP! The FOOLISHNESS of RESISTING REPENTANCE.  And receive ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!

“The Promise of Spiritual Blessings”

 “The Promise of Spiritual Blessings”

 

All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be My Children.  Revelations 21:7

 

The Apostle John was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the Word of God and for his testimony about Jesus.  And while John was there God gave him visions of what the end of time and the NEW HEAVEN and NEW EARTH would be like.  And John wrote everything down for EVERYONE to READ and STUDY.  His words are FAITHFUL and TRUE.  They will come about someday SOON!  

 

The scripture I would like to talk about is in John’s account as God revealed it to him.  It takes place after the Tribulation, and the THOUSAND YEAR REIGN of the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  The Apostle John was giving an account of the NEW JERUSALEM and the NEW EARTH, because the OLD heaven and the OLD earth had DISAPPEARED.  

 

And it is revealed to John what it will be like in this NEW JERUSALEM and the NEW EARTH.  The One on the THRONE tells John that God will make His Home among His People.  He will live with them.  He will wipe every tear from their eyes and there will be NO MORE DEATH or SORROW or CRYING or PAIN.  All these things are GONE FOREVER!!

 

And to those who are VICTORIOUS will INHERIT these SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS.  God will be their GOD and they will be His CHILDREN.  This indicates the INTIMACY that will exist between God, the FATHER and ALL the SAINTS (His Children).  This sounds like a GLORIOUS TIME, and I am SO LOOKING FORWARD to being there.  Are you?  

 

Spending time with the SAINTS of OLD, and the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and MORE than that, BEING in the PRESENCE of the ALMIGHTY GOD.  That is SHOUTING TIME for SURE!!  And the BLESSINGS of NO MORE SICKNESS, PAIN, DEATH, CRYING, and NO MORE SORROW.  I pray that you are LOOKING FORWARD to that time.  But if you are NOT LOOKING FORWARD to it, for whatever reason, maybe, you are NOT a CHILD of the LIVING GOD, verse eight, tells us that COWARDS, UNBELIEVERS, the CORRUPT, MURDERERS, the IMMORAL, those who practice WITCHCRAFT, IDOL WORSHIPERS, and ALL LIARS—their FATE is in the FIERY LAKE of BURNING SULFUR. 

 

This does NOT have to be YOUR FATE, if you will COME to JESUS with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART and ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR.  You MUST BELIEVE with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and receive ALL the BLESSINGS of an ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!

“TOTALLY Identify with Jesus”

 “TOTALLY Identify with Jesus”

 

If you hang on to your life, you will lose it.  But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it.  And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?  Is anything worth more than your soul?   Matthew 16:25-26

 

Jesus was talking to His Disciples (followers), and He said to them “If any of you wants to be My FOLLOWER, you MUST give up your OWN way, take up your cross and FOLLOW ME.”

 

Then He told them If you HANG ON to your life, you will LOSE it.  Basically, what He was saying was, if you are NOT WILLING to TOTALLY TURN AWAY FROM your OLD WAYS and want to try and incorporate them in with His ways of LIVING, you WILL LOSE EVERYTHING.  BUT, if you GIVE UP YOUR old SINFUL WAYS and start LIVING for HIM, you WILL SAVE your life.  

 

And just what would you BENEFIT IF you GAIN the WHOLE WORLD, but LOSE your OWN SOUL?  You CAN’T have it BOTH WAYS.  You MUST DENY your OLD LIFESTYLE, and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS, God’s ONLY SON, OUR REDEEMER, KING and JUDGE.  The ONE and ONLY ONE who has the POWER to TAKE AWAY mankind’s SINS and GIVE them ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.   Then Jesus asks: “Is ANYTHING worth MORE than your SOUL?”

 

In order to become a FOLLOWER of the LORD JESUS CHRIST and REAP the BENEFITS of your FAITHFULNESS to Him and HIM ALONE, You MUST TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS, and GIVE UP your OWN WAYS, and TAKE UP your CROSS and FOLLOW HIM.  DON’T MISS OUT on ETERNAL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS for TEMPORAL WORLDLY THINGS.  

 

At the Second Coming of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, He will REPAY EVERYONE of His FOLLOWERS according to their DEEDS.  Are you READY?  If you areTRULY SAVED and having a HARD time with GIVING UP some of your OLD WAYS, you NEED to make it a PRIORITY to DENY YOUR OLD LIFESTYLE and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS.   Make it a MATTER of PRAYER, seeking GOD’S HELP. 

 

If you are NOT a follower of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, you can be by:  ADMITTING that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST.  And you MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS DIED for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You must be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN to GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and BECOME a FOLLOWER of JESUS CHRIST and TOTALLY IDENTIFY with JESUS. And spend your ETERNITY in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS.  And ESCAPE an ETERNITY in HELL with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can! He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!

