Eternity Is the Righteous Only Inheritance E-Book

Vusi Mxolisi Zitha

• Herausgeber: Vusi Mxolisi Zitha
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Using various scriptural quotations from the bible; Vusi Mxolisi Zitha outlines and crystalizes the fact that by God reckoning, heaven is only for those who pursue righteousness in faith through Christ Jesus.

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Title Page

Eternity is the righteous | Only | Inheritance

Eternity is the righteous

Chapter 1 | Entering the Kingdom

Chapter 2 | Ready for the Master’s Return

Chapter 3 | Life and Judgment

Chapter 4 | Sorrow Turned to Joy

Chapter 5 | Not ashamed of the gospel

Chapter 6 | Put On Christ

Chapter 7 | Light versus Darkness

Chapter 8 | Warning against Neglect

Chapter 9 | Do No Evil

Chapter 10 | The New Creation

CHRISTIAN LIFE

TO GOD BE THE GLORY | AMEN

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PREFACE

Using various scriptural quotations from the bible; this book outlines and crystalizes the fact that by God reckoning, heaven is only for those who pursue righteousness through faith in Christ Jesus.

INTRODUCTION

Many believe that God loves us all and it is true. But the truth of the matter is that his love for us will never be a ticket for us all to enter heaven; but our works will determine whose home is heaven. Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked everyone shall eat the fruits of their deeds. Righteousness through faith is a pathway towards eternal life.

Chapter 1

Entering the Kingdom

MATHEW 7 VERSE 13“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it. How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it." Every path has a destination and every destination has a reward. Destruction is the destiny of wicked people. Life is the reward of righteousness.

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FINDING THE ROAD THAT leads to eternity is every person's responsibility, The pureness of heart and the free ness of spirit is righteousness, and only the righteous find the road that lead to life, however it easy for the impure to find the path that lead to destruction.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven. On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, drive out demons in Your name, and do many miracles in Your name?’

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THEN I WILL ANNOUNCE to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’ Many calls unto to the lord from the abilities of their mouth, but few calls unto him from the purity of their heart. The will of God is to live life to his own satisfaction, the life that is pleasing unto him, offering our bodies as a living sacrifice pleasing and acceptable unto him.

No one can please God except by faith in his heart; a man is justified by faith as righteousness. Righteousness is the only ticket through the narrow gate.

Calling the Lord's name in vain is blasphemy; Righteousness without good deeds is futility. Miracles done without Gods' intervention counts for nothing and is equally breaking the law and every law breaker is destined for eternal agony, for eternity is an inheritance for those who shuns evil and keep their feet away from sin.

Jesus knows his sheep, his sheep knows him too. His voice is not hard for them to hear and his word is not difficult for them to keep. Whoever is not of God finds no delight in keeping his command.

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WHOEVER IS DISOBEDIENT to his decrees will be a stranger to Jesus before the throne of Judgment. Consider every hardship the testing of your faith and every trial a cross that you must bear.

Take Up Your Cross

MATHEW 16 VERSE 24Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man is going to come with His angels in the glory of His Father, and then He will reward each according to what he has done.

I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

Self-denial is the greatest requisite for those who must follow Jesus. If you deny yourself, you acknowledge Jesus. No one must follow him empty handed, each must carry his or her own cross.

All the trials and tribulations of this world is the cross you must carry and only the righteous can carry such a cross. Whoever reject his cross, equally rejects his life, whoever values his life the most in this world, has no regard for his life in heaven. He, who wants to inherit the whole world, equally inherits perdition. If you disregard Jesus, then you have more regard for Satan.

If you are prepared to die, then you are prepared to live. if you are prepared to live, then you are prepared to die.

Eternity is the righteous heavenly reward, the reward from heaven is not based on favoritism but it is based on conducts done on earth.

The acts of righteousness from above, from God’s word are the standard or measure in which judgment will be executed, not self-manufactured righteousness that is not based on sound knowledge.

The righteousness that is based on human ability to do well is righteousness from Satan.

