Outside The Kingdom Of God

 

 16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, 

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:7 20) ...and through him(Jesus)  to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.( col. 1:20)... In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace (Eph 1:7)... In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Heb 9:22)... But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. (rev 22:15)

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators (sexually immoral) , nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,(slanders, gossips)  nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9-10)

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:19-21)

 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor 6:11)

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors,  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (1 Peter 1:18-19)

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. (Lev. 17:11)

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Heb. 9:22)

 Jesus The Christ said,  “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.  (Matt. 5:17)

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:11-12)

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! (Romans 5:9)

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matt 10:28)

if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.(Rom. 10:9) 

Freedom or Slavery

As I write this the election for president, who wins, who loses and the fate of one ideological construct over another hangs in the balance. The truth be told, one group of leftist ideologues hopes to disolve the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Free speech, if it doesn't line up with a leftist/marxist view must be eradiated. Freedom of religion, to worship the God our founding fathers knew of and believed in and gleaned from for the documents that have directed our lives for over two centuries now, must be silenced. 

Judeo Christian teaching has been branded an enemy of the state, (the democrats basically booed God out of their convention in 2012....I myself witnessed this. Even the Methodist pastor at the podium was shocked...)

Christianity must be erased-- disavowed, wiped from the papes of history. For Jesus the Christ is seen as a hinderance to the life of those who want to satisfy their evil wants, wicked desires and freshly lusts of those believe God is a kill joy to lives they believe to be free. And those who want the Christian God gone from the annals of history. (They are not truly free. They are slaves to sin, and by nature children of God's wrath Romans 6; Eph 2:1-80) 

 The mantra of the left is believe what we believe or be an outcast, shut up, be gone, be dead. Sounds much like another oppressive ideology. The religion of Islam. What do leftists want? The dismantling of the republic. The dissolution of the middle class. And most of all they want power. They want to be in control to direct every aspect of our lives. And our death.

 Joe Biden has himself said he is in favor of late term abortion. DEATH to the unborn top priority. That takes money. And of course the new socialist marxist government will have it. Your money to fund more abortions when everyones (not just the rich) taxes are raised. It will happen. 

A marxist leftist party of democrats (so called) will be sure to take away the success President Trump has allowed the oil industry to have domestically which has kept our gas prices low. Add a new gas tax, raise the price of vehicles, and discourage travel by exorbitant taxes that will eat away at every working American's hard earned dollars. 

 And that green new deal so called. That will utterly destroy commerce in the most damaging way anyone could imagine. Food prices will elevate to levels no one has ever seen before. Cutting into profits of grocery stores and the paychecks of everyday ordinary Americans. Who still have jobs. 

The trucking industry, by which our store  shelves are stacked high with products we have become accustomed will be inexorably harmed. Fuel prices will skyrocket with gas prices at the pump reaching 6 dollars or more a gallon.

 This will affect travel, vacation destinations and logically the tourist industry. Disney, Universal, Sea World, and other theme parks will find it virtually impossible to recover from the Covid 19 shutdown of the economy. More furloughs will be tuned to layoffs and more layoffs will be a part of life as thousands upon thousands of workers will struggle to regain a semblance of normalcy that sadly will be out of reach.

Of course,when people don't have the funds to travel during their vacation that affects the airline industry as well. Less planes flying means less airline personnal needed. And more jobs thrown on the ash heap of irrelative activity. 

 The shutdown of the economy over Covid 19 now has already caused irreparable harm with less people willing to take a chance to travel to popular vacation destinations. Add to that another lockdown proposed by former vice president Joe Biden spells disaster that will take many more years to recover, if it ever happens. More people thrown into the pit of moneyless despair.

 Home ownership and private property ownership will eventually disappear. The socialist/marxist government will own everything. (you are assigned a place to live, there is no choice) Real estate agents a thing of the past. 

