See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (Ephesians 5:16-18)
Lately I’ve been having some spiritual dreams. I’ve been a dreamer all my life and have had some spiritual experiences. I’ve receive spiritual revelations in some of my dreams, which I like. I have gotten dreams that I could interpret while I am dreaming and immediately I would wake myself up and write them down. With some dreams the revelation came as I was waking up pondering on the dream, and the revelation would come. One time God gave me a dream, and I knew that this dream will be a great book, and everyone will want to buy this book. I even heard God say to me “write every word of this dream down.” I said to God while I was sleeping, “OK God, I will write everything down? Then when I woke up I couldn’t remember one thing or one word from the dream. I asked God real hard to give it back to me, but He never gave it back to me. I realized later that when God said, “Write every word of this dream down,” He meant for me to wake myself up out of the dream at that very moment and write it down, but I was a lazy dreamer and lost the dream. We all do that. You will save yourself a lot of time if you will redeem your time. What do I mean by that? When God speaks to you, forget everything else including sleep-time doing what God told you to do. If you take time for granted you will lose much. We all take our time for granted. We think we are going to be on planet earth forever, but in the twinkling of an eye, you will be gone and then where will you be? It’s better to obey God and redeem your time accomplishing what He asked you to do with your life. What are you here for; to be a star and go real far, or to get ready for Heaven? The reason you are on earth is get ready for eternity. If you obey God like Jesus did you will go to the City of God called Heaven? After all that is why God created the universe, to provide a foundation for planet earth that God could use to grow His heavenly family, because God is the heavenly father of spirits and He is enlarging His heavenly family with human spirits. God talks to us all the time and we don’t even realize it. We think everything we hear in our minds are our thoughts but sometimes, God is talking to us and we don’t even know it. God talks to all of us in our dreams at times. Sometimes the dreams of God will be warnings so you can live longer because He loves you and wants you to come to Heaven. You should redeem the time because your time is all you really have on earth. Redeem your time into eternity by walking with God until you can see that He is your heavenly father. Talk to God. He will talk back. Pray to God. He will bless you and change your eternal destiny. We all have spiritual dreams when God is trying to tell us something. When you have a dream from God; wake yourself up and write down what He said before you forget, because God is trying to bless you but if you can’t hear His voice, you will be lost and lose your eternal reward. We are really closer to the spiritual realm than the natural realm when we sleep because the will and the intellect is quiet where God can finally communicate with us, which is very important. The Bible talks about dreams and sleep a lot.
The Dream:
In my dream I was with a friend. Really it was someone that I knew when I was young, and we had run into each other. We decided to go on a vacation together for old time’s sake. Our time together was for three days. We roomed together and did some things and then it was about time to leave. I got back to the room, my friend was gone, the room was empty and cleaned and my plane ticket was missing. All my things were missing, I couldn’t find my friend. I went from room to room looking for him, and I realized I was naked. I went throughout the whole hotel in a daze not knowing what was going to happen to me, but I knew something was about to happen. Some people herded me into a room filled with strangers where I was going to find out what would happen to me next and it felt like it wasn’t going to be good. That’s all I remember.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36-37)
Your time on earth is all you really have. You only have so much of it and then it is gone. Some people leave planet earth way too early because they got robbed of their God-given time. Today is all you really have. Tomorrow may never come. It is said, Yesterday is History, tomorrow is a mystery, but today it your gift from God; That is why we call it the present! Your time on earth is God’s present, God’s gift to you. Use your time wisely! Invest your time into eternity! Any time you spend with God in your heart gets redeemed into eternity! Redeeming your time on earth is Wisdom! Don’t let any human or any devil rob you of your eternal destiny. We don’t realize how important something is until we lose it. Get ready for eternity before it is too late. How you invest your time determines your eternal reward. If you are wise you will use your time to invest your soul into your heart for God. Only then will you redeem your time into eternity and you will reap an