'Look at all the lonely people' touches my heart as with a branding iron.
I think, 'If I could just get them all assembled in one place, I could tell them how much God loves them, and how much He has given me the gift of love for all of them, none excluded.
But I can't show it like God did: While we were living in sinful pleasures, and denying the Son of God, God had already, as it were, slain the Lamb of God, the Lord, Jesus Christ, for our sins.
Then He built a universe so awesome for us to live in.
Why did He do all that?
Because He wanted us, me and you, Adam and Eve and all their descendants, to become His precious family, so that He could bestow upon us the perfect love which He has for everyone who believes in Jesus, for ever.
And for so long, I was one of those who rejected God's way, and His purpose and plan for the mankind which He made so lovingly and caringly.
I sought my own way; my own C-H-O-I-C-E, of what I wanted to do, and how I wanted to live my own life.
But I didn't realize that wasn't me at all: it was my sinful flesh that was holding me back, keeping me busy with all that 'fun stuff’, that my flesh so enjoyed, taking my time, my mind, my energies, my everything, and putting me on the broad road with the rest of the wicked, who also were making their own choice, and ignoring the call of God to their minds, hearts and souls.
And all we who chose to walk that road would wind up in hell, until the great 'white throne judgment’ seat of God our Maker, where we would all be judged by Him that sits on that throne, Who had shown such love to us, not slaying us where we stood, as we withstood Him in so many different ways (from a slight ‘no sir’, to a flailing rage of hatred toward the One Who had such love for every person that ever lived).
Then, because God must judge a righteous judgment, and a just judgment, with regard to the works which each person did while they were on the earth, and the invitation of God, so loving, was still in force, which was not accepted, He must send all who did not believe, and had sins which were never forgiven (John 3:16-18) to the eternal lake of fire, where all the wicked must go, which doesn't annihilate anyone, for that is eternal, where there is no passing of time.
And since it takes some measure of time for fire to consume flesh, the eternal soul of man cannot be destroyed by anything, either natural or spiritual; therefore its torment is everlasting, for eternity never ends.
I John 1:9: God is a loving God. And He is also a just God: and all His judgments are in truth:
9) "If we confess our sins (which pop up from time to time), He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
My life now changed, for I now knew my Savior more than I knew He could be:
One day, I felt my Savior calling my heart to Himself, so I gave my heart to Him. And now I'm on this side of the fence, where I can see everything so clearly.
(Read my blogs, and see my loving invitation to all sinners, as I was, and all believers have been.
I still remember that life. And I also issue warnings as to what's on down the road for any who don't know Jesus. Sometimes I seem desperate in my appeals, because I know the blessed life, and I know the life of the condemned.
I've been on both paths, and I choose this one, hands down! I feel like Paul, the apostle must have felt when Jesus called to Him from heaven, like I was wicked, and I knew it, and now I am free from my past sins, and the attached eternal penalty of them, because when I believed in Jesus Christ, I received salvation from them, and also everlasting life, becoming a son of the Almighty.
Now I'm more thrilled writing the truth in Christ to all who believe, and to all who want to know. I know where I will be in eternity. Do you? Here are the choices:
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. You will then learn how to love God with all your heart, and all your soul, and with all your mind, even though your flesh with the affections and lusts for the sinful pleasures of the world tugs and pulls you as hard as it can back to the other side. But God is now the strenfth of the believers, and He is greater than the pull of the flesh, even when the devil is adding his strength to pull you back also. And sometimes it may over power us at a weak time in our lives. But God is always, in His great love for both the believer and the sinner, to pull on you, too, so that you may become the greater power in the seemingly losing struggle, and you can come out the victor in Him.
I see very clearly all things that pertain to life and godliness, and that is why I am desperately making every attempt to show you the better way, which leads to life, and not the experience of death in that boiling lake of fire, which was made for the devil and his fallen angels, and not for man. But upon our death, our eternal soul must go somewhere.
And unrighteousness cannot enter into heaven with the righteous, the saved. So then, there is no other place for your eternal soul but in the place of the wicked, if you have not believed in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, honoring both the Father, and the Son, in believing..
Revelation 20;10-15 speaks of the final judgment of all wicked, and their eternal fate for refusing or failing to believe on (and honor) God's only earth-born (begotten) Son, Who died on that cruel cross for you, that you might be redeemed from the penalty of eternal torment that awaits the wicked.
On the other hand, God will prepare a plese, which is specifically described in Revelation 21:1-7, and is prepared for us, who did believe in Jesus, to be our Savior; and we became the sons of God.
I John 3:1-2: After we believe in Jesus, the only Savior, this is our outlook on life:
1) "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the 'sons of God': therefore the world (those who have not believed in Jesus) knoweth us not, because they knew Him not.
2) "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear (to us) what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear (to us, the sons of God), we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is (now)."
God really, really loves you, and He has prepared a way through Christ that you can receive that love for ever. God has already made His move: John 3:16. Now it's time for you to come to Him.
Romans 5:8:
8) "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
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