Then there's the constitution. the liberal/leftists socialist marxists... (communisits actually) professors have been teaching this for years in our Colleges. Those young mostly white young men and women smashing, looting, burning,  yelling "tear it all down" "death to the police" "defund law enforcement" "dismantle the jails" "release all those incarcerated in prison...." have been taught well at the expense of clueless parents...who spent thousands and thousands of dollars for their childrens education in rebellious terrorism. These will dismantle it piece by piece. 

and with the second amendment in their crosshairs, it will probably the first to go. Disarm the populace first so that they can't resist.And there's talk on the left of defunding the police. And what about the Israel/Saudi Arabian deal. Nothing has been approved yet. a Biden administration may want to link Israeli normalization with the Saudis to progress in negotiations with the Palestinians, a reversal of the Trump administration tactic of pressuring the Palestinians to work with Israel by moving ahead with Arab normalization deals without them. A Biden administration would throw yet another large wrench into the situation by restoring the Iran Nuclear Deal, in which the U.S. freed up Iranian assets — even sending pallets of cash to the mullahs — in exchange for almost certainly empty promises not to pursue nuclear weapons. Trump’s rejection of this deal, along with his assassination of Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani, marginalized Iran and enabled Arab states to make deals with Israel.(PJ Media)

Then there's Christianity. It will be tested beyond anything we have ever experienced in this country. Doctrines will be challenged and considered forbidden fruit that inhibits the growth and operation of the socalist/marxist regrime.

Jesus as the only way to salvation, His sacrifice on the cross, His shedding of blood for the forgiveness of sin, his bodily resurrection and ascension to heaven and that he is Kings of Kings and Lord of Lords, that without Him there's a certain fearful expectation of the judgement of God in an eternity called hell. 

These will be labeled subversive and offensively barbaric, (its already seen like that to many in so called churches today and many of those doctrines just aren't preached) and anyone who speaks of these things will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

 There is the Good News (the Gospel-Jesus came to save His people from their sins) and bad news (without Christ Jesus you fall into the hands of the living God who is a consuming fire.)

The bad news is simple and plain in Scripture: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There is no one righteous, no not one. Without the shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness. All must be born again, must be regenerated by the power of the holy spirit (not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, Titus 3:5-6 ) (But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1: 12 )

 And believing in the Name of Jesus Christ is more than saying a prayer and continuing to sin as if nothing ever happened. It is a heart change and realization that you have transgressed (committed an offense) against the one who has created and loved you that you may spend an eternity with Him. (Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 cor 5:17) 

 God doesn't save someone because he sees a little good in them and somehow they would make a fine addition to his eternal kingdom...He bestows His grace (receiving what you don't deserve) and plucks you from the darkness of this present evil age (Gal 1:4) into the kingdom of the Son of His love, In whom you have redemption, through His blood, The forgiveness of sins. You recieve God's indescribable gift of mercy. (not receiving what you do deserve--an eternity separated from the presense of God and the glory of His power. 2 Thess 1:7-10) 

 Jesus said to the people "You Must be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect." Only One fullfilled that requirement. As Jesus replied "I am the way, the truth and the life. NO ONE comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

 BUT the Good News (The gospel) is this: If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that raised Him from the dead. You will be saved. (Romans 10:9) 

Salvation is not accomplished through an unregenerate sinners works. (by grace are you saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Eph 2:8-10) 

But good works are the result of a regenerate (born again) sinners life. Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. 

If you believe the truth of the Gospel....if you trust and obey....Know this.... In this life you will (not may but will) have tribulation...(Christ suffered for us leaving us an example that you should follow in his steps. 1Peter 2:21) But be of good cheer....for Christ has overcome the world.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, (Phil 3:20-21) Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.(1 John 3:1-3)

 This life is a mist, a vapor and all too soon it is over. The judgement seat of Christ awaits every single human being. Will he say "well done good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord." Or will He proclaim ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels".

 There are evil principalities and powers working in the sons and daughters of disobedience, who oppose the God of Scripture, who hate his commands, and want to live immoral, perverse,  rebellious, perverted lives and curse the God of the Bible. They will receive their reward one day with weeping and gnashing of teeth having heard and known the truth but having denied it's power. For Lo their doom is sure.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)

 Jesus said "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me"....Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. (1 John 2) My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.  And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.” (John 10:27-30) t

What If????

