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PRE-VIEW
At this moment God commands all men to repent and believe, that today is the day of salvation and that you are to flee from the wrath to come, to flee from the Law of Moses that condemns you into the city of refuge who is Jesus Christ our lord, run to Him. Repentance is simply giving up, to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works, to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation. So you say nothing in my hands I bring, simply to the cross I cling.
THE SUBSTANCE
What gave me a sleepless night was that in a hundred years to come, a great possible majority of men will be in hell, even those who says Jesus is Lord; for even the devil himself acknowledges Christ as Lord. Most people proudly and boldly claims to be Christians because they go to church, look mostly like all the other members of their churches and once upon a time in their lives, they asked Jesus Christ to come into their lives. There is this fallacy in the teachings of most churches, that the moment you ask Christ to come into your life, He will surely come. You will not find that in any place in scripture. What you need to know is that, the fact that you have prayed doesn’t mean the prayer has been answered. Christ will answer your prayer of salvation provided you have believed by faith in Him alone. This faith is preceded by repentance, a turn away from sin, a hatred for the things that God hates and love for the things that God loves, the desire to grow in holiness and not to be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ.
In Matthew 19:16-22 “…Christ told the rich man, who came to Him to ask what he should do to get eternal life that, ‘go and sell all your possessions, give to the poor and then come and follow Me’” This is the powerful salvation message I am talking about. What Christ was doing was to prepare the man’s heart for salvation because this man was sinning because of his wealth by not giving to the poor. So to prepare the man for salvation, the man had to leave the greediness of this world and to love righteousness of God. In modern times, this is not the salvation message churches preach, they only ask you to repeat some mathematical formula to be saved. You were not saved because you repeated that formula after someone. You were saved because you repented of your sins and you believed by faith in Christ alone, and to turn away from sin through continual repentance. And not only did you believed and repented in the past, you continue to do that even until now because, a proper translation of what Christ said is this, “The kingdom of God is come, the time is fulfilled, now spend the rest of your lives repenting of your sins and believing in me”. Why do you think many people profess to have had an encounter with God and yet their lives are not permanently changed?
God is Holy and so He hates sin, but you will agree with me, that there are many who are practicing sexual immorality, abortion, masturbation and yet, they go to church satisfied and convinced that they are saved in worshiping God. These are not Christians. Matthew 7:21-22”…not all who says to me Lord will enter My Kingdom but only those who does the will of My Father in Heaven and many will say unto Me that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and performed many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you, away from me you evildoers!’” Some people wrongly interpret this part of scripture to refer to those who are not Christians. Let me ask you, how can an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist or a Judaist, say to God in His face that He performed miracles in His name? Even those false Christian prophets will not have the power to tell God that, because they themselves know their source of power was from the devil. The only person, who can have the power to say that to God, is the one who is fully convinced that he or she was a Christian whiles on earth. Such a person stands before God being sure that he is on his way to heaven, only to be told by God that he is going to hell. These are those people who claim to be Christians but they live their lives as though there is no Law to obey.
The bible never teaches that a person can be a genuine Christian and continue to live his life in continuous carnality and wickedness and sin all the days of his life, but a genuine Christian has been given a new nature, a new spirit and is caused, moved or forced by God to follow His commands and to be careful to obey His laws. Ezekiel 36:25-27”…the sovereign Lord says, I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean, give you a new heart, a heart of flesh and remove from you your heart of stone, and I will put my spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws”. If you think you can play around in sin, love the world and be heroes of worldly people, if you want to be like them and act like them and practice the same things they practice, oh my friend listen to the bible. There is a great chance you do not know God and you do not belong to Him, because when you prayed to be saved by asking Jesus Christ to come into your life, He didn’t come! If He really came, you wouldn’t behave as such because He lives in you and you in Him, you died with Him to sin and more than a conqueror to sin. You are perishing, because you know not that what you do is wrong because you do not know the word of God.
They say that the most important thing in the life of every Christian is to know Jesus Christ. That is not true. The most important thing is for Him to know you, for on the day of judgement He will say to the lost man…”Depart from me those of you who claimed to be my disciples, who confessed me as Lord and yet, you lived your lives as though I never gave you a law to obey”. One of the greatest evidences of being saved is that Christ will not let you talk as your flesh might want you to. He will not let you dress as the sensual world may want you to. Christ will not allow you to act like the world, smell like the world, speak like the world or allow you to listen to the things of the world. Christ will make a change in your life and you will see your life in a process of being changed and your style of life will be one of walking in the path of God’s truth and righteousness, and when you step off those paths in disobedience as we all do, God comes for you and puts you back on the path after repentance of sin always preceded by a readiness to turn away from that sin from an honest and sincere heart. Most Christians compare themselves with others who call themselves Christians, who in turn compare themselves to others who also call themselves Christians. Do you know what the bible invites Christians to do? To test yourself, examine yourself in line with the Scripture. STOP comparing yourself to others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to Jesus Christ. 1 John 2:6 “…whoever claims to be in Him must walk as Jesus did” I am afraid of those who tell men they are saved. I can tell a man how to be saved but can’t tell a man he is saved, God tells man he is saved. What we have forgotten to believe is that salvation is a supernatural work of God. And the new spirit God gives us bears witness to His Son that we are now children of God and our new hearts convicts us to ask ourselves whether God is working in our lives, whether we are growing in holiness and whether we have truly been born again, as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling each and every day as Apostle Paul instruct us.
THE POST-VIEW
A lost man hears the word of God preached but yet lays no foundation for it. I believe the word of God is true and there are many people who believe in themselves to be saved but they are not. My dear will your conviction hold true on that day? Are you truly saved? How does your life stand in the face of the blazing fire which is the holiness of God? If there is anything for you to be afraid of in this world, it must be God and no other but Him alone. Rev 14:7 “He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come” Also the bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:13 “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole [duty] of man” God is ready to change your life and save you from His wrath only if you make your life available to Him by accepting Jesus Christ His son as your Lord and personal savior ever ready to obey His laws and commands and leave every area and aspect of your life in His care. Desiring to grow in holiness day in and out and walking in His path of righteousness as a sign of showing how much you love Him too. A desire to read your bible every day, being very prayerful, fasting at odd times and loving every human being on the surface of the earth, including your enemies, attending churches where salvation messages are always focused and lastly, trying to share all you read and study from the bible, and the understanding you get with the world. Avoid bad and evil company and reach out to those in need. Do unto others what you want others to do unto you, be serious with God and trust me, your life will never be the same. Not even for a second… AMEN!
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NICHOLAS KWASI APPIAH
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