eternal reward. Your soul and your time are the only real treasures while you are on planet earth. Eternal life doesn’t begin when you die. Eternal life begins the moment you believe the truth of Jesus. Believing in Jesus quickens your spirit by His Spirit of Truth that prepares you for eternity. Without God we are really dead spiritually while we are alive physically and that is why we die physically, because we are spiritually dead and separated from God. The moment God becomes your God, you spiritually pass from death to life by His resurrection power and His provision of redemption becomes your salvation through the Spirit of Christ in you. No tickey no shirty! Jesus is your only ticket to Heaven and the historical resurrection of Christ is the proof. As I awoke, I was studying my dream as I usually do. The interpretation rolled off my mind like a water faucet. I knew what it meant. I like to think I am saved because of the fact that Jesus promised that if I believe in Him I will have eternal life. This dream brought me very close to doubt. I’ve had many dreams that try to make me have doubts about my eternal inheritance. As I was laying there studying my dream, the scriptures were coming to me to instruct me, saying “this was that,” and so on. It was clear I have work to do to get ready for eternity. At my age you get more of these dreams, believe me. At the very least you should know that we all stand naked and without excuse before God. Jesus spent 3 days in the belly of the earth to redeem us back unto God as though we have never sinned. He loved us before we were born, but if you haven’t responded to His love with all your heart, you will eventually wish you were never born. I realized that the only thing I truly have in this world is my time. The only thing I can give in exchange for my soul is my time. I must invest my time into eternity in order to get an eternal reward.
The Interpretation:
We are all going to die, and sooner than you think! What will be your eternal destination? My friend wasn’t really my friend. He was gone when I needed him most. My destination changed in the twinkling of an eye. While you live in this world, you will have friends, which is nice, but they can only help you in natural ways. They can’t help you escape from your eternal destination that you have chosen. They are com-padres who are willing to join your party and enjoy some time and wealth with you. They won’t be there for you in the day of death. They won’t be able to save you in the day of death. Truly they will be the last thing you will think about in the day of death. The one I needed to help me in the last day was nowhere to be found and I was on my own. The same will be true for you in the day of death. In life my best friend is my wife. I know she would do anything for me, and I will leave it at that. Nobody will die for you and nobody can go to Hell for you. But Jesus did! Jesus died and went to Hell for you! Why did Jesus go to Hell for you; because He loves you? The truth is this; If Jesus didn’t become your innocent substitute upon the cross to die your death and suffer your hell for you, then you would absolutely have to go to Hell. Why is that? Because God is a just God and He punishes every SIN and Hell is the place that God has created for the wicked. That is where you are going to spend eternity because that is what you have chosen unless you have believed in Christ. Whosoever believes in Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) Notice God did not say; He that knows about Christ shall not perish or he that does good deeds shall not perish! He said, “Whosoever believes in Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life!” What do we have to believe to escape from Hell? We have to believe that Jesus perfectly obeyed God all His life, that He never disobeyed God and that even though he wasn’t guilty of SIN, He chose to die in your place and suffer your Hell for you so you can come to Heaven By Him as though you never sinned. Why do we have to believe that? It is because We become what we believe. You have a free will and you are responsible for your choices in life. The best choice in life is Jesus because when you choose Jesus, you receive eternal life. When we receive the Spirit of Christ into our hearts, we live forever and ever and ever! Your time on earth is your greatest treasure. When you run out of time you will have lost everything. When you spend your time living by Jesus, every second counts and as you spend your time living by Jesus, you are wisely investing your time into eternity. We can live by the SIN program we inherited from the first man Adam or we can live by the SON-program that we inherit from sthe second man from Heaven; Jesus Christ. He voluntarily died our death and left us an eternal inheritance that is reserved forever in Heaven for those that believe themselves into the Spirit of Christ by faith. Shouldn’t we be busy about our Heavenly Father’s business? Shouldn’t we be redeeming our time into eternity by believing the truth and getting ready for eternity? Tomorrow may never come. