Sunday, July 28, 2013

Eternal Gospel Proclaimed - Cost of Discipleship Pt 122

Chapter 25 - The Decision

Mat 10:26  FEAR THEM NOT therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Mat 10:27  What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
Mat 10:28  And FEAR NOT THEM which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Mat 10:29  Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Mat 10:30  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Mat 10:31  FEAR YE NOT therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Mat 10:32  Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:33  But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.


Bonhoeffer- ' The messengers abide by the Word, and the Word abides by the messengers, now and in all eternity. Three times Jesus encourages his disciples by saying "Fear not." Although their sufferings are not secret, they will not always be so: some day they will be made manifest before God and man. However secret these sufferings are at present, they have their Lord's promise that they will be eventually brought to the light of day. And that will mean glory for the messengers and judgment for their persecutors. Nor is the testimony of the messengers intended always to remain in obscurity. The gospel is not to take the form of hole-in-the corner sectarianism, it must be set forth by public preaching. For the time being it may have to be delivered secretly, but in the last day this preaching will fill the whole world spelling salvation and rejection. The Revelation of St. John contains this prediction: "And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people." ( Rev. 14:6) Therefore "Fear not."

My thoughts-

Truthfully the everlasting gospel HAS been preached to them that dwell on the earth. There are very few, if any, places that haven't had the opportunity to know the Word of God. We live in a time right now that Bonhoeffer probably couldn't even imagine.  Our internet, our means of transportation, all of this has given the word of God great ability to go everywhere and anywhere. People go to all corners of the earth, leaving very little unseen, unknown.

Yet, even in Bonhoeffer's time it was all unfolding, the gospel was being preached and the time of it was quickly nearing it's fulfillment.

Read this-

Mat 24:14  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. 

The word nations is the same word translated gentiles in this verse-

Luk 21:24  And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

The times of the gentiles will be fulfilled, that time of fulfillment is a prophecy give by Jesus Himself. And believe it or not, that prophecy has met its fulfillment

In 1980 the Jewish people were once more in control of Jerusalem and moved their Capital there.  They fought a war and won in 1948, and another in 1967, to shockingly gain control of Jerusalem.  After hundreds of years, after  1900 years they were in control of Jerusalem and NO ONE thought it was possible. No one thought it would happen.  Our Savior KNEW it would happen. Our Savior prophesized of it occurring. People say that we don't live in a time when prophecy is fulfilled but I was alive in 1967 and 1980, I'm living as prophecy is fulfilled. 

There are indepth studies on this particular prophecy and I've gone through them in my Bible Study blog before, but perhaps it's time to do so again.

By the GRACE and MERCY of our LORD we will study this prophecy more in depth because what Bonhoeffer is saying here does affect us today, but we have to consider the times when things are written and pray for guidance as to time and place of all God's word.

We are living in a time right now that is right on the verge of our Lord finishing His work on our behalf, we need to understand this, and believe this.

Too many want to say that everyone says this and it never happens, but if you have faith in God, faith in the Lord, our Savior JESUS CHRIST then YOU have to believe all that He tells us will come to pass. Someone will be living in the last days, someone will be alive to witness His return, someone will be enduring the horrors of the end times, it WILL all come to pass. We cannot say we believe and shirk the TRUTH just because we claim it's impossible to comprehend. Why would our God not enable us to understand? He does, if we truly want all His truth, if we truly want to see, and hear HIS WORD.

Please LORD bless us!
Please LORD keep us in YOU!
Help us to learn YOUR truth and believe in YOUR truth always!


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