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Do we really need to possess a greater faith? 

Rather than asking God to increase our human capacities in all areas of our life, shouldn’t' we rather ask Him, that He, Christ Jesus, become in us, more and more the driving strength of all our actions and motives so we can enter wholly into our satiating destiny.  And believe that only His Spirit in us can create the will that we so barely have and the natural and supernatural work that we never have proportionally to real needs.

Hebrews, 13:20 - 21 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jesus is our perfect Savior. He saves us from our misery, rebellion, incapacity, failures, inaccuracies, inequity, and limitations. He becomes everything, in us, as far as we let Him and ask Him to. And a grain of mustard seed is enough to get aware He lives in us and that we can trust His Spirit to guide and inspire us in the walk, at every moment, every day.

Philippians, 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh (human capacities)

He is the grain of mustard seed. He can become everything in us and through us. The heavenly Father wants His Son to become everything in us above our highest hopes. If we only renounce to please him by tapping into our own resources. If we rather humble at the hardness of our heart and beg the power of His life in us, and prefer when we see our coldness, to lament, mourn and weep, feeling our misery and claiming and confidently expecting the effects of His Covenant in us in order that He exalts us. Rather than trying, moved by our natural man pride, to search within us some pathetic energies and win fugitives small victories.  Jesus saves us perfectly. He wants us to expect everything from Him (in us) and overall expect from Him (in us) what he demands us. And if our faith is not steady enough to believe such wonderful news, He will still be here to save us from our weak faith and grant us with His. 

Hebrews, 12:2 - looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith...

All is a matter of look. Let's tell Him : enlighten my eyes so I understand You are fully enough, every day, for me to become, by your Spirit who lives in me, all what I am destined to become of You, through You and to You.

Romans, 11:36 - For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

And even if I can't yet see how this will practically happen in my daily life, never mind! You promised. This is the new covenant that you sealed with your precious blood. (Hebrews 8:10 to 13 - Ezechiel 36:25), you will do what you committed to do and I ask it to You, my Savior. 

1 John, 5:14 - This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. 

Jesus is the absolute Savior and the whole plan and work of the Father are that we believe in and expect everything from Christ in us as the branch awaits everything from the tree that holds it. Jesus is the tree of life and we have been grafted in Him.

John 6:27 : Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."  

We have been cut off from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that generates natural mankind, proud, auto sufficient, doing much, even deeds that are spiritual in appearance but are actually performed by the strength of arms (of Him, by me, to him). We have become Christ branches when we are born again. We are part of His life. Our vocation is thus to bear fruit not do works to become righteous. Justice is a fruit! Our terrestrial and celestial vocation is that we may be filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Philippians, 1:11

Ephesians, 3:14 - For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

Triumph, triumphant life in all areas of our existence starts and continues when Christ dwells in our hearts through faith.  This is the highest miracle that can happen in a human life. Clever strategy consists thus in searching this in priority as the rest, that we so earnestly desire, totally depends on it. Notice that this is the action of the Holy spirit in our inward man that, in response to prayer, creates this position of triumph. Our sanctification efforts (that are actually only vain tentative of improvement) will not change us. He, the Holy Spirit, in response to the prayer of a heart that humbles before Him and expects only from Him, He, the Holy Spirit of God makes this miracle possible : Christ dwells in us through faith, constantly, naturally.  He makes us dwell in Christ. And if we dwell in Christ, what opens before us is the infinite, supernatural, superabundant horizon of all divine blessings:

John, 15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you

To anyone who, like me, wants to grow in faith and Christ resemblance, let me share a very simple principle:

You will never fully submit joyfully to Christ the Lord until you have fully grasped how greatly He is your Savior. Only, Jesus the Savior can lead you to Jesus the Lord and make you willing to please Him in everything. And Jesus the Lord will constantly lead you toward Jesus the Saviour.

Jesus has not come to abolish the law. His commands (remain in me, love one another just like I have loved you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you…) and the commands of the Holy Spirit (pray without ceasing, have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, rejoice without ceasing) are far, very further above our natural capacities of obedience. We have to re-learn to read the Bible in the spirit of a new covenant and joyfully enter in God's rest.

Hebrews, 4:10-11 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 

Commands have now become promises. They are offered to our faith and their accomplishment is guaranteed by the welling power of the new covenant, a much better covenant (Hebrews 7:21) canceling the Mount Sinai’s one, a covenant sealed by the blood of the Lamb and made operational in us by the Spirit of Christ. The law was just a pedagogue to lead us to Christ and it still is. (Galatians 3:24). "A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him...." In you! Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?
2 Corinthians, 13:6

Let us pray every day, our SAVIOR, to be found in him, not having a righteousness of our own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. Philippians 3:9 

Let us pray every day, our HEAVENLY FATHER that he would grant us, according to the riches of his glory, that we may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. Ephesians, 3:14

And let peace and true joy then flood out of our hearts into the world in quenching streams and welling and inexhaustible rivers for the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7 :7-8

It is a law of the Kingdom of God. There is nothing automatic. All promises in the Bible show us what God is willing to give. And so, what must be asked, sought, and penetrated definitively.

All victories and riches acquired by the Son of God, Jesus Christ, are described in the Bible so that every man and woman demand concrete and daily fulfillment in his life. Jesus invites us and promises to the one who asks that he will receive, to the one who seeks that he will find and to the one who knocks, that he will see a door open and may enter. So, we need to know:

1/ we must ask for everything

2/ What to ask

3/ Ask well with right motives.

If a child of God does not obtain, it is not for lack of faith, for it takes so little, a grain of mustard, that is to say very very little and this very very little raises and moves mountains.

This grain of mustard that can lift mountains, here it is:

he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. Hebrews 11 :6

Every child of God has this grain of mustard. There is therefore another cause for the non-fulfilment of certain wishes and the non-fulfillment of certain prayers.

You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. Jacques 4 :2-3

You do not ask:

We sometimes forget to ask what God promised, presuming it's going to happen on its own in His time.

However, you must ask for everything. Even what God has pledged to faithfully give us. In Matthew 6, the Lord pledges to give us food and clothing. Nevertheless, we are invited every day to pray our Father in heaven for our daily bread. He knows we need it. But that doesn't exempt us from asking Him.

You are not asking well:

We ask for things that:

- either can't be granted to us right away

- either are of no real use

either (or worse) may harm us.

And in all cases, we ask wrongly if we have not followed Jesus' instructions and respected the order of priority he gave.

If I ring your doorbell, I make you an offer, an extraordinary gift. I suggest you choose between 100 very precious gold eggs immediately or a hen that lays a golden egg every morning for life. Once you have chosen, you will have to make me the official request of what you have chosen. Because I'm interested in what you're going to choose.  What will you choose?

Presented like this, no hesitation, isn't it? You choose the hen that will give you a golden egg for the rest of your life.

Why, when Jesus makes us the same proposal, we choose to ask for the golden eggs.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Matthew 6.33

Perhaps the kingdom and the righteousness of God do not seem to us to be a hen with golden eggs but a religious and not very concrete thing. Well, there are these 'all these things that will be added', which do look like golden eggs and there we are interested. But since we do not really know what Jesus means with the kingdom and righteousness, then we ask 'the things to be added' and there are so many....

We make a strategic mistake and deprive ourselves of the best by not scrupulously and in order following the Lord's instructions. Seek first, first, the kingdom and its righteousness; Once you find it, the rest will be given to you in abundance, a pressed down, shaken together, and running over measure!

What is the kingdom of God and his righteousness?

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14 :17

The kingdom is righteousness! And as a result, that is priceless: overflowing peace and joy every day of our lives, whatever the circumstances!

What is righteousness?

