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The Moment of IF… when you choose
We all will arrive at, or already have arrived at, our personal Moment of IF. Our journey through life presents us with a crossroad.
The dynamic crossroads is a moment in time where we choose, either God’s Way or Our Way. It’s actually a “Y” in the road where we make a huge decision: keep on going directly ahead, or choose the turn.
Two Paths to choose from
You see, there is a meetup down the road. Whether you like it or not, you will be meeting-up with Jesus. Meet Him now, before you die, and you will be eternally grateful. Meet Him after you die, and you will be forever regretful.
Be greatful – Be regretful.
You are responsible.
Narry a chance in hell.
You already have an appointment after death. Better by far to change that appointment — and meet Him now in repentance. God is easy. The new appointment is quick, but it will cost you. Be ready to pay.
Excerpt from the post: Oh how marvelous!
Marvelous grace. To a sinner, what else could be so marvelous? God’s grace, that “un-merited” bestowing of a blessing on me. Just because of Him. Just because He chooses to do so within His Heavenly legal system.
What marvelous grace of the damning God, who would go so far out of His way to “un-condemn” me, to “un-do” His “God damn”, His damnation of me, to save me forever for Himself. To love me – at all. That is the grace of God.
– Source: Oh how marvelous!
There exist two roads to die for. Continue down the broad road, or you turn to Jesus and His narrow road.
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.
14 But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.
– Matthew 7:13-14
God’s World
Not one soul will simply waltz into Heaven. The stark reality of God’s World is: you cannot “walk in darkness” AND “have the Light of life”, as Jesus’ disciple John put it. I prefer saying: Easy believism is a crock. Jesus said, Follow Me.
When you chose your own thinking
Your own thinking, however deep, cannot get you alongside God’s Think and on through His gates. Only His saving knowledge “think” saves. Yours? …not at all. Give it up – or go to Hell. (A bit harsh… but it’s the Truth.)
Deeper than Scripture
Ever floundered in the deep end of the pool? You ever got in deeper than you could handle? Many have drowned doing that.
Thinking “deeper” than Scripture can lead you into error and maybe as far as drowning in a counterfeit spirit of God and doctrines of demons. Scary thought.
There is a saving knowledge of Christ, and there is a false knowledge about Christ. One connects you to God and saves you. The other does not lead to Creator God. Do you know the difference?
See: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25 Living Bible
Verse 20 So what about these wise men, these scholars, these brilliant debaters of this world’s great affairs? God has made them all look foolish and shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
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You absolutely cannot keep your sin and expect Holy God to give you entrance into His Holy Kingdom. Makes sense, right? The one-off offer Jesus makes to everyone takes away your sin, and instantly declares you “forgiven”.
Quite the deal – His offer. You’ll never ever see it again — in Hell. It’s a hell of a choice! (pun intented)
Excerpt from Sinners, versus living in sin:
We are all “sinners”. All of us are failing God in many ways – disobedient, time and time again. However, the born again believer does not accept sin in their life. They fight it! Though born again, changed into a new creation, they are still sinners, forgiven, yes, but still struggling against sinning.
On the other side, non-believers, sinners also, have made decisions to accept sin in their life. Whatever the sin may be (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) the “not-truly-saved” person has accepted a normalcy which reveals their true heart.
Their “normalcy” is contrary to God’s normal. Whether a church-going person or not, no matter what their confession of faith —- their “faith” cannot save them because their deeds betray their true allegiance. And it isn’t an allegiance to truly following Christ!
– Source: Sinners, versus living in sin
I have sinned. But, I refuse to accept sin as a norm. I do not keep sin. I repent and confess my sins with sincerity and truth –and He forgives me.
I’ve been forgiven. Jesus saved me. I’ve been declared free of guilt! Hallelujah! What about you?
the born again believer
does not accept sin
in their life.
They fight it!
“This is a fight we’re in”
– 1 Timothy 1:15-20
Jesus said,
“I am the Light of the world.
He who follows Me
will not walk in the darkness,
but will have the Light of life.”
– John 8:12
See all in one link
or: John 8:12, 2 Timothy 1:9, Romans 7:18, Romans 8:4, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Ephesians 6:12, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Peter 5:9.
Leave your sin behind… give them to the Amazing Grace Forgiver – Jesus
Jesus does not save the sinner who keeps his sin. No matter the disobedience we may be into, each of us humans must turn from – turn to…. Was your confession accepted by God?
