Isn’t it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things about which we will not come to Jesus Christ. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words—“Come to Me … .” In every dimension in which you are not real, you will argue or evade the issue altogether rather than come; you will go through sorrow rather than come; and you will do anything rather than come the last lap of the race of seemingly unspeakable foolishness and say, “Just as I am, I come.” As long as you have even the least bit of spiritual disrespect, it will always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you to do something very big, and yet all He is telling you to do is to “Come … .”
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Sin is a fundamental relationship—it is not wrong doing, but wrong being—it is deliberate and determined independence from God. The Christian faith bases everything on the extreme, self-confident nature of sin. Other faiths deal with sins—the Bible alone deals with sin. The first thing Jesus Christ confronted in people was the heredity of sin, and it is because we have ignored this in our presentation of the gospel that the message of the gospel has lost its sting and its explosive power.
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Brothers and sisters’ grace and peace to you in the name Of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ and God The Holy Spirit. That you Lord for this opportunity you have presented me with to share from your word to others. I ask that you bless this effort and that it will be fruitful, in Jesus name Amen.
My friends, after every major rule of governing is instituted by God it ends in judgement. these rule of governing are called dispensation. There was the expulsion from the garden, The catastrophe of the flood, and the dividing and the changing of languages. This make us curious at to how the end is going to be. Jesus gave us an answer to our curiosity.
The Kingdom Of Heaven
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea that gathered all kinds of fish. 48When it was full, the fishermen£ hauled it ashore. Then they sat down, sorted the good fish into containers, and threw the bad ones away. That is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from the righteous and will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”(matt 13:47-50).It Will be a clean sweep Of evil away from good. **Explanation of Illustration**
Jesus used this illustration of the procedure use to catch fish in the sea of galilee. A net was stretched between to fishing vessels. Then they would drag their net across the sea, indiscriminately catching every type of fish that got caught in the net. after catching the fishermen would take the fish on land and separate the good from the bad. The good fish was taken to market, the bad fish that was inedible was cast away.
Application**
In the book of Matthew Chapter 25, verse 31-46 Jesus further explain. In His description He Tell How He will return in His glory, accompanied by His holy angels and that He is going to take His throne here on earth. The nations of the world is going to gathered before Him. He is going to separate the people one from another the same way a shepherd separate the sheep from the goat. Those who are His sheep is going to receive the reward God prepared for us in eternity past. The goats are going to be cast into the lake of fire. When that time come it will be to late to ask for forgiveness, He won’t listen to you. Because at that time you believe because you were shown to be wrong. you believed that there was no God. My friend don’t play around with time. You are not in control. you could live 50 more years or 50 more minutes. God is in control and He want to save you. according to John 3:16 all you have to do is believe in Jesus. I pray that you Will in Jesus name Amen
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Thank You God Bless You
Rev. Reginald Stevens
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October 6
The Nature of Regeneration
“When it pleased God … to reveal His Son in me …” (Galatians 1:15–16).
If Jesus Christ is going to regenerate me, what is the problem He faces? It is simply this—I have a heredity in which I had no say or decision; I am not holy, nor am I likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is tell me that I must be holy, His teaching only causes me to despair. But if Jesus Christ is truly a regenerator, someone who can put His own heredity of holiness into me, then I can begin to see what He means when He says that I have to be holy. Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into anyone the hereditary nature that was in Himself, and all the standards He gives us are based on that nature—His teaching is meant to be applied to the life which He puts within us. The proper action on my part is simply to agree with God’s verdict on sin as judged on the Cross of Christ.
The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race through one man. But it also says that another Man took upon Himself the sin of the human race and put it away—an infinitely more profound revelation (see Hebrews 9:26). The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, “I am my own god.” This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis—my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean-living, moral, and upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely, the nature of man (see John 2:25).
Thank God for being able to see all that you have not yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not yet to the reality of it by any means. It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will be the choice ones, that most of us turn back. We are not quite prepared for the bumps and bruises that must come if we are going to be turned into the shape of the vision. We have seen what we are not, and what God wants us to be, but are we willing to be battered into the shape of the vision to be used by God? The beatings will always come in the most common, everyday ways and through common, everyday people.
There are times when we do know what God’s purpose is; whether we will let the vision be turned into actual character depends on us, not on God. If we prefer to relax on the mountaintop and live in the memory of the vision, then we will be of no real use in the ordinary things of which human life is made. We have to learn to live in reliance upon what we saw in the vision, not simply live in ecstatic delight and conscious reflection upon God. This means living the realities of our lives in the light of the vision until the truth of the vision is actually realized in us. Every bit of our training is in that direction. Learn to thank God for making His demands known.
Our little “I am” always sulks and pouts when God says do. Let your little “I am” be shriveled up in God’s wrath and indignation—“I AM WHO I AM … has sent me to you” (Exodus 3:14). He must dominate. Isn’t it piercing to realize that God not only knows where we live, but also knows the gutters into which we crawl! He will hunt us down as fast as a flash of lightning. No human being knows human beings as God does.
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October 3
The Place of Ministry
“He said to them, ‘This kind [of unclean spirit] can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting’ ” (Mark 9:29).
“His disciples asked Him privately, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ ” (9:28). The answer lies in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. “This kind can come out by nothing but” concentrating on Him, and then doubling and redoubling that concentration on Him. We can remain powerless forever, as the disciples were in this situation, by trying to do God’s work without concentrating on His power, and by following instead the ideas that we draw from our own nature. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.https://fromtimetoeternity.com/?p=2092&preview=true
“If You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us” (Mark 9:22).
After every time of exaltation, we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as they really are, where it is neither beautiful, poetic, nor thrilling. The height of the mountaintop is measured by the dismal drudgery of the valley, but it is in the valley that we have to live for the glory of God. We see His glory on the mountain, but we never live for His glory there. It is in the place of humiliation that we find our true worth to God—that is where our faithfulness is revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at some heroic level of intensity, simply because of the natural selfishness of our own hearts. But God wants us to be at the drab everyday level, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship with Him. Peter thought it would be a wonderful thing for them to remain on the mountain, but Jesus Christ took the disciples down from the mountain and into the valley, where the true meaning of the vision was explained (see 9:5–6, 14–23).
“If you can do anything … .” It takes the valley of humiliation to remove the skepticism from us. Look back at your own experience and you will find that until you learned who Jesus really was, you were a skillful skeptic about His power. When you were on the mountaintop you could believe anything, but what about when you were faced with the facts of the valley? You may be able to give a testimony regarding your sanctification, but what about the thing that is a humiliation to you right now? The last time you were on the mountain with God, you saw that all the power in heaven and on earth belonged to Jesus—will you be skeptical now, simply because you are in the valley of humiliation?
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October 1
The Place of Exaltation
“… Jesus took … them up on a high mountain apart by themselves …” (Mark 9:2).
We have all experienced times of exaltation on the mountain, when we have seen things from God’s perspective and have wanted to stay there. But God will never allow us to stay there. The true test of our spiritual life is in exhibiting the power to descend from the mountain. If we only have the power to go up, something is wrong. It is a wonderful thing to be on the mountain with God, but a person only gets there so that he may later go down and lift up the demon-possessed people in the valley (see 9:14–18).
