Which are you – one who Jesus saved, or one who Jesus condemns?
PIC is saying: “Follow Jesus!”: Shane Lee and his son
Introduction
God requires salvation
Have you thought much about this Christian belief: that God requires salvation in order for us to see Him in Heaven? I have, quite long and deeply, actually. I am concerned that many do not know what God requires of us.
What God thinks
Here on this temporary planet, I don’t want to follow some mere man’s thinking on this subject, and then end up in Hell next to him! Scary thought!
What you think – your “take” on it all, is not as important as what God thinks. You think?! If God is in control of the universe, what importance does what you think have? Really! Do you really think that what you think will change the course of what God thinks?!
¨There is a way which seems right to a man,
but its end is the way of death.”
– Proverbs 14:12
The Bible
I want to follow the teachings of Jesus — the Godman Himself, the One who started the original Christian belief. THEN I can be confident that I’ll end up with Him in glory, instead of with some false-headed citizen in Hell. You agree? Wouldn’t you rather be with Jesus?
Jesus told us how to qualify to enter His Kingdom. He was very specific. Are you up with Jesus’ original teaching? 1
The Bible is a collection of thought …put together by God for us. He wants us to know what’s what in the spiritual realm. A pivotal question for us is:
How do I live this physical life, AND spiritual life, AND please God in all of it… so that He welcomes me into His Holy Kingdom?
The Bible is “able to give you
the wisdom that leads to salvation”
Wise humans really ought to live in such a way so that upon arriving at their ending day, God is accepting of them at His doorstep, welcoming them into His Holy Kingdom. If that’s what they want. Some don’t.
The most important question
While on earth, Jesus gave us “saving knowledge“. The verifiable words of Jesus are recorded for us, and He is the One I want defining “salvation” for me.
What I say? Well, I want to know what Jesus thinks. Don’t you?
So, the most important question for each of us is: Which are you – one who Jesus saved, or one who Jesus condemns? Jesus tells us plainly. So, what’s it gonna be for you?
Like in a game show: Do you want to open the “best door” or the “worst door ever”? But in the Bible – the game host actually tells you straight-out which is the best door! What kind of a dumbass lamb wants the “worst door ever”?
Hear God
When it comes to staying damned, or getting saved — you don’t care what I say, and I really don’t care what you say about it! I want to hear what God Himself says about it!
I want to follow Jesus. Just Jesus. I want to know what He Himself says. Preachers: stop giving me your thinking. Give me Jesus. – Source: What Jesus Thinks
If we have sincerely chosen to follow Jesus
then following Him matters
and living is about
getting down to God’s meaning
– Source: Your thinking or God’s Word
See: | Words of Mere Men Are Not God’s Words |
| “By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error” |
Only God Himself … Only God Himself is real, died on a cross to save you, cares about you, can give you strength for each day
Sure as Heaven, I want to know what God Himself has said to this issue. Do you want to trust your eternity into the hands of puny humans?
What is your eternity based on? What others say? What others think? What others philosophize? What religions propose?
Me? Not so much. God knows. That is where He is from. Mankind can only theorize. And they all are mere humans.
What has God said about getting into His Heaven?
– Source: How do I get to Heaven?
Only God’s Way leads to Himself
Have you slipped into “your own way” of thinking…? Don’t take it for granted that you know God’s Way. Your presumption of assumption may land you in that other place, not where you wanted to be. Be a Berean, and confirm the Truth for yourself. 2
Such a Bummer. Just thinking of that place gives me terrors. Such a dark place, that eternal spot in the universe of God.
Let’s examine closely, afresh, what Scripture actually says about this salvation Jesus promised, this all-encompassing thing called “getting saved“.
The big question is:
How do I get to Heaven – by God Himself?
It makes sense that God will have HIS WAY. Why do so many today think God is McDonald’s, saying “Have it your way!” God is not McDonald’s! He will have it His Way, come Hell or High Heaven.
It does matter what we believe.
We have to agree with God.
We have to agree with His Word.
We have to agree with Jesus’ own words.
If we do not, then
– are we truly following Jesus?
I think not.
I think that Peter would say
we are following another god
if we do not agree with Jesus’ own words.
– Source: Be a little more Christian
“After the life is over…
what worth
will your words and
your reasonings have?
After all.”
– Source: Only God’s Way leads to Himself.
The “broad and easy” Shanghai interchanges
Scripture says this about Salvation
The broad road things …Matthew 7:13-27
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.” – Verse 13 of Matthew 7:13-27
Jesus said to beware of trying to “serve two masters”. Whatever “Masters” you serve now, you must leave them and serve only Jesus. That is what He meant. Really! You cannot do both.
When you come before the Great White Throne for judgement, and you have served two masters (Jesus plus any other…) He will not welcome you to His Holy Kingdom. Sad day. Believe that. His Kingdom is the ultimate exclusive place. It’s Holy.
