You MUST be born again

Some say that when we are born, we are born under the sin of Adam and Eve, that we will be punished for the sin of Adam and Eve; that's not true. It's true that we inherit a sinful nature, from Adam and Eve as a result of being in and from them who originally sinned, but it's not true that we are punished for their sin! We will be punished, each and every one of us, for our own sin; and, of all sin, the worse is rejecting the grace of God and failing to be born again. The worse sin of all is failing to allow God to save us, to enter into us and transform us from the inside out, to come into us and make us a new creation and cause us to bear the twelve fruits of His divine nature through our lives.

When you look at Revelation 3:14-22, do you really understand what you are seeing in that passage, do you really grasp the reality of what is happening there? It's a generation of people who go to church, and who pray, and who manifest all kinds of gifts and good works and yet have never truly been born again! Christ is not in them, He is standing on the outside wanting to come into them and change them, but they do not see that because they are not able to hear His still small voice! Christ is not in them, His life transforming presence of Holy Spirit is on the outside wanting to enter into them and change them, but they are much too satisfied with their fig leaf religions to allow Him to come in and rule their lives; much too satisfied with their own works, too allow Him to come into them and by His power cause them to do His works, and when everything is said and done the only works that matter are those which He has done by us -- which we have done by Him in us. But if He is not in you, and if what you are doing is not of Him, then what you have is just a big giant pile of worthless trash fit for not one thing except to be burnt in the fires of hell.

So how many of you will stand before this Just and Holy God ashamed on the day of judgement, before His throne and plead and say: Didn't we do a whole lot of things in Your name and were we not yours, and He will reply that you never were -- because you never were truly born again! You will stand there, and He will command you to be removed from His presence, because you never really did what He said. No, you did according to what others told you to (what others said He said), and you did according to what you wanted to (what you thought He should have said), but you never truly did according to His teaching (what He actually said). You didn't pray to Him to help you to see it; but then when you did, and He did, you refused to receive it because it wasn't according to your flawed theology: you utterly and miserably failed to actually do what He said.

He is standing at the door with truth and salvation, wanting to come in and seal you to Himself, and you won't let Him in because you're convinced you're already saved and you're not! That's the message of Revelation 3:14-22, that's what He is saying in and by Matthew 7:13-27, and that's what Paul Washer is trying to help you to see. It's a matter of live and death, eternal life or death, so take the time to test yourself and see if His Spirit is in you; take the time to look and see if His Spirit in truly in you, and to make your calling and election sure now, before it's everlastingly too late -- because it's now or never! Tomorrow for you, my friend, may be too late! Do it this day, to day, don't put it off another day; see if He is in you, and if not then let Him in, because if you don't you will perish with the wicked! Amen.

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[teddyhcraig]

For although it's dark right now, as the madman said, and lights need to be lit in the middle of the day by virtue of that great darkness; it's not a time to be asleep, but awake and ready to go, to wake up and be ready for that shout spoken of by Paul...

And at midnight there was a cry ... Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go you out to meet Him.

It's now or never

Come to Me My bride

Be sealed to Me

Harvest time is nigh

Tomorrow will be too late

It's now or never

My love won't wait

[jack4086]

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