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Exit Strategy End Times: “I have sent you to those who should listen.”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NASB)

  • Egypt viewer yesterday, “Children of Abraham or not.” Many in Middle East have read our posts. They should.

3-16-16 In prayer I asked where in the Word I should read. “You have opened it already. See Ezekiel 3:6.” (I did not know what was there. God knows this is true.) “… nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;…”

The Spirit did not say 3:7 “… yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.”

I felt the Spirit was not willing to say this through me now (verse 7) because it is time for Israel to listen and all who will, will. Just because He spoke of their being stubborn and obstinate does not mean it is a condition that cannot change. It would seem logical that in speaking through His Word He could omit anything that He no longer wants to be true. Still with all men everywhere, some will listen, some will not.

“Thank You Lord for opening hearts and making Ways.”

I speak to all men for all should listen. Is it possible God is no longer declaring rebelliousness over Israel? For what difference is there between nations when one has believed a lie and another has followed a contradiction. For one nation Jesus is not the Messiah. For the other, God kills when His name means the opposite and His patience has been made known. Yahweh means “Salvation” not destruction. Jesus means, “Yahweh saves” not Yahweh destroys.

When the covenant of Moses is satisfied by a premier sacrifice and is replaced by a new covenant a restoration of Abraham’s covenant, then that which was established through Jesus the Messiah, through the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must stand. It is the last covenant to be made for eternity.

To cry “We are children of Abraham” and not keep the covenant where God is to be Lord, is to be removed as one who breaks the covenant. See Genesis 17:14. It was not the lack of circumcision it was refusal to be circumcised, refusal to obey the instructions of the Lord through His man Abraham. This breaks covenant with God because one is actually saying in his heart I do not have to obey Him or He is not my God, even though there is evidence that God is in Abraham’s life or later on in the life of Christ and His disciples. And how much more should we now submit to His benign Lordship when uncountable numbers around the world can testify of personal experiences with God.

Submission by self crucifixion? God says vengeance is mine. There is no place for vengeance in the heart of true followers. Vengeance is a privilege of absolute authority, of God the Father alone.

To all men I say the one and only living God does not contradict Himself. You are not to hate or kill in His name, the name that means “salvation.” You contradict the One who says He is, “I AM that I AM”, for by His name He shall be known and not by your actions.

To offer Himself as “Salvation” and to uphold His name through His Son Jesus, whom He named, is the ultimate expression of love.

Yahweh is the God of love. Only those who reject His loving appeals and instructions need fear damnation and eternal judgment and that by their own choices.

For the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. NO ONE shall enter who is of a different spirit or retains a different spirit on purpose.

The days of opportunity are numbered. Do what you can to spare, be merciful and show grace so you can receive the same from Him.

To those Islamic militants who might read this. Listen to the persecuted Christians as they pray for you as you torture, rape or kill them. Ask yourself “How can this be?” Their intercession protects their salvation while it also opens a door to your salvation and true eternal life.

To not respond to the Spirit of God in them, to not call out to the real God of Abraham, to remain on this doctrinal side, is damnation. There are no virgins; only utter darkness and eternal separation from God. How grieving it will be to spend forever in darkness, weeping and gnashing your teeth when such a radical effort was made to reach you?  It was love like you have never known and will not know unless you cry out to God and His Son Jesus the Christ to be rescued from yourself.

To break through your own understanding, to receive His understanding, is eternal life. We all must make that break through, crucifying our own positions for His. He will help if we ask for help. Courage will enter your heart that is simply and profoundly His presence in you. You will know He is real.

As those you kill intercede for you, the God of Abraham places value on their sacrificial interceding efforts by valuing your soul as they did, as Christ did before them. They are the proof of God Himself seeking you. Their testimony, this enduring love that treasures eternity and your soul more than you do, will be a witness to all nations and then the end will come. Salvation will be too late for any who refuse to grasp the gift, who fail to endure in the loving Way of Christ.

All men really should listen. Jews, Christians, Muslims, all men. None are exempt.

To those who rise up against Christianity. You are spoken of as well as your demise. THAT is why this appeal is being made. All men, all men, will bow now or be lost then. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob never loses. He does appeal to all in justice and righteousness desiring that none should perish. Some will.

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Exit Strategy End Times: “The Core Problem of Mankind.”

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If we could know the core problem of mankind, would we do what it takes to remedy our problem? God knows the core problem and God has made it possible for us to “do what it takes” to resolve a condition that WILL NOT enter eternity with Him. No the problem is not man’s depravity, it is not sin. It is the cause of the depravity (“to make morally bad: corrupt” Webster’s New World Dictionary) and the resulting sin! Jesus Himself spoke of it directly.

As I have written before, (Romans 3:25) Jesus died for sins previously committed; for our sins before we met Him. Afterwards, we are to walk in the self-crucifying ways of Christ, the merciful, forgiving, loving Ways of Jesus as a testimony of Him and in order for us to maintain our covering of Christ’s blood. He is not to be crucified again by us. (Hebrews 6:6 NASB)

Via the Way of Christ, we are to maintain our reconciled relationship with the Father. As I have written before, we must “do righteousness” in order for God to give us all that is promised in the Abrahamic covenant. (Genesis 18:19) Again this is not traditional thinking but no less true. It is actually more believable than the Carte Blanch grace and forgiveness that has traditionally been our favorite doctrine.

Can we not see this training by Christ (to actually become Christ-like) as the eternal life kingdom Way which He then showed us both for His and our eternal purpose? Does one become a Marine (for instance) without “doing?”

