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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Branch or Tendril?
John
15:5-10 (AMP) I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me
and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut
off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.6 If a person does not
dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers;
such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are
burned.7 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words
remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you
will, and it shall be done for you. 8 When you bear (produce) much
fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove
yourselves to be true followers of Mine.9 I have loved you, [just] as
the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [[a]continue in His love with
Me].10 If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My
instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I
have obeyed My Father’s commandments and live on in His love.
Jeremiah 5:10 "Go up within [Jerusalem’s] walls and destroy [her vines],
but do not make a full and complete end. Trim away the TENDRILS [of her
vines], for they are not the Lord’s."
Tendril/ˈtendrəl/ "A
slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a
spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any
suitable...Something resembling a plant tendril, esp. a slender curl or
ringlet of hair."
Are you a branch bearing fruit or are you a
tendril? There are many tendrils in our churches and within the Body of
Christ. There are many branches that are not producing any fruit
either. Use this time of Grace to make a choice to continue dwelling in
HIM moving forward. Did Jesus ever say it would be easy to follow HIM?
The reward or blessing for having His Word remain in us and continue to
live in our hearts is that in whatever we ask, it shall be done for us.
Let us continue to examine our hearts asking the Holy Spirit to search
our hearts so that we are not deceived thinking we are branches bearing
fruit when in fact some may be TENDRILS! Lord, have mercy on those who
are blind. May you put your salve on our eyes so we may perceive. May
you put your salve on our ears so we may understand. May our hearts be
willing to be fully circumcised!
May you all persevere and endure in all that are required for HIS Glory.
Fire of God
Monday, May 28, 2012
The test is to the end!
John 13:27(AMP) Then after [he had taken] the bit of food, Satan
entered into and took possession of [Judas]. Jesus said to him, What you
are going to do, do [a]more swiftly than you seem to intend and [b]make
quick work of it.
Satan had entered into Judas. Do not think demons cannot enter into God's people. Jesus was casting demons out from among His people. Judas Iscariot was a Jew. He represented one of God's people. Demons can enter into Christians. Today, many Christians are in bondage to the demons.
And do not think you cannot lose your salvation. Judas was one of the twelve original apostles who was given authority to cast demons out. Judas had fellowship with the Lord. He participated and experienced what the other apostles had participated and experienced.
The test is to the end!
2 Timothy 2:12(AMP)If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny and disown and reject Him, He will also deny and disown and reject us.
Titus 1:16 (AMP) They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but DENY AND DISOWN AND RENOUNCE HIM BY WHAT THEY DO; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.
Matthew 24:13 (AMP) But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Fire of God!
Satan had entered into Judas. Do not think demons cannot enter into God's people. Jesus was casting demons out from among His people. Judas Iscariot was a Jew. He represented one of God's people. Demons can enter into Christians. Today, many Christians are in bondage to the demons.
And do not think you cannot lose your salvation. Judas was one of the twelve original apostles who was given authority to cast demons out. Judas had fellowship with the Lord. He participated and experienced what the other apostles had participated and experienced.
The test is to the end!
2 Timothy 2:12(AMP)If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny and disown and reject Him, He will also deny and disown and reject us.
Titus 1:16 (AMP) They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but DENY AND DISOWN AND RENOUNCE HIM BY WHAT THEY DO; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.
Matthew 24:13 (AMP) But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Fire of God!
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Go Possess the Land!
Many believe the churches are deceived and they say we must leave
them. In fact, some say they are receiving a Word from God that they are
to leave the churches. Sadly, such people who claim to receive such
messages are telling everyone else as well to leave their churches. If such a
person is so confident in their message, why do they need to tell
everyone else to join them.
The world is deceived but are we to leave the world? I do not see Christians trying to build space ships to leave this world. I do not see massive Christians moving into the mountains to live in caves in attempt to separate themselves from the world. Most Christians do not tell other Christians to leave the lust of the world but they would tell them to leave their churches?
Where do we think the WAR IS AT? The War is in our churches!! Those born of God will Overcome! We do not quit. We do not leave our brethren behind. We do not run away. We come to TAKE BACK AND REPOSSESS WHAT IS GOD'S! You leave only when the Holy Spirit tells you to leave and you go where He tells you to go but most Christians if not all of them do NOT have the authority to tell others to leave their churches.
When Jesus walked in the flesh, He did not tell His people to leave the synagogues. In fact, He went into the synagogues to preach. He was mocked. He was ridiculed. He was persecuted but that did not stop HIM. He went even unto death. The apostles after the resurrection went into the synagogues of other regions, areas, and countries to preach Christ. They were persecuted, beat, and stoned. Did they get resentful and angry? Did they start telling the people not to go to the synagogues anymore? Did they get angry at the Pharisees because they were rejected by them? They were led by the Holy Spirit and they spoke what the Holy Spirit told them to speak. Everything they had done was allowed within the scope of their authority. The apostles, however, did not dare to usurp God's authority in his synagogues.
When Jesus had healed the man with leprosy, what was the Lord's instructions to him?
Matthew 8:1-4 When Jesus came down from the mountain, great throngs followed Him.2 And behold, a leper came up to Him and, prostrating himself, worshiped Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You are able to [a]cleanse me by curing me.3 And He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed [b]by being cured. And instantly his leprosy was cured and cleansed.4 And Jesus said to him, See that you tell nothing about this to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, for a testimony [to your healing] and as an evidence to the people.
Jesus commanded the man to go to the priest and to present the offering Moses commanded as a testimony and evidence to the people!! The WAR is for the churches!! The War is in the churches!! The War is not in the baseball, football, or soccer stadium holding a "John 3:16" sign. I am not saying holding such a sign is wrong but all the people in the stadiums are showing that they are putting the world first as they rather be in a stadium than at church worshiping God on Sundays.They rather give glory to men chasing after each other for a pig skin ball rather than their creator.
If one has a higher revelation than their pastor and/or if the pastor is in error, then it is the person's job to intercede on behalf of the pastor and their church. The person with the higher revelation cannot rebel or come against the pastor who may be in error. Such a person cannot just leave their church out of arrogance or anger. He/she cannot tell others to join them or tell them to leave either. This is NOT God's way. God's way is through patience, love, prayer, and sacrifice. We are to show Truth through our actions of kindness, love, sacrifice, and prayer. If we are to leave, it must be at the lead and direction of the Holy Spirit.
It is NOT God's voice or His Ways in which He would tell people to start bouncing around churches until the perfect one is found. It is NOT God's voice or His ways to tell someone to tell others to leave their churches. God's ways is for us to persevere and endure in prayer and love. God's way is for us to sacrifice ourselves as Jesus did so others may see His love and Truth.
In our journey with the Lord, my wife and I were told by HIM to leave a particular church. There was another time in which God told us that it was time to stop going for we were about to be in another season and area. But we did NOT tell the congregation in those churches to leave. We do NOT have that authority to be telling people to leave their churches. Each person must be lead by the Holy Spirit. We are not to be copying others. A word for them may not be a word for us.
Which ever church you may be attending, your job is to intercede for your pastor, leaders, and the congregation. If we have a higher revelation and we know there is error, it is our job to intercede in prayer! How many are actually praying besides complaining and complaining of the shortcomings?
Many Christians act like the people of the world. The world wants it all for free or a discount. The world has no patience and is selfish and demanding. Instead of filling a need to serve, we rather be served and complaining at the same time. We complain but yet we do not utilize the greatest weapons we have at our disposal which are prayer, the Word, the Blood of Jesus, and His FIRE! We rather watch four hours of sports or soaps defiling our minds rather than serve even one hour for our church. We look and seek recreational activities rather than praying for the souls of our families, friends, and brethren.
We are proving to be quitters and complainers rather than conquerors and overcomers. If we see our churches in need, we should be diligently praying on their behalf. We need to be diligently praying for our pastors, deacons, elders, teachers, prophets, apostles, and evangelist. We need to PRAY SO THAT WE MAY REPOSSESS THE LAND THAT THE ENEMY HAS STOLEN THROUGH OUR SIN. Where is our hunger and attitude to serve the LORD even unto death. Where is His people who say they Love HIM but are on vacation every weekend or wasting hours watching nonsense TV?
Who will stand with the Lord to lose their life if necessary to do the Father's Will? Where is His people who will start a prayer rally for their own land (churches)? Where are those who are like Aaron and Hur who held up Moses arms to defeat their enemy? Where are His people who are spiritually holding up the arms of your pastors or leaders through prayer so the enemy does not gain more ground? Take back what the locust have eaten! We have been given the keys to the Kingdom. What we bind on earth, we bind in the heavens. What we loose, we loose in the heavens.
Matthew 16:19 (AMP) I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth [a]must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth [b]must be what is already loosed in heaven.
There will be NO EXCUSE! He takes NO PLEASURE with those who shrinks back! His people do not give the land back to the enemy. His people do not run from the enemy! His people do not quit! HIS PEOPLE COME TO TAKE THE LAND AND POSSESS IT UNTIL THE LORD'S RETURN!!!
Fire of God!
Steve Yong Kim
May 26, 2012
The world is deceived but are we to leave the world? I do not see Christians trying to build space ships to leave this world. I do not see massive Christians moving into the mountains to live in caves in attempt to separate themselves from the world. Most Christians do not tell other Christians to leave the lust of the world but they would tell them to leave their churches?
Where do we think the WAR IS AT? The War is in our churches!! Those born of God will Overcome! We do not quit. We do not leave our brethren behind. We do not run away. We come to TAKE BACK AND REPOSSESS WHAT IS GOD'S! You leave only when the Holy Spirit tells you to leave and you go where He tells you to go but most Christians if not all of them do NOT have the authority to tell others to leave their churches.
When Jesus walked in the flesh, He did not tell His people to leave the synagogues. In fact, He went into the synagogues to preach. He was mocked. He was ridiculed. He was persecuted but that did not stop HIM. He went even unto death. The apostles after the resurrection went into the synagogues of other regions, areas, and countries to preach Christ. They were persecuted, beat, and stoned. Did they get resentful and angry? Did they start telling the people not to go to the synagogues anymore? Did they get angry at the Pharisees because they were rejected by them? They were led by the Holy Spirit and they spoke what the Holy Spirit told them to speak. Everything they had done was allowed within the scope of their authority. The apostles, however, did not dare to usurp God's authority in his synagogues.
When Jesus had healed the man with leprosy, what was the Lord's instructions to him?
Matthew 8:1-4 When Jesus came down from the mountain, great throngs followed Him.2 And behold, a leper came up to Him and, prostrating himself, worshiped Him, saying, Lord, if You are willing, You are able to [a]cleanse me by curing me.3 And He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, I am willing; be cleansed [b]by being cured. And instantly his leprosy was cured and cleansed.4 And Jesus said to him, See that you tell nothing about this to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, for a testimony [to your healing] and as an evidence to the people.
Jesus commanded the man to go to the priest and to present the offering Moses commanded as a testimony and evidence to the people!! The WAR is for the churches!! The War is in the churches!! The War is not in the baseball, football, or soccer stadium holding a "John 3:16" sign. I am not saying holding such a sign is wrong but all the people in the stadiums are showing that they are putting the world first as they rather be in a stadium than at church worshiping God on Sundays.They rather give glory to men chasing after each other for a pig skin ball rather than their creator.
If one has a higher revelation than their pastor and/or if the pastor is in error, then it is the person's job to intercede on behalf of the pastor and their church. The person with the higher revelation cannot rebel or come against the pastor who may be in error. Such a person cannot just leave their church out of arrogance or anger. He/she cannot tell others to join them or tell them to leave either. This is NOT God's way. God's way is through patience, love, prayer, and sacrifice. We are to show Truth through our actions of kindness, love, sacrifice, and prayer. If we are to leave, it must be at the lead and direction of the Holy Spirit.
It is NOT God's voice or His Ways in which He would tell people to start bouncing around churches until the perfect one is found. It is NOT God's voice or His ways to tell someone to tell others to leave their churches. God's ways is for us to persevere and endure in prayer and love. God's way is for us to sacrifice ourselves as Jesus did so others may see His love and Truth.
In our journey with the Lord, my wife and I were told by HIM to leave a particular church. There was another time in which God told us that it was time to stop going for we were about to be in another season and area. But we did NOT tell the congregation in those churches to leave. We do NOT have that authority to be telling people to leave their churches. Each person must be lead by the Holy Spirit. We are not to be copying others. A word for them may not be a word for us.
Which ever church you may be attending, your job is to intercede for your pastor, leaders, and the congregation. If we have a higher revelation and we know there is error, it is our job to intercede in prayer! How many are actually praying besides complaining and complaining of the shortcomings?
Many Christians act like the people of the world. The world wants it all for free or a discount. The world has no patience and is selfish and demanding. Instead of filling a need to serve, we rather be served and complaining at the same time. We complain but yet we do not utilize the greatest weapons we have at our disposal which are prayer, the Word, the Blood of Jesus, and His FIRE! We rather watch four hours of sports or soaps defiling our minds rather than serve even one hour for our church. We look and seek recreational activities rather than praying for the souls of our families, friends, and brethren.
We are proving to be quitters and complainers rather than conquerors and overcomers. If we see our churches in need, we should be diligently praying on their behalf. We need to be diligently praying for our pastors, deacons, elders, teachers, prophets, apostles, and evangelist. We need to PRAY SO THAT WE MAY REPOSSESS THE LAND THAT THE ENEMY HAS STOLEN THROUGH OUR SIN. Where is our hunger and attitude to serve the LORD even unto death. Where is His people who say they Love HIM but are on vacation every weekend or wasting hours watching nonsense TV?
