After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: 'Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.'
If no one were saved under the Lord's salvation doorway through Jesus Christ, my Lord, would He have failed? No. He saught to please the Father, in every way. Mission accomplished. You're not doing the Lord a disservice by rejecting His Gospel. He's already won. So, if you reject the Gospel and choose to live in your sins, it's like turning down the parachute on a plane and jumping, knowing what's ahead.
And the second work to bold is do. Jesus is the written Word of God in action, the Living Word. He came and did thousands of years of prophecy and promise. All fulfilled in His appearing. Praise the Lord Jesus, the living God, who gives life.
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
I received a call today from the Great News Network! They're www.thegreatnews.com, because I submitted a thing to become a sower as a part of their ministry, and the Lord made sure I was visiting the site and had the file open and was thinking about it and was the first to answer when I received the call. I hope the Lord can really use me in whatever it is this is.
Have you ever been hated by a few people, for no reason at all? Ever had someone make fun of someone you really love? Say they saved your life, and you owe them everything. Could you stand someone to speak evil of them? To ridicule them for the sake of hating them?
Yesterday, I was at work, working form 9:30 to 6:30. I was on my last 15 minutes break, and I went to the break room to finish eating the food I bought because I was hungry. The Lord provided it. Before, I wouldn't have enough money to buy something, but now I'm so greatful that He's providing for me. So, I was sitting there eating. There was a group of people at the other side of the room sitting at the tables talking. One lady mentioned Adam and Eve in the bible. Mr. Dale, who hates me because I quoted something from scripture to him and told him that there was nothing in the bible about reincarnation, said something like, "You know those people that have been Christians for 2 weeks and think they know something about the bible?" And he knew I was sitting there. And I knew he was making a reference to ME. Then they joked about that. And talked about contradictions in the bible. Then, Mr. Dale said something like this: "You know how it says Let us create man in our image?" "Why does it say us?" That was the end-all, cut-the-cake thing. I would either say what it means, or I'd walk out of there. I packed up. And I walked out of there...!
Now why not stay? I thought about it and I looked up that wonderful saying by Christ, "Cast not your pearls before swine." "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."
But what does that mean? Well, why were they talking evil about Christ? What did He do? He didn't do anything to them. He came and heeled. And said He was there to save. That there would be a day of judgement, but I'm going to provide for you a way out. So there was nothing He did. Or a reason for them to hate Him. Or how they joked about the disciples being the Beatles. I could have said, "Elohim." They'd say, "What did you say?" And I'll say, "Elohim is a plural word, meaning Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The three personships of the Lord." And they'd turn and rend me. It would break into an arguement of 'the trinity.' I'd say the trinity is like you having body, soul, and spirit. But the Lord is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One and the same. And they wouldn't care what I'd have to say. They'd spit on the truth. Their arguements would continue. Their laughing.
It's clear to me that they don't serve the Lord. Why would they kill Him with their words, and call themselves disciples of Him? But they do! Mr. Dale says he's a Christian! Yet he said that day that he doesn't believe anything the bible says, and made fun of God. I didn't plant a seed in Mr. Dale. Or any of the others that were there that day. And if I would have spoken out, I wouldn't have helped Jesus save ANYONE. My words would have been in vain, and I'd just have added to their mockery. But I have my heart on the scripture that says, God cannot be mocked. And if they would have turned to me and pointed the finger at me, I'd have told them, Why do you come at me? You hate the Master. Go to Him with all of your problems. The slave can't do anything.
Is it because I STINK with pride? I'm not a worm? If I were proud, I would have been offended, and have gotten up and talked to them even when Jesus told me not to do it. But no. Bless those who curse you. And pray for those who despitefully use you. Jesus's way always works. Even when someone dies, he or she lives.
In victory, I've been brought to the place of death, so that He might rain. My happiness is His happiness. My sadness is His sadness. And when He's angry, I'm angry. But when He has compassion, I'll have compassion. I'll have the mind of Christ, rather than the mind that jumps up and acts on his own anger. I'm saved. If they die, they'll have to pay for their own sins. But I've died in Christ. I'm no longer alive, but Christ is my life. And if they're the enemies of Christ, they have no life within them. Follow Christ until the end. Because even at the end, He's there. He is the light. There's no escaping or hiding. The light will expose them. And I'm not worried.