The same goes for sin. There is an absurd belief going around these days claiming we can be keeping sin and getting God’s Holiness also. That will never happen. God requires we repent: Turn from – Turn to.
Praise God He said to us “Whosoever will may come”. There is hope in that! We all have a shot at this, getting saved. If we can just for a moment turn our face away from things here, distracting meaningless things… then maybe the light of the love of Jesus will shine on us and give us hope in Him. Draw near to Him (James 4:8).
However, IF you do draw near to God, then, Jesus says, you must also leave behind where you are now… and take-on Jesus only. Leave behind the broad road things …Matthew 7:13-14.
3 things that He requires of us here
Jesus conditioned the will with the denying. You may have the will to, the wanting it… but you must pair-up that wanting with the works …the denying parts Jesus mentions — in order to be in compliance with MirWebster Jesus message.
you must
pair-up that wanting
with the works
This message is from Jesus. Yes, Jesus Himself is the One who speaks this to us (so we must really really pay attention to this). All of us who really really want Him, must be highly motivated to align with Him – according to His words to us. And He Himself, the keeper of the gate, speaks to us of 3 things that He requires of us here on earth.
Listen up. In Mark 8:34 He is requiring these three really really needed things:
“let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”
Don’t skip the 3 things! Without them, your bowing the knee is null and void. Jesus put it this way:
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them,
Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”
– Mark 8:34
This is Jesus talking
These are not some “add-on”, unnecessary bogus requirements added by false teachers who came along after Jesus. These 3 things are not burdensome false additions to Jesus’ Gospel. No. This is actually part and parcel an essential – integral component of getting saved. Can’t get to Heaven without ’em.
NAR-type direct disobedience
Practicing sin – of any kind, is not acceptable to God. As Christians we do sin, but we do not “practice” sin. We confess our sin for what it is: It is sin. To be practicing sin is to be NOT “following Jesus”.
The “follow Me” part is integral to salvation. If you are living in sin, practicing disobedience… then you are not “following”, and you are therefore not saved.
Do you have God? Adapted excerpt:
Following Jesus is not a matter of making-up our own way of interpreting Scripture (2 Peter 1:19-21). God did not say – “Here are some words. Go and make meanings of them.”
We must be careful to not add to nor distort His Message. Ever!
We do not need new revelations. What we need is to pay close attention to what He already gave to us! The meanings of God are very clear in the Bible. We must follow and obey those.
We don’t get to change the specifics God has given to us in the Bible (in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, of course). See: Changing what God started.
If you take away or distort God’s Word (as NAR-types do), then you are in flagrant violation of His Word, and God has said: I am against you because of that (Ezekiel 13:8). How terrifying it that!? (Hebrews 10:31)
Do you want to
stand at God’s Judgement Throne
and argue with Him there
about anything?
Do you think you are saved — when you countermand God’s Word? Really! The Bible says NOT.
The NAR. In the ending section below — learn more about false teachers and false prophets who lead folks away from obedience to Jesus. Click here to go to the section: The NAR false teaching (a quick *Return to paragraph link is provided there).
The Bible teaches us: all mankind is legally damned — from God’s Heavenly Court. So… it behooves us all to become legally forgiven from God’s Heavenly Court. Only Jesus does that.
Better call Saul Jesus!
He has the power. He is Creator God. And He will be The Judge on that Judgement Day. Consult Him.
See: | Legally damned – Legally forgiven |
| Freed from a righteous “God Damn” |
This is from Jesus Himself. So “pay attention”!
See: To whom do you “Pay Attention? All-in-one Link: Acts 16:14, Hebrews 2:1, John 10:3, 2 Peter 1:19, John 10:16, Acts 2:14, Acts 8:6, Luke 17:3, 1 Timothy 4:16, James 4:13, 1 Timothy 4:1, Romans 10:16, 1 Timothy 1:4, Titus 1:14, 1 John 4:5.
When it comes to
staying damned,
or getting saved
— you don’t care what I say,
and I really don’t care
what you say about it!
I want to hear
what God Himself
says about it!
About salvation …Matthew 7:13-17, Mark 8:34
Salvation is not a little prayer we mumble. It’s not a little platitude. It is a total heart surrendering. Still think you have Jesus?
God, thankfully, does not require sinless perfection. No. If He had — then we’d all go down being God damned. But He does require giving Him all of what we are (Matthew 22:37), no holding back. Our heart has to be surrendered to Him.
Peter quoted the Old Testament in reference to the End Days, saying anyone can call out to God and be saved. Salvation is instant. It can be with our dying breath. But it must be with a total heart surrendering:
‘And it shall be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord Jesus] shall be saved (rescued spiritually).’ – Acts 2:21
The thief on the cross (Luke 23:39-43) had a quick salvation experience before dying on the cross next to Jesus. Jesus forgave the thief in that moment on the cross.