Who will stand with the Lord to lose their life if necessary to do the Father's Will? Where is His people who will start a prayer rally for their own land (churches)? Where are those who are like Aaron and Hur who held up Moses arms to defeat their enemy? Where are His people who are spiritually holding up the arms of your pastors or leaders through prayer so the enemy does not gain more ground? Take back what the locust have eaten! We have been given the keys to the Kingdom. What we bind on earth, we bind in the heavens. What we loose, we loose in the heavens.
Matthew 16:19 (AMP) I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth [a]must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth [b]must be what is already loosed in heaven.
There will be NO EXCUSE! He takes NO PLEASURE with those who shrinks back! His people do not give the land back to the enemy. His people do not run from the enemy! His people do not quit! HIS PEOPLE COME TO TAKE THE LAND AND POSSESS IT UNTIL THE LORD'S RETURN!!!
Fire of God!
Steve Yong Kim
May 26, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Made in His image
Genesis 1:26-27 (AMP) God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.
"Man" was created in God's own image and likeness. We were created for His Glory.
In the Old Testament, God gave specific instructions on building the temple. The high priest could only enter on the Day of Atonement. He had to go through a rigorous preparation before entering. If the priest had not followed the precise instructions, it would mean possible death.
No one would dare paint words such as "I love God! or God is Great!" on the walls of His Temple. Someone who could have done such actions could have argued that he did it for the right reasons and what was in his heart but nevertheless it was forbidden. If we love God, we would OBEY His instructions. We would not need to paint it on walls of His Temple. If they had spray paint in those days, how would it looked if someone had sprayed painted the Temple even if it were words that honored God. How would it had looked? It would have looked bad and the person who had sprayed painted the walls would had probably gotten stoned.
Where is the Temple of God now? Today, the Temple of God is in us. God resides in the hearts of men.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (AMP)Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, 20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a [a]preciousness and paid for, [b]made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.
Is God's creation of man deficient or lacking that many of His own people must put permanent marks or abnormal piercing just as the world does to glorify their own bodies? Why are we adding permanent markings and such onto ourselves in which HE made in His image and likeness?
For those who have made this mistake, you have grace to repent. But Grace is NOT there so we can go ahead and spray paint His Temple even if they are words that honor HIM. Our bodies are not our own anymore. We were bought at the most highest price of all of creation and heavens.
1 Corinthians 3:17 (AMP) If anyone [a]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[b]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [c]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[d]the believing church and its individual believers] are.
The word "anyone' in verse 3 includes the person looking in the mirror. God requires holiness from His people. God desires us to show how much we Love HIM by following His instructions and WORD.
1 John 3:24 (AMP) All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and] abide in Him, and He in them. [[a]They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ.] And by this we know and understand and have the proof that He [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Whom He has given us.as given us.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 24, 2012
"Man" was created in God's own image and likeness. We were created for His Glory.
In the Old Testament, God gave specific instructions on building the temple. The high priest could only enter on the Day of Atonement. He had to go through a rigorous preparation before entering. If the priest had not followed the precise instructions, it would mean possible death.
No one would dare paint words such as "I love God! or God is Great!" on the walls of His Temple. Someone who could have done such actions could have argued that he did it for the right reasons and what was in his heart but nevertheless it was forbidden. If we love God, we would OBEY His instructions. We would not need to paint it on walls of His Temple. If they had spray paint in those days, how would it looked if someone had sprayed painted the Temple even if it were words that honored God. How would it had looked? It would have looked bad and the person who had sprayed painted the walls would had probably gotten stoned.
Where is the Temple of God now? Today, the Temple of God is in us. God resides in the hearts of men.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (AMP)Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, 20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a [a]preciousness and paid for, [b]made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.
Is God's creation of man deficient or lacking that many of His own people must put permanent marks or abnormal piercing just as the world does to glorify their own bodies? Why are we adding permanent markings and such onto ourselves in which HE made in His image and likeness?
For those who have made this mistake, you have grace to repent. But Grace is NOT there so we can go ahead and spray paint His Temple even if they are words that honor HIM. Our bodies are not our own anymore. We were bought at the most highest price of all of creation and heavens.
1 Corinthians 3:17 (AMP) If anyone [a]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[b]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [c]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[d]the believing church and its individual believers] are.
The word "anyone' in verse 3 includes the person looking in the mirror. God requires holiness from His people. God desires us to show how much we Love HIM by following His instructions and WORD.
1 John 3:24 (AMP) All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and] abide in Him, and He in them. [[a]They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ.] And by this we know and understand and have the proof that He [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Whom He has given us.as given us.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 24, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Crowned with Oil by George Warnock
"Creation continues to cry out for "the manifestation of the sons of
God" (Rom. 8:19). And be assured, the lesser brethren of Christ are not
going to be manifested in any other way than the way their Elder Brother
was manifested. Jesus did not suddenly drop down from Heaven wrapped in
glory and manifested in the earth as the Son of God with power. Nor
will His younger brothers. Jesus was born into
our humanity, and God was manifested through Him in the weakness of His
humanity. He grew up under discipline, and learned obedience through
the things that He suffered. He carried His cross daily--not just the
one time when He carried it to Golgotha. All through His life He walked
under the shadow of the Cross. His lesser brethren will certainly be
"manifested" in the same way, for Jesus said "I am the Way". They too
must know rejection, suffering, learn obedience as He did, and become
disciples who count all things but loss, "for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus their Lord". Only as they "suffer with Him"
will they be manifested as His sons, and "reign with Him" (Rom. 8:17).
God's first and Special Son was "manifested" in weakness, in poverty, in rejection, in suffering--long before He was manifested as the Son of God in resurrection glory. So will it be with His younger brethren: they will not be manifested as the sons of God with power and glory until they have been manifested in the earth as followers of the Lamb, and showing forth the love and mercy and virtues of their Master in the midst of weakness and mortality. How foolish to think that they are above their Master, and that one day they will just drop down from Heaven to earth as glorified "sons" to deliver creation from her bondage!" - George Warnock
http://www.georgewarnock.com/crowned-main.html
God's first and Special Son was "manifested" in weakness, in poverty, in rejection, in suffering--long before He was manifested as the Son of God in resurrection glory. So will it be with His younger brethren: they will not be manifested as the sons of God with power and glory until they have been manifested in the earth as followers of the Lamb, and showing forth the love and mercy and virtues of their Master in the midst of weakness and mortality. How foolish to think that they are above their Master, and that one day they will just drop down from Heaven to earth as glorified "sons" to deliver creation from her bondage!" - George Warnock
http://www.georgewarnock.com/crowned-main.html
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Loving people vs Loving God
People say they love each other. They love their parents. They love their spouses. They love their children. They love their neighbors. But most of the majority only love them when times are good. And when times are good, it is in that moment when they do really believe they love them. However when bad times arise, many will prove it was all lip service and just an emotional love. Emotions are not a bad thing but emotions do change. We may not know why bad circumstances may happen all the time but regardless it is used to test one's genuine love for one another.
TRUE LOVE is not moved by good or bad circumstances. TRUE LOVE does not change. True Love is God. True Love is consistent. True Love obeys. True love does not seek its own self.
Loving God is not like how the world loves its own. The world loves its own only when circumstances are good and going their way. The world has already proved its love as it sells their own children to slavery or prostitution when people starve enough and will sell their children for a piece of bread/rice. Loving God is not an emotional thing. Loving God is an action defined by HIM. It is a consistent act of obedience in faith. To love God is to keep His Word.
In the bible, God defined what is to love HIM. HE did not say that it was an emotional thing. He did not say that it was defined by how loud you can say you love HIM. He did not say that it was defined by the big banners you make to say you love HIM. He said your love is proved to HIM through your obedience to HIS Word and commands. IF we truly love HIM in the biblical sense, it is to OBEY.
Through your life, you will be tested on a daily basis. Many obstacles, circumstances, and people will be presented to you during your life. We are tested in our lack and abundance. We are tested when times are good and when times are bad. Each test presents choices and those choices present more choices. The bottom line is whether we will continue to choose to follow HIS Word and commandments or not. Are we willing to die if necessary holding on to HIS WORD?
Many may think and say so. But in America, the divorce rate for Christians is now considered equal or greater than the secular unbelievers. If we cannot even prove our love to one another in this physical realm, then how are we so sure we are loving God? Isn't the test in this life? Perhaps, many of us are deluded thinking we are loving God when in fact, we are proving in life through our actions that it is actually contrary. This is not to condemn anyone who has a previous divorce or has committed any other mistakes but today many Christians are making it too easy to give up without a fight. We are no longer willing to forgive in the biblical sense.
Many of God's people say they have forgiven people but they do not want to see their faces anymore of those who have hurt them. This is NOT forgiveness. This is delusional. True forgiveness restores with love. If there is no restoration, how has there been forgiveness? True Love is ALWAYS willing and eagerly seeking to forgive with FULL restoration! True Love forgives to bless.
John 14:21 (AMP) The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]
1 John 5:2 By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey His commands (orders, charges)—[when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching].3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?
A few years ago, God imposed a question on me. He basically said, "If you cannot overcome, you better ask yourself if you are even born of God."
Grace does not give us a license to sin and go against HIS Word. Grace does not give us the right to quit. Grace does not give us the right to give up and accept defeat. Grace gives us time to get things right with God. Grace heals us. Grace gives us the help to Overcome. Grace does allow us to learn from our mistakes conditional we are willing to obey.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity).19 By this we shall come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we are of the Truth, and can reassure (quiet, conciliate, and pacify) our hearts in His presence.20 Whenever our hearts in [[n]tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God’s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].21 And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, 22 And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we watchfully obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [[q]habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.
May we all pray for a heart that is fully obedient to the LORD. May we pray that our hearts are HIS. May our love be HIS Love. May our hands be His hands. May our feet be His feet. May our words be HIS Words. May our thoughts be HIS thoughts. May HE INCREASE AND WE DECREASE. We must no longer exist and HE must be fully manifested in us! Therefore, when people see you, they should no longer see the old you but Jesus Crucified!! We must be new creations. We must be REBORN in HIM!!!
Fire of God!!
Steve Yong Kim
May 19, 2012
TRUE LOVE is not moved by good or bad circumstances. TRUE LOVE does not change. True Love is God. True Love is consistent. True Love obeys. True love does not seek its own self.
Loving God is not like how the world loves its own. The world loves its own only when circumstances are good and going their way. The world has already proved its love as it sells their own children to slavery or prostitution when people starve enough and will sell their children for a piece of bread/rice. Loving God is not an emotional thing. Loving God is an action defined by HIM. It is a consistent act of obedience in faith. To love God is to keep His Word.
In the bible, God defined what is to love HIM. HE did not say that it was an emotional thing. He did not say that it was defined by how loud you can say you love HIM. He did not say that it was defined by the big banners you make to say you love HIM. He said your love is proved to HIM through your obedience to HIS Word and commands. IF we truly love HIM in the biblical sense, it is to OBEY.
Through your life, you will be tested on a daily basis. Many obstacles, circumstances, and people will be presented to you during your life. We are tested in our lack and abundance. We are tested when times are good and when times are bad. Each test presents choices and those choices present more choices. The bottom line is whether we will continue to choose to follow HIS Word and commandments or not. Are we willing to die if necessary holding on to HIS WORD?
Many may think and say so. But in America, the divorce rate for Christians is now considered equal or greater than the secular unbelievers. If we cannot even prove our love to one another in this physical realm, then how are we so sure we are loving God? Isn't the test in this life? Perhaps, many of us are deluded thinking we are loving God when in fact, we are proving in life through our actions that it is actually contrary. This is not to condemn anyone who has a previous divorce or has committed any other mistakes but today many Christians are making it too easy to give up without a fight. We are no longer willing to forgive in the biblical sense.
John 14:21 (AMP) The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]
1 John 5:2 By this we come to know (recognize and understand) that we love the children of God: when we love God and obey His commands (orders, charges)—[when we keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and His teaching].3 For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.5 Who is it that is victorious over [that conquers] the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that fact]?
A few years ago, God imposed a question on me. He basically said, "If you cannot overcome, you better ask yourself if you are even born of God."
Grace does not give us a license to sin and go against HIS Word. Grace does not give us the right to quit. Grace does not give us the right to give up and accept defeat. Grace gives us time to get things right with God. Grace heals us. Grace gives us the help to Overcome. Grace does allow us to learn from our mistakes conditional we are willing to obey.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity).19 By this we shall come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we are of the Truth, and can reassure (quiet, conciliate, and pacify) our hearts in His presence.20 Whenever our hearts in [[n]tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in God’s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].21 And, beloved, if our consciences (our hearts) do not accuse us [if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us], we have confidence (complete assurance and boldness) before God, 22 And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we watchfully obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [[q]habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.
May we all pray for a heart that is fully obedient to the LORD. May we pray that our hearts are HIS. May our love be HIS Love. May our hands be His hands. May our feet be His feet. May our words be HIS Words. May our thoughts be HIS thoughts. May HE INCREASE AND WE DECREASE. We must no longer exist and HE must be fully manifested in us! Therefore, when people see you, they should no longer see the old you but Jesus Crucified!! We must be new creations. We must be REBORN in HIM!!!
Fire of God!!
Steve Yong Kim
May 19, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Live long and prosper
Many people in this world use a lot of gimmicks to sustain longevity. However, for us Christians, it is a very simple matter. All the promises of God are conditional including longevity. Let us look at the commandment and commands of God to be blessed with prolonged days.
Deuteronomy 5:16 (AMP) Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 4:40 Therefore you shall keep His statutes and His commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you forever.
Proverbs 10:27 (Amplified Bible) The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord prolongs one's days, but the years of the wicked shall be made short.
Proverbs 28:16 A ruler who lacks understanding is [like a wicked one] a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness and unjust gain shall prolong his days.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not [reverently] fear and worship God.
In order to be blessed and sustain longevity in our spirit, health, and lives, we are to keep His commandments/commands. The reverent and worshipful fear the Lord prolongs our days. Following and walking in God's commandments not only brings prolonged days but it will go well with our children. In other words, our children will be BLESSED. When we hate evil and seek justice, it shall prolong our days.
