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As we await for the blessed day of our Father in the heaven, in which He will send unto us His Son, our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus with a loud command, with the voice of archangel and with the trumpet call of God, to raise up first those who are dead in Christ Jesus and after that we who still are alive are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and be with him forever; we witness the spiritual turmoil and the degraded moral state of we the humans, whom the Lord created in His own image and His likeness!!!
Today we the humans are trying to justify our deeds by following man-made rituals, traditions, cultures, norms, values, persona’s, religions and sects!! Today innocent people are been murdered by mass-terrorism by some of those wicked people who claim to do all this bloody acts in the name of their so-called religion. These are the fanatics that claim to gain Heaven by killing the innocent people, what sort of God it may be that they are serving!!! In many eastern religions people offer sacrifices of their own son’s and daughters so that their “So-Called Gods” can bless them!! Many offer their bodies for sexual pleasures to the altars of their Gods. Many people perform false miracles and claim to heal many and they call themselves the “Recarnated Avatar’s” of “So-Called God”!! Many walk through miles of miles to visit a shrine in expectancy that there sins will be forgiven and the Lord of their family will bless them!! Many perceive that just by taking a Holy-Dip in the river there sins will be forgiven and they will attain Salvation. Today human race is trying to justify itself by doing good deeds. We want to gain and achieve our own righteousness by physical efforts and life leaded by the theory of Karma which states that keep on doing good deeds, but do not expect a fruit.
Sad to say and hard to believe but today many Christians and especially many of “Born-Again” Christians tries to justify themselves in the presence of God and in the world through their deeds, rather then believing in the Love and Saving Grace of the Lord God Almighty that has been revealed unto us through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son Christ Jesus. Many Born-Again Christians has misunderstood the “Gift of Salvation” and have misinterpreted the “Grace of God”. Still today believers think and perceive that they will attain heaven because of their righteous deeds and their own good works done in their physical bodies. Many are living to please the world and people rather then pleasing God by not accepting His revealed will and His word for their lives. Many question the plans of God that He has for themselves, their families, son’s, daughters, friends and relatives. Many believers continually pray to the Lord not our will but thy will be done and when Lord reveals His will, they find hard to abide in it, and as the Word of God says, they are just the listeners of the word of God and not the doers and thereby they deceive themselves by leaving a life of false humility, humbleness, reverence, compassion, Love and mercy that are been professed -by the “So-Called Holy –Spirit Baptized Christians” but in their practical and personal life they are empty and hollow. Then there are so-called Believers who prays everyday and claim to have daily fellowship with God but they haven’t heard the still voice of the Lord, they have never calmed themselves before God to listen what God says to them rather they keep on babbling in the presence of God, they pray with their natural mind and not by the Spirit of God, they always complain, murmur, and keep on asking God, rather then seeking His face and His Will.
Problem today what many Spirit-Filled Christians are facing is that they want to justify themselves by following the Law and Commandments as the people of Israel did and so they loose the newness of life that they have received by the Grace and Mercy of our heavenly Father. God’s Grace saved them and they want to end Salvation in their human strength, knowledge, wisdom, power and their own physical and worldly efforts. In 2 Samuel 6 we find an incidence in which Uzzah died in an instance as the anger of the Lord burned against him, because he reached out and took hold of the ark of God. Uzzah in his natural sense was doing good thing but from the perspective of God it was not righteous act for the Uzzah to handle the ark of God but it was the priests that had to handle the ark. So often we look things from our perspective and fail to please God. We judge according to what we see and perceive, rather then seeking the face of God and getting His REHMA word and by faith walk in it and thereby reveal the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God is revealed in what He thinks and perceive and not as what the world believes and act. It is not about our beliefs, plans, purposes, willingness, likes and dislikes, it is all about God; For we are not the creator of the world it is God who has created us, and everything sustains for His Glory alone!
