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God's word enlightens us, that Jesus will return. Prophets, apostles and above all Jesus himself has spoken this truth. The Bible says, that Jesus will come "like a thief in the night!" 1 Thess. 5:2. There will be a day, when a multitude of people, who confess themselves as Christians today, will stand before Jesus Christ and declare: "We didn't know. We didn't understand, that we had to take the message of sanctification: Christ within our spirit,seriously, while we still were living on this earth, because our reverend consoled us and said we were saved, and that we were God's children." The Bible says, that just before Jesus is coming, it will be just like the times of Noa. Especially notice that Noa was preaching for several years and was warning people but in spite of all warnings the word of God says: "And they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. That is how it will be when the Son of Man comes." Matt. 24:39. God's word distinctly says that a multitude of people, yes, millions and millions of people will experience the same terrible disaster as the people did in Noa's time, they were lost because of their disobedience, refracto- riness and evil. God has over and over again warned people through his word and the holy Spirit but they will not listen, instead they walk their own ways in the same way the people did in Noa's time. Proverbs 14:12:"There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Instead of receiving a living Jesus Christ in her mind and spirit, a Jesus Christ that is love, purity, righteousness, humbleness, gratitude, peace and joy, today most people in the churches only receive the name Jesus, a name consisting of five letters, but they don't want to receive the contents of the name Jesus in their spirit. Regarding these people Jesus says: "...though you have a name for being alive, you are (spiritually) dead." Revel. 3:1. So that we shall know our spiritual condition before God, He encourages us, that we examine the spirits in ourselfes with God's word as the basis. And God's word says to us: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits(in your own spirit) whether they are of God." 1 John 4:1. Compared with God's word we see how people in the different churches underestimate the devil, because they don't see what a tremendous power he has to blind us human beings. The Bible says that the devil, with one small half-truth, brought the whole mankind into hell in connection with the Fall of Man. God's word distinctly enlightens us that as the end of time is approaching the devil will work with more power in the spirit and mind of men. It appears clearly from Paul's letter to Timothy where he prophesies about "the evil in the last day" and says: "You must face the fact: that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, love money, shall be boastful, proud, abusive, unthankful, unholy, uncharitable to their nearest, faithless, scandal-mongers, intemperate, heady, despisers of those that are good, traitors, fierce, blinded of pride; lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof( that is: Christ within their spirit.) 2 Tim. 3:1-5. During the last years I have met several priests and preachers and other people who have confessed themselves as Christians. But spoking to them about sanctification as a definite necessity in the life of a Christian, they have cursed me and the message and mocked and despised me. When I for ex. have referred to Jesus' word saying: "Be therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." , these people have said openly in contradiction to Jesus' word , that no one can be perfect. Matt 5:48. It is more than 35 000 people, who has read my homepages, but only a few have accepted the message, that speaks about Christ within our spirit. Gal. 2:20. When I have asked them who have read my homepages if there is anything wrong, no one yet has been able to find anything wrong com- paring with God's word, but still they won't accept this message. Why is that so? Yes, why do so many confessing Christians get upset about the message, that emphasizes the necessity of sanctification in the life of a Christian. Gal. 2:20. The answer is that these people have a lack of sanctification in their lifes. And in spite of their confessing as being Christians, they still have evil spirits within their spirit and these work through them. When they hear God's word being preached they are being touched within their spirit and are feeling that the word judge them. Instead of offering the evil characters and the evil spirits, that are working through their spirit in evil deeds, they mean it's easier to sacrifice God's word and the messenger than to sacrifice themselves. So did the lukewarm and unrighteous Christians towards Stephen in his time. Acts 7:47-60. And so they did towards Jesus, because the devil has at all time said: "You know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, than that the whole nation should perish." John 11:49-50. Several hundreds of confessing Christians have said to me, that if I was willing to compromise with the message and not speak the truths openly, then people in thousands would accept the message and we would be one with one another. But the holy Spirit has exhorted me as he exhorted Peter that: "If any man speak, may he speak according to God's word." 1 Peter 4:11. (The Swedish Transl.) Jesus especially exhorted the saved and the sanctified ones saying that: "...Plain "Yes" or "No" is all you need to say; anything beyond that comes from the devil. Matt. 5:37. The Bible and the holy Spirit say that since we are facing the end of time, the falseness will be mixed with the truth in a way, that it will be impossible for us human beings, to be able to separate right from wrong if we are not under the guidance of the holy Spirit and have Christ within our spirit and mind. Several millions of people all over the world believe and are convinced that they are God' s children and they belong to God. They don't see and don't understand that they are being captured by the devil because their lifes consist of a blend of light and darkness. Jesus says to these people that: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Matt. 6:24. Surely you have heard, that different churches all over the world today are letting profane people take part in their services. We see how the boundaries between the spiritual and the worldly are erased. We see how many priests and preachers of today are blessing what God's word is calling sin. We see how people who confess themselves as Christians, ally themselves with the worldly and openly despise God's warnings that say: "You false, unfaithful creatures! Have you never learned that love of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy." James 4:4. Many have said that I shouldn't write as I have written above. But over and over again God's Spirit exhortes me to write what God's Spirit teaches, because God's last congregation is warned about and characterized like the condition of Laodicea and Jesus says: "I know all your ways; you are neither hot nor cold. How I wish you were either hot or cold! But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'How rich I am! And how well I have done! I have everything I want.' In fact, though you do not know it, you are the most pitiful wretch, poor, blind, and naked. " Revel. 3: 15-17. At the same time as Jesus warns and enlightens the lukewarm Christians of their conditions of spiritual blindness and poverty, he exhorts them to examine themselves and to receive sanctification into a new holy life and says: "So I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, to make you truly rich, and white clothes to put on to hide the shame of your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so that you may see." Revel. 3:18. Because of ungodly preachings, many confessing Christians have the wrong understanding that you may receive the new spiritual life for free but that is completely wrong. Jesus is saying in this Bibletext that you have to pay the price to be able to be holy. You have to be willing to pay the price with joy by offering your old human nature and not until then Jesus Christ is able to dwell in your spirit with His love, purity, righteousness, humbleness, gratitude, peace and joy and now you can rejoice just like Paul, who said: "The life I now live, is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me. " Gal. 2:20. The Bible teaches that God and Jesus Christ revealed themselves in the Word itself and the Word: "...is alive with his life, and that life is the light of men. The light shines on in the dark, and the darkness has never mastered it. He came unto his own and his own did not receive him. But as many as received him, ( that is: love, purity, righteousness, humbleness, gratitude, peace and joy in their spirit and mind) to them he gave the power to become the childrens of God, to them that believe in his name." John 1:4-5, 11-12. IN THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST THE SAVING WORDS OF GOD ARE REVEALING. IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST THERE IS A POSSIBILITY FOR SPIRITUAL FREEDOM AND RESCUING FOR ETERNITY! Click here! I will in the future present more of The Apostolic Church message in English, here on my homepages. I hope you will overlook if the English translation is not correckt. Greetings Street missionary Bror Espegren Vretgränd 17 Uppsala Sweden Back to page 1. |