The opposite is that the wicked will live short lives. This word "wicked" in much of the bible is not referring to the unbelievers but many of His people who are rebellious throughout the generations.
In the fifth commandment, the act of honoring our father and mother is not the source of prolonging our days per se but it is the obedience to God that prolongs our lives. It is following God's commandments that prolongs our days.
Many of God's people die early. Why? When they are in sin or rebellion, God will discipline/judge His people. However, many of God's people then and even today have no idea how He chastise and discipline those He love. And as a result, many resist His judgments instead of humbling themselves and repenting.
Proverbs 15:10 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes God's way; and he who hates reproof will die [physically, morally, and spiritually].
Yes, we may see wicked people who are not believers prosper and live long lives but they are not whom God loves as His sons and daughters.
Hebrews 12:6-8 For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.7 You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline? 8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
We are chastised and disciplined to be sharers of His own holiness.
Hebrews 12:10 For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.
Therefore, understand and know His Name is Jealous! Know and understand He is a God of Righteousness. HIS JUDGEMENTS ARE IN THE MIST OF OUR LIVES SO THAT WE MAY LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Isaiah 26:9 My soul yearns for You [O Lord] in the night, yes, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly; for [only] when Your judgments are in the earth will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God).
When God's people face difficult circumstances in their lives, many run to the altar for healing, breakthrough, restoration, and quick solutions. Many are not receiving their prayers answered because we are not realizing the root of our condition. Everyone likes to blame the devil but if the devil has any power over us it is because we would have given him that power and authority over to him through our sin or disobedience.
Many who are in difficult circumstances like to compare themselves to Job. Yes, Job was considered a righteous person but so are we! We are the righteousness in Christ but it does not mean we cannot sin and fall away! And if we sin or live in sin, we will reap what we sow. What happened to Job? Job worried too much. He worried about losing everything and what he keep fearing in his mind came to pass.
Job 3:25 (AMP) For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me.
When things do not go our way, let us not get angry with the Lord. It is too easy to get angry with the Lord. But who are we to question HIM. We get angry because we think we are innocent. How can the clay question the potter? Our minds are finite and do not have the ability to know how Big He really is. As the author of Hebrews says, "submit and endure correction as sons and daughters." Let us ask Him to search our hearts so He may reveal what does not belong there. Let us hunger for His Righteousness!
Job 40:6-8 (AMP) Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, saying. 7 Gird up your loins now like a man; I will demand of you, and you answer Me. 8 Will you also annul (set aside and render void) My judgment? Will you condemn Me [your God], that you may [appear] righteous and justified?
Jeremiah 10:24 (AMP) O Lord, correct, instruct, and chastise me, but with judgment and in just measure—not in Your anger, lest You diminish me and bring me to nothing.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 17, 2012
Deuteronomy 5:16 (AMP) Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 4:40 Therefore you shall keep His statutes and His commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you forever.
Proverbs 10:27 (Amplified Bible) The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord prolongs one's days, but the years of the wicked shall be made short.
Proverbs 28:16 A ruler who lacks understanding is [like a wicked one] a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness and unjust gain shall prolong his days.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not [reverently] fear and worship God.
In order to be blessed and sustain longevity in our spirit, health, and lives, we are to keep His commandments/commands. The reverent and worshipful fear the Lord prolongs our days. Following and walking in God's commandments not only brings prolonged days but it will go well with our children. In other words, our children will be BLESSED. When we hate evil and seek justice, it shall prolong our days.
The opposite is that the wicked will live short lives. This word "wicked" in much of the bible is not referring to the unbelievers but many of His people who are rebellious throughout the generations.
In the fifth commandment, the act of honoring our father and mother is not the source of prolonging our days per se but it is the obedience to God that prolongs our lives. It is following God's commandments that prolongs our days.
Many of God's people die early. Why? When they are in sin or rebellion, God will discipline/judge His people. However, many of God's people then and even today have no idea how He chastise and discipline those He love. And as a result, many resist His judgments instead of humbling themselves and repenting.
Proverbs 15:10 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes God's way; and he who hates reproof will die [physically, morally, and spiritually].
Yes, we may see wicked people who are not believers prosper and live long lives but they are not whom God loves as His sons and daughters.
Hebrews 12:6-8 For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.7 You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline? 8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
We are chastised and disciplined to be sharers of His own holiness.
Hebrews 12:10 For [our earthly fathers] disciplined us for only a short period of time and chastised us as seemed proper and good to them; but He disciplines us for our certain good, that we may become sharers in His own holiness.
Therefore, understand and know His Name is Jealous! Know and understand He is a God of Righteousness. HIS JUDGEMENTS ARE IN THE MIST OF OUR LIVES SO THAT WE MAY LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Isaiah 26:9 My soul yearns for You [O Lord] in the night, yes, my spirit within me seeks You earnestly; for [only] when Your judgments are in the earth will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God).
When God's people face difficult circumstances in their lives, many run to the altar for healing, breakthrough, restoration, and quick solutions. Many are not receiving their prayers answered because we are not realizing the root of our condition. Everyone likes to blame the devil but if the devil has any power over us it is because we would have given him that power and authority over to him through our sin or disobedience.
Many who are in difficult circumstances like to compare themselves to Job. Yes, Job was considered a righteous person but so are we! We are the righteousness in Christ but it does not mean we cannot sin and fall away! And if we sin or live in sin, we will reap what we sow. What happened to Job? Job worried too much. He worried about losing everything and what he keep fearing in his mind came to pass.
Job 3:25 (AMP) For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, and that of which I am afraid befalls me.
When things do not go our way, let us not get angry with the Lord. It is too easy to get angry with the Lord. But who are we to question HIM. We get angry because we think we are innocent. How can the clay question the potter? Our minds are finite and do not have the ability to know how Big He really is. As the author of Hebrews says, "submit and endure correction as sons and daughters." Let us ask Him to search our hearts so He may reveal what does not belong there. Let us hunger for His Righteousness!
Job 40:6-8 (AMP) Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, saying. 7 Gird up your loins now like a man; I will demand of you, and you answer Me. 8 Will you also annul (set aside and render void) My judgment? Will you condemn Me [your God], that you may [appear] righteous and justified?
Jeremiah 10:24 (AMP) O Lord, correct, instruct, and chastise me, but with judgment and in just measure—not in Your anger, lest You diminish me and bring me to nothing.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 17, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Believe so your whole household may be saved
Many
people desire their family members to be saved. But at what price are
you willing to pay? Are you willing to lose your job or business if
necessary? Are you willing to lose your home? Are you willing to lose
your content status of living? Are you willing to give up your education
if necessary? Are you willing to give up your promotion? Are you
willing to become poor and give up all your financial resources if
necessary? Are you willing to give up the perks of your life? Are you
willing to give up your time? Are you willing to give up your life?
Acts 16:31 (AMP) And they answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
[[a]give yourself up to Him, [b] take yourself out of your own keeping
and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this
applies both to] you and your household as well.
The promise is
there for your household to be saved. However, if you are to truly
believe, you must walk in the Life of Jesus to do the Father's will and
share in His suffering. Just to acknowledge His existence and to just
acknowledge the work of the cross is to believe as the demons do. They
have no salvation but shudder instead. There is a wrong way to believe.
James 2:19 (AMP) You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the
demons believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as [a]make a man’s
hair stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]!
Yes,
we are saved by Grace and not by our own self righteous works. But if
Grace is living in us, then we should be manifesting the good works of
obedience (fruits) of God and not the fruits of the world. In other
words, our by products of what we believe is reflected in the fruit we
bear which are the works of obedience.
James 2:17-26(AMP) So
also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to
back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead).But
someone will say [to you then], You [say you] have faith, and I have
[good] works. Now you show me your [alleged] faith apart from any [good]
works [if you can], and I by [good] works [of obedience] will show you
my faith.You believe that God is one; you do well. So do the demons
believe and shudder [in terror and horror such as [a]make a man’s hair
stand on end and contract the surface of his skin]! Are you willing to
be shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient)
fellow, that faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective
and worthless? 23 And [so] the Scripture was fulfilled that says,
Abraham believed in (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on) God, and
this was accounted to him as righteousness (as conformity to God’s will
in thought and deed), and he was called God’s friend.24 You see that a
man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does
and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by
what he believes].25 So also with Rahab the harlot—was she not shown to
be justified (pronounced righteous before God) by [good] deeds when she
took in the scouts (spies) and sent them away by a different route?26
For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart
from [its] works of obedience is also dead.
One cannot just sit
on the couch watching TV all day long and believe his/her household
will be saved. This is but self delusion. In order for the promises of
God to be manifested, we must be doers of the Word instead of just
hearers. The TV commercials, Hollywood, the secular singers, the
corporations and the merchants of the world all tell us to buy this or
that. You hear them and many of us react to buy their products, to look
like them, talk like them, dress like them, sing like them, and many of
us will do what we hear from them.
But when most of us hear
the Word of God in our lives, instead of doing what we hear, we
basically look at the air or wall with a blank stare.
James
1:22-25 But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely
listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning
contrary to the Truth].23 For if anyone only listens to the Word without
obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully
at his [own] natural face in a mirror;24 For he thoughtfully
observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was
like.25 But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of
liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being
not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he
shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).
And we wonder why our families may be in chaos instead of peace? Perhaps
many of us are hearing the world and reacting to them instead of the
Word of God. If you desire your household to be saved, you must be willing to FULLY Surrender all the areas of your life.
Wake up brethren, each time we make a wrong
choice our hearts will harden. And as we continue to make wrong choices,
our hearts will harden more. And when a desperate situation arises and
when we finally decide to make the right choice, it will be very
difficult to make the right choice as we may have become bondage to that
wrong choice.
When we choose God, we are basically choosing to give up all our own choices so that our choices now be His choices.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 11, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Greatest Act of Humility
The greatest act of humility in the heavens was when God's Son Jesus came down to be born in the flesh, to walk among men, and be crucified. This great act of humility from the heavens began as it first manifested with Jesus being born in a manger. Yes, He was born in a manger. In other words, He was born in a barn or stable with farm animals. Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords yet He came and was born in one of the lowly places.
Isaiah 55:8-9 (AMP) For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
The Lord says His thoughts and His ways are higher than ours. When His thoughts and ways are performed in the heavens and as it breaks through into the physical realm, it will manifest much differently than how many expect it to be.
If you were living in such times and if you had heard the King of kings was going to be born, where would you have looked? Since He is the King of kings and Lord of lords, would you have looked in the castles? Would you have looked in the most wealthiest homes? Would you have looked in the most biggest or most glorious temples or churches?
If someone told you that the Messiah had been born in a manger where some donkeys and sheep were hanging out, would you believe? If you were wearing a nice suit with expensive shoes, would you go and see? Would you go knowing your shoes and clothes may get dirty and perhaps get some animal dung on your shoes?
Because it would take humility on our part to go and see. But if we thought more of our shoes and clothes, then we would miss one of the most important events in history. Perhaps today, many of us miss very important events with the Lord because we care for too much for the things of the world.
Because it would take humility on our part to go and see. But if we thought more of our shoes and clothes, then we would miss one of the most important events in history. Perhaps today, many of us miss very important events with the Lord because we care for too much for the things of the world.
If you told some children about the Messiah being born in the manger, they would go see with excitement. They would not care of stepping on animal dung. They do not care if their clothes got dirty. All they know is that their parents would wash them or they would get new ones. It would be nice if the adult Christians can have such faith and trust in God that He would get us new and better ones if our focus is more on the important things such as HIM than the earthly things.
And this is why even as adults, we must evermore walk in humility so we can possess the faith like a child. Scripture says unless we have the faith like children, we will not enter the Kingdom of God.
Mark 10:15 (AMP) Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] positively shall not enter it at all.
Matthew 18:3 (AMP) And said, Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all].
He is the small voice. He comes in a direction in which most are not expecting. He will do things in which most are not expecting. Make sure you do not just know about HIM but that you know HIM for His ways are not our ways nor HIS thoughts our thoughts. We will NEVER be able to predict or figure out His next move. We will never figure out the eternal or spiritual without HIM giving us the revelation. If you attempt to figure and fix things on your own, you are but moving in pride. You must move in Faith and that Faith must be in HIM. Such Faith is great when it comes forth as if we are like little children. We must be totally dependent on HIM and HIM alone for everything.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
THE REASON WHY YOU WERE CREATED by Diane Solver
Many of us have forgotten the reason why we were created. We do not know
the purpose of our creation in God’s point of view. Most of us only
know that we must live our lives to the fullest and fulfill all our
goals and dreams in life. Why did God created Adam and Eve? Why did God
created us?
After God created everything else, He said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Stooping down, He took up clay and shaped it. He shaped and formed Adam and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul. God created Adam and Eve and He placed them in the beautiful garden of Eden. In the cool of the day, God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden and they joyfully adored God and have fellowship with Him. Unlike any of God’s creation, it was only Adam and Eve who were able to provide the fellowship that God desired. Back then, Adam and Eve have no any other concerns in life. Their nakedness was not their concern because God’s glory clothed and covered them. All they did was to talk to God, walked with Him, loved Him and worshiped Him every single day in Eden. Adam and Eve’s unique purpose in life was to bring joy and fellowship to God. It was the reason why they were created, that they might worship God, glorify Him and love Him forever.
Everything was perfect in the garden for Adam and Eve. Then one day, God withdrew for a moment. While He was gone, the evil one, Satan came and deceived Adam and Eve. They disobeyed God and the fellowship was broken. After they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they looked at themselves for the first time and saw themselves in different light. They gathered fig leaves to hide their nakedness. Adam and Eve became consumed with their outer appearance. They focused on the outside and they have forgotten their inward beauty and the reason why they were created.
