Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Do Not Sugarcoat Christ

Do we understand why we need to be cleaned? Do we understand that we are filthy? Do we comprehend that our spirit without God's spirit, is dead? Do we fully realize that we are the living dead when we are separated from God and His love?

Too many people mistakenly believe that God loves all without any discretion whatsoever, that all will be saved because God is so incredibly benevolent that it cannot be otherwise.  Our LOVING God is a consuming fire, and if there are NONE to consume why would he need to be a consuming fire?

The same choice given to Adam and Eve is given to every one of us.

Will we choose to eat of the tree of Good and Evil? Or will we choose to obey God, our Creator, our Redeemer, our Prophet, our High Priest, our King.

It's a choice and IF we make the wrong choice and choose to serve ourselves and eat of the tree of good and evil, we will be consumed in the fire, God will NOT save us!

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

Our God is a consuming fire, we cannot forget this, God does NOT want us to forget this!

Jesus taught from the scriptures--

Mar_12:24  And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

Mar_14:49  I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

Luk_24:27  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luk_24:32  And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Luk_24:45  Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures

Joh_5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

The Scriptures were THE OLD TESTAMENT!

And if you read the old testament you will see time and time again that God's wrath was played out. The consequences of choosing not to obey God were deadly, they were NOT slaps on the wrists and shrugging shoulders with wry hopeful grins.  They were not exasperated sighs and spankings, but fearful and truly deadly!  The rain of fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah was REAL, not made up of special effects, not pretend destruction, but very real, very horrific obliterating, torturous death. That was GOD'S wrath upon those who choose NOT to have faith in GOD. That was God's consuming fire upon those who choose not to serve God. And while people love to skew that into something awful by saying God must be terrible if He demands obedience, God is the dictator they lament, they are deceived and very, very wrong!  God is LOVE, God is SELFLESS, and those who choose SELF over GOD are truly those who deserve to be no more, there is NO real love in them, there can't be because God is love! And in choosing not God, they choose to live without any REAL love. Sure, they can be filled with a counterfeit love and millions, billions are filled with false love, a love so close to the REAL love it deceives, and it will deceive even those who possess the false love. They will stand in that day and cry out to our Savior, and He will NOT know them!

We cannot afford to SUGARCOAT Christ!  Christ did NOT sugarcoat Himself! Christ told the TRUTH in all things!

Please LORD help us to comprehend Your truth fully! Let there be NO GUILE in us, through YOU!

You are LOVE and You are a consuming fire!

All praise, all glory, all honor, all thanksgiving unto YOU our merciful, loving, fearful God!



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