Very Narrow Path To Life
The LORD is good. I am continually being attacked and tested and enticed to cease from what I am doing in seeking God. I am following God and the enemy does not like that so he has sent many to come tear me down. But I am standing firm on what God has put into my heart. I pray for wisdom every day and ask for confirmation that I am on the right track. I have stopped short of asking for a sign from heaven, but I have been asking for multiple confirmations — just like Gideon asked of God as recorded in Judges.
Judges 6:36-40 Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken, 37behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.” 38And it was so. When he arose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece, he drained the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water. 39Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.” 40God did so that night; for it was dry only on the fleece, and dew was on all the ground.
God answered Gideon each time and strengthened His servant and gave him courage to step and trust God. God is faithful and He has answered me just like He answered Gideon’s request for confirmation. I keep on asking as the path God is leading me on is so against the world and my entire life as I have lived it up to this point. Fiery darts of doubt and unbelief are flying and we know where they originated! I praise God that every time I have begun to shrink back from His Word, He was brought me strength and confirmation when I have sought it.
I want to give you one example of how God brought me confirmation. He brings it every day now via what His written Word says, but the other day when I was being hit with doubt, God gave me a supernatural sign of His Covenant and Truth of His Word.
Dew Drops On The Highway
I made a long drive recently from where I live in Florida to Northern Alabama. I had listened to Milton Green preach the Word and had then been meditating on the sorry state of church, the pending judgment of God and the many laments I have written about on this blog. I begin to have doubts that I was somehow deceived despite all the wisdom God has poured out to me. My flesh just did not want to believe that so few professing Christians will be saved, I wanted to believe I was wrong and the majority view that profess to know God were right. Where had I gone astray I asked? Where is the error in my understanding? Was I practicing the very things I have been warning about? So this is my state of mind, I am in anguish, I am crying as a grown man, driving down the highway.
So here I am driving along I-20 in Alabama, it is a crystal clear bright and sunny day. There had been no rain for days. Suddenly I noticed water coming off the back of a few cars and trucks. No very many at all, relatively few, maybe 2 out of 100 vehicles that I passed or that I observed going the other way. It was visible water, drops of water, and not a stream. I saw it with my own eyes as I passed some going the same direction I was headed. Yet where was this water, these dew drops coming from? The roads were not wet whatsoever and there was no rain anywhere in the Southeast. The water was coming off the roofs of these vehicles like how light rain or morning dew might if you accelerated to 70 MPH.
Then God spoke to my heart and He said: See, you are not alone. There are many others but they are relative few given all that call themselves by My Name. I began to cry and weep first for the confirmation to my soul that God was working in me and through me. But then the horror hit me and the extent of deception and apostasy took hold. I was in real anguish. I thought about all the people I know, even my family, that consider themselves Christians yet do not truly know the Living God. I would regain my composure but every few minutes when I saw some dew drops coming off another vehicle, I would cry once more. The vehicles with water remained very few in number and 30 minutes later I was at my destination and exited the Highway. One to thing to note, there seems to be many saved truck drivers as proportionately speaking, there was a lot more of them with dew drops then there was cars. Maybe all that time alone gives them the opportunity to commune with God and not be weighed down by the dissipations of the world.
God clearly spoke to me and showed me something that I saw in the natural that had no basis in science. Maybe someone can tell me scientifically why 1-2% of the cars and trucks driving an interstate highway on a perfectly sunny day would be spilling dew drops and the other 98% would not. I am happy to listen but the Word God spoke to me is the trump card. My carnal mind was not making this up.
God showed me that the drivers of the cars with the dew drops and water represented the chosen few of God. The ones with the Spirit of God had the dew drops and the water was flowing from them into the world. Needless to say, I was absolutely stunned by these events and the spiritual confirmation from God. My life will never be the same. I pray I never forget.
God is not dead my friends. He is a living God and He speaks to His people and puts His Spirit inside them. Jesus said His sheep hear His voice and follow Him. A few days before this incident I had written a blog where I quoted this passage from Isaiah.
Isaiah 35:8 A highway will be there, a roadway, And it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, But it will be for him who walks that way, And fools will not wander on it.