If you use the word of God as your standard for your living, you will live your life to God's only satisfaction not to the futility of your efforts. After all your efforts to entertain your worldly passion the only profit you will get is death.

Even if you can deny the fact that you love Satan, but your actions proves that you have a relationship with him.

For love expressed in action is more valuable than said. Jesus said “If you love me you will keep my command", that's the only way you can express your love to him.

If you say you love Jesus without taking your cross to follow him, without keeping his command, without denying yourself and passions for him, you are a good liar, almost as good as the devil. No one will enter the kingdom of God unless is born of Christ and spirit.

If you are still born of flesh, then you belong to another kingdom that awaits doom. Whoever keeps the Lord's command and walk according to his statutes is ready for Christ's return

Chapter 2

Ready for the Master’s Return

LUKE 12 VERSE 35“Be ready for service and have your lamps lit. You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed.

Time awaits no one, If your watch is not working, that doesn't stop time from going.

Are you ready for the coming of Jesus? if the answer is "yes" then you are ready for departure , if the answer is "no" then prepare yourself for eternal agony.

For Jesus will not come because of your readiness on your careful observation. Whether you are ready or not he will surely come.

I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them. If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.” You will not enter heaven just because God loves you, as it is said "God loves us all", but by your works of righteousness, for the just lives by their faith.

You will not enter heaven just because you go to church on Sunday, but by abiding in him and acting upon his word.

Be careful that you don't break any law by becoming so ignorant, for ignorant is a disease and there is no remedy for ignorance except by acquiring knowledge.

Whoever doesn't heed to Jesus warnings concerning the realities of this life will learn through accident.

Warnings from Jesus

LUKE 17 VERSE 1He said to His disciples, “Offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one they come through! It would be better for him if millstones were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble. Be on your guard. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

To Jesus; offenses are no justification for bad habits, for good habits are the only ways to overcome offenses. Whoever offends someone causes him to stumble, Asking for forgiveness is a true sign of repentance and to forgive is to liberate your soul and spirit.

There is no limit in which you must forgive someone, whoever doesn't forgive is a witch and righteousness is not in him. Be warned, it is the small things that defeat great people.

If you hate people, then your heart is the resident of evil, if you love those who love you, you are a law breaker. If you hate those who hate you, you are against the law, for the law says Love your enemies and pray for those

Who persecute you and that is love in a superior way. For whoever abide to the law of love lives to live and whoever breaks it is subject to judgment.

Chapter 3

Life and Judgment

JOHN 5 VERSE 25“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life. Whoever hears the word of God must truly believe, for it has eternal life.

Only the word will lead you to the path of righteousness and righteousness and faith in the finished work of our lord Jesus.

Those who don’t believe follow their sinful nature and are Worthy of conviction.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself. And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come out — those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

On the Day of Judgment; Good deeds will usher the righteous to eternal life, and the wicked to eternal agony. On that day, what you will say with your mouth will not account on your behalf, but the things you have done will speak for you.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

JOHN 6 VERSE 47  “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Believing is eternity, Jesus is the bread of life, whoever prefers manna over him shall die, He is the bread promised by God to those who are hungry, if you want to live forever he is the bread of life.

The way to the father is through him.

Those who find delight in him cherishes their lives, he gave us his flesh so that we may eat of it and live, those who disobey find it difficult to believe for;

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat? “So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day, because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate — and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever. “He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

The Light of the World

JOHN 8 VERSE 12Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.” Those who find Jesus find life and those who follow him, follows the light.

If you follow your worldly passion then you walk in darkness. If you disregard Jesus as light, then .you acknowledge Satan as your own light. If Jesus is the last thing in your life, Satan becomes the first.

No one can disobey Jesus without being faithful to Satan. If you trust and obey Jesus you will know the way to the father

The Way to the Father

JOHN 14 VERSE 1 “Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you.

I am going away to prepare a place for you. If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. You know the way to where I am going.”

“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way?”

