Are we still undecided?

If we are, there must be something that is interfering to strike our credibility, because we have had enough time demonstrating the successes and there are still people who doubt. What should happen? The end of the world where there won’t be time to repent? Because there will be a time in which many will say: “I wish I had heard the ones who were trying to warn me;” but at that time it will be too late. And there will not be anyone to intercede for us because the time when we are allowed an intercessor would have already passed, and that time is now. Do not keep on waiting to reach the truth and to let everyone know you made the right choice. To me it’s very easy.  All I have to think is who has promised to comply with the goodness, and already has or have, despite all the horrors than the ones who take advantage of the situations, put him/them through.  And those who are hiding the truth, with the help of their friends, are capable of Anything to prove they are right. And many think they are right because they do not know. . . or do not want to know.

I am not talking politics even when it might sound like it, and I intend to love everyone, even if they think different than me, because the great and foremost commandment Jesus said when He was put to the test when asked: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. The second is like it, You  shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depends the whole Law and the prophets. ” (Matthew 22.37-39)

 Jesus, the son of God who did not sin, came to this world to pay for our sin inheritance to deliver us and make us part of His family. He freed many of their sicknesses , some from their blindness or even sudden death. He taught us how to cope with sins’ consequences to be free of any guilt and live forever. And what did we do? We called him a fraud, a liar, we spat on Him, lashed and killed him, and then made His few followers’ life impossible, killing anyone who dared to talk about or give Him glory. What happened then? He sent the gift of the Holy Spirit to live within all the believers, who multiplied despite being fed to the lions, burned at the stake, and all the horror people have done to the Christians who love one another, turn the other cheek and walk the extra mile to be called “deplorable” for wanting the goodness for everyone. Hated by the ones who have really something to hide and destroy their evidence or pay to entertain the people with an “alibi” show so they do not find out the truth.  But it doesn’t matter.  Everything done with rage against God’s children will be reversed, for whatever is done against the family of God is like doing it to Him: Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me. (Matthew 25.40) That is why I cry because people are still doubting and doing the bad things on account of “free choice” but on the context of liberalism, and that’s sinful.  No matter whose agenda we are trying to fulfill, if God’s will is not taken into consideration, we are not doing it right.  God does not have to conform to a man made law; it’s the other way around. It is men who have to play to conform to God’s will and obey for He’s our Creator, and therefore sovereign over all His creation, no matter how much it tries to win. For the world is Mine and all it contains. (Psalm 50.12b)

It is not easy and the people must undergo much trouble in order to achieve victory, but the ones who want to win must partner with the almighty Creator and not with the adversary creature. Since the beginning, this Adversary has tried to hinder the solution to all our troubles by preventing the coming of our redeemer, Jesus, announced as the solution to our failure thousands of years before it happened; but He was born despite that, at one time, Egypt tried to eliminate all the male Jewish possibilities to make a woman conceive.  Later, after He was born, was tried to be eliminated when King Herod ordered the killing of all the male Jews  from two years of age and down. Later, the Adversary himself tried to make Jesus sin at the wilderness. All the intentions to make the Son of God unable to comply with His mission, failed, and He obeyed and arose from death and we the people who believe in Him are free and will never be left alone. He will always protect us, at all times. Do not DOUBT. Do not be unsure  and  believe in the ones who claim Jesus as their boss. As God protected Him, He will protect us. And the ones who really lie and destroy evidence will fail.

Do not fret because of evildoers; be not envious toward wrongdoers. For they will wither quickly like the grass, and fade like the green herb.  (Psalm 37.1,2)

Are we really conquerors?

 

It all depends in who is affirming or denying it. If it is a negative person, is probably going to say “no.” If he/she is a positive person, will probably say yes to be consistent with the way he/she seems to be, but if it is a real Christian, is going to say “YES, of course!!!” Because a real born again Christian believes everything the Bible; the Scriptures, or the Word of God says, and do not doubt.

