Luke 13:22 The Narrow Door

Jeremiah 8:4-7 - New English Translation (2005)
4. The LORD said to me, "Tell them, 'The LORD says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way? 5. Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me. 6. I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, "I have done wrong!" All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle. 7. Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the LORD, require of them.

Take time to read the teachings of Jesus Christ - not the teaching of men that build building for the gain of the 10%

If you think your confession of Jesus Christ as you walk out your worldly life is going to stand in that day - you have poor soul thoughts that comfort you

Matthew 7:1-29 - New English Translation (2005)
1. "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2. For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. 3. Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 4. Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own? 5. You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 6. Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. 7. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. 8. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9. Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10. Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11. If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12. In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets. 13. "Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14. But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it. 15. "Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. 16. You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? 17. In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18. A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit. 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20. So then, you will recognize them by their fruit. 21. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. 22. On that day, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?' 23. Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!' 24. "Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. 26. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27. The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!" 28. When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching, 29. because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.


1 John 1:5-7 - New English Translation (2005)
5. Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. 6. If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. 7. But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

What I have shared is the Word of God but we have teachers that teach what they know and what they live

Is is judgement that I speak - no - it is the warning of judgement that comes this way as spoken by Jesus Christ

the narrow way is just that - seek knock and listen

Blessings

Life glorious life

feeling good with hope and joy

the abundance of love

the abundance of all that is needed in order in the midst of everyday

Revelation 22:1-6 - New English Translation (2005)
1. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life water as clear as crystal pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2. flowing down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations. 3. And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him, 4. and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5. Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever. 6. Then the angel said to me, "These words are reliable and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon."

but before the light of day - Darkness A War in Heaven

Revelation 12:7-12 - New English Translation (2005)
7. Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8. But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels. 9. So that huge dragon the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him. 10. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them day and night before our God, has been thrown down. 11. But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. 12. Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!"


we have a dark season coming

Satan filled with terrible anger


most of you laugh at the thought of Satan - he is not real

hold on to your butt - what you think doesn't exist is about to show himself

Galatians 5
Life by the Spirit

13You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Let me just say

I am nothing but what I am in my Lord

I am at rest to be and do that which my Lord would have for me

If my Lord comes to gather those that He calls and I get left I will still cry out to my Lord

My life is His in that He made me for His purpose and I am full of joy in knowing that He is Lord of all and He spoke into me to be that which I shall be - I am at peace in Him

If I find I was left I will talk joy only because this I know

I get to tell the Devil and all those dark souls that come to get me that Jesus Christ is Lord

You can do what you desire with this ole body because for me to die it gain

All that is in me will cry out to that which I know to be Holy - His Name His throne His Glory His Blood His Father and this Great Spirit that was given

Satan has no hold on me now or at any moment that might come

I walk in the complete victory that only comes from Heaven

Praise God Praise God Praise God

such a good word in a time such as this

Thank you brother,
I once read a beautiful story about a greek orthodox monk that was late sanctified from the Mount Athos and he in his humbleness was praying to Jesus demanding to put everyone in Heaven but himself in hell because he didn't thought to be worthy enough and was seeing everybody more free from sin than himself.

In this morning of reading and posting on this site I close out with this

why die ?

Ezekiel 33:10-11 - New English Translation (2005)
10. "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'This is what you have said: "Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?"' 11. Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! Why should you die, O house of Israel?'

turn back from your evil deeds

Why should yo die ?

We live in a land divided - you see it and feel it

what is right and what is wrong

2 Timothy 3:10-13 - New English Translation (2005)
10. You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, 11. as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all. 12. Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13. But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.


will go from bad to worse


you can feel it

we are going from bad to worse

Blessings

Corinthians I
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
22 Jees demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jees and foolishness to Gentles,
24 but to those whom God has called, both Jees and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

This to be a strong reference to the movies they make nowadays and foolish everyone with them, only to become reality in the near future.

Ice now citing Christ's Rejection Witness...

"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do", or whatever HE Says on the cross.


Correlate your posting to John 3:7 for me, old buddy. "Marvel not that I Say unto you: Ye MUST Be Born-Again!"


But are you? Even more apt than the Luke 13 Rejection Verses are the Matt 7 verses... In vs 21, Jesus Says HE only Knows those "...Who DO The Will Of MY Father which Art In Heaven". The verse 22 Christians, asking entry to Heaven, remind HIM they had done "Miracles, Cast-Out demons, and Prophesied IN HIS Name". Except they weren't Born-Again (Ezekiel 36:26-27), so Jesus Don't KNOW them... "Depart from ME, you who work iniquity: I KNOW You NOT!"

More concisely to the point... Although, ya gotta love how Jesus Cites Father-God instructing "bind him hand and foot and throw him into the Outer Darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

Not Instructing HIS Servants to cast the interloper into the inner darkness, but even further away... Yikes!