What if...…? (March 2020) 03

What if a group of people couldn't bring down a leader, loved by many people, a middle class unlike anything in history before it. This group of people thought it absolutely necessary that this leader and those who voted him into office were impeding their positions of power, prestige, and wealth. Upsetting the balance of their lives. Everything they tried to oust this leader failed. This leader couldn't be toppled and now they were growing desperate.

The country, who the leader served, had many years ago, signed over all of its tasks for manufacturing almost everything, to a country who could produce and provide needed necessary items, including health and life saving products, at a much lower cost. But that country had very different goals in mind. World Economic Domination. They suppressed their people, who worked for much lower wages, even some working in prisons, incarcerated over their religious beliefs, slave labor to a vicious, inhuman, dictatorial system.

Now the new leader of a once great nation promised things would be fairer and more advantageous to the country and people he loved and signed into law an edict that would make it so. He wanted those jobs that had been lost, to return to the greatest country he loved, and would once again benefit and help prosper his own beloved country's people. A precious middle class, God fearing, people the leader cherished. He was convinced and determined that manufacturing of these products should return to the country he and his supporters loved and make them great again.

Well, the wicked, evil , possessed swamp creatures of a corrupt, vile and perverted government, were at their wits end. Their beloved, evil, wicked and possessed media, who helped control and support the nefarious creatures of the swamp, tried everything in their magical and demonic bag of main stream media tricks but nothing worked. They kept firing their flaming darts to no avail.

Then a swamp creature had an outlandish thought. An idea so evil even the wicked witches and goblins were astounded at its brilliance. Prehaps we can work with the oppressive and dictatorial government, after all they want what we idolize and aspire to be like some day. A government that has absolute power over the people, a government that intrudes in peoples lives from birth to death, an oppressive, dictatorial government that determines peoples lives, what they do, where they live, where they go, when they die. Yes they were very unhappy that their continuing economic rise might be twarted by the leader who loved his people and wanted the economic playing field to be fair to the country and it's people which he loved. 

So the creatures of the swamp plotted with their rich, leftist, billionaire buddies, who have the same desires as the creatures of the swamp, and said " Let's ask the oppressive, dictational leaders if they would like to join us in bringing down the leader who wanted to make his country great again and the people who loved him and their country.

Well, they said, we just happen to have something we have been concocting, a biological brew, that could do the trick. But we need to make it look like we also are a victim. We will let it loose among our own people. We have billions, so what if we lose a few hundred thousand, we don't mind. This plan could destroy all the economic gains and bring to nothing the success of the leader, you hate in the swamp, his deporable followers and bring the country to a halt.

Then you swamp creatures, could come to the rescue, explain that you are the ones who care about the people and the country, win an election, (be sure to pick a young college trained, freedom hating candidate for vice president, trained in marxist doctrine) and you will continue on in the swamp of corruption, perversion, filthy lucre, and power.

So the oppressive dictatorial, regrime said, "We would be happy for you to join us as an oppressive regrime, an end to the middle class and free enterprize, the death of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, for all the deporables, their leader and the economic success of the country. Let's do it!"

Now the new freedom loving, God fearing leader who loved his country, and wanted everyone to have a piece of the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness pie, promised by its founding fathers and who deemed this was the right of all its citizens. And that the country might be great again, knew he was hated by the creatures of the swamp. But unbeknownst to him never forsaw that the swamp would conspire to destroy all and everything he had accomplished. Sacrifice its people, and the country and constitution they adored, for the sake of power, prestige, and filty lucre. And birth the beginnings of an oppressive and dictatorial oligarchy set on control, subjugation, and a lifetime of obeisance of a freedom loving people.

 

The Nation That Forgets God

So the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs. (Judges 3:7 )

And when they forgot the Lord their God, He sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.(1 Samuel 12:9)

They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, (Psalm 106:21

A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the Lord their God.(Jeremiah 3:21 )

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.(Ezekiel 22:12) 

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ” (Ezekiel 23:35) 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge,(Hosea 4:6) 

When a Nation, a Church, forgets God, worships and lusts after the things of this world...The lust of the flesh and of the mind, the lust of the eyes and cravings of sinful mankind. Unbridled immorality, perversion, and acceptance of such abominations ,God gives that nation up a reprobate mind, God abandons them to vile affections and degrading passions. Though they are fully aware of God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them themselves but approve and applaud others who practice them. (Romans 1:18-32) 

They say '"Oh it's grace, grace, grace. That was the Old Testament. God punished and judged in the Old Testament. Really? And God doesn't punish or judge in the New Testament?