I volunteered and was sworn in as a Marine in 1969 but was deferred out within a few short weeks for medical reasons. I could say I was a Marine (being sworn in) but I did not go through the training that “makes” one a Marine. I get “sworn in” as a Christian accepting the Lordship of my commanding officer, my obedience to the prerequisite training then makes me one in fact.

It is true, Jesus died once for all but not for all sins. He did not die for sins not yet committed. Jesus died for the sins of all men that turn to Him for merciful reconciliation to God. As I spoke of above, there is a cost and commitment on our part. We must submit our will to His will. This again flies in the face of some traditional thinking but is no less true.

I find no provision for the forgiveness of our future sins except in the good news of the kingdom, the Way as expressed in the Lord’s Prayer. The forgiving by God of our future sins comes as we obey Christ’s teachings to forgive to be forgiven, reaping what we sow, as we climb upon that daily cross, willingly dying to self, forgiving and interceding for our persecutors and enemies, NOT returning evil for evil. We are covered by Him as we cover others by self crucifying grace.

Why would Jesus tell us to pick up our own cross daily if we are not to climb upon it, if our climbing upon it willingly did not have eternal purposes like it did for Him, accomplishing our (eventual) salvation like it did for Him? Or was it only to have us just carry it or hang it around our neck? “Well He died so we would not have to!” Yet scripture over and over says die to old ways, whoever loses his life shall gain it, flesh and blood will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. Any benefit to be received by us will be the result of choices we must make with His help. The more we do not require His help, the more His second nature becomes obvious in us! This is in fact the distressing news of Daniel 12. We must awaken to our responsibility and empowerment in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings rejoicing in our future with Him.

Think people. If all is done, if Jesus did it all, why pick up a cross at all. Why the teachings that contradict our nature except that our carnal condition must be replaced by a Christ condition? There is something far more than symbolic to be accomplished here! Or have we missed something?

“We’re not good enough are we?” We all would agree but I say we are missing something because of our impaired judgment. This is the problem since Adam. To the extent our thinking is un-renewed our doomed impaired judgment is not healed. Impaired judgment is not healed by Christ’s death. Our ability to judge righteously is healed by the teachings of Jesus life! “We are saved by His life.” (Romans 5:10) Our old ways must die. His new Ways must live!

Jesus, the Son of Man, has shown us the Way to our potential! It is a potential God designed into us, in His image and His likeness, to be accomplished here in preparation for there! Our impaired judgment must be repaired for us to meet our potential in Him.

If we keep saying we are not good enough, then how can we ever overcome when salvation and perfection through reconciliation make us good enough for Him, by His own plan,? We are prophesying against ourselves!

Once reconciled to God through the death of His Son and our surrender to Jesus as Lord, our potential is unlimited. It has never been about doing something to get “saved” or reconciled. That was a free gift from God upon our surrender to Christ and His Lordship.

Rejoice! In being reconciled to God by the death of His Son (Romans 5:10 NASB) we are made perfect by the utter cleansing of our sins, we are made sinless, new born, all unrighteousness removed SO THAT we can have a relationship with the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 1 John 1:5-10 warns us what to avoid afterwards.

From the point of reconciliation forward we stay saved now and in the future by the life Jesus showed us and taught us. Jesus came as a second Adam to repair our impaired judgment caused by the first Adam, by teaching us about our impaired judgment. Impaired judgment is the core problem of mankind.

In John 9:39 Jesus says,  “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.”

Read it. The Pharisees by their impaired judgment threw the healed blind man out of the Temple and so excommunicated him from God? Jesus hears about it. Jesus comes to the man and says plainly why He came into the world, not to judge but because of our judging! “For judgment…” or “against” (“eis” Strongs 1519) judgment I came…  Remember His last portion of teaching at the Sermon on the Mount.
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:1-2 (NASB)  

I absolutely believe mankind was destroyed the first time, by God and the flood, because of the multiplied upon multiplied judgments mankind had brought upon itself. Those judgments had been measured back to them with exponential effect. The Matthew 7:1-2 principal existed even though it had not been written yet. It is an eternal principal. In each case they became guilty of that which they judged others for. Over the decades all men became poisoned by their own words. God was sorry He had made man. God starts over with Noah and his family. They are not perfect, just righteous through obedient hearts. They built the Arc despite the worldly criticism. Their obedience determined the end for almost all life. Our Arc of obedience to enduring love will do the same!

So Jesus comes to us not just to die for our sins or to pay the ultimate price, as we call it; I call it, the “going” rate, in laying down His life for our sake as we must for Him.

To make His death meaningful in a more far reaching way, He first teaches us new ways to deal with this life. They are the gospel or good news of the kingdom of God, the qualifying characteristics of a child of the king. It is no longer an eye for an eye but to turn the other cheek, walk the extra mile, to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. By obediently following Him we express our submission to and love for God.

In Christ our impaired judgment (through Adam) can be repaired! This is good news! This is what God must see in us after our reconciliation. He must see the righteous judgment of Christ functioning in us. We will see the truth about others but we are to intercede only. Grace must reign over our hearts, toward others. Our eternal life depends on it.
”…so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:21 NASB

Jesus also tells us, in Luke 17:26 (NASB) “And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man,…” speaking of the sudden return of Christ like lightening across the sky, verse 24.

We have a responsibility to obediently prepare ourselves. The Holy Spirit will help.

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Exit Strategy End Times: “Children of Abraham or not.”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

In prayer on 3-4-16 my bible was already opened to Genesis 18. In verse 19 I read,

“For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” Genesis 18:19

I asked where to read. The Spirit replied, “Look at what you have already been given and share; or do you decide what is important or not?”

