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Do you really know Jesus?! Are you really His?! If you are really His then why do you willfully choose to disobey Him and are left without rebuke or chastening?! "But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons." - Hebrews 12:8 Times are so hard, that we have to preach the Gospel inside the church nowadays. I really cannot believe that people who claims to know Him, to love Him, will be so stubborn and deny to practice the things He said. Things that are really, really important for our lives and our walk with Him. Then the Lord showed me that many, many people simply: Do not know Him. Jesus said: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" - Matthew 28:19 And they say: "I will not do this... Water does not save" Jesus said: "And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire" - Mark 9:47 And they say: "I do not need to repent. He paid for my sins, I will just have pleasure in my iniquities" Jesus said: "But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you" - Matthew 5:44 And they say: "I do not care I will just go there and give him a lesson. Jesus was perfect on my behalf, I do not need to repent" Jesus said: "Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God." - Matthew 5:9 And they say: "I do not care, it is by grace I have been saved. I will continue to sow war and confusion whenever I go because I am like this." Jesus said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:3 And they say: "I do not care... I have His blood and trust in His sacrifice. No need to repent. I will go there and say proudly: Here is your blood. Let me enter now!" And Jesus said: "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 18:3 "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." - John 3:5 Jesus said so many good things, He told us so many good things, and I am sure that all who indeed believe in Him will receive and practice what He said from the heart. And they will, truly, repent of their wicked ways and be a slave of righteousness and not of iniquity. As it is written: "And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." - Galatians 5:24 And there are people who say: "I love Jesus, but if anyone tries to kill me because of Him... Aaaah, I will pick my rifle and tear him in pieces." If you do that... You certainly do not know the Jesus I am following, my friend. Sorry! "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?" - Matthew 7:15-16 If anyone has to die because of Jesus, then let it be... For this we were called. "For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake" - Philippians 1:29 "Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord." - Romans 12:19 Are you calling me to obey Him?! Yes, I am calling you to obey Him... if indeed you believe in Him. If Jesus called us to do what is good and right, then we who truly believe in Him must do that... And it is a delight, a pleasure, because we do it for love. "If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him." - 1 John 2:29 Now if you say: "I do not care..." Just a reminder that Satan also is stubborn just as you are... And if you do not receive the Lord Jesus in your heart, and repent, indeed, from your wicked ways... You will perish. "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king." - 1 Samuel 15:23 Surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ, before it is too late. To those who use the grace of God as an excuse to practice unrighteousness... Sorry, I cannot believe you actually know Him and received Him. This offends anyone who is in the faith, because we were not called to willfully sin and be stubborn, we were called to repent and obey. And if we fail to obey?! We repent and seek to obey next time. And I see many, many people do not care... I cannot believe they love the Lord, I cannot believe they are born again. "If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" - 1 John 4:20 As the Lord Jesus said: "Many will say to me in that day..." Many people who do not love the Lord and actually never knew Him... They are blind in their walk, they forgot their cross. "then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’" - Luke 13:26-27 "It is a joy for the just to do justice, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity." - Proverbs 21:15 I strongly suggest: Repent, go back and take your cross and carry it to the end. "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me." - Matthew 10:38 "Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son." - 2 John 1:9 Doing what the Lord Jesus told us should not be a big burden for you... Unless, obviously: "You do not love Him." "You do not know Him." "You love darkness rather than light." Repent, indeed, and turn to the light... Embrace and receive the Holy Spirit in the name of the Lord Jesus. "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!" - Luke 11:13 Then I strongly suggest you receive Him in your heart immediately. "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." - John 1:12-13 And I really want that you do that, because all who believe in Him will love and receive Him. "Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him." - John 14:23 Do not be deceived, you have been warned. God is not mocked, and He knows those who are His. "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day." - John 6:44 But are you saying that I should simply read and do?! No, it should be done by faith... A desire that comes from the heart: you feel to repent, you feel to forgive, you feel to lend, you feel to love, you feel to do good things. And if your heart desires to do evil: You rebuke in His name and humble yourself before the Lord. Seek repentance, desire a clean heart. And that all who believe in Him will do, from the heart. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love." - Galatians 5:6 Many people mistakenly believe that those who follow Jesus in spirit and truth, and consequently do the things He said us to: Pray, seek, ask, watch, forgive, lend, etc... are working to be saved. Who would be against those things?! Satan obviously, because he is the one who works against Jesus and his believers. "He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad." - Matthew 12:30 Even if we do all the things He said to us, where are we at the end of day?! We do because we love Him, because we are His... That is why we desire a clean heart, to flee from evil and the flesh, and do good, to repent from our wicked ways, and to walk in truth, in His light, and all in His name. To Him be the glory forever. "So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’”" - Luke 17:10 And all in His name, under His grace... Because we know that without Him we can do nothing. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me." - John 15:4 Glory to God! Amen.
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That's My King! Do you KNOW Him? Dr. S.M. Lockridge Some of the best 3:19 spent in my life.