God came just like before and He searched for Adam and Eve. They were nowhere to be found and He called them, “Where are you?” That time, Adam and Eve were hiding among the trees. They heard the voice of God calling them like before so they can walk in the garden and have some time together. Adam and Eve were afraid because they were worrying about their nakedness. They might thought, “What was God doing here?” They have forgotten that God came so that He may have some time with them again. Something happened during the fall that changed Adam and Eve’s relationship with God. They have forgotten their unique purpose of worshiping God. Adam and Eve forgot who they were. They forgot the purpose of their existence. So they wander out into the world not knowing why they live.
Many people of today still do not know the reason why they were created. The enemy had robbed us of our true identity. We do not know why we are here so many people search for answers and explanation of their existence. If you asked someone, “Why are you here? What is the purpose of your life?” He/she might answer, “I want to make money. I want to fulfill my goals and dreams. I want to be successful in life.” But those things that people want are temporary. We can do them in our life and then we get old and die. But what is the real purpose of your life?
This is the condition of us today. People do not know why they are here. People do not know the purpose of their life. The enemy, Satan, offers everything in the world so he can keep us from finding our true purpose. He offers us anything that will distract us and consume our time, our whole life to other things that we were not created for. In the Bible, our defined purpose is that we might worship God and enjoy Him forever. Are you worshiping God? Do you spend time with Him, talking to Him, worshiping, adoring Him? Or do you spend your time to other things not knowing your true purpose?
Don’t you know that in heaven, they are worshiping God without ceasing saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” (Isaiah 6:3) God made us in His own image so we can live forever in His presence and worship Him. He created us so we can worship Him in the beauty of His glory and holiness. That is the reason why we were created.
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!” Psalm 95:6
ALL GLORY TO GOD!
-Daddy’s girl
Diane Solver
After God created everything else, He said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Stooping down, He took up clay and shaped it. He shaped and formed Adam and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul. God created Adam and Eve and He placed them in the beautiful garden of Eden. In the cool of the day, God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden and they joyfully adored God and have fellowship with Him. Unlike any of God’s creation, it was only Adam and Eve who were able to provide the fellowship that God desired. Back then, Adam and Eve have no any other concerns in life. Their nakedness was not their concern because God’s glory clothed and covered them. All they did was to talk to God, walked with Him, loved Him and worshiped Him every single day in Eden. Adam and Eve’s unique purpose in life was to bring joy and fellowship to God. It was the reason why they were created, that they might worship God, glorify Him and love Him forever.
Everything was perfect in the garden for Adam and Eve. Then one day, God withdrew for a moment. While He was gone, the evil one, Satan came and deceived Adam and Eve. They disobeyed God and the fellowship was broken. After they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they looked at themselves for the first time and saw themselves in different light. They gathered fig leaves to hide their nakedness. Adam and Eve became consumed with their outer appearance. They focused on the outside and they have forgotten their inward beauty and the reason why they were created.
God came just like before and He searched for Adam and Eve. They were nowhere to be found and He called them, “Where are you?” That time, Adam and Eve were hiding among the trees. They heard the voice of God calling them like before so they can walk in the garden and have some time together. Adam and Eve were afraid because they were worrying about their nakedness. They might thought, “What was God doing here?” They have forgotten that God came so that He may have some time with them again. Something happened during the fall that changed Adam and Eve’s relationship with God. They have forgotten their unique purpose of worshiping God. Adam and Eve forgot who they were. They forgot the purpose of their existence. So they wander out into the world not knowing why they live.
Many people of today still do not know the reason why they were created. The enemy had robbed us of our true identity. We do not know why we are here so many people search for answers and explanation of their existence. If you asked someone, “Why are you here? What is the purpose of your life?” He/she might answer, “I want to make money. I want to fulfill my goals and dreams. I want to be successful in life.” But those things that people want are temporary. We can do them in our life and then we get old and die. But what is the real purpose of your life?
This is the condition of us today. People do not know why they are here. People do not know the purpose of their life. The enemy, Satan, offers everything in the world so he can keep us from finding our true purpose. He offers us anything that will distract us and consume our time, our whole life to other things that we were not created for. In the Bible, our defined purpose is that we might worship God and enjoy Him forever. Are you worshiping God? Do you spend time with Him, talking to Him, worshiping, adoring Him? Or do you spend your time to other things not knowing your true purpose?
Don’t you know that in heaven, they are worshiping God without ceasing saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” (Isaiah 6:3) God made us in His own image so we can live forever in His presence and worship Him. He created us so we can worship Him in the beauty of His glory and holiness. That is the reason why we were created.
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!” Psalm 95:6
ALL GLORY TO GOD!
-Daddy’s girl
Diane Solver
Monday, May 7, 2012
An Outsider
In 1 Samuel chapter 17, the Philistines were assembled at Socoh and their champion, Goliath, were taunting and shouting at the ranks of the army of Israel. Goliath was said to be 10 feet tall. He had challenged king Saul and the king's men to send out their own champion but scripture said that Saul and all of Israel was dismayed and greatly afraid. Goliath, the Philistine had come out in the morning and evening for forty days to present himself against the army of Israel.
David had three older brothers who were in Saul's army. On one particular day, David's father, Jesse, had given David some food to take to his brothers and some to the commanders of the army. During this time, David was tending his father's sheep and was going back and forth to Saul. As David approached the camp and heard the battle cry, he ran into the army of Israel and greeted his older brothers. As he spoke with his brothers, Goliath came forth from the Philistines ranks and taunted and shouted the army of Israel. When the men of Israel saw Goliath, they began to flee.
The Israelite were looking for a champion of their own to go fight against Goliath and they were promoting the reward by the king. The Israelites said that whoever kills Goliath would be enriched by the king. The king would give him his daughter and their father's house would be free from taxes and service.
David asked the person standing next to him what would be the reward for the man who kills that Philistine. And David further asked, "Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that would defy the armies of the living God?"
When David had asked who was the uncircumcised Philistine, his brother, Eliab got a little upset.
1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard what he said to the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David and he said, Why did you come here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and evilness of heart; for you came down that you might see the battle.
Eliab was basically telling David that he did not belong there and was unqualified to be asking questions. As far as Eliab was concerned, David was no soldier and he had no business speaking with the men of Israel especially in regards to the matter at hand. David was not trained as a soldier. He had not been brought up within the ranks of the army to be qualified.
Saul and his army represented Israel. They represented God's living army. They were brought up and trained within their organized ranks and schools. Even though David's brother or brothers and the whole army of Israel were fearful and had no options of defeating Goliath, they still considered themselves qualified to be the ones challenging this giant and the war. Instead of looking for other alternatives, their pride had blinded them thinking there was no other way. If any solution was to be found, it would be from within their ranks and from their own army.
The army of Israel can represent the churches of God today. Many organized churches and their denominations can be very stubborn to their own doctrines and ways. Many are led by their by laws, training, and schools rather than being led completely by the Spirit. Am I saying all their ways are wrong? No, I am not. However, we must all be lead by the Spirit in all situations. God may send us a curve ball from a direction in which we are not looking nor expecting which would be our deliverance. Many just assume that in order to be qualified, we need to be brought up within their organized ranks. However, the story of David and Goliath told otherwise.
David was the youngest of his brothers and it was assumed his work to be a relatively safe job or task. He was after all tending sheep. The real hard dangerous work was with the army of Israel as they were defending their land, was it not? At least this was the traditional thinking. Many in our churches assume their roles within their own churches are the more important than those who may be working outside traditional circles whether that be preaching, casting demons out, praying for the sick, and etc. The real work within many traditional ranks are defined with those who are ordained and/or have a covering. If people are not ordained and/or do not have a covering, they and their work may be viewed as unqualified. Why are they considered unqualified? It is because the method and process are not in the order of their own doctrines or prescriptions.
How do we view a person who preaches repentance from the corner of a street? Do we give them less weight and validation because he/she may be holding a picket sign wearing shabby clothes rather than wearing a suit? But that person on the corner of the street may have hard solid revelation to offer. Will we humble ourselves to listen and ask God if such a person has been sent by HIM or would be just ignore the person because they may be wearing shabby clothes who appears not to be approved by men? Or perhaps the person may be wearing camel's hair and eating bugs such as locusts? Would we listen to such a person?
When David's words were heard by Saul, the king sent for him. David was volunteering to fight Goliath. But Saul questioned his age and told him he did not qualify. He reminded David that Goliath had been a soldier since his youth. How many times have we heard this from within our own ranks? We may be considered a spiritual adolescent to some religious people who had been raised in church or who may had been a Christian for decades. Many do not give newly converted spirit filled Christians the qualifications because in the physical, too many of us measure qualification on time and a certification instead of the anointing or fruit.
Saul accepted and gave David permission to fight but he attempted to make David wear his armor. He gave David his bronze helmet and clothed him with his coat of mail. David tried to grid Saul's sword over the armor. Many traditional ranks within our churches are always attempting to make us clones within their denominations. They are attempting to make us believe how they believe and how they process things within their churches. They desire for us to only utilize and learn of their own materials and equipment.
But David could not go forward with all the armor and equipment of Saul's. They were more or less a burden to his stature and understanding. If David had tried to fight Goliath with Saul's armor, he would probably had failed. But many assume we need such armor and training from the traditional ranks to fight the enemy and to overcome our obstacles. Do we need such degrees and schooling from certain schools because this is the traditional thinking of the day? In our physical realm, this is how many measure qualification and ability. For some, it may be necessary to go to school but it should not be an absolute qualification of those God has called.Our main school is the Holy Spirit.
But David took it all off because they were too heavy for him. They were no use to him. He had what appeared to be a weak weapon and he moved forward with his FAITH in God. The training he received in tending sheep was God's training for him to face the greatest enemies of His people. And it was sufficient. His tending sheep represents his dealing with the everyday cares of living life and people. Jesus did not go into the synagogues to find the twelve apostles. He picked them from the population of lay believers who were considered the unqualified and weak. There are many of God's people in their own wildernesses today being trained and purged. The training ground is life. We are being trained on how to deal with our circumstances and situations by dying to ourselves and having our flesh crucified. God uses the things of life to be our training ground. David had learned to be a warrior fighting bears and lions. Are the cares of life not like bears and lions?
With a sling and a stone, David had defeated the champion of the Philistines. Once the main authority or strong man was defeated, the rest of the enemy's ranks fell in line. When we are depending more on our own strength, wisdom, understanding, traditions, efforts, bank accounts, and skills, then we will always be looking at ourselves to find the solution and victory when in fact it comes from God. We must have more faith in God than our own abilities and what we possess. Then God will get the Glory and we will get the victory over our trials and tribulations.
All for HIS Glory
Fire of God Ministriers
Steve Yong Kim
May 7, 2012
David had three older brothers who were in Saul's army. On one particular day, David's father, Jesse, had given David some food to take to his brothers and some to the commanders of the army. During this time, David was tending his father's sheep and was going back and forth to Saul. As David approached the camp and heard the battle cry, he ran into the army of Israel and greeted his older brothers. As he spoke with his brothers, Goliath came forth from the Philistines ranks and taunted and shouted the army of Israel. When the men of Israel saw Goliath, they began to flee.
The Israelite were looking for a champion of their own to go fight against Goliath and they were promoting the reward by the king. The Israelites said that whoever kills Goliath would be enriched by the king. The king would give him his daughter and their father's house would be free from taxes and service.
David asked the person standing next to him what would be the reward for the man who kills that Philistine. And David further asked, "Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that would defy the armies of the living God?"
When David had asked who was the uncircumcised Philistine, his brother, Eliab got a little upset.
1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard what he said to the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David and he said, Why did you come here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and evilness of heart; for you came down that you might see the battle.
Eliab was basically telling David that he did not belong there and was unqualified to be asking questions. As far as Eliab was concerned, David was no soldier and he had no business speaking with the men of Israel especially in regards to the matter at hand. David was not trained as a soldier. He had not been brought up within the ranks of the army to be qualified.
Saul and his army represented Israel. They represented God's living army. They were brought up and trained within their organized ranks and schools. Even though David's brother or brothers and the whole army of Israel were fearful and had no options of defeating Goliath, they still considered themselves qualified to be the ones challenging this giant and the war. Instead of looking for other alternatives, their pride had blinded them thinking there was no other way. If any solution was to be found, it would be from within their ranks and from their own army.
The army of Israel can represent the churches of God today. Many organized churches and their denominations can be very stubborn to their own doctrines and ways. Many are led by their by laws, training, and schools rather than being led completely by the Spirit. Am I saying all their ways are wrong? No, I am not. However, we must all be lead by the Spirit in all situations. God may send us a curve ball from a direction in which we are not looking nor expecting which would be our deliverance. Many just assume that in order to be qualified, we need to be brought up within their organized ranks. However, the story of David and Goliath told otherwise.
David was the youngest of his brothers and it was assumed his work to be a relatively safe job or task. He was after all tending sheep. The real hard dangerous work was with the army of Israel as they were defending their land, was it not? At least this was the traditional thinking. Many in our churches assume their roles within their own churches are the more important than those who may be working outside traditional circles whether that be preaching, casting demons out, praying for the sick, and etc. The real work within many traditional ranks are defined with those who are ordained and/or have a covering. If people are not ordained and/or do not have a covering, they and their work may be viewed as unqualified. Why are they considered unqualified? It is because the method and process are not in the order of their own doctrines or prescriptions.
How do we view a person who preaches repentance from the corner of a street? Do we give them less weight and validation because he/she may be holding a picket sign wearing shabby clothes rather than wearing a suit? But that person on the corner of the street may have hard solid revelation to offer. Will we humble ourselves to listen and ask God if such a person has been sent by HIM or would be just ignore the person because they may be wearing shabby clothes who appears not to be approved by men? Or perhaps the person may be wearing camel's hair and eating bugs such as locusts? Would we listen to such a person?