Johanna and Randolph Michaelsen – 2018
We show in our living
But most of us have a lifetime to live – after our “confession experience”. And throughout it we show in our living whether that moment of confession was actually a saving experience or not.
The saying goes: “no fruit — no salvation”. No works that show it — then no salvation actually happened. James 2:14-26 tells us this: “Faith without works is dead.” Deader than a door nail.
But are you willing to recognize,
you foolish
[spiritually shallow]
person,
that faith
without [good] works
is useless?
– James 2:20
A total heart surrendering to Jesus must show itself true. Or not. In Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus said this about that:
* 1. You must walk the narrow road.
* 2. You must NOT follow the ravenous wolves.
* 3. You must bear good fruit.
* 4. You must leave the broad road things behind. 3
The Message of Jesus… a faith of Jesus’ making
All of that is required of us IF we want to go to His Holy Kingdom. It is required because if you are truly surrendering it all to Him, then that will truly be your experience. To the contrary, like with a sprinter’s track race, a false start is also very evident to God. He knows the heart of everyone.
A false start (failed salvation) can be: an unrepentant heart, lacking one thing, living in sin, direct disobedience.
God brings us to what Evangelist Billy Graham used to call – our moment of decision: are we really wanting to follow Him?
“The only opt-in Christ will accept – is a 100% opt-in… total surrender, total repentance, total acknowledgement of Him as Christ the Messiah, total life submission to Him as Lord, total followance.”
– Source: Ashamed of Yourself?
A “faith” of our own making …like NAR-types have done
When Jesus spoke of the narrow road, He then warned of the false prophets.
15 “Beware of the false prophets”
Many people have been caught-up in the apostate nets that fish for gullible ones. Fear This!
False teachers in the NAR movement are not just sadly mistaken, [not merely] having been mislead. Scripture describes deceptive groups and leaders, such as NAR type leaders, as “unqualified and worthless [as teachers] in regard to the faith.”
They “oppose the truth“. They are “men of depraved mind“.
The New Testament Apostle Paul is clear about this. If you want to get to heaven you have to have “the faith” (of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul)… and they do not have it. You cannot get to Heaven by adhering to “another gospel” such as the faith of NAR teachers.
– Source: As Teachers of the Faith – Unqualified and Worthless
Not discerning truth
Not discerning the truth from the false, the gullible, mislead pew-sitters are accepting the apostate teachings of the NAR-types who have created a faith of their own making. And whenever NAR-types want to distort the Bible message, they conveniently have a “prophecy” to set themselves up with a new direction. Scary what they are doing!
Excerpt from It is what it is: The Bible Is God’s Word To Us
Do we come to God to hear Him, or do we create a “faith” of our own making – that is comfortable for us? A reader deceives himself or herself when words and passages are purposely not accepted as-is. It is so easy to “reinterpret” it, and “analyze it critically”, and see it in the light of “political correctness”, or just plain not believe what God has told us so plainly right there.
If we truly want to follow Jesus, then we must not maintain beliefs and practices that God rejects. He knows the heart that is proud of its own way and rejecting His truth.
How can anyone say “I am a Christian” — and yet not follow in practice what Jesus taught? Christ said it is impossible to serve two masters. You either follow Him — or not. [Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13]
There is no middle ground: You are either following what God Himself teaches, or you are rejecting Him in practice and thus not a genuine believer.
The truth is – you can say anything, but your actions indicate your true heart. God knows your true intentions and inner heart. So if your confession is not a true yielding to God, He knows that.
– Source: It is what it is: The Bible Is God’s Word To Us
The Narrow Road
It’s not an easy road. It’s narrow, and it’s specific. Getting onto the narrow road begins with bowing our knee to Him in the intimate room of our heart.
1 John 1:9 is specific. Reading it in several versions helps me understand better what John is saying. Try it:
If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His own nature and promises], and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose].
NIRV verse 9
But God is faithful and fair. If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure.
PHILLIPS verses 5-10
Here, then, is the message which we heard from him, and now proclaim to you: GOD IS LIGHT and no shadow of darkness can exist in him. Consequently, if we were to say that we enjoyed fellowship with him and still went on living in darkness, we should be both telling and living a lie. But if we really are living in the same light in which he eternally exists, then we have true fellowship with each other, and the blood which his Son shed for us keeps us clean from all sin. If we refuse to admit that we are sinners, then we live in a world of illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us. But if we freely admit that we have sinned, we find God utterly reliable and straightforward—he forgives our sins and makes us thoroughly clean from all that is evil. For if we take up the attitude “we have not sinned”, we flatly deny God’s diagnosis of our condition and cut ourselves off from what he has to say to us.
Conversely, the wide, broad road is the easy road: It is accepting of everything. Just stay the way you are. Anything goes just fine on the broad road.