Turn from your sins & turn to Jesus in repentance. Even the churchy “Christian” full of chutzpah cannot bluster his way past Jesus The Door.
The chutzpah of some chutzpah = “presumption plus arrogance“ will land them opposite of heaven – on the wrong side of The Great Divide.
– Source: The Chutzpah of Wannabe Christians
See these verses in one link or: Matthew 23:25, Matthew 23:27, Luke 11:46, Luke 11:52.
Per Wikipedia: In Hebrew, chutzpah is used as “indignantly“, to describe someone who has overstepped the boundaries of accepted behavior. In traditional usage, the word expresses a strong sense of disapproval, condemnation and outrage.
Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts’, presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to”. In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation. In the same work, Rosten also defines the term as “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan”.
Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, which renders others speechless and incredulous … one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display.
– Source: Chutzpah – Wikipedia.
Heaven has no “open borders” now. If you want to go to Heaven, you cannot live your best life wherever, doing whatever you want. Each one of us must go through the proper channels, and enter the Door to Heaven. Makes sense to me.
Living your own life does not get you where you want to be. I have been blessed and “cursed” with a wild and crazy stallion heart, and thus I have sinned. I have wasted days. I have sinned.
God’s Think will rule the heavens …not yours
It is His Think that will later rule the universe, not yours – “NOT mine, not your mother’s nor your father’s, not your neighbor’s, not Mohammed’s, not the Hindu’s, not the Confuscianist’s, not the agnostic’s, not Hawking’s, not any natural born human’s.” (Source: God’s Think)
19-20 “…There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith….”
– 1 Timothy 1:15-20 The Message
Don’t make a thorough mess of your eternity. Thinking that “anything goes“, saying “just live your best life wherever, doing whatever you want” — will most assuredly make a thorough mess…. It contradicts Jesus. Want that?
PIC: Sheep. Georgi Kalaydzhiev – i5w0Yz3s3JQ. Unsplash
We absolutely must align our confession with “His own purpose and grace” — not yours! You don’t rule the universe!
…for He delivered us and saved us and called us with a holy calling [a calling that leads to a consecrated life—a life set apart—a life of purpose], not because of our works [or because of any personal merit—we could do nothing to earn this], but because of His own purpose and grace [His amazing, undeserved favor] which was granted to us in Christ Jesus before the world began [eternal ages ago]…. – 2 Timothy 1:9
PIC: Goats. By Jorge Salvador. Unsplash
Are you a goat?
Are you a goat or one of the sheep of His fold (Psalm 23)? Don’t let your moment of if morph into your eternal existence of not.
Will you keep on blindly walking directly down the road as always, or will you choose to Turn from – Turn to…Jeus? Choose wisely. Decide to follow Jesus.
When you turn from your sinfulness
(true “repentance“),
and turn to Christ for His forgiveness
(“accept Christ” and His ways),
He then recreates you in that instant
and you become “born again“.
– Source: About past sins and being forgiven now
FOR MORE:
When you keep on blindly walking directly down the road as always, you have missed the crossroad God provided for you. Will you choose to Turn from – Turn to…Jeus? Choose wisely. Decide to follow Jesus.
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Not of this world …John 8:23, John 15:19, John 18:36, 1 Corinthians 1:20, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 1:12
These following references in one link.
John 8:12 “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
2 Timothy 1:9 …for He delivered us and saved us and called us with a holy calling [a calling that leads to a consecrated life—a life set apart—a life of purpose
Romans 7:18 …I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]. For the willingness [to do good] is present in me, but the doing of good is not.
Romans 8:4 …us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power].
2 Corinthians 1:12 …we have conducted ourselves in the world… in the grace of God [that is, His gracious lovingkindness that leads people to Christ and spiritual maturity].
Ephesians 6:12 …For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents]
1 Timothy 6:17 …As for the rich in this present world
1 Peter 5:9 ..be firm in your faith
Is God against you?
The Moment of IF Excerpt:
Were you truly saved?
Beyond the shadow of a doubt — THIS is the biggest question for all professing believers: Were you truly saved, actually redeemed by the blood of the Lamb? Or not.
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- Did you “become one with Him [permanently united]”? (Romans 6:5)
- Were you truly saved in your professed “salvation moment“?
- Have you been “raised with Christ”? (Colossians 3:1)
- Have you died and now “your life is hidden with Christ in God”? (Colossians 3:3)
- Did you “become one with Him [permanently united]”? (Romans 6:5)
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Why God is against me IF I claim my words are God’s own
Will you be turned away by Jesus?
