God has been waiting in His patience to have the people He loves - actually love Him in return. He sent His Son (Jesus Christ) to pay the price for our sins. He sent His Word and His Spirit into the world to lead us to Him self and to enable us to be obedient to Him through a growing love for Him – a love which He provides through His Grace for anyone willing to repent and turn to Him. But now God is done waiting.
Instead of returning all our love to God as He requires, we (the church) have ended up loving ourselves and everything else more then Him. God wants to give us all the spiritual riches of Him self, but instead the church has chosen to love the riches of this devilish earthly realm. He wanted to give us authority over all the earth, but instead we have decided to go the easy way and be a slave to the devil’s authority. God wanted to give us an eternity of everlasting life in glory with Him, but instead the church has chosen an eternity of death by being satisfied with what only this life could offer – even these things are temporary and will parish in fire. The church has not been humbled before God and has not made Him Lord, but instead has chosen ourselves to be our own god.
Now is the time for God’s wrath! God will no longer hold back the great consequences of our sins. We have loved money and depended on money instead of depending on Him. God will now pull those mighty dollars right from under our feet – to show us all that we have been blind and deceived. The worldly church deserves an eternity in hell, unless we fully humble ourselves and repent of all our evil desires.
God wanted and made everything possible for a pure righteous church to brightly shine His glory to all the nations, but we have turned the church into a mockery of God. The church has turned into a religion of man’s likes and understandings, instead of a glorious lighthouse pointing to and serving Him. Instead of the church being set apart for God’s glory and purpose, it has become dark like the rest of this selfish and evil world. Today’s church on a whole has become the enemy of God, because it has become friends with the world and shares in its selfish, sinful and evil schemes.
James 4:4-5 - You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
The church has committed adultery – it has loved the world instead of staying with the church’s one true love, which is God. We say we love God, but almost all our time is spent loving the world and what it has to offer. We don’t only absorb ourselves into the selfish love with this world, but we also teach our children these same evil desires that God hates.
God is angry with the so called “church”. God is truth and all truth originates with God, but the church has turned His precious Gospel into a deception that is now preached from most pulpits to have people believe these lies as being the truth. Over the centuries the Gospel has been lightened up and changed so much that it no longer has saving powers. The Gospel was changed so that more people would come into the church and not be offended by hearing that their life style was filled with sin. Because these lies have been preached for centuries now, they have been believed as truth and have replaced the true Gospel – even though the Bible has many, many conflicts with this new fake gospel. This new gospel teaches that we don’t have to live a holy and righteous life by the power of God’s grace; instead it teaches that we just have to try to live holy and righteous. This new gospel teaches we can never live a holy and righteous life, so we can only try and when we try, we will fail. This makes God angry. God did not send His Son to die on the cross and send His Spirit into the world so we would still be bound to live a sinful life like the Old Testament Jews. Because of this false gospel teaching, most of our churches are filled with unconverted partial believers. What a blind worldly church we have become. The church has become an abomination to God.
The worldly church we see today no longer loves God’s Word. The church has taken and accepted the scriptures they want to believe in and have rejected all the rest of God’s Word. By doing this, we have rejected God. The Word and God are inseparable. The Word is God and the Word describes God. If we have the Word in our hearts, then we have God in our hearts. But because today’s church only believes a part of God’s Word, this results in people only having a part of God inside them instead of the fullness of God. The only way to heaven is having a fullness of God in your heart – not partial.
God says He will return to judge the world when it is like the days of the great flood.
Matt 24:37-39 - As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood , people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
Before the flood, God could not find enough righteous people, so He killed them all except Noah and his family. Do you think all those unrighteous people He killed went to heaven? That is how it is now. There are so few people living holy and righteous lives before God. This is why God wrath is coming upon us. We have chosen death and that is what God is sending to us.
God sees a very small percentage of true believers in most individual churches. These believers have searched and found God even though they have been surrounded by lies. He is calling these true believers to study His Word and bring back the truth to the church or they might also be caught in the devil’s trap of lies and be lost forever along with the rest of their unrighteous friends. If these worldly churches are unwilling to listen to God’s truth, then leave those people. It is better to come out from under the lies of these worldly churches and become and stay a part of the true remnant church of God – even if this means you must stand alone for God by doing this.
2 Cor 6:14-15 - Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
God’s Servant,
Michael Reid
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
God Will Not Be Mocked – Message 4
Gal 6:7 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.