Righteousness is the will and ability to joyfully and daily practice God's will in our lives, free of sin. It is a miracle of the Holy Spirit granted to the new creature filled with the Spirit, an effect of Christ's resurrection power in his/her heart.

It is a gift from God, free and possible because the Son of God is resurrected. There is a power in His resurrection. This power, which is spread in the heart of the one who demands and receives it, arouses righteousness and one can walk as He has walked.

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15 :7

That is probably why, we just ask for the golden eggs, 'things added’. We do not believe that it is possible to experience what has just been explained. We do not believe it is possible to walk like He walked.

Why then does Jesus ask us to seek this? Would he ask us for something impossible? It does not look like Him.

What prevents us from walking as He walked, from remaining in his words? The old self, the flesh? Is it not written that the old self was crucified at the Cross? Is it not written that we were crucified on the same day as Jesus at the Cross? So, the old self, the flesh should no longer be obstacles to righteousness.

Unless these things have not been revealed to us because they are inaccessible to the natural eye, to the natural life.

but just as it is written, "things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him, For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; 1 Corinthians 2.10

And until they have been revealed to our minds, they remain just words, magnificent inoperative promises, a beautiful, promised country but on the other side of the Jordan. God reveals them through His Spirit. God miraculously cuts off the waters of the Jordan and bring us in.

and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority. Colossians 2 :10

Therefore Jesus tells us to seek and ask first for the kingdom of God because we already have been made complete in Him. That includes the 'things added'. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ have given us everything.

CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS. By his death, all our past, present and future sins are erased, and God will never condemn us again for anything. Today God is at peace with us. He is at peace with us, we are at peace with Him, by the death of Christ, because of the death of Christ, through the death of Christ whatever our present condition.

It is a fact that has waited for two thousand years all those who hear about it and that opens the continual source of joy and overflowing inner peace we need, to valiantly and resolutely conquer our heritage. It is a mandatory gateway. The cross. Sins forgiven. No more condemnation. Ever.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand Romans 5.2

You just must know that and accept it. If we are not deeply and undeniably convinced that our sins have all been erased, that we are in the eyes of God, white as snow, it is because Christ's death on the Cross is in us only at the stage of a mere intellectual understanding.

It takes more than an understanding to enter this experience and see it transform every day into torrents of overflowing peace and joy. That is why Jesus tells us to ask and seek. We must recognize our blindness and ask God to open our spiritual eyes. Only He can do it and when the good gift, the perfect gift comes from above, truth then explodes in all our being in a no-brainer that nothing can ever destroy.

CHRIST IS RESURRECTED. The power of his resurrection, the power of his new life, poured into us, allows us to live in righteousness every day of our lives. This is the second side of the coin; the righteousness of God that Jesus speaks to us about and that must be sought.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6 :14

You must know it and know that it is possible. If we are not deeply and undeniably convinced that Christ lives in us and that the power of His life is sufficient to hold our old self in death and make us live every day of our lives, free from sin, from the world and from the adversary, in God's righteousness, it is because the resurrection of Christ is at the stage of a mere intellectual understanding. And of course, we do not fully experience it.

It takes more than an understanding to fully enter this experience. Understanding is not faith.

Faith is the hand of our spirit that captures what the spiritual eye has just seen.

Why do you think the Lord Jesus-Christ advises us to buy eye salve so that we may see? Yes, He tells us to ask and seek and strike and he advises us to buy from Him.

I advise you to buy from Me.... eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Revelation 3 :18

We must ask God for this eye salve, ask Him to open our spiritual eyes. Only He can do it and when the good gift, the perfect gift comes from above, truth becomes operational, acting. We live the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things are added.

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John 5 :14-15

It is time for the church to wake up from its deep blindness sleep and for each member to begin to operate as he/she should, with eyes illuminated by Jesus' eye salve. A member of Christ, his eyes thus open, is made able to operate individually and in coordination with the other members because his/her faith empowers him/her to use the supernatural and powerful resources of the kingdom of God. The church can then begin to do, according to His own words (John 14:12), greater things than those of the Son of man when He was in the limitations of a human body.

With a church that has closed eyes, while she thinks she sees clearly, the Son of Man could find very little faith on earth when He returns.

will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? Luke 18: 7-8

To be followed….

One can be a believer of Christian obedience, sincere and know of God only his commandments, his demands, his anger, paradise, hell, his apparent distance from men and all the rites of religion with its splendid ornaments, its magnificent ceremonies, powerful organs, sacred scents or its rhythmic music, joyful and full of dances.

It is possible for a sincere and pious believer to be regularly beset by doubt and have, in fact, no deep and stable certainty as to the existence of God or eternity.

Millions of authentic, pious and consecrated Christian believers love the righteous God who resides in heaven, who has certainly sent Jesus but who punishes the sinner and reproaches the lack of holiness of his children. Many of the faithful seek the Lord's favor by imposing penance, all forms of deprivation or abstinence. Some go so far as to mortify themselves, climbing mountains to the point of bloodying their knees.

No one should be advised to make any judgment about a believer and his beliefs. First, because God alone has the right to be a judge. Secondly, because God does not only look at the actions of men, but also and much to their motivations. And He alone can do that because He is the only one who can read in the heart and therefore judge righteously.

It is permissible to have and give an opinion, but this opinion should only be shared if it is not likely to hurt and if it is shared gently. The Lord teaches us that love must prevail over freedom and our convictions (Romans 14:1-6). The wisdom from above is peaceable, gentle, reasonable and full of good fruits. It is neither violent nor bitterly zealous in wanting to defend the truth (James 3:13-17).

Let me share some thoughts. And please listen to me to the end.

For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision (practicing the rites of a religion), but a new creation. And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them... Galatians 6 :15-16

The new creation, the one who is born again, has deep, ingrained certainties in his heart that are not based on any human logic or reasoning.

The one who is born again knows that he or she is loved by God and feels no need to self-suggestion or to convince oneself of it.

The one who is born again knows he or she has been forgiven for all sins and accepts no condemnation, he or she has no doubt about his or her entry into heaven and has been fully convinced in the inner being, by God himself that salvation rests only on Jesus Christ.

The one who is born again knows that he or she will never do enough to win God's favor and does not even try. He or she knows that God's favor is all earned, regardless of any work or action.

The one who is born again loves God with a love flowing from his heart. No need to force oneself. It's flowing. He or she just needs to be taught, by the anointing of the Holy Spirit in him/her and through ministries and the Word of God, how to live and remain in Jesus Christ, in order to sustain himself/herself in this joyful life. A holy and victorious life is now possible.

The one who is born again has the will and the power to free himself from all addictions, from all devastating passions, from all dominating and demeaning sins. He or she has the power to say no to sin and to no longer be crushed by it.

The one who is born again knows without a shadow of a doubt; for his spiritual eyes have opened, that Christ is alive and that He is now the Shepherd of his life, the One who will help him/her to go through all trials which are the share of all humans, indiscriminately. The storm blows on all but those who have Jesus in their boat never sink.

Jesus is alive. Already, historically many know that He died on a cross. But the Father resurrected him. A resurrected is someone who had died and returned to life.

The risen Christ is more than the man who died on the cross. The risen one has regained his divine glory and power. He has the power to save us today. The one who is born again has met this living, truly Living Person, who has passed through death, who is resurrected and who lives forever. He or she met Him in his inner being, more actually than one would have met a visible person. For this reason, he or she will never be able to doubt again.

Are you born again?

The believer, the authentic and pious believer does not necessarily experience all this. Belief does not bring anyone into this life, into these certainties, into this solid and ineradicable faith.