This is just one of many Missionary and Disciple Evangelizing websites I've found, in my pursuit. There I found that they take $74 per minute to fund their mission-field work. I took that and multiplied it by 20 years, and got this number: 777,888,000 Cool numbers. I'm going to find more.
Jesus didn't come to deliver you from the punishment of sin. Jesus came to reconcile you with the Lord! To bring you to the Lord and make you pleasing in His sight! To make you a pillar of righteousness in His kingdom!
I shouldn't. I mustn't. But I will. You've probably read so many randomly quoted verses, you're sick of it. Here's one:
"And she shal bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins."
What version is it? It doesn't matter. What chapter and verse isn't a concerning at this point, either. Now, it says, from their sins, not in their sins. There's a big difference. You'd think people would know the difference. But how many people do you know that say that they follow Christ and love Him and get that tear in their eye when someone talks about them, but go on doing whatever it is they want to do? Is that serving Christ? Did He say, Go before all the nations and do what you want to do? Or, you shall love the Lord your God...and continue to sin? And they think they're saved and that gives them a printed ticket to sin or do what they want without serving the Lord, and they go to church once every few week and and think that they're pleasing God.
When their sins and their serving-self puts thems o far from God it's like hugging someone 1300 miles away! So you're saved. What are you saved FROM? The punishment of death? Hell the grave? So am I to say, "I'm saved, I'm not going to hell, so I can go ahead and curse and use the Lord's name in vain and lie..." God says, "All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire that burns forever." And it doesn't matter whether you ask for forgiveness: if a criminal says he's sorry to the judge, it doesn't excuse him from the punishment of the law. The only way to get out of that is to serve the time. The saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is that He paid the punishment, but if you're continue-ing in your sins, you're not receiving and walking in the Spirit, and that saving grace isn't upon you. God didn't take the old sinful man and dust him off: He took him and killed him in Jesus Christ, buried him in death, and gave transformation to the new man with new desires. A willingness to obey God. Now that's the Gospel. Not that Jesus can make your life prosperous and take away your depression and make you lose weight. Those all may be fruits of the Spirit, but Jesus didn't die to make you prosperous - He died to make you righteous before God. He didn't live a life in pursuit of prosperity. He lived a life of righteousness He didn't need to pursue. He IS righteousness! And if the Spirit of God dwells within you, your very nature will be the tendency to do right! Imparted righteousness.
(2) I'm going to give another quote. "That death is the wages of sin. In order to destroy sin, death is not the wages of sin that somehow you have to get someone else to pay for you - death is the wages of sin in that it destroys sin. ... The Father hates and detests sin, and has to burn it out of existance. That's why He said the wages of sin is death. That's why the bible says he who has died is free from sin. Not from the consequences of sin. The consequnces of sin is death. And death is there to destroy sin. That's the very purpose of death. And the purpose of Jesus's death is to free us from our sins. To destroy sin in us! To free our lives from sinning! It isn't so that we'll be able to go on sinning in this life, and yet have the feeling 'Yeah, yeah, that neighbour of mine or that colleague in the office - he sins and I sin yet he'll have to face the consequences of sin, but lucky ol' me, I'm not going to have to do that.' That's not true. God's desire in Jesus and in Jesus's death, is to free our lives from sins."
"If you're sitting there with that complacent laxidaisical attitude and say, 'Oh well I may not have all the sins out of my life. But I know that I believe Jesus died for me. So I believe I'm okay anyway. So I'll try my best anyway.' ...That's a perversion of the Gospel. The Gospel isn't believe that Jesus is going to die instead of you, and do your best to please God. No - It's not believe and try! Be willing to die with Jesus! [Die] to running your own life, and come alive with the power of His Spirit, to living like Him. The Gospel is not...a suggestion."
If I say I am a Christian, and yet I lust after women as they walk by: I may have the leisure of calling myself a Christian, but to God I'm not a Christian. I'm not a Christian. The ONLY way to stay away from returning to the old man is to take up the newness and walk in the new nature given by the Spirit. The only WAY is Jesus Christ.