God wants His creation to see and know the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they have been blinded to God’s truth and are no longer searching for God. We as a nation, of so called believers have come to the point of not needing God - for we have become our own gods, which has been the devil’s intention from the beginning of time.
Most people in the United States have believed that God has blessed us because of our richness of money, things, and abundance. We have been deceived and have fallen into the trap of self sufficiency by being given what we want and all our physical needs provided for by the work of our hands and/or our minds. God promises to supply for our daily needs and for us to look to Him for all our daily needs, but what God intended for good – the devil has provided to us in abundance – so what was meant for good, now is used for evil when the devil takes us out into his world of selfishness and provides to us an out of balance abundance. We now store up money and things in abundance for ourselves so we can feel secure and don’t have to worry about our future. We work our bodies away in worry about our future and try to make sure we have enough for retirement – so we will not have to depend on anybody – including God. Look what God has said to these ideas – remember God is never changing.
God providing manna in the desert to the people of Israel
Ex 16:15-16 - Moses said to them, "It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer (a certain measured amount) for each person you have in your tent.'"
Ex 16:19-20 - Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning." However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
The manna was intended for one day and only one day – since God provided for each day.
Matt 6:19-21 - Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Almost all of our heart’s treasure is in our money and self dependence. As a nation, we are no longer storing up treasure in heaven, but storing up destruction of our souls.
Matt 6:24-25 - No one can serve two masters. 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 both God and Money. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Matt 6:30-34 - O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear ?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Luke 12:16-21 - And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." ' "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
God wants us to rely on Him daily for our every need, but we have taken our dependence off from God and are now depending on ourselves with some prayers mixed in here and there. United States – WAKE UP. The nation of the United States is coming to its destruction. As for the faithful, we must call out to the lost to wake up and see that we have been deceived – at least for who ever is still searching for the truth.
But who is still searching for the real truth anymore. Most are so self sufficient or dependent on the government that they no longer come to the point of really searching out God and His Son (Jesus Christ). We have become a nation dead in the Spirit – yet we think we are alive. We, as a nation, are fools and have been totally taken in by the devil’s many deceptions. We have already been like the church of Laodicea in the book of Revelation.
Rev 3:15-17 - I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
As a nation, we have already gone past this point; we have been spit out of the mouth of God. We have rejected His full truth and have turned away from Him – so God has turned away from us. For the very small percentage of true Christians left in this country, we must realize that our country is dead and going to its destruction, but at the same time keep an eye out for anyone that still might be lead by the Spirit and be searching for truth so that we can help them come to a true salvation. For the others – the self righteous – the ones that are self sufficient and prideful, we must let them go to their destruction in their sins – in the hopes that they will turn from themselves and come to life in the true God or they will be lost to eternal damnation.
It is very sad that we have become a Godless country, or you could say a nation of many gods, but God’s wrath is coming upon this country and we must rejoice in His justice finally being done. Our country has been totally sidetracked by Satan’s lies, but just like all lies, they eventually are uncovered and then the consequences come. It is upon this judgment time that some might see the errors of their ways and come to a true saving relationship with our Lord Christ Jesus. These times will be hard on all of us, but this time will also be a joy filled time to see our Lord’s glory in action and to see some come to salvation which wouldn’t have come to it otherwise.
In the past God has been patient with us as a nation, but we have repeatedly rejected His mercy and grace for to long, so now His wrath is coming. Are you ready?
Your servant in Christ – Michael Reid
God wants His creation to see and know the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they have been blinded to God’s truth and are no longer searching for God. We as a nation, of so called believers have come to the point of not needing God - for we have become our own gods, which has been the devil’s intention from the beginning of time.
Most people in the United States have believed that God has blessed us because of our richness of money, things, and abundance. We have been deceived and have fallen into the trap of self sufficiency by being given what we want and all our physical needs provided for by the work of our hands and/or our minds. God promises to supply for our daily needs and for us to look to Him for all our daily needs, but what God intended for good – the devil has provided to us in abundance – so what was meant for good, now is used for evil when the devil takes us out into his world of selfishness and provides to us an out of balance abundance. We now store up money and things in abundance for ourselves so we can feel secure and don’t have to worry about our future. We work our bodies away in worry about our future and try to make sure we have enough for retirement – so we will not have to depend on anybody – including God. Look what God has said to these ideas – remember God is never changing.
God providing manna in the desert to the people of Israel
Ex 16:15-16 - Moses said to them, "It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer (a certain measured amount) for each person you have in your tent.'"
Ex 16:19-20 - Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning." However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
The manna was intended for one day and only one day – since God provided for each day.