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery; today is the gift; that’s why we call it the present. Today is the only sure day you can respond to God’s Love through believing in Jesus Christ no matter what your culture is. Your soul and my soul has no race! Every minute of today is the gift God is giving you so you can cry out to Him with your heart. Love was the reason God created us, but if we don’t respond to God’s Love, we won’t go to the City of Love called Heaven. Whatever is against Love is against God. Love is the royal Law of Heaven. Jesus demonstrated God’s Love perfectly. No matter who you are or what you have done, Jesus loves you! Jesus died for you! Jesus paid for all your sins so God can forgive you and bring you to Heaven to live with Him. Jesus has prepared a place in Heaven for you, but if you won’t respond to His Love you won’t be going to Heaven and you will miss out on your eternal inheritance that He has prepared for you. (1 Peter 1:3-9, John 14:3)
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)
We really don’t understand the value of something until it is gone! Come on now; Your time is all you really have on earth and even that is going to run out sooner than you think. Your time is the most valuable asset you have. Redeem your time into eternity for your soul! Cry out unto God with all your heart, with all your might and with all your strength before it is too late. He will hear you and answer you even in a dream. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. (Psalm 91:16) That is how you redeem your time into eternity! When you start hearing His voice and obeying His voice, you will be empowered to redeem your time into eternity.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Why would a loving God send people to Hell? He doesn’t! Hell wasn’t created for humans. Hell was created only for the devil and His fellow angel rebels. But every soul that is a child of the devil must go to Hell to live with their father, the devil forever! The first man Adam sold us out unto the devil through obeying the devil instead of obeying God, In His disobedience unto God, Adam became a child of the devil. His spiritual nature was passed down unto us through the bloodlines of the fathers until this very day.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:12-14)
Even though God is a loving God, He is also a just God that punishes every broken law in the universe. That is why God sent His only Son Jesus from Heaven to earth by virgin birth to redeem you from the curse of Satan’s dominion, and his powers of death and eternity in Hell. Yes God is a loving God, but He is also a just God and He doesn’t allow any broken law throughout the universe to go unpunished. If you go to Hell forever you will wish you were never born. Your only true friend is Jesus. He died for you! Jesus fulfilled the Law of God for us. What does that mean. In a short New York Minute, it means that you are required to live a perfect life in order to go to Heaven. The Law of God, also called the Ten Commandments, were given to us by God to show us what a perfect life looks like. Keep the Ten Commandments and you will go to Heaven forever. Yet the Law of God can’t make us perfect. They can only show us what the sin nature is because they don’t have the power to make you choose to obey the Law. As the children of Adam we all disobey the Law of God to live by the SELF-program that originated with Satan, was received by Adam and passed down to us all through the bloodlines of the fathers. But there isn’t one soul that has ever lived the perfect life on earth and fulfilled the Law of God. So does that mean that every soul ever born is going to Hell? YES! Absolutely YES! Disobedience isn’t allowed in Heaven. We are all disobedient sinners before God, and we are all going to Hell. The fact that we were born with the sin nature as sinners isn’t our fault. It is our nature to live for SELF and break the Law of God, which says; Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. That shalt not kill, thou shalt not lie, thou shalt love your neighbor as your SELF, thou shalt not steal, etc. All the Ten commandment show us what not to do, but it really shows us that is what we do as disobedient ungodly sinners. All disobedience is sin. Disobedience isn’t allowed in Heaven. The first man Adam chose to join Satan’s eternal party and when he did, our spiritual nature was born. We are all the children of Adam, the first man, and his spiritual nature of disobedience has been passed down to us all. Satan told Adam that by disobeying God he would become his own God. Adam and eve believed Satan’s lie and obeyed Satan. When the obeyed Satan they disobeyed God and became enemies of God. Now all people born into Adam’s family are born into this world as children of the devil. That is why a loving God sent His only Son Jesus from heaven to earth to become a man, fulfill the Law of God for us so He could become our substitute and pay our price of death and Hell for us so we could be born again of His Spirit through faith in Him and receive His divine nature.