You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. James 2 :19

The Bible tells us that demons are as much believers as we are, even more so, and that is why they shudder. Their belief does not lead them into the presence of God. Salvation is not in belief. The demons are lost for eternity and their future is in a lake of fire despite their great belief.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3 :3

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3 :5

Jesus made it clear that to see the kingdom of God and to enter it, one must be born again! He did not foresee any other means. It is He, the Decision maker, the Chief, the Wise, the Lord, He who tells us insistently, insisting, repeating the word truly twice: truly, truly I say to you: you must be born again or you will not see or enter the kingdom of God.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14 :17

The Kingdom of God is not a geographical place or heaven. The Bible, which gives any explanation, teaches us in the book of Romans that the kingdom of God is righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Spirit, already on earth and in fullness in heaven. Then let us paraphrase the words of Jesus, 'If a man is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter into the righteousness, peace and joy that the Holy Spirit shares.

It's more understandable, isn't it? Jesus was talking about these things to a teacher of the law, Nicodemus, a religious man more educated than you and me about God's law. And Nicodemus didn't understand anything to the point of saying: 'but, how could a man get into his mother's womb and then get out?' No, he did not understand that this new birth occurs first in the inner being.

It would not be reasonable to describe how the new birth occurs. For everyone, it is a different experience. But in all cases:

• We do know we are born again
• In the days, weeks following the new birth, we observe changes and even drastic changes in the way we act and think. We really become a different person while remaining ourselves.
• We have made an irrevocable decision and we know that we have changed course. We have firmly decided that Christ would now be the leader of our lives.
• We know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we are forgiven for all our sins and our love for the Lord no longer bears the very idea of displeasing him with any disobedience.
• We know that Jesus Christ lives with us and that He is now our Shepherd
• There is no longer any doubt about the person of Christ, even if we sometimes have questions about His ways that we do not always understand, but deep doubt no longer exists.
• And the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit in us is by no means the product of any mental effort.

No believer, merely a believer, unless he is born again, experiences this. It's supernatural.

The one who is born again enters with wonder into a luminous life. There is, however, no difference between the born again and the simple believer, no superiority of one over the other.

The believer has no less value than the one who is born again because everything is received by grace. He simply needs a witness to tell him that it is possible and necessary to go further, to live more than just belief, which over time may diminish, if it has not already happened. New birth is the standard given by Jesus Christ himself.

You may be saying, is this possible? Why doesn't anyone talk about it? Is there any chance that I too could go through this?

Yes it is possible and someone is talking to you about it today. Someone who has lived it, millions in the world have lived it and it is also possible for you, for all because:

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus 1 Timothy 2 :4-5

There is no recipe. But there are obstacles to identify. Then it will be between you and the Lord. Let's rely on the texts of the Bible. God has inspired men over centuries to make us know His Will. Through His Word, we know what we can reasonably expect from Him.

Biblical texts are solid foundations. Many people who are ill-intentioned or simply totally ignorant want to undermine the reliability of these texts through all kinds of smoky and unfounded theories. I feel sorry for them. It will be difficult for them to enter into the presence of God, for it is precisely through trust in his promises and in his Word that we can receive from Him all the riches of his grace. There are no other ways.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1 :12-14

This text explains us that by believing in Jesus, in His Name, one is likely to receive a power, the power to become a son of God. We are then born of God and not of the blood, nor of the will of the flesh or of man.

It doesn't come from blood: you don't inherit being a son of God at birth from your parents. You become one.

This does not come from the will of the flesh: the flesh here has the meaning of human nature, its desires, its thoughts and the strength of its will. You are not born again by the power of your will, by your efforts or by your actions. It is not self-suggestion or the result of any mental power.

This does not come from the will of man: no man, even the most sincere and pious, the highest priest or preacher, nor the prayers of either have the power to make you born again even if they contribute to it.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2 :8-9

not of yourselves: We cannot bring anything to God that has enough value for Him to give birth to us again. You can jump, scream, moan, raise your arms to heaven, sulk, haggle, trick or do so many magnificent and praiseworthy works. Nothing will do. Not of yourselves, says the Word. None of our actions can trigger the new birth.

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; Isaiah 64 :5

Our righteousness, our good deeds, our merits, do not give us any right of entry. They're like a filthy garment. They will not force God to make you his child.

Even our faith will not suffice or our repentance, as we are going to see. Our faith does not save us. Jesus alone saves us even with a billionth of a faith, a grain of mustard. Our faith, big or small, makes no difference. Jesus blessed the one to whom He declared ‘O woman, your faith is great' (Matthew 15:28) as much as the one who said to Him ‘I do believe; help my unbelief' (Mark 9:24).

It is God's gift: We are totally dependent, at the mercy of God's goodwill. If He does not intervene, if He does not decide to act from above, nothing will happen.

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. Romans 9:14-17

And if we persist in wanting to win the Lord's favor pretending to have any merit, this is a major obstacle to new birth. Read the Parable of the Pharisee :

Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: `God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector;

I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me, the sinner!.

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exaltedé. Luke 18 :10-13

You have to assimilate that. It's extremely frustrating, annoying, unbearable for human nature. Our nature will always look in one way or another to be part of it. Well, no. It is the Sovereign Grace, the merits of Jesus Christ and nothing else that trigger spark the miracle. Our participation is minimal.

But then I'm wasting my time, will you tell me?

No! On the other hand, just make sure that God has promised new birth. It will be easier to receive because He is faithful unlike man. Everything He promises, He does. And if we are certain to ask for something He has already promised to give, it strengthens us. When you know you are entitled to something, you have insurance to claim it until you get it. Even obstacles or delays can't stop your determination, you know you're entitled to it!

Now you have read the words of Jesus above about new birth. What more do you need? You must be born again.

So here's the path to new birth:

• Repenting
• Accept who Jesus Christ is, what He says, and invite him to live and reign in our hearts.
• REPENTANCE and FAITH. FAITH and REPENTANCE.

Very simple in words!

REPENTANCE

To repent is to realize that we have lived the life of a blind and deaf until now, having heard of God in catechism, in Sunday school, through our parents, our friends, through books, through the Bible or a personal research. Yes, we've heard of God, but He's always been a theory, never a person intensely present in our lives.

The result is that we direct our lives as we see fit, being driven, sometimes in spite of ourselves, by the wills of our thoughts and our human nature, often committing acts that we know to be reprehensible but it is stronger than us, out of selfishness, out of passion.

Repenting is when we decide that this lifestyle, we don't want it anymore. It takes halh a second to repent. Although we are aware that we do not yet have the power to get away from it. It is wanting to change mentality, way of thinking, it is wanting to change attitude, convinced that only Jesus Christ, the Shepherd, will be able to direct our life properly.

"Now I want you Jesus, to lead my life. I am sorry for all that I have done that I knew to be wrong and for all that I have not done and that would have been good. I am sorry and want to change, give my life to you and let you lead it. I no longer want to be a slave to my inclinations, bad attitudes or devouring passions. “

How many times have you ever repented like this?

If you've done it many times, you may have become tired. "It's useless," you maybe said to yourself; "It doesn't change anything anyway, I start again the next day."

Yes, this repentance was a necessary first step but it did not introduce you to new birth. Cheer up, you're not far away!

THE KEY

I've been through that too. I always repented for the same things, all the time and without change. I felt every time I was doing it, that it stayed at a very superficial level. It didn't really spring from the depths of myself, even if regrets were sincere. And I couldn't figure out how to get it out of my guts. It was always on the edge of the skin. It was frustrating. I had no idea how to be more sincere, deeper so that it was really a cry of guts. It was out of my reach.

Then one day I received a very simple instruction and the deliverance came. A brother showed me, through the Word of God, that only God can give true repentance that is profound, authentic and definitive.

