#eternal consequences

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Is Calling on the Lord's Name All It Takes to Be Saved?

by Jeremiah Johnson | Imagine living your whole life thinking you were saved from the penalty of your sins, only to discover that your assurance was false. It would be a tragic revelation with horrific eternal consequences. And I fear that many professing believers are in for that...

[bvthomas]

Iniquity and Sin: Understanding the Mystery of Iniquity and Its Spiritual Consequences

  Introduction The terms “sin” and “iniquity” are often used interchangeably in everyday language, but the Bible distinguishes between these two concepts in profound ways. While both represent forms of moral wrongdoing, “iniquity” goes deeper, pointing to a premeditated, entrenched evil that flows from a rebellious heart. Understanding the differences between sin and iniquity is crucial for…

[bvthomas]

Are You a Born-Again Christian or a Tare? A Biblical Examination of Genuine Belief

Are You a Born-Again Christian or a Tare? A Biblical Examination of Genuine Belief The question, “Are you a born-again Christian or a tare?” is not merely theological—it’s an invitation for every believer to examine the authenticity of their faith and their personal relationship with Christ. The Bible offers a clear distinction between two types of people: the “good seed” (representing genuine…

[dawnlizjones]

Who's measuring stick is in your tool box?

God gives us a #measureoffaith and He measures things by faith. Perhaps we should do likewise

Bob was NOT pleased.  I don’t remember the exact scenario, something about possible plane tickets I think.  I just remember I had made him very, very nervous by my looking into some potential plans without cluing him in, but not because he’s a control-freak.  It’s simply that after almost forty years of marriage, he knows:

“You have a way of just making things happen!” (more…)

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[yourgodmoments]

What Makes the Children of God Special?

It’s not because we are better than anyone else. God loves all people equally:

For God shows no partiality [no arbitrary favoritism; with Him one person is not more important than another.] Rm. 2:11 AMP

Every human being that has ever existed or that ever will, starts out as a child of God. You’re created that way because God loves you so much. However, there will come a time in your life (if someone exposes you to who God is and you are mature enough to process that information), when you will have to make a choice whether to actively seek God if you want to remain His child.

Why? It’s because when you become aware of God’s salvation, the generational sin-taint that Adam and Eve brought upon themselves and passed it down to all generations, manifests in you as well, and it must be removed by the atoning blood of Christ.

Your choice to seek after God and subsequently receive His salvation through His Son has eternal consequences. You must accept God while you still draw breath in this life. Given that no one knows when that last breath will come, it is imperative that you make that choice today. You may not have a ‘tomorrow;’ and then the chance of being a child of God is lost to you forever.

Everyone has the potential to become a child of God, but they must first establish a relationship with Him to receive that mantle - by confessing their sins, repenting, entering into a salvation relationship with Christ by faith and do their best to live by His word. Then and only then, will they be transformed from a human being back into your original lineage as a child of God.

Does that make you better than someone who does not make that choice? No. What making the choice for God and Jesus does, is that it removes any barriers that prevent God’s love from reaching you. That makes you ‘special’ in His eyes because of the new ‘love reciprocity’ in your holy relationship with Him.

God chooses those who choose Him, not for their special qualities, but simply because they loved Him back - just like He did for His children in the desert with Moses:

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you… Dt. 7:6 - 8. ESV

God accepts us not because we are superior, but because we make an ongoing choice to be holy:

Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments… Dt. 7:9 NKJV

Being a child of God has its advantages:

And because you listen to these rules and keep them and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you…You shall be blessed above all peoples. Dt. 7:12 - 14. ESV

We get to live a blessed life! Look at how God blessed His ‘first children’ during their exit to the Promised Land:

And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he…fed you with manna…that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but lives why every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Dt. 8:2 - 4. ESV

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land…in which you will lack nothing. Dt. 8;7, 9. ESV

God steers you on a path that leads you to your greatest good. With God, it’s always about the love. He provides you with your best life when you partner with Him - letting nothing stand in His way of giving it to you:

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours…No man shall be able to stand against you. Dt. 11:24, 25. NKJV

And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. Dt. 12:7 ESV

Finally, a child of God not only enjoys a blessed life, but he or she is also guaranteed an eternal life of complete love - gathered up at the end of time by Jesus Himself:

“Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:’ Mt. 25:34 NKJV

Choose to be a child again…

Goodnight and God bless.