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Things that will bring trouble to your heart will always come, but by Jesus reckoning, never let your hearts be troubled and this can only be achieved through believing in God and also in him.

Knowing that a place is being prepared for you in heaven; let your faith not fail, and let your righteousness remain so that you will eat the fruits of your goodness with the father in heaven our home.

Do not be tempted into doing what are evil, sin results when the flesh plots against the spirit. keep your eyes away from what is sinful and let not your legs fast to commit what is evil.

Keep your mind away from senseless thoughts, let your heart be pure at all times, while you guard your tongue from worthless talks and your spirit purified having no burden.

Then when the master comes, he will receive you to himself.

The way to life is Jesus, The truth about life is Jesus and life itself is Jesus. Those who have Jesus have life, those who know Jesus knows the truth and those who find Jesus have already found the way to life.

Keep this in mind; It is good that we suffer now so that we can enjoy tomorrow, for though sorrow can last for the night, but joy will surely come in the morning.

Serving Jesus is an invitation to Satan, and all the sorrows, pains and sufferings are weapons in his hand to overthrow us from the throne of life.

If you serve Christ to have peace in this world you are deceiving yourself, if you serve Christ to have joy in this world you are a hypocrite, if you serve Christ for all the pleasures of this world you will suffer for it.

The righteous knows that the world means sorrow to us but our sorrows will soon be converted into joy in Christ's reign.

Chapter 4

Sorrow Turned to Joy

JOHN 16 VERSE 16“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” They said, “What is this He is saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”

Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

“ I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy. In that day you will not ask Me anything. “I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

Jesus made it clear that in this world; weeping and wailing will be the food of the upright, however in the meantime the world and those who adorns it will rejoice.

Simply because eternity is the only joy of the righteous and the world is the only joy of the wicked.

Eternity is the righteous inheritance where the sorrows of this world will be turned into joy, where the suffering of this age will be remembered no more and it is where our joy will be complete.

Better is to suffer now and enjoy tomorrow, better to eat in garbage and live than to eat in the sufficiency of your sins and die.

Jesus is the assurance of the Lord's promise concerning a new life. Repentance is to refrain from sin. repent and you shall be saved.

What can you do to be saved?

ACTS 16 VERSE 29 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved — you and your household.” Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized.

He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had believed God with his entire household.

To believe is to be saved; believing in God is not the thing of the mind, but the sincerity of the heart. Whoever says i believe except by hearing the word of God is an agent of Satan.

Believing is acknowledging the Christ and putting an absolute demise to the desires of flesh.

If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is lord who died and was raised for us to live you will be saved.

Whoever is ready to lose his life because of Christ, understand the true meaning of the gospel and is a true disciple of his kingdom.

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PAUL IS READY TO LOSE his life for the sake of the Lord Jesus

ACTS 21 VERSE 10While we were staying there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said,

“This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’” When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Then Paul replied, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

It can only take a man of genuine faith and genuine righteousness to defend and fight for what he believes in, even at the cost of his life.

Even after being warned about the danger of the journey; Paul did not value his life more than Jesus, for he knew that there is life more precious and worth dying for in order to live joyful and painlessly.

When Jesus died it was for us to live, when he conquered the grave it was for us to understand that death has no power over him.

So whoever is afraid of death; resurrection means nothing to them.

The power of life and death is in the hands of the most high God. To be faithful; it is not when the condition Favor's you to live, but even at the point of death.

Those who remain faithful even at the expense of their lives are true citizens of heaven. Those who disobey Christ to rescue themselves from danger prove their disloyalty.

When God send you for his purpose; it is foolish to ask "how safe is the journey"? Those who dies for the name of the Lord brings honor to his kingdom.

Tests will always be there to prove where your loyalty lies, for a person is genuine when there is no heat of trial and temptations.

Those who are genuine and sincere in their faith have no shame for and about the gospel of Christ.

Chapter 5

Not ashamed of the gospel

ROMANS 1 VERSE 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

To they that believe; only the word of God is power for their salvation.

