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!