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

Well, ONE accomplished what sinful mankind never could do. He was/is prophet, priest, King and was the one time perfect sin (blood) offering for the sin of the world, for without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. The ceremonial law done away with. For the blood of bulls and lambs could never take away sins. Hense, the priestly sacrifice had to be done over and over again. Sin is that bad. A blood offering was required. For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. That much of an affront to a holy and righteous God is mankinds separation. But Scripture tells us .... 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) 

You probably heard that verse or saw it somewhere. But that same chapter in Scripture says this.... Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

 Why Jesus you say. There has never been or ever will be one like him again. Only Jesus (the) Christ, the Holy One of God, who was in the beginnng with God and was God. That Word became flesh and dwelt among us. As He said in John 8:58 "Before Abraham was "I AM." 

 And the Jewish leaders of that time picked up stones to stone Him because they knew and we know from their words, "you being a man make yourself out to be God." (John 5:18)

 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. (John 3:18-19) 

If you have confessed with your month Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)

Saying a prayer then to continue living the same life you always lived...a life of sin and debauchary should make you examine yourself to see if you are in the faith. (2 Cor. 13:5)  

Baptism doesn't guarantee salvation for God's people were baptised into Moses under the cloud and through the sea, all ate the same spiritual food and all drank from the same spiritual rock. And that Rock was Christ. YET with most of them God was not pleased and their bodies fell in the wilderness. (1 Cor 10) 

For the miracles, the signs, the wonders passed and were forgotten by Gods chosen people, and the word preached (by Moses) did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For it is by grace through faith and not of yourselves it is a gift of God.....not of works.....(Eph. 2:8-9) 

A simple "have mercy on me a sinner," save me Lord Jesus, for I have sinned against a holy and righteous God. If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead.... God reaches down from heaven and plucks one from the darkness of this present evil age and into the kingdom of God. A life, ready, willing able to Trust and Obey. 

 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13)

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, (Titus 3:5)

Grace is receiving what we don't deserve. (A place in the Kingdom of God...The New Heavens and New Earth where righteousness dwells.) 

Mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. (He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; Outside are the dogs,(in the OT male prostitutes in the temple were called dogs) those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Rev 22:11;15)

Yes God is love in that He sent His only Son to save us, who deserve no more than the judgement of a Holy and righteous God, that we might be saved from the wrath of God to come. It will happen. As Peter the apostle of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said, " 

 "scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (2 Peter 3:3-7) 

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matt 7:13-14) 

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matt 120:28) 

When the the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.(2 Thess 1:7-10)

      Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. (Rev. 1:7)

Noah, The Flood and God's Promise

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,  by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,  who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,  and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”  For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,  when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:  I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.  It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;  and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

(1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 3:3-6; 2 Peter 2:4-5; Heb 11:7; 2Peter 3:7; 2 Thess 1:7-10; Genesis 9:12-17)

The rainbow is not a license for sexual immorality and an abomination. It is a sign from God Himself that the judgement to come will never occur again with a flood. Anything else is itself an abomination and blasphemy against a Holy and Righteousness God who gives us life, breath and all things.  For in Him we live and move and have our being. 

The Day of the Lord, The Day of God, The Day of Christ

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days, (Matt 24:29)

the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, (2  Thess 1:7)
“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, (Matt 25:5)

The day of the Lord will come as a thief (unexpectedly)  in the night,
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:  They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.  Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;  but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.  Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. ( (2 Peter 3:10;Luke 17:26-30)

But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.(Matt 24:3)

The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. ((Matt 24:29-31;1 Thess 4:16)

And they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matt 24:31)

And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice  and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, ( (1 Thess 4;John 5:28-29)
and those who have done evil, (John 5:29)

The Lord Jesus returns with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (1Thess. 1:8)

to the resurrection of condemnation.(John  5:29)

these will go away into everlasting punishment,(Matt 25:46)
And  shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, (1 Thess 1:10)

but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matt. 25:46)
But we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  (1 Thess 4:17)