It is only the gospel that makes revelations of righteousness. Whoever is ashamed of the gospel is afraid of God's power for salvation.

Righteousness apart from the gospel, counts for nothing and it cannot save lives.

Righteousness is through faith, and without faith it is impossible to please God.

God’s Righteousness through Faith

ROMANS 3 VERSE 21 But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed — attested by the Law and the Prophets — that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. They are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God presented Him as propitiation through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.

God presented Him to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be righteous and declare righteous the one who has faith in Jesus.

God's interpretation of righteousness is different from people's understanding of righteousness.

To God; righteousness is through faith by his grace in the redemption that is in Christ.

But our own righteousness is manufactured through the ability to be calm, giving, caring, loving etc. When these deeds are not performed in righteousness through faith, then they are done for our own glory.

No matter how good and loving you may be, but if it is not from faith, you remain a sinner.

There are people who are righteous by nature without having faith in Jesus; Righteousness without faith in Jesus is hypocrisy.

Everyone must accept Jesus Christ to be established in a heavenly way of righteousness.

You can't say you love someone and begin to act against his will, such love is pretentious. Many claims to love God with their lips and offer their heart mischievousness.

What is done from the sincerity of heart is pure, genuine, and real.

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ROMANS 6 VERSE  22-23 But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification — and the end is eternal life! For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

It is better to be a slave to God and live, than to be free to sin and die.

Those who sins pave their way to death and the righteous gift from God is eternal life. Even if you can deny to be an agent of Lucifer, it is truly not by acknowledgement but by action.

Even if you can acknowledge Christ to be your lord and savior by your mouth, but if your heart testifies against you, you are a mocker.

The end of all wickedness is death and the reward of all righteousness is eternity.

The soul that sins shall die, what has a beginning has an end, the end of it all is eternity; to life and to death. You can only be saved by righteousness through faith alone.

Righteousness by Faith Alone

ROMANS 10 VERSE 1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation! I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law:

The one who does these things will live by them. But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this.

Do not say in your heart, “Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down or, “Who will go down into the abyss?” that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.

On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

Now the Scripture says, everyone who believes on Him will not be put to shame, for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Not every act of righteousness is based on knowledge; whoever constructs his own righteousness will not be submissive to God's righteousness.

Every righteousness has its own language. When righteousness is from faith; the mouth is meant for confession and the heart for believing. when righteousness is not from faith; the mouth is meant for deception and the heart for cooking evil. The life that is in us is for a period of time, but the life in Christ is everlasting. If you have Jesus you have life, without him death is your destiny.

Chapter 6

Put On Christ

ROMANS 13 VERSE 11 Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no plans to satisfy the fleshly desires.

To wake up from your sleep is to put yourself in order, It is embracing Christ and hold firm into faith, it is to refrain from all form of ungodliness, it is living to the satisfaction of the spirit.

To satisfy the spirit is to suppress flesh, living in the world is like living in the night, and living in heaven is living in daylight.

Whoever makes plans to satisfy his flesh lives to die, whatever entertains the flesh is darkness and those who practice righteousness lives by faith and only faith pleases God.

Unless you put on Christ, you have the devil beside you. Every deeds of darkness encourage one to walk towards hell boldly. Those who walk righteously walk decent and by so doing, they have a future after death.

Our Future after Death

2CORINTIANS 5 VERSE 1 For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

Indeed, we groan in this body, desiring to put on our dwelling from heaven, since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

And the One who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

The body is simply an earthly tent that desires earthly things.

Those who have confidence in it lives to satisfy it. The body has a lot of weaknesses and Satan uses those weaknesses as an instrument for his purpose.

The body's destiny is destruction.

The war between the spirit and the body is war between God and Satan. Those who choose to nurse the body over the spirit; they side long with Satan and those who live by the will of the spirit lives for Christ.

Those who live by the spirit have Christ as a hope of their glory and they can boldly say "heaven is our home and eternal dwelling not made by mere mortal".

What is made by mortals is mortal and the future of mortality is death. Mortality has no power over life.

