Are you concerned as to what Jesus will say to you when you meet? I hope you aren’t but if you are, do you know He’s going to say one of two things? He will say, “Well done my good and faithful servant”, or He will say be gone from Me for I never knew you.” Did you know the Bible tells us there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth as these horrible damning words are spoken. This message is to help you never hear them.
Lets get something clear, saying you believe in Jesus isn’t the same thing as saying you trust Jesus to save you. Why should you? Jesus went to the cross and shed His Blood before God who was now satisfied. It’s purpose was to cleansing the sins of all mankind, including mine and yours.
God is going to punish sin, you can bank on it. He hates it beyond our understanding and we had better get a grip on it. If you or anyone comes before Him on Judgment Day with even a single sin you will be condemned. It’s evidence that you refused to accept the Gospel for your salvation.
This message is more than the fact Jesus died for us. It covers His birth, life in obedience to God the Father to where He allowed Himself to be nailed upon a cross to die. It also speaks of God’s love for those who had died before Christ’s death. Jesus went to the place of “departed spirits” and preached to those held there. The Bible tells us He led forth a host of captives. His Blood was for everyone from Adam and Eve to the criminal who repented and was pardoned while hanging on a cross next to Him.
The thing we don’t hear much about is God’s requirement that we believe in the RESURRECTION of Jesus. Read Romans 10: 9-10 to see it. The reason it’s so important; we who are born again into the Life of Jesus, His RESURRECTION has become our own when we surrendered to Him.
Did you know that the moment you “receive Jesus” you also received eternal life? You can’t die from that moment on. Your body might cease to function but the real you, your soul and spirit has left to forever be with the Lord. The Bible tells us “To be absent from the body is to be with the Lord.” And, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints [true believers or holy ones]. Now, at last we are in His Presence to love Him with unhindered affection.
How can this be? Well God has a plan that’s far above all that we can imagine. “Eye has not seen nor ear heard all that God has prepared for man that loves Him.“ If God were to tell us what’s in our future no one would believe it. I suspect we are going to be used in the way Jesus was used here.
I’m not saying we are going to become “gods” but super anointed ambassadors that can go out into the cosmos to serve God in ways that will bring Glory to Him. If it happens we will travel without spaceships etc. I believe we will move through space by simply thinking it. Do you remember Jesus came into the room where His disciples were hiding after His death and Resurrection without knocking or opening a door?
This is all future tense and “interesting to contemplate” but the real issue for everyone is for us to become an adopted child of God. Please memorize John 1:12. It’s a key verse to understand the adoption process. When God revealed it to me I was over whelmed for at least a month. At last I saw with my spiritual eyes the business of needing to receive Jesus experientially.
Ask anyone who’s born again and they will relate how they were changed into a new creation. I was finally able to like myself. Jesus now inside me was the “new me”. Paul says it best, “The mystery hidden from the ages is Christ within you the hope of glory.” If He isn’t in you by faith and inhaling His Spirit, I don’t think He knows you [intimately]. Maybe He does, but I would hope someone would explain it to me.
If you need my help what are you waiting on? Send me an email and we will get right on it. God has been involving me in His business for almost 39 years now. I’m an excellent example of His Amazing Grace. God looks at our hearts and if they’re like David’s, one who wanted to do all of God’s will, you’ll be drawn to the cross. Jesus hangs out there to bring us to repentance. I don’t know how anyone can be saved without it. Repentance is how God prepares our hearts for the Lordship of Jesus. By the way, Is Jesus the Lord of your life? If not He can be today!
In His Service,
Capt. Ben Marler
captben61@gmail.com
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