Matt 6:19-21 - Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Almost all of our heart’s treasure is in our money and self dependence. As a nation, we are no longer storing up treasure in heaven, but storing up destruction of our souls.
Matt 6:24-25 - No one can serve two masters. 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 both God and Money. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Matt 6:30-34 - O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear ?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Luke 12:16-21 - And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." ' "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."
God wants us to rely on Him daily for our every need, but we have taken our dependence off from God and are now depending on ourselves with some prayers mixed in here and there. United States – WAKE UP. The nation of the United States is coming to its destruction. As for the faithful, we must call out to the lost to wake up and see that we have been deceived – at least for who ever is still searching for the truth.
But who is still searching for the real truth anymore. Most are so self sufficient or dependent on the government that they no longer come to the point of really searching out God and His Son (Jesus Christ). We have become a nation dead in the Spirit – yet we think we are alive. We, as a nation, are fools and have been totally taken in by the devil’s many deceptions. We have already been like the church of Laodicea in the book of Revelation.
Rev 3:15-17 - I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
As a nation, we have already gone past this point; we have been spit out of the mouth of God. We have rejected His full truth and have turned away from Him – so God has turned away from us. For the very small percentage of true Christians left in this country, we must realize that our country is dead and going to its destruction, but at the same time keep an eye out for anyone that still might be lead by the Spirit and be searching for truth so that we can help them come to a true salvation. For the others – the self righteous – the ones that are self sufficient and prideful, we must let them go to their destruction in their sins – in the hopes that they will turn from themselves and come to life in the true God or they will be lost to eternal damnation.
It is very sad that we have become a Godless country, or you could say a nation of many gods, but God’s wrath is coming upon this country and we must rejoice in His justice finally being done. Our country has been totally sidetracked by Satan’s lies, but just like all lies, they eventually are uncovered and then the consequences come. It is upon this judgment time that some might see the errors of their ways and come to a true saving relationship with our Lord Christ Jesus. These times will be hard on all of us, but this time will also be a joy filled time to see our Lord’s glory in action and to see some come to salvation which wouldn’t have come to it otherwise.
In the past God has been patient with us as a nation, but we have repeatedly rejected His mercy and grace for to long, so now His wrath is coming. Are you ready?
Your servant in Christ – Michael Reid
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
God Will Not Be Mocked - Message 3
Gal 6:7 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.
The mark of the beast revealed
As always I want to start out emphasizing how God wants His creation to see the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they can’t see or even understand God’s agape love that He has for us. These people are still filled and consumed by their own selfishness and that is the subject of this message.
God’s Word teaches us that there will be a time when most people will be deceived and will receive the mark of the beast, which is “666” on their hand and/or forehead. I want to inform you that we are and have been living in that time already. Most people have already received this mark of the beast and don’t even realize it.
In order to understand this mark of the beast and what it actually is, we must first come to a basic understanding of the “Things of God” and the “things of the devil”. These “Things of God” are in a specific order (ordered by God) and are numbered and always have to be used when we try to figure out all of the numbers in the symbolic scriptures of God’s Word. I would like to share more about the fuller meanings of God’s number system (the Things of God), but for now we are only going to concentrate on one “Thing of God” which is SELFLESSNESS and “one thing of the devil” which is SELFISHNESS. Below are the “Things of God” and the devils corresponding opposites which are the “things of the devil”.
Things of God
#1 – Longsuffering (patient)
#2 – Mercy (leniency or compassion)
#3 – Contentment (satisfied)
#4 – Humility (willing to be humbled)
#5 – Gentleness (kindness to others)
#6 - Selflessness (thinking of others first)
#7 – Peace (state of harmony)
#8 – Goodness (moral excellence)
#9 – Joy (great delight and rejoicing)
#10 – Forbearance (self control thru faith)
#11 – Hope (hope of winning thru grace)
#12 – Love (Perfection of all Things)
Things of the devil
#1 – Instant gratification
#2 – No leniency or compassion
#3 – Never satisfied
#4 – Prideful (unwilling to be humbled)
#5 – No kindness shown to others
#6 – Selfishness (thinking of self only)
#7 – No harmony with self or others
#8 – Totally unmoral values
#9 – Draining of any delight or rejoice
#10 – No faith or control over one’s self
#11 – No hope of winning or finishing
#12 – Hate of all good things
Notice above that #6 in the “Things of God” represents “Selflessness” and #6 in the “things of the devil” represents “Selfishness”. So when we talk about the beast’s mark, we are then talking in the realm of the “things of the devil”, since the beast represents the evil or the devils spiritual realm. We can now understand from this that the number “666” represents the forms (or realms) of selfishness since all the numbers in the number of the beast contain all 6’s. But how do these numbers go together or add up?