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2 :24-26

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit John 3 :5-7

 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us, For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death 2 Corinthians 7 :9

You repented. You were sincere but let’s understand what Jesus is trying to teach us through 'what is born of the flesh is flesh' and apply it to repentance.

It means that repentance that comes from the flesh (from human nature and its abilities) is flesh (remains within the limits of what human nature and capacities can produce). It is sincere, it is not bad, it shows our desire to change course but it is insufficient.

We need the intervention of the Spirit. The fire from above must consume the sacrifice. What is born of the Spirit is spirit. There is a repentance of the flesh, human, and a repentance by the Spirit, led by the Spirit of God. There is a sorrow of the flesh, human, which is limited to sincere but vain regrets, and a sorrow by the Spirit, according to God led by the Spirit of God which leads to true repentance. 

It is God's gift so that no one will glorify his beautiful repentance or great faith. God is the author of our salvation from beginning to end.

The brother encouraged me to ask God for true repentance, the one that comes from Him. I followed the instruction. Blessed be this inspired man! It triggered everything.

We cannot bring anything to God that is acceptable, as we have said. Only the recognition and confession of our total inability to please him in any way, and our request that He do in us, what we fail to do, is the trigger for any blessing from above. It's not from you. What is born of the Spirit is Spirit. God gives to anyone who asks.

He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5 :3

The kingdom of God, righteousness, peace and joy through the Holy Spirit, new birth is for the poor in spirit, for those who recognize their spiritual poverty (life of the spirit).

The day God granted me his repentance, I saw my sins and rebellion like I had never seen them before. It happened when I didn't expect it anymore and it's a memorable day I'll never forget. In the presence of love of the Holy Spirit, I repented with all my heart, as I had never been able to do by myself.

The experience varies from person to person. For me it was very emotional but it is not a reference. For others it will be quite different in its manifestation. It may be different for you.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth… John 16 :13

But whatever the way the new birth takes place, in all cases, because it is the Comforter, the Holy Spirit who leads you into repentance, you repent in truth, deeply, resolutely, decidedly, in a depth and authenticity that only the Spirit can infuse, in the light of Grace which is in Jesus Christ and which instantly erases from your conscience, all the sins that He shows you and that you recognize. You're forgiven. Definitely washed. You know that and nothing can make you go back. That day you are born again.

A visitation of the Holy Spirit in a meeting of the Church, this feeling of having been touched by the presence of God, those tears that may have flowed from your eyes do not make you be born again. A decision is needed. Faith alone is not enough as it is not a decision. Repentance given by God leads to a profound and definitive position. We are driven to commit all our will. In that moment, the whole being finds the determination to change course.

Only this moment of decision gives the green light to the Lord. Then you decide who to follow, your old way of life or Him? You tell him, He takes note and your life is transformed.

Don't be discouraged. It sounds inaccessible, too good to be true but it's real. Supernatural, extraordinary but very real. It is the normal experience of the Christian according to the New Testament stories and that makes you the happiest person in the world. Does that mean you're out of range? You are right! It's totally out of YOUR reach. So what? It is not your work but that of the One who wants you to be born again, even more than you do, to add you to the community of His children. He made you his child by adoption, before the foundation of the world. He is at work today. Ask God to lead you into the deep and true repentance that comes from Him. He will take you there and change your life forever.

Let me share one last thing that should help you. I do not preach an experiment; I illustrate with experience what is taught in the Scriptures; it's quite different.

I would like to mention that during this time of repentance given by the Spirit, I had a moment of cold sweat. As I was bathed in tears, in His presence, and receiving His relieving forgiveness for all sins passed, the Spirit began to point out things that I was still doing and that I clearly had to also give up.

To my amazement, something woke up and roared within me. I found myself unable to give up anything and began to argue, to negotiate, to justify myself, to minimize the seriousness of these things. But no matter how much I did and said, the Lord showed me that it was not negotiable and that I had to give up everything at his feet. That's when I got cold sweat.

I wanted to, but my whole being was hardly saying no. I couldn't give up. Impossible. I didn't want to. And I felt that this new life that was offered to me was escaping me because I was unable to accept the Lord's conditions. Incredible massive forces of resistance that I had never carried out were there, in me, in spite of myself, raised like a mountain against the Lord's will, stronger than my will; and it lasted a while. I realized that I was lost. I didn't want to, I couldn't; the answer was no, definitely no. I will not give up or give up anything, I liked those things too much….

There was a moment of silence and immobility and in my desperate mind, the Spirit of God suddenly gave me a way out. "Ask me for the strength and the will to abandon everything to me." After a few very struggling moments of hesitation, I reluctantly said to God, and against my apparent will (but which will !?) and in any case not feeling any real personal desire that He do it: “Lord, give me the will to yield and give you everything “. Instantly, resistance faded and peace and joy flooded my soul. And that flow flowed for weeks and weeks. We can't invent that!

And even less give up everything, without His help, by the sheer force of our will!

Our human nature rejects God and it becomes very obvious when the Lord casts His light upon us. Our eyes open and we realize how much our natural being hates God's ways. But that doesn't stop Him from saving us. Jesus Christ offered Himself for us on the Cross and to put to death this human resistance. This resistance is called: sin, singular. Jesus Christ saves us even and above all from sin.

Yes, I understood that every human being is truly lost, irretrievably rebellious to God and that the Lord is truly a powerful Savior. He can save us perfectly from ourselves and our resistance. Jesus Christ is the perfect Savior, I repeat. He perfectly saves the one who accepts to receive everything from Him. This lesson is engraved and I do not think it was useless to share it.

That day, I experienced (before I had even read them and knew them) these few truths that the Word teaches us:

and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority. Colossians 2 :10

for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philippians 2 :13

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Romans 11 :36

and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Colossians 2 :11

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4 :8

If you cannot make the decision, He can still help you, inspire you, give you intelligence, and click to desire to repent. He knows what we are formed of, he remembers that we are dust (Psalms 103). You have to ask Him everything. The new life He gives is bright, beautiful, exciting, peaceful, joyful, productive, and fruitful. We are dependent on God. Salvation is God's gift. Jesus Christ is our Savior. He saves us from ourselves.

FAITH

Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified.
Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?
Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit; For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself. Acts of the Apostles 2 :36-38

The promise is for all in as great a number as the Lord will call. But it is said on the other hand that Jesus attracts all men to Him, men and women:

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself. But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. John 12 :32

Jesus was raised on a cross first. Then he was raised in glory to the Father and from there He sent what had been promised: the Holy Spirit, the Comforter who Alone can lead us into the Kingdom of God, from new birth to our entry into heaven in the full and perfect presence of God.

To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, which, He said, you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Acts of the Apostles 1 :3-5

The Holy Spirit was sent at Pentecost (Acts of the Apostles 2) and since then, He is here, on earth, among the son of men. If the Holy Spirit attracts you, too, as you read these lines, recognize His way of speaking. You won't hear a voice. He does not utter audible words: 'Come to Jesus, give Him the direction of your life'. He attracts you, it is His words to Him, living words that speak to the heart and will. You know it in your heart. It's time to hand over to Jesus Christ the direction of your entire life.

For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. 1 Peter 2:25

God would like all men to be born again through the Spirit of God. Jesus was crucified. And his crucifixion is the price paid so that all may receive a new cleaned heart that becomes the dwelling of the risen Christ.

An inspired Christian song says, you can be born again, you can start all over again, sweep your past life, and start over with Jesus for Shepherd.

You must be born again, said Jesus Christ. Change course, give Him the direction of your whole life (that's what means the old term repent), and believe in Him, in His help and in His action in you from beginning to end. To have faith also means to ask God to add to our human repentance, the true repentance and the faith that also come from Him (Hebrews 12:2; Romans 10:17). What is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Jesus is dead, resurrected and He ascended into glory to send the Holy Spirit who wants to take you by hand and lead you to the foot of the Cross, for the forgiveness of all your sins, to be freed from sin (singular) and then once your heart is cleaned, to lead you, into an increasingly intimate communion with Jesus, making you a dwelling of Christ in Spirit on earth.