I'm not sorry to say this, but the Lord Jesus Christ did everything for His Father's glory. Not for Himself. He didn't worship the Father so hard and give His life to do His will here on earth so that the Father would make Him prosperous here on earth. That's foolish! He did it because it was His Father's will. He had His Father's heart!
He wasn't escaping depression or drugs or any of that... He did it because He was the Son of God! He loved the Father. They are one, He says!
So why am I doing it? Why are you? Aren't we and Jesus one because of the Spirit, and we have the mind of Christ through following Christ?
Something.
"You're supposed to let them know that their provision - their in trouble... He's offering them clemency, but they MUST REPENT!!! They must see that sin is ugly. No matter how good it feels, it's ugly. In fact God's plan for the sinner in this point in his life is to separate them forever from His presence in hell. People need to know that. However unpopular and unlovely that may sound, anyone who is an enemy of God through sin..." Listening to Keith Green at www.sermonindex.com/
I realized something last night... Somehow... I remembered where I discovered it from in the morning, but later forgot. If the Lord doesn't have my heart... Like, He has my mind. He was my spirit. He has my body. I walk in the Spirit, constantly. And I wont complain about being at Wal-Mart and getting abused by the world anymore. But if I don't WANT to do it, He doesn't have my heart. If I don't want to do the will of the Lord, yet still do it, my heart isn't in it. I have to WANT to sow seeds. I have to WANT to be at Wal-Mart.
Shortly after I realized that He didn't have my heart in sowing seeds, I got into an arguement over the phone with my mum, who is secretly angry with me for staying at Wal-Mart because the Lord told me I only have to be there for a little over a year, though I hate it. So she told me that it's my life, I don't have to suffer there and stay there and hate it. I told her that I wanted to be there. To suffer. And what I really wanted to tell her but because she lives for herself and not Christ and couldn't tell her is that it's NOT my life, it's God's life. When the Spirit entered in, Christ paid for me, and bought me back from death. It's HIS!!! And I don't intend to give it back to myself, back to that old man that lived for himself and sinned against God. I'm not my dad! Sheeesh... The sword of the Word's divided this small family in half, and I don't want to argue with her but I'm not going to lay down the Spirit and "do what I want to do," to make her happy. No.
I've never been grounded, sent to my room, put on punishment, or had priviledges taken away, and I doubt I will now that I'm in college and whatnot, and I've never had to rebel against a parent or anything like that, but I'm going to rebel for righteousness' sake and keep following Christ whether she loves it or not. And just pray for her. Because I will not leave the Spirit. Na na na boo boo.
Ha ha...
I had a dream that there was a woman boasting that she had been at Wal-Mart for 2 years and was wearing a 10-year experience pin that said 2 years, with the same neck-chain saying the same thing. In the dream I wondered whether they had them for 1 year associates. I had been at Wal-Mart for precisely 1 year Feb. 2nd.
When do you know that you've done something for God? When you've had something to boast about? You know the Lord doesn't glory in your boastings. It kills us that the Lord doesn't get the glory: the healthiest thing for you is for the Lord to get the glory, He glorifies you anyway and never exhalts you a degree lower than He has love for you, I'm sure of that.
But when I've said, "I've travelled to 70 countries and evangelized for 70 years..." Is this the sign of great discipleship? When I've built a multimillion-dollar establishment to handle 5 thousand people to share the Gospel with: does that make me a better disciple?
Fact is, you can't measure your love for Christ in a track record. Are you doing the will of the Lord NOW? I know I'm pleasing God when I'm pleasing God. Not when I look back, but when I look up, NOW. It doesn't matter to the Lord that I've done those things and that I did them for Him, yet I wrestle in prayer over a secret sin. He doesn't care that I'm doing the reasonable service of His faithful servant, and yet I might miss one the mark in one part, or I say, "I hate this. I quit."
Thank the Lord that's not me!
But the Lord told me something... He is never going to forget our labor of love. He wont forget. He knows, even though I might snuff out my right hand's ability to remember what it did for the Lord, and my left hand hasn't a clue. So:
"For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which yyou have shewed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister."