To understand how these three 6’s combine or go together we must now look at the makeup of the spiritual realm of God and the corresponding opposite spiritual realm of the devil. Below are the two spiritual realms.
God’s spiritual realm
Blood – Physical flesh realm
Water – Loving heart of man
Spirit - Heavenly spirit in man
Glory – Kingdom of God
The mark of the beast revealed
As always I want to start out emphasizing how God wants His creation to see the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they can’t see or even understand God’s agape love that He has for us. These people are still filled and consumed by their own selfishness and that is the subject of this message.
God’s Word teaches us that there will be a time when most people will be deceived and will receive the mark of the beast, which is “666” on their hand and/or forehead. I want to inform you that we are and have been living in that time already. Most people have already received this mark of the beast and don’t even realize it.
In order to understand this mark of the beast and what it actually is, we must first come to a basic understanding of the “Things of God” and the “things of the devil”. These “Things of God” are in a specific order (ordered by God) and are numbered and always have to be used when we try to figure out all of the numbers in the symbolic scriptures of God’s Word. I would like to share more about the fuller meanings of God’s number system (the Things of God), but for now we are only going to concentrate on one “Thing of God” which is SELFLESSNESS and “one thing of the devil” which is SELFISHNESS. Below are the “Things of God” and the devils corresponding opposites which are the “things of the devil”.
Things of God
#1 – Longsuffering (patient)
#2 – Mercy (leniency or compassion)
#3 – Contentment (satisfied)
#4 – Humility (willing to be humbled)
#5 – Gentleness (kindness to others)
#6 - Selflessness (thinking of others first)
#7 – Peace (state of harmony)
#8 – Goodness (moral excellence)
#9 – Joy (great delight and rejoicing)
#10 – Forbearance (self control thru faith)
#11 – Hope (hope of winning thru grace)
#12 – Love (Perfection of all Things)
Things of the devil
#1 – Instant gratification
#2 – No leniency or compassion
#3 – Never satisfied
#4 – Prideful (unwilling to be humbled)
#5 – No kindness shown to others
#6 – Selfishness (thinking of self only)
#7 – No harmony with self or others
#8 – Totally unmoral values
#9 – Draining of any delight or rejoice
#10 – No faith or control over one’s self
#11 – No hope of winning or finishing
#12 – Hate of all good things
Notice above that #6 in the “Things of God” represents “Selflessness” and #6 in the “things of the devil” represents “Selfishness”. So when we talk about the beast’s mark, we are then talking in the realm of the “things of the devil”, since the beast represents the evil or the devils spiritual realm. We can now understand from this that the number “666” represents the forms (or realms) of selfishness since all the numbers in the number of the beast contain all 6’s. But how do these numbers go together or add up?
To understand how these three 6’s combine or go together we must now look at the makeup of the spiritual realm of God and the corresponding opposite spiritual realm of the devil. Below are the two spiritual realms.
God’s spiritual realm
Blood – Physical flesh realm
Water – Loving heart of man
Spirit - Heavenly spirit in man
Glory – Kingdom of God
devil's spiritual realm
Blood – Physical flesh realm
Water – Evil heart of man
Spirit – Evil spirit in man
Babylon – devil’s kingdom
You will notice from the above listings that God’s spiritual kingdom and the devil’s spiritual kingdom both contain the “Blood – Physical flesh realm”. This is where these two spiritual realms meet. These two spiritual realms meet in the fleshly realm which is why the spiritual warfare is fought out beginning within the flesh realm. After or underneath the “Blood – Physical flesh realm”, you will notice that these other spiritual realms are opposites of each other when you compare God’s spiritual realms with the devil’s spiritual realms.
Number place holder
Blood – x1 (ones place)
Water – x10 (tens place)
Spirit – x100 (hundreds place)
Glory/Babylon – x1000 (thousands place)
Now I want you to take a close look at the number place holder column. Each one of these opposing spiritual realms has a corresponding number place holder for God’s spiritual numbering system. For example: the “Water” realm of both opposing spiritual realms share the number place holder of “x10 (the tens place holder)” and this number place holder represents a spiritual realm of either a spiritual realm of God or a spiritual realm of the devil. The spiritual realm to be used (God’s or the devil’s) is determined by the context of God’s Word from where the scripture is being taken from.
