Polished to PERFECTION

Jesus Christ is working perfection in every one of THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING HIM, who have the hope of eternal life. He wants to present us as a perfect bride before His Father who is in heaven. I want to share with you some reading from the book of Hebrews.
We read in Hebrews 11 about the heroes of faith who endured until the end, and then we read in Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us,” (He is talking about those heroes of faith that have gone before) “let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.4You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;”
Sin is the problem. If we sin we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven and therefor Jesus PERFECTS us through discipline and chastisement so that we can share in His holiness.
We read verse 5 “and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
  “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,
   NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
   6FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,
    AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
7It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
God disciplines all His children. He disciplines us through misfortune, sickness, pain and suffering. Things happen in our lives and we cannot understand why these things are happening. It is the hand of God that is disciplining and correcting us. There is no coincidence in the life of a child of God. Whatever happens in your life is the hand of God on your life. HE IS LEADING US TO HOLINESS, PERFECTION.
We read in verse12 “Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,13and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.”
What does he mean by that? Do not go and look for trouble. Stay on the straight and narrow road. Do not go to those places where you know that you are weak. DO NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF TO TEMPTATION BUT STAY AWAY FROM TEMPTATION. Keep your eyes on Jesus, stay focused on Him and on the prize of eternal life or else you will not make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.
He says in verse14:”Pursue peace with all men, and the SANCTIFICATION WITHOUT WHICH NO ONE WILL SEE THE LORD.” Without sanctification, without holiness no man shall see the Lord. If we sin WE WILL PERISH! And that is why God is working perfection in us, through discipline and reproof because we have to be a PERFECT bride for Jesus Christ.
Verse 5 “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; 16that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 17For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.”
It was for ONE SIN, ONE DISOBEDIENCE that Adam died. It was only one mishap that Esau made that caused him to lose his birth right. ONE SIN can cost you eternity. Jesus requires of us ABSOLUTE HOLINESS. Adam did not find any room for repentance, he disobeyed God and he perished. The very same God expects of us, PERFECT OBEDIENCE, IF we want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus Christ is preparing a perfect bride to receive a perfect Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven and therefor we have to be perfect. We must allow Him to have His way in our lives. We have to yield to Him, we have to be UTTERLY HOLY and OBEDIENT to Him.
We read in verse 28:”Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may OFFER TO GOD AN ACCEPTABLE SERVICE WITH REVERENCE AND AWE; 29for OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE.”
We must YIELD to Jesus, we must YIELD to the Holy Spirit and live in UTTER HOLINESS, He does not tolerate disobedience because OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE, who is working PERFECTION in every one of those who ENDURES UNTIL TH EVERY END. Only those who ENDURE will in the PRIZE OF ETERNAL LIFE. Only those who DO THE WILL OF GOD will receive the prize.
We read in Hebrews 10:36 “For you have NEED OF ENDURANCE, so that when you HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD, you may receive what was promised.” Only those who ENDURE and DO the will of God will receive what was promised, the PRIZE of ETERNAL LIFE.
May Jesus bless you.

Perfection through PAIN and SUFFERING

Those who follow Jesus Christ are perfected in holiness and obedience through suffering. If you follow Jesus Christ you will follow His example of suffering. Jesus, even though He was a son learned through what He suffered and if we follow Him we will also learn through suffering.

We read in 1 Peter 4:1 “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;” God disciplines every son that He accepts, so if you are accepted as a child of God then you will be disciplined and you will learn through what you suffer.

I have suffered much in my life because that is the way that God teaches His own children. If we do not suffer then we are illegitimate children, He will teach us through MUCH SUFFERING. God has taught me through, trials, pain, suffering. Right now I am going through some suffering. For the past three months I have had a little toe that has chilblains, or winters toe. I cannot wear a shoe. So I asked the Lord. I said:”Lord, what must I learn from this?” because there is no medication that helps for chilblains, you just need to move to a warmer place. So I said:”Lord, what must I learn from this small toe that is so painful?” it keeps me awake at night. The Holy Spirit teaches me that if the little toe suffers then the whole body suffers, because it keeps me awake at night, causes me to pray and spend more time with the Lord. You see, if the smallest member of the Body of Christ suffers then the whole Body suffers, and we have to care for each other, care for those whom we regard least because they are important. If they suffer then the Body of Christ suffers.

