In spite of all the religions of the world, including modern Christianity, one who really wants to see the truth will find out all to soon that ALL OF THEM, EVERY ONE OF THEM are designed to circumvent the CROSS THAT CHRIST COMMANDED WE PICK UP.
The cross, according Paul (Alas, I forget, he is an imposter antichrist), and what he said could not possibly be true, but alas, let’s take a look at one of his comments anyhow, that the cross was foolishness to those that are lost. Paul is not speaking here of unbelievers, but rather to those who have faith and belief in Christ.
He is not saying they count the CROSS OF CHRIST as being foolish, but rather that the commands to PICK UP THEIR OWN CROSS are foolishness. In other words, they claim that Jesus did EVERYTHING FOR THEM, they only have to believe and have faith IN HIS WORK ON CALVARY, and that it was all done for them and they need only believe in that “finished work”, and anyone who adds to that is an “anathema” and brings another gospel and brings another Christ! Really?
Then why did Christ COMMAND YOU to pick up YOUR OWN CROSS, and further said that if you WILL NOT, you are none of His? Ponder that one if you will, because someone is lying here, and inasmuch as GOD IS TRUE and ALL MEN ARE LIARS, then that should answer the question as to who is telling the truth and who is lying.
It may be a big surprise to most Christians, but that FINISHED WORK was God’s way of reconciliation towards MANKIND, and God was now “friendly” towards a fallen human race.
8. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Notice the most important KEY WORD HERE, “GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN”
In other words, God, through the ARRIVAL AND WORK OF CHRIST, was going to reconcile TOWARDS MANKIND. In other words, He came behind enemy lines to work the work of RECONCILING GOD TOWARD MAN. It was the Lord’s attempt to OPEN UP A WAY OF REDEMPTION, OF SALVATION. By and large, humanity has openly rejected that offer, hence humanity WILL NOT RECONCILE THEMSELVES BACK TO GOD even though the way is made for them.
Amos 3
3 Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Unless THEY be AGREED, THEY CANNOT WALK TOGETHER. That is, if the two are not RECONCILED, OR IN AGREEMENT, they cannot WALK TOGETHER. Do you see? Christ gave us, and also COMMENDED US to ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE for it is the ONLY WAY given to mankind to RECONCILE THEMSELVES BACK TO GOD, TO COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH GOD.
How can you come into agreement with DIVINE AGAPE LOVE if you do not know what it is? How can you come into AGREEMENT with the Lord, if He does not SHOW YOU, OR REVEAL TO YOU WHAT HIS LOVE IS? In point of fact, you cannot, and will not. This is true repentance, for to forsake your own multitudes of loves for His one TRUE LOVE. Please ponder that one.
Reconciliation is a TWO WAY STREET. That is exactly why Jesus commanded you to ENTER IN AT THE STRAIT GATE, and WALK THE NARROW WAY UNTO LIFE. That is how humanity reconciles itself BACK TO GOD. Refuse it, you are lost, plain and simple.
“Those that hear my words but do not do them are foolish. Those that do them are wise… Hmmmm, I wonder what could possibly mean…
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
And Jesus Said in Luke:
23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Now maybe I don’t understand something here, but I think the Lord is telling us WE HAVE TO PICK UP OUR OWN CROSS, WHICH IS AN INSTRUMENT OF SLOW DEATH, AND IF WE WILL NOT, WE WILL BE CLASSIFIED AS LOST AND ASHAMED OF CHRIST and His commands.
Also notice that there be some standing there that WILL NOT TASTE OF DEATH until they will “SEE” or have REVEALED TO THEM the real KINGDOM OF GOD. It is at the time of this revelation OF WHO CHRIST REALLY IS, that the fallen soul can either accept or reject the offer of TRUE LOVE, and TRUE LIFE.
This is just one more verse of the REVELATION OF CHRIST WHO IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD THE FATHER to the believer. That is not the subject here.
Now the many Christians that stand before Jesus Christ in Matthew Seven are in fact perishing, for they are sent away into apparent perdition for rank disobedience to His commands to ENTER YE IN.
The Christian of today, no different really than all unbelievers, mock the commands of Jesus Christ and do so by developing false theologies in order NOT TO DO as they were commanded.
Do you suppose the Lord was fooling when He asked “Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and NOT DO what I say?”
So why is all of that?
The answer lies in the deep seated absolute and total REBELLION and hatred humanity has for the ONE TRUE GOD, and JESUS CHRIST WHOM HE SENT TO WARN US OF OUR PLIGHT. Paul tells us what Jeremiah told us, that is, the carnal mind is at enmity against God, HATES GOD, wants NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD, and cannot, in any way or manner please God in the flesh.”
So when people go to Church, worship, pray and sing their hymns and pay their money, THEY REFUSE to pick up their own cross and DIE THE SLOW DEATH OF THE CROSS which, by the way, IS THE NARROW WAY that leads to true life.
