Very few church going Christian believers will enter the kingdom of heaven, because they never become obedient to Jesus and never follow Him. They serve and support their church and the church leadership. They regard the teachings and doctrines of the church higher than the words and commands of Jesus as recorded in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They listen to their preachers of choice but they do not listen to nor follow and obey Jesus. They are not of Jesus, they belong to a church that has no relationship with Jesus. They do not know Jesus. They are not His sheep.
Jesus said:"“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; "John 10:27
Jesus is ALIVE. He speaks. If we seek Him, we will find HIM. If we obey and follow Him He will give us eternal life.
Are you one of His sheep? Do you hear His voice and follow Him?
Most confessing Christians do not practice following Jesus. They do not obey His teachinga and instructions. They are not pleasing to Him. They have no hope of salvation. They are only fooling themselves.
Jesus said:" 21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
What is the will of the Father? Not just that we believe, but that we listen to Jesus and obey Him. "A bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”Matthew 17:5.
Jesus gives Eternal Life to those who LISTEN to and OBEY Him. Those who disobey Jesus will NOT have life.
The instructions and teachings of Jesus are recorded in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They are plain and simple. A child can understand them. Repent, stop sinning, be baptized in water, live according to the words of Jesus; PRACTICE obedience to Jesus.
It is useless to confess faith in Jesus, to study the Bible, to go to church, to practice religion. If you do not OBEY Jesus Christ you will end up in hell.
Are you PRACTICING obedience to Jesus? Do you listen to and obey Him, or are you fooling yourself by practicing religion? Do not be like main stream Christianity that is on the broad road to destruction.
Jesus is alive. He speaks and His sheep LISTEN to His voice. They follow and obey Him. Are you one of His sheep? Follow and obey Jesus until the end, to have eternal life.
When you accept Jesus Christ and commit to follow Him, you enter a war zone. All the forces of evil will come against you to stop you from following Jesus. Jesus warned that
the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Many start following Jesus but very few endure with Jesus until the end. Without Jesus we can do nothing. If we do not stay with Jesus and endure with Him until the end, we will not suvive and enter into heaven.
Are we following Jesus on the straight and narrow road? Are we surviving?
Very few professing
Christians do actually know and follow Jesus Christ. The Christian
world is desperately deceived because people have been taught that as
long as they believe in Jesus Christ for salvation, that they are
Christians and that they are saved. The truth is that you need to be
born again and you need to follow and obey Jesus Christ to enter the
kingdom of heaven. Most professing Christians are not born again and
they do not know Jesus Christ. They do not follow Him and they do not
obey Him. They are just religious. Many of them occupy themselves
with religious practices, others occupy themselves with the Bible.
To be a Christian means to
know and follow Jesus Christ, the Living God, to be led by the Holy
Spirit. Most professing Christians do not have the Holy Spirit
because they are not born again, because they have never come to
obedience to Jesus Christ. If you believe in Jesus but you do not
obey Him, then your faith cannot save you. Jesus said:"Why do
you call me Lord Lord and do not what I say?" Jesus Christ will
decide who will go into heaven and who not. Those who do not know Him
and who do not follow and obey Him, are not part of His kingdom and
they will not enter. We need to obey the gospel of Jesus Christ. You
need to repent of all sin, be baptized in water, seek Jesus with all
our heart and He will give His Holy Spirit in us. He will come and
dwell in us and He will guide us by His Spirit.
God is spirit and those
who are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God, they are
children of God. Those who just believe are only deceiving themselves
they have faith but they have nothing to back it up, because they
don't know Jesus Christ. Many will quote you Bible verses and tell
you that they belong to a church, but they are not Christians, they
are not following Jesus Christ, because they do not know Him.
Jesus Christ reveals
Himself in and to those who seek Him and who obey Him, they get to
know Him for real. They follow Him day by day. He guides them and He
teaches them. He gives them revelation, of Himself, of the kingdom of
God, and they get to know Him for real. They become part of the
kingdom of God because they do the will of God. If you have no
relationship with the Living God and if you do not follow and obey
Him then you cannot enter His kingdom. If you do not know Jesus, the
day that you die He will say to you:"Go away, I never knew you."
The Christian churches are deceived and they are deceiving people.