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (Ephesians 5:16-18)
We must face the fact that we are not going to be here on planet earth forever. We don’t even know for certain if we will be here tomorrow. Today could be your last day on earth. Then where will you be? Do you know? If you don’t know, you won’t be going to Heaven. People who are going to Heaven know they are going to Heaven. Nothing on earth lasts forever. Your Spirit is the only thing that lasts forever and where you spend forever depends upon the eternal destiny you have chosen with your heart. Time keeps on slip-slip-slipping away! Here are some of my favorite lyrics, written by Kansas. This song should wake you up unto reality!
Kansas
I close my eyesOnly for a moment and the moment’s goneAll my dreamsPass before my eyes with curiosity
You just can’t say reality better than that. Everything on top of the ground that you can see with your eyes came out of the ground (including humans) and everything will return unto the ground. Your flesh is slowly dying and there will come a moment when your physical body will return unto the ground as dust and you will go to your eternal destination that you have chosen. In that day you will either rejoice that you made it to Heaven or you will wish you were never born. Do you know Jesus? If you don’t you won’t be going to Heaven. You had to be redeemed so that God could save you. Now you can believe God’s word and be saved to go to Heaven. Jesus became your substitute in death upon the Cross. Jesus also became your substitute in Hell. Jesus died the death that belonged unto You. Jesus also suffered the Hell that belonged to you as your substitute so you could make Heaven your home even though you don’t deserve it. Why did Jesus do that; because He loves you? Jesus is the only reason we can go to Heaven and receive an eternal inheritance that has been preserved for us. Jesus is the only person that has ever fulfilled the Law of God because He had God’s divine nature. Jesus always obeyed God. Jesus never sinned. He once said, “Which one of you can convict me of SIN? I always do those things that please my Heavenly Father. God hasn’t’ left me alone. He is with me, and I only do those things that please Him.” Three times in the Bible it is mentioned that God spoke from Heaven in a thunderous voice saying, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Jesus fulfilled the Law of God all his life FOR US and He served as our substitute in life to earn righteousness FOR US. In six trials Jesus was tried and was found to be without fault. Jesus was mistreated and rejected by His brethren, beaten and tormented by the Roman soldiers, yet He was pronounced innocent and not guilty by the judge of Rome. Jesus never sinned. Jesus didn’t deserve to die. Jesus was innocent of SIN before God and man. Only Jesus qualified to be our redeemer from the curse of Satan’s dominion and powers of death. Jesus laid down His life for us as our substitute in death so we could be born again by the resurrection power of His Spirit and live by His Spirit of Life; because He loves us. Jesus has paid the price of death and hell that we deserved so we can become born again of His Spirit as a son of God by His Spirit, which we don’t deserve. The most foolish thing we can do is party your life away and die and go to Hell when Jesus has paid the price to keep you out of Hell.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (Romans 6:15-19)
That is why Jesus came from Heaven to earth; to become the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundation of the world. Jesus died the worst death know unto man for us. Upon the cross God turned His back on Jesus who was dying as our substitute. That is when Jesus cried, “My Father, my Father, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus knew why God had turned His back on Him. He was fulfilling the scriptures for us. He was made to be SIN for us upon the cross. God put your sins and my sins on Jesus and He became SIN for us. Jesus was not only dying in our place, but He was fulfilling the Law of God for us and paying the death penalty of the Law for us. It is said that Jesus was so marred upon the cross that He didn’t even look like a man. Then Jesus had to do something else for us. Jesus went to Hell for us. Jesus became our Azazel, the scapegoat that carried the sins of Israel into the desert wilderness to perish forever. That is an Old Testament picture of us going to Hell. He had to do that because that was our final destination as children of the devil. He had to bear away our sins from us before God could do anything with us. After three days and nights, Jesus rose from the dead for us. Jesus has accomplished Redemption for us and now as we learn to live by the Spirit of Christ we experience His Salvation. There is now an eternal inheritance for all who believe the truth and trust in the Son of the living God. (1 Peter 1:4, Hebrews 9:15)
Now when we believe in Jesus as our substitute in death, we become born again of the Spirit of Christ and He becomes our substitute in life. When we cry out to Jesus with all our hearts, He quickens us by His Spirit, and we are born again of His divine nature that fits us for Heaven. This is the power of the Son of God who has provided eternal life for us through His redemption. Jesus paid the price that satisfied God’s divine justice for us. Now because of Jesus we can become the beneficiaries of God’s divine mercy. Jesus loved us in death and now He loves us in life. If you want to experience the supernatural power of the Spirit of Christ, cry out to Him with all your heart, He will hear you and quicken you by His Spirit and you will be born again of His divine nature, which makes you a citizen of Heaven. Don’t just be a particle of dust in the wind! Learn to flow in the rushing might wind of the Spirit Spirit of Christ forever. Jesus not only died for you and went to Hell for you, but He historically rose again from the dead for you and now He is seated at the right hand of the Heavenly Father interceding for you.