Anyone that understands what I have stated above can now interpret what the number “666” really means and in turn understand what the mark of the beast really is.
6 = x1 (ones place holder) = A selfish fleshly body
+60 = x10 (tens place holder) = A heart filled with selfishness
+600 = x100 (hundreds place holder) = A spirit filled with selfishness
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666 = A person filled with selfishness in their body, heart, and spirit
The mark of the beast is a spiritual mark and not a physical mark. The mark of the beast represents any person controlled by total selfishness (sinful nature). These selfish souls belong to the devil. God’s Word says the mark of the beast “666” will be on the hand or forehead. Again this mark represents a person filled with total selfishness and isn’t a visible mark on the hand or forehead. God’s Word says it is on the forehead because this represents our brain and what we think. God’s Word also says it can be on our hand because this represents our works that we do with our hands. A person that has the mark of the beast will think selfishly and all his/her works with also be selfish.
I want to inform everybody that has ears to hear, that the devil’s evil beast has been given authority to deceive the nations, even the believers.
Rev 13:14 - Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth.
In the past and for many hundreds of years, the devil’s deceptions had been restricted by God to let His church grow without undo influence by the devil, but now the devil has been allowed to deceive all the people of all the nations. These deceptions of the devil have been going on already for many, many years. God is not surprised by the world being taken over by the devil and his evil forces. God is allowing it to happen. God has authorized all of this evil for the testing of souls and to bring His plan to completion. God is allowing the devil to deceive who ever will be deceived in order to weed the weeds out of His harvest.
Rev 22:11-13 - Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy." "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Gal 6:7-9 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
God’s judgment is coming soon to everyone. God is allowing this evil to go on for a time, but this time of evil will come to an end. But before this time of trial and testing ends, it will get much worse. Get ready and then stay ready until Christ’s return. Evaluate yourself and let God search your soul. Are you sealed with His mark of Love (#12 – Love – God’s perfection) or are you marked by the devil with his mark of “666”. Selfishness can be overcome, but only by God’s grace through His Son (Christ Jesus) by the power of God’s love.
Your servant in Christ – Michael Reid
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
God Will Not Be Mocked – Message 1
Gal 6:7 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.
This is the first in a series of messages on how God’s creation is mocking the creator (God). Like in all the following messages in this series, I will start out emphasizing how God wants His creation to see the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they can’t see or even understand God’s agape love that He has for us. Since most people don’t have true agape love in their hearts because Christ Jesus has not made His home with them, all that God is able to work with is their selfishness and fear. God is total love, but He is also total righteousness and totally holy. With God, living a holy and righteous life in not an option for the people that will inherit His eternal kingdom, He demands holy and righteous living. This holy and righteous living can only be done through the love of Jesus Christ permeating every aspect of our heart and soul. This permeating of our heart and soul with His love is accomplished when we are truly born again. Since we can’t see this agape love in most people – we then have to also assume that most people are not truly born again. Most people really don’t have the capacity to understand God’s love since agape love is given by His Spirit and since the Holy Spirit is not in most people, the only thing they do understand is love of self and the protection of their selves. This is why we need the “fire and brimstone” messages to come back.
Let’s first look at who will inherit God’s eternal kingdom (heaven).
Gal 5:19-21 - The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 6:7-9 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
So what does the scripture verses above really say to us? They say very plainly that if we do or think any of the sinful acts of the sinful nature, then the sinful nature is still in us and that we are still being controlled by that sinful nature and not God’s nature. If this sinful nature hasn’t been put to death because we have been unwilling to let it die, we will then suffer in the second death as if Christ never died on the Cross for us and we will be thrown in to an everlasting Hell where there is eternal weeping and gnashing of teeth. This should scare anyone towards God, unless they don’t believe in God, Heaven, or Hell. For the ones that don’t believe in God, Heaven, and Hell, there is no hope for them until they do start believing in these spiritual things. Whether a person believes in Hell or not, if they are not truly born again, they are on an automatic trip to Hell because of their own disbelief.
But what about those people, like my dad or mother, or my sister or brother, or my friend that I loved so much that said they were a Christian, but they were still committing acts of sin up to the day they died? If these people knew they were sinning, but did not repent of those sins and stop sinning, then this would clearly indicate that they never made it to the point of true salvation by being truly born again. Anyone that isn’t sanctified to the point of totally dying to the selfish nature before they physically die will go to Hell upon God’s judgment.
