"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit" (I Peter 3:18).
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust! That's why sometimes I get a little angry, when people try to build up their status, or use their reputation, or their character-how when they get up to God somehow they are going to negotiate . . . maaaaaannnn!!! . . . Not according to my Bible. There is no negotiating. And if you really had the proper definition of God in your mind, and you understood Who He is, according to Scripture-you would conclude that there is no way on earth that you could even approach God . . . He is a consuming fire! He is not going to allow you to come into His holiness. My goodness!
And when you read Scripture and you find out, like I have posted before, when we deal with people-our friends or our associates. Either the Scriptures are true or they are not. And in John chapter 3, you need to read the whole chapter. I mean, you get into not only born again and that God gave His son-but you get into the fact that the wrath of God abideth on them that don't believe right now! So when I talk to somebody that is an unbeliever-the very wrath of God abideth on them. Oh, but He is a loving God! You better define His love!
As blood-bought believers, we can love Him-how? Because He first loved us!
That verse says that God so loved . . . that's past tense . . . how can God do more than He already did at Calvary? We get this mushy love out here and we get all this other kind of junk going on that's not scriptural. PEOPLE ARE DAMNED TO HELL IF THEY ARE NOT SAVED!!!!! It's not waiting for some opportune time! If the Gospel comes to them, they got to react then!!! God's Spirit doesn't have to strive with them all the time. The very fact that He died is the apex, the epitome of love. You can't do more than that!
That's why you show people the cross! Calvary! You don't show them 'religion' - you show them the cross! They have to deal with the cross. The only way you can deal specifically with that cross is to understand and be honest about who you are in relationship with God.
- You are unholy.
- Everything that you do that is right is filthy rags.
- You're own righteousness is filthy rags!
And when you get that perspective-I tell you what-you can do business with God. Only a great God can give and only a great God can give Himself. You think about Him giving Himself, and why, and you read verses like this-God defines it. It's not confusing. You don't need interpretations of dead languages . . . You can read 'thus saith the Lord'-it tells you why.
- You are a sinner.
- You are lost.
- You are undone.
- Your father is the devil.
- You have to be born again by God's Spirit to be in His family.
- There has to be a supernatural transaction that takes place.
So you need to get your perspective properly, and biblically - on Who God is, and Who Jesus is (Jesus is God) and He is God manifest in the flesh-that is the incarnation.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust! That's why sometimes I get a little angry, when people try to build up their status, or use their reputation, or their character-how when they get up to God somehow they are going to negotiate . . . maaaaaannnn!!! . . . Not according to my Bible. There is no negotiating. And if you really had the proper definition of God in your mind, and you understood Who He is, according to Scripture-you would conclude that there is no way on earth that you could even approach God . . . He is a consuming fire! He is not going to allow you to come into His holiness. My goodness!
And when you read Scripture and you find out, like I have posted before, when we deal with people-our friends or our associates. Either the Scriptures are true or they are not. And in John chapter 3, you need to read the whole chapter. I mean, you get into not only born again and that God gave His son-but you get into the fact that the wrath of God abideth on them that don't believe right now! So when I talk to somebody that is an unbeliever-the very wrath of God abideth on them. Oh, but He is a loving God! You better define His love!
As blood-bought believers, we can love Him-how? Because He first loved us!
That verse says that God so loved . . . that's past tense . . . how can God do more than He already did at Calvary? We get this mushy love out here and we get all this other kind of junk going on that's not scriptural. PEOPLE ARE DAMNED TO HELL IF THEY ARE NOT SAVED!!!!! It's not waiting for some opportune time! If the Gospel comes to them, they got to react then!!! God's Spirit doesn't have to strive with them all the time. The very fact that He died is the apex, the epitome of love. You can't do more than that!
That's why you show people the cross! Calvary! You don't show them 'religion' - you show them the cross! They have to deal with the cross. The only way you can deal specifically with that cross is to understand and be honest about who you are in relationship with God.
- You are unholy.
- Everything that you do that is right is filthy rags.
- You're own righteousness is filthy rags!
And when you get that perspective-I tell you what-you can do business with God. Only a great God can give and only a great God can give Himself. You think about Him giving Himself, and why, and you read verses like this-God defines it. It's not confusing. You don't need interpretations of dead languages . . . You can read 'thus saith the Lord'-it tells you why.
- You are a sinner.
- You are lost.
- You are undone.
- Your father is the devil.
- You have to be born again by God's Spirit to be in His family.
- There has to be a supernatural transaction that takes place.
So you need to get your perspective properly, and biblically - on Who God is, and Who Jesus is (Jesus is God) and He is God manifest in the flesh-that is the incarnation.
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