Highest Standards of God
Contrary to “the wide”, God requires “the narrow”.
Circular Ball of SpaceLights
“…God is not sloppy nor wishy-washy. God is not a slacker with low standards….
God is very sure of Himself! After all – who else is there like He? He is the One and Only. Who are we, puny little mud-men of clay — to contradict the Potter of the Universe?
So when it comes to your salvation by God, there is no wiggle room. No half-way measures. Don’t get it wrong! Don’t try your own thing. Don’t “add God” to your laundry list of things to do.
There is no room at all – for error – when it comes to being right with God. You are either all in, or you are all out. Are you sure you’re in? Damn sure?
If you are not “all in”, what else is more important? If you are only partly into this “Christian thing”, then where is the rest of you?
You really think that the God who made you, THE God of the Universe, is going to accept part of you, a halfhearted commitment to Him?
– Source: No Tolerance for Error
Nothing less is acceptable to Jesus
If you missed any of that message of Jesus, think again. “Getting saved” is: to become acceptable to Jesus.
Reconsider your life.
Get it together.
Get truly saved
…because nothing less is acceptable to Jesus.
It may be acceptable to you.
It may be commonly acceptable.
Your NAR-type doctrines may teach you differently.
Your current religion may teach you differently.
YOU may think differently.
But this is Jesus. This is the message Jesus spoke to all of us.
He said,
24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord]. – Matthew 6:24
See: | You serving two masters? |
| What following Christ is NOT |
| Practicing sin, NOT following Christ |
Whatever it is, if you value it extremely, then it’s likely you are extremely NOT saved: two masters, mammon – “money, possessions, fame, status”. Anything, “whatever is valued more than the Lord”, can be that “one thing you lack“. It can actually be “an idol” you falsely worship (1 Corinthians 10:9-14).
Is Jesus’ worldview – your worldview?
What do you: agree with, write about in support of, and tell others? THAT is your worldview.
Does your worldview jive with Jesus’ worldview? Or, are you contradicting Jesus?
Your mindset is not protected by God! Your thinking shows who you are following. And the truth is — your agreement with the enemies of our soul, reveals the truth about your salvation: You have none. (But it is not too late to repent and follow Him. Yet.)
The reality of “sinning and forgiving”
When God forgives — He REALLY forgives! He is not like the weak and frail believers (the unforgiving, the finger-pointers, the gossips) who don’t get it, who can’t grasp this whole reality of “sinning and forgiving” within the framework of what God is calling us to.
Some “believers” *churchy pewsitters are hating on others (1 John 3:14), perpetually unforgiving (malicious; Ephesians 4:31-32), habitually condemning (gossiping), living in “a world of illusion” (verse 9 of 1 John 1:9-10).
– Source: Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought. 4
5 This is the message [of God’s promised revelation] which we have heard from Him and now announce to you, that God is Light [He is holy, His message is truthful, He is perfect in righteousness], and in Him there is no darkness at all [no sin, no wickedness, no imperfection].
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness [of sin], we lie and do not practice the truth….
How to enter His Holy Kingdom
John said, Believe in the name of Jesus.
Believing “in the name…” means you believe in “all that Jesus Christ is and does.”
When you (if you did), or I, said, “I accept Christ as my Lord and Savior”, a whole lot of “accepting” is going on there in that moment in time. Are you aware of what-all it actually requires to truly “accept Christ”?
We did not just say,
“Yes, He was a great guy” nor:
“I like Jesus. He was a great teacher” nor:
“I accept that Jesus was a great philosopher” nor:
“He and I are on great terms. He is my friend.”
Or did you? Scary thought.
– Source: Believe in the name of Jesus.
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To accept anything less than “all that Jesus Christ is and does“… is to stop short of getting saved. God requires all, not just pieces of us. Are you holding-back on God? Or: Are you 100% sold-out to the true Jesus?
Are you one of those that says one thing and does another?
- Do you say “I’m a Christian” but you live like …something else?
- Do you say “Ya, I know I’m not living like I know Jesus would like me to”?
- Do you acknowledge the dissidence between your “want-a-be” and your whatch-ya-be?
- Do you vote for a hell of a lot of things Jesus never would have voted for?
- Does your lifestyle match-up with Jesus’s?
- Does your worldview look anything close to Jesus’s?
- Are there whole sections of Bible you’ve tossed-out and replaced with your own brand of thinking?
- Have you bothered to look at the Bible to know it?
- Have you looked at the Bible to see how distant you are from Jesus’ biblical statements and standards?
– Source: Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other.
There are an awful lot of people
who supposedly accepted Christ as Savior,
or are into one sect or another, and think they are “saved”, but they are actually on a broad road that says heaven but goes to hell.
Don’t get to walkin’ that road.