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:11-13)

Therefore comfort one another with these words. ( 1 Thess 4:18)

 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. (Rev 1:7)

Hell's Eternal Consequence

    

For the unregenerate unbeliever (examples have been seen lately by us all) rebellious reprobates, who recoil  at any kind of discipline or belief in God. The reality of Hell will be more terrifying than the human mind can conjure up in their cold, dead, lawless heart.
     Many (some cults and even some professed  Christians) are offended  at the thought of eternal everlasting punishment, but Jesus the Christ spoke about Hell more than anyone else in Scripture. Here is a sample:
     If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. (Matt 5:29)
     The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Matt 10:41-42)
     Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ (Matt. 22:13)
    “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life  maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—  where‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’
      And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—  where‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’
     And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire— where‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ (Mark 9:42-48)
     And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matt 10:28)
    ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Now if  eternal life is life forever in the new heavens and earth, with God. Then eternal punishment is just that. Eternal, unending  Condemnation...Damnation. An  eternity  absent from the presence of God and the glory of His power...in other words....punishment never ending...forever . (Matt. 25:41;46)
       Other Old and New Testament passages proclaim eternal punishment as well
     And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. (scorn/distain) Dan. 12:2
     Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice (Jesus)  and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. (John 5:25-29)
     Note: the only good one can do is done through Jesus Christ because without him you can do nothing. (John 15:5)  For God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us (a one time offering of himself on the cross)  So that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor 5:21) For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Cor 5:7)   Once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. (Heb. 9:26) So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb. 9:28)
     For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  not of works, lest anyone should boast. ( not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,  whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:8-10; Titus 3:5-7)
     Jesus the Christ is the only doorway by which anyone can enter into the kingdom of God. ( I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved ....(John 10:9).
     Jesus the Christ is The Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except by him (John 14:6) "He came that we may have life, and have it more abundantly...."
     But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers (pharmakois- used of people using drugs  to induce stupor or insensibility of people into living by their illusions-where we get our english word Pharmacy) idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8)
    “Then He (King Jesus)  will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.(his agents or messengers)
     But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.  For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.  Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.  And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.  So it is no surprise if his servants (diakonos: servant or minister)  also, disguise themselves as servants (ministers) of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. (2 Cor 11:3-5;13-15)
     And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev. 13-15)
     Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. (Rev 20:6)
     For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.  Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thess 4:16-18)
     Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”  But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. (Rev. 21:1-4;27)
     I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.  So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev 13:1-4;8)
     Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us manifests the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.  For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.  To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. (2 Cor 2:14-16)
     Where do you stand with this message of hope. Are you one who believes all this around you just happened. That the universe just created itself somehow through billions of years. Earth perfectly positioned for life. In a solar system seemingly insignant in this vast universe. Before anything existed there  was absolutely nothing. No matter to form everything we see. In just the right place in the universe to observe the heavens. To experience an eclipse.  You see God did it this way for His glory. He did it because he could and can still do miraclous things.
     By Faith we undertsand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are not seen were not made of things which are visible. (Heb 11:3)
     I know this because I am one of his miracles. I wasn't looking for God. God was looking for me. I heard. I listened, I cried out. He reached down out of heaven and instantaneously changed this man from His enemy to one born ,not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
     In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent His son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (1 John 4:10)
     You have to be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect to inhabit the kingdom of God. Am I perfect? I am still in this flesh, blood and bones body which is passing away. And so are you. Death is inevitable.
     Christ Jesus is the righteous perfection of every soul brought into the kingdom by grace through faith. His precious blood covers the regenerate. For Sin is that bad. It required a blood sacrifice.  But the one offered had to be perfect. Only one could pay the price. His one and only Son, eternal, with the Father. The word who was in the beginning with God and was God. The Word that became flesh and dwelt (Tabernacled) among us.
     I hear Amazing Grace being sung at many funerals, by people who have no idea what they are singing. "Amazing Grace so sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me....." A wretch is one who is deserving of hatred. That's right to be hated by God Himself. He understood his wickedness before a holy and righteous God.
     John Newton who wrote the song,  had been a part of the slave trade. A wicked blasphemer and violent man.  In his later years he said “Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
     I have had people say to me, "Oh, that's the old Testament." Folks, the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament.  Jesus quoted the Old Testament as did the Apostles. Jesus The Christ is the prophet, priest and King of the Old Testament all wrapped in one. He came to fulfill the law and the prophets. Not to destroy them. (The ten commandents are not ten suggestions. As Ted Koppel so many years once said.)  And His Kingdom will never pass away.
     This life is a vapor, a mist that is here for a little while and then passes away.  God is not the author of confusion. And confusion, rebellion, violence, anger and rage are all around us. People do not want the God of Scripture because it interfers with their lifestyle. People want to practice wickedness because it is in their nature. People love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. But God has put eternity in our hearts. And we all have a sense of what is right and wrong. But a conscience can be seared,  as with a hot iron,  and sin will prevail.
     Where do you stand with this one called Jesus Christ. You are either for Him or aganist Him. He was born into the world as the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.  For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. He was that perfect passover lamb.  And as the death angel passed by each doorway in Egypt, smeared with the blood of a young lamb, and spared the first born of Israel. So it is with the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross that sets us free.
     Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—  and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Heb. 2:14-15)
     So death has been destroyed. And each person who confesses Jesus Christ is Lord and believes in their heart that God has raised Him from the dead  will be saved. (Romans 10:9) 
     For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. (Col. 1:19-20)
     He will come again not as the lamb, But as the Lion of Judah In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power, when He comes in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to admired among all those who believe... (1 Thess 1:7-10) 