Believers are running after people. They are running after churches,
following the doctrines of men, practicing religion, but they are not
following Jesus Christ and therefore there are not Christians. They
are not children of God. Have you come to know Jesus Christ? Are you
a follower of Jesus? Are you a child of God? Are you part of His
kingdom or are you also deceived? Seek Jesus while you can. Seek the
truth. Jesus alone is the way and the truth and the life. He is
alive and He is real. He speaks, His sheep hear His voice and they
follow Him, they know Him for real. He gives them revelation of all
things, of the kingdom of heaven, of what God is doing on this earth;
they are not in darkness, because they know the Lord and Master. They
are true children of God. They know their Father's voice, and they
follow and obey Him. Are you a son of the King? Are you a child of
God or are you just deceiving yourself, believing that you have
salvation, but you do not know nor follow Jesus Christ?
Salvation is free but the cost of following Jesus Christ is so high that very few people will follow Jesus and very few people will be saved.
It is not just a matter of believing in Jesus Christ, it is a matter of following and obeying Him because we believe in Him. It is a matter of living up to His requirements.
I read the words of Jesus from Luke 14:25 "Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 33 So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions."
That is the cost of salvation. That is the cost of following Jesus Christ. We have to be willing to give up everything to follow Jesus, to obey Him. we have to be faithful to Him until the very end. Very few people are willing to do that.
Jesus invites everybody to follow Him. He offers salvation to all people who will come after Him, who will deny themselves and become His disciple, follow Him until the very end.
The cost of salvation is discipleship. It is to follow Jesus Christ and to endure with Him until the very end.
Many people will be disappointed when they die and they learn that they did not have salvation , because they never became disciples of Jesus Christ. They were not willing to pay the cost.
Are we willing to pay the cost? Are we willing to endure with Jesus Christ until the end? We have to count the cost of following Jesus Christ and we have to endure with Him until the very end to have eternal life.
Following Jesus is never easy because God puts you on the spot. God will test you. God will try you. So if you want to follow Jesus, my friend, don't expect any shortcuts. Don't expect Him to go it easy on you ether because God Himself never went easy on His Son, Jesus Christ. God will never take you the short road, He won't take you the easy way. He won't give things to you easily. He won't spoil you. God is not like earthly fathers who spoil their kids and then they grow up rotten, because God knows what is inside of us. He forces us to do it the difficult way, to do it the proper way, not to take shortcuts. In that way He works character in us. God does not tolerate laziness. Revelation always brings blood, sweat and tears because God will reveal things to you that are maybe wrong in your life. He will reveal to you things that stand between you and Him and you might have to go and do correction, you have got to go back on your tracks, go and ask people for forgiveness.
My friend, God will never make it easy on you . People who say that they live in revelation from God, they live in pain. They live in suffering. Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God learned through what He suffered, even though He was perfect. God made it extremely difficult on Him but that is the way that God will treat all those whom He loves. If anybody tells you that God will play it soft on you and make it easy on you they don't know God. They just don't know God because God knows man. God knows the wickedness in us and He knows if He makes it easy on us then we will start becoming smart, we will become hypocrites, we will think it is ME, I did this, I am the smart guy. That is why God took Israel through the desert to the promised land and they didn't make it because they could not take the chastisement of God. They could not take getting to know His ways and they whined and they complained and they longed to go back to the flesh pots of Egypt. The majority of Christians won't make it. They will long for their TV and their programs and their idols and their creature comforts and their lusts, they won't make it. They won't make the test.
My friend, when you walk with God, God will make it tough on you because you will have to prove your mettle, you will have to be proven as a worthy son of God. It's for free to enroll, my friend, but then the hard work starts. God won't make it easy on you. He hasn't made it easy on anybody. Why should He? It is the biggest prize, eternal life in Christ Jesus and if we want to go through that narrow door we will suffer.
It will not be easy. It is a narrow door. It is a lonely road. It is a road that you traverse alone with God, not with many friends. Not many people want to go along with you. They say you are crazy. But God will prove you, my friend. He will prove that you are a son of God, that you have endured until the end, that you have guts, that you have determination, that you truly love Him. You have got to obey God under the worst of circumstances. It's easy to be a fair weather Christian. There are many of them but the moment that things go wrong they go back to the world, they turn their back on God. It's not easy, my friend. God will not make it easy on anybody.
God will give you revelations but that revelation will tax you. It will make you work hard. It will bring you pain, it will bring you suffering. It will bring you discomfort. It will take you out of your comfort zone so that you can learn to trust God and not in in your own means, not in your own resources. He will take you where you know nobody, where you have got no resources, where you have no crutches and then you will know God is GOD, He is REAL. He will never let you down, my friend. God will never ever let you down but if we put our hand to the plow and we look back we are not worthy of the kingdom of God and then God will have no pleasure in us, my friend.