I never recalled this passage until I found it and used it my blog post called Liars Figure and Figures Lie. Yet God used the natural highway I was driving that day to reinforce what He said about His spiritual highway through the Prophet Isaiah. In Matthew Chapter 7, Jesus said that many will come to Him on that day that call Him LORD LORD, and He will tell them depart from me, I never knew you, your workers of unrighteousness. Now I have much deeper appreciation and understanding of what God meant when He said those words. In some small way, God is now using me to get people off the broad road and onto the narrow road aka the Highway to Holiness.
As God awakens us in the end, our natural instincts will be to run to the world and seek confirmation. Don’t take the calling of God and run to 3-4 of your friends and ask them to vote on what you heard from God. This is one of the lessons of Jonah. Jonah did not heed the call of God when first sent forth. Jonah was surrounded by water (lies of Satan) as his prayer tells us and he was afraid and not fully trusting in God. It was unbelief that led him to flee from the call of God. The devil told him similar lies to what we hear today. “You are not worthy” or “‘God could not possibly use someone like you” or “God doesn’t speak to His people anymore”.
It took going through the distress God brought to Jonah and the men that were with him on that fateful ship for Jonah to begin to believe. When Jonah finally laid down his own life by telling the ship’s crew to cast him overboard into the sea, then God stepped in and protected Jonah and gave him the confidence he needed to go preach repentance to Nineveh. I believe a lot of people are being awakened from their sleep by God and are being told to go preach repentance to the cities.
God was faithful to Jonah despite his initial rebellion and while I am no Jonah, God has given me multiple chances to answer the call. Praise God, I am finally awake. I get it. Bless you Jesus.
If God is calling you and sending you forth, answer Him. Seek confirmation, He will provide if your motives in asking our pure meaning to serve Him only.
May God Bless You Richly!
Hear the Word of the Lord.
It is late on God’s clock. The end is getting close. Everyone has been asleep just as Jesus said would be the case.
Matthew 25:1-6 Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2“Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. 3“For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps. 5“Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they ALL got drowsy and began to sleep. 6“But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
It is midnight my friends meaning it is very dark spiritually. Never has this world been a more immoral place and the thoughts of its inhabitants focused on anything but the real Jesus and true living God. The foolish and the wise virgins will soon all be awake. I have been chosen to be awakened even though my prior deeds have merited nothing from God. Through His grace I was lost and I am now saved. Through His grace I was blind but I now see. What I see horrifies me and outside a few brothers I cannot speak to anyone about it outside of this forum.
The parable of the wine skins tells us what has happened. New wine has been poured into old wine skins and destruction has resulted. Still others like the old wine better, the wine that said we could live in sin and pursue the lusts of the flesh. People are drinking lots of that wine, as it is served by our enemy any time we want it, and very many of God’s people are drunk, stumbling in darkness or fast asleep.
Luke 5:37-39 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. 38“But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. ”And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”
I am going to take a different tack on this post. It is going to more like a Bible Study. I am going to show some passages of Scripture that paint a picture of the end times and then tell you what God has shown me these passages are really speaking. I believe your eyes may be opened if you read this WORD with a pure heart; seeking to really know Him not just know about Him. I can’t paste the whole Bible or Books in here so please read each passage in full context, perhaps the whole chapter to ensure you get full understanding. Pete’s commentary is in black, the WORD as written is in Blue.
Isaiah 56:10-12
All you beasts of the field, come to devour, (God sends powers of darkness to devour the false church that is built by men’s works of the flesh, these are dead works. That is what roaring lions do, they walk around looking for God’s people to devour. 1 Peter 5)
All you beasts in the forest. (the powers of darkness are everywhere)
10 His watchmen are blind, (the pastors, the elders, they do not know the true God)
They are all ignorant; (they are devoid of understanding, they have no fear of God)
They are all dumb dogs, (dogs are outside of covenant, they are walking in sin and as was just said lack understanding)
They cannot bark; (they cannot warn or admonish by sounding a trumpet, they are worthless watchman as Ezekiel says the blood of the lost will be on their hands)
Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. (They are sleeping and love to sleep)
11 Yes, they are greedy dogs (they use godliness as a means to gain of some sort)
Which never have enough. (a spirit of greed consumes them, this is the error of Baalman, the prophet who took God’s calling and tried to use it for gain)
And they are shepherds
Who cannot understand; (without pure hearts and purging of sin they are purposefully made blind as God has told us)
They all look to their own way, (my denomination, my creed, we have the real Jesus over here)
Every one for his own gain, (come join our organization, build my numbers)
From his own territory. (Let me build my church, my ministry, my reputation, my name)
12 “ Come,” one says, “I will bring wine, (They say, I have the Word of God but their word is really wine which is doctrines of demons or false teaching. This is not speaking about alcohol my friends)
And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink; (The drunk get even drunker as they build on the false foundations handed down to them. Drunkenness makes them stumble in the daylight. False doctrine are the stumbling blocks that destroy the people of God.)