– Source: Believe in the name of Jesus
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23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]. – Luke 9:23
God can penetrate our thick skulls, our pernicious 5, stubborn thinking. Jesus saved me. That’s how I know that. He got through to me!
Coach Kennedy praying
I like to pray Psalm 139:23-24 in times of introspection, asking God to show me anything in me that is not pleasing to Him:
23 Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.
– Psalm 139:23-24
What Jesus says about NAR-types
Jesus said this to the religious scribes and Pharisees, and I believe He is saying this about the NAR-type Charismatics of today:
“you do not believe Me
[and continue in your unbelief]…”
“…you are not of God
and
you are not in fellowship with Him.”
– John 8: verses 45-47
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“You do not believe Me“
45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me [and continue in your unbelief]. 46 Which one of you [has proof and] convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
47 Whoever is of God and belongs to Him hears [the truth of] God’s words; for this reason you do not hear them: because you are not of God and you are not in fellowship with Him.” – John 8: verses 45-47
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To NAR-type Charismatics I would say:
- There are whole sections of Bible you’ve tossed-out and replaced with your own brand of thinking.
- You are so very distant from Jesus’ biblical statements and standards.
- You have drifted away from the Jesus of the Bible, becoming Wandering stars… Pagans.
You do not hear the truth of God’s words
God is warning you (in verse 47): “Whoever is of God and belongs to Him hears [the truth of] God’s words….”
Jesus brought us the New Covenant. And Jesus accepted the veracity and legitimacy of Old Testament prophet’s words (Luke 24:25). Yet you false teachers do not. You have rejected the Old Testament.
You say that the New Covenant obliterates Old Testament proscriptions (prohibitions) established by God. How is that — when the author of the New Covenant Himself accepted the Old Testament?!
25 Then Jesus said to them,
“O foolish men,
and slow of heart
to trust and believe
in everything
that the prophets have spoken!
– Luke 24:25
Distinctively NAR-type doctrines
God is against NAR-types who misrepresent Him:
1) Those who are wrong with a prophecy (saying their prophecy is “God’s words”)
2) Those who use their own words as “God’s words”
3) Those who report dreams and visions from God (but they in fact have see nothing)
4) Those who fake healing, signs and wonders through trickery or demons (Counterfeit spirit of God)
5) Those who believe Jesus was just a man while on earth, when actually Jesus was all God and all man all His life and on the cross. (Verses 2-3 of 1 John 4:1-6)
6) Those who dismiss the Old Testament in order to twist and pervert – and have it their way instead of God’s Way. See: It is what it is: The Bible Is God’s Word To Us
There Are No More Apostles. -Source: fitl
“By this we know
…the spirit of truth and the spirit of error”
God is against anyone who makes less of Jesus, those who do not believe “all that Jesus Christ is and does“. If you negate portions of God’s Word, then how can the Truth be in you?
See: Believe in the name of Jesus.
“…you do not believe Me
[and continue in your unbelief]…
– John 8:45
– 1 John 4:1-6
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.
4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us;
the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
– 1 John 4:1-6
The distinctively NAR-type doctrines are believed because NAR-types do not believe Jesus. Their prophets have negated the Old Testament. And the truth is: you must believe that God came in the flesh (v2), which they negate.
If you negate
portions of God’s Word,
then how can the Truth
be in you?
God is easy, light-handed, gentle
Don’t think that God is an ogre and hard to follow. Actually, Jesus is gentle and does not burden us with heavy rules and regulations. Jesus assured us,
“I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation].“
“you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls.“
Jesus invited us to “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me“. He wants us to be at rest, and follow Him closely:
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation].
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30.
The Godman Himself, Jesus the Messiah, started the original Christian belief of salvation. Are you following that? Through His death and resurrection, Jesus became for us the divine sacrificial Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. To be saved we must repent, reject sin, and follow Him with sincerity and truth.
God saves us – “not we ourselves” (1 John 1:8, Psalm 100:3, 2 Corinthians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 4:7). He gives us “new birth”. We “must be born again” by His Spirit.
In this, the scariest passage in the Bible, Jesus is obviously addressing the NAR-type Charismatic “Christians” of today who – in Jesus’ name …prophecy falsely, and do miracles falsely. He saw their heart, still disobedient to His stated will, stubborn, and not yielded to His Word.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruit you will recognize them [as false prophets].
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day [when I judge them], ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and driven out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’
– Matthew 7:19-23
It is a lie to say you follow Jesus, when you negate God’s Old Testament commandments (such as in Zephaniah 3: verse 4, Jeremiah 2:35, Deuteronomy 13:5, Ezekiel 13:8, Ezekiel 13:9). “I am against you”, God says.
Bible References for “I am against you”:
Deuteronomy 6:15; Deuteronomy 31:27; Matthew 22:29; Ezekiel 13:8; Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 13:20; Ezekiel 14:9-11.
