....FORFEIT.....

What good is it 

for a man 

to gain the whole world, 

yet forfeit his soul?

Mark 8:36

Your wrongdoings 

have kept these away;

your SINS have deprived you of good

(wonderful blessings)

Jer 5:25

Friendship with the world

is enmity with God

James 4:4

If you are not FOR Me

you are against Me

Matt 12:30

It saddens me that there are some who are so hard headed and rebellious against God!

With all that Jesus did on the cross for us, because of our sins…

He suffered tremendously.  He was bruised for our sins and wounded for our transgressions.  He did not open His mouth but took ALL of our offenses on His body.  He was cruelly whipped.  I just can not imagine what Jesus took for my sin.  He didn’t deserve it, but LOVE took Him to the cross.  I think about Jesus on that cross and tell Him how sorry I am.  That it was my sin that put Him there, and I even apologize Him.  

A man who refuses this LOVE is a fool!  I shouldn’t say that, but a foolish man who can’t see GOD and LOVE in this act and refuses Christ forfeits his soul.  It is WRONG to refuse Him.  This person who does this is no better than the one who beat Him, spit on His face with glee with their refusal to not believe.  And because they don’t believe, these atheists think it fun to ridicule and be irreverent to Him and the ones who believe in Him.

Their wrongful deeds keep them away from the goodness that has been planned for them, from the foundation of the earth.  God has planted the Word of God in our hearts (all of us).  It has the POWER to SAVE SOULS.  Yet, the atheist refuses the freedom of Salvation, thus, becoming a friend to the world.  Sharing their “vision” of not believing, spreading their “message” in forms of hurt, humiliation, and shame to themselves.

As I stated many times before, they are rude and belligerent, crude and disrespectful to God.  And, to the ones who LOVE JESUS, they do the same.  Because, they are not FOR Him, they are against Him!  They rather forfeit their souls, on purpose!

What about the “Christian” who call themselves Christian, but how can they be anyways? The Christian who is a pretender.  They go to church out of obligation, their heart is not IN HIM.  The one who thinks he can dabble in the things of the world, and pretend, pretend, pretend.  God knows who they are.  The Christian who steals- who robs from God’s people.  What is God going to say as you excuse your sin?  We are all accountable for our actions and sin.  It behooves us NOW to ask God to forgive you and make right.  

Let me say this- if there is wrongdoing, and your heart is full of sin, you ask forgiveness yet don’t make right, do you think God has forgiven you?  Are you forgiven? hmmm…

We, Christians, are saved by grace.  None of us deserve salvation because of sin.  But if we make right a wrong, then God can forgive.  To repent is to turn away from sin.  Don’t you know, God wants us to have a pure heart.  Only the pure in heart will SEE Him, scripture says.  Make pure the sin now.  

Stop the pretending- and go to God immediately!  Don’t forfeit your soul, not for money, stuff, sin.  It is not worth it, Christian.  It is not.  You will be rudely surprised when its face to face time with God. He will have something to say to you.  We are all accountable for our actions. Every one of them.

I want to mention a fellow who has crossed my path.  He states he is a Christian, he goes to church, he was involved in church, who knows if he is now.  He gives money away to the homeless, etc.  Yet, he would feel entitled to rob his step children of their inheritance.  What is God going to say to Him?  Is he forfeiting his soul now, I wonder?  Terrible!

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Lord, help me to forgive and have a pure heart.  Let NO SIN take over my mind and heart.  But create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me.  I want to SEE You, Abba.  Let me not have one thought of anger against a man who has hurt my family, but Lord, You deal with Him, and I pray for his soul that You would visit his conscience and have him make right this sin that has easily beset him.  I pray for him and others who have forfeited their soul because of sin.  Jesus HELP!  Help them and help me.  Forgive me my transgression, and Abba, please bring Peace to me.

Father, I pray for the atheist who loves to disrespect you.  I ask that You would visit them too.  Make them see, I ask, that YOUR LOVE and the very essence of You, Lord Jesus would open their eyes.  Change their ways and their heart, as I ask you to change mine.

This prayer I ask in Jesus name.  Thank you for being here for me, even in this, Lord, you are LORD and you are in CONTROL of my life.  Thank you for making your face shine upon me, and everyone who was touched by Your Word.  Abba, all glory belongs to you.  I delight in You, my Lord, You are my refuge and song.  You DESERVE THE GLORY, Jesus.  Thank you for what You have done on behalf of us sinners.  Thank you for salvation, we don’t deserve it, not at all, but thank you!  

In Jesus name I pray.  Amen Jesus, Amen.