Here We Go
Now back to my dream. As I was waking up and pondering my dream, I could see the interpretation. Even though it was spiritual it was perfectly natural. First, I can’t trust anyone, not even my friend, when my eternal destiny is on the line. Every human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. There are 1440 minutes to each day and 168 hours a week. The reality that time is short calls for us all to do something about eternity now because the scripture says now is the accepted time.
For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.. (2 Corinthians 6:2)
I am only on planet earth for a short time and in the day of death I go to my eternal destination that I have chosen, through obedience unto God or disobedience unto God. Now is the accepted time! Now is the day of Salvation. All you have today is NOW. Tomorrow may never come. No matter what, God lets us make our own decision. If we choose Hell, God will let us go there but God won’t be happy that we chose Hell. He had Jesus go through death and Hell for you so you don’t have to go Hell, and you chose to remain a child of the devil and spend eternity in Hell with the devil instead of being born again of the Spirit of Christ as a child of God. Right Now you can pray to God with all your heart and say “God I NOW turn unto you and ask you to save me. I ask in Jesus name!” Now is also the moment when God will quicken you by His Spirit and save you for eternity. You will have redeemed your time on earth into eternity! God will become your Heavenly Father and you will become His child and obtain an eternal inheritance. NOW is the time! The moment God hears you call out unto Him the name of Jesus, God will respond to you right NOW. You will become born again as a a new creature in Christ with an eternal inheritance because no matter what has happened unto you or what you have done in the past, you are NOW no longer guilty before God because Christ has redeemed you from your past. Now you can be born again of God. Right Now God Loves You and your calling out unto Him with all your heart is your response of Love for Him!
For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. (Hebrews 12:6)
You can Now be a Son of God because of God’s gift of Redemption that Jesus accomplished for you upon the Cross. Now is the Time to repent and believe the truth of God to be born again of His Spirit. You can Now come to God as your Heavenly Father. God will correct you and instruct you if you will choose to obey Him and you will arrive in Heaven as a Son of God, which could be today. After all, God is the Heavenly Father of spirits, and He is enlarging His Heavenly family with an unlimited volume of Sons that He can love forever. That is why God created all things because He is the heavenly Father of spirits and He is enlarging His heavenly family that He can love forever. His whole purpose behind creation was to satisfy His unlimited eternal love. Friends and relatives can’t help you in the day of death, but God can and He will if you will call out to Him with all your heart. He will hear you He will answer you and you will know God for yourself. In the day of eternity you will reap what you have sown, or you will reap what Jesus has sown.
The Warning!
We all stand naked and condemned before God. (Romans 3:10) There is no covering we can create that can hide our sins from God. There is none righteous, no not one. None born of man can enter into Heaven. Our time on earth is short and then our time runs out. We should learn to see our time like an hourglass.