Feeling the rebuke I asked, “Are we done (this morning) Father?” His reply was “Leviticus 16.” I looked and read, The Laws of Atonement.  “What am I to see Father?” It was overwhelming.

The next day in prayer on 3-5-16 looking at the same scriptures, I saw.

If you read Leviticus 16 you will appreciate the wonderful simplicity of Christ’s suffering for all. I was overwhelmed by the thought of doing all as instructed in Lev 16, forever! Christ is relief personified.

What was at best symbolic then, accomplishing a type of peace for them, is no longer symbolic now. Real peace is available and forever!

Each time we crucify our carnal will we move further into the perfection of Christ.

Jesus is the sacrifice we all require, and we employ His sacrifice once in being reconciled to God. We are not to crucify Him over and over! We don’t get “saved” over and over. We do and can however sincerely repent over and over as we work out our salvation. There is only one principle we must follow. We must offer others the same we are asking of God.

The sacrifice that covers us now is the same that covered Him on the cross! For surely He was not cleansed by His own perfect blood! Only our sins were His burden. Becoming sin for our sake, He gave what He now needed. So He spoke from the cross what was to mean everlasting  life to Him and to us, IF we would see it! For even Christ could die only once having one life to give for all, and He had to die right in order to live forever in righteousness and the life He now lives, He lives to God. (Romans 6:10 NASB)

By faith we know we are cleansed in reconciliation. It does not take faith to realize we must now walk in this life. How do we really die totally to our old ways, our impaired judgment? Rejoice! Understanding has been provided! All is yet to be purged from us and will be, by our obedience to the understanding that is in Jesus Christ and His life!  We do not have Carte Blanche with God. We have a responsibility to DO righteousness and justice if we expect God to bring upon us all that we are to receive through Abraham.

This “doing” is not to gain salvation. It is to keep it.

If we do not obey His commandments, we have no covenant. See Genesis 17 especially verse 7, it speaks of God’s understanding of our covenant with Him, “to be God to you…” Verse 14 addresses disobedience and the cost. “But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.” How much more obedience does God expect from a new covenant made easier at the cost of His Son’s life?

Old covenant or new makes no difference. The new is achievable in its simplicity and provision. He makes a covenant with us first. We must maintain it by keeping Him as our God, living by His guidelines from our heart of understanding. It has always been so. He knew and has told us in advance, one day the majority of man would reject Him. Un-renewed minds will perish. You do not have to be one of them. He does not want you to be one of them.

If you knew me, and asked; “How can God use this man?” you would betray yourself and the level of relationship you have with God. If you were moving forward in Him you would believe me because you would know that God saw more in you than you saw in yourself and He is using you. This is my only claim. What God saw in me years ago is now being manifested for such a time as this.

I have always wanted Him to use me and over the last years (35) He has. The fact is, now my hour has come. Like John the Baptist, his life and learning added up to that moment when Jesus was baptized by John. John was teaching “repentance for forgiveness of sins” before Jesus was. The only thing lacking was a sacrificial Lamb that would end one covenant and begin a new. “Behold, the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.”

Knowing me is not important. In my last 10 posts or so I have addressed political situations and I always address our obedience. I pray. He directs. I listen for Him as I read the scriptures He points me to and I share from my journal as I write what I am impressed to write. Maybe you do not hear from Him the way I do. That does not mean I do not hear or that you lack in any way. Believe me brethren I listen along with you. Do you hear God speaking to us all in these desperate times? The wise learn from history.

Please dear brothers and sisters around the world, followers and believers in Christ, we are in danger to the extent we are not obeying our Lord and His teachings. We must maintain what was given freely. He has presented us the keys to the kingdom. This Way holds our protection from the things to come, the feelings trying to invade our hearts today. It is something we the church must do. It is righteousness we must do as a testimony to all nations.

There are over 100 posts on this site and the Way is at the heart of them all. Read them. Eat the meat and spit out the bones. Ask the Spirit to show you what He wants you to see and understand. Souls are at stake.

The Arc is built and souls must enter. That includes us! Like Lot we must leave the city of our worldly existence and live on higher ground. There is a day coming when God will close the door, reign down obvious judgment, and only the obedient will survive.

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Exit Strategy End Times: “This trip requires preparation!”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!”

Is not Christ’s returning for us a rescue? Is it not vengeance and judgment by the Father upon all evil, upon all stumbling blocks? (Matt 13: 41, 18:7)

Father, is there not “hell to pay?” How can it be said of darkness, “This has already happened?” Or of the abomination of desolation, “he has already come, it has already been done.” Respect raises this question. Are we not to study, to seek understanding?

One might as well say, “Christ has already come!” or “There is no second coming!” Yet we believe in Your second coming Lord. Is it NOT preceded by tribulations? Or like in the days of Noah, will the world be having a great time, totally unaware of Your imminent return because they placed no value in the “Arc-like” message of enduring love, the gospel of the kingdom (reign) that “shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:13 -14 NASB

In fact “darkness” occurs daily to souls around the world. Abominations by men of desolation occur daily around the world. Is there any doubt that a climactic darkness is yet to occur as “dusk” reveals its approach?

Our rescue began with the Lord’s birth, then His teaching. It is assured by our obedience, ( John 3:36) and was implemented by His sacrifice and made available by the Holy Spirit. Our reconciliation to the Father is meant to precipitate our surrender to or better yet our embracing His Way which is actually the guarantee to our victory in Him. How is that? By following His Way we maintain the cleansed state He gave us freely. It is the Way of the kingdom! Jesus came to preach the gospel, the good news, of the kingdom. He has already told us,  we must follow the Ways of the kingdom, His Way, if we wish to come after Him.