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.
Todd Bentley – A Story of Earth and Heaven | by Mike Oppenheimer of Let Us Reason Ministries
The Counterfeit Revival: Modern-Day Mesmerists (Part Four) |Christian Research Journal on Equip.org | Author: Hank Hanegraaff • Article ID: DP244-4 •Updated: Sep 27, 2024 •Published: Jun 10, 2009.
Ignoring God, or living perpetually in protest against Him in this life, will have eternal consequences. Don’t be found without Jesus on God’s day of Judgment. His evidence will condemn you on that day.
– Source: Evidence. What Evidence?
What you think and practice – as compared with what Jesus thinks
Is Jesus’ worldview – your worldview?
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
Live your best life wherever, doing whatever you want
Live your best life wherever, doing whatever you want
The faith of “anything goes” Excerpt: Where is your faith at these days? The world is changing. Is it changing your faith, along with your culture? Or is your faith rock solid with the real, historical Jesus?
Hymenaeus and Alexander (1 Timothy 1:15-20) “made a thorough mess of their faith” by loosening-up the true Gospel. They started thinking “anything goes”.
What kind of belief in Jesus did they have, anyway – – to where “anything goes”? Not my kind of faith. Not the kind of faith of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul.
Hymenaeus and Alexander made up a faith diametrically opposite to Jesus’ Gospel of salvation
19-20 “…There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith….”
– Verses 19-20 of 1 Timothy 1:15-20 The Message
Is your life fruit – Agape Love?
Was your confession accepted by God?
About past sins and being forgiven now
When on earth I’m done and gone
Living the good life with courage and confident hope
Your spiritual journey to eternal life
Walking the way everlasting Excerpt: How’s your walk going these days? Are you walking “the way everlasting”…the way that will never ever end? Jesus is the way everlasting.
Walk the talk. We – you, me – know we are “on” the way everlasting if:
IF we…
“…love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and
with all your strength, and
with all your mind;
and your neighbor as yourself.”
– Luke 10:27
(Also see: Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30)
My Heinous Heinous Ways Excerpt: At this time in God’s plan of the ages for us, God is not condemning sinners. THAT will come later! Currently God is trying to get our attention to get us to accept Him before it is too late! Right now the Holy Spirit is working to convict sinners of their need to be forgiven — even while thick-in-sin.
My wild and crazy stallion heart
I dither dodder, shilly-shally, fritter life away
I have stumbled like a drunk Excerpt: Was this ever you? Or are you “refusing to admit acts of sin“?… 1 John 1:8-10. Are you honestly going to sit there and refuse to admit your sin?
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
We don’t get into a Holy Kingdom by being sinful
Fake faith gets you nowhere you want to be
Can you really see what is going on in the world?
1 Corinthians 1:17-25 Living Bible
Verse 20 So what about these wise men, these scholars, these brilliant debaters of this world’s great affairs? God has made them all look foolish and shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
Significance – What Jesus gives
When on earth I’m done and gone
Is yours a sound doctrine that Jesus will approve?
“Those who are people of faith”
Speaking with love about what is true and what is false
Is your life fruit – agape love?
If we do not think like God Almighty thinks
God’s Think Excerpt: I think. You think. We all think. But, what does God think?
Thinking is necessary. But what if your “think” is not God’s “think”? Then your “think” will end so very badly when you reach That Day of Judgement, quivering before God in the realization that it is His Think that rules the heavens, not yours. Not yours, not mine, not your mother’s nor your father’s, not your neighbor’s, not Mohammed’s, not the Hindu’s, not the Confuscianist’s, not the agnostic’s, not Hawking’s, not any natural born human’s.
The Chutzpah of Wannabe Christians
As if your mindset is protected by God
When you are wrong and just don’t get it
Speaking with love about what is true and what is false
Wandering Stars. The Paganism of Bethel, Hillsong, and the NAR pt 1
Easy Believism …is a crock
God Damned “Believers” We should be using these biblical words more!… hell, damnation.] There are many two-sided coins in life. Life and Death. Right and Wrong. Good and Bad. Easy Believism and Salvation in Christ. Easy Believism On the other side…
Before a good cup a Joe…no shortcuts, no quick easy sinners prayer and then be on “your way” as before, no easy-believism. You have not been granted entrance into His Kingdom if you are not following Him.