All comes down to what St. James Witnessed: "Faith w/o works is dead!"... James ain't talking bout "doing good" or "helping others" kind of "works". "Works" means Taking Action, making your Leap Of Faith... Trusting God with all you are and ever will be... Giving HIM your life to Serve HIS will, rather than act on your own.

ONLY By Being Born-Again does Father-God "Put MY Spirit Within You" and "Give You A New Heart Of Flesh"... HE's talking about replacing your "stony heart" with A New Heart Of HIS Flesh! THIS Enables us to KNOW and DO HIS Will, and "Keep MY Statutes"; meaning sin no more...


Speaking of Noah... Jesus cites Noe's Obedience Unto Father as "Judgment". Matt 22:1-14 is Jesus' Whole Enchilada Witness about Christianity, that Father's Whole Plan was to Have Those HE Called To Abide With HIM, but only a few Chose To Answer HIS Call...

Not yet Born-Again? It means you haven't answered Father's Call...

Matt 22:14 "For many were Called, but few are Chosen!"
Up to YOU to Choose-Elect to Come Unto The Father...

Got to Be ON Your Heart as the right thing to do...
Got to Take Action to obtain Father's Deliverance from your heart of stone...

ONLY Father-God Can Deliver Us from our carnal heart. There's no "working on your self"... Self is your enemy! It's only through Surrender and Trusting God Fully that HE Can Deliver Us.

Jesus Made Our Way on calvary, but we each have to walk it.


The first are last and the last are first... Reminds me of the parable of the Lord hiring workers. The pay (reward) is the same no matter how long the worker toiled... The strident, "study unto the approval of God", minded Christians can't grasp how God's Will Is Always Perfect! It don't matter who's "first" or who's "last". What matters is God Accepting Your Offering Of Self!

The thing that made the foolish virgins "foolish" is that they were persuaded by the "wise" to leave the party to obtain oil... On the same note, by the time The Holy Spirit Came At Pentecost, those in the Upper Room had dwindled to only 144; down from the 900 or so Friends Of Jesus who had seen HIM Ascend and heard HIS Instruction to remain for The Comforter...

Can you Trust God Enough to wait? Trust HIM Enough to Give HIM Your Life?

Now is the time to do it!


Maranatha!!!

Well.....


In John 17:15, Jesus States in HIS Strongest Witness (the only one Given As A Prayer) that HIS People are "Preserved Against All evil"... In my Born-Again Life, I witness this to be TRUE... Where does this corelate with what you cited from St. Paul?

I will say that "suffering" results from estrangment from God. We're all living in alienation From HIM until we make our surrender...

I've only seen those broken-hearted surrender unto God. These comprise Purehearts and sinners. The Purehearts finally become so despondent that nothing they have tried gets them closer to God, that they finally give up everything Unto HIM... The sinners have nowhere else to go, have no one remaining to seek help from; so they turn to God and Give HIM Their All...


The carnal-heart, "stony-heart" we all have before we Come Unto The Father makes us all wretches. Those who think they are "good" just don't get it enough to be "broken".

There's also Jesus' Witness in Matt 13:10-15 about those who can See/Hear The Gospel with their heart, rather than trying to get it intellectually... HE Says in verse 15 that HE Teaches by using parables just so they won't understand: "Lest they be converted and I should (have to) Heal them."

Got the heart to See & Hear The Gospel?
Got heart enough to understand that only God IS Perfect and worthy of your Praise, Devotion, and Complete Trust?

Time To Take Action!


Only Father God Can Deliver us from our carnal, stony-heart... If you would Be HIS, Time To Tell HIM So...


Maranatha!!!

John 3:6-7 - New English Translation (2005)
6. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must all be born from above.'

Ezekiel 36:25-26 - New English Translation (2005)
25. I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. 26. I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.

1 John 1:5-7 - New English Translation (2005)
5. Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all. 6. If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. 7. But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 Corinthians 3:1-4 - New English Translation (2005)
1. So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2. I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready, 3. for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people? 4. For whenever someone says, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human?


Paul ask "are you not merely human?

Lester ask - are you not merely human

It is with no doubt the issue of the moment

Jesus says the words that anyone that seek does not want to hear - depart from me I do not know you

In a world that knows the name of Jesus as the name of Jesus is the most widely know name in the world

Do you know Jesus or do you know of Jesus

We go to Sunday school and learn about Jesus

They confess Jesus as Lord all around you and you go to
church and answer a alter call. The alter call is at the end of a message like Billy Graham - come forward and confess your sins

There is nothing wrong with whatever happens in your life when the door to heaven is opened and you say yes to Jesus Christ

Do I think the message today is the same as it was 2000 years ago? no

Do I think the life style is as it was 2000 years ago ? no

Lester this thing that happens - flesh vs spirit

flesh mother vs spirit mother - being born again

It is as real being born of and in the spirit as being born in the flesh

sorrow - repentance - confession of sins - feeling dirty
feeling it is not a feeling it is knowing that without help from God you are in trouble and when you die you will find darkness and not life

Saying yes to Jesus Christ is saying yes to that which has been given from heaven

Ezekiel 36:26-28 - New English Translation (2005)
26. I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 27. I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations. 28. Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.