Tell him yes, come Lord Jesus Christ to live and rule over my life, over my heart!

This is the message of the gospel for you and for me.

2/ The inexcusable

The  inexcusable will join the stone hearts in the lake of fire. I am not who calls them the inexcusable, but Jesus Himself.

One can hear a talk on the Bible and not necessarily hear the gospel. Having heard religious statements about Jesus is not having heard the gospel. A political or philosophical discourse does not introduce anybody into the presence of Jesus Christ, the Savior. At best it faces you with God's law whose purpose is to expose and condemn the guilty.

The true gospel does not condemn anybody but saves the guilty.

Do you know which name 2 Corinthians 3: 6 to 9 gives to the preaching of efforts to obey God's commands and the shame and danger of not doing so?

The ministry of condemnation and death. A very widespread preaching alas, which does not save or transform anyone but condemns and kills! God himself initiated this ministry at a time. The Bible tells us it was a glorious ministry, but it also says that it is now outdated, abolished.

2 Corinthians, 3:6 - He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory.

The preaching of the gospel, that of the new covenant, establishes a living relationship with Jesus Christ. The supernatural and ability to preach it comes only from above. It is a new ministry, a new way to deliver, the ministry of the Spirit. If the ministry of condemnation was glorious, this ministry of righteousness that gives life and not death is much higher in glory.

A heart that was not touched by the spiritual ministry has not seen the kingdom of God as only the Holy Spirit can make us see what is invisible and thist does happen when preaching is anointed and talks not about the Mount Sinai's stone letters and of all its requirements but about Jesus -Christ , the Savior of the world and His generously offered grace.

Only the Holy Spirit can open spiritual eyes and allow the listener to see and thus truly be able to make a choice of who (s)he wants to follow. All things have become new in Christ; even the way of preaching the Word of God has changed.

Anyone brought into contact with this living gospel enlightened by the Holy Spirit, having heard Jesus speak to his/her heart, so somehow having seen Him (God knows them), and having refused, becomes a no-excuse. A no-excuse for having rejected the Savior without cause for who could reject the Jesus the Holy Spirit reveals?

• A God who erases all faults and throws them into the sea, forgetting them for ever.
• A God who does not treat us according to our faults, who does not punish us according to our iniquities.

Psalms, 103:10 - he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

• A God who descended from heaven in the form of a man servant (Philippians 2:7) to be tortured and murdered by unrighteous men, in order to pay the high ransom of sin and redeem people who do not even care about Him.
• A God who, when invited, fills the heart with happiness, joyful hope and leads his sheep into green pastures, near peaceful and refreshing waters, promising an eternity of unimaginable beauty and fullness, without boredom or weariness.
• A God who, if we let him fully live in us, transforms us from the inside and fills us with strong desire and ability to live according to His standards.
• And living according to His standards is the opening door to continual flow of peace and joy by the Holy Spirit, a springing and constant stream of living water that quenches all heart thirsts and triggers down here, the answer of all prayers.

How many would refuse such a God when the Holy Spirit reveals Him in the heart?

Very few.

Some will, however, knowingly rejecting Him again and again. They are the no-excuse. We read in the Gospel of John:

John, 15:22 - If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John, 9:40 - Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, ‘What? Are we blind too?’
Jesus said, ‘If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

These men, religious doctors of the law, scribes, scholars of the Word of God were standing before the Son of God who was teaching them through the power of the Holy Spirit. They were hearing, they were doubly seeing, with the eyes of flesh and the eyes of mind, for the Holy Spirit was powerfully with Jesus to convince. So, they knew without a doubt who was in front of them. They were also seeing the works of the Father operated by the power of the Spirit. They knew, Jesus affirms it when he tells of them:

John, 15:23 - Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfil what is written in their Law: “They hated me without reason.”.

Despite this, they intentionally hated and rejected this Grace, preferring the glory of men or for some other deep and mysterious reason. It is the mystery of iniquity, the same hatred which animated the fallen cherub called Satan.

A no-excuse is such because he has really been introduced into the presence of Jesus and has truly seen him or heard him as these Pharisees.

Jesus is today in heaven sitting at the right of the Father so we can't see Him anymore with the eyes of flesh. In Jesus time, crowds were seeing the righteousness of God, a man in the flesh walking on the dusty roads of Galilea. But now?

That’s why, when still on earth, the Lord Jesus had announced He would send the Holy Spirit to convince the world about righteousness because He was returning to the Father and would no longer be seen physically:

John, 16:8 - When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;

It's done. Today, the Holy Spirit palliates the fact that we no longer see in the flesh, Jesus, the righteousness of God, the image of the invisible God, the imprint of His Person. The Holy Spirit does this work of making the person of Jesus seen without physical eyes. He speaks directly to the heart and opens the eyes of faith through anointed preaching. The anointed preaching, that is to say inspired by and filled with the Holy Spirit opens, sufficiently opens the eyes of the heart so that one can see or foresee the kingdom of God and above all its King.

Religious and unanointed preaching brings a legalistic and repulsive speech that only conveys information, threaten and bad news. It's like the manna. A delicious and nourishing food yesterday but an infected one today, filled with worms and unfit for consumption. The religious discourse does not open the heart eyes. That is why it has no qualifying value, to lose or save. Many should think twice before declaring themselves preachers of the gospel.

The old covenant easy preaching is out of date. Anyone knowing biblical principles can share one's knowledge. But this is not necessarily new covenant preaching inspired by the Almighty Spirit, a quite different sort of preaching that produces life or death. Death for the no-excuse who do see and reject. Life for those who do hear, believe and invite Christ as the shepherd of their hearts.

2 Corinthians, 2:15 - For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

You don't really speak from God unless you've been called, sent and therefore equipped. Transmission of commands and directives without setting them in the context of Christ new life is an old covenant practice, a dead product of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Everything has changed after Jesus Christ. The Father sent the Holy Spirit to proclaim Jesus, to reveal Jesus, to convince through a preaching carried by chosen and anointed clay pots and to fulfill the law in the heart of the believer.

"I only believe what I see" may say some. Well, this conception is outdated! Sight or hearing are no longer the only ways to be convinced. The Holy Spirit convinces your heart directly and you even see more than if you saw with your flesh eyes for it is not a view in the proper sense but an intimate conviction that quietly settles in you and is called seeing with the heart eyes.

Without being able to intellectually explain it or emotionally feel it, in spite of a few uncertainties still floating at the surface of your thoughts, very deeply in yourself:

• you know that when Jesus Christ died, He erased your sins from the eyes of the Father and that His Precious Blood poured onto the Cross was considered sufficient by the Father to make you completely reconciled with God.

• You know that the resurrected Jesus is able to communicate his righteous life to you, which makes you appear righteous in the eyes of the Father and gives you the power to live that same quality of life that He lived. He comes to live it in you, with your agreement.

• You know that this quality of life will produce happy and constant happiness if it has not already begun

• You know that He is sitting on a throne in heaven from which he sent the Comforter to dwell in you, for eternity, communicating you the will and ability to be wholly pleasing to God.

This is the gospel of glory, a communication of life, a revelation produced by the Holy Spirit beyond rational reasoning. You know it without explaining it and this quiet certainty is unemotionally just as unshakable as Mount Everest.

Once you know it, then you have freedom to entrust or not, in full knowledge of the facts, the direction of your life to the Lord and give your heart to this God full of love who wants to take you in His arms and desires so much to live in and unite to your mind. That's what preachers call giving one's life to Jesus. It's simple to say yes when the Holy Spirit speaks to you.