There are no second chances after our physical death. What ever nature we die with will be the nature that we are judged on. If we are still being controlled by the sinful nature when we die, then the sinful nature is still alive in us and it is that nature that will send us to Hell. God can’t and will not let any sinful thing into His eternal kingdom. If we have died to all our sinful nature and are living by His Spirit’s nature in us, then we will be given the crown of life and we will enter His gates of heaven with much thanksgiving. What ever nature that is alive in us when we die, that is the nature that will continue on with our soul into eternity. The choice to what nature we are going to live and die with must be made in this life. Again – there is no changing our mind after we die – there are no second chances after our physical death. There is no purgatory or any such time that God does the finishing touches on our soul after death. There are countless scriptures in God’s Word that emphasize the need for us to be ready for the day that Christ returns for us (when we die), but I will end this message with the scripture below.
Luke 16:19-31 - There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'
We have Jesus that was resurrected from the dead and people still don’t believe. Here I am - proclaiming the truth – who is going to have ears to listen and not be sent to Hell like the rich man in the scripture above
For the love of God – Listen to the truth – there is only one truth.
Michael Reid
This is the first in a series of messages on how God’s creation is mocking the creator (God). Like in all the following messages in this series, I will start out emphasizing how God wants His creation to see the full depth of His love for us, but since most people (including most believers) are so emerged in loving themselves, they can’t see or even understand God’s agape love that He has for us. Since most people don’t have true agape love in their hearts because Christ Jesus has not made His home with them, all that God is able to work with is their selfishness and fear. God is total love, but He is also total righteousness and totally holy. With God, living a holy and righteous life in not an option for the people that will inherit His eternal kingdom, He demands holy and righteous living. This holy and righteous living can only be done through the love of Jesus Christ permeating every aspect of our heart and soul. This permeating of our heart and soul with His love is accomplished when we are truly born again. Since we can’t see this agape love in most people – we then have to also assume that most people are not truly born again. Most people really don’t have the capacity to understand God’s love since agape love is given by His Spirit and since the Holy Spirit is not in most people, the only thing they do understand is love of self and the protection of their selves. This is why we need the “fire and brimstone” messages to come back.
Let’s first look at who will inherit God’s eternal kingdom (heaven).
Gal 5:19-21 - The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 6:7-9 - Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
So what does the scripture verses above really say to us? They say very plainly that if we do or think any of the sinful acts of the sinful nature, then the sinful nature is still in us and that we are still being controlled by that sinful nature and not God’s nature. If this sinful nature hasn’t been put to death because we have been unwilling to let it die, we will then suffer in the second death as if Christ never died on the Cross for us and we will be thrown in to an everlasting Hell where there is eternal weeping and gnashing of teeth. This should scare anyone towards God, unless they don’t believe in God, Heaven, or Hell. For the ones that don’t believe in God, Heaven, and Hell, there is no hope for them until they do start believing in these spiritual things. Whether a person believes in Hell or not, if they are not truly born again, they are on an automatic trip to Hell because of their own disbelief.
But what about those people, like my dad or mother, or my sister or brother, or my friend that I loved so much that said they were a Christian, but they were still committing acts of sin up to the day they died? If these people knew they were sinning, but did not repent of those sins and stop sinning, then this would clearly indicate that they never made it to the point of true salvation by being truly born again. Anyone that isn’t sanctified to the point of totally dying to the selfish nature before they physically die will go to Hell upon God’s judgment.
There are no second chances after our physical death. What ever nature we die with will be the nature that we are judged on. If we are still being controlled by the sinful nature when we die, then the sinful nature is still alive in us and it is that nature that will send us to Hell. God can’t and will not let any sinful thing into His eternal kingdom. If we have died to all our sinful nature and are living by His Spirit’s nature in us, then we will be given the crown of life and we will enter His gates of heaven with much thanksgiving. What ever nature that is alive in us when we die, that is the nature that will continue on with our soul into eternity. The choice to what nature we are going to live and die with must be made in this life. Again – there is no changing our mind after we die – there are no second chances after our physical death. There is no purgatory or any such time that God does the finishing touches on our soul after death. There are countless scriptures in God’s Word that emphasize the need for us to be ready for the day that Christ returns for us (when we die), but I will end this message with the scripture below.
Luke 16:19-31 - There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'
Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'
We have Jesus that was resurrected from the dead and people still don’t believe. Here I am - proclaiming the truth – who is going to have ears to listen and not be sent to Hell like the rich man in the scripture above
For the love of God – Listen to the truth – there is only one truth.
Michael Reid
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