Assaulted by grace

As I found a quiet place to pray today, I climbed into the tub knowing I would be alone and hopefully undisturbed. I turned on some live worship like all other mornings and slipped below the waves to rest my spirit in his arms. as I slipped my head under the water the music was loud enough to block out the kids and yet hear the words clearly from under water. As I listed and started to pray, I noticed the live worship the channel had chosen that morning was quite vintage, which was cool but as it went on, I notice a similarity in all the songs. Grace lots of grace and there is nothing wrong with grace believe me. but it went on and I was trying to pray through it I started to get nauseous because in this grace there was no need for repentance. just a constant repeat of you love me and take me as I am. It mingled with a newer song that has been annoying me lately that say it’s ok “because I know your love won’t leave me this way.” This is so not true. God loves you so much he gives us free choice and if you don’t want out, he will let you wallow in your sin. God is not the puppet master or what kind of relationship would that be. that’s why Christians live in putrid sin.

A God of My Making

 it was during this relentless nausea that played through my prayer time until I could shut it off. This made me spend this time thinking when did the perversion of grace begin. We know in the time of Westly Spurgeon and Muller that what they considered moral was so strict. It was a time when everyone went to church, it was more religious duty than personal relationship and even when I was a girl in the 80’s there was a different code of public morality and acceptability, for instance there is no bleeping anymore. Tv doesn’t go to bed to a blank test screen and wake up. The things that were wicked in the 70’s is just cool vintage now. how can something My grand parents called wicked and by the church for blatant sexuality and drugs like Elvis, and beech boys in one generation be allowed my parents as soft rock and completely moral. and it certainly looks that way compared to the replacements of this era?

This is what I’m talking about, as a church we have slowly slipped in our morality. God never changed we did when we measure it by the today’s standard instead of God’s original standards! growing up in a wicked world the morality of your parent’s parents are laugh worthy to us. We cringe at the new immorality of today ignoring and indulging in yesterdays sin because it is better what we have to live next to,  and put up with today, because to do other wise is the new world immorally, to actually speak against sin,  is the now a jailable offence . Drugs and drinking aren’t illegal any more like in the 30’s, yes drinking was illegal! our kids will wonder why pot was ever illegal!

To make this new way church worthy and acceptable we call in grace, because it covers all sin! Yes, it does! Grace won’t cover a sinner! NO! It was only made for the saint that is fighting to NOT sin! Grace is not meant to be what makes it ok to indulge in this era’s immorality.

ASK YOURSELF THIS !

Think about what was wrong just a few years ago that is now legal and acceptable today.

 What is wrong now that you hate, that in the next few years will be legally protected.

What do you dabble in today, that was a literal burning offence in the past?

Makes You think doesn’t it!

God’s Moral compass!

God didn’t give us grace to say he was wrong when he made the law. He gave grace to make it so in our humanity in trying and failing there was forgiveness. In this grace filled forgives, we have gotten the idea there are no rules, and we have decided to make all your own rules now.

Now, what I say is morally ok!

What God said was wrong, doesn’t matter any more!

Did Gods morality slip? Did He all the sudden have a change of heart to think that the definition he made of sin doesn’t exist anymore? NO, He didn’t! He never changed!

Hebrews 13:8 I am the same yesterday today and forever

Why would a God Who say;

Matt 5:37 “Let your yes be yes and your no, for whatever is more than these is from the evil one,”

 be saying that no is now, yes? Are we willing to risk our salvation? our personal creation of this God we have imagined in our hearts that loves the new normal loves sexy tv, will still patron beeches with less than less because it’s just the way it is. A god that loves reading harry potter and watching every new episode of lord of the rings not to mention he just loves watching the latest star trek where he isn’t God and demons roam as alien beings. oh, and when my girl friend and boy friend come over for sex he doesn’t mind watching. why because This is my god my grace loving god that say its ok to do these things, that he destroyed cities for, and flooded the world for in the past. Well, it not the same, that was before he became enlightened.

this is what the bible says,

 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; ^[a]neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor ^[b]those who participate in homosexuality, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers [whose words are used as weapons to abuse, insult, humiliate, intimidate, or slander], nor swindlers will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 21st Century King James Version

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

²⁰ idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

²¹ envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

 

Revelation 21:8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁸ But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)—[all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.

So how are we supposed to respond to this

1 Timothy 1:19Amplified Bible, Classic Edition ¹⁹ Holding fast to faith (^[a]that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence) and having a good (clear) conscience. By rejecting and thrusting from them [their conscience], some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith.

Our little ones who are waiting our return to them

Almost every woman has lost a child at some point in her fertile years, and I believe Satan likes to torment us greater than even the torment of losing that precious little one. It is easy for me to just tell you, “yes they are in heaven, and yes I have even seen them there in my secret times with the father”.

 A few days after my baby died, when her autopsy was being performed. The father showed me her in his arms.  She was alive, and wiggling as a little one should, and this is the only time I ever saw my baby move.

 We need to know for ourselves, we need to feel, touch, taste, and smell, the tangible evidence of the reality of our faith, and the promise of our future.

I know it is not always enough to believe in a fanciful story, or a glimmer of hope. The father knows us too, He knows our hearts, and pains. He loves us and wants us to walk in faith, and not be discouraged, sorrowing, and not believing that there could be hope for those little ones that could not accept him before their death.