“And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
35  “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” Mark 8:34-35 (NASB)     

Each surrendering event in life, “not my will but Thine,” is a glorious victory in the life of a child of the King, for the name of the king means “salvation” and His Son’s name means, “Yahweh saves.” Our acts toward others must say the same as His name. Freely given to us first, our mercy in the face of hatred is meant to be salvation to them and us. Our forgiveness toward them or their forgiveness toward us lights the path for both of us to Him. Whoever allows darkness to remain, perishes. There is  no darkness in eternity.

This cross mounting is a daily submission that leads us to the gate, the narrow gate, the entrance into the kingdom, “…and there are few who find it.”  (Matthew 7:14 NASB) These Ways are keys to the kingdom that we must possess and learn to implement with eternal proficiency.

These victories, these daily submissions to His will are the very “ministry of righteousness,” that Paul speaks of in 2 Corinthians 3:9. Is it not righteousness in us to intercede for the salvation of our enemies? We are not condoning their behavior! We are praying for Jesus to find them like He did us! Is it not glory to God when we chose righteousness over anger and vengeance?

Can God not execute the vengeance that belongs to Him alone? Why must we lift a hand or fist? Is He so weak as to be imagination only and not the true All Mighty, Majestic, All Powerful, Living God we have come to know and believe in? Only a weak understanding of Him would default to a powerless, unresponsive image of God, an image easily cast aside under duress. Can He not rescue His own when He has said that He will?

Are we His own? Is there proof He can see? If God required proof from His own Son how can we imagine He would not require proof from us? Obedience was the proof and it still is.

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”  John 3:36 (NASB)

Have we mounted our cross willingly? Do we not see it as our victory platform just as Jesus did? Jesus “accomplished ” His departure from there. We do also!

”and they were Moses and Elijah, 31 who, appearing in glory, were speaking [to Jesus] of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.” Luke 9:31 (NASB, NKJV, KJV) [added for clarity] 

Our successful departure is just as important as His. He died to show us!

Was our cross just to be picked up daily, carried as a symbol only or do we bear it knowing that within its lesson lies the path to our place of peace.

On our cross daily is where all offenses are cast off expeditiously and intercession for others then propels us into an eternity of Christ-likeness first here and then forever!

Today, we are to leave behind anything not permitted in heaven. This trip requires preparation! God will, in His mercy, point to anything in you that is a problem. Beyond that don’t worry about what you do not know; operate in what you do know.

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Exit Strategy End Times: “Might “Peace, peace,” be the result of all this? “

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NASB)
On 2-27-16 I asked. “Genesis 6:5” God knows, I did not know what was there.
”Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Genesis 6:5 (NASB) 

My prayer, “Oh God, is not the ministry of righteousness more glorious than the ministry of condemnation? Yes Lord, both bring You glory because You will judge one day while You bless your own today.”

Today: My bible is already open to this verse.

”…for to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. 10 But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11  so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.”  2 Corinthians 2:9-11 (NASB)

In light of the news, “Lord?” Are You trumping us all via Trump?

Is he not a carnal response to our national anger? Is he a continuation of our slide as a nation away from You?

Is his sometimes crass and blatant honesty a level of truth You can use? Recognizing the truth is important to You.

Are we bringing upon ourselves as a nation a greater on-going judgment, adding to the judgment we as a nation have already brought upon ourselves? Are our streets not awash in the blood of innocent children? Is Trump not known as disrespectful of women? Is he a judgment against women who have chosen godless political positions? Does he provoke them to make choices that add to their guilt by choosing a party that promotes the slaughter of unborn children? And Lord what is “common sense conservativism?” if it supports abortion or its proponents on any level?

Are we crying out for a king like Israel did as You and Godly choices are again pushed to the sidelines?

Are You bringing our behavior as a nation down upon our heads?

Don’t we know it may look good for a while but “darkness” must rise up? Might “Peace, peace,” be the result of all this?

We are all being challenged by the times we are in. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” His Way, His Truth, lead to His Life.

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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Exit Strategy End Times: “Do I forsake? Am I blind? Part 2”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!”

From part 1: “This calamity shall come as I am the Lord and this you must know…” (continuing)

“Have I not offered loving kindness and tender mercy first? Have I not provided and protected and yet you stray? Do you say, “The Lord has forsaken the land, the Lord does not see?”

“Then He said to me (Ezekiel), “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!’ 10  “But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads.” Ezekiel 9:9-10 (NASB)

That which was unacceptable then is unacceptable now. America is a land filled with blood, and cities full of perversion. The perfected love of God in you is the kingdom protection God offers.

“Do I forsake? Am I blind?  Learn from past errors. Do not call my name and then declare I have forsaken you. “Behold I will never leave you or forsake you!” You are a nation I have called my own and for a purpose just like Israel.”

The carnality of man has raged since Cain, the birth of impaired judgment since Adam. Some, yes some have embraced the Lord’s grace and fallen face down in surrender and I say in hope! He says and I also say stand….  Stand and be embraced, held, cherished but know to be true to that which you have believed. “My will shall be seen just as Jesus dying had to be seen.” For you have said it, “Thy will be done, Thy kingdom come.”