We learn through what we suffer. I have suffered much in my life since I have started following Jesus Christ but through suffering He has taught me to OBEY Him, not to love the things of the world. We learn through suffering and if you follow Jesus Christ you will suffer. There is no coincidence in the life of a child of God because God directs our footsteps. Whatever happens to us is in the plan of God because we are children of God. Whenever anything happens to me, pain, sickness, misfortune, whatever, I turn to Jesus and I say:”Lord, what are You teaching me?” because that is the way He teaches us.

Maybe He is speaking to you. He chastises those whom He loves. Maybe there is sin in your life. Ask the Lord why you are sick. Ask Him why you are running into misfortune. Ask Him why somebody drove into the back of your car. Is your car not maybe your idol? Ask the Lord why things are going wrong in your life. Because we LEARN THROUGH WHAT WE SUFFER.

Nothing is easy when you follow Jesus but if we YIELD to Him, we TRUST Him and we SUBMIT, He teaches us HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS, LONGSUFFERING and OBEDIENCE. We are changed into His likeness through suffering but WE MUST SUBMIT TO HIM. We must YIELD and let Him have His way in us and He will mold us into perfection.

If you yield to the discipline of the Holy Spirit and ACCEPT the SUFFERING and learn from it then you will be changed into His likeness and be suitable to enter into the kingdom of heaven. If you refuse correction you will not be suitable for His kingdom and He will turn you away. We learn through what we suffer IF we want to follow Jesus Christ.

May Jesus bless you.

Good Slaves - Wicked Slaves

Jesus Christ calls us for a purpose, for His kingdom. He calls us to be slaves of the kingdom of God, servants who do His will, who serve Him as King. But there are good servants and bad servants. The good servant enjoys the favor of his Master, as Jesus said to His disciples in John 15:14 “14“ You are My friends, IF YOU DO WHAT I COMMAND YOU. 15“ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” The good slave enjoys the favor of his Master and he becomes a friend, he becomes part of the household but the wicked slave, the one who refuses to serve, he will get cast out in utter darkness, where there will be whaling and gnashing of teeth. We read in John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6“ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY ARE BURNED. 7“ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.” What the Lord requires of us is that we be good slaves because then we become friends of the Master, then we are not slaves any longer, then He reveals Himself to us and we become part of His household. But if we are wicked and unwilling and disobedient we will get cut off and cast into the fire. Are we good servants. Are we doing what the Master is telling us to do? Or are we wicked slaves that will be cast out into utter darkness? May Jesus bless you.

God severely disciplines His children

We live in a world that rejects discipline and correction. If a parent disciplines his child then he is arrested for felony child abuse and battery. A child cannot grow up without discipline and that is why God disciplines His children and He disciplines them severely because He wants to correct them.
It sometimes takes severe discipline for a child to change his ways and God knows how to deal with His children. We read in Hebrews 12:5-10 “Have you forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES. 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 For if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.”
If you want to have eternal life and be a child of God, you must submit yourself to the discipline of God and He will get you right. He will discipline you until your behavior is changed so that you can be holy. Many believers never stop sinning, they never change their ways. They will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven because they do not SUBMIT themselves to the discipline of the Father.
In olden days the shepherds had a special way to treat a runaway sheep, one that always strayed. They would take him and break his leg and then they would fix up his leg but by the time that that leg grew back on, then that sheep would have learned not to stray because while his leg was healing he could not run away. If you accept Jesus as your Lord and God as your Father, He will discipline you and He might just break your leg because He cares for you. Many believers have "broken legs," many of them are being disciplined by God and they do not understand it. Many of them reject the discipline of God. Instead of going on their knees and say "Father what are You telling me? Why is everything in my life going wrong? They go to the doctors, they go to other people for help and they don’t learn, they don’t realize that God is disciplining them for their unholiness, for their disobedience. If you want to be a child of God, call yourself a Christian, God will discipline you. If you do not mend your ways, you will end up in hell but God is a good Father and He treats His own children severely because He disciplines them for their own good so that they can share in His holiness. Maybe God’s Hand of discipline and chastisement is on you, dear friend and you have failed to see it all along. Get on your knees, submit yourself to the Father, accept His discipline and He will change you into an obedient child.
May Jesus bless you.

