Sunday, April 15, 2012

Cleanse Yourself - No Holiness No Salvation

Holiness is a requirement for a child of God. Many people do not want to be holy, neither do they want to serve Jesus. You cannot be His disciple if you have not totally turned away from serving yourself and the things of this world and sin. You need to be holy in everything that you do or else you are just not suitable for the Kingdom of Heaven and Jesus will not do it for you. YOU need to decide to TURN AWAY from all these things. YOU need to decide to STOP SINNING. The Holy Spirit will help you, He will show you what is wrong in your life, but YOU need to stop sinning. If you don’t want to do it, you cannot be a follower of Jesus and you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. As Paul also wrote to Timothy. I read in 2 Timothy 2:4 “No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the One who enlisted him as a soldier.” If we are soldiers of Christ, if we are following Jesus then we have no business with the things of this world. We are not interested in it. We do not entangle ourselves in it, we cannot love the world and be of the Kingdom of God. We must separate ourselves from it. We must dedicate ourselves to Jesus. He is not asking us to do it. He says: "If you WISH TO FOLLOW ME" then YOU must deny yourself , YOU must go wash yourself, then YOU must pick up your cross everyday come here and follow Me. If you don’t want to do that, you cannot have eternal life. Eternal life is for those who DENY themselves, pick up their cross and follow Jesus.
As Paul also wrote I go on to :11 “It is a trustworthy statement, for if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. :12 If we ENDURE we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. :13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful for He cannot deny Himself.” Jesus will not leave you but if you leave Him, then you have left Him, then YOU will not go into Heaven. Then YOU are not suitable for the kingdom of Heaven. Whoever puts His hand to the plow and looks back, is not suited for the Kingdom of Heaven. Lots wife was saved out of Sodom and Gomorra, she was saved, she was outside and then she looked back and she turned into a salt pillar. Many believers are looking back, they are not suitable for the kingdom of Heaven and they will not go in there, they were saved   but they went back. 
We need to cleanse ourselves and make our self available for the Kingdom of God, we must follow Jesus with ALL that is in us. I read :21 “Therefore if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.” That is what He called us for. We are His workmanship in Christ Jesus, PREPARED FOR GOOD WORKS, that HE HAS PREPARED FOR US so that we will WALK IN THEM.  Are we willing to WALK in the GOOD WORKS that GOD HAS PREPARED FOR US as children of God, or do we want to hang on to our SINS, then we’re just not suitable. It is not a gradual process, it is a DECISION to turn away from what I WAS and say:"Lord Jesus from this day onward I am following You" and he who ENDURES UNTIL THE END he will eventually  be SAVED but if we give up before the END, we will not make it. Are you willing to be a soldier for Jesus? Are you willing to cleanse yourself from all these things, the defilement of the flesh. The love for sin, the love for the world and FOCUSED TOTALLY ON JESUS, ENDURE UNTIL THE VERY END.  Not many will be saved, very few. They asked Jesus whether those who are being saved are few and He said: "STRIVE HARD TO ENTER the NARROW GATE  because many, many I tell you will try and not be able." How hard are you trying friend? Are you pressing on into the Kingdom of God or are you giving it up? Only those who ENDURE UNTIL THE END will be saved. You need to cleanse yourself, of all the defilement, of all the love of the flesh and press on into the Kingdom of Heaven or else you will not make it. May Jesus bless you.

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