Tomorrow will be as today, (peace and safety, a false security is continually promoted and there is no fear of God and zero awareness of what is happening and where we are on God’s clock. Jesus comes as a thief)
And much more abundant.” (Let’s build more numbers, get more people drunk, there is safety in numbers they say, but that is not what God says).
As Jesus told us, these prophetic books are written in parables so those with impure hearts will not see the TRUTH in the WORD. I hope you see most of the truth in these prophecies about the end, the Day of the Lord. Seek God and the scales will come off your eyes. I am sure I do not have it exactly right, as I am just a man; but this is the truth God is showing me and He has confirmed it many times. I know I am not perfect but I have been given this wisdom from God and I am very burdened with this truth. I have a duty to proclaim it which I have been resisting to speak out on; as it will bring rejection and persecution upon me. But God keeps on pushing the buttons and will not relent. Anyway, let’s continue and look at the Parable of the Vineyard in Isaiah.
Isaiah 5:11-14
Woe to those who rise early in the morning,
That they may follow intoxicating drink; (deceived workers think they serve God but they serve Satan in disguise, and cling to false doctrine which is strong drink)
Who continue until night, till wine inflames them! (they drink until they are so spiritually dark, ie night that they are totally overcome by the deception of the powers of darkness. This is the God sent delusion my friends)
12 The harp and the strings,
The tambourine and flute, (their worship is focused mainly on music and entertaining the world, the mixture of tares they have invited in to sup with Holy people)
And wine are in their feasts; (the message is a perverted gospel, wine that defiles)
But they do not regard the work of the LORD, (they do works of the flesh to make themselves pleasing to God, they try to build the church, a tower into heaven by their own hands and believe God will come down and cooperate with them)
Nor consider the operation of His hands. (they are not led by the Spirit of God)
13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, (many people are in bondage to sin and to the powers of darkness. They are not free, they are slaves to Satan, demons and sin. Yes professing Christians can and do have demons, many of them. Ignore the devil and he will not flee!)
Because they have no knowledge; (without understanding the judgment of God and having a fear of God, there is no knowledge. This is a scheme of Satan to cut out godly fear out of worship. God said His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge)
Their honorable men are famished, (the leaders, the pastors do not have the true WORD in them, they are hungry but are not fed and cannot feed others what they do not have)
And their multitude dried up with thirst. (there is no Holy Spirit, there is no rain in the church)
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself (Hell has gotten a lot bigger)
And opened its mouth beyond measure; (Jesus will tell MANY, depart from me, I never knew you, even those that call Him LORD)
Moving into some examples from Jeremiah, we see this next passage, where God’s judgment against His rebellious people is to make them drunk with the wine of lies that come from Satan and God’s army. God does not wish this judgment to come upon those that call upon His Name, but the Righteous Judgment of God comes to all that have forsaken Him, the ONE TRUE and LIVING GOD. Those that receive judgment call upon His Name with an impure heart, they really do not believe and Jesus is not really their Lord.
Jeremiah 13:12-13 Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”‘ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’ 13then say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land–the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem–with drunkenness!
Again God’s righteous judgment. It pleases Him to get rebels against His Word and His Law drunk with false teaching. He wants all to repent and no man to perish but the judgment that comes from rebellion is the discipline God brings upon us to turn us back to Him. But time for repentance grows very short. Here is another example, showing it is God’s will to bring the judgment and have the drunkards drink even more.
Jeremiah 25:28-29 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “You shall surely drink! For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city (church) which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the LORD of hosts.’
This is how God works. The more we rebel, the more He brings judgment upon us. He wants our whole hearts, He wants us to repent. Unless and until we are broken in Spirit and know we cannot attain rest and peace or life by the works of our flesh, we will not turn fully to God. Judgement is good as without it, even fewer would come to know God. Remember the Semon on the Mount “blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God”.