I believe therefore I write as He continues in my thoughts. “Yet I have ordained that you stand in the same street as those who reject Me, the rain falling on the just and the unjust. WHY? …. What does the rain cause in your souls? What has My Spirit meant to you? What will those see, that cannot see Me, for they have not turned to me so the veil might be removed? You,….yes you are the only hope for them. I will have no pity nor will I spare except they repent and throw themselves upon My mercy. This is their only chance, the only Way. You by My Spirit in you are their only chance.” In being glad for yourself, be compassionate over them. Do not judge.

“Know this. I hide My face from you because of your abominations as a nation, a field becoming worthless from blight. What do you see?  Do not declare nor entertain in your own estimations that I forsake you. You, knowing that I do not forsake you, are the only hope for many souls around the world.

As a nation among nations, you have forsaken and gone further and embraced that which is not Me. Repent? I say cry out as a nation within a nation, as a nation within nations. Sigh and groan openly but cast down resentment and anger toward anyone. Intercede like Christ knowing your reward is sure in doing so. Come out from among them in your heart by compassion for they are doomed unless they see and grasp. Can I not say it is too late?” (My note see Ezekiel 6:11-12, 25:6-7 NASB)

Loved ones, shall we cease or shall we continue to pray this way and mean it, knowing what the will of the Lord is. “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…” We must mean it and do it, just as Jesus did. If we do, oh how great our reward will be.

Let us also remember the Lord’s words to Joshua:

“Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.” Verse 9:  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7, 9 (NASB)

Today, what Jesus commanded us is what He expects us to follow and not turn from it. He spoke what the Father gave Him. The bearer of the message died, that we might receive it and live forever by it.

As it has come to me I share with you now, I know the Lord is saying to us now and has said before, “Have no doubts. Have no fears. Set your face like flint and your tender heart toward Me and all that I AM. WE will get through this victoriously. How can we not if I am in you and you are in Me? I do not forsake Myself do I?”

Before Christ died…. He taught. One effort for our sake made the other achievable.

If I am to follow, I must follow.

“Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. Isaiah 51:1 (NKJV)

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24 (NASB)

My prayer that morning:

Oh Lord, that which incensed You still does. That which You are willing to do for Your name’s sake, for our sake, You still are.

Please Lord, allow those, the remnant who revere You and sigh at the conditions they see, let us be spared according to Your Word. Mark us as You said You would.

We know oh Lord God, You are the Lord, the great I AM. You never forsake your own. Your mercy extends to the merciful, Your kindness to the kind, Your love to the loving, your grace to hearts of grace.

Like Christ, we must choose eternity, Your Way, Truth and Life at whatever cost.

Do as You must (in this world) oh Lord. We kneel at Your side as You do it. We shall not rejoice over Your wrath for we have escaped it only by the blood of Christ and by following in the heart of mercy and grace in Your teachings.

As You do Lord, weigh hearts. For Your word says a sigh and a groan over the abominations they see is enough to deliver. (see Ezekiel 9:4 NASB)

Your Word foretells that which they can only report.

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Michael

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Exit Strategy End Times: “Do I forsake? Am I blind?”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!”

This came to me on 1-14-2016. As I started praying, outside my window was a gentle rain by the time I finished it had turned into a fierce storm.

I asked where to read in prayer. The Holy Spirit’s response was, Ezekiel – Exodus. No verses?

I asked again, Ezekiel 6:4. I asked, Exodus 6:4. God knows I had no idea what was there.

The Ezekiel passage was about destruction and punishment over false Gods, over rebelliousness.

Exodus 6:4 (evidently) tells why. God established a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, (Israel), giving them Canaan. God did many things for Israel in the exodus to establish His Lordship.

In Exodus 6:3   “God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD; 3  and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but by My name, LORD (YHWH) , I did not make Myself known to them. Exodus 6:2-3 (NASB)

Israel was set free from Egypt and bondage because of the covenant with Abraham and his children. God heard their groaning in Egypt and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them the land of Canaan. (Exodus 6:4-5)

”Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” Exodus 6:7 (NASB)

God is trying to establish this understanding in all the hearts that claim relationship to Him. “…that I am the LORD your God.” He is (again) revealing Himself as YHWH “Lord” for our benefit. Our deliverance is to be from this lost and dying world. Has He not heard the groaning of His people?

To America, Israel and the world of followers I write and absolutely believe God is saying to us in these troubling days, “Remember our covenant together in Christ and all I have done for you.” (So we would know Him as Lord.)

“Your turning to false Gods, to people and their counsel who do not know Me is an affront to Me. I will show you that I am Lord by declaring that which you do not want to see but will see until as a nation you repent of your infidelity. Yes, like the Tares among the Wheat, the field is mine. Until the harvest I will do with the field as I will.”

These thoughts then came to me after reading verses surrounding Ezekiel 6:4.

“Your slain shall be around your idols, your high places, and likewise around your source of counsel, your televisions. Your loss will be portrayed world-wide. Some will say “Is the Lord among us or not?” Others will say, “Not He, He will not permit this sword and famine to come upon us.” I remembered I have written of both of these quotes and His strong rebuke.

“This calamity shall come as I am the Lord and this you must know…”

To be continued in part 2.

In these days of decision we must know what to do, not looking to our wisdom but His.

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Michael

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Exit Strategy End Times: “Response to a response 3 of 3.”

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“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5  “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

Bob said, “What I mean (is) the sins before you were saved all those sins will be (are) forgiven but… “   

And also Bob said, … It’s (isn’t it) what Christ did for you at the point of salvation (forgiveness, regeneration, sanctification, filled with the Holy Spirit, becoming a child of God) but can instantly vanish away like a puff of smoke if you’re caught unrepentant when you die right?”