Why God is punishing Christians

Many Christians do not realize it but they are being punished by God and for very good reason. It is because God loves His children. If we profess to be Christians and if we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord then God accepts us as children and when we become a child of God, when we are accepted as a child then God deals with us as with children. He wants us to share in His holiness and therefor He will punish us when we go wrong. 
God is punishing individuals and nations who call themselves Christians because He is faithful. He wants them to REPENT, and be holy, turn away from sin, wickedness, the things of this world, and God is punishing them. He is chastising them and they don't realize it. They don't know why they have terrible sicknesses, they have natural disasters and they have economic woes. On every front God is punishing them because He cares for them. He has not just wiped them off, He is punishing them because HE WANTS THEM TO REPENT. He is speaking to Christians, to every child because He cares for us.
I read from Hebrews 12:5 He says:”And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons: MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD nor faint when you are reproved by Him, for those whom the Lord loves, He disciplines and He scourges (He treats harshly) every son whom He receives. It is for discipline that you endure God deals with you as with sons, and what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which we all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons! Furthermore we had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them but He DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD THAT WE MAY SHARE IN HIS HOLINESS.”
If we refuse to repent, if we refuse to turn from our wicked ways then we will come under judgment and then we will perish with the unbelievers. We will go into hell, but God cares for us AND THAT IS WHY IT IS GOING SO BAD with many Christians, with Christian countries because God wants to turn them from their evil ways, unless He will come and totally destroy them. 
Do we hear His voice? Do we realize that it is the love of God that is bringing us to repentance? We must repent and then we will be approved by God. 
May Jesus bless you.

Bare Essentials

The Holy Spirit gave me instruction last night, in a dream. I was in boot camp with a group of people. We went through a series of obstacles and after every obstacle people fell away. Some people got distracted along the way but the instructor who set the pace, just kept on going. Some people were whining and complaining. The instructor kept His face like flint. He just kept on going on and He went through the course. Only few of us kept up with Him, stayed with Him until the very end of this course. Then I woke up, I prayed and the Lord explained it to me that very few are staying with Jesus. Very few are keeping up with the pace of the Holy Spirit. What became very clear to me through this instruction was that you can only go through with the BARE ESSENTIALS, with nothing more. You must stick to the task at hand and stay focused on the Leader, on Jesus Christ, Who goes ahead of us or else you will just not make it.

Jesus came with one purpose and that is to take away the sins of the world, nothing else, because sin separates us from God. All the things of the world that people occupy themselves with distract them from Jesus. It leads them into sin and it separates them from God. If we want to make it through into the kingdom of God we must go on the BARE ESSENTIALS, we must stay focused on Jesus and the task ahead or else we will just not make it. Most people will fall away. Very few will be saved in the end.

May Jesus bless you.

Christians - Poor performers?

I have been a business manager all my life. In business, performance is of the utmost importance. I have also found many so called “Christians” to be poor performers and I traced it back to the teaching that they received at church. They were taught that if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and you are saved then you are sealed and you are waiting to go to heaven, you don't need to do anything. There is nothing further from the truth , that is an utmost lie.

Jesus said:”Whoever wishes to follow Me, must deny Himself, pick up his cross and follow Me every day. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ then you excel at your performance in the work place, at school, whatever you do in life, you do it better that everybody else because you are not doing it for anybody but for Jesus and He does not accept half measures. Most so called “Christians” don't know Jesus and that is why they don't know His standard of performance. If they knew Him they would be absolute prefect performers in the work place, in the college, in everything that they did because a child of God does everything perfectly. He walks in utter righteousness, utter integrity, he carries out his business with integrity as well. He does not steal from his boss, he is on the job on time and while he is there he is working, he is not wasting his employers time. He is an example to all the other employees, but that is not the way that they have been taught.