God Resists The Proud

                                              God Judges and Humbles the Nations

In Scripture we see God at work humbling His own people, Israel. He did this throughout the centuries with nations like, Egypt, then the Babylonians, Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Greeks ,Romans. These nations each were also conquered by said nations. None ever returning to the glory they once had. Each of these nations sent aganist Israel, God's chosen people, "To whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;"(Romans 9)

God hates and resists the proud....

"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." (James 4)

"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate." (Proverbs 8:13)

"There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers." (Proverbs 6:16-19)

"Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished." (Proverbs 16:5)

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8)

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,  traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! (2 Tim 3:1-5)

Have we not been a prideful and arrogant nation? Our inheritence of a blessed prosperity unlike any other nation before it, taken for granted, that somehow we deserve such blessings. Have we not shoved into the Holy Face of God the flaunting of our increasing immorality, our snubbing of the God of Scripture who has blessed us, calling good evil and evil good. Embracing every deviance, and corruption, those things which are an abomination to God, and acceptance of every sort of disgusting act of wickedness, a perversion of the created order, the murder of our progeny, behaviors never intended for His creation when on the sixth day He looked upon all He had spoken into existencer and said, "it is very good."

The psalmist declared this of those he observed around him proclaiming in Psalm 73 "They say, "How does God know?And is there knowledge in the Most High?" "They set their mouth against the heavens," God wasn't seen as having any say in the matter of their wealth, their prosperity, their lifestyles. They called evil good and good evil.

Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, (A WARNING) upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. (1 Cor 10:11-12)


"When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me— Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end. Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. (Ps 73:16-19)

God owes us Nothing. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Yet He gives us everything...Life Breath and all things.

"There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become worthless; There is none who does good, no, not one." (Romans 3:10-12)

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners. We were born that way. It's in our nature. (Ephesians 2)

Salvation is a gift of God. No amount of works, can get you into the Kingdom of God. But only one sin can condemn you to an eternity from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power. (2 Thess 1:7-10)

For we are by nature....children of God's wrath. (not children of God Eph.2)

The world is wrong. Its purveyors of wickedness "look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity." And they drag those with itching ears into the abyss clinging to the falsehoods of these blind guides who make them twice the son of hell. (Matt 23:27)  

And what about the church?  The time has come for judgement to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?


Jesus the Christ said, "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him." (John 14:21)

Salvation is not saying a prayer then continuing in the lifestyle you once led. It is a radical "change of heart" ...a regeneration that encompasses every aspect of a persons life. Not just a one day a week acknowledgment .