Workers of iniquity

The responsible for the unbelief and rejection of many of the true God and His wonderful living Son are all those ignorant speakers announcing on the net, on some evangelical TV and elsewhere, a weak and repulsive copy of the gospel which is not gospel at all, made of laws, bonds, outdated traditions, heavy rituals, sales disguised as blessings or healings and guilt sermons and sometimes ridiculous. People associate God with this disgusting spill and of course reject it. Unknowing it, they do not reject the true God but this pathetic parody that they are presented to.

These self-proclaimed preachers and sometimes accredited by who knows who, do not fulfill the divine mission, they do not allow the Lord to add living members to His body, they do not give a chance to souls to make a real choice.

They make promises of healing with few effects, promises of wealth if you give them your dime or your offerings, they beat you by threatening you with hell or divine punishment. Some modern conquistadors even dare to use the second return of Jesus as a threaten to induce people to convert whereas it is the most wonderful and desirable event that can happen to our murdered planet.

Philippians, 3:2 - Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh.

All this is disgusting, and Paul rightly speaks of dogs, of evildoers who announce another gospel than that which was transmitted in the beginning. The Holy Spirit clearly tells us to watch out. Watch out, exercise your discernment.

Galatian, 1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel – which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: if anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

These people will be judged more severely and unless they change course, for them a place is prepared, a place that we don’t talk about much, a place that is neither Hades nor the lake of fire. It is only found in the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus mentions several times ' outside, the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth'.

The darkness indicates that they will be far from the One who is light. Outside means that they will not be inside, in His presence, but outside the kingdom. The weeping talks about deep regrets and the grinding of teeth about intense frustration for having missed the goal, without possible rear machine. They were in first row for the wedding. They had a talent to grow, and they didn't do anything with it. They won't be part of the party and they'll weep and grind their teeth. They had been called to reign with Jesus. These sons of the Kingdom will be far from His light and presence, in the darkness of the outside. Called but not elected.

Matthew, 8:11 - I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew, 22:11 - But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
He asked, “How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?” The man was speechless.
Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew, 25:26 - His master replied, “You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
“So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Do you realize that the people mentioned here are servants, sons of the Kingdom. Some had received talents, prophesied, made miracles, and even chased demons in the name of Jesus. They are not unbelievers, but servants!

Matthew, 7:22 - Many will say to me on that day, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?” Then I will tell them plainly, “I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!"

Did they believe that exercising spiritual gifts was a proof they were endorsed by God? Had they not read Acts 3 and forgotten that a miracle or healing is not the fruit of any godliness or personal power but of faith in the power of the Name of Jesus.

Acts, 3:12 - When Peter saw this, he said to them: ‘Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

Acts, 3:15 - By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.

Healings, miracles and even evicted demons are not proof of the faithfulness of a man towards Christ but proof of Christ's fidelity and mercy towards men whom He wants to heal and free. Power remains God's.

2 Peter, 2:15 - They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.

Balaam was an authentic prophet of God. God was talking to him. (Numbers 22:9). He had received a talent but was seduced and prostituted it for money and human honors. He turned away from the right path and got lost. He did not, however, lose his gift as a prophet because God who does not repent of His gifts and appeal, did not withdraw what He had given. That can be misleading when such a man performs supernatural deeds in the name of God.

There are still such men, bad workmen.

Watch out those people who draped in so-called biblical knowledge and titles of prophets, preachers, doctors or even apostles, teach the biblical principles of seed, generosity and giving to open your portfolios. They twist and divert the Holy Word of God to their profit.

Their religiously disguise their appetite for money and honor. The Apostle Peter had prophesized on such people, saying that by greed, they would exploit you with deceptive words.

2 Peter, 2:3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

You recognize their endless calls for offering, their subtle condemning allusions if you don't give, their promises that you will receive from God a multiplied portion of what you have given them, the disguised threats of impoverishment if you hold the blessing. The Bible had announced these people who would deceive you.

Give to your local assembly according to what you have freely decided, without yielding to any ‘spiritual’ blackmail that never comes from God. Give God your dime or offerings with the joy that the Spirit inspires you.

2 Corinthians, 9:7 Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

God will not deprive you of ANY blessing for reason of money and He will never give you more if you give Him more so that He gives you more. These are impure and insulting motives because His blessing is already acquired in Jesus Christ, without consideration. The Lord will never deprive you of anything because you have not given enough.

Romans, 8:32 - He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?

May God open the eyes of these men on the poor and pathetic results, and even the damage that their human unanointed words produce and may they no longer deceive themselves by the few miracles and healings that may occur, which only prove the goodness of God.

They should stop opening their mouths to proclaim a so-called gospel that was not been able to free them from the vices and passions of the unregenerated nature: jealousy, desire to be recognized and famous, love of money, impulsivity, intemperance, fanaticism, legalism and search for the glory of men.

These modern scribes and Pharisees do not communicate the word of life, the word of righteousness. They might mention it but have never experienced it.

Matthew, 23:13 - But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Without the anointing of the Spirit and the experience of the word of righteousness, speeches are fountains without water, clouds without rain, inefficient, flashy religious spill to impress the crowds, a replacing of the power of God by the noise of screaming and loud volume of sound systems.

In the end, it does not only make God's kingdom not go forward, but it displays our magnificent and full of love God as a religious manipulating, repelling, noisy, difficult, sad and powerless system. What a huge responsibility!

2 Peter, 2:17 - These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved. For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

The darkness of the outside is reserved for those who will persist in these bad practices. Jesus is gentle and humble of heart but He took the whip with the temple merchants and did not chew his words towards the religious who veiled the true God to the languishing and slaughtered crowds without a shepherd.

John, 2:15 - Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, with the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

The Word advises you to avoid these bad workers. Boycott their tweets, their channels, or their TVs. They preach not by the strength of the Holy Spirit but by means of psychological human manipulation.

2 Timothy, 3:5 - holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!

They have the appearance of godliness, but the Holy Spirit of peace, sweetness, love and true liberating power is not with them. Like the wild virgins, they brandish the lamp of the Word without the oil of the Holy Spirit to make it shine and enlighten.

Psalms, 119:105 - Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Nourish, strengthen yourself with the living and encouraging message of the new covenant gospel, with the living grace of Jesus Christ. It is the only one than can truly strengthen in Christ and make us walk as He has walked with all the blessings that consequently flow and are numerous and real.

I invite you to listen on this blog the article 'the gospel explained' and do everything to get into this rest of the splendid gospel of Jesus Christ. Understand how much God is willing to dispense generously, abundantly His transforming grace provided by His living Son and only Him.

Let the Word transform the intelligence of your soul because it is with your soul that you live on earth and it is by your soul, fortified by the Spirit, that you will be able to transpose the living principles of Christ in your daily life with joy and in peace. Save your souls!

Jacques 1:21 - Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls.

Run away from the bad workers and feed yourself with the simple and powerful message of the Grace in Jesus Christ, the pure gospel that cannot be mixed with old covenant and legalistic principles.

Are you looking for faithful ministers of the gospel to listen on Internet? I recommend one I very recently discovered: Joseph Prince. (He doesn't know I'm talking about him. He preaches the true gospel, these same verses, the same doctrine, sometimes with the same expressions). We don't know each other but hearing him confirm all what is written on this blog strongly encouraged me and I guarantee that his inspired instructions will nourish you, will help you grow in Christ and trigger abundant blessings in your life. Search and listen the message of grace!

2 Timothy 2:1 - You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

As for the other venerable preachers we have mentioned above, if they read or hear these lines, they will recognize themselves. The Lord of grace keeps calling you: It is not too late to come back to common sense and stop leading His thirsty sheep into the sterile lanes of your misdirection.