The body carries a lot of groaning and agony and is all sponsored by Satan, however the spirit gives life that is from Christ to live in eternal home.

So, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.

For we walk by faith, not by sight, and we are confident and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.

Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to Him.

For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless.

Living in the body is equal to living away from God.

Those who walk by sight get to stumble and those who walk by faith follow the path of righteousness.

The ungodly wish is to stay in the body forever, however the righteous only confident is to be out of the body and home with the lord.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we have a sound mind, it is for you.

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

The unjust pride is in their physical appearance, they put no confidence in the heart.

But what the righteous do is for Christ love. Those who live for Christ have high regards for his death.

Those disregarding his death still crucify him and those who crucify him gives credit to the devil. Christ love compels the righteous to do good, It is always darkness against light.

Chapter 7

Light versus Darkness

EFESIANS 5 VERSE 6 let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things. Therefore, do not become their partners.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light — for the fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth — discerning what is pleasing to the Lord.

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.

Everything exposed by the light is made clear, for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.

Those who are for Christ should boldly demonstrate it by their deeds in the public having no shame and acting in God's will.

They should have no hand in every unfruitful works done in the dark, for not so long the wrath of God will be food to those who chooses the path of wickedness.

God will put into judgment every fruitless and shameful deed. But you brethren’s as children of light, you ought to compel yourself in what is pleasing to the Lord.

What you should think about as Christian

PHILIPIANS 4 VERSE 6 The Lord is near. Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving; let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable — if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise — dwell on these things.

Do what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

Since the lord is near, nothing is worth worrying for except praying without ceasing and making petition with thanks giving unto the lord.

Whatever happens in the world and in your life should not capture your attention into deep worry for the peace of God guards the mind and hearts of those who makes their request known into him.

Sanctify yourself by all means, dwell your heart and mind in the things that are praiseworthy, hold onto faith and compel yourself to every work of righteousness and God will never forsake you.

The Call to Sanctification

TESSALONIANS 4 VERSE 1 Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God — as you are doing — do so even more. For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.

For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification.

Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.

There's always a way to walk, talk and please God, the way you talk and the way you walk defines the kingdom in which you belong to.

Talking righteously is only a language of faith and walking righteously is an act of faithfulness.

To be faithful is to stay away from impurity and what defiles the body for the purpose of pleasing God.

An offense to the Lord's righteous people is an offense to God himself. To overcome your lustful desire is to overcome darkness.

Knowing the word of God is to know God. Rejecting God is rejecting your own life. Know one knows God better than the one who meditate upon his word day and night.

Where peace reigns, Jesus is close by but when people begin to dance wickedly it is the devil that hit the drums.

God is the righteous only shield and Jesus the sinner's only savior. God is exalted by the good works of his righteous, and then Satan mocks him through the disobedience of the impure. The heart that rebels against God has no hope of survival.

Whoever fears Satan fears his own shadow. Whoever fears God gains wisdom? The question now is whom do you fear? What you fear is what you become a slave to.

Better is to be a slave of righteousness than to be a slave to sin, for death is a reward attached to sin and eternal life is a reward through righteousness.

Though goats and sheep may look alike, but they don't share the same attitude.

The Sheep and the Goats

MATHEW 25 VERSE 31“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on the left.

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

For I was hungry

and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink;

I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you took care of Me; I was in prison and you visited Me.’ 

“Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or without clothes and clothe You?

When did we see You sick, or in prison, and visit You?’ “And the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ Then He will also say to those on the left,

‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

For I was hungry

and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink;

I was a stranger and you didn’t take Me in; I was naked and you didn’t clothe Me,

sick and in prison and you didn’t take care of Me.’

“Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or without clothes, or sick, or in prison, and not help You?’

“Then He will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me either.’

“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Looking the other way when your brother is in trouble is equally rejecting Jesus himself.

To look after the interest of others is a blessing itself but to overlook the interest of others is a curse.