Remember, in part one I addressed the un-perfected love which kept you in fear. “What if” are two of the devils most used words to us. God’s perfect love was willing to forgive your worst sins. How do we think He will respond to the sins of our struggle? Is it rebellion in us or are we truly trying and need the abundance of grace from Romans 5:17. What is in our heart? He knows.

This will shock some but we all really know if we think about it. We are not actually saved (yet) when we are reconciled.

“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. (Romans 5:10)

Our final salvation is the goal of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. In the moment we come to God, no matter how sincere we are, He is faithful to forgive. We are totally forgiven rendered sin free in reconciliation. Yes upon our surrender to Christ, asking Him to be Lord, our sins previously committed are forgiven by the Father. We are washed, made new, cleansed totally, like new, like newborns, forgiven, set apart, we are children of God. We have a fresh start.

Are we going to be obedient children (of God) or rebellious children (of God)? God spoke to Cain like he was a son. He spoke to king Ahaz like he was a son (Isaiah 7:10 READ the story). God spoke to David like he was a son. What if David had resisted the truth that the prophet clearly spoke to him about Bathsheba? Would God still have said David was a man after God’s own heart? Absolutely not! God IS Truth and only the truth, so help…Himself! David humbled himself to God.

In our reconciliation to God, we become everything we have always been taught in that moment except one thing. We are actually saved when we die or when Jesus comes for us. We can believe we are saved by faith in what we believe He has done but there is still a race to run, a salvation to work out, truth to be led into by the Holy Spirit, grace to be granted in forgiveness of others. Life becomes our test.

This is where the obedient versus the rebellious child is revealed. Israel as a nation was rebellious. Look what happened to them at times of judgment when they were faced with an overwhelming adversary and captivity. Then they cried out in repentance to God and He rescued them. Repentance brings God’s grace and forgiveness.

We all hopefully will pass from milk to the meat of the Word.

“For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
14  But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Hebrews 5:13-14 (NKJV)
Today we are faced with evil like never before.

Jesus did His part teaching us, dying for us even as He interceded. He demonstrated by action and heart what He taught. God has met His part of the “reconciling” arrangement by taking all into account according to the agreement we have made with Him by our asking Jesus to be Lord. In that moment of complete grace, we could go to heaven with no problem. In that sense, we are saved right then. Life waits for us with its challenges. We will stay saved if we can maintain that state of total cleansing and righteousness. HOW? He HAS given us “the Way” to do so. Jesus, during His life with us, taught us!

In fact we are yet to actually be saved because we are still alive in these human bodies, which will not inherit eternal life. (1 Corinthians 15:50)

We have a hope. We have a fight ahead to maintain what we have been freely given. This reveals the reason for all the teachings of Christ. We shall not be ignorant of that which we know we are experiencing. Hopefully in our learning we too will lead others to righteousness; they being led into going beyond the necessary reconciliation they first may have received to tested and proven righteousness in the smelting pot of life.

We now know, as does our heavenly Father, that staying clean is almost impossible so He makes a Way where there once was no way, so as to be cleansed again and again. We have received all we need pertaining to life and Godliness.

“… seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. (2 Peter 1:3 NASB)

The blood of the Lamb paid the price, God entered into a mutual submission agreement (see definition of reconcile) with us. Now, we must walk out our journey (to eternity) by actually making Jesus Lord via our obedience. There is an abundance of grace supplied in the deal. There is the gift of righteousness, in the deal. We recognize and treasure the forgiveness we received but did not deserve and now we must walk in grace toward all others likewise. We must display the righteousness we have freely received. (Romans 5:17, 21) John 3:36 also comes into play and can not be denied. Or do we omit scripture?

“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36 (NASB)

Even Christ had to learn obedience and therefore the importance of obedience by suffering to accomplish that obedience. See Hebrews 5:8.

The power behind His commitment as the Son of Man was the Lord’s relationship as a man with Father God. Sure Jesus knew who He was but as the Son of Man, any man, our carnal man wants its way. However, in the power of the relationship, “Not My will Father but Thine…”

As men, and as children of God, we too must obey but not out of fear. We shall obey having grasped the unshakable facts in the Words of prophecy, the wisdom and the understanding in the teachings of Jesus.

We shall obey most of all because we have been loved like never before by our heavenly Father, our elder Brother and Savior. We have been comforted and are being led into all Truth by the Holy Spirit. We will have acted upon it disregarding our flesh and the carnality of our own hearts purposely.

I do believe it is His grace to warn us via His teachings and now our obedience or our rebelliousness is yet to be revealed. We are admonished to know that if we do not repent, we shall perish. John the Baptist and Jesus taught “repentance for forgiveness of sins.” Jesus simply made our initial forgiveness possible by His sacrificial death, satisfying the Law of the first covenant, establishing the second. In the second covenant I find the Law of the Spirit of Life. (Romans 8:2 KJV)

Bob, I believe respectfully that your early experiences and what I am apparently reminding you of were what they were simply because the perfect love of God had not yet been perfected in you. I certainly am not trying to take you or anyone else back there. That was not God.

You are my dear brother. Iron sharpens iron. Frankly, and sincerely, I appreciate your response. You are not alone in this conflict of thought.

God’s will is for us to end up with Him. Heaven (God) has its standards. Once reconciled, only we can throw that away by outright rebellion, provoked or not. We however have been shown The Way.

As things get worse, we must be on guard and make ourselves follow His Way.

Like I say at the end of my posts, “If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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Exit Strategy End Times: “A response to a response. Part 2 .”