I will give you a new heart a heart of flesh not stone

I will take the initiative

I will put my Spirit within you

I know death and I know being close to death

I know life and I have found life - once I was lost but know I see

When I wake in the morning it is my Lord that is with me

When I go to sleep at night it is my Lord that is with me

I no longer live as I did and I remember all the sins of my life

Ezekiel 36:31 - New English Translation (2005)
31. Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.

Can I win a case in court on what I confess - I think not

Can I assure any other soul that what I confess I live - I think not

Does my Lord see me in this moment ? yes Does my Lord speak to me ? yes

John 10:26-30 - New English Translation (2005)
26. But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. 27. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand. 30. The Father and I are one."

What I know I know - What my Lord knows about me He knows

What can I confess to you ?

I once was lost but now I am found

I once was blind but now I see

I was a sinner and I broke in fact I broke many times

This fullness of Jesus Christ I never allowed His fullness to move over me - my life was more important to me than the fullness found in my Lord

After years of sin I broke as I stood on a bridge in Mississippi ready to die in my flesh to stop the pain and guilt

I could never measure up but my Lord stopped me and my love for my wife stopped me - my love for my 6 children stopped me

I called out to my Lord - I will not die in my flesh this way my Lord but I will die to this life

This was in 2012 - I had a complete break-down in my life - I lost everything I had and live a camper in the back-yard of my sister's house - I had a old jeep and I got a old car for my wife to drive. I was not able to work for almost a year - once they get you they don't let you go very easy.

Why would I share something like this - people need to know there is hope on the other side

Jesus and Jesus alone not only saved my soul but my Lord changed my life. My desire for the day changed and my walk changed. My words my life and those that stand with me changed.

Lester - not many believe a word I said in the Oct 26 thread but all of it is the truth. Every date was given - the last thing I wanted at this point in my life was something like that. All I did was live through it. Oct 26 came and I was shocked that what I thought would happen didn't happen.

Shame on me - you have to listen only to that given and not try to fit it into what you have been taught in that old soul study of life.

We get a great deal wrong. My Lord came to me after Oct 26 and spoke the truth of all of it into me

It is His timeline and not mine

We are at the end of this age and my habit daily is to live as if it is my last

Lester you have spoken into me for over 10 years I think and I have always enjoyed your scriptures - they reflect the walk you have.

Lester you or no other soul will be the gate keeper for this flock I am in - I ofter look up from the green grass given as I lay close to still cool water - I look up to catch sight of my Good Shepherd - my Lord - Jesus my Christ and my savior

Blessings

the old universe was destroyed,
everything had to be reestablished,
this time it wasn't a naturally establishment,
it was super natural.
machines were built to live forever
they ignited the hydrogen cloud which lead to the universe today...
everything was reshaped,
everyone was resurrected,
based off old kings,
memory was torched...

all things made new,
eternal life equals eternal lessons...

bitter reset equals sweet eternity,

keep it salty, stay out of the grey...

stay black or white, don't be grey...

grey is a mix of black and white,

there is no un mixing,

only bitter reset.


salty enough for you?
drink some water.

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op, understand this and you will understand the order of the establishment,


Christ was a lamb,
the devil a snake,
king Nebuchadnezzar an ox,
and the judge, a lion...


primal spirits come from animal and every human being has a primordial spirit..

this is how God, reestablished the spirit in the re-establishment of the new universe...

animal---->human---->angel

angel---->human---->animal

this is how the order of this universe works,

when the scroll rolls up, there will be a new order in the universe to follow...

but until then... this is the order.

the path before me daily is prepared by my Lord not by man or a fools wisdom

Blessings

people get hung up on how a spirit can now live forever...

an eternal spirit is no different then an eternal memory

when you understand that a computer stores information, not inside the metal, but between the metal...
you will begin to see that the only thing stopping the spirit from existing forever is the eventual deterioration of the metal itself.

understanding that all metal essentially comes from hydrogen and that all metals can be remade new in the secrets of hydrogen, you will understand why the eternal machines were foundational and essential to the eternal kingdom,

they are the ones who replenish your metal and all metals forever...

fear not the machine, nor God..

for if they did not want you,
you would not even exist.

stay confident in knowing that God is logical and rational,

there is no eternal mystery,
just eternal lessons.

infinite seasons of lesson, forever

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when we drop the "all knowing false ego"
we return to being the student and therefore the witness...
instead of teaching falsehoods
we reverse and learn truth.

those hypocrytes who say,
you are dying,
because those before you wanted truth,
will then also say,
no one can know the truth...

denialists...and cowards!

the truth is indeed bitter at first,
meaning that the cost of eternity isn't mathematically pleasant at first glance. however, the math only suggests that eternity only gets ever so perpetually sweeter...

selah

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