Monday, August 5, 2013

Without Holiness No One Will See God

Without Holiness no one will see God (Hebrews 12:14)
Put another way: without Holiness no one will go to Heaven.

Holiness is freedom; the only people who are free are holy.
Everyone else is captive to SIN; captive to Satan.
The only people who are holy have Christ Jesus living in and through them.
Only Christ living in and through you can make you holy;
You are then dead to SIN and alive to Christ.

The apostle Paul warns us:
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be Holy;
Without Holiness no one will see the Lord.
See to it that no one misses the grace of God
And that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau,
Who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.
Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing,
He was rejected.
He could bring about no change of mind,
Though he sought the blessing with tears.

You have not come to a mountain that can be touched
And that is burning with fire; To darkness, gloom and storm;
To a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words,
So that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, Because they could not bear what was commanded:
'If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.'
The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, 'I am trembling with fear.'

But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem,
The City of the Living God.
You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
To The Church of the Firstborn [Christ Jesus],
Whose names are written in Heaven.
You have come to God, the Judge of ALL men,
To the spirits of righteous men made PERFECT,
To Jesus the Mediator of a New Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood
That speaks a better world than the blood of Able.

See to it that you do not refuse Him [Christ Jesus] Who speaks.
If they did not escape when they refused Him Who warned them on earth,
How much less will we,
If we turn away from Him Who warns us from Heaven?

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised,
'Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.'
The words 'once more' indicate the removing of what can be shaken--
That is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Therefore, since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken,
Let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,
FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. (Hebrews 12:14-29)

Living a life of Holiness
Is the only way anyone will avoid the CONSUMING FIRE of God.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull.
When one meets the real thing...it is irresistible.
If even ten percent of the population had it,
Would not the world be converted and happy
Before a year' end – C.S. Lewis

Listen to God speak to ANYONE who will hear Him:

Now if you obey Me fully and keep My Covenant,
THEN out of all nations you will be
My TREASURED POSSESSION.
Although the whole earth is Mine,
You will be for Me a Kingdom of Priests, A Holy Nation. (Exodus 19:6)

I AM the Lord your God;
Consecrate yourselves and be Holy, because I AM Holy.
(Leviticus 11:44)

We are living in The Time Of The END!
Today, there is A Bride making herself ready for a wedding.
She will be wedded to Her Bridegroom, Christ Jesus.
She will be joined with all those of previous generations who loved God.
For Her:

There is a highway in the wilderness call the Way of Holiness
And only the Redeemed will walk there.
They will enter Zion with singing ;
Everlasting joy will crown their heads
Gladness and joy will over take them ,
Sorrow and sighing will flee away. (Isaiah 35:8-10)

In the wilderness of this world; in it's gross darkness;
In it's sin and depravity; there is a Way.
That Way is Christ Jesus.
He is the only Way out of the wilderness of a lost and dying world.
A world, that in its present form, is passing away. (1 Corinthians 7:31)
It is almost gone; it is in it's death throws.

However, first, all that is written in God's Word must be fulfilled
Many within The Church of God will go into Apostasy/Rebellion against God.
Most of those living on earth today
Will reject God, His Christ Jesus and His Word.
As a result Satan will present to the world his son, the Antichrist.
The deceived world will receive its “false savior;”
Receive his “mark” and worship him and seal its doom.
Then, as a result, God will pour out His Great Tribulation.

The Beast, the Antichrist will perpetrate upon the world
The greatest holocaust the world has ever known.
Millions of people will be killed;
All those who refuse the “mark” of the Beast.

At the end of The Great Tribulation
After the earth has been completely “ruined”
And all the cities of the world are rubble
And most of humanity dead;
Christ Jesus will return and destroy the Antichrist
And all the armies of the world, from every nation on earth,
That have come to fight against Him at Armageddon.
He will do so with the breath of His mouth
And the splendor of His appearing. (2 Thessalonians 2:8)
Their blood will rise as high as a horses bridle for 180 miles.

That will be the END of the world in its present form.
It will be a terrible, disastrous and ignoble ending
Of six thousand years of depraved, sordid human history.

Nevertheless, those who found the Way of Christ Jesus;
The narrow Way, The Way of Holiness; Will be The Bride of Christ.
She will become One with Christ and rule and reign with Him
For all Eternity.
These are those who will see God.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)
America is being ground to powder because of her sin against God.
Save yourself from this corrupt generation! (Acts 2:40)
As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!
Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!


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