Bondman

Message #68

CHALLENGE!!! - Part 1

Yes, all of these. And depending on where you may be: comfort and ease, money, materialism, a rich life-style, and more. That is, GOD IS CALLING ON US ALL TO BEAR THE COST OFCHANGING OUR WAY OF LIFE AND OUR ATTITUDE TO ALL OF THOSE!!!

However, the $64,000 question is:

Are We Listening?

What's your answer? And if God took you home today like He took Fluffy's Dad (life is SHORT - VERY short!) what are you gonna say to Jesus at His Judgment Seat when all of us will give account of ALL OF OUR DEEDS, then receive and/or most expecially LOSE REWARDS! You want to LOSE a pile of rewards in heaven?? Well, it's almost certain you will!! - unless you decide to get really drastic, start considering and praying, AND make the decision that you are gonna give up living and thinking such overwhelming WORLDLINESS as we Westerners do!!!

Please, I'm not trying to offend or upset anyone here, or be 'bossy', or anything like that. I'm trying to HELP - because I LOVE you, alright!!

Speaking about us READING the WORD as we were in Message #64, let's go to some very pertinent Scriptures:

1 John Ch 2
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Whoa, How STRONG is THAT!!!

If you love the WORLD and the THINGS of the world, then what? GOD'S LOVE IS NOT IN YOU! Did you get that??? Can you see why this is something I'm always speaking about? THIS IS EXTREMELY SERIOUS STUFF, MY DEAREST FRIENDS!!! NOT something to mess about with! Here are the next two verses for you to READ and STUDY, and mark and inwardly digest - and that's for NOW, and also for YOUR WHOLE FUTURE in eternity:

16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever [lives, continues on forever] .

Nowhere even NEAR everyone will continue on forever. Be comfortable in this world, and you're then WITHOUT THE FATHER'S LOVE!!! Could you get to heaven without His love being in you? I sure wouldn't want to try!!!! Be warned by Jesus as He says this:

Matthew Ch 7
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father [who is] in heaven.

A prime part of His will is that we NOT be worldly, but Spiritual. Because:

Mark Ch 8
36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

Who Would Want THAT?

Trust me, no one should really WANT to gain THE WHOLE WORLD - by living just like THE WORLD, and being a part of THE WORLD we live in. But if we don't or won't CHANGE, then that's EXACTLY WHERE WE'LL STAY, AND THUS WE WILL LOSE OUR SOUL! What we really SHOULD want is to be Seriously SPIRITUAL PEOPLE! NOT exhibiting all these aspects of carnality. NOT CONFORMING to the patterns of LIVING and ATTITUDES just like the people of this world who live all around us.

IT'S TIME!! This is your CHALLENGE! Time for your commitment to GOD to become FIRST in your life, ahead of love of THINGS and COMFORT and CONFORMING to the world! I shall be in prayer for you. Our prayer partners will be too. Together we can do this! We can CHANGE! We can TRULY BECOME ALL HIS!!!

Part 2 continued here...


With much love!!

- BM, with his Beloved

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