Dear friend, Jesus has one standard and that is perfection. We need to attain to that standard in everything that we do or else we cannot say that we are following Jesus Christ. Jesus will not lead us into poor performance, into laziness. Jesus leads us into being shining lights in this world that even in the secular things that we do, that we do it in such a way that our light shines for the Kingdom of God.

It is because most professing Christians do not know the One in whom they believe that they are such poor performers and they carry that same poor performance to their devotion and the way that they follow Jesus and they are going to END UP IN HELL because they never really followed Jesus. They give Him the same poor performance and the same poor service and therefor they will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus requires utmost perfection from us. We need to follow Him with all our power, deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him every day and do it in such a way that our light shines in this dark world.

May Jesus bless you.

Pick up the slack! Feel the strain!

If you are at the same place where you were yesterday, last week, in your spiritual walk with Jesus then you are not following Him.  If you are in bondage of sin and addictions you are not keeping up with Jesus.  If you are not hearing His voice, then you are not interested IN HEARING His voice.  If you are not persecuted and if you are not suffering for Jesus and for His Name then you are not following Him.  The moment you start following Jesus, you will pick up the strain because Jesus said: "If anyone WISHES to FOLLOW ME then he must DENY himself, PICK UP HIS CROSS and COME HERE and FOLLOW ME."  He said: "My yoke is soft and My burden is light."  If we do not feel the strain of the yoke and if we do not feel the weight of the burden then we are not yoked and we are not carrying our burden.  We are not following Jesus.  There is STRAIN in following Jesus but we need to PICK UP the STRAIN. We need to PICK UP OUR CROSS, we need to KEEP UP WITH JESUS.  If you are NOT HEARING HIS VOICE you are NOT SEEKING HIS VOICE.  You are NOT PRAYING, you are NOT WAITING ON HIM.  If we do not pick up our cross and follow Jesus every day and keep up with Him, then we will not find the Narrow Door.  If we are NOT FIGHTING FOR the KINGDOM OF GOD then we are AGAINST the KINGDOM OF GOD.  If we are NOT GATHERING we are SCATTERING.  You cannot get into Heaven in a rocking chair.  If you are NOT WORKING for the Kingdom of God you are working AGAINST it then you are on the devil's side.  We must pick up the strain every day and follow Jesus Christ.  We must every day SUBMIT OURSELVES WILLFULLY to the guidance of the HOLY SPIRIT.  We must VOLUNTEER every day and follow Jesus not with a heavy heart but JOYFULLY following Him, JOYFULLY fighting the good fight, JOYFULLY testifying for Jesus and JOYFULLY being rejected and persecuted.  If you are not feeling the STRAIN you are NOT IN THE RACE.  Then you are not following JESUS.  YOU need to seek Jesus.  YOU need to spend time with Him.  YOU need to take time to PRAY, to WAIT ON HIM or else you will NOT HEAR HIM.  YOU need to set yourself aside to WAIT ON HIM, to SEEK HIM, to HEAR FROM HIM.  If we draw closer to Him, He draws closer to us.  But if you don’t follow Him friend, you won’t make it.  NARROW is the DOOR and FEW there be who find it.  Are you STRAINING?  Are you BEARING THE LOAD? Are you FOLLOWING JESUS CHRIST with all your POWER?  If you WISH to enter that narrow Door you need to pick up the strain friend.  You need to seek Jesus every day and keep up with Him.  PICK UP the SLACK and FOLLOW JESUS!
May Jesus bless you.

Treated like children

Being a child of God means that we come into the household of God and we are disciplined and brought up as sons. And He will treat us harshly in order that we can be perfected, that we can learn holiness and righteousness, so that we can fit into the household of God. If we do not subject ourselves to the discipline of God then we will be given over to the law, the punishers and then we are out of the hands of God. Then we are in the hands of those who will destroy us. Therefor we must submit ourselves to the discipline of God as we read in Hebrews 12:4

“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD,

 NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES,

 AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.” It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.”

