05/10/2010 Hum,an observations
I was hoping to stimulate thought, prayer, and mediation in consideration of such a precious piece of subject matter. However, that I give an answer to every question asked of me … concerning the judgement of believers ...
Peter 4:
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves (as in a battle that takes place within us) likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men (as demonstrated by the rich lawyer who walked away from our Messiah sadly because he could not abandon his desire for his worldly possessions), but to the will of God …
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer …
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth (unearned and undeserved, without regard of fleshly privilege): that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen …
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us (believers), what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God (Therefore consider well what is the “Gospel of God“)? And if the righteous scarcely be saved (Though miraculously delivered out of Egypt, all above twenty years old perished in the wilderness) where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator …
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass (today the entire planet is engulfed in violence), but the end is not yet …
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places (every week for months, there have been earthquakes greater than 6.0 all over the planet). All these are the beginning of sorrows.
All of this is a prelude to the Believers’ day of reckoning, because …
THEN shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And THEN shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (The contention between conservatives and liberals, between professed Christians and Muslims, between believers and atheists has divided our planetary population into a deluded series of "us's and them's". These are things that continue to separate us from the grace of God, that must be confessed continually until they are rooted out. So, the current challenges to our obedience to Gospel of God are the exercises that build our spiritual muscle, that will enable us to transition from flesh and blood to “being present with the Lord” … “in the twinkling of an eye”. We shall be as refined gold, purified of any un-Godly impurities.
Just to be thorough…
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and THEN shall the end come.
Look up, your redemption draweth nigh.
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