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In response to a response: Part two of three

Most (if not all) of what I write about, you (Bob) are already doing. My posts sometimes point to false escape mechanisms, things the church has believed regarding salvation that simply are contradicted by Paul and even Jesus. Why we did not see theses contradictions earlier, I believe, may rest with God and His timing, no fault of man. Now however we have a responsibility to shout from the housetops our expanded understanding.

In my previous post, “Do you have the saving knowledge?” you said in your response ,  “I would rather read His Word live it out  the best I can empowered by the power of Gods Spirit and then rest in the arms of Gods grace.”

Yes, yes, yes! We must however as you said, “live it out” as best we can. As best we can is not based on our “I’m only human” view of ourselves. Instead it is based upon our son of God position we received in reconciliation! Our potential is far greater than years of limited understanding has taught us.

We are a unique generation. It is very likely we will be alive to see the Lords return. We will see darkness rise up first, the apostasy of believers, persecution unthinkable, and more. How we are to guard our hearts has been taught. Did we learn?

If we and the existing generations are to be the last, will we have taught them? Will we have helped them put on their life preservers or will we watch as they betray us as the Word speaks of. Oh what weeping and gnashing of teeth are we in for if we do not prepare. I can only think, with true fear, of the unforgiveness I might feel toward myself if I fail to deliver understanding to them that could have “saved” them.

Bob, in your wonderful enthusiasm, I heard you one time tearfully rebuke those (not present) for NOT reading and studying the Word. Of course we saw your fire and heard the power in your voice. Your emotions revealed your concern as well as your consternation over their current state. One might call them “low information Christians,” in today’s vernacular. You are right, how can anyone know the truth that sets us free if we do not study His Word.

I do study. You study. We are drawn to different areas of study. We benefit from each other’s commitment to study. Iron sharpens iron as we discuss our understanding.

I might say, “Why doesn’t Bob (not his real name) look forward more. He is “always” (nobody “always” does anything) sharing what the Sages said or what Rabbi so in so believed.

Pressing my position I might say to myself and I am saying to the church world-wide, “The troubles we see today demand we prepare our hearts far more for what we may see as well as what we are seeing. Our heart condition matters today, right now. How do we accomplish that preparation as the church world-wide (as Jesus prophesied we would) except we teach it and talk about it more?”

Likewise Bob, you might say, “Michael over simplifies and then complicates God’s concerns. He keeps going back to forgiveness.” Wait a minute; you did say that in effect in the last sentence of your response, “Forgiveness is only one sin like I’ve told you before.”

Not forgiving is the only area of sin that Jesus focuses on, that can either free us of your own sins or hold you under judgment as a sinner. He speaks to our forgiving in the Lords prayer, in the parable of the slave who was forgiven much, to us as with His disciples adjuring us in our forgiving others as we minister and then Jesus, in dying for us, insures our being totally forgiven in the process of reconciliation to God, by forgiving and interceding for us on the cross. Forgiveness or forgiving is a primary, premiere and eternal characteristic of Christ and the kingdom of God. Is it any wonder we are to become like Him?

Will any number of my sins be forgiven if I forgive others? That seems to be what Jesus is saying in the Lord’s Prayer and verse 14 following in Matthew. Is that a license to sin? Absolutely not. If I love Him I will turn from sin again and again until God’s grace defeats that sin in me and all the more quickly as I forgive others!

Not knowing when our day shall come, this should motivate us to exert the will necessary out of respect and reverence for His grace and His Words of admonition. If we do, God is like power steering. We pull on the wheel to turn another direction and whoosh the fluid of His power courses through the veins of our will, exerting a force overcoming what we cannot overcome alone. We must simply keep tugging on the wheel of our future until our course is correct. So be it Lord, so be it, Amen.

The true potential for personal freedom now and in eternal life hinges on my obedience to the concepts of granting grace, forgiving, seeking to understand the struggles of others and with determined loving endurance, compassionately interceding for them. After all Christ is interceding for me daily. This is perfected and perfecting love on our part, the priority of a heavenly view, not an earthly one.

Ideally, we rise to the Christ-like level of interceding even for those who would kill us, while they are killing us. This reaction on our part requires practice over lesser offenses before (if) we find ourselves about to be martyred. THIS is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory.

You (Bob) referred to the “starting line,” post reconciliation?

You said, and I quote, “What I mean (is) the sins before you were saved all those sins will be (are) forgiven but…(now)You (Michael) are (saying we are) at the starting line of salvation from there? (Bob’s quote continues) It’s (isn’t it) what Christ did for you at the point of salvation (forgiveness, regeneration, sanctification, filled with the Holy Spirit, becoming a child of God) but can instantly vanish away like a puff of smoke if you’re caught unrepentant when you die right?”

Yes it is a beginning of sorts, but now we have the advantage. We were irreconcilably way behind but now once miraculously reconciled we are ahead by faith in the things that have been revealed to us in the teachings of Christ, even as babes in Christ. Seeking more learning for ourselves in the Word is absolutely necessary.

The forgiveness we received freely in reconciliation, we must maintain. It was a free gift. Like Dad’s 67 GTO we inherited, we must maintain it.

Why? Because we go into the world after God speaks to us while on a ladder or after seeing a pillar of fire (personal testimony) “saving” us, wooing us to Himself and boom, somebody out in the world does whatever to hurt us or worse hurts someone we love. Our old vengeful man tries to rise from the dead! We know what is right to do but no doubt it is a struggle to do what is right, right that is, according to Jesus. God is patient.

