It is the Sinful Nature of Man that Sends them to Hell

Did you know that just stealing a pencil from a friend can cause someone to go to hell?

But wait a minute, you might say, that's a little harsh!

No one goes to hell for stealing a pencil, they go to hell because their nature is sinful. If someone followed all the ten commandments but never trusted in Christ they would still go to hell.

The commandments show us how sinful we are, they are not rules to follow they are indictments of our nature. The very nature of man is corrupted to the core no matter what good deeds they do or the good things they say if they have not trusted in Christ they will go to hell.

To make it to heaven one must confess their sinful nature, ask God to clean up that nature and make them a new creation, trusting that Christ paid the debt they want Him to change them.

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new [a]creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

Once they realize this they see the terrible sacrifice He made in dying on our behalf. We deserved to be on the cross but He did not. He did that for us because of His great love for us.

To spurn what He did for us, the shedding of His blood to pay our debt, is to spit in the face of God the Father.

Christ did only good while on this earth but mankind in general spit in His face for it, in my estimation this is completely irrational and rebellious.

Parents are experiencing this same ungratefulness from adult children today. The adult children are even turning their children against their own grandparents merely to have power over the parents. I cannot think of anything more despicable than ungrateful children who grow up to poison grandchildren against their own grandparents.

This is what comes from a culture that spurns God and all that God stands for in His Word. Even worse are those who attend church regularly and claim to love God but hate their brothers and sisters. These people have no interest in the Bible to actually follow it, they merely want to appear as good people but in fact, are contemptible in God's eyes.

Isaiah 29:13 "13 And the Lord said:

“Because this people draw near with their mouth

and honor me with their lips,

while their hearts are far from me,

and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,'"

Ezekiel 33:31

"31 And they come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them; for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart follows their unlawful gain."

Matthew 15:7-9

"7 You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you, by saying:

8 ‘This people honors Me with their lips,

But their heart is far away from Me.

9 And in vain do they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

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I Never Knew You the Most Frightening Words in the Bible

But I said I was a Christian, don't you believe me? But I did some good work, don't you believe me?

Matthew 7:21-23

I Never Knew You

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’

23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

They had words but they had no love because the works were to glorify the self and the words were to convince others of something that was not true, that is a heart condition of love flowing from Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.

5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,

6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

When someone loves they care more about others than they do themselves. They are bold because they want to help those who are falling into pits that will harm them. They are kind showing mercy when someone is repentant.

It is not mercy to bless those who are unrepentant, it is mercy to forgive and bless those who are repentant. Discipline is the love needed for those who are rebellious. If someone is disciplined and rejects the chastisement then it is love that motivates us to turn them over to satan to be buffeted so that perhaps one day they will see their need for Christ.

Accepting sin in our friends and family is not love for them it is self-love to avoid the turmoil that might come because we spoke the truth. False love is of no use to anyone, it only further solidifies the sin in the one who will not repent. Never be the means by which a rebellious heart continues in their sin.

Ephesians 5:6-7

"6 See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them;"

God's love is far different from the world's love!!!!!

Do not love someone into hell, love them to Christ the One Who can change them in an instant when they repent and trust in Him.

Bold and Lions Gentle as Doves

It is a time in which the apostate church is common and the norm. We must depend on the Holy Spirit to present the gospel to the unsaved as the Holy Spirit leads us to those who would be open.

In the apostate churches we meet many people who profess to be saved but have no fervor for Christ, they even have angst toward His Word and Principles.

There are fewer and fewer people who want to hear about Christ in our nation, the true gospel. Most people worship their freedom and their pride rather than Christ. Those who say they are Christians are full of pride, steeped in self-esteem promoted by the culture of psychology. We have all been trained to love ourselves more than anyone else through the media, schools, and yes, even churches.

What does God say?

We are born loving ourselves too much, full of arrogance, and demanding our own way. To become godly when changed by the Holy Spirit after salvation we will become the opposite of the human condition.

Philippians 2:3-5

"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus."

Matthew 16:24-26

Discipleship Is Costly

"24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

26 For what good will it do a person if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a person give in exchange for his soul?

Just like in the garden with Eve the devil has managed to convince this generation that loving ourselves must be first before we can love anyone else. This is the opposite of what God says; He said we are born selfish and to be godly we must trust in Christ and walk as He did, that is unselfish. The devil's lies have not changed since the beginning.

Christ gave up His life for others, His entire existence was for the sake of others.

1 John 2:5-6…5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked."

Satan has lied through the use of psychology to convince people they must first love themselves when God said we are to love Him first and then others.

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38 This is the great and foremost commandment.

39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

If we obey the first commandment we will easily obey the second. Because cultural Christians are not obeying the first they have no ability to obey the second. When we obey the first commandment Christ is working love in us, it is our very nature, we can do nothing else.

In the fruit of the Spirit that God gives us when He sends His Holy Spirit to live in us the first fruit is love.

Galatians 5:22-23 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

Without this fruit, there is no Holy Spirit and without the Holy Spirit, there is no salvation.

Matthew 7:16-20 " 16 You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?

17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So then, you will [c]know them by their fruits."

This passage speaks of false prophets but also applies to false believers and those who follow false prophets.

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”…"

Many people in our day proudly proclaim they are Christians but deny God in their words and their actions. Whenever someone promotes a principle that flies in the face of God's Word and defends it, we know we have met a false believer. There are so many of these people that we have become confused about who is a true believer and who is not.