When David's words were heard by Saul, the king sent for him. David was volunteering to fight Goliath. But Saul questioned his age and told him he did not qualify. He reminded David that Goliath had been a soldier since his youth. How many times have we heard this from within our own ranks? We may be considered a spiritual adolescent to some religious people who had been raised in church or who may had been a Christian for decades. Many do not give newly converted spirit filled Christians the qualifications because in the physical, too many of us measure qualification on time and a certification instead of the anointing or fruit.
Saul accepted and gave David permission to fight but he attempted to make David wear his armor. He gave David his bronze helmet and clothed him with his coat of mail. David tried to grid Saul's sword over the armor. Many traditional ranks within our churches are always attempting to make us clones within their denominations. They are attempting to make us believe how they believe and how they process things within their churches. They desire for us to only utilize and learn of their own materials and equipment.
But David could not go forward with all the armor and equipment of Saul's. They were more or less a burden to his stature and understanding. If David had tried to fight Goliath with Saul's armor, he would probably had failed. But many assume we need such armor and training from the traditional ranks to fight the enemy and to overcome our obstacles. Do we need such degrees and schooling from certain schools because this is the traditional thinking of the day? In our physical realm, this is how many measure qualification and ability. For some, it may be necessary to go to school but it should not be an absolute qualification of those God has called.Our main school is the Holy Spirit.
But David took it all off because they were too heavy for him. They were no use to him. He had what appeared to be a weak weapon and he moved forward with his FAITH in God. The training he received in tending sheep was God's training for him to face the greatest enemies of His people. And it was sufficient. His tending sheep represents his dealing with the everyday cares of living life and people. Jesus did not go into the synagogues to find the twelve apostles. He picked them from the population of lay believers who were considered the unqualified and weak. There are many of God's people in their own wildernesses today being trained and purged. The training ground is life. We are being trained on how to deal with our circumstances and situations by dying to ourselves and having our flesh crucified. God uses the things of life to be our training ground. David had learned to be a warrior fighting bears and lions. Are the cares of life not like bears and lions?
With a sling and a stone, David had defeated the champion of the Philistines. Once the main authority or strong man was defeated, the rest of the enemy's ranks fell in line. When we are depending more on our own strength, wisdom, understanding, traditions, efforts, bank accounts, and skills, then we will always be looking at ourselves to find the solution and victory when in fact it comes from God. We must have more faith in God than our own abilities and what we possess. Then God will get the Glory and we will get the victory over our trials and tribulations.
All for HIS Glory
Fire of God Ministriers
Steve Yong Kim
May 7, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Obedience even to death
Jeremiah 48:10 (AMP) Cursed be he who does the work of the Lord
negligently [with slackness, deceitfully]; and cursed be he who keeps
back his sword from blood [in executing judgment pronounced by the
Lord].
"When I am taken to hell, I encounter shocking moments. There are so many pastors in hell. There are a number of countless pastors who are in hell. There are a lot of famous seminary professors there. There are a lot of pastors that you may know. There are pastors who have played with the gifts of God. The place where the wives of pastors go is so enormous. It is a place you cannot imagine.
The hell where the leaders of the church go is so enormous. It is so full. After seeing that, I tell people do not desire to become pastors unless you are called. Because pastors are responsible for the souls of other people." Pastor Kim, Yong Doo
Philippians 2:8 (AMP) And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!
We must all pick up our own cross willing even to be obedient to death. How many of us in our hearts really serve sacrificing our lives willing even to the point of death? NO, many serve only to the limits of their comfort.
Lord have mercy on a stiff necked generation who mostly tramples on your Grace. Most of us are only fattening ourselves for the day of slaughter. More Grace!
James 5:5 [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them, even to the [spiritual] shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the [spiritual] shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
James 3:1 NOT MANY [of you] should become teachers ([a]self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation].
Make us servants that are after Your own Heart Lord!! Put salve on the eyes and ears of our hearts. May our hearts be fully circumcised to do your work.
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart [in the final time], who will feed you with knowledge and understanding and judgment.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 3, 2012
"When I am taken to hell, I encounter shocking moments. There are so many pastors in hell. There are a number of countless pastors who are in hell. There are a lot of famous seminary professors there. There are a lot of pastors that you may know. There are pastors who have played with the gifts of God. The place where the wives of pastors go is so enormous. It is a place you cannot imagine.
The hell where the leaders of the church go is so enormous. It is so full. After seeing that, I tell people do not desire to become pastors unless you are called. Because pastors are responsible for the souls of other people." Pastor Kim, Yong Doo
Philippians 2:8 (AMP) And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross!
We must all pick up our own cross willing even to be obedient to death. How many of us in our hearts really serve sacrificing our lives willing even to the point of death? NO, many serve only to the limits of their comfort.
Lord have mercy on a stiff necked generation who mostly tramples on your Grace. Most of us are only fattening ourselves for the day of slaughter. More Grace!
James 5:5 [Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Ezekiel 34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them, even to the [spiritual] shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the [spiritual] shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
James 3:1 NOT MANY [of you] should become teachers ([a]self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation].
Make us servants that are after Your own Heart Lord!! Put salve on the eyes and ears of our hearts. May our hearts be fully circumcised to do your work.
Jeremiah 3:15 And I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart [in the final time], who will feed you with knowledge and understanding and judgment.
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
May 3, 2012
The Salvation of Many at Stake!!!
As delivered to my inbox by pastor Christine Coleman
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In our 2010 Revival meetings, Jesus visited us wonderfully. His majestic presence was in our midst and His powerful voice was heard as He stated that there are Christians in hell and many more heading there right now! Furthermore, His voice spoke to us that there are thousands times more Christians in hell than there are in heaven!
He said, “Do you know how my heart aches for those heading to hell, it breaks my heart! Those people I chose and gave them power, they are not in heaven!!!”
I do not know about you, but upon hearing this, many of us who were present in this revival were shocked. We wept, we cried – never before had we heard or imagined that the number of Christians heading to hell outnumbered those who make it into heaven!
For a long time, it has been taught and believed that all Christians make it to heaven! Looking at the Word of God, we find out that indeed not all those who called themselves follower of Christ followed Him to the end.
While on earth, Jesus had 12 disciples whom He called and chose – For 3 ½ years, He taught and discipled them. He also gave them power to cast out demons, to heal the sick and do mighty miracles – Yet Judas, one of the twelve did not make it to heaven, ‘though he was a follower and a treasurer of Christ Ministry’ – This is a type of Christians going to hell.
In the beginning of John 6, we see a great multitude following Jesus – But very soon, they rejected his teachings and could not endure. In v.66, even many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him. Jesus was left with the twelve, among whom one was a devil.
Who shall be saved but he who endures to the end? In the same way, those who will make it to heaven are those who are going to endure till the very end no matter what!
Today in our midst, there are numerous Christians, who like Judas or the great multitude are carelessly heading to hell! Among them are preachers, teachers, prophets, apostles, ministers…(For God is no respecter of persons).
Oh, my brothers and my sisters, the war of the souls of mankind is real, more real than you think. satan and his evil spirits are real, haters of mankind – they are working overtime and take no rest; they are determined to deceive and take every soul they can to hell!
Heaven and Hell Statistics
Reject not He Who Warns from Heaven!
Before I left Africa to come to USA, I took time to sit down with those who had lived in USA. Having only lived in a tropical environment, it would have been foolishness if I had refused to believe those who warned me about snow & bitter winters (of which I had by then only heard of!) But because I believed, I came prepared and survived bitter winters.
There are people who have paid the price to cry out to the Lord as is in
God granted some of these people to visit heaven and hell so that they can warn us of what is awaiting us in either heaven or hell. The Lord has revealed to them great and mighty things that many people don’t know. These chosen servants have witnessed heaven and hell first hand. It is therefore important that we listen to these true servants of God who have been chosen by God to experience heaven and hell as long as what is revealed has its foundation in the Holy Scriptures.
Remember, here on earth we know in part and we prophecy in part – but up there, in heaven, one knows fully! Please visit http://www.spiritlessons.com for recommended books by those who have experienced heaven and hell first hand.
Taken to Hell by Pastor Kim Yong Doo, March 31, 2012 - Colorado Holy Fire Revival
“While I was lying down, Jesus took me to hell. There are different levels of hell. As I was going through the different levels, there were different devils. Big ones, even tiny devils they were devouring my flesh. When I went 3 levels down, devils held a stick made of needles.
They started hitting me with a stick. It hurt so much, it was very hard to endure. My body wasn’t restored even around 3 or 4 this afternoon. Around 3, I started bleeding and it could not stop. I was so exhausted that I prayed to the Lord: ‘Lord it is so hard, I am going to die. It is so hard Lord.’
The lord said it was my calling, so we had to go. The Lord gave me a word from the book of Revelation 2:10. Obedience to the point of death. You have to be obedient till you die, in order to receive His full life.
The Lord opened my eyes and helped me to see while visiting hell. The hell was pitch dark. Whenever I go to hell, there are so many doors to hell. Doors are so varied, so many, so different from one another.
For example one of them as you enter hell, you enter a place like magma; another place as you enter it is so narrow like 1mm, because the path is so narrow, there is no other way but you have to fall off and there is no exit! When people fall off, there are needles sticking out, needles that are higher than buildings. They are so close together, there is an endless field covered with needles on both sides. There are many souls that are stuck there.
There is another hell that is like a blender. The souls who are at that place, they are blended.
There is also a place like a prison with iron bars. The current that runs through the bars is so powerful. As soon as they touch the bar, the souls melt away. There are so many places like that. Let’s say we are in a prison like bars, it is a tiny room and let’s say that it holds 5,000 people in the room.
People there are trying to go in the innermost part of the room. The people in the outer side as soon as they get touched by the bars, they melt away entirely right away.
There is a path to hell, as soon as you enter through the path, you cannot go back, it only goes forward, you get sucked immediately. The sad thing is that you can see the path to heaven from there and people scream ‘Oh no, I have to go to heaven! Oh no, I have to go to heaven now! Why am I here? No, no, please!’
Because so many people are going to hell, they are pushing each other. In those instances, everybody push forward going straight to hell. The path to hell is so wide, as wide as a stadium. Hell is bigger than heaven. About 1 in a thousand goes to heaven.
Not many people go to heaven as you think. Opposite what you think, a small amount of people make it to heaven. Don’t be too confident with your salvation! Even though we have become the people of God, don’t have the overconfidence that leads to conceit.
You don’t go to heaven because you are certain. You have to be humble and meek in order to go to heaven. Even though you have received salvation, you have to think like as if you have not arrived in your salvation.
That is why you have to work out your salvation with much fear and trembling every day. (Philippians 2:12)
When I go to hell, I encounter shocking moments. There is so many hell where pastors are going. There are countless pastors who are in that hell. There are a lot of famous seminary professors there; there are a lot of pastors that you might know. There, there are pastors who have played with the gift of God. The place where the pastor’s wife go is soo big, you cannot even imagine.
The hell where the leaders of the church go, is soo big, it is so full of it. After seeing that, I tell people don’t desire to become pastors. Because pastors are responsible for their souls and also for other people’s souls.
I am asking those who desire to be servants of God, as possible remain the members of the church and work hard to do the work of God. There are many members of my church who have graduated from the seminary, but are now working hard as regular members of church serving the Lord.
Members of my church have greater faith than regular church pastors, that’s how I fostered them. No matter where they are sent, they can cast out demons.”
Pastor Kim Yong Doo – You can read his books on www.TheBlazingHolyFire.com
Christians in Hell
The ‘branch in Me’ means that Christian that has come to the Lord Jesus… but we see that the Father takes them away if they do not bear fruit (John 15:6)
As we shared above, Judas was part of the 12 disciples that Jesus Himself handpicked. He was the treasurer of Jesus ministry! He knew the Lord and furthermore, he moved in miracles, signs and wonders (Matthew 10). This man did not enter heaven in spite of Him being in the company of the Lord, his heart was far from the Lord.
Judas is a type of Christians who one day will find themselves outside the gates of the holy city saying, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets'; and He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.' Luke 13:26 -27
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, God delivered them from the hands of Pharaoh who had enslaved them for 400 years. With a might powerful hand, the Lord delivered them from the hands of pharaoh, by great signs and wonders the Lord brought them out of bondage.
This is a picture of what happens when someone gives their lives to the Lord. As soon as they accept the Lord Jesus, salvation begins but also a real battle begins!
Remember that the children of Israel’s destiny was the Promise Land, a land flowing with milk and honey - The Promise Land is a type of heaven our eternal home. But before they enter the Promise Land, they had to go through the wilderness, they had to be tested.
In the wilderness, many of them disobeyed the Lord; by their own free will, bad choice and rebellion, they could not enter the Promise Land; but most of them died in the wilderness; out of many thousands, only Joshua and Caleb who followed the Lord fully and the children who did not participate in the rebellion made it to the promise land (Numbers 14).
Please note that before they could possess the promise land, they had to fight and only when they conquered their enemies were they able to occupy the land.
Why People Perish?
People Perish Due to Our Spiritual Ignorance:
If we are going to understand the spiritual realm and get knowledge, we must pray harder. A weak prayer is not going to do it. A soft prayer here and there is not going to solve this dilemma. When satan comes against humanity, he comes against us with all his might, strength – if we are going to win this war, we must come against him more strongly in the name of Jesus.
Satan, his demons and agents are working 24x7 taking no rest. In the meantime, the majority of Christians are comfortably living in their homes, creeping into lukewarmness as though the souls of human kind are not in danger! In the meantime, Satanists, all agents & vessels of satan give up comfort; they give up their 3 meals a day and are moving speedily to deceive, steal, kill and destroy – they know that the time is short.