34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:34-38)
The only thing you can give in exchange for your soul is your time. Deny the SELF-program of SIN this world has assigned unto you and receive the SON-program Jesus provides for you. You only have so much time and when time runs out, your time is up and then comes eternity. Will you be prepared for that? Your time on earth is the only true asset your soul possesses and you really don’t even own that. Your time on earth is the gift of God. What you do with your time is your gift back unto Him. It is wisdom to redeem the time, by investing your heart into your soul so you can live forever with Jesus as a citizen of Heaven. You can go on a cruise for a short period of time and think you have truly lived, You can build a successful empire for decades and live the good life of fame and fortune, but when your time is up you will be a fool if you haven’t learned truth for eternity and have failed to redeem your time by faith.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, (Philippians 3:20)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 1:3-12)
Any time you are going to another country, there is a strange feeling because we are not used to the customs, the laws or the attitudes of those in other countries. Some who visit Spanish countries may even want to learn the Spanish language. It is a different world that we are not accustomed to. It is the same way with Heaven. We are all creatures from the territory of earth, but Heaven is a whole new world. Heaven is God’s home and God has already planned for your arrival in Heaven. God has even prepared an eternal inheritance for you that is beyond your imagination. Jesus has bought and paid for you to live forever with Him as an heir of God. He paid with His life. His for yours. The choice is yours. You can still be your own god and you will eventually perish, but whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) Before you can enter into Heaven, you must be born again of His divine nature that fits you for Heaven. Jesus died upon the cross and rose again for you so you could come to Heaven and live with Him forever because He loves you more than you love yourself. The choice yours. Dead or alive; You choose.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. (1 Peter 3:13-16)
Only those born again of God can enter into Heaven. Just like we were born of the flesh, even so we must be born again of the Spirit of God. The new birth isn’t that hard to understand is it? You understand birth. It isn’t hard to understand the rebirth of the human spirit. We had to be born of the flesh to be a citizen of this world. Even so we must be born again of the Spirit of God to be a citizen of God’s world. Through the redemption that Jesus has provided for us, the new birth is now possible. You can pray right now with ALL your heart, and you will be borna gain of the Spirit of God as a citizen of Heaven just like you were born of the flesh as a citizen of planet earth. It’s that simple. If you are wise, you will pray right now while you are still breathing. There will come a time when it will be too late.
Once Saved Always Saved?
I realized my time was up, the room was cleaned, my friend was nowhere to be found and I was naked. That time comes for all. In my dream I was herded into a room of fellows I didn’t know, and I was going to be subject to whatever they had in mind. That is when I woke myself up. I have had to wake myself up in many dreams in the past and I am left to ponder; Is God talking to me in this dream? Am I still naked before God? Is my time almost up? I really won’t have any friends that can’t help me in the day of death. Is God telling me to get ready? All these thoughts came to mind. Sometimes the revelation comes while I am pondering on the dream.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: (Joel 2:28)
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” (Acts 2:17)
I am older now, but I still dream dreams. I haven’t had any visions yet, but I know they shall come. This dream was easy to interpret. What God was saying to me, He is saying to everyone. Get ready. Eternity is coming soon! This current evil world is not a safe place. You cannot build a certain future in this current evil world. Death is knocking on your door even though you refuse to think about it.
14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. (Ephesians 5:14-21)
That moment when you will enter into eternity will come SOONER THAT YOU THINK. This blog is the short version of my dream. The whole dream was reminding me to get ready because time is short and the days are evil.
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it isnot possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. (Hebrews 10:1-4)
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:5-10)
Jesus did what the Law of God and the sacrifices of the Tabernacle could not do. Jesus came from Heaven to fulfill God’s blood covenant with Abraham to save His people. Jesus fulfilled the Law of God and then became our substitute upon the Cross to die our death, suffer our eternal punishment. In this way He was able to redeem us from the curse of the Law and then give us His divine nature that fits us for Heaven. Jesus has historically risen from the death and He is now our eternal high priest that brings us who believe into Heaven by His Holy Spirit.
