Saturday, June 14, 2014

Is Your Name In the Book of Life?

Is Your Name Written in Heaven's Book of Remembrance? Is Your Name in the Book of Life?

Moses spoke of a book that God has written, asking to be blotted out of that book if God did not forgive the erring Israelites.

Exo_32:32  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

Moses wanted the people forgiven. Imagine you were Moses- you grow up pampered and spoiled and then realize that your family isn't your family at all. You then realize that your true family, your birth family are slaves to the family that raised you. Deciding that you'd rather be among your birth family than among those who are cruel masters to them, you leave your pampered, spoiled lifestyle and become one of the slaves.

As a slave you are confronted with wrongdoing and react to it, then flee for fear of being killed. You then fall in with desert wanderers and choose to live with them, even taking a wife and having children. One day you are confronted by your Creator who tells you that you must go and deliver those people you left, your birth family, who are in bondage.

Taking on the task you leave your current family, wife and children, and you journey back to your birth family and go through very, very trying and hard times as you work as God's messenger to free your people. Finally after extreme hardship your people are freed and you are called to lead them out of their land of bondage and into a new land.

Now stop for a moment and truly consider all you've endured to bring your people out of slavery. It was hard work, it was long and arduous. You suffered, they suffered, you suffered together to bring this all about. Now you take these people on a long journey and stop to camp at the foot of a mountain. You tell the people exactly what has transpired, how they were freed by God, their Creator, their Redeemer and if they will AGREE to abide by their God's covenant all will be well, He will protect them and they will flourish. The people KNOW their road to freedom was one of supernatural happenings, they weren't blinded to how the hand of God worked to set them free. They watched as the Egyptians suffered plague after plague while it didn't touch them, something that is truly inexplicable beyond the miracle of God working.They hoped, they doubted, they hoped again and they were finally told they no longer had to be slaves, they were free from the bondage of their captors. No longer did they have to feel the whip of a slave driver across their backs, no longer did they have to live with scarcely any possessions of their own, no longer did they have to worry their children would be murdered under orders of their slave master, no longer did they have to live in fear of their very lives being forfeited because they became too old to be of any use. These people were FREE!  Their freedom didn't come by the hand of a man, but by the hand of God in great workings before them. They KNEW that God had freed them, they knew the POWER of God before they were ever asked to AGREE to His covenant. They were NOT forced into an agreement with God. These people were told what God expected from them and asked to agree to the terms set forth. God did not bring them out of one bondage only to force them into another under His rule. God wanted WILLING followers, not FORCED captives. Asked to agree to the covenant the people did so, they agreed of their OWN FREE WILL, not a single one of them was forced to agree. Then AFTER they agree you are asked to go meet with your God to receive more information from Him so that life for you and the newly freed people, your people, people of your kindred, your blood, could begin under the love and guidance of One who is above all others. You leave them, and they know you will return, you tell them you will.

Much time passes, and the people who have agreed to live under a new covenant with God begin to doubt this agreement. They see no more evidence that God is acting on their behalf. The one who had delivered them disappeared and could be dead now for all they know and if the deliverer is dead there is no one to communicate between God and them and so that life is over, the agreement forfeit. With these thoughts growing day by day the people begin to imagine how they should continue without God and the new covenant agreement. They decide that perhaps the old gods, the old covenant rituals and such were really better for them. They grew up under masters who used those old gods and if the old gods helped those masters enslave them, maybe the old gods of their former masters would now help them prosper. The old gods liked to be worshiped in images so the people who had been freed by God, the people who had made a covenant agreement with God to be His, now decide to create an image of one of the old gods and break the agreement they made with their Deliverer God.

While you were up in communication with God receiving the laws in written form, you knew nothing of what the people you freed were doing. When you return and realize their grave error in turning from their Deliverer God back to the gods of their former masters, you are grieved at heart! How could they turn so quickly from their Deliverer God? How?!  Not only are YOU very upset, but GOD is very upset too. The people He performed miracle after miracle for turned on Him! If they turned on Him after such a short call for faith, for believing without seeing, without touching, without hearing, then how could they be His people? Without faith it would be impossible to follow Him, He is a God of faith.

Considering doing away with all of these people- descendants for hundreds and hundreds of years going back to Abraham- God imagines starting over and yet you realize the horror of that! These people need to be given another chance, they need to be forgiven, they need more than to be tossed aside at their first failing.  So you plead with God, you plead with the One who has guided you, who has brought you through so much to get where you are. You tell God that if He cannot forgive the sins of the people that you do not want to be His, You want your name taken out of the book, the book that contains the names of ALL who would be God's. You don't want to be a part of God's family any longer if all these people are to be destroyed and taken out of the book as well. God relents, God forgives and continues to claim the people as His, and you remain written in the book of God's.

Every person alive has the opportunity to be written in God's book- to be remembered by God, to be given eternal life by God. YOU really have this opportunity, and it is given to You through a DELIVERER, a SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

YOU CAN BE WRITTEN IN GOD'S BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, IN GOD'S BOOK OF LIFE- or YOU CAN BE BLOTTED OUT OF THAT BOOK.

Deu_29:20  The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Psa_69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Blotted out, or written in. Not delivered, or delivered.  Not saved, or saved.  To imagine all our names are there and never to be blotted out is to believe a lie of Satan's, a lie he made to Eve in the garden- that she would not die. We can't allow ourselves to be caught in deception. Our names are written there only by the GRACE of our SAVIOR, only by HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, we must BELIEVE this is our duty, to believe. We aren't to believe in our own righteousness, but in our SAVIOR'S. We agree to HIS sacrifice, we agree to the life HE lived. We agree to be GOD'S people, not people who choose other gods, not people who choose self above god. We agree we have a CREATOR and we have a REDEEMER and it is through them that we LIVE. We agree that this life here and now is a temporary life, and that life eternal is our true home. We do NOT live for riches and a life of ease here and now, but rather a life of extreme hardship and deprivation, a life of a slave knowing they've been delivered and will receive the reward of that deliverance in another life- a life where they are raised from the dead, or called alive and changed to meet their Deliverer in the air to go home with Him. This is the slave journey we are all on, the same journey, the same form of a slave our Savior took on.

Php 2:7  but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, having become in the likeness of men (LITV)

We live in the form of a slave, our evil master is Satan, and our loving deliverer is our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

We live in the hope of unseen but believed deliverance.

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Dan_12:1  And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book

Mal_3:16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

Luk_10:20  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Rev 13:6  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev_17:8  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Rev_20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Rev_20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

 Rev_21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Rev_22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.




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