"And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:"
"That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
Those promises as I understand are the hope of God. Hope not in the English sense of the word, but our events that we expectantly wait on. That's where we can anchor our faith. In God - Trust in God!
http://www.fireonthealtar.com/ Listen to as many as you can. I could only listen to a few, but I'll put it here so I can check it out later. Ha, no one else will. Or will they?
I so rarely ever post blog entries like I did the last. I don't do that anymore because I like to hide the excellent things the Lord does for me away with Him. Or what I do for the Lord. Some things need to be said, to be remembered, but I don't post things here so I'd please anyone. And that's NOT how you win souls to Christ. Or how someone is attracted to and longs to get saved. If I didn't plant a seed in someone for Christ, they wouldn't be helped by anything I post. Or my testimonies. And they might believe all of the incredible things that I've seen or that have happened, or the diamonds I dig up from digesting the written Word. They'll see these amazing things, and believe them. But that wont get them saved.
I'd have wasted my time. My one gold nugget the Lord's given me as that talent would have gone to nothing. I hid it under the ground.
This blog might not help save any one. But I love Jesus so much... I just had to say it. I love the Lord so much, that this isn't a waste of time. I do it for the Lord. It doesn't matter to me that people can read it, but every thing I do is to the Lord's pleasure in Christ Jesus. So, I wont post every thing. I haven't. I keep everything hidden in Christ. So many. But this blog does what its supposed to do. But don't be deceived - it's not here for you. It's here for the Lord and me. If it works on you, great! The Lord uses it to talk to you, fine! I love it. But that's why its here.
If I could approach in the Spirit and plant a seed, it would be better because except you see yourself in need of Jesus, not just a sinner but that you sins line up to sinning against God and that you're going to face punishment, you wont know the wrath of God abides upon you. You wont know that you need Jesus Christ, and my words would have been in vain if I told you about the Gospel. But if your heart has been opened and by the plow of the law, the commandments, you're ready to receive seed - thats when you'll understand why this is here. What I say in here... And why its true... Not because of me... I couldn't know spiritual things as that old man. But the new man is by the Spirit. He does know. This is why its here. And why I no longer post about myself. Everything of me is dying. Old man = dead. But what the Lord does, that's why I post. The new man's blog, everything devoted to serving the Lord and not to my self.
I went to sleep again after my mum woke me up to ask me if she could wake me up for school or to go to work. I said I don't have either today, and went to sleep. And I had the strangest dreams...
I had a dream that a few people and I were hopping across blocks of ice on someone's patio. We got from the cement to each piece of ice. Then, we arrived at a hole that had a vortex to a place where we had to shoot our way out, so there were guns on poles on the outside. I chose the gun that looked like a MacDill pen I had, and a cartridge of BBs.
Then I had a dream that I was sinning. :-( The old nature... I had a dream that I was the old man and I was sinning a horrible sin. In the sight of my younger sister, who now follows Christ. And then in the dream I realized that it was indeed one and I remembered the Word of the Lord and stopped to turn and ask for forgivenness, and the dream ended. I moved onto the next...
I was sitting at the heels of a lady that worked in accounting at Wal-Mart, and she had a lab-coat on and was talking about how rediculous it was to tell people how much experience or how long you've worked there. I look at her key-chain, and it said 2 years. Then I was wondering if they had a key-chain and nametag for my 1 year, which is rediculous in real life b/c they only have them for 10 years and up.
So, the Lord was using my dreams. I only have a little while to go there at Wal-Mart. Hopefully, My Lord will not require that I stay 2 years. :-Z But if so, His will be done. But, it's been, on the 2nd of Feb., 1 year since I walked in there with the Spirit and filled out an application and got the job, randomly picking ''Cashier" as an occupation - thinking I could have changed it later. *buzzer*
Why did I have these strange dreams... you say... Or not. Well, the Lord used them. But, I had so many after my mum woke me up because that day I had about 1 1/2 hrs of sleep from staying up all night to study for a biology test. The Spirit helped me do it, because the day before I stayed up quite a long time for something else. And I've worked so long, I hadn't had any time for studying or any schoolwork.
Praise the Lord!!!
