THE DEAD NOT
WILLING TO BE ALIVE, ALONG WITH THOSE WHO BELIEVE TO BE ALIVE WITHOUT WILLINGNESS TO DIE
EVER
“Then said
Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:
and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
(26) For
what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Mat 16:24-26
KJV
Many try following
Christ for those things He represents to them, the suit being settled and so engraved upon
their minds, they scarcely realize Christ is not with them at all. He is able to represent
a whole lot of things to many different “experts”: from money and welfare, to
suitable doctrinal assets, emotional (un)happiness, true doctrine’s hope, and many
more such things. None of these is following Christ the Savior ever – though it may
still be following another Christ.
If you know a land,
a country by map – what has it to do with knowing it of a truth, in reality, being
fully acquainted with its customs, landscapes and beauty? Is the map the land? Can it ever be? It represents the
land, but it will never be the land itself! The design of a house on paper – can any
architect ever state it is suitable for people to live there? Is the house the written
paper itself ever? In the same way, the Bible is not Christ at all, the genuine living
Word of God, unless He gathers with us!
If one attempts to
do without Christ in a living manner, if sin is so enabled to drive us to Bible knowledge
and learning, if conscience’s pricks are ever to drive us to know a lot about the
Bible and the God of the Bible, we are deceived and well-deceiving people and as far from
God as we have never been before! Christ is the living word of God, “and without Him
was not any thing made that was made”, John 1:3. Are you trying to do without Him, just to enable
you to believe He is with you?
The worst thing
that can ever happen to any man, is to hold and withhold upon truth as he does with an
illusion. People came from a phantasmagoric world where to lie is considered art, where
church living is a mockery unto God, and where illusion is the only happiness of any soul
– once they come to God, they keep their ways in a “Word” fashion, in a
suitable way, feigning humility, recreating and reshaping truth according to belief and
not according to what it is: Life, as genuine and as clear as it can and may ever be! God
is not to be mocked. Truth is still supposed, as accurate as can ever be, for knowledge
has run to and fro by now. That is how God is easily put aside, banished from His own Temple, imagined prayed
unto unreality.
Which doctrine do
you take hold of, my dear man? Which man of God do you uphold constantly, even when you
try to fall asleep? Know that you do that to honor yourself above all, trying to duck away
from your own Life – that’s why you greedily, doctrinally, and in a discursive
way uphold a man of God so high up that people around you come to reject the God of that
man simply because you act as if you have what you have not, by associating yourself to it
or him. Look at what was said of Simon who was known to be associated with Philip! “Then
Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and
wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done”, Act 8:13.
Every man of God
were ever men of God because they had their own share of eternal life on earth; so, if you
uphold their share as yours, you are in all truth keeping yourself away from your own
share, the one God came to attribute to you personally, as we read in Luke 12:37: “that He shall gird himself, and make them to
sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them”. This is how truth may
and can be turned in an “own life” affair and issue, of which one may be asked
to loose it so as to still stand a single chance to save it.
It happens to be so
easy to preach upon and base preaching on truthful issues, seeing we may know a whole lot
concerning it all, mixing it with that greediness to teach others as we never do towards
ourselves! By teaching others, we easily fool ourselves by deceiving our minds we are as
we are able to teach – even though teaching is good. Conscience easily quiets down
when it shouldn’t afford to do so at all. Conscience may never be given reason to
sustain itself upon lying, nor to state it can never find real peace – which things
happen to be one and the same awful thing. That is never the peace as the world does not
give – it can’t be.
The way out is but,
as Peter stated, “To whom coming, as
unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, and precious, (5) Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an
holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ”, 1Pe 2:4-5 KJV. God
has to be called Emanuel, if we are ever to be as living as He is today ourselves. We
find, therefore, people who wholeheartedly believe they have denied their own living,
handing themselves up to the proclamation of those doctrine which in their mind are
truthful – and truthful they may be. Yet, they deny their God and their God denies
them the blessing constantly – something they are not willing to acknowledge at all.
“If
they shall confess that also they have walked contrary unto me; (41)
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, (42) Then will I remember the land”, Lev 26:40-42 KJV. Conscience should
be given full freedom to believe at whatever is truth and truthful alone. If God does not
go out with His army, why should we ever state, for the sake of well-feeling, that God is
with us when He is not with His real presence? People devotedly go to the Temple so they may not
come to die as infidels – they go to church to spare their own life and not have it
done away with. There is a constant refusal to die upon the flames of the altar of the Calvary, where the Fire of
it is the Holy Spirit Himself! It is in the Temple of God we find those
killers and runners from the wrath to come, as if it is the city for those “cities of refuge that the slayer may flee
thither, which killeth any person at unawares”, Num 35:11.
People easily stay
away from God by staying at the discussion of truthful matters. Does a man that still
breathes discuss the air that he uses almost unawares? If he is taken with a sudden lack
of air from his lungs, if he is on the verge of loosing his own life, does he get
concerned with the compositions of it, the way he breathes? Dear brethren, let’s get
used to take the word of God as a Life giving weapon and not as cloak, a city of refuge
for unconverted killers! Let’s not discuss sin away, but grant whatever the Word
states – rather.
We find that the
same monster that used to give itself to prostitution, drinking and cursing and smoking,
is now pleased to serve in the very temple of God, still thinking
and longing for those things he is taken away from. And so as to forget the temptations he
is constantly taken up with, because God is not with him, he grasps eagerly at truthful
matters and doctrines and goes to discuss them – something Christ Himself did when He
was but a young Holy boy! People do that because they are away from God and not because
they happen to be near God. The monster now learns with Paul and Calvin, Wesley and many
others too! Some even state they learn from Christ alone! Does it make a difference at
all? “Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos;
and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? Was Paul
crucified for you?” 1Co 1:12,13. If Paul is not
crucified for us, is any other man of God? So, even to say we belong to Christ does not
easily make us His possession!
Anyone is eagerly
willing to follow Christ and even believing in truthful matters as long as self is spared
from dying! Even Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man
hath will he give for his life! Job 2:4.
“Though I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, (and we all know that
Love is God within) I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (2) And though I
have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. (3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing”, 1Co 13:1-3 KJV |