God wants to work perfection in us, as children of God. God the Father did not spare His own Son, Jesus Christ, but He treated Him harshly. We read in Hebrews 5:8 “Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been made perfect, He became to all those who OBEY HIM the source of eternal salvation,”

As followers of Jesus Christ, we must OBEY Him, we must stay IN CHRIST. Jesus said that:”the branch in Me that does not bear fruit WILL BE CUT OFF.” He said:”if you stay in Me,(if you remain in My words) you will bear much fruit. And hereby is the Father glorified, that you bear much fruit.” Dear friends, an obedient child brings glory and honor to his father but a disobedient child brings shame to the father and that is the branch that will be cut off. If we disregard the discipline of God and not submit ourselves to the discipline of the Holy Spirit, we will be rejected. Like any son who does not listen to his father and he goes out and commits crime, then the law takes over!  And then his father has no part any more in where he ends up. 

We must submit ourselves to the discipline of God, we must obey Jesus Christ because He is working PERFECTION in us. Jesus said: “be ye perfect, like your Father in heaven is perfect.” God wants perfection. What Jesus said, were the words of God, and those are the words by which we will live if we obey them and those are the words that will judge us if we disregard them. He wants perfection in us.

Let us OBEY the words of Jesus and we will live!

Dear friend, if you do not know Jesus yet, then you can get to know Him now, you can accept Him now as your Lord. All you need to do, is go on your knees and cry out to Him. Cry out to Him for mercy. Ask Him to forgive your sins, your previous sins and to come into your life, to accept you into  the household of God, and He will accept you, dear friend. And Jesus will give His Spirit to guide you into all truth. He loves you and He cares for you. It is not the will of God that any man perish. If you are back slidden, if you have gone away from God, dear friend, COME BACK! Come back immediately. The Father will not reject a prodigal son who has remorse and who truly repents. Do not wait any longer. Go on your knees now, humble yourself before God. Call out to Jesus for mercy, my friend. There is mercy now. You don't know how long you will live. Maybe this is your last opportunity, make use of it! Bow down before Jesus, cry out to Him for mercy. Cry out until He answers you, until He gives you peace in your heart, and then stay with Him. Subject yourself to His discipline and you will live.

May Jesus bless you.

Jesus will break you before He can use you

Jesus will break you in order to use you. We need to be broken bread and pressed out grapes before Jesus can use us. He does not need anything of our talents, of our wisdoms, anything of us. All He can use of us is our willingness to follow Him and obey Him as servants, to submit ourselves to His will. He will not force us, we must voluntarily accept His correction, His guidance, His discipline, His Hand on our lives.  It pleased the Father to bruise Jesus Christ Himself.  We must have that same attitude in us that Jesus had.  He Himself even though He was the Son learned through what He suffered.  He said: Father Thy will be done.  Dear friend, if you want to be useful for the Kingdom of God, you must submit to Jesus and let Him have His way in you.  Let Him break you, mold you and make you so that He can use you for His Kingdom.
May Jesus bless you.

God will judge His people

Many Christians have been deceived into believing that God will not judge believers. They believe that their sins have been forgiven, past present and future. That is not true. The wages of sin is death, the soul that sins will die, believers and non-believers.

What then is the benefit of being a believer, born again with the hope of eternal salvation?

Jesus forgives the past sin of those who believe in Him and repent of sin. They become children of God who belong to the household of God. As children of God they come into obedience to God. They stop sinning. They are also subject to the discipline of God, which is severe on His children. He did not spare Jesus. “Though He were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him;” Hebrews 5:8,9.
Neither will God spare any of His other children but He will chastise them and bring them to perfection through suffering, if they endure.

“My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Hebrews 12:5-11.

If we refuse correction we will be judged with the world. Many Christians are chastised through sickness, misfortune, death of loved ones and many other ways. It is the grace of God that leads us to repentance and utter holiness. Some never repent and will receive the reward of sin, death. The wages of sin is death. Children of God will be judged more severely that sinners because they had knowledge of the truth but refused to obey.

NO sin will be allowed into heaven, neither any sinners, even if they were believers. Only doers of righteousness are justified by God. “Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying. Revelations 22:15

There is no partiality with God. The soul that sins will die!