Because of their greater effort and devotion, they are understanding the spiritual realm than most Christians and are winning more people to the devil than Christians are. Rise up and pray like never before, humanity is in danger!
People Perish if We Don’t Evangelize:
Fellow Christians – Danger is upon us! If we love the Lord with all our heart, we have no other choice but to rise up and pick the fight!
‘Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters’ (Luke 11:23’.
The battle is real and is everywhere, there is no where to hide! Satan is converting more people than we Christian are doing, if you don’t believe me, look at our public schools here in the USA. The Lord has commanded us as a church to evangelize, going out door to door.
When Christ said ‘go therefore and make disciples of all nations’ He was not commissioning Jehovah witnesses nor Mormons, so how come they are evangelizing more than you and I?
God is calling you and I to repent for not evangelizing, put on the shoes of the Gospel of peace and get out there where the lost live and tell them ‘danger is coming, hell is real, heaven is real, run to Jesus for your life, make a choice now lest you die!’
If we do not do this, you and I will be held accountable for the souls that will perish because of our laziness. We have not arrived to heaven yet, therefore we must not sit comfortably and watch humanity being slaughtered.
Even in the Christian circle, we are losing more than we are gaining. Satan is working harder to take people to hell than we are. Tell me, should we not work harder to take people to heaven?
Why Christians Go to Hell
According to what was revealed to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, a great number of Christians who are in hell are there because of different reasons but here are some major factors:
a. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
There is so much to say on this subject, for now the Holy Spirit leads me to share these scriptures with you. As God allows, in the future, we will share more on this topic.
"I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” (Mark 3:28-29)
"But I tell you that men will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:36-37)
"Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your sins." (Mark 11:25-26)
"I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” (Luke 13:5)
"And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12:31-32)
b. Incorrect Teachings:
Today we have many who have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. “And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
That by simply reciting the sinner’s prayer, our salvation is guaranteed: Reciting the sinner’s prayer is the beginning, or the first level of a journey of many levels. There must a genuine repentance, a turning away from our old way of thinking, lifestyle and way of life.
Once we give our lives to the Lord, our old ways must come to an end and start living holy daily, to confess your sins daily and repent daily. We must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We must submit to the Lord Jesus, read His word carefully everyday and observe it fully.
When someone gives their life to Jesus, as far as God is concerned, He is fully committed to save that person, unfortunately, someone can walk away from it, just in the same way the prodigal son decided to walk away from his father’s house.
That once saved always saved:
This is a doctrine from the pit of hell. Salvation is not a one-time event. It is not something we do once and we have a lifetime warranty to enter heaven. What takes place in the born again process is that a sinner has taken their first fundamental process, the first level of many levels into entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
Salvation, the first level is so important that without it, other levels have no significance. In other words, if one could observe all the 10 commandments of God but they do not believe in Jesus, they have nothing at all because Jesus is the way to the Father.
That we no longer have to obey God’s 10 commandments:
I once believed this lie and oh, many thanks to the Lamb of God who led me into the truth and snatched me from the hands of the enemy. There are many people who hold unto this belief because they simply read it in their Bible notes (in my case, this is where I had gotten it).
The 10 commandments were written by God's own finger, written in stone, placed inside the Ark of the Covenant. It should be noted here that "commandments or commands or God’s laws" in English, does not mean "being legalistic or a list of do's and don'ts.”
Rather, it is God’s instruction to us so that in observing them we may live.
God's commands are love, eternal, for all people and is sin to break them. When God gave the 10 Commandments, He was not confused so as to annul 1 or 2 of them later! God’s commands are not for old testament people only – they are for us today as well.
In Luke 1:5, the Bible says Zacharias and Elizabeth were blameless, obeying ALL God's commandments
“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished”. Matthew 5:18
Today Christians think they can choose which commands to obey or not based on their convenience and own excuses, doing so they hope to still be called righteous, therefore we have all kinds of excuses as to why not observe such and such command especially the 4th commandment - this is actually a deception from the devil...
Today God speaks to you who are listening, to you who have ears to hear and eyes to see –‘OBEY MY LAWS AND COMMANDS’.
We must obey His commands including the 4th commandment. Here below is a revelation given to Pastor Kim Yong Doo Concerning the 10 Commandments.
(Pastor Kim Speaking)
"I decided to ask the Lord about Sundays, how we should keep them Holy. As soon as I asked Jesus, His expression changed to anger. The Lord wanted me to reference certain scriptures…
The Lord had commanded us to keep Sundays Holy in every way. He rebuked watching television, dining out with family, and other secular activities. Furthermore, the Lord did not permit Christians to run any business of any kind for profit on Sundays. He also did not allow Saints to do any shopping on Sundays.
Jesus showed me a group of souls in a specific part of hell, and said, “Among these souls are some who participated in a cult. There are some who were alcoholics and some who treated the Sabbath or Sunday carelessly.
On Sundays they would spend money for their pleasure. Most of these people are here for not keeping Sundays Holy. There are some who ran businesses and assumed that the Lord would forgive them. They were deceived.” I saw countless numbers of deacons, deaconesses, and pastors from all races.
As a matter of fact, only a few saints made it to heaven that did not keep Sundays properly. And on the contrary, there was an over flowing number of saints in hell for not keeping Sundays holy. The Lord commanded, “Look at those souls! Those souls did not consider My Day with much relevance. They made My Day unclean. Look very closely.” We were in total shock from what we saw. Christians were in hell, shouting in anguish and being tormented. After witnessing this scene, I concentrated on repenting for not keeping Sundays Holy in every way.
There are many saints who think that spending money on Sundays is justified, IF it is for the sake of the gospel. Jesus clarified the church’s deception, “People obfuscate, misuse, and abuse the commandment of Sunday, 'for the sake of the gospel'.
They do it consistently. Do not spend money on Sundays! Once men have decided to do what is in their hearts, they present their reasons or justifications to break the commandment at any cost.” The Lord looked very serious. His majesty was overflowing.
Currently, the churches cry out for revival, but they must first be changed. They must fearfully repent. Churches are not properly teaching members to keep Sunday’s Holy. In fact, they treat this matter with negligence. The Lord was giving us a stern warning.
Any kind of events held in the house of God, must be free of charge. Many churches sell meal tickets, since they have numerous attendants. Purchasing meal tickets is not keeping Sundays Holy. The Lord meticulously showed me how many Korean Churches are not approved by God because they do not keep Sundays Holy.
The Lord also wanted the church to feed any guest speakers at either the Pastor’s house or a saint’s house, if the special event is held on Sundays. The Lord did not want the church to take the guest speakers out to a restaurant on Sundays. If the church had a kitchen, the guests could be feed there.
Jesus made it very clear, by stating that He forbids us to spend money on Sundays.
There are many people who argue that this day is Saturday or any other day. The Lord’s response is to observe this day on Sunday because it is the day the Lord was resurrected on. The Lord has spoken to many of His servant about this day – He spoke to pastor Kim to observe Sabbath on Sunday, He also spoke to sister Choo Thomas to observe this day on Sunday, so it is not any day. God is pleased when we obey Him without arguments.
c. Not keeping God’s Word and His Commands:
Christians should read the word of God diligently, believe the Word of God and obey the Word of God fully (not hearers of the word but doers). Many Christians end up in hell for not obeying the Word of God. We eat daily, so it is very important to read your Bible every day, many times a day; after we read, we must participate, take the word of God and run with it.
God’s Will & Narrow Path
When someone gives their lives to Jesus, God gives them His grace and power to repent and to overcome sin. Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. The moment that one is truly born again of God, a real battle begins with satan.
Satan is decided to take every soul to hell. He will thus send temptation our way but we overcome because we are born of God. If you have truly been born again, you can no longer be attracted to the old way; you can no longer be attracted to sin.
As born again Christians, Jesus is our Lord, Master and King. We can no longer do our own will and this is an area where the devil likes to trip up Christians. Many Christians are doing their own will. They go to God in prayer with their own will and ask God to grant their own wills and not His.
But if Jesus is your Lord and Master, you must submit to His will. When we pray, we should go to God in prayer and ask according to His perfect will instead of taking our own will and ask him to bless it.
In Matthew 7:21, a man who did not do God’s will was cast out by the Lord Jesus Himself. Then Jesus went on to explain what God’s will was:
“Matthew 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.”
Doing God’s will is to obey His words.
Christians who do not do God’s will cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
It is easy to sin. It is easy to live comfortably. The Lord is commanding us to rise up, pick up the cross and follow him. We must forsake sin.
We must bind ourselves to the Word of God and obey it no matter what. We must follow the way that is less traveled, a way that is far from popularity. “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:14)
The way to Salvation is hard and narrow and only a few will ever find it. Hold firm to the Truths of the Bible and remain in the Doctrine of Christ. Keep in mind always that Jesus Christ is our Righteousness, Holiness and Redemption. We must seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness daily without fail. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul to the Lake of Fire?
Beware of False Teachers
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An authentic servant of God will teach you what it takes to enter the Kingdom of God just like Jesus did: “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!” A true servant will teach you to work out your salvation with much fear and trembling. A true servant of the Lord will teach you how to live holy and if a member of his church commits sin, the true servant will rebuke sin.
A true servant of God will teach you about the soon coming of our Lord Jesus and being ready now; a true servant will teach you about genuine repentance, heaven and hell. A true church will have great power that demons will be cast out left and right. That’s how it was in Jesus ministry. There is something wrong if you go to a church, people come with demons and walk out with demons!
Beware of the teachers who do not bear the fruit of the spirit. Jesus taught us that we will know the true or false prophets by their fruit. Beware of the teachers who are earth bound and only point you into the blessings of this earth that will soon pass away. Beware of preachers who forbid the move of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Beware and never follow a leader who is on his way to hell because the Bible makes it clear that He who follow a blind man will fall into the pit.
God has revealed to many, there are many Christians who ended up in hell by following false teachers and by accepting their erroneous teachings!
The enemy has worked at his best using preachers and teachers to water down the Gospel and the message of salvation especially here in the West. Today, many preachers are not teaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ; many are not teaching the Full Counsel of God.
Discernment is needed in this hour. Do not just follow someone. Do not just go to church and say amen to everything that is being said; but be like the ‘Bereans’ who studied the Bible themselves to see if those things were so. It is important to know your Bible. People perish for lack of knowledge. People go to hell because they don’t read the Word of God. You have a Bible sitting on your shelf, grab it, read it as though your entire life depended upon that word of God because it truly does: ‘the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life’John 6:63
“Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!” (Mark 10:24)
Salvation
The purpose of being saved is not just to receive earthly blessings from God such as healing, receiving miracles, have our prayers answered and so on… When Jesus chose the disciples out of the world, first of all it was that ‘that they might be with him’, He later gave a wonderful promise ‘I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.’
This my friend is our destiny – wherever He is! God saves us so that we can spend eternity with Him. ‘For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." (John 6:40 ESV). There is not a single soul that Jesus saves for this earth but He desires that all will enter into eternity with Him.
True salvation has been obtained when Christ is fully formed in a disciple (Galatians 4:9). “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”(Galatians 2:20).
When Christ is formed in you, you will bear the fruit of the spirit in your character. The fruit of the spirit are manifested through those who hear the Word of God and Observe it fully, obeying the Lord to the point of death.
The fruit of the spirit are manifested to those who abide in Christ. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Christians who will enter the Kingdom of God must bear the fruit of the spirit that remain. A fig tree without fruit was cursed. A tree without fruit was also cut down "And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’"
Categories of Those Who will not enter Heaven
According to the Word of God, the following are category of people who cannot be admitted in the Kingdom of God if they do not repent. These are those who:
Practice immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts, of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing it is written that ‘those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.’( Galatians 5:19-21)
Furthermore, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says ‘Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
Those of you who wonder how in the world Christians can be taken to hell, you can find the answer from these verses above. It is all in the word of God!
Repentance
“Bear fruits in keeping with repentance” Luke 3:8
What does the word ‘repent’ mean? The word repent„ literally means to think differently.
Repent does not mean that you simply feel bad. Repentance is not remorse. Repent doesn’t mean that you can sit there, become aware of your sin, and simply cry over it. Simply going to the altar and crying isn’t repentance, because repentance requires a change in thinking. Now we are to think differently about what? To change what you think about what? We are to repent of, to change our thinking about our sins. – From Steve Foss Website
[Also someone sent me this as I was writing this article]
We must repent for our known, unknown, hidden and presumptuous sins. We must repent of the sins we commit in our dreams. We must repent of the sins we commit in our mind.
Remember, the heart of a man is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things to make us feel or think we have finished repenting or think we are right with God when the Truth is that we have all fallen and at no time can we appear before our Father without the Blood of the Lamb.
We must produce fruits in keeping with Repentance, Carrying the Cross of Judgment daily, dying daily at the Throne of Grace for mercy.
The Greatest Commandment, The First Love, The Most Important of God's Command, The Kingdom of God and
His Righteousness:
His righteousness:
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:28-31)
If you keep your eye on Jesus you will be saved. If you turn away for one second to the flesh in disobedience, from Praying in repentance for the Forgiveness of sins (Carrying the Cross), trusting in your own righteousness, you will be doomed to condemnation to the Lake of Fire. You must remain in Him, walking in the Spirit and not according to the evil cravings of the natural sinful nature.
Deny yourself daily, take up your cross daily, die daily, repent daily, obey the Word of God daily, preach repentance and forgiveness of sins daily, Teach the Doctrine of Christ daily, follow Jesus daily in example, forgive daily, pray without ceasing, remain in Jesus daily, meditate on the Words of Jesus daily, worship the Lord daily, love Him daily and walk in the Spirit till He comes riding on the clouds with His Glory and Splendor!
The Ten (10) Commandments of God given through Moses to His children are in full force and cannot be broken. Pay your Tithes and Offerings faithfully. Observing the Law CANNOT save your soul and you must know that you CANNOT in anyway make it to Heaven without upholding them faithfully even to the point of death in humility, waiting for the blessed hope of Christ's coming.