 

 

 

 

“Only the Spirit”

 “Only the Spirit”

 

The Spirit alone gives eternal life.  Human effort accomplishes nothing.  And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.  John 6:63

 

Jesus had just fed a crowd of FIVE THOUSAND, with only five barley loaves and two fish, which He was able to get from a young boy that was in the crowd.  The people were hungry and did NOT have food.  So, Jesus being the COMPASSIONATE person that He is, worked another MIRACLE by providing food for five thousand with just FIVE small barley loaves and TWO small fish. 

 

Then as He spoke about Him being the SON of GOD and that He was the BREAD of LIFE.  Many were perplexed about what He was saying.  Now, Jesus KNEW they were complaining and even leaving Him.  So, He said to them, “Does this offend you?”  Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to Heaven again?  Would that change their minds?  

 

Then Jesus told them, “The Spirit ALONE, gives ETERNAL LIFE.”  The FLESH of MANKIND can NOT give ETERNAL LIFE.  ONLY the HOLY SPIRIT of the LIVING GOD can do that. He does it by taking the BELIEF of a person, who has BELIEVED and ACCEPTED the WORDS of Christ Jesus, then the HOLY SPIRIT will induce the Spirit of CHRIST, in that person and will PROVIDE for them, ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  And that individual will then belong to the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the ONLY ONE who COULD bring them SALVATION and ETERNAL LIFE.  

 

HUMAN EFFORT will NEVER give you ETERNAL LIFE.  NO matter how GOOD you are, or THINK you are.  It’s NOT GOOD ENOUGH, because human effort is of the FLESH and the FLESH is SIN and DEATH, which means that all HUMAN EFFORT will provide is an ETERNAL LIFE in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  But the WORDS of JESUS brings SPIRIT and LIFE.  

 

No matter WHO you are, or HOW MUCH MONEY you have, or WHO you KNOW.  If you have NEVER come to JESUS CHRIST, for the FORGIVENESS of your SINS and if you DON’T BELIEVE nor ACCEPT the WORDS of CHRIST JESUS then you DO NOT HAVE an ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  When you feel a tugging on your HEART STRINGS, that is the WORK of the HOLY SPIRIT.  And He’s CONVICTING you of your SINFULNESS.  He’s letting you KNOW that it is TIME for YOU to COME to JESUS and TRULY BELIEVE with ALL your HEART and ACCEPT His FORGIVENESS and receive ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN with ALL its BLESSINGS.   

 

This is what you MUST DO.  YOU MUST ADMIT that you are a SINNER, in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, who GAVE His LIFE to SAVE YOUR SOUL.  You MUST BELIEVE with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for YOU before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE.  And TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and REMEMBER:  ONLY the SPIRIT can give you ETERNAL LIFE.  Don’t THINK that YOUR GOODNESS will get you an ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  IT WON’T!  So, do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING REAL SOON!!!  Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!

“ Increased Spiritual Strength”

 “Increased Spiritual Strength”

 

I pray that from His Glorious, Unlimited Resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit.  Then Christ will make His Home in your hearts as you trust in Him.  Your roots will grow down into God’s Love and keep you strong.   Ephesians 3:16-17

 

This passage of Scripture is the Apostle Paul’s prayer for the Believers in Ephesus, it was his earnest desire that they would EXPERIENCE Spiritual Power from the ALMIGHTY GOD.  The FIRST thing Paul expressed in his prayer was for them to be able to have INCREASED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, this was the WORK of the HOLY SPIRIT.

 

The one thing that is NEEDED in this INCREASED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH is an INTERNAL CHANGE.   EXTERNAL CHANGES will NOT help at all.  In order to have INCREASED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, there MUST be an INCREASED SPIRITUAL INTIMACY with the LORD JESUS CHRIST.  Paul was NOT talking about SALVATION, remember, he was talking to the TRUE BELIEVERS of EPHESUS.  The TRUE BELIEVERS should have a CLOSE RELATIONSHIP with the LORD JESUS and His PRESENCE will DWELL in their HEARTS, as they TRUST in HIM.  

 

If you want this INCREASED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, you will have to let JESUS have FULL REIGN in EVERY PART of YOUR HEART.  If you want ALL that the LIVING GOD has for YOU, you MUST LET JESUS be LORD of your HEART.  One thing that will DEVELOP from this is your roots will grow down into GOD’S LOVE and KEEP you SPIRITUALLY STRONG. 

 

If you have NEVER given your HEART and LIFE to GOD, through His Son, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, you will NOT be able to receive ALL that God wants for YOU.  If you will COME to HIM by the WAY of the CROSS and ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. BELIEVING with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU and CONFESS your SINS to Him and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS, and you MUST BE WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN to GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.   If you will ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and an INCREASED SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, He WILL BE FAITHFUL to FORGIVE you of your SINS and bring you into His FAMILY.  So, won’t you PLEASE do this NOW, while you STILL CAN?  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!   Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!