In our struggle and in the love God has for us as we are “living it out,” the Holy Spirit comes knocking on the door of our heart. That is the deal and a blessing. He is trying to lead us into all truth.  He knocks, and knocks, and knocks. This is God’s grace. God is patient desiring that Bob (or Michael) not perish, but that we instead would come to repentance. If we do not repent, we perish; His words not mine. 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” We face repentance versus perishing. Which will we choose? Our reconciled state makes it possible for us to be moved by the Holy Spirit. Will we be obedient or will we be rebellious?

In the vacuum of a repentant heart, the Way of Christ must by the Spirit take its place upon the throne of our heart to rule and reign. Otherwise, our old man and our evil heart will! It is our choice and ours alone.

Reconciliation alone does not protect us. By reconciliation God has made it possible for us to choose correctly by the power of the understanding that is in Christ; putting to death as many times as necessary the emotional death-throws of our old carnal man. As he dies, we live in Christ.

This is my message to anyone and everyone that claims to be a Christian around the world! John the Baptist brought the new message from God even before Jesus which was John’s calling. Repentance for forgiveness of sins!

In the same sense that “sin is sin,” forgiveness is forgiveness. How can we be a bride without spot or blemish, holy and blameless, and still retain anything in our heart that God does not permit in heaven? The Bridegroom wants His bride to be as though she has never been molested by life. Her born again experience is meant to make her all new. She must use His Ways to maintain her precious countenance. His smiling face is worth it.

In part three: “What if David had resisted the truth that the prophet clearly spoke to him about Bathsheba? Would God still have said David was a man after God’s own heart?”

These three posts have very important facts in them. I am responding to a studied individual so I have omitted scriptural references. Most of you are studied. I hope you know by now that I can back up my positions with scripture. I appreciate the grace you grant by checking out my positions before deciding your traditional understanding is eternal as it stands. Our course is changing because it must. Our destination is till the same, praise God, Jesus our Savior and the Holy Spirit.

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Michael

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Exit Strategy End Times: “A response to a response part 1 .”

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In response to: Do you have the saving knowledge?   Part 1 of 2

Brother Michael,

 I’ll have to read it again but at first read I wonder if any human will be saved. If one dies before he can repent then off to hell you go? There are thousands of sins one can commit.  What if you commit an unknown sin which is sin anyway or you purposely commit a sin big or little and you immediately die what happens? 

My problem Michael is the same problem I have with those who try to keep the law. One is under constant condemnation because maybe there is a sin I haven’t repented of or a work that I haven’t done that I know I should have done. (You) he that knows to do good and does it not to him that is sin. Is it possible to be perfect 24 hours a day? If so why did Jesus come if we can do it on our own after salvation. Luther used to spend hours in the confessional booth wearing the priests out trying to remember all the sins he had committed. They absolved him of sin but was there peace in his heart? No he then would go back and beat himself bloody at times. There is a semi-grace message here. What I mean is the sins before you were saved all those sins will be forgiven but… You are at the starting line of salvation from there? It’s what Christ did for you at the point of salvation, (forgiveness, regeneration, sanctification, filled with the Holy Spirit, becoming a child of God) but can instantly vanish away like a puff of smoke if your caught unrepentant when you die right? In the end it’s what we do Knowledge and wisdom that keeps us saved not God’s grace? Even If one operates in the different kinds of gifts and has the works of the Spirit in our lives is there any shalom in serving God? I cannot live like this again. I did that and bought the t shirt. I remember pad tiring going to the altar scared that I would go to hell because I need (knew) I wasn’t perfect. I would rather read his Word live it out  the best I can empowered by the power of Gods Spirit and then rest in the arms of Gods grace. Forgiveness is only one sin like I’ve told you before.

Your Brother in the Lord

My dear brother,

My delay in responding to your comments on my post is due to seeking the Lord for an answer that He would have you consider.

This is the Word the Holy Spirit pointed me to regarding your concerns. 1 John 4:18 (KJV) ”There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

To me, my posts speak of the very thing that gives us boldness in the Day of Judgment because in that day, as He is, so we are in this world. We ask, “How can we be?” Because our love is to be (will have been) made perfect by embracing the Way. This is what my book and my posts point to; the goal and the Way to it.

If in Christ, our love is to be made perfect having embraced with all our might the Way He has shown us to love. His love and grace in us is to banish fear from our contemplation. This love frees us and leaves us with a desire to follow literally in His footsteps, adhering to His commands to the best of our ability. There is no fear of condemnation because we have come to understand the law of the Spirit of life and we know it is working in us.” Romans 8:2. This is a condition if Romans 8:1 is to apply.   

1 John 4:17 (KJV)
”Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”

Bob, your own words tell of the fear you experienced early in your walk, afraid you were not perfect. “I remember pad tiring going to the altar scared that I would go to hell because I need (knew) I wasn’t perfect.” You had not yet been made perfect in love.

Your last sentence in your email response to me agrees with what I am saying in my posts. What God expects us to do is to have its glorious result after we sincerely are, as you say, “living it out.”

“I would rather read his Word live it out  the best I can empowered by the power of Gods Spirit and then rest in the arms of Gods grace. Forgiveness is only one sin like I’ve told you before.” 

Does forgiveness (or unforgiveness) mean far more to us than almost every other sin, if we ever hope to reach eternal life? Do we get in automatically?

Part 2 next post. (an excerpt)

“The true potential for personal freedom now and in eternal life hinges on my obedience to the concepts of granting grace, forgiving, seeking to understand the struggles of others and with determined endurance, compassionately interceding for them. After all, Christ is interceding for me daily. This is perfected love, the priority of a heavenly view not an earthly one.”

Please … forward this post or others.

“If we remain in His grip, how far from His heart can we be!”

In the guardianship of Christ,

Michael

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