“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die…”
As the song MEATLOAF sings, “I will do anything for LOVE, but I WILL NOT DO THAT…” I WILL NOT PICK UP MY CROSS. I REFUSE. How true, and how sad that is.
Jeremiah tells us that the human heart is wicked beyond ANYTHING we can imagine, deceitful, full of lies, full of deceptions, crafty, evil to the core, black as the blackest of blacks. Wow! No wonder we don’t like the REAL MESSAGE OF THE LORD. No wonder we don’t want to do as Jesus Christ commanded us do – who was He anyhow, telling us that?
So when I hear someone say “I am a SINCERE Christian”, I ponder in my mind, “How can that be? Have they not read the Scripture?” If the heart is wicked, full of deception, where is there any sincerity? Its an oxymoron. Not possible. So who does Christ count as being in actual sincerity?
You will find that in the parable of the sower. The honest and good heart that CONTINUES IN HIS DOCTRINE. In other words, because humanity cannot be sincere in truth, OBEDIENCE is counted as sincerity. In other words, you are not able to be sincere, but YOU ARE ABLE TO OBEY. That is why Jesus said IF YOU HEAR MY WORDS AND DO THEM, that is, you are OBEDIENT and actually DO THEM, God counts that OBEDIENCE as sincerity.
So in order to nullify those sorts of reprimands, conditions of if, or, but and the warning indictments, we invent a new Christian theology, one with no cross we need to pick up or carry, no ask, seek, knock, strive, labor for the meat, no death walk, no Godly sorrow, no hell, no find, no open, no revelation of the truth, no revelation in order to repent truthfully, no real repentance whatsoever, and therefore, just as Jesus Himself said, NO SALVATION EITHER. “Get away from me, you who work iniquity…”
Do you know why Christians reject the strait gate and narrow way? Do you know Christians mock it with their faith and belief only? Do you know why they totally contradict the Lord of Lords and glory in their fallen nature, seeking glory among each other rather than God?
Do you know why they mock the Lord’s commands to enter ye in? Or the command to walk the NARROW WAY UNTO TRUE LIFE IN CHRIST? Do you know why they have convinced themselves that their modern Christian theology is true, and the STRAIT GATE and NARROW WAY ARE FALSE?
Do you know why they REFUSE the clear and plain words of the Bible and yet claim with a loud voice they stand upon every word in the Bible? Do you know why they will not, IN TRUTH, come to the LIGHT TO HAVE their DEEDS REPROVED? Do you know why they want to stay in darkness, pretending with all of their mind they walk in the LIGHT? Do you know why we have umpteen Christian denominations, all of which proclaim they have the truth but in truth deny it? It’s really very simple and it’s very profound:
WE HATE OUR CREATOR WITH A PASSION IN SPITE OF ALL OUR DENIALS TO THE CONTRARY. Find it out NOW, and do something about it, while you still have a LITTLE TIME to escape Hell’s firestorm. The vast majority of Christians, even in the so-called remnant REFUSE THEIR CROSS, or do not understand what it means to WALK THE WALK. It is the OPPOSITE of whitewashing. It is the opposite of seeking approval of God by “works” or “ritual” or anything like it. It is the opposite of “law keeping”. It is a DEATH WALK, and here is what Jesus told us the Holy Spirit was to do:
John 16
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Have you been REPROVED UNTO DAMNATION? Have you known you were damned, not with you mind, but from a conviction so deep and so vast that you TOTALLY KNEW you were going to hell? That is what the Holy Spirit is to do, and if you do not believe it, look up the word “judgment” and find out what it actually means. It is time to quit fooling around. It is time to GET REAL. It is time to DROP THE GAME PLAYING.
Go out on the web and search out the Christian websites, etc. and look at how one gets saved. “Say this simple sincere prayer and put your faith in, and believe that Jesus Christ is your Lord.” That is not in the Bible, never was in the Bible, never will be in the Bible. You better get real, real quick and do as Jesus Christ commanded you to do or you will die in your sins.
“Why do you call me Lord, Lord and NOT DO what I say?”
“Why do you call me Lord, Lord and NOT DO what I say?”
“Why do you call me Lord, Lord and NOT DO what I say?”
“Why do you call me Lord, Lord and NOT DO what I say?”
Better PONDER THAT ONE, and be ready with a real good answer, like the MANY CHRISTIANS of Matthew Chapter Seven and their “didn’t we”, remarks. Evidently those excuses did not count. Better come up with some new ones. Some real good ones. REALLY GOOD ONES. Perhaps He MIGHT, but most likely not, listen and pardon. But then again, much more likely, you will hear:
“Why did you call me Lord, Lord and NOT DO what I said?” or
“Get away from me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity.”
GAME OVER, THE END GAMES BEGIN NOW…
Remember, Jesus said that DECEPTION LIES AT THE DOOR…If you are deceived and do NOT KNOW IT, then could we say, as Jesus does, THEY KNOWEST NOT?
4 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
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