Our culture counts on words more than a demonstration of a life of faith, leaving a bad taste in our mouths while oppressing us into silence about the truth. Do not be intimidated by these false believers. Speak the truth boldly in love, and do not become worried about the response of those who defy Christ in their lives.

Do not become gooey and milk-toast hoping the hearer will not explode in anger, simply depend on the Holy Spirit, speak what needs to be said, and leave the response to God. Do not become phony to win a non-believer, depend on the Holy Spirit He will give us the delivery He knows the person needs.

Never allow others to give you a formula for how the delivery must work, there is no cookie-cutter delivery everyone should use. God gave us our own personalities and the Holy Spirit for His purposes.

In Acts 4:5-22 we see the account of the apostles being accused of wrongdoing when they had healed someone. Rebellious pretenders will accuse you of all kinds of things, none of which are true, merely to diminish your words and discredit you in front of others who may be watching. So what!!!!!! Ignore their foolishness and continue obeying Christ when He told us to be Bold as Lions and Gentle as Doves.

Matthew 10:16

A Hard Road Ahead of Them

16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves."

Words mean nothing unless they are backed up by lifestyle and dedication to Christ.

Only God's Words are powerful, man's words are fluff and floss meaning nothing all by themselves.

Psalm 19:14

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer."

Psalm 34:13

"Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies!"

We cannot go wrong speaking the Words of Christ even if the response is one of irritation or rejection. The rejection of others is not a measure of how well we did or if we should have spoken something. The response often reveals the heart of the responder, not the delivery of the presenter.

Depend entirely on the Holy Spirit brothers and sisters, He will always do the right thing in us when we yield to Him. Hallelujah

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The Devil's Purpose Thwarted

The devil's purpose is always to ruin no matter how good his lies look.

The devil lied to Eve: Genesis 3:4-5

"The serpent said to the woman, You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

John 8:44 God said this to the religious leaders of His day.

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

1 Peter 5:8

"Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

2 Corinthians 11:14

"And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."

The devil will always make a bad thing look good. He will use emotional gymnastics to remove the defenses of the person he is using.

How to be unaffected Spiritually by the tricks of the devil is in the following verses.

John 10:10

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."

Ephesians 6:10-18

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ."

The devil uses people to come against us, destroying our peace and our resolve to follow Christ, we do not have to let them. When we resist the devil we may have to say to a person, "get behind me satan." They may not understand but the demon who is using them will know and he will flee.

2 Corinthians 4:4

"In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

Just a thought, Jesus Christ had more trouble with the religious leaders of His day than anyone else, they were the ones with the power to turn the people who followed them. This is true today too, if the religious leaders maintain control over the people the people who are lazy will not think for themselves, pray on their own and worship on their own, they will depend on the leader to do everything for them.

There are many imposters in the church today, many pretenders, and many false teachers who dominate those who are weak-minded. These leaders are filling their pockets with money they took from those who have chosen to be deceived by them.

It takes courage to stand against the false teachers and the pretenders, but we need not worry about it, it's the courage of Christ we have and His peace and joy overwhelm us when we are being attacked. We need not be angry, discouraged, or intimidated by these servants of satan.

James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

James 1:2-4

"My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing."

Be at peace always knowing God has your back every minute of every day.

Blind Hearts Opened and then the Blind Eyes

In order for the blind eyes of the unbeliever to be opened their hearts must first be opened. Those who love their blindness cannot be reached with the truth.

Ephesians 6:12

"12 For our struggle is not against [a]flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."

Spiritual blindness is demonic influence but it is also a choice. Our world is spiritually blind but loves it, deceiving themselves into thinking their blindness is wisdom.

Jamses 3:15-17James 3:15-17

15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits,impartial, free of hypocrisy."

Whenever you meet a "Christian" who fights to defend sin and refuses to listen to God's Word you have encountered a pretender.

Yes, Christians can be disobedient at times but they will never reject the word of God when it is used as evidence of the truth.

John 14:15-16 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—…"

Those who love Christ will live a lifestyle of desiring to please God. Those who are pretenders do not love Christ and will live a lifestyle without a desire to please God.

John 14:21

"Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him."

John 14:23

"Jesus replied, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."

John 15:10

"If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love."

1 John 2:3

"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments."

1 John 5:3

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,"

2 John 1:6

"And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love."

We do not keep the commandments of God to become saved or to stay saved, we keep them because He changed us into a new creation, we keep them because we have already been born-again.

The evidence that we are born again is in the fruit not the deeds.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

This is the fruit of the Holy Spirit of God Who lives in every born-again believer. We do not have to work to show this fruit, it comes naturally to us like breathing because the character of Christ living in us is this fruit.

We don't have to work up respect and kindness toward others, it comes naturally without thinking because Christ is working it in us. No effort of our own is present. Our nature has been changed by Christ, from a sinful nature to a righteous nature.

Colossians 2

"9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."

John 1:14 "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

This is Christ Who lives in born-again believers. We do not live a lifestyle of rebellion or angst toward the principles of God, we love to please Him Who lives in us.

Ephesians 3:17

"17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,"

The first attitude of the born-again believer is to please God and the first fruit of the Spirit of God is love. Everything we desire is based in this fruit.