We must uphold the Law in holiness and humility as we live in the Grace given us to do God's will by the power of the Holy Spirit which He gives us without measure when we ask, seek and knock.
The Holy Commandments of God are no longer burdensome for those that love Him. and are born of water and the Spirit. Jesus warned us not to think He has come to abolish the Law or the Prophets or the Psalms, He came to fulfill them as an example for us.
The power of the cross helps the believer who is denying him/herself (Denying Selfish ambition, Pride, Position, Power) and carrying the cross (Bearing the shame, reproach, pain and suffering that comes with the Old Rugged Cross) to Obey, Follow and do the requirements by the Grace of the Holy Spirit our Helper.
Law breakers and Lawless Pastors, christians, men, women and children have no place in Heaven. Search your heart deeply and seek the Lord with a humble, broken heart and a contrite spirit. Proud people who declare they belong to God and keep on sinning are liars and the Truth is not in them. Know where you belong and change your destiny now! Heaven or the Lake of Fire?
You must also clearly know in Heart and Mind that obeying the Law does not mean you are saved. You are saved through repentance and being washed in the Precious Blood for the forgiveness of sins and granted Grace to be able to Obey the Commandments! Then you are not a Law Breaker and Christ now lives the Holy Life in you!
Repentance means ruthlessly dealing with sin.
Gouge out your eye if it is denying you the Kingdom of Heaven. Cut off your leg and throw it far from you if it is denying you Heaven. Figuratively, we must rid ourselves from all moral filth if our Hope of Eternity of Heaven still remains in our hearts. Make your calling and election sure
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Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3).
In our 2010 Revival meetings, Jesus visited us wonderfully. His majestic presence was in our midst and His powerful voice was heard as He stated that there are Christians in hell and many more heading there right now! Furthermore, His voice spoke to us that there are thousands times more Christians in hell than there are in heaven!
He said, “Do you know how my heart aches for those heading to hell, it breaks my heart! Those people I chose and gave them power, they are not in heaven!!!”
I do not know about you, but upon hearing this, many of us who were present in this revival were shocked. We wept, we cried – never before had we heard or imagined that the number of Christians heading to hell outnumbered those who make it into heaven!
For a long time, it has been taught and believed that all Christians make it to heaven! Looking at the Word of God, we find out that indeed not all those who called themselves follower of Christ followed Him to the end.
While on earth, Jesus had 12 disciples whom He called and chose – For 3 ½ years, He taught and discipled them. He also gave them power to cast out demons, to heal the sick and do mighty miracles – Yet Judas, one of the twelve did not make it to heaven, ‘though he was a follower and a treasurer of Christ Ministry’ – This is a type of Christians going to hell.
In the beginning of John 6, we see a great multitude following Jesus – But very soon, they rejected his teachings and could not endure. In v.66, even many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him. Jesus was left with the twelve, among whom one was a devil.
Who shall be saved but he who endures to the end? In the same way, those who will make it to heaven are those who are going to endure till the very end no matter what!
Today in our midst, there are numerous Christians, who like Judas or the great multitude are carelessly heading to hell! Among them are preachers, teachers, prophets, apostles, ministers…(For God is no respecter of persons).
Oh, my brothers and my sisters, the war of the souls of mankind is real, more real than you think. satan and his evil spirits are real, haters of mankind – they are working overtime and take no rest; they are determined to deceive and take every soul they can to hell!
Heaven and Hell Statistics
- ¼ Of those who heard the Gospel (Christians) did not bear fruit (Matthew 13:3-23).
- According to John 15:2, Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit [this is talking about Christians because they are the ones in Him] will be taken away and thrown into the hell fire! ~Source: Jesus Christ
- For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24); few finds the way to life (Matthew 7:14) ~Source: Jesus Christ
- Only about twenty percent of Christians are actually pleasing to Jesus! ~Source: Jesus to Choo Thomas in Heaven is So Real in 1997.
- There are Christians in hell, thousands times more than there are in heaven ~Source: Pastor Kim Yong Doo, a man who was taken to heaven and hell since 2005 – author of Baptize by Blazing Fire 5 books.
- Jesus made a heartbroken request. “Joseph! Please listen very carefully. A leaf represents the soul of a person. When one soul goes to heaven, the other thousand souls go to hell.I want you to know this. There are so many souls that go to hell than there are that goes to heaven. My heart is very sad. You will become the last day servant of the Lord. Receive all the power that I grant you and save many souls for Me as possible.” ~Source: Joseph’s visits to heaven in 2005, from Baptize by Blazing Fire Book #4.
- “The Lord is saying that less than 1% of Pastors and less the 10% of Christians will hear the trumpet sound”.~ Source: ChooThomas.org
Reject not He Who Warns from Heaven!
See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven (Hebrews 12:25).
Before I left Africa to come to USA, I took time to sit down with those who had lived in USA. Having only lived in a tropical environment, it would have been foolishness if I had refused to believe those who warned me about snow & bitter winters (of which I had by then only heard of!) But because I believed, I came prepared and survived bitter winters.
There are people who have paid the price to cry out to the Lord as is in
Jeremiah 33:3. “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.”
God granted some of these people to visit heaven and hell so that they can warn us of what is awaiting us in either heaven or hell. The Lord has revealed to them great and mighty things that many people don’t know. These chosen servants have witnessed heaven and hell first hand. It is therefore important that we listen to these true servants of God who have been chosen by God to experience heaven and hell as long as what is revealed has its foundation in the Holy Scriptures.
Remember, here on earth we know in part and we prophecy in part – but up there, in heaven, one knows fully! Please visit http://www.spiritlessons.com for recommended books by those who have experienced heaven and hell first hand.
Taken to Hell by Pastor Kim Yong Doo, March 31, 2012 - Colorado Holy Fire Revival
“While I was lying down, Jesus took me to hell. There are different levels of hell. As I was going through the different levels, there were different devils. Big ones, even tiny devils they were devouring my flesh. When I went 3 levels down, devils held a stick made of needles.
They started hitting me with a stick. It hurt so much, it was very hard to endure. My body wasn’t restored even around 3 or 4 this afternoon. Around 3, I started bleeding and it could not stop. I was so exhausted that I prayed to the Lord: ‘Lord it is so hard, I am going to die. It is so hard Lord.’
The lord said it was my calling, so we had to go. The Lord gave me a word from the book of Revelation 2:10. Obedience to the point of death. You have to be obedient till you die, in order to receive His full life.
The Lord opened my eyes and helped me to see while visiting hell. The hell was pitch dark. Whenever I go to hell, there are so many doors to hell. Doors are so varied, so many, so different from one another.
For example one of them as you enter hell, you enter a place like magma; another place as you enter it is so narrow like 1mm, because the path is so narrow, there is no other way but you have to fall off and there is no exit! When people fall off, there are needles sticking out, needles that are higher than buildings. They are so close together, there is an endless field covered with needles on both sides. There are many souls that are stuck there.
There is another hell that is like a blender. The souls who are at that place, they are blended.
There is also a place like a prison with iron bars. The current that runs through the bars is so powerful. As soon as they touch the bar, the souls melt away. There are so many places like that. Let’s say we are in a prison like bars, it is a tiny room and let’s say that it holds 5,000 people in the room.
People there are trying to go in the innermost part of the room. The people in the outer side as soon as they get touched by the bars, they melt away entirely right away.
There is a path to hell, as soon as you enter through the path, you cannot go back, it only goes forward, you get sucked immediately. The sad thing is that you can see the path to heaven from there and people scream ‘Oh no, I have to go to heaven! Oh no, I have to go to heaven now! Why am I here? No, no, please!’
Because so many people are going to hell, they are pushing each other. In those instances, everybody push forward going straight to hell. The path to hell is so wide, as wide as a stadium. Hell is bigger than heaven. About 1 in a thousand goes to heaven.
Not many people go to heaven as you think. Opposite what you think, a small amount of people make it to heaven. Don’t be too confident with your salvation! Even though we have become the people of God, don’t have the overconfidence that leads to conceit.
You don’t go to heaven because you are certain. You have to be humble and meek in order to go to heaven. Even though you have received salvation, you have to think like as if you have not arrived in your salvation.
That is why you have to work out your salvation with much fear and trembling every day. (Philippians 2:12)
When I go to hell, I encounter shocking moments. There is so many hell where pastors are going. There are countless pastors who are in that hell. There are a lot of famous seminary professors there; there are a lot of pastors that you might know. There, there are pastors who have played with the gift of God. The place where the pastor’s wife go is soo big, you cannot even imagine.
The hell where the leaders of the church go, is soo big, it is so full of it. After seeing that, I tell people don’t desire to become pastors. Because pastors are responsible for their souls and also for other people’s souls.
I am asking those who desire to be servants of God, as possible remain the members of the church and work hard to do the work of God. There are many members of my church who have graduated from the seminary, but are now working hard as regular members of church serving the Lord.
Members of my church have greater faith than regular church pastors, that’s how I fostered them. No matter where they are sent, they can cast out demons.”
Pastor Kim Yong Doo – You can read his books on www.TheBlazingHolyFire.com
Christians in Hell
"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away”. John 15:2
The ‘branch in Me’ means that Christian that has come to the Lord Jesus… but we see that the Father takes them away if they do not bear fruit (John 15:6)
As we shared above, Judas was part of the 12 disciples that Jesus Himself handpicked. He was the treasurer of Jesus ministry! He knew the Lord and furthermore, he moved in miracles, signs and wonders (Matthew 10). This man did not enter heaven in spite of Him being in the company of the Lord, his heart was far from the Lord.
Judas is a type of Christians who one day will find themselves outside the gates of the holy city saying, 'We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets'; and He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you are from; DEPART FROM ME, ALL YOU EVILDOERS.' Luke 13:26 -27
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, God delivered them from the hands of Pharaoh who had enslaved them for 400 years. With a might powerful hand, the Lord delivered them from the hands of pharaoh, by great signs and wonders the Lord brought them out of bondage.
This is a picture of what happens when someone gives their lives to the Lord. As soon as they accept the Lord Jesus, salvation begins but also a real battle begins!
Remember that the children of Israel’s destiny was the Promise Land, a land flowing with milk and honey - The Promise Land is a type of heaven our eternal home. But before they enter the Promise Land, they had to go through the wilderness, they had to be tested.
In the wilderness, many of them disobeyed the Lord; by their own free will, bad choice and rebellion, they could not enter the Promise Land; but most of them died in the wilderness; out of many thousands, only Joshua and Caleb who followed the Lord fully and the children who did not participate in the rebellion made it to the promise land (Numbers 14).
Please note that before they could possess the promise land, they had to fight and only when they conquered their enemies were they able to occupy the land.
Why People Perish?
People Perish Due to Our Spiritual Ignorance:
If we are going to understand the spiritual realm and get knowledge, we must pray harder. A weak prayer is not going to do it. A soft prayer here and there is not going to solve this dilemma. When satan comes against humanity, he comes against us with all his might, strength – if we are going to win this war, we must come against him more strongly in the name of Jesus.
Satan, his demons and agents are working 24x7 taking no rest. In the meantime, the majority of Christians are comfortably living in their homes, creeping into lukewarmness as though the souls of human kind are not in danger! In the meantime, Satanists, all agents & vessels of satan give up comfort; they give up their 3 meals a day and are moving speedily to deceive, steal, kill and destroy – they know that the time is short.
Because of their greater effort and devotion, they are understanding the spiritual realm than most Christians and are winning more people to the devil than Christians are. Rise up and pray like never before, humanity is in danger!
People Perish if We Don’t Evangelize:
Fellow Christians – Danger is upon us! If we love the Lord with all our heart, we have no other choice but to rise up and pick the fight!
‘Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters’ (Luke 11:23’.
The battle is real and is everywhere, there is no where to hide! Satan is converting more people than we Christian are doing, if you don’t believe me, look at our public schools here in the USA. The Lord has commanded us as a church to evangelize, going out door to door.
When Christ said ‘go therefore and make disciples of all nations’ He was not commissioning Jehovah witnesses nor Mormons, so how come they are evangelizing more than you and I?
God is calling you and I to repent for not evangelizing, put on the shoes of the Gospel of peace and get out there where the lost live and tell them ‘danger is coming, hell is real, heaven is real, run to Jesus for your life, make a choice now lest you die!’
If we do not do this, you and I will be held accountable for the souls that will perish because of our laziness. We have not arrived to heaven yet, therefore we must not sit comfortably and watch humanity being slaughtered.
Even in the Christian circle, we are losing more than we are gaining. Satan is working harder to take people to hell than we are. Tell me, should we not work harder to take people to heaven?
Why Christians Go to Hell
According to what was revealed to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, a great number of Christians who are in hell are there because of different reasons but here are some major factors:
a. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
There is so much to say on this subject, for now the Holy Spirit leads me to share these scriptures with you. As God allows, in the future, we will share more on this topic.
"I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” (Mark 3:28-29)
"But I tell you that men will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:36-37)
"Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your sins." (Mark 11:25-26)
"I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” (Luke 13:5)
"And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12:31-32)
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (Hebrew 6:4-6).
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.(Hebrews 10:26-27)
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9
b. Incorrect Teachings:
Today we have many who have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. “And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
That by simply reciting the sinner’s prayer, our salvation is guaranteed: Reciting the sinner’s prayer is the beginning, or the first level of a journey of many levels. There must a genuine repentance, a turning away from our old way of thinking, lifestyle and way of life.
Once we give our lives to the Lord, our old ways must come to an end and start living holy daily, to confess your sins daily and repent daily. We must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We must submit to the Lord Jesus, read His word carefully everyday and observe it fully.
When someone gives their life to Jesus, as far as God is concerned, He is fully committed to save that person, unfortunately, someone can walk away from it, just in the same way the prodigal son decided to walk away from his father’s house.
