I was tormented gravely by the thought that I could lose my salvation.

I was raised as a Christian to believe in Eternal Security, once saved, always saved, but I was also raised to read the Word of God, the Bible. After I had read and read and read, I began to have doubts. On top of that the wonderful manifest presence of the Lord vanished completely. I got so angry with God that I threw the Bible against the wall in great anger and left it there on the floor for very long days.

I had a fear of God, but my belief in Jesus slipped badly. I was not sure about Jesus. I was in the Dark Night of the Soul and felt that God had abandoned me. I was miserable for decades.

I came to a point in my life when I wanted to die. So I looked at my options and death seemed to be the only option. But a thought came to me, God. The Holy Spirit had not vanished. He threw out a life line to me. I grabbed it and immediately, though I was still in my dying body, I suddenly had a manifest presence of my heavenly Father. He loved me in spite of me. In fact the thing I remember is His great, great love. After a week of this marvelous experience, the Father asked me point blank: "What about Jesus?" I said, "OK, I believe in Jesus Christ."  Now I wanted to finish dying and to be with my heavenly Father, but God said NO. I woke up to life on earth, and my body recovered. I even picked up my Bible that I had thrown so violently against the wall and began to read it again.

Along the way I put a serious question to the Lord. "Can I lose my salvation?"
I actually shouted this to the Lord. I said, "In places it seems You teach security, but in other places in the Bible You teach some really scary stuff."  In my frustration and torment of soul, I did not care who heard me. I had shouted this with all my might. All my anger, my frustration, and torment came pouring out in that prayer, so that I sat there tired out, but relaxed. Suddenly the Lord gave me two scriptures from the Bible. Bam, bam, just like that.

"For the Lord will not cast off his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.

and

 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."

Those two scriptures settled my heart. Truth from God will do that. 

Since then God  has given me understanding to allow Him to sanctify me in a long painful process, without rebelling. God's grace. God never took me out of the Dark Night of the Soul, but He sent His light. Actually He was there all along, but I could not perceive it. What God actually did was to transfer my faith from my soul to my spirit. God at work.

The Judgment of God to those who feel safe in Jesus may be a day of terror if the sentence is Hell.

We must not believe that Grace covers our own unforgiving attitudes toward others. If God so loved and forgave us our sins, He wants us to forgive our enemies. That could be a wife, a friend or someone we don't suspect of being that important to our eternal destiny.

The Lord is very blatant about this. He won't forgive us our sins if we won't forgive those who trespass against us.

The Lord says that if we walk in the Spirit we will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. Things like REVENGE, HATE, HIT BACK, TALK AGAINST are not of the Spirit.

I have been guilty of excusing myself about telling others how horrible a certain person truly is because they sinned against me grievously. We feel justified in spreading poison about a person because it is true, and after all, we are not lying about it.  We must repent from this; have God change our hearts.

We must dismiss our feelings and pray for the one who trespasses against us, even slugging through those negative feelings and keep praying. As we do this we will begin to see how God looks at the same situation differently, and our hearts will change.  We will not ever want to be unforgiving again.

So be ready, when persecution comes, we must forgive. We need to develop a heart habit of forgiveness forever.

Let's be honest: Did not God pour amazing mercy on my sorry butt, and does Got command we love  our enemies?

Let us learn to walk in forgiveness. The only way we can do that is by walking in the Spirit, or in other words, Abide in Christ daily. We need to daily walk with Him in His Word. It is a rich relationship that God wants for all of us. As many times as we get tripped up, each new day brings us another day to make things right, and learn to walk with God. So let us examine ourselves and confess our fleshly attitudes, stay in God's Word, and walk with a changed heart.

Only the remnant of Israel, and of the Gentiles, will be saved.

Those who are not part of God's remnant have hearts that don't want to be saved. God's holy remnant are His holy Elect. In the final analysis, the ungodly will be saved when they admit their ungodliness and come to Jesus Christ to be made new creatures in Him. They trust, believe, adhere to Jesus Christ taking His yoke upon them, and follow Him on the narrow path by His grace, and the supply of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

There are many who say, I am saved, but they walk the wide path to destruction. These are harder to reach and are like the Pharisees who thought they were saved too. You have to get them unsaved in order to get them truly saved. Only the gentle Spirit of the Lord can do this, but the sinner must be willing to humble himself before the Lord.

Niceness is of the world and of the flesh, and is superficial, even if it is made apparently habitual. It will fade in trial and tribulation that is coming to the world. You must be born again to have a heart changed. Nice people who rebel against God in their hearts will lose their niceness when tribulation comes.

WE NEED TO BE VERY SURE WE ARE TRULY IN THE FAITH BEFORE WE DIE.

The most dreadful thing to hear Jesus say is DEPART FROM ME; I NEVER KNEW YOU.
At that point it is too late.

He died for all that those who live should not live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 

God is God and He alone is God. What He says goes, not what man says.

Almighty God is amazingly longsuffering, understanding, loving, merciful, forgiving, but wrathful toward sinners. Those He forgave and had mercy on get to be with Him by His amazing Grace. Those who hate God will not see His grace nor want it, to their own hurt.  Hell  was created by God and it is very, very, very [you don't want to ever go their] awful. Forever terrible. The fire is never extinguished and the maggots never die. It is forever and ever. And never ceases. Don't ever tell God that since He is a loving God He cannot throw you into Hell. God is love and God so loved the World that He gave His only Beloved Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Oh that foolish, arrogant man would repent and come to Jesus Christ and be saved from the Lake of fire burning forever with brimstone with maggots. Hell is so terrible that you would do anything to escape. God only asks you to turn away from sin and come to Him through Jesus Christ our Lord. Only be submitting to Jesus can we overcome sin. It is God who works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. We must walk the narrow sanctifying path with Jesus to the very end until it is time to go home. They that endure to the end shall be saved by God's grace.

Great Shock is on its way

A Great Shock is coming to the free world. It will be the shock of all shocks. It will deceive too many; It will be disguised as a delightful present -- to steer us into the arms of the All Knowing, All Powerful Anti-Christ. It will not seem like the wide path to destruction, because the wide path will be decorated to look like the Right Holy way, but is a lie. Only God can stop the path to Hell.

How do you know if this very warning is not God's grace trying to stop you. 

The very news on television will be a tool of the wicked one.  Just remember that world news is always slanted toward ultimate worship of anti-christ. So take their offerings with a grain of salt.

Do you see the trend in the world to UFO's, to ascended masters, to supernatural lies. The deception will be really huge and will take us by complete surprise. It will even rock the Elect. So let's hang onto Jesus as He hangs on to us. It is going to get rough, but lean not on our own understanding but in all our ways acknowledge Him. Amen.