Jeremiah 51:6-9
Flee from the midst of Babylon, (Rev 18 says the same thing. We are told to get out of man made church and man made religion now, come out and be separate, touch not what is unclean or hang out with tares and sinners and call that church. It is not, it is the world)
And each of you save his life! (do not follow men, you need to choose the way of God to live)
Do not be destroyed in her punishment, (if we hang out with ”her”, the false church, we will be destroyed. Save your life and come out, don’t worry about what men think, only concern yourself with what God thinks)
For this is the LORD’S time of vengeance; (Judgment has come, it begins with Christians)
He is going to render recompense to her. (we will be repaid for our evil deeds unless confessed and repented of to the Lord of Hosts)
7Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, (God has been holding the false church, He sent the false church upon His people, purposefully allowing them to be deceived as we saw a little earlier in this post. God is in control and God sends the deception and the strong delusion to punish those that take pleasure in their sin)
Intoxicating all the earth (everyone got drunk with false teaching and doctrines of demons)
The nations have drunk of her wine; (the truth hs been perverted by this spiritual poison)
Therefore the nations are going mad. (lawlessness abounds, even love has been perverted)
8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; (made made religion has fallen and it is just now beginning to be revealed so people will see it)
Wail over her! (I am, now Lamentations takes on a whole new meaning to me)
Bring balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed. (the efforts of men are useless, who gets saved is totally up to God)
9We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; (Babylon will not be rescued, it will be destroyed completely and totally by the powers of darkness)
Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, (get out of this playing church stuff, showing outward signs of godliness yet denying the power of Christ to make you into a totally new and Born Again person. Get out so you may not be held back or further poisoned.)
For her judgment has reached to heaven (God hates sin and our churches never purged sin out, instead they invited sin inside and hence the judgment of God comes quickly)
Jeremiah 51:34-40
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, (Neb. is a type for Satan,. this is the fallen church speaking once they realized what has happened to them)
He has set me down like an empty vessel; (drained them of the True Spirit)
He has swallowed me like a monster, (the powers of darkness devour their prey)
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; (lusts of the flesh and world)
He has washed me away. (with the flood of lies and deceit that Satan brings upon us)
35“May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” (violence means the word of God has been perverted and it caused harm, Jeremiah asks the false church be paid back)
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” (those under control of powers of darkness, which the Chaldeans are a type of)
Jerusalem will say. 36Therefore thus says the LORD,
”Behold, I am going to plead your case (God will hear and answer His Holy Remnant)
And exact full vengeance for you; (The Lord will repay all, let Him do it)
And I will dry up her sea (powers of darkness called the sea, roaring sea throughout)
And make her fountain dry. (the flood of lies will cease, the Holy remnant will be spared)
37“Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, (Those with false peace and no fear of God are going to be ruined, they lack understanding and are bowing to demons)
An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants. They will roar together like young lions, (The demons will roar once they have conquered fully the false church just like lions do when they conquer their prey).
They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39“When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet (we either eat the true bread of life or we ourselves will be devoured. There are many references to this feast of demons)
And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant (the false joy and peace that comes from following the wrong Jesus, it is scary my friends what has happened)
And may sleep a perpetual sleep (God’s people and all the Shepherds are fast asleep and very few will awaken to the truth. The doom of most has already been decreed)
And not wake up,” declares the LORD. (God says only few shall be saved, even amongst those that call Him LORD).
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, (The broad road leads to this place)
Like rams together with male goats.