Bible clearly reveals in Hebrews 1:10, “ It was only right that God, who creates and preserves all things, should make Jesus perfect through suffering, in order to bring many Sons to share his glory. For Jesus is the one who leads them to salvation” God in His Agape Love send forth His begotten Son Christ Jesus in this world to save us- the sinners. It was right in the sight of God that His son must suffer for us; people questioned Jesus about His power and authority as a Son of God, He was despised and rejected, oppressed and afflicted, stricken, assigned a grave with the wicked, but all this happen so that the Righteousness of God can be revealed and established; for it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, so that after suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge Lord’s righteous servant will justify many and bear our iniquities. But the Pharisees and scribes and Jewish people and rest of the world did not understand the Lord’s righteousness He has revealed while Jesus Christ was been crucified on the Cross of Calvary; rather they laughed, scoffed, hated, despised over the Lord of Glory, who has become the perfect Passover Lamb for us all- through whom we all are justified by our faith in the presence of the Lord our Father in the heaven.
In Romans 10 Apostle Paul writes about Israelites who are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based upon true knowledge. They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God’s way of putting people right. For Christ has brought Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God. Today many Born-Again Christians are actually behaving like the Israelites, they are not submitting themselves to the will and plan of God rather they judge and act according to their human nature and the system of the world that has been made by mortal, selfish, self-centred, self-ambitious hypocrite humans; they choose to serve and fulfill human obligations nullifying and side-lining what the Lord Almighty wants from them to do. Bible says that God does not desire sacrifice and offering from us, neither He is pleased with our burnt offerings and sin offerings; what He requires from us is humble heart and a contrite spirit. Bible says in Isa. 60: 6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.” Even the most of our righteous acts are like filthy rags for what we seem as good and righteous, the same way Lord does not look towards it.
If we are Born-Again then Bible clearly teaches that we no more are slaves of sin; but we all are righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. Bible clearly says that not all that say Lord!! Lord!! Will enter in the heaven, but only those who do the will of the Heavenly Father. Now unless you and I don’t have personal relationship with God how can we hear His voice and obey His commands and do what He says, because righteousness of God is revealed when we do the will of God and obey His commands. Our heavenly Father does not judge according to our outward appearance but He looks into our hearts, if our heart is dedicated to Christ Jesus, if we are born-again then we will live a life leaded by the Holy Spirit which helps us to abide in the word of God and live life as Christ Jesus, for ultimately we have to be transformed in the image and likeness of the Lord. We as Born-Again Christians have to stop judging others, condemning others, for the Bible says that Do not judge and God shall not judge you, Do not condemn others and you will not be condemn, for He will apply to you the same rules as you apply to others. How easily do we forget the grace of God that He showed for us and forgave our sins and although we were stained in the sin, He accepted us because of His Love, yet when it comes to accept others we often fail to do so, we start judging other people and knowingly or un-knowingly we put to test the righteousness of God that He has revealed through His son Christ Jesus, who shed His precious innocent blood on the cross of Calvary for the forgiveness of the sins of entire human race.
Jesus has said, “I am the way, the truth, the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.” The ticket to heaven and road to eternal life is Christ Jesus and there is no religion in the world or knowledge in the world or any good deed of ours that will save us from going to Hell; For God has revealed His Grace for the salvation of all mankind. That grace instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this world, as we wait for the blessed day we hope for, when the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ will appear.
Bible says that, “ His choice is based on his grace, not on what they have done. For if God’s choice were based on what people do, then his grace would not be real grace.” But now God’s way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even thought the Law of Moses and the prophets gave witness to it. God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all for everyone has sinned and is far away from God’s saving presence. But by the free gift of God’s grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus who set them free. God offered him, so that by his death he should become the means by which people’s sins are forgiven through their faith in Him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked peoples sins, in present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus. (Romans 3)
Beloved ones it is simple," Seek ye first the Kingdom and righteousness of God and all other things will be added to you by the Father in the heaven, for He knows what are your needs." All the Heroes of Faith as per Hebrews 11 are called "Heroes of Faith" beacuse they did what the Lord told them to do, they did not rationalized His will and His calling, they just recieved the word of God in Faith and when they did as the Lord said to them, it was credit to their accounts as acts of righteousness.
Beloved ones of God, let us examine ourselves carefully in the light of the word of God and run the race of faith with patience, endurance and diligence, for the night is almost over and the day of our salvation is near, so let us be awake and do what the Lord tells us to do; for the Lord says that “Those that do the what my Father in heaven wants them to do will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
May Lord bless each one of us with His Grace, Knowledge and Wisdom to live a life that is upright, holy and acceptable in God’s sight- in Christ Jesus-Amen!!
Eternally Christ’s,
Joshua-Ashish Macwan
Living Stones Prayer Ministry, India
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