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Which are you?
– one who Jesus saved,
or
– one who Jesus condemns?
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What will not stand
What will not stand whatsoever are those who follow NAR-type practices in direct disobedience to God’s stated standards in the Old Testament. Scary thought.
* My practice of calling my words – God’s words
* My practice of saying “God has told me this….”
* My practice… will not stand in the Court of God.
See: | Why might many Charismatics not be saved |
| They were not really of us |
| Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also |
In that Judgement Day,
my right and wrong “as I see it”,
my “it’s okay to be impure” attitude,
my excuses for fornication,
my boyfriend-girlfriend sex,
my “sexual preference”,
my same-sex sex,
my fetus farming science,
my baby killing abortion choice,
my “the ends justify the means” way of life,
… will not stand in the Court of God.
-Source: Being Christian
A note in closing
You can know you are a Christian – and have no doubts about it. Jesus forgives. And, once you are truly saved, the Bible declares you cannot lose what God keeps secured for us. So, walk in Him and in the power of His might.
Ephesians 6:10
“…be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”
FOR MORE:
Are you saved?
This is more than important:
Reconsider your life. Get it together.
Get truly saved
…because nothing less is acceptable to Jesus.
What Jesus thinks I want to know what Jesus thinks. I want to follow Jesus. Just Jesus. I want to know what He Himself says. Preachers: stop giving me your thinking. Give me Jesus!
Receiving the forgiveness of God through Jesus the Messiah
Freed from a righteous “God Damn”
Legally damned – Legally forgiven
The Bible is “able to give you
the wisdom that leads to salvation”
What we will be like – in God’s Home Heaven
Evidence for all Jews and Goy that the Messiah came to earth
As if your mindset is protected by God
Will you be turned away by Jesus?
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.” – Matthew 7:21
Deuteronomy 10:12
“…what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], to walk [that is, to live each and every day] in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul [your choices, your thoughts, your whole being]….”
Reckless faith | by John MacArthur | as quoted at: http://apprising.org/2008/12/we-feel-homosexuality-is-not-a-sin/ | Quotes from a neglected book, Reckless Faith, by John MacArthur.
Outward religion but inward… everything unclean
Practicing sin is not following Jesus
Saying no to Jesus is a dead faith with dead works
The one who is an idolater – 1 Corinthians 10:9-14
Accepting What God Rejects Excerpt:
“To support those who support vileness –
is as vile before God
as the vileness itself.
But oh, how sweetly
we convince ourselves otherwise.”
Living between two opinions Excerpt:
Are you living “between two opinions”? We know that “Wanting” is not the same as “Having”. Wanting is not having. The same is true of “salvation in Christ”:
“Wanting” the awesome rewards of eternal life with an extremely loving God who is good beyond measure — that is not the same as personally “having” God’s amazing forgiveness.
“If the Lord is God,
follow Him;
but if Baal,
follow him.”
– 1 Kings 18:21
God forgives by His Holy Holy Justice
I’ve been “declared free of guilt”
We don’t get into a Holy Kingdom by being sinful
Called by Jesus to be forever on a higher level
Jesus Only Always For All Times …sacrificial Lamb of God
In Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus said this about that:
* You must walk the narrow road (Matthew 7:13-17).
* You must NOT follow the ravenous wolves (Do not attend apostate churches).
* You must bear good fruit.
* And you must leave the broad road things behind (God’s Sin List).
Promises God makes about your salvation
The Great Judge has already declared me perfect in His sight
— so is He going to undeclare His former decision for any reason?
– Source: What God Did for Man and Can I become unsaved for any reason?
You cannot lose what God keeps secured for us
How you can know you are a Christian
What God secures – you cannot “lose”
Can I become unsaved for any reason?
Promises God makes about your salvation
Synthesis of – Romans 8:35-39
There is absolutely nothing
that can separate me
from the love of God
Divine Mysteries Revealed by the Godman Jesus
The Mystery of the Gospel has been revealed
Being a Temp in our temporary tent …existence (2 Corinthians 5) on this temporary earth (Revelation 21:1)
Your “New Leaf” once you have repented
The reality of Incompleteness on earth
About Evidences for faith in Jesus
Believing eyewitness witnesses
God spoke through prophets – and Jesus, the greatest of all
Patterns of Evidence | a 2 hour movie presentation from the site: www.rightnow.org
What Jesus taught …Jesus said:…
Does it matter – what you believe?
Words of Mere Men Are Not God’s Words
“By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error”
Discernment When Interpreting | by
The Bible is “able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation”
It is what it is: The Bible Is God’s Word To Us
The Bible is the standard for Christian thought and practice. Not me. Not you.
What God asks of us in the Bible
Promises God makes about your salvation
The Bible is “able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation”
There is no other saving Gospel
Your choice – Your chance to choose
Is Jesus’ Worldview – Your Worldview?