God the Father sent God the Son that we may be righteous as He is righteous. (2 Cor 5:21) The cost? The Cross because sin is that bad. Sin is repugnant to a Holy Righteous God. For without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Heb 9:22)

All those animal sacrifices by God's chosen people in the Old Testament were pointing to the One Sacrifice that was to come, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53....(proclaimed and written down 750 years before Jesus the Christ's birth)...led like a lamb to the slaughter; pierced for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished; Pleased the Lord to bruise Him; For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

The book of Hebrews in the New Testament explains that ... "Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption... now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Heb. 10:11-12; 26-28)

Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 8:18; 8)

Why? For everyone born of flesh and blood and bones, inherits a sinful human nature, predisposed to act upon their sin nature. It is in our nature to sin.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:19-21)

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor 6:9-11)

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. (1 Peter 4:1-3)

And Jesus said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a person." (Mark 7:20-23)

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:24)

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness....For the time has come for judgement to begin at the house of God.... Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (1 Thess. 4:3-8)

I am not suggesting a sinless perfectionism. I do not believe that is possible in this corrupted human form. But I do believe that our desire will be to leave our past behind us, strive to please Him who so loved us, that He by His grace (giving us what we don't deserve) and mercy (not giving us what we do deserve) calling us from the darkness of this present evil age to the light of the gospel of the glory of God that is, was and always will be in Jesus Christ...the only Savior, Lord, Way, Truth and Life.

 

Why The Life, Death and Resurrection Of Jesus the Christ are Essential

             Why The Life, Death and Resurrection Of Jesus the Christ are Essential

Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man... must suffer many things... will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death...and he will be killed.... and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. (Matt 20:17-19)
 
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, (1 Cor 15:1-3)
 
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his stripes we are healed.( Isaiah 53:5)
 
and that He was buried, (1 Cor 15:3)
 
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, (Is. 53:9)

As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.(Matt 27:57-61)
 
though he had done no violence...he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. (Is. 53:7-9)
 
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.” The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God. When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, (Just then, as Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Leave that innocent man alone. I suffered through a terrible nightmare about him last night.”) and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer...(John 19:4-9; Matt 27:19 Pilate's wife)
 
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin.....(Is. 53:10)
 
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(2 Cor. 5:21)
 
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. (Is. 53:10)
 
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” (Matt. 17:5)

He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.(Is. 53:10-11)
 
The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)
 
For the whole world lies under the sway (rule, control), of the wicked one (satan, the devil) 1 John 5:10
 
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...(Romans 3:26)

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. (1 Cor 15:20-21)
 
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.and (Romans 10:9)
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. (John 3:36)
BUT If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)
 
For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another.How my heart yearns within me! (Job 19:25-27-Job considered the oldest book in the bible)
Various New Testament Scripture and the Old Testament book of Isaiah (Is.)
(AD 04-10-20)

               Why The Life, Death and Resurrection Of Jesus the Christ are Essential

Now Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples aside on the road and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man... must suffer many things... will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death...and he will be killed.... and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. (Matt 20:17-19)
 
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, (1 Cor 15:1-3)
 
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his stripes we are healed.( Isaiah 53:5)
 
and that He was buried, (1 Cor 15:3)
 
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, (Is. 53:9)

As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.(Matt 27:57-61)
 
though he had done no violence...he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. (Is. 53:7-9)
 
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.” The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God. When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, (Just then, as Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Leave that innocent man alone. I suffered through a terrible nightmare about him last night.”) and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer...(John 19:4-9; Matt 27:19 Pilate's wife)
 
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin.....(Is. 53:10)
 
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(2 Cor. 5:21)
 
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. (Is. 53:10)
 
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” (Matt. 17:5)

He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.(Is. 53:10-11)
 
The next day he (John the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)
 
For the whole world lies under the sway (rule, control), of the wicked one (satan, the devil) 1 John 5:10
 
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...(Romans 3:26)

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. (1 Cor 15:20-21)
 
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.and (Romans 10:9)
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them. (John 3:36)
BUT If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9)
 
For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another.How my heart yearns within me! (Job 19:25-27-Job considered the oldest book in the bible)
Various New Testament Scripture and the Old Testament book of Isaiah (Is.)
(AD 04-10-20)