Joel 1:1-9
Hear this, O elders, (leaders, teachers, pastors)
And listen, all inhabitants of the land (all of us that claim to be standing on God’s land)
Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days? (no, this judgment of God will astonish, amaze, stun, perplex those that believe that have been blinded)
3Tell your sons about it,
And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation. (there’s not much time left, so we must really get the truth out now, time grows very short)
4What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; (the powers of darkness)
And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; (they keep coming)
And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten. (they are relentless)
5Awake, drunkards, and weep; (Christians, wake up you that are drunk with the cotton candy gospel, weep and mourn over your sin, repent, as James told us let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom)
And wail, all you wine drinkers, (same to you that are still drinking the kool aide of Satan)
On account of the sweet wine (the truth, the good wine has not been drunk) That is cut off from your mouth. (God blinds and cuts off those that do not Love him and as evidenced by obeying His commandments)
6For a nation has invaded my land, (the powers of darkness have taken over God’s House)
Mighty and without number; (this is the 200M army in Ezekiel, it is not China or Russia)
Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, (The devil and powers of darkness are referred to as a lions throughout the prophets and Scriptures. They are here to devour Christians, the brethren who in ignorance follow the wrong spirit)
And it has the fangs of a lioness. (it destroys, it sheds blood, it consumes the deceived)
7It has made my vine a waste (The powers of darkness poison the good wine, they water down the gospel with logic such as “did God really say”, the same lies told to Eve)
And my fig tree splinters. (the sons of Israel are splintered into many denominations yet there is only ONE CHURCH, and JESUS not any man is building it. The powers of darkness brought judgment upon the church).
It has stripped them bare and cast them away; (they are naked like Adam after sin and the church of Laodica in Rev 3 — because of SIN)
Their branches have become white. (removed from the true vine, the branches wither and die and are eventually cut off by the powers of darkness and burned. See John 15)
8Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth (the mourning and sadness over this truth once it is revealed to many more people is going to be unbelievable. I have no words to describe it, the burden is immense. What can we do. God says to be still. Let Him do what needs to be done).
Proverbs 31
It is not for kings to drink wine, (our leaders are to remain pure with the WORD)
Or for rulers to desire strong drink, (but they too lusts after the flesh and gain and consequently pervert the Word and water down the gospel)
5For they will drink and forget what is decreed, (they will forget the law and the ordinances of God and be deceived into thinking holiness and salvation is a cake walk)
And pervert the rights of all the afflicted. (the oppressed and sick children of God sitting in these false churches will be innocently killed spiritually) Woe to them that do this!
6Give strong drink to him who is perishing, (God says, further deceive those who have hardened their hearts and are perishing) And wine to him whose life is bitter. (harbor unforgiveness and you get even more bitterness poured out upon you by God)
7Let him drink and forget his poverty (God says get em drunk with lies and let them wallow in their sin)
And remember his trouble no more. (delude them with a false peace and a false security)
Proverbs 4:14-17
Do not enter the path of the wicked
And do not proceed in the way of evil men.
15Avoid it, do not pass by it;
Turn away from it and pass on.
16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness (eating at the table of demons in what man calls church, but is really the world, full of tares, flesh and evil, all in the name of Jesus)
And drink the wine of violence. (again violence is perversion of God’s word, and the cotton candy gospel that cuts all the judgment, fear and warning out of the Bible is violence to the truth)
Isaiah 3:8-10
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, (both got drunk with doctrines of demons)
Because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, (evil is called good and good is called evil. What I speak is considered evil as it goes against”church” tradition)
To rebel against His glorious presence. (Babylon is really a house of rebels that do not love God but instead bow to Satan and his image. The abomination stands today in the temple, which is the people of God, not some building going up in Israel)
9The expression of their faces bears witness against them,
And they display their sin like Sodom; (out in the open, it’s okay, everyone sins, you are born that way and you cannot stop sinning)
They do not even conceal it
Woe to them!
For they have brought evil on themselves. (they turned the grace of God into a license to sin and brought judgment on themselves. Don’t blame Satan, blame yourself)
Isaiah 8:13-15
It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy.
And He shall be your fear, (churches teach us to fear men and everything but God)
And He shall be your dread. (work out your salvation with fear and trembling)
14“Then He shall become a sanctuary; (fear of God is required to find rest and peace)
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Jesus becomes the stumbling stone for those operating in the flesh, serving God with works and really bowing to Satan. They are harlots and practice their faith as double minded adulteress).
15“Many will stumble over them,
Then they will fall and be broken;
They will even be snared and caught.” (captured and enslaved in bondage to the powers of darkness)
Jeremiah 6:21-23
Therefore, thus says the LORD,
”Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people (God brings the judgment)
And they will stumble against them, (nobody or nothing can stop it)
Fathers and sons together;
Neighbor and friend will perish.” (a lot of nice religious folks are going to perish) 22Thus says the LORD,
”Behold, a people is coming from the north land, (that would be the powers of darkness)
And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth
Hosea 4:4-6
Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
5So you will stumble by day, (drunk so much, you stumble in spiritual darkness even during the day. What will happen when the days get even darker as final judgment approaches?).