The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms Excerpt: We Berean types expect: reasoning, explaining, and evidence given. We want to compare Scriptures with what is said – “to see whether these things [are] so“.
The moment of IF Excerpt:
The biggest question
The biggest question for all professing believers:
Were you
truly saved?
Is there any “if” to your salvation story? Could you perhaps have a Cracked Heart? Were you truly saved?
God is easy, light-handed, gentle
As if your mindset is protected by God
God’s grace teaches us to reject sin
We don’t get into a Holy Kingdom by being sinful
Which Jesus Do You Serve? Excerpt: In his article, Which Jesus Do You Serve?, Brendon Powell contrasts (1) what is often preached by man – versus (2) what was preached by Jesus.
What did Jesus himself say? There is the Jesus who said, “Repent and believe the gospel, the kingdom of God is at hand.” –Mark 1:15. THAT is Truth.
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He said, “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him.” -Lk 9:23-25.
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He said without Him you are already condemned. -John 3:18.
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He said He came to save the world -John 3:16.
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He said unless you forsake all you have, you cannot be His disciple. -Luke 14:33.
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He said if we love anyone more than Him we are not worthy of Him. -Matt 10:37-39.
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He said if you love this life you’ll lose it. -John 12:25-26.
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He said you cannot serve God and money. -Matt 6:24.
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He said fear God who can destroy both body and soul in hell. -Mt 10:28.
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He said be extreme in your war against sin. -Matt 18:8-9.
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He said love God with all your heart, soul and mind and your neighbour as yourself. -Matt 22:37-39.
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He said He is the light of the world. –John 8:12.
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He said the gate is narrow and the way is difficult and few find it. -Matt 7:13-14.
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He said those who believe in Him but work iniquity will be cast out. -Matt 7:21-23.
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He said you’ll be hated for His name’s sake, but if you endure to the end, you’ll be saved. -Matt 10:22.
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He said I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me. –John 14:6.
– Source: Which Jesus Do You Serve?
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Acting with your heart, soul, strength, and with your mind
Life’s most urgent question. Really.
Entrance Granted Into The Eternal
The Kingdom of God is very exclusive, very luxurious, very special
The inclusive yet exclusive salvation of Jesus
Just beyond the veil Excerpt:
In essence, there are only two choices before we die in-place. 1 We don’t stay in that place where and when we die. We go to the ground (our body does), but ultimately we (our eternal soul) go to where God Himself determines we are to go.
You’ve got to be good with that, because He is the One who made us “…not we ourselves.” (Psalm 100:3)
When you get right down to it, you are the one that chooses: Your Way or God’s Way. Which way is it going to be? Which way are your feet walkin’?
Getting saved – What being “saved” means
Salvation in Christ is beyond huge
How to give your life to Christ…More Resources on how to give your life to Christ:
ItHasBeenWritten.com – The Basis of Salvation: https://www.ithasbeenwritten.com/salvation
Pastor JD Farag – The Abc’s of salvation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEk8C6qe960&t=7s
Robert Breaker – How to get saved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbb4xwYj19g
Robert Breaker – The Gospel of Salvation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H124iZiyGUs
Got Questions – What is salvation?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgWmDM0wZw
Got Questions – What is the way of salvation?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFl5JnUrmI
Got Questions – How can I become a Christian?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44DUULoHI6U&t=150s
John Ankerberg show – How can someone receive Jesus’ gift of salvation?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5O4M9TbMI
Pastor Jack Hibbs – Now is the time to give your life to Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozc-fzvYyo
Learn more about God’s plan of Salvation – Pastor Jack Hibbs – All about your salvation part 1a:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0Za-BTm6A&t=2796s
Pastor Jack Hibbs – The realest sermon you’ll ever hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDeBEnp5iw&t=262s
“Whosoever will may come” Whosoever. Jesus said, “Whosoever will – may come”. Nobody is left out in “Whosoever”! See all in one link or: Revelation 22:17, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 10:32-33, Matthew 16:25, Mark 8:34-35, James 4:4.
How you can know you are a Christian
Why Jesus will say to some “I don’t know you”
Could it be true that today only 6% of “Christians” are truly born again?
Why might many Charismatics not be saved
Trace your God back to the origins of your faith
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought
The NAR false teaching …leading down the broad road
Is yours a sound doctrine that Jesus will approve?
Could it be true that today only 6% of “Christians” are truly born again?
The Complete Pentecost Experience?
Do you have God? Excerpt: Do not add to nor distort
Following Jesus is not a matter of making-up our own way of interpreting Scripture (2 Peter 1:19-21). God did not say – “Here are some words. Go and make meanings of them.”