11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised; 24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Hebrews 10:11-25)
God is a loving God, but God is also a just God. He has taken account of every sin. For every sin we’ve ever sinned, there is a penalty that must be paid. There is none righteous, no not one. (Romans 3:10) If you are a believer, you are blessed.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10:26-31)
After we have passed the stage of innocence, we are all guilty. Before God there is none innocent. We have all sinned before God. We are all going to be punished with eternal punishment. God is warning me just like He is warning you. Keep yourself clean. Get ready for the final day. Jesus sacrificed Himself for us all. That is what all the Old Testament pictures paint in our hearts. God is merciful. God provided us with an innocent substitute who kept that Law of God FOR US ALL.
9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. 10As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips; 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17And the way of peace they have not known. 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. 19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
In this blog you have gotten a clear picture of our spiritual nature, our eternal destinies of Hell, God’s gift of Redemption through Jesus Christ that becomes eternal life for everyone that receives the Spirit of Christ by faith and believes themselves into Christ. We will either live by the spiritual nature of the first Adam or the last Adam, which is
Christ.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (1 Corirnthians 15:20-26)
Eternal life if the gift of God that we receive by faith, and walk in by faith. We receive God’s gift and as we live by Jesus, we grow up into the Sons of God who are free from condemnation and have an eternal inheritance reserved and waiting for them in Heaven. It is impossible for sinners to live a perfect life and satisfy the Law of God. Only through the substitutionary life, death and resurrection of Christ can be become Sons of God and citizens of Heaven. There are no male of female citizens of Heaven. We are human spirits in Heaven just like the angels are spirits. God calls us SONS in Heaven. God is the Father of Spirits and He is enlarging His heavenly family with SONS that He can love forever because God is LOVE and He has unlimited Love to share with His eternal family. In heaven there is no sinning. In Heaven it is our spiritual nature to live by the Law of God, which is LOVE.
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
We are all born into this world with the desire to know all knowledge. It is our spiritual nature that has been passed down to us through the first man Adam who ate of the Tree of Knowledge. Knowledge alone is a good and evil perspective because we can use knowledge to do good or evil. Surely you see this more than ever in our current world today. We are all born into this world with the insatiable desire to know everything about everything. God is Love. There is no evil in Love, which is the Law of God’s kingdom. Believing in Christ changes your spiritual nature from death to life. When you believe in Jesus, you pass from death to life and by Him we live forevermore. This is where all the religions of the world that have been written by men or fallen angels shall wilt away. Resurection is the proof of the truth.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no man can come unto the Heavenly Father but by me. (John 14:6)
No matter how rich you are, how famous you are, no matter what good or bad you have done, you are going to die sooner than you think. Then you will enter into eternity. The Bible says that most will be lost, and few will be saved. But God has made provision for every soul ever born to experience citizenship in Heaven through receiving the Spirit of Christ into their hearts. It really is as simple as it is profound. Eternal life is God’s gift to you just like natural life was God’s gift to you. What you do in your life and what eternal destiny you experience is subject to your choice. The historical resurrection of Christ guarantees your future in Heaven with Jesus unless you refuse it. Eternal life is the gift of God. You can’t earn a gift. You can only receive the gift. Once you receive God’s gift of eternal redemption through Christ by faith, you receive the Spirit of Christ into your heart, and you are safe forever. Jesus comes to live in your heart, and your life becomes a supernatural event as you bear the fruits of the Spirit. Your life will become a contest between the two spiritual natures of the flesh and the Spirit which ends in death or life.