What you do to your fellow brother that you do unto Jesus. No sin shall go unpunished, Those who chooses the way of goats have no regard for their fellows. They lack love, but strong in hatred, they have no compassion but strength to rejection.

If you say you love Jesus then you are under an obligation to love your fellow brother.

If you say you care for Jesus, you are under an obligation to care for your fellow man.  Every act of righteousness is a ticket to the narrow gate of heaven. Loving others is to love yourself, caring for others is to care for yourself.

Refrain from yourself centeredness, whoever sows must surely reap. In the Day of Judgment the goats will be swimming in the dam of fire with the devil, while the sheep will be swimming in the dam of paradise with life eternal.

Fight the Good Fight

1THIMOTY 6 VERSE 11But you, man of God, run from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life that you were called to and have made a good confession about in the presence of many witnesses.

In the presence of God, who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus, who gave a good confession before Pontius Pilate,

I charge you to keep the command without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. God will bring this about in His own time.

He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords,

The only one who has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; no one has seen or can see Him, to Him be honor and eternal might.

Amen.

Faith is what is worth fighting for, for faith is the one that holds eternal life. Whoever fights for faith fights a good fight.

A good fight of faith is a good fight of righteousness. Whoever runs away from worldly desire is a wise man, He that peruses righteousness, godliness and faith will live forever.

To always give a good confession is a charge from righteousness. The eyes that cherish evil will never see Christ's reign.

2THIMOTY 2 VERSE 22-24 Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels. The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient

Youth carries more passion, very lustful and tempting; those who run away from these passions peruse righteousness.

All Christians should by all means try to avoid worthless arguments that results to quarrel. Embrace patience and gentleness to all people.

Chapter 8

Warning against Neglect

HEBREWS 2 VERSE 1 we must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment, how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

It was first spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him.

At the same time, God also testified by signs and wonders, various miracles, and distributions of gifts from the Holy Spirit according to His will.

Those who pay less attention to the knowledge of Christ possess the weakness to drift away from truth. Neglecting the truth is acknowledging transgressions.

Those who overlook salvation will not escape punishment.

Inheriting the Promise

HEBREWS 6 VERSE 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself:

I will indeed bless you,

And I will greatly multiply you.

And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise.

For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute.

Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Heaven is a promise made by God to his righteous people; it is a place of rest from all the pressures and sorrows of this world.

Only the righteous souls await to inherit the promise, No one will inherit such promise except they are born of Christ and spirit.

Those who still prefer the wide gate over the narrow gate already have their ticket to hell.

Those who obey God's word and make it a standard for their lives and examine everything in the light of his word are the children of the promise.

To qualify for this rest; there are races that need to be run and victories that need to be won, if the enemy defeats you! He wins you to himself.

You need to arm yourself with all the armor of God as said to the book of Ephesians 6 verse 11, Finally, build up your strength in union with the Lord and by means of his mighty power. 11 Put on all the armor that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the Devil's evil tricks.

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12 FOR WE ARE NOT FIGHTING against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.

13 So put on God's armor now! Then when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist the enemy's attacks; and after fighting to the end, you will still hold your ground.

14 So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate,

15 and as your shoes the readiness to announce the Good News of peace. 16 At all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the Evil One.

17 And accept salvation as a helmet, and the word of God as the sword which the Spirit gives you.

18 Do all this in prayer, asking for God's help. Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads.

For this reason keep alert and never give up; pray always for all God's people.

19 These are spiritual weapons in which every Christian must employ against the enemy. As it is said; we are in a journey to eternity but the enemy is wrestling against every opportunity that may lead us to the promise land.

The battle ahead of us is not against flesh nor blood but a spiritual battle that need spiritual minded people.

Whoever fight it in flesh is more likely to lose, whoever loses will face death.

Chapter 9

Do No Evil

1 PETER 3 VERSE 8 Now finally, all of you should be like-minded and sympathetic, should love believers, and be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing. For the one who wants to love life

And to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

And he must turn away from evil and do what is good. He must seek peace and pursue it, because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are open to their request.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do what is evil.