We must be careful to not add to nor distort His Message. We do not need new revelations. What we need is to pay close attention to what He already gave to us! The meanings of God are very clear in the Bible
Many false prophets and teachers have gone out into the world
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REFERENCES for
“I am against you”:
Deuteronomy 6:15; Deuteronomy 31:27; Matthew 22:29; Ezekiel 13:8; Ezekiel 13:9; Ezekiel 13:20; Ezekiel 14:9-11.
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Following the Jesus who was not God
Jesus is all man, and all God, for all time
Wandering Stars. The Paganism of Bethel, Hillsong, and the NAR pt 1
Why might many Charismatics not be saved?
The Gurus in Christian Churches
Words of Mere Men Are Not God’s Words
What man can live and not see death? – Psalm 89:48
Selected verses about Death:
1 Corinthians 15:51
Hebrews 11:13
Psalm 23:4
Option: see all Bible references on “death”
At death – we put on immortality
Being God Damned (in Hell) Excerpt:
Being God damned in hell is to be forever damned, forever without God, without joy, without happiness, devoid of God’s goodness, without any good thing (since God is good), forever doomed in gloom, defeated, beaten, always restless, never satisfied, never…
The Damning God Excerpt:
Don’t arrive before The Throne of God
– and discover there that you are still merely a God damned mud-man.
I stand amazed looking at the arrogant mud-man
shaking his puny little mud-fist —- at God, the Potter!
At God! Ha!
What impudence.
What futility, despair, regret.
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you–unless indeed you fail the test? – 2 Corinthians 13:5
Who In Hell Do You Think You Are?
Today is your last day and Hell is Home tonite
Welcome to the show, What’s Beyond The Door! The stakes are gargantuanly humongous!
Flesh and blood absolutely cannot inherit the Kingdom of God
Jesus Only Always For All Times
Jesus Brings Us To Creator God
What God asks of us in the Bible
Why on earth will God accept you, a sinner?
Being 100% given-over to Jesus
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
Receiving the forgiveness of God through Jesus the Messiah
Blessed by forgiveness by the Hand of God our Savior
God forgives sins by His Holy Holy Justice
Right on the edge of trusting Him forever
The Mystery of the Gospel has been revealed
Significance – what Jesus gives us
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought
Hell in the Bible It is described with all these words (not just fire):
the second death,
eternal punishment,
outer darkness,
pits of darkness,
chains of darkness,
my bed in the darkness,
lake of fire,
unquenchable fire,
fiery hell,
the nether world,
Sheol, Gehenna, Hades….
Only God’s Way leads to Himself
Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
Excerpt: The reality of “sinning and forgiving”
When God forgives — He REALLY forgives! He is not like the weak and frail believers (the unforgiving, the finger-pointers, the gossips) who don’t get it, who can’t grasp this whole reality of “sinning and forgiving” within the framework of what God is calling us to.
Some “believers” are hating on others (1 John 3:14), perpetually unforgiving (malicious; Ephesians 4:31-32), habitually condemning (gossiping), living in “a world of illusion” (verse 9 of 1 John 1:9-10). Part of Jesus’ message says:
1 John 3:14
We know
that we have passed
out of death into Life,
because we love the brothers and sisters.
He who does not love
remains in [spiritual] death.
Hate is “eternal-life-changing”.
– Source: Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
Footnotes
- Have you thought about that mere man that started your brand of “salvation by God”? Mormons, JWs, Muslims, NAR-types, etc? Trace your God back to the origins of your “salvation”. Any discord there?
- Berean thinking.
Contrary to the Thessalonian example (Acts 17:11) – Berean type peoples want to carefully examine beliefs and statements and sermons all the time. They maintain a mind that is open to examination of what they are told. They don’t just accept the authority of the person or of the religion, but – they put it to the test of Scripture. They ask: What does Scripture teach about this? Is what they are saying – true to Scripture, or not?For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but wanting to have their ears tickled,
they will accumulate for themselves
teachers in accordance to their own desires
– 2 Timothy 4:3.We Berean types expect: reasoning, explaining, and evidence given. We want to compare Scriptures with what is said – “to see whether these things [are] so“. Who wants to follow what is NOT so!? Apparently many did then, and many do today. I guess as humans – some just accept what they are told, and others want to ask, “Why?” – Source: The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms.
- See supporting references:
* You must walk the narrow road (Matthew 7:13-17).
* You must NOT follow the ravenous wolves (Do not attend apostate churches).
* You must bear good fruit.
* And you must leave the broad road things behind (God’s Sin List). - Part of Jesus’ message says:
1 John 3:14
We know
that we have passed
out of death into Life,
because we love the brothers and sisters.
He who does not love
remains in [spiritual] death.Hate is “eternal-life-changing”. See: 1 John 4:20; Luke 6:27; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 2:11 – and 1 John 3:14.
– Source: Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
- MirriamWebster: highly injurious or destructive.
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