That once saved always saved:
This is a doctrine from the pit of hell. Salvation is not a one-time event. It is not something we do once and we have a lifetime warranty to enter heaven. What takes place in the born again process is that a sinner has taken their first fundamental process, the first level of many levels into entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
Salvation, the first level is so important that without it, other levels have no significance. In other words, if one could observe all the 10 commandments of God but they do not believe in Jesus, they have nothing at all because Jesus is the way to the Father.
That we no longer have to obey God’s 10 commandments:
I once believed this lie and oh, many thanks to the Lamb of God who led me into the truth and snatched me from the hands of the enemy. There are many people who hold unto this belief because they simply read it in their Bible notes (in my case, this is where I had gotten it).
The 10 commandments were written by God's own finger, written in stone, placed inside the Ark of the Covenant. It should be noted here that "commandments or commands or God’s laws" in English, does not mean "being legalistic or a list of do's and don'ts.”
Rather, it is God’s instruction to us so that in observing them we may live.
God's commands are love, eternal, for all people and is sin to break them. When God gave the 10 Commandments, He was not confused so as to annul 1 or 2 of them later! God’s commands are not for old testament people only – they are for us today as well.
In Luke 1:5, the Bible says Zacharias and Elizabeth were blameless, obeying ALL God's commandments
“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law, until all is accomplished”. Matthew 5:18
Today Christians think they can choose which commands to obey or not based on their convenience and own excuses, doing so they hope to still be called righteous, therefore we have all kinds of excuses as to why not observe such and such command especially the 4th commandment - this is actually a deception from the devil...
Today God speaks to you who are listening, to you who have ears to hear and eyes to see –‘OBEY MY LAWS AND COMMANDS’.
We must obey His commands including the 4th commandment. Here below is a revelation given to Pastor Kim Yong Doo Concerning the 10 Commandments.
(Pastor Kim Speaking)
"I decided to ask the Lord about Sundays, how we should keep them Holy. As soon as I asked Jesus, His expression changed to anger. The Lord wanted me to reference certain scriptures…
“But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.' (Jeremiah 17:27) ('Carrying any load', refers to a load of goods to sell, a selling cart)
"If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken. (Isaiah 58:13-14)
“For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” (Matthew 12:8)
…Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." (Matthew 12:12)
The Lord had commanded us to keep Sundays Holy in every way. He rebuked watching television, dining out with family, and other secular activities. Furthermore, the Lord did not permit Christians to run any business of any kind for profit on Sundays. He also did not allow Saints to do any shopping on Sundays.
Jesus showed me a group of souls in a specific part of hell, and said, “Among these souls are some who participated in a cult. There are some who were alcoholics and some who treated the Sabbath or Sunday carelessly.
On Sundays they would spend money for their pleasure. Most of these people are here for not keeping Sundays Holy. There are some who ran businesses and assumed that the Lord would forgive them. They were deceived.” I saw countless numbers of deacons, deaconesses, and pastors from all races.
As a matter of fact, only a few saints made it to heaven that did not keep Sundays properly. And on the contrary, there was an over flowing number of saints in hell for not keeping Sundays holy. The Lord commanded, “Look at those souls! Those souls did not consider My Day with much relevance. They made My Day unclean. Look very closely.” We were in total shock from what we saw. Christians were in hell, shouting in anguish and being tormented. After witnessing this scene, I concentrated on repenting for not keeping Sundays Holy in every way.
There are many saints who think that spending money on Sundays is justified, IF it is for the sake of the gospel. Jesus clarified the church’s deception, “People obfuscate, misuse, and abuse the commandment of Sunday, 'for the sake of the gospel'.
They do it consistently. Do not spend money on Sundays! Once men have decided to do what is in their hearts, they present their reasons or justifications to break the commandment at any cost.” The Lord looked very serious. His majesty was overflowing.
Currently, the churches cry out for revival, but they must first be changed. They must fearfully repent. Churches are not properly teaching members to keep Sunday’s Holy. In fact, they treat this matter with negligence. The Lord was giving us a stern warning.
Any kind of events held in the house of God, must be free of charge. Many churches sell meal tickets, since they have numerous attendants. Purchasing meal tickets is not keeping Sundays Holy. The Lord meticulously showed me how many Korean Churches are not approved by God because they do not keep Sundays Holy.
The Lord also wanted the church to feed any guest speakers at either the Pastor’s house or a saint’s house, if the special event is held on Sundays. The Lord did not want the church to take the guest speakers out to a restaurant on Sundays. If the church had a kitchen, the guests could be feed there.
Jesus made it very clear, by stating that He forbids us to spend money on Sundays.
There are many people who argue that this day is Saturday or any other day. The Lord’s response is to observe this day on Sunday because it is the day the Lord was resurrected on. The Lord has spoken to many of His servant about this day – He spoke to pastor Kim to observe Sabbath on Sunday, He also spoke to sister Choo Thomas to observe this day on Sunday, so it is not any day. God is pleased when we obey Him without arguments.
c. Not keeping God’s Word and His Commands:
Christians should read the word of God diligently, believe the Word of God and obey the Word of God fully (not hearers of the word but doers). Many Christians end up in hell for not obeying the Word of God. We eat daily, so it is very important to read your Bible every day, many times a day; after we read, we must participate, take the word of God and run with it.
‘But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves’ (James 1:22); Remember, faith without works is dead.
God’s Will & Narrow Path
When someone gives their lives to Jesus, God gives them His grace and power to repent and to overcome sin. Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. The moment that one is truly born again of God, a real battle begins with satan.
Satan is decided to take every soul to hell. He will thus send temptation our way but we overcome because we are born of God. If you have truly been born again, you can no longer be attracted to the old way; you can no longer be attracted to sin.
As born again Christians, Jesus is our Lord, Master and King. We can no longer do our own will and this is an area where the devil likes to trip up Christians. Many Christians are doing their own will. They go to God in prayer with their own will and ask God to grant their own wills and not His.
But if Jesus is your Lord and Master, you must submit to His will. When we pray, we should go to God in prayer and ask according to His perfect will instead of taking our own will and ask him to bless it.
In Matthew 7:21, a man who did not do God’s will was cast out by the Lord Jesus Himself. Then Jesus went on to explain what God’s will was:
“Matthew 7:24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts upon them, may be compared to a wise man, who built his house upon the rock.”
Doing God’s will is to obey His words.
Christians who do not do God’s will cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of God but only He who does the will of my Father will enter.” Matthew 7:21
It is easy to sin. It is easy to live comfortably. The Lord is commanding us to rise up, pick up the cross and follow him. We must forsake sin.
We must bind ourselves to the Word of God and obey it no matter what. We must follow the way that is less traveled, a way that is far from popularity. “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:14)
The way to Salvation is hard and narrow and only a few will ever find it. Hold firm to the Truths of the Bible and remain in the Doctrine of Christ. Keep in mind always that Jesus Christ is our Righteousness, Holiness and Redemption. We must seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness daily without fail. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul to the Lake of Fire?
Beware of False Teachers
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An authentic servant of God will teach you what it takes to enter the Kingdom of God just like Jesus did: “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!” A true servant will teach you to work out your salvation with much fear and trembling. A true servant of the Lord will teach you how to live holy and if a member of his church commits sin, the true servant will rebuke sin.
A true servant of God will teach you about the soon coming of our Lord Jesus and being ready now; a true servant will teach you about genuine repentance, heaven and hell. A true church will have great power that demons will be cast out left and right. That’s how it was in Jesus ministry. There is something wrong if you go to a church, people come with demons and walk out with demons!
Beware of the teachers who do not bear the fruit of the spirit. Jesus taught us that we will know the true or false prophets by their fruit. Beware of the teachers who are earth bound and only point you into the blessings of this earth that will soon pass away. Beware of preachers who forbid the move of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Beware and never follow a leader who is on his way to hell because the Bible makes it clear that He who follow a blind man will fall into the pit.
God has revealed to many, there are many Christians who ended up in hell by following false teachers and by accepting their erroneous teachings!
The enemy has worked at his best using preachers and teachers to water down the Gospel and the message of salvation especially here in the West. Today, many preachers are not teaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ; many are not teaching the Full Counsel of God.
Discernment is needed in this hour. Do not just follow someone. Do not just go to church and say amen to everything that is being said; but be like the ‘Bereans’ who studied the Bible themselves to see if those things were so. It is important to know your Bible. People perish for lack of knowledge. People go to hell because they don’t read the Word of God. You have a Bible sitting on your shelf, grab it, read it as though your entire life depended upon that word of God because it truly does: ‘the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life’John 6:63
“Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!” (Mark 10:24)
Salvation
The purpose of being saved is not just to receive earthly blessings from God such as healing, receiving miracles, have our prayers answered and so on… When Jesus chose the disciples out of the world, first of all it was that ‘that they might be with him’, He later gave a wonderful promise ‘I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.’
This my friend is our destiny – wherever He is! God saves us so that we can spend eternity with Him. ‘For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." (John 6:40 ESV). There is not a single soul that Jesus saves for this earth but He desires that all will enter into eternity with Him.
True salvation has been obtained when Christ is fully formed in a disciple (Galatians 4:9). “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”(Galatians 2:20).
When Christ is formed in you, you will bear the fruit of the spirit in your character. The fruit of the spirit are manifested through those who hear the Word of God and Observe it fully, obeying the Lord to the point of death.
The fruit of the spirit are manifested to those who abide in Christ. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
Christians who will enter the Kingdom of God must bear the fruit of the spirit that remain. A fig tree without fruit was cursed. A tree without fruit was also cut down "And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’"
Categories of Those Who will not enter Heaven
According to the Word of God, the following are category of people who cannot be admitted in the Kingdom of God if they do not repent. These are those who:
Practice immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts, of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing it is written that ‘those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.’( Galatians 5:19-21)
Furthermore, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 says ‘Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
Those of you who wonder how in the world Christians can be taken to hell, you can find the answer from these verses above. It is all in the word of God!
Repentance
“Bear fruits in keeping with repentance” Luke 3:8
What does the word ‘repent’ mean? The word repent„ literally means to think differently.
Repent does not mean that you simply feel bad. Repentance is not remorse. Repent doesn’t mean that you can sit there, become aware of your sin, and simply cry over it. Simply going to the altar and crying isn’t repentance, because repentance requires a change in thinking. Now we are to think differently about what? To change what you think about what? We are to repent of, to change our thinking about our sins. – From Steve Foss Website
[Also someone sent me this as I was writing this article]
We must repent for our known, unknown, hidden and presumptuous sins. We must repent of the sins we commit in our dreams. We must repent of the sins we commit in our mind.
Remember, the heart of a man is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things to make us feel or think we have finished repenting or think we are right with God when the Truth is that we have all fallen and at no time can we appear before our Father without the Blood of the Lamb.
We must produce fruits in keeping with Repentance, Carrying the Cross of Judgment daily, dying daily at the Throne of Grace for mercy.
The Greatest Commandment, The First Love, The Most Important of God's Command, The Kingdom of God and
His Righteousness:
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart
- Seek the Kingdom first: Prayer day and night without fail in Repentance for the Forgiveness of my sins and that of my fellow men world wide, the Church".
His righteousness:
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:28-31)
If you keep your eye on Jesus you will be saved. If you turn away for one second to the flesh in disobedience, from Praying in repentance for the Forgiveness of sins (Carrying the Cross), trusting in your own righteousness, you will be doomed to condemnation to the Lake of Fire. You must remain in Him, walking in the Spirit and not according to the evil cravings of the natural sinful nature.
Deny yourself daily, take up your cross daily, die daily, repent daily, obey the Word of God daily, preach repentance and forgiveness of sins daily, Teach the Doctrine of Christ daily, follow Jesus daily in example, forgive daily, pray without ceasing, remain in Jesus daily, meditate on the Words of Jesus daily, worship the Lord daily, love Him daily and walk in the Spirit till He comes riding on the clouds with His Glory and Splendor!
The Ten (10) Commandments of God given through Moses to His children are in full force and cannot be broken. Pay your Tithes and Offerings faithfully. Observing the Law CANNOT save your soul and you must know that you CANNOT in anyway make it to Heaven without upholding them faithfully even to the point of death in humility, waiting for the blessed hope of Christ's coming.
We must uphold the Law in holiness and humility as we live in the Grace given us to do God's will by the power of the Holy Spirit which He gives us without measure when we ask, seek and knock.
The Holy Commandments of God are no longer burdensome for those that love Him. and are born of water and the Spirit. Jesus warned us not to think He has come to abolish the Law or the Prophets or the Psalms, He came to fulfill them as an example for us.
The power of the cross helps the believer who is denying him/herself (Denying Selfish ambition, Pride, Position, Power) and carrying the cross (Bearing the shame, reproach, pain and suffering that comes with the Old Rugged Cross) to Obey, Follow and do the requirements by the Grace of the Holy Spirit our Helper.
Law breakers and Lawless Pastors, christians, men, women and children have no place in Heaven. Search your heart deeply and seek the Lord with a humble, broken heart and a contrite spirit. Proud people who declare they belong to God and keep on sinning are liars and the Truth is not in them. Know where you belong and change your destiny now! Heaven or the Lake of Fire?
You must also clearly know in Heart and Mind that obeying the Law does not mean you are saved. You are saved through repentance and being washed in the Precious Blood for the forgiveness of sins and granted Grace to be able to Obey the Commandments! Then you are not a Law Breaker and Christ now lives the Holy Life in you!
Repentance means ruthlessly dealing with sin.
Gouge out your eye if it is denying you the Kingdom of Heaven. Cut off your leg and throw it far from you if it is denying you Heaven. Figuratively, we must rid ourselves from all moral filth if our Hope of Eternity of Heaven still remains in our hearts. Make your calling and election sure
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