What saves you Have you taken the bait for “easybelievism”… instead of a biblical “believe”?
Limited Grace Excerpt: Jesus did not teach simple “easy believism”. He did not offer heaven free! He demanded all of me. He said “You shall….” He did not say “you may”. And from the context of His heavenly standard, from His Holy Kingdom, He demanded “all”. Not a partial. Not some kind of halfhearted, lukewarm, lackadaisical, “well, okay god…” response.
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
– Luke 10:27
That is what Jesus said: All… all… all… all; and….
Salvation will cost you Excerpt: Salvation is free in the sense that we pay no money, pay no church, pay no official, don’t have to “clean-up your life”… in order to accept God’s salvation. But salvation is not “free” to anyone: it will cost you dearly.
…agree with God and follow Him. THAT will cost us.
Follow Messiah (OneForIsrael.org video series)
God forgives sins by His Holy Holy Justice
God’s message to the world Excerpt: Jesus was saying (v28 of Luke 11:27-28, and explained it more later) that:
the ones
who will be blessed
throughout eternity
– are “those who hear
the word of God
and continually observe it.”
– v28 of Luke 11:27-28
1 Corinthians 1:17-25 Living Bible
“Christ is the mighty power of God to save them; Christ himself is the center of God’s wise plan for their salvation. 25 This so-called “foolish” plan of God is far wiser than the wisest plan of the wisest man, and God in his weakness—Christ dying on the cross—is far stronger than any man.”
What clearly saves and what obviously does not save
The Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul …and Jesus
Do not attend Apostate Churches
Oh how marvelous! …When you choose grace. Excerpt from the post: Oh how marvelous!
Marvelous grace. To a sinner, what else could be so marvelous? God’s grace, that “un-merited” bestowing of a blessing on me. Just because of Him. Just because He chooses to do so within His Heavenly legal system.
What marvelous grace of the damning God, who would go so far out of His way to “un-condemn” me, to “un-do” His “God damn”, His damnation of me, to save me forever for Himself. To love me – at all. That is the grace of God.
One minute away from the Kingdom of God
The Gift by His precious, undeserved grace
What a crock – having no religious affiliation Excerpt: Really!? Don’t you care about your eternity, where you will spend a million-years-to-the-infinite-number?
Spending your days in hell ever occur to you? Have you not thought about spending even 1 day in hell? Does that not motivate you to at least investigate the evidence in order to put that thought to rest?
What kind of fool are you…?
The fool says …What kind of fool do you think I am?
You are responsible… Narry a chance in hell.
God is easy, light-handed, gentle – Matthew 11:29-30
The God of all that is,
the One who knows
the beginning from the end
— is gentle and kind,
easy and light-handed.
Jesus said to us
Your chance to choose Excerpt: You can choose life, or you can choose death. Choose life under God, or choose life void totally of the graces of God our Creator. It´s your choice. Take it or leave it. But study the Bible before you stumble away from it and loose your chance to choose.
Choose life with God and His goodness,
or choose “life” without God, eternally without any good,
because all that is good comes from God.
Today is your last day – and Hell is home tonight
There is no other saving Gospel
As Teachers of the Faith – Unqualified and Worthless
The Entrance Into The Eternal Excerpt: We are to be careful to always work at adding more and more of Christ to our inner man. Add more and more spiritual behavior and attitude to our daily walk. Don’t get stuck in a rut! Don’t get fat and sassy! Don’t get satisfied with where you are at. Always press on: Philippians 3:14-15 [We do this – not to get saved, but to be more and more pleasing to God.]
Entrance Granted Into the Eternal
About past sins and being forgiven now
Confirm & affirm why Jesus will accept me
When you turn from your sinfulness
(true “repentance“),
and turn to Christ for His forgiveness
(“accept Christ” and His ways),
He then recreates you in that instant
and you become “born again“.
– Source: About past sins and being forgiven now
The non-stop work of God inside you and me
Is your life fruit – Agape love?
Tolerating others and being biblical
In Christ I am a strong person
The Righteous Person Excerpt: By definition in the Bible, a righteous person is someone with an attitude that says, I want “to seek and submit to the will of God”
301 things you are in Christ | Author: CGrobler
Do not fear. I will help you – See references in one link, or: Isaiah 41:13 – John 14:27 – Luke 12:6-7 – John 14:1 – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.
Oh haunting fear of death – be gone
Even if you die, you will live
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