Our righteousness requires that we commit no evil or use what is evil to pay back. our greatest weapon to fight evil is to do what is good by acting on God's word.

No dose of evil should be diagnosed amongst God's righteous ones. Whoever gives a blessing will receive blessing, whoever plants a curse shall reap calamity.

Doing what is good is turning away from evil. Those who hate to quarrel are agents of peace,

Those who love their lives are compassionate and humble and the eyes of the Lord are among them that shun evil and peruse peace and righteousness.

Those who do what is evil wages war against God.

Make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness

2 PETER 1 VERSE 3 His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

Therefore, brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because if you do these things you will never stumble.

For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.

Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have.

I consider it right, as long as I am in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder, knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.

And I will also make every effort that you may be able to recall these things at any time after my departure. Faith without goodness is worthless and goodness without faith count for nothing.

Such faith and goodness deserve punishment, everything that is not from faith is a sin and if faith is lacking a good taste of acts is a fake gold.

A Warning about the World

1 JOHN 2 VERSE 15 do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

For everything that belongs to the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle — is not from the Father, but is from the world.

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remain forever

Whatever is worldly is a lust of flesh, whoever is in love with the world hates God. If you love the belonging of this world, you care not about what is spiritual.

Whoever finds favor on worldly things is a favorite of Satan, Whoever considers the world to be more exciting is a disciple of Satan.

The Letter to Smyrna

REVELATION 2 VERSE 8 “Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna:

“The First and the Last, the One who was dead and came to life, says: I know your affliction and poverty, yet you are rich.

I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer.

Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days.

Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The victor will never be harmed by the second death.

There are people who actually possess the character of being humble, but deep inside they are hostile.

There are those who are free beyond their afflictions, There are people who claims to be what they are not, The terror of suffering should be the strength of a Christian, while the heart of hypocrites are pots of evil.

Everything that is bad comes from the devil, when Satan brings forth terror to overthrow you; God sees them as test to mature you spiritually.

Your weakness is a weapon of destruction to Satan, By God reckoning; resistance in every trial is the best strategy to overcome the devil.

The crown of life is for those who remain faithful in the midst of afflictions and even at the point of death.

Afflictions are stumbling blocks on the path of righteousness; they are trap set by Satan to hinder the righteous.

Only those who are born of Christ overcome all the odds , however the weak stumble and fall, but those who rises are mounted with new strength to run and never get weary and by so doing they escape the second death.

A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

REVELATION 7 VERSE 9 after this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number,

Standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were robed in white with palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:

Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!

All the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God, saying: Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?” I said to him, “Sir, you know.” Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.

They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary.

The One seated on the throne will shelter them: They will no longer hunger; they will no longer thirst;

The sun will no longer strike them, nor will any heat. For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne will shepherd them; He will guide them to springs of living waters,

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

After such a great tribulation, it will then be the time of rewards and wiping of tears to those who deserve it through sound and just judgment.

Only the righteous will have the right to eat on the tree of life, They will no longer feel pain, it will be when sorrow is turned into joy and affliction into relief.

Jesus is the king of righteousness and only will he have his kingdom flooded with righteous citizens only.

The victors over tribulations will receive their crown of life, they will serve the lord with great joy, tears will be the long lost friend of the eyes, A new body will clothes their spirit and pain, sickness and diseases will not be mentioned in their midst.

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ETERNITY WILL BE THE righteous only inheritance and hell will be the eternal agony of the wicked.

The Lamb and the 144,000

REVELATION 14 VERSE 1  Then I looked, and there on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with Him were 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.

I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of cascading waters and like the rumbling of loud thunder.

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THE SOUND I HEARD WAS also like harpists playing on their harps. They sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, but no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are the ones not defiled with women, for they have kept their virginity.

These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were redeemed from the human race as the first fruits for God and the Lamb. No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

Chapter 10

The New Creation

REVELATION 21 VERSE 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 no longer existed.

I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne: Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity, and He will live with them.

They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them