Charles (18 Dec 2012)
"Thief on the cross"


 

Life is exactly what I always thought it was! I always had this nagging feeling something was not right! What people said life was how they acted it was I always saw their end reality and it never was what they wanted.

My dads camp never finished his house and possessions sold off for pennies. I hear he lived a long life good for him! Well he died I worry more about His never ending eternity! I witnessed to him for years he like me born that roman thing.

I came out of Babylon by the conviction it was not of life. Into the world which dragged me sling the bottom I ran from one escape to another trap. Desperately looking for a way out of a reality everyone else seemed fine with but look closer and they were not doing more them just comforting each other every time the wide path seemed the wrong way that they were silly there were so many on it how could they be wrong. Did not want to be the nut in the street with the sign! Or the anti social guy.

Well I by the grace of God was given two cents from a pastor and a bible I read John got baptized as a adult convious decision full immersion spirit born new life! I went gung how church was prayed into a wife and had hope for this life. But I kept seeing the same the things hoped for here never were the joy they seemed to be but I still felt new.

I started watching praying reading the sure word trying to abide in it. I realized religion was a shell people wore to insulate them from faith. I came out of the daughter of babylon and started to become more the guy with the sign and most of my prpressed faith family friends dismissed me. I was ok doing works and going to church and talking football but the Jesus is coming soon stuff and the seperating from the things of the world stuff like tv and activities and not drinking eyed was extreme.

Then pointing out Christmas was not Jesus birthday and really He wanted us to worship Him as King not baby avoiding October 31sr Valentines day etc.

Well just recently I have hit bottom in the flesh I have been broken to my self over the rock of Jesus. Jesus I wrote was and is everything! And I was given a revelation in verse which I have posted years of reading verses streaming in my head. The fact is the thief on the cross did more them just call on Jesus to be in paradise! How we can read a verse hundreds of times and have it convict with truth out of the blue! He was on the cross with Jesus dying to himself and his sins as he recognized Jesus Lordship! Amazing how Paul NF posts always parallel my thoughts in the spirit!

Jesus is coming perhaps in a week ok get it. The world is worshiping Him in vanity guided by the church and tradition saying Jesus if that and locked into their traditions they would defend to the death as faith. I am I guess the guy with the sign!

But the truth is read Zephaniah that's what's coming! God wants us to fend our hearts to weep for our inequity, to mourn for the world, to cry out to Him for mercy to mortify the deeds of the flesh and through dying on the cross look up and call upon Jesus the Lord to remember us in His kingdom! This is true saving faith unfeigned. It is also a bittersweet pill and taking it is a fatal medicine to living for this life.

That is the narrow road so few find. The thief did not Just say Jesus Jesus as I have been taught He was literally dying on the cross for his sins at the same time. God expects us who call upon Jesus to be doing the same!

The world is taught 1 god is whoever you say 2) you can have your cake and eat it to 3) there is no god 4) however you come your fine!

None of this is true it just facilitates the path down the side road God gives life so we may have time to come to the knowledge of the truth! The whole purpose of our existance is to realize God is real that the purpose of creation is for Him to gather to Himself a set of people Ge has justified by faith in His Son and raising Him from death, sanctified by the baptism of the holy spirit, and by abiding in His word reading studying seperating unto Him a holy people scrubbed clean by His fullers soap a bride for His Son.

The Earth is a crop wheat and tares really! We are just jars of clay! My family my friends all around me just look at me like what and go on with life. But that's perishing Jesus said if you seek to save your life you will lose it if you lose it for My sake you save it onto life eternal!

It took sixteen years for me to get to this understanding and I had to shake off the worlds wisdom to do it!  How can I warn in a week? Even if we have a few months the end has been written!

The catch is this church tells you just say Jesus Jesus go on have an abundant life party here! The truth cannot be more opposite!

Come out of her my people and suffer not of her sins! Buy some salve and wash your eyes so seeing you may see buy of me some gold refined in the fire and a white robe which I will give you.

Keeping the patience of the faith overcoming means dying to ourselves this world it's vanity and by suffering in the flesh ceasing from living for this life seeking the next! Paul said to me to live is Christ to die is gain!

Guys we are the last generation at the end of each path lies eternal life or destruction!

I cry when I see around me how the world is all joyful now because I read the word and believe it and cringe at the words when they say peace and safety as a woman travails in birth sudden destruction comes upon them!

Then I read but you are of the light not of darkness that the day should catch you unaware! No one has come up to me and warned me Jesus is coming make straight your path except for those on the Doves!

He's coming and I am trying to work out my salvation with fear and trembling knowing the terror of the Lord trying to persuade men! When the church abandoned the teaching of the law and the consiquences of it people received cheap grace fools gold!

The real grace Gold tried in the fire and a white robe is free for the taking it's just the maintenance and upkeep costs you your life here!