It is not too late to let the true gospel transform you too, and free you. You will then be able to grow the talent that Jesus has entrusted to you by announcing a powerful gospel and see Him confirm His Word, for He always confirms His Word, not the human one. And you will not face a permanently closed door on that day.

You are destined to bear a fruit that remains and to be glorified in Him.

The fruit of a man of God are the Christians whom He will have strengthened, trained by means of sound instructions, facilitating their communion with Jesus Christ who frees from the power of the unregenerated nature, who transforms from glory to glory, who makes able to be fully pleasing to the Lord, serving Him with joy, in rest, loving him with whole heart, strength and thought. This fruit is worth more than billions!

On that day, you will hear the Lord say to you: Well done, good and trustworthy servant; you have been trustworthy in a few things; I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.

Ephesians 4:11 - He himself granted that some are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
 until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.

To be followed : the blasphemers of the Holy Spirit

3/ The blasphemers against the Holy Spirit

What is exactly a blasphemer against the Holy Spirit? We’d rather know it as sin against the Holy Spirit is the only one that will never be forgiven.

Matthew, 12 :32 - Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Marc, 3:28 - Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin..

This third category is close to that of the inexcusable, but one level up. This is not about those who, out of ignorance, say or have sometimes said anything, very irreverently, about the Holy Spirit. The Lord always forgives those who do not know what they are doing.

The people being referred to here have acknowledged Jesus, and most likely, they have been touched by the grace of God and received the Holy Spirit. And mysteriously, mystery of lawlessness, they have deliberately turned away and are actively and deliberately fighting against the Lord and His Church, and they blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.

2 Thessalonians 2 :7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

How could he, who was the highest cherubim next to God, bathing in the presence and light of the Creator, imagine becoming equal to God? How could he rebel against the Lord who had bestowed upon him all the honors and come to blaspheme against Him? It is the mystery of lawlessness. Men will follow him on this path, contaminated by this darkness. The blasphemers of the Holy Spirit do not merely despise Jesus and His Church, which is His body (we are talking about the Church in its broad sense, containing all those who belong to Christ); they are knowingly fighting against it and accusing it of being driven by an unclean or demonic spirit.

Mark, 3:22 - And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons.

Mark 3:28 - Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin. He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.

Apostle Paul condemned Christians to death, but he belonged to the category of 'thinking they know' but not knowing anything about the ways of God. By doing these things, he was convinced that he was doing what was right, as Jesus had predicted:

Jean, 16 :2 - They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

He did not know, he had never known Jesus, and he received forgiveness, then became the author of more than half of the New Testament that we read today. Here is what he said in the first letter to Timothy:

1 Timothy, 1:12 - I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.;

Blasphemers against the Holy Spirit know what they are doing. Blasphemers of the Holy Spirit, in our time, are not commonplace and will not be numerous in the lake of fire either.

I say in our time, because in the future there will come a very sad era where they will abound. This will be addressed shortly under the chapter: sinning willfully.

Je dis en notre temps car dans le futur viendra une époque très triste où ils abonderont. Cela sera abordé dans un instant sous le chapitre : pécher volontairement.

Misunderstood texts that scare people.

Some texts in the Word, taken out of context, can be interpreted, misinterpreted, and damage our faith. Especially if you have gotten into the habit of opening your Bible at random, hoping to receive a Word from the Lord. Be sure to read the context before and after the verse.

1/ Sinning deliberately

Hebrews, 10:26 - For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

This text obviously does not address weak Christians who cannot attain the victory of perfect salvation in Jesus, but it addresses the category that has just been described: the inexcusable and/or those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. To sin deliberately here means to sin with the intention of defying the Lord. There is no relation to the falls of spiritual childhood, the spiritual weakness of children in Christ.

An adult or a father in Christ is someone in whom Christ is formed and who externally manifests the mature life and virtues of Him who is the source of all his attitudes, behaviors, and words. A child in Christ is under construction. Some traits of the life of Christ in him begin to show through, but there are still many old habits from his former life, on which the Holy Spirit is working.

The inner circumcision of Christ that the Holy Spirit performs consists of the stripping away of the flesh, that is, the abandonment of the old reflexes of the old nature.

1 Corinthians, 3:1 - But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Somehow, it is always deliberately that we sin, but in the context of Hebrews 10:26, the author is rather talking about a will to harm God than the will to enjoy the sin that has victoriously seduced us, the desires of the child of God who does not yet know how to live in Jesus Christ and put to death by the Spirit the evil desires of his old nature.

These people use their will to sin (which is usually not really necessary as it is so natural), to sin intentionally even though they have received the knowledge of the truth, the verse says. Knowledge of the truth in the Bible is never an intellectual knowledge of doctrine. One can only have this precise and correct knowledge of the truth (Greek term = epignosis) by being united, in spiritual communion and with the whole being with the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Truth is a person. He comes to dwell in us, merging with us in some way. We are grafted into Him and His thoughts, His desires become ours and make us act accordingly. We then speak of an active and experiential knowledge of the person of Jesus Christ. This knowledge then becomes an epignosis (precise and correct knowledge of moral and divine things), the same as we find in the passage of the second letter of Peter, which explicitly speaks of active knowledge through practice, implementation, and outward manifestation in actions of our hidden inner life in Christ; to know through action.

2 Peter, 1:8 - For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Anyone who has this knowledge and sins willfully (one wonders how it can even be possible, but it is because of this mystery of iniquity) clearly has the intention to harm the Lord. He does not do it out of weakness or ignorance but knowingly and is animated by the same spirit as that of the ancient serpent.

We see prophetically this arrogant and blasphemous spirit expressed through a character called the beast, seducing men and which will express itself so openly in a future announced in the book of Revelation.

Revelation, 13:6 - It (the beast) opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. Also, it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

This text is very sad because we see a relatively large number of inhabitants of the earth who have chosen the side of the blasphemer and who will clearly be among the goats, the hearts of stone mentioned in the first chapter of this article.

Matthew, 24 :11 - And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

The power of iniquity working in concert with the prince of the power of the air will invade the spiritual atmosphere of the earth and cover its inhabitants with a dark and oppressive veil, obscuring their understanding and emotions. Charity will cool in an unimaginable way.

Ephesians, 2 :1 - And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Even the most apocalyptic futuristic films cannot convey the extent of the unprecedented selfishness and wickedness that will then reign on the planet. The power of iniquity will influence the minds of the majority, and cool love and charity in the hearts of men, for the beast will have authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. Its authority will not only be political, economic, and social but also, and above all, spiritual. Hearts of stone and blasphemers will abound. It is a period of nightmare darkness, and men will worship the beast and its blasphemies against the name of God, His tabernacle, and His saints.

This will happen in future times that will bear no resemblance to anything the earth has ever experienced since its creation, in times very close to the end. The ratio of goats will significantly rise in these dark times.

2/ Fall away after having been enlightened

Hebrews, 6:4 - For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

This second text concerns the inexcusable and/or blasphemers and applies only to them. It is necessary to mention this because, misunderstood, this text can discourage an unestablished or poorly taught child of God and lead them to temporarily abandon their faith and waste a lot of time. Some who have read it have imagined that they have lost what they call their salvation.

This is not about inconsistent children of God who fall accidentally, even frequently. The word "fall away" is inappropriate for them. They sin because they do not yet know how to remain in the rest in Christ by the Holy Spirit, which keeps the power of sin, lurking in each of us and ready to manifest at the slightest relaxation of faith, powerless.

