Sunday, April 10, 2011

I have just been made aware of something that is incorrect but many people believe it. I do not and the fact that I’m alive after what I’ve done tells me that I’m right.

When God first made man He lived with them (Adam & Eve) but when sin took control of man He threw them out.

After that He appeared at times among them and then He came to Earth again through Christ and man killed Him.

In the end in Heaven once again He will live among mankind but to experience that again Christ gave us His righteousness. Christ came from Heaven and went back to Heaven but when Christ died for mankind we were all sinners. So we being sinners aren’t allowed to be around God, but when God sees us He sees Christ’s righteousness so we’re allowed to go to Heaven. That’s part of the gift many people are missing.

I see people today going by the standards of this World which say things like: “the more education you have the more valuable you are or “the more education that you have the better position and more money you’ll get”. Which is fine for this World but it means nothing to God because He in not of this World. He is looking for people with righteousness through faith in Him and that is the only way we’ll get to Heaven. Regular humans tried once and that didn’t work before and it won’t work now.

Jesus told people the same thing:
Matt 16:24
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
NIV

Now what part of ‘more education’ or ‘more money’ is denying yourself?

The Bible makes it very clear:
Rom 3:22-26
22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
NIV

Rom 4:5
5 However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
NIV

Rom 4:6
6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works
NIV

So what you do credits you in this World but not to God. God looks at the heart and not the degree or the money.

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