 Often times we hear of stories of those who died in sin, who Christ actually came to in death, and gave them an opportunity to believe, and accept Him, and live again in Christ, but why?  The only explanation is this, everyone is given an opportunity, is brought to the doors of choice. Maybe this is their time of decision.  Don’t you think he loves the little innocent ones too? The little ones who never were given a choice to receive salvation?  Did not Christ go down to the grave to give salvation to even Sodom, and Gomora, and the pre-flood, who died in judgment from God!  1 peter 3:19 4:6.  Did not they who were evil, and judged before Christ get opportunity for salvation?  Than how much more so the little ones who died spotless of their own wrong doing. Matthew 18:14! ¹⁴ In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish. 

So let’s get some scriptural evidence of their living eternal life.

The first thing that really hits me is when scripture speaks of that great cloud of witnesses

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith,

Who are these witnesses? 

Considering the sentence starts with therefore, it is referring to the previous statements made in chapter 11. It speaks of those who love God, and the promises, or reality of his son, and those who lived by faith believing his promises, starting at able until the present time of the author. So them being that huge crowd of witnesses. That being said, all believers from all time are watching you!  Think about that, wow!  Abraham, Noah, Paul, Debra, Abigail, David, Wow what an honor. It speaks of these servants of faith not just of old, but also of those who were persecuted after Christ.

So if those of old, and of the New Testament, are watching according to this verse, than how, and from where?  Based on this verse, I would say if you could watch, and witness, you have a conscious reality of life. Would you not agree, or you could not make a very good witness? You are not asleep, but as it says witnessing, and watching it unfold.  This is also evident in the story given by Christ, of Lazzereth the poor beggar and the rich man, who before the salvation of Christ, could see one another, and even talk back and forth one in comfort, and one in physical torment.   

 Here is another verse that speak of the rapture and the gathering of the saints he is getting them from the farthest bounds of the earth AND the farthest bounds of heaven.                                     

Mark 13:27 (AMP)

 ²⁶ And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

²⁷ And then He will send out the angels and will gather together His elect (those He has picked out for Himself) from the four winds, from the farthest bounds of the earth to the farthest bounds of heaven.

How the lord plans to surprise his children after his coming!

Isaiah 29:17-23New Living Translation (NLT) speaking of after his coming

¹⁷ Soon—and it will not be very long—
    the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field,
    and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.
¹⁸ In that day the deaf will hear words read from a book,
    and the blind will see through the gloom and darkness.
¹⁹ The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the Lord.
    The poor will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
²⁰ The scoffer will be gone,
    the arrogant will disappear,
    and those who plot evil will be killed.
²¹ Those who convict the innocent
    by their false testimony will disappear.
A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice
    and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

²² That is why the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says to the people of Israel, ^[a]

“My people will no longer be ashamed
    or turn pale with fear.
²³ For when they see their many children
    and all the blessings I have given them,

They will recognize the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob.
    They will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not work in vain, and their children will not be doomed to misfortune. For they are people blessed by the Lord, and their children, too, will be blessed.

Isaiah 54:13  I will teach all your children, and they will enjoy great peace.

Who are the children of God, do we have in heritance with Israel does this apply to us?

Isaiah 56:3

“Don’t let foreigners who commit themselves to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will never let me be part of his people??’ And don’t let the eunuchs say, ‘I’m a dried-up tree with no children and no future.’

For this is what the Lord says: I will bless those eunuchs  who keep my Sabbath days holy
and who choose to do what pleases me,  and commit their lives to me.

Who gets angels?

Hebrews 1:14

• Amplified Bible

Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?

NLT therefore angels are only servant spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation

Psalm 34:7New Living Translation (NLT)

⁷ For the angel of the Lord is a guard;
    he surrounds and defends all who fear him.

If our children have angels than will, they not receive salvation?

Matthew 18:10

“I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven

¹⁰ “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.^[c]

Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹² “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? ¹³ And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away! ¹⁴ In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish

How important are these little ones to the father?

Will he forbid them?

Whom are angels for?

Do they have angels?

So are they saved?

one final verse at this time ,Hebrews chapter 12 speaks of receiving discipline from the lord and then being able to come to him in repentance and stand in faith that he will judge you righteously that we don’t need to fear his correction. Then it speaks of those who he has love this way through time, showing his power, and discipline.  That we like them have come to our mountain, verse

²² No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. ²³ You have come to the Assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. ²⁴ You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.  Or in amplified 

²³ And to the church (assembly) of the Firstborn who are registered [as citizens] in heaven, and to the God who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect

 

Notice it says that (a new testament Apostle Speaking ) that you have come to , it , this, now is your time of testing ,your mountain time here on earth  , and those who have gone before and those who are righteous in Christ WHO ARE ALREADY MADE PERFECT , are before you.

Your little ones are watching you run your race, they are more alive than you, and I. they are living in a glorified supernatural bodies right now as we have seen in several verses.

Your little ones are not dead, just as Christ is not dead. You would never say He is, so how much more should we deny the very purpose of his coming by saying they are dead they are only dead to sin praise God! They will never have to face its evil temptation but are now alive in glory praising the Father and experiencing all the joys and great love of heaven. 

Be encouraged Love in Christ Melody