Romans, 6:14 - For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

The original Greek word "parapipto" translated into English as "fall away" actually means to deviate from the right path, to turn away, to wander. The translation into English using the verb "fall away" is inaccurate and distorts the correct understanding of the thought. We are not talking here about accidental falls, but about a deliberate practice of deviation after having truly experienced fullness.

We are talking about people who have been enlightened; they have known Christ; they have tasted the heavenly gift, the gift and not a religion; they have shared in the Holy Spirit, they have tasted the powers of the age to come, (the powers!). At this point, it is difficult to deviate unless one is seduced and seduced for a long time as this does not happen in one day. They have deviated from the right path despite all they have known and persisted in their apostasy despite all the attempts of the Good Shepherd to bring them back into the safe and straight path.

May God save us from reaching this ultimate stage of conscious rebellion where repentance becomes impossible!

For all sins, except conscious and deliberate blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, grace abounds. It is vital to remain in the abundant grace of Christ and to have no illusions about ourselves. Our strength and security are in Christ who lives in us and in the Holy Spirit who alone gives victory over sin and protects us from this rebellion. We must feed and strengthen ourselves on this gospel every day. (Read or listen to the gospel explained).

Galatians, 5:17 - For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

1 John, 1:8-9 - If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus protects us from the sin that so easily entangles us. Keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus is what the gospel of grace teaches us to do, and it also gives us instructions on how to do it (or rather, how to let it be done to us!)

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,

3/ The lake of fire and sulfur for unbelievers, the abominable, and liars

Revelation, 21 :8 - But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

This verse is often quoted as is.

Taken alone, it is true that it could support the thesis of damnation for all sinners who do not know Jesus.

Nevertheless, those who think this overlook the word 'but' that introduces it. 'But, for the cowardly...' This 'but' means that this verse cannot be separated from the preceding one. This 'but' marks an opposition with what has just been said, it means: on the other hand, nevertheless, in contrast. And this 'but' prohibits the interpretation of damnation for sinners who do not know Jesus. Let's read again the entire text starting from verse 7.

Revelation, 21:7 - The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

Two sentences separated by a period but forming a single block. And to whom is God addressing here? The pagans or the sons?

He is addressing the sons in both cases. Those who have overcome and those who have not overcome. In both cases, these verses concern the sons of the kingdom. Only the sons have received the ability to overcome and the supreme goal of overcoming is given only to them. How could an unbeliever overcome? By what power? In both cases, whether victorious or not victorious, it is about people who have known the gospel of Christ, called to overcome.

We see this in another verse in Ephesians that addresses the church of the Ephesians, therefore to correctly taught Christians, not to unbelievers.

Ephesians 5:1 - Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.  And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Why did the apostle Paul tell the Christians not to even mention impurity or immorality? There are therefore sons who need to be given this kind of advice. Some will have overcome the power of sin in their lives, they will have reigned in earthly life by the power of the Grace that resides in Jesus Christ, and they will inherit a place in the new Jerusalem, the tabernacle of God with men.

However, it is essential that they have been taught about Grace and its liberating power!!! That was the case of those to whom this letter was addressed. The Ephesians had been taught by Paul.

Romans 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Those who are preached the traditional religious message of the old covenant have no chance of being among the victorious ones! None! They are not concerned with the introductory verse of this chapter.

1 Corinthians, 3:15 - If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

At best, they will be saved as if through fire, but it is better to turn to the magnificent and effective message of the gospel. Only it produces the conquerors!

The others, although properly taught and perfectly instructed on how to live in Christ and root themselves in Him, these others introduced by this "but" will not have conquered and will have continued to practice the works and attitudes of the unregenerate nature, of cowards, abominable, murderers, impure ... etc.

Note that the epistle of John gives a broader meaning to the word "murderer":

1 John, 3:15 - Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

It is possible to have known Jesus and accidentally fall into (until the Lord enlightens us) impurity, uncleanness, and passions, otherwise why would we be invited to put them to death by the power of Jesus' grace and His Spirit within us (and not by our futile efforts!).

Colossians, 3:5 - Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:[b] sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

The cowardly, abominable, etc. do not refer to ignorant, carnal, or poorly taught Christians who have only heard the preaching of the old covenant or worse, that nauseating mix of old and new covenant, grace and law (which are radically opposed) that frees no one and makes no victors. They are even less the unbelievers who will be judged according to their works and either be goats or sheep.

If you are not a victor or on the path to victory, it is because you are not receiving the right food, for the Gospel is the power of God for salvation (effective liberation from the power of sin, healing of the soul, and fullness of life in Christ).

And for those who have gone down a bad path and think they might be among those mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, the cowardly, the abominable, the murderers, the liars, I have good news for you:

Matthew, 18 :12 - What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

One does not become hardened overnight! Jesus will seek you out without giving up; He will find you. The mere fact that you have read and gone on reading what you just read is proof that His plan of deliverance has already begun for you.

Change your spiritual food. Stop struggling. Flesh cannot conquer flesh. Let Jesus in you fight for you, and start feeding on nourishment that will strengthen your faith and your inner being, the only one capable of defeating the old self that persecutes you and keeps you lying down with your head in the dust and shame.

Feed on grace by listening to instructions on how to live in the Grace of God every day, and let the Lord set you free, transform you, and raise you up from the dung to sit with the greats (of His kingdom).

Hebrews, 3:13 - But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  

Salvation in Jesus Christ is a wonder. The Lord commits Himself in the new covenant to produce a willingness and a doing in accordance with His will, if only we allow Him and humbly give Him the opportunity. The true transformative gospel is easy and accessible to all. This is why those who, knowingly and willingly, neglect this great, this very great salvation become the without excuse.

Hebrews, 2:2 - For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

"No ignorant pagan of the Gospel will go into the eternal fire but will be judged according to his deeds and declared a goat or a sheep.

Similarly, Christians ignorant of the true grace of God are not affected by this word, and there are many among those online speakers or TV channels we talked about earlier.

Many are just foolishly blinded by their thirst to be glorified by men or by their more or less unspoken desire to become rich. They are completely ignorant of the true Gospel and very unaware of the sacredness and gravity of the things they are playing with.

Reading this article, for those who may read it, will hopefully shake their conscience, and awaken them. It is never too late to turn back from a wrong path one has taken.

Grace abounds for whoever turns to grace in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul was a murderer by ignorance and unbelief, and the Lord made him the most remarkable person in the New Testament. Turn around, abandon your wicked and remunerative practices.

Learn the true Gospel and let the power and love of God make you victorious, so that you may enter the new Jerusalem and already, here on earth, bear much fruit that remains for the glory of God. (The Gospel explained)

The whole world, ignorant of the Gospel, does not go to hell, as you have understood. We must abandon this wicked and false viewpoint. It is not biblical. Let it encourage us to proclaim this magnificent Gospel even more through the testimony of our transformed lives and our words.

This teaching contrasts with all the religious clichés that are floating around in many people's minds, simply because we are content with principles that are in our heads, without even knowing how they got there. And we repeat what we had vaguely understood or heard in a sermon or in the collective unconscious.

I invite you to reread this article because I understand that it can be a real shock. This study was for me. It goes against received ideas and the traditional current.

Studies have surely been conducted on the subject, and if they were in line with this, they apparently did not reach the ears of many preachers as they continue to propagate these vague and simplistic concepts of damnation without ever placing them within the new context of Grace and the new covenant in Jesus Christ.

The most concerning thing is that these binary and unfounded concepts prevent the world from approaching a wonderful God, extraordinary in love and wisdom. A God, the only God, who lives and acts, whose eternal plan of justification, implemented by his Son and through the action of the Holy Spirit, has succeeded so that many, the vast majority, will spend eternity in bliss, either as kings, happy residents of the New Jerusalem, or as simple citizens of the new earth and new heavens that God will create in due time.

Revelation, 21:1 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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