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Notice the contrast between those who are born of the flesh and those who are born again of the Spirit. Earth is God’s Garden, and we are living trees in God’s garden and when God comes to His garden He is looking for fruit. He will prune the trees so they can bare more fruit, but those that are thorns and briars will be cast into the fire and be burned forever. Whether you are male or female, rich or poor, bond or free, Jew or Gentile, movie star in Beverly Hills or the president of the united states, you will go through the same process of passing from death to life during the new birth. You will pray unto Jesus with all your heart, and He will quicken your spirit by His Holy Spirit and your will be born again of the Spirit and receive the divine nature of Christ that fits you for Heaven. He will quicken you by His resurrection power and you will know that you are born again of the Spirit. At first you will probably think you have to do good things to satisfy God because you are full of the Spirit and you now have His divine nature that fits you for Heaven. Jesus has paid the price for your citizenship in Heaven. You will sin and you will confess your sin unto Christ and He will cleanse you by His blood and empower you to continue to grow up into Him in all things and be filled with the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)
You can pray right now, and Jesus will quicken you by His Spirit and you will know that you are different than you were before. All you have to do is say a few words with all your heart and God will take you at your word and quicken you by His Spirit and you will know that you have been born again of His Spirit by His resurrection power.
Jesus; I repent of living life against God and only for SELF. I turn unto you and ask you to forgive me of every sin. Cleanse me of all sin with your precious BLOOD and quicken me by your Spirit. I acknowledge you as my Lord forever. God, believe that you receive me into your heavenly family. In Jesus Name I pray! AMEN!
That’s it! Eternal life is the gift of God just like natural life is the gift of God. As I was pondering my dream, I was concerned about myself. I believed in Jesus, and I have had many supernatural experiences with Jesus. I know He is real. That is probably why God calls His people Is-rael. I am just a normal guy, but it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Now when I say or do something that doesn’t please God, I am quick to repent and purpose not to do it again. How do I know that I did something that displeases God? His Spirit bears witness with my Spirit and I know I need to repent.
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (Romans 8:16-17)
God is growing His children up into Christ.
11 And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Jesus is the head of the Body of Christ! The church is the body of Christ, and we are members in particular. The anointing of the head flows down upon the body all the way to His feet and all things in Heaven and earth are under His feet. As you allow His Holy Spirit to guide you in all your ways and deeds, He will guide you into all truth. He will bear witness with your spiritual that you are doing ok or you need to change. There will come a point in your life when you see Christ do miracles in our life that you are truly born again, alive unto God and on your way to Heaven. Those who refuse God’s wonderful gift will wish they were never born.
Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. (1 Peter 4:19)
I’m not much of a dreamer, but I get dreams from God and when I do, I ponder and wonder, but I know when God has spoken to me or has revealed something to me. Even now I am affected by that simple dream, which I believe is God’s reminder to me to not be lazy or lukewarm, but to get ready because the time is short. The scariest word about this is for three days and nights A word from God will always guide you into the way of Christ to grow His spiritual nature in your heart.
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Revelation 3:15-22)
That is the whole purpose of the diving surgery that took place during the Operation of God upon the Cross. God put all your sins upon the Spirit of Christ. Every soul born into this world as an heir of Adam, was born with a dead spirit called the SIN nature. God wants to give us the SON nature.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
Upon the Cross, God put every soul born of Adam and into Christ, who became the last Adam for us. We were crucified together with Christ. When He died we all died. When He went to Hell and suffered our punishment, we were in Christ and God was really punishing us. When God raised Jesus from the dead, He raised you from the dead because you were in Christ. Just like Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and nights, even so you were in Christ when He descended into Hell for three days and nights. Jesus became our great fish and took all our punishment, but we didn’t feel a thing. Then God raised Christ from the dead seated Him into Heaven. Just like Noah was in the ark when God raised Him up and over into a new world, even so you were in Christ when God raised Him from the dead. Jesus became our great fish and our ark. When God raised Christ from the dead he was really raising us from the dead. God took your sin nature out of you and put it upon Christ and then He put the divine nature of Christ in us so we can come unto Heaven by Him. If you have a relationship with Christ you are safe. If you don’t then you are unsafe. Get yourself on sure ground. Your soul is a terrible thing to waste. God’s Best Be Yours!
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