THE REAL TRUTH DOES NOT LIE
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Almost everywhere we turn today someone is coming up with a different brand of what they claim is truth. This is particularly true when it comes to God's word. It is almost as bad as getting a a room full of people and whispering a sentence one by one until it passes throughout the whole group. The message that comes out at the other end of all of the filtering from one to another is totally different than when it started, and sometimes even turned into something that no one can even understand.
There isn't any wonder why God left this message so simple a small child could understand it. Jesus main message was to abide in Him in John 15: 4, and the reason was because unless we are directly attached to Jesus we will not be allowed to enter into the Kingdom of God. We are not a part of the original vine who is Christ; we are grafted into the vine and saved like branches who are grafted into a grape vine to produce rich and rare fruit within the garden. The graft that God has made is good, and will always be good, but unless we as a grafted branch produce good fruit God has no use in keeping us grafted into the vine. If we are going to be barren as a branch or even like a dead branch even though God knows we are very much alive He will eventually prune us from the main vine and treat us just as He will any dead branch or weed. In other words He will cut us off and throw us into the fire to be burnt.
The world hates God, and it hates the fact that it cannot manipulate real truth. Real truth from God cannot be used to create falsehoods that are designed to make some look better than they are while using others for the gain of a few. The real truth of God has no need to change or grow for the benefit of what this world calls success. Truth stays the same, and is best seen in it most simple form for the very reasons I stated at the beginning of this message to you. The is no need for gain as the world count gain in business, but instead does require growth and development by implementing the most simple of it's principals into a daily routine. Truth in many ways does us no good without it becoming a habit in our life. That is one of many reasons that this world and those who cling to it's principals hate God so; and they will hate you as well because you are a reflection of truth. It is that truth that condemns the world to it's very core, and that truth cannot be hidden from when sin is exposed for everyone to see. That is why Jesus told us in John 15 18-27 "If this world hates you, know that it hated me first before it hated you. If you were of the world the world would love it's own, but because you are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
There are several great truths within these words that we need to be reminded of: 1. We are not original to the vine we are grafted into, which is Christ. We came out of this world in a physical sense, and even though we have been created to love and serve God the Father if it were not for the actions of Jesus Christ we could never have a chance to even speak to the Father through His Spirit let alone ever be a part of His Kingdom. Our relationship with God is based upon our positioning in Christ Jesus; in other words it is based upon our love and striving to seek the truth from God at all times. We can never produce spiritual fruit on our own, and we can never be alive to God without our being a part of Christ Jesus.
The end result of all of this is that we do not belong to this place anymore if we are actually a party of Christ. We don't have to hate this world for it to hate us. All we really need to do is to reflect the truth that shines through us from Jesus to this world; that is enough to be hated by this world. We should be able to find many reasons to want to be with God more so than want to be in this world, but among the greatest is because this world hates the fact that it cannot intimidate us with death any longer. Oh yes ! it is true that we can be killed physically, but only once. Death has been conquered by the resurrection of Christ Jesus. You see the big lie of this world is this fear of death, but every man is appointed to die once...but the spirit lives on forever! That means we will return to the same form we were created in , and then spend eternity in the kind of life that we have chosen while we were here. If that gives any of us pause to think then we need to get this straight. It never hurts for us to revisit these simple truths from time to time because we will always need to reflect on what it means for our life and our eternity. God bless you and keep in prayer for us all as this world continues to draw toward Christ return. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Almost everywhere we turn today someone is coming up with a different brand of what they claim is truth. This is particularly true when it comes to God's word. It is almost as bad as getting a a room full of people and whispering a sentence one by one until it passes throughout the whole group. The message that comes out at the other end of all of the filtering from one to another is totally different than when it started, and sometimes even turned into something that no one can even understand.
There isn't any wonder why God left this message so simple a small child could understand it. Jesus main message was to abide in Him in John 15: 4, and the reason was because unless we are directly attached to Jesus we will not be allowed to enter into the Kingdom of God. We are not a part of the original vine who is Christ; we are grafted into the vine and saved like branches who are grafted into a grape vine to produce rich and rare fruit within the garden. The graft that God has made is good, and will always be good, but unless we as a grafted branch produce good fruit God has no use in keeping us grafted into the vine. If we are going to be barren as a branch or even like a dead branch even though God knows we are very much alive He will eventually prune us from the main vine and treat us just as He will any dead branch or weed. In other words He will cut us off and throw us into the fire to be burnt.
The world hates God, and it hates the fact that it cannot manipulate real truth. Real truth from God cannot be used to create falsehoods that are designed to make some look better than they are while using others for the gain of a few. The real truth of God has no need to change or grow for the benefit of what this world calls success. Truth stays the same, and is best seen in it most simple form for the very reasons I stated at the beginning of this message to you. The is no need for gain as the world count gain in business, but instead does require growth and development by implementing the most simple of it's principals into a daily routine. Truth in many ways does us no good without it becoming a habit in our life. That is one of many reasons that this world and those who cling to it's principals hate God so; and they will hate you as well because you are a reflection of truth. It is that truth that condemns the world to it's very core, and that truth cannot be hidden from when sin is exposed for everyone to see. That is why Jesus told us in John 15 18-27 "If this world hates you, know that it hated me first before it hated you. If you were of the world the world would love it's own, but because you are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
There are several great truths within these words that we need to be reminded of: 1. We are not original to the vine we are grafted into, which is Christ. We came out of this world in a physical sense, and even though we have been created to love and serve God the Father if it were not for the actions of Jesus Christ we could never have a chance to even speak to the Father through His Spirit let alone ever be a part of His Kingdom. Our relationship with God is based upon our positioning in Christ Jesus; in other words it is based upon our love and striving to seek the truth from God at all times. We can never produce spiritual fruit on our own, and we can never be alive to God without our being a part of Christ Jesus.
The end result of all of this is that we do not belong to this place anymore if we are actually a party of Christ. We don't have to hate this world for it to hate us. All we really need to do is to reflect the truth that shines through us from Jesus to this world; that is enough to be hated by this world. We should be able to find many reasons to want to be with God more so than want to be in this world, but among the greatest is because this world hates the fact that it cannot intimidate us with death any longer. Oh yes ! it is true that we can be killed physically, but only once. Death has been conquered by the resurrection of Christ Jesus. You see the big lie of this world is this fear of death, but every man is appointed to die once...but the spirit lives on forever! That means we will return to the same form we were created in , and then spend eternity in the kind of life that we have chosen while we were here. If that gives any of us pause to think then we need to get this straight. It never hurts for us to revisit these simple truths from time to time because we will always need to reflect on what it means for our life and our eternity. God bless you and keep in prayer for us all as this world continues to draw toward Christ return. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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