Christmas

It's funny that we were never told or required to celebrate Christ with a day called Christmas or Christmas day.  But there are many things we celebrate that we were never asked to, but we do it anyway.  Is it a bad thing though that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on a particular day? Well i don't think so.  The birth of Christ and his coming into the world is a worthy celebration, and should be encouraged in view of the fact that he will be returning again.  The world ain't gonna want to see his appearing as much as the baby in a manger version though.  why is that? well because this world is in darkness and love to have it so.  Everyone loves a good party and the sweeter it is the longer it's desired to be.  No one loves a party pooper. Some of us don't want to be told to repent and get right with God.  While some will welcome his appearing with longing open arms, others will hate it extremely.  Because men love darkness rather than light.  It is the sin nature within us that drives us away from the light of God. But if you make a choice to turn to God, he will give you the grace to walk right before him.

God will help you to overcome that situation that seems to control you.  As if you have no power at all to say no.  Instead of resigning to that thing, resign to God that thing whatsoever it is.  God will turn it around for you he will save and restore your strength, he stands poised ready to show himself great on your behalf.  But you have to submit to him and let God do it in you. Your problem, your sin your lust, your lying. stealing, hypocrisy, whatever that thing is in your life that gets the better of you, will have to bow to a greater power.  Let God in your heart and life today and let him take your burdens away off of you.

Jesus told the disciples that they will be hated by all nations for his names sake.  Christians will be the most hated people on planet earth in the years to come, when The new world leader takes his position.  He will be given the power to overcome the elect, the saints of God.  Yes that's you if you if your a christian in the tribulation period.  The realities of the times to come are so encroaching upon that it's hard to deny it's effects already.  Epic storms and catastrophes on a global scale that's ever increasing.  Economic chaos, the catalyst for new world order.  A new world of thinking and a new leader to control it all.  But how did i get from Christmas to end time prophesy? that's easy.  Because we all act like Jesus Christ is still a baby at Christmas time and then we forget about him till Easter. We forget all about him till someone blows up a building filled with so called innocent people.  The perpetrators don't think the people are innocent otherwise they wont kill them.  No, in the eyes of the Terror-Artist your guilty because you no different from the soldiers who resist them.  You just don't have a gun to protect yourself or defend your country.  They are bringing their fight to you, they aren't waiting to be attacked.

Not a baby anymore
Somewhere between Christmas and Easter we have failed to realize that Christ is really coming back again and he is coming for a church that is without spot and without wrinkle.  That means holy in spirit and in truth.  That's you and i making a daily choice to stay connected to Jesus from the heart.
What if he returns on Christmas day? that would be awesome, that is if we are all ready and not upstairs in the bedroom sleeping with the neighbor's wife.  Or having sweet fornication with that oh so cute babe or that hot guy.  Terminology may sound innocent enough in this app world but being caught with your pants down is a sure fire to miss your Lord when he comes looking for you.  The problem with waiting and time is that it can mess with your head.  You can find yourself doing and thinking things you never have before.  And before you get caught up in the addiction of that pleasure, learn to deny yourself.  Keep your garments white and spotless. Count the cost and consider what your trading, and if that fails do like Joseph. He just ran from that temptation.


This is just a snippet of a few thoughts.  So during this Christmas holiday season when your chicken is in the oven and the cakes are browning.  Just remember that Jesus loves you so much that he came, was born as the son of man, was beaten and tortured, died, rose again from the dead to secure your soul, purchased your ticket to eternal life with him.  No matter what you suffer it will never compare to the price Jesus paid for you.  You just have to ask yourself one question, is that sin worth of your eternal soul?

Have wonderful Christ-Celebration.

ETERNITY

ETERNITY
It would seem we are all closer to the moment of impact.  The moment when this mortal must put on
immortality.  It is not what you have or who you know in this life that secures you in the life to come, but it is the salvation that comes by no other.  That other being Christ Jesus.  The promised one, the Messiah, the savior of the whole world. Jesus said, if a man lives and believes in me, he shall never die.  And if a man believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.  Death is certain and it is also certain that life after death is at the point of impact.  That moment one passes from death to life.

John 11
So if a man lives and believes in Jesus Christ, he shall never die.  How is that possible and relevant to you and i in these days of future past? Well let us observe that the one who makes this declaration is the one who made life itself. And being disconnected from the source of life, which is Christ, means certain death.  If a man lives and believe in me, he shall never die, why? because that man /woman, upon the moment of receiving Jesus into their hearts as Lord and savior, will at that point be ushered into eternity before it begins. It's like having the golden ticket, once you got it, your in. It has started, you now have that eternal life that Jesus says is yours because you believe in/on him.  This means that you trust your life to him, you have confessed your sins to him and repented of them. Your life is no longer yours but his.  Christ now has become Lord and king of your soul, your spirit, your will. And daily you live, holding on to that golden ticket called eternal life in Christ, that not even death can rob you of.

1 Corinthians 15:55-57
It's like holding the ticket and waiting in the cue to enter in.  To that party that Jesus is the life of.  While your waiting outside, your in the world.  When you walk through the door, you've passed from this world. Your in.  Death where is thy sting, grave, where is your victory. The sting of death is sin.  The strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The reality that eternity is waiting at the gate on the lives of every human being on the face of the earth, and we are reminded with each passing day by the lives of those we knew and loved and heard of.  We are burdened with the reality and feel some pain of the loss.  Because we are all human beings and not aliens from outer space.  It is a sad thing to lose a loved one to say the least and words cannot express it enough. Jesus knows this oh so well and through him we have the victory over the grave.

The Second Death
The sting of death is sin. the only power death has over you is the is the sin in your life. That sin drives you to death, but this is not death as we know it.  This death is not just the mere expenditure of present life but the eternal separation from the giver of life. Yes we all will face death at some point and that's inevitable.  But to be separated from God for all eternity is the sting that sin puts into death.  In the garden of Eden when Satan tempted man to disobey God.  God had told man that the day he takes of the tree and eats the fruit, that he will die.  Yes indeed that was the truth as only God speaks.  On the day man disobeyed, he died.  Sin came alive and Adam and Eve died.  The separation between God and man began and the next thing that will be man's demise would be the grave. So mankind faces 2 types of death.  Like the sun and the moon.  A greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night.  Separation from God is to die in your sins and then death by physical expiration.  Romans 6

Colossians 3
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory.  The victory that even though we die physically, yet we have life in Christ.  The giver of life, the victor over sin, death and the grave.  That in Jesus Christ though you die yet shall you live.  Not just exist but having eternal life, never to die again.  To be restored to newness of life, in a new body.  An eternal body that will never again be limited to time and space. There is much promised to those who will say yes to that eternal question. We are called by our loving heavenly father who gave his all to reconcile us back to himself. Will you take the opportunity to make it right with him today? and be ready for Eternity.