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your mother. (the church built by men and their fleshly works)
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (without fear of God, there is no knowledge)
Because you have rejected knowledge, (followed after men and doctrines of demons)
I also will reject you from being My priest (true sons will be His priests, others will be rejected)
Since you have forgotten the law of your God, (Jesus did not come to abolish the law not even one jot or tittle. You come out from under the law ONLY if you walk in the spirit and die to the flesh. Men has foolishly taught the law does not stand and they have forgotten it)
I also will forget your children. (God brings upon His people, only the Holy Stump will be saved)
I hope any serious student of truth will be edified by this post and that the Scriptures would open up more to your understanding. Pray for wisdom from God our only true teacher. Most Christians will not have even read down to the end and based on some comments I get, many will be offended. The truth never did please flesh or tickle ears. It did not 2000 years ago anymore than it does today.
If you are in one of the very few churches that teach the truth about the WORD, Praise God and I know you are getting the truth out there. If you are in the Babylon Church, which is nearly all, you are told to come of of her. Fellowship with your true brothers never required going to a large building and it doesn’t today. I pray God will guide you with all wisdom into doing what is right when He leads you to action.
May God Bless You Richly
Colossians 3:1-7 Therefore IF you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things
Are you dead? Paul wanted his readers to be dead. I also pray that my fellow believers have died or are in the process of dying, striving to accomplish it 100%. Of course I do not mean death in a literal sense. Dying to our SELF is in fact God’s will. This is what God wants and in fact demands from anyone that wishes to enter His Kingdom and spend eternity with Him. But you rarely hear this taught as flesh and people wanting a quick sugar high for God do not like to hear about the price they must pay and the suffering they must endure to prove ourselves worthy to God. I hope this post will correct this misunderstanding and overt lie of Satan. Some folks are now awakening and are realizing that what they read in their Bible is not what they hear taught in church. There is a reason for that that was very specifically foretold in the Scriptures. Indeed the lies of Satan, a flood of them actually; has totally consumed modern religion and the spirit behind the words being spoken in “churches” is not from the Holy Spirit. It is the voice of the dragon that looks like a lamb.
Revelation 13:11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. Most Christians are listening to deceivers who do not know they are deceivers and are promoting another Jesus and another gospel we were warned about constantly in the Scriptures.
Here is what the real Jesus said, the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE. Hear the Words of the LORD.
Luke 17:33 Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it
Matthew 10:39 He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it
Luke 9:24 If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me
John 12:25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life
Mark 8:36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
God wants your flesh to be dead. Carrying a cross is painful and it leads to death. Covenant is a two way agreement. Christ died for us and He demands that we die for Him. If we do not die to self, we are breaking covenant and the wrath of God will abide upon us, both now and in the end. I am working on exposing the misappropriation of God’s Covenant as this teaching is at the heart of the deception put onto the Babylon churches of today. We are to follow Jesus in death so we can be raised in the Spirit of God, JUST LIKE HE DID. We are to walk as Jesus walked. This can be shown in many places but I like this illustration from John.
John 12:24-26 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and DIES, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
If we call ourselves Christians, we best be following Jesus and He meant follow Him to DEATH. We must die to the flesh, we must crucify the old man, mortify the deeds of the flesh; otherwise our faith is all in vain and we tell God “I love my flesh more than I love you.” Anything we love more than God is an idol, even our “church” and most certainly any lusts of the flesh or of the world. If we are unwilling to lay these things down to God, we tell Jesus He is not Lord, that these others things that we desire in the wickedness of our hearts, we love more than God. This is what surrender and submission to God is all about. It is not saying some words that you believe. If we believe in our hearts, we will die. If we don’t die yet claim we know Christ we are committing idolatry which contradicts Jesus’ foremost commandment.
Love the Lord with ALL your heart
Do not be deceived my friends. Awaken to what has happened and where we are on God’s clock.
