Christendom lost the keys to salvation, which is to heed and obey the commands of God heard while patiently and persistently waiting on God: to those who persistently and patiently wait for him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation. Heb 9:28 Those who are persistently and patiently waiting on God, see Jesus appear in their hearts, and see Jesus bring their salvation, which is to be delivered (freed) from all sin. To wait on God is to persistently sit in humble silence, listen for his voice and words, watch for his revelations, hear his commands, and then obey Him; only those who heed and obey Him receive eternal salvation. Heb 5:9 Being make perfect, he [Jesus] became the author and source of eternal salvation to all those who heed and obey him. Heb 5:9 Salvation is to be delivered (freed) from all sin, even the desires, through persistent obedience to the Spirit that mortifies the selfish human spirit on the inward cross of self-denial. You must persistently and patiently wait for Him in silence to hear his commands, as you listen and watch; then heed and obey Him. If a man doesnt see Christ appear in his heart, bringing salvation, then he will see Christ after he dies; and that will be a dreadful experience, as Francis Howgill describes in his writing SOME OF THE MYSTERIES OF GODS KINGDOM DECLARED. But if a man does heed and obey the commands he hears, as he persistently and patiently waits on God, that man will experience a beautiful, wonderful appearing of Jesus to bring his salvation, which Francis Howgill also describes in his writing SOME OF THE MYSTERIES OF GODS KINGDOM DECLARED. Despite the fact that the Bible is full of testimony regarding waiting on God both in the Old Testament and the New Testament; and that waiting as the key to salvation in Old and New Testaments was also referenced many times; Christendom reads this verse and thinks waiting for Him is to wait for prayers from their carnal mind to be answered, or waiting for Him to physically come to the earth to judge all; so Christendoms waiting is singing about Jesus coming, hoping for war in the Middle East that might signal his soon return, speculating on how the mark of the beast will be forced on everyone, speculating on who is the antichrist, going to sect services, reading the Bible, etc. For many centuries Christendom has missed Jesus, waiting to reveal himself in every man who heeds and obeys Him, just like the Jews missed Jesus because they were looking for a physical king to come and rule. The New Testament is full of references to the second appearance of Jesus being then, not thousands of years later. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus is recorded saying that some then standing with him, 2000 years ago, would see his glorious coming in the clouds with the Kingdom before they died. Later Paul, Jesus in Revelation, Peter, James, and John, — all said, soon, the time is near, a little while, he stands at the door. Christendom blithely ignores this gaping incongruity between what the Bible plainly states vs. what they are taught by their blind guides. It would be a cruel hoax to be waiting on Him to appear if the past 100 generations of believers actually had no hope of ever seeing Him. There is an entire web page on this site devoted to this second appearance: The Second Appearance of Jesus is Within the Hearts of Purified Believers. hallvworthington/endworld.html 3 Your beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these things. There are some things in his letters that are hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable wrest [twist] to their own destruction, as they also do the other scriptures. Therefore, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away by the error of the wicked. Pauls letters are the source of the gospel of instant grace, with freedom to sin. And yet Peter is warning us here that they are difficult to understand by the unlearned and unstable and are being twisted to their own destruction, carried away by the error of the wicked. those who are unlearned Who are the unlearned that read Pauls letters and twisted them to their destruction? Not pagans; Not Jews; they would have no interest in Pauls letters. It was false Christians; the self-authorized Christian apostles and teachers who had only studied the scriptures and writings of the true Apostles, and had failed to dedicate themselves to waiting on God to be taught by Him, led by Him, and had even their desires for sin to destroyed by Him; so that all their thoughts, words, and deeds were supplied by the Holy Spirit. False Christian sects and false apostles were already springing up in the time of the Apostles. How? By taking writings and forming their own opinions as to what was meant in them without having first spent time learning from the Holy Spirit. So that today there are 41,000 sects of Christianity with widely different opinions as to the critical meaning of the scriptures — each sect claiming their superior understanding of the scriptures. The Jews thought they were expert in the scriptures too; yet they missed to whom their prophets all pointed — they failed to recognize the Messiah. As Jesus said to the Jewish scripture experts of his time, who had failed to learn from the Holy Spirit directly, instead only studying the scriptures: He who is of God, hears Gods words. John 8:47 You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. And you do not have his word abiding in you; for you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and they are those that testify of me. But you will not come to me, so that you might have life. John 5:37-40. Similarly, one hundred generations of Christendom, incorrectly interpreting the Scriptures, have rejected listening to and obeying Christ within them, expecting an outward appearance; expecting Christ to physically appear to be King of the whole world, thereby missing the possibility of preparing for his inward, individual spiritual appearance in them. the error of the wicked. Who are the wicked? False Christians! What is this error of the wicked? Think about it, and you will see it has to be that sin is excused, exactly the doctrine of the deficit sects today. The wicked are not going to tell you that you must get rid of your sin from your heart. No, the wicked are going to tell you that a heart full of sin is OK, normal, best you can do, all men sin, Jesus paid for them all, no one can be perfect, there is no cross necessary — Jesus did that for us all, it is finished. Are you beginning to see how the false prophets have twisted a few scriptures to ignore all of the warnings against sin, and ignore the Bibles many stated exclusions, requirements, and qualifying conditions of salvation. (Click on each of these exclusions, requirements, and qualifying conditions to read them for yourselves; they are undeniable and clearly show that Christendom is a hollow shell of the original Christianity of the Apostles and the Bible, substituting heathenish ritual, ceremony, and theater, instead of the cross, purity, cleanliness, righteousness, and holiness.) Jesus said the false prophets in sheeps clothing would come. John said the antichrists and false apostles had come and had gone out from among them. Peter saw the false teachers had come. Paul and Jude saw the false apostles had come, and warned the brothers night and day for three years of more coming. And in Revelation, John saw where the whole world was to go after the false prophets and the false church, which occurred shortly afterwards. The false church is Revelations whore of Babylon, riding the beast of many names (41,000 sects in Christendom), with horns like a lamb (that resembles the true church), but who speaks like a dragon (men speaking from their carnal minds, which is enmity with God, and their vain opinions from their evil imaginations) instead of speaking words supplied by the Holy Spirit, as Jesus and the Apostles did. 4 grow in grace. If grace is instant salvation, how can you grow in grace? What more grace is there than salvation? Of course, grace is not instant salvation. Grace is a teaching process of repentance from lusts to godly living in purity, bringing salvation and seeing God. Grace is correctly defined by the Apostle Paul in Titus 2:11-14: For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world, looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from every lawless deed , and purify for himself his own special people, zealous for good works. Titus 2:11-14. (Whoever commits sin also practices lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4) Therefore be resolute of mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 1 Peter 1:13. So the culmination of grace is brought to you at the end, the revealing of Christ within a man. The Kingdom and salvation are brought to you by the grace of God; you see Jesus bring your salvation.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:55:37 +0000