 One of the men in the Bible who was a church persecutor, and the people he harassed were afraid of him, Saul of Tarsus, had an encounter with God and changed completely, even his name. Now, the apostle Paul, whom Jesus appointed as His chosen instrument to spread the word to the gentiles, wrote many books but also suffered much affliction for the sake of His name, and that made him wise, truthful, and trusted.  It wasn’t a university diploma that made him worthy, even though he was known to have the finest teachings. It was meeting the right person whom he had been fighting against for many years until he realized how wrong he had acted (thinking he was doing the right thing) and wanted to reverse everything by teaching the truth, no matter what, so he became a winner. At the beginning it wasn’t easy and many people did not believe him knowing what he used to be, but as time passed and they started seeing his sufferings, his imprisonments, listening to his positive reasoning in spite of it, and seeing his “former friends” become his enemies, the people who were his former victims became his followers. And Paul then became a conqueror.

In chapter eight of the letter to the Romans (Paul’s masterpiece according to my pastor) Paul really explains it. It is an invitation to become conquerors; that is if we want to be, of course. And it is not about having the best, but being it. Just like it happened to him, turning a new leaf, and no matter how much the ones that think they do not need God to have a good life hassle us to the point of exhaustion, we can keep firm in our beliefs and be victors in everything: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are being considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through him who loved us.  (Romans 8. 36-37)

Lately I have been reading in the web many comments, on things that happen, which leave me astonished. Really, I didn’t think there could be so much hate in this world. How can some people be so ignorant that do not realize others are trying to help them, not harm them. I suppose it is the way things are said, or perhaps they think, like Paul did, they are doing the right thing. I feel so sad when I think that so many would get lost at the end for not investigating the truth to be free. (The truth will make you free, says the Lord -John 8.32 b) I feel sorry for them for the ones who don’t care. They are so full of hatred that can’t see the goodness in others. I pray for them, everyday, so they see the light. Jesus said that we should love one another, and there are so many other great teachings too in the Bible. If we use the resource we have as Christians (communication with God) and practice all the good advice we have there, the happy life is guaranteed, in spite of choice testing moments. But our evil intentions, result of our sinful nature, are constantly lurking us to behave harshly toward others “in our own defense,” which most of the times offends. That is why we must stay connected with our Savior, at ease, taking advantage of our spiritual means to act wisely; doing what it suggests like: “whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also.” (Matthew 5.39 b) That might sound a little oddly, but that’s how we become conquerors. If we do, we’ll be overcomers on any situation we might face.

I understand there might be instances when some people who are not what they claim to be make you uncomfortable when you see them get rich on your account and you lose all faith on them and on what they preach. Not everyone is like that, though. And it is NOT our job to judge them. That is God’s job. I have heard some preachers attacking them as “those who talk on TV are false prophets.”  I think God gives us enough intelligence to be able to discern who’s preaching God’s Word and who’s not. God says you will know them by their “fruit.” If their work is not fruitful, don’t listen or follow. We must study the Holy Scriptures to wise up. All the prophets and men of God in the Bible were selected to preach the truth and most had a very difficult life to be able to use their experience to our knowledge. TV preachers are not all bad; I find meaning in many of them. May God bless the way His word is spreading around the world today. “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24.14)  I’ve heard some preachers accuse others with rage. I do not know if they have been called by God to “reprehend” the fact because they are endangering the gospel, or if it’s for envy over their “success.” I think God has the power to respond to any phony.  Ezekiel 34. 1-5  reprimands them. Jesus said:  “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12.37) But He also said “For he who’s not against us is for us.” (Mark 9. 40/Luke 9.50) We should help, NOT judge.

We are conquerors during these difficult times of pandemic, or in any other time, because we trust our God to save us and do not have to blame anybody or any government who wants the goodness for us and whoever helps born again Christians who put the “other cheek,” “run the extra mile,” and “love one another,” do not have to fear, not even of death itself because if we believe, we’ll go straight to heaven. We say like Paul wrote:

“For me to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1.21)

“Oh death, where is your victory? Oh death where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God who gives us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. (I Corinthians 15. 55-58)