To be Born Again, we must FIRST DIE. That was the illustration about the kernel of wheat. We all know what Jesus said about being Born Again. We must become a new creation in Christ and put on the divine nature to walk in holiness. Any other doctrines, lie to you and tell you can serve two masters and walk double minded, married to SELF and to Jesus. That is adultery my friends and God calls you a harlot and adulteress as my other posts have shown of late. This is where virtually all professing Christians are right now. God has given me the eyes to see it and of course I first saw it in myself. What a wretch I was trying to serve God walking in the flesh.
John 3:3-4 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”
This is the mystery of being Born Again. It is not about saying some words with your mouth. Those that teach the cotton candy gospel are doing violence to the Word of God and my Bible says they will be destroyed FIRST in the judgment. Woe unto them says the Lord. You will be made new IF IF IF, the old you passes away.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, IF anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Dying to self is very hard it is indeed not a cakewalk. The more you live for the flesh and its pleasures, the more you will have to suffer. I am still going through this furnace as we speak but I am very encouraged because I know the Lord is with me and I hold dear His promises. We are purified by the Spirit of God as we suffer. The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter for good reason. When we suffer by dying to self, the Comforter is there to comfort and see us through the fiery furnace. That is how we buy the gold Jesus described in Revelation 3. All the gold of the world and flesh is fools gold. The story of Shadrach in Daniel tells us that Jesus will be there in the furnance with us and if we trust HIM alone not a single hair on our head will be singed.
Daniel 3: 24-25 Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, O king.” 25 He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.” I hope you will begin to see the consistent truth in God’s Word throughout the Bible. The OT is not just a bunch of nice stories.
Jesus will never leave us or forsake us, IF we trust in HIM alone. Praise God Forevermore.
1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. Jesus suffered and died in the wilderness where He was tempted by Satan and was without sin. We are supposed to do the same.
Paul also described this many places that many recall the verse yet the profound implications of truth never took root in their heart. I pray it takes root.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Paul was dead. He was led by the Spirit of God and for that reason he was a son of God.
Grace Enables Us To DIE
Paul said he was crucified and to do so, he suffered immensely in his flesh. Praise God that He sends His Spirit into us when we first believe. It is because of that grace, which is the power of God working IN US, that we can overcome and put to death the deeds of the flesh. So do not misread my message, God does it but we must choose to obey Him out of Love. We have no chance of doing this on our own power.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. We say NO to sin by dying to our flesh.
Milton Green a man called by God and given immense wisdom to teach the Word once gave a story about this issue of dying to self that will help you remember to say NO. Milton gave the illustration of imagining a dead corpse laying in a casket. If a thief came up to this dead man and held a gun to his head and said “Give me all your money or I will blow your brains out”, would the man move or respond? No, this man would not respond as he is DEAD. In the same way, we are to put to death the flesh and its lusts so that when the real thief Satan comes calling he will get no response from us. All the attempts to entice us into sin via the fiery darts will go unheeded we will not respond to them. Once he gets no response, we show him we are dead (resisting the devil), the devil will flee. This is how we overcome sin, the world and deceitfulness of riches.
Romans 6:11-12 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
What Paul speaks of is not mere mental ascent. If you believe and truly Love God you will seek to obey Him 100% 24×7x365. Anything else and you are playing church and religion. If we stumble God provides provision for us, but if in our heart we love that sin and we practice that sin, we deceive ourselves.
I am not going to rehash all the warnings about not dying to self, it is not an option, but I will show you one. The death Paul writes of here is spiritual death, the second death that will come to all that do not mortify the their flesh.
Romans 8:13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live
If we die as we must, we therefore are raised in newness of life by the Spirit of God. By dying to SELF we are released from the Law. When we are led by the Spirit and our flesh is dead, there is no law. This was the wisdom in Paul’s often overlooked and twisted Romans 7.
Romans 7:2-5 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. 3So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man. If you want to be married to Jesus, He is the Bridegroom and we are the Bride, your first husband, YOUR FLESH, must die. Otherwise you are an adulteress, and you remain under the law and its judgments. Maybe the truth Paul taught in Galatians can now be seen.
Galatians 5:16-18 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you WILL NOT gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
I hope this post has been helpful for those of you seeking truth. This truth may have come against some idols and strongholds in your heart. I ask you to go examine yourself to see if you pass the test of loving God with your whole heart. Love God the way He said to love Him and not the way man-made religion tells you.
John 14:15 If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth.
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