Most Christians have never even started walking the walk. They are not following Jesus. they think they are saved but they are not following Him.
My friend if you have got an easy time you are not following Jesus because He will tax you. Every step of the way will be tough. Many days you will not know which way to go, it will be pure darkness around you . You will need God. You will cry out to Him, you will say "LORD HELP ME" and He will say:"I AM HERE, I WILL HELP YOU." He will not take you the easy way, my friend. God will take you the difficult road so that you can learn to trust Him. He knows our wicked nature. He knows that we trust in the flesh. He will give us things to do that are too difficult and really impossible for our own resources. He will tell you to do it. He told Moses to speak to the rock, to produce water. Since when do you speak to a rock to produce water? But God told him to do it. He said to Peter:"Come walk on the water." Since when does a man walk on water? But he obeyed Jesus. You have got to learn to trust God and to obey Him, my friend, and if you are not willing to trust God and obey Him you cannot follow Him. That is the narrow road. That is the road of discipleship. That is the road of obedience, my friend. and that is why Jesus said that very few, very few will find that narrow door. Very few, my friend. It's not just about believing in Jesus. Do you believe in Jesus? Do you? Well, then follow Him. Prove that you trust Him. Prove that you trust Jesus. Just follow Him wherever He tells you to go and He knows whether He sent you or whether you just withdraw and say:"I am not going there. I am not doing that! testifying ? Talk about Jesus in front of my boss? You have got to be crazy. I will lose my job." You lost out, my friend. You denied Christ. You did not pass the test. Ask the Lord to give you another opportunity to prove that you truly love Him.
My friend, you will be tested. You will be tried and you will have to pass those tests and don't think they are going to get easier. They are going to get more and more difficult the further you go. the road will get narrower and steeper and the company will become less because not many are on that road. They are very few, my friend but there is One who will never leave you and that is Jesus Christ. are you willing to walk with Him? He is the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, my friend, there is only ONE WAY, Jesus Christ.
May Jesus bless you.
There are many gospels being preached in the world today. There are popular gospels, grace gospels, super grace gospel but the true gospel of Jesus Christ has very few followers. The true gospel of Jesus Christ is the only one that saves but it is not preached in churches today. If the gospel of Jesus Christ was preached in churches they would be burned down, closed, their members would be persecuted, they would be outlawed, rejected, because the gospel of Jesus Christ is a gruesome gospel. It is not a popular gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the WORDS that Jesus delivered to us as they are also recorded in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Very few people are willing to follow and obey Jesus Christ. If you truly believe the gospel of Jesus Christ and you obey Him, you go after Him and you do as He commanded then you will be persecuted, you will be rejected, even by your own family, by your friends. Most of the time you will find yourself on your own because if you follow Jesus Christ you will be rejected and persecuted like He was rejected and persecuted. Jesus Christ said that His followers will be hated by all men, just like He was hated. What they did to Him they will also do to you, if you follow Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not easy. it is the narrow straight road that leads to eternal life. It is the ONLY way to enter the kingdom of God. Are you willing to STEP OUT and follow Jesus Christ? Are you willing to be persecuted and rejected like Jesus Christ? Will you go after the truth and follow Jesus Christ or would you rather go with lies and the acceptance of men? Very few will follow the gospel of Jesus Christ. May Jesus bless you.
God cares for all of us and He SPEAKS to all of us, to warn us and to turn us from our wicked ways, but very few of us LISTEN when God speaks to us.
I read from Job 33:14
“Indeed God speaks once,
Or twice, yet no one notices it.
“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
Then He opens the ears of men,
And seals their instruction,
That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep man from pride;
He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.
“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed,
And with unceasing complaint in his bones;
So that his life loathes bread,
And his soul favorite food.
“His flesh wastes away from sight,
And his bones which were not seen stick out.
“Then his soul draws near to the pit,
And his life to those who bring death.
“If there is an angel as mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To remind a man what is right for him,
Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;
Let his flesh become fresher than in youth,
Let him return to the days of his youthful vigor;
Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him,
That he may see His face with joy,
And He may restore His righteousness to man.
“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.
"He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit,
And my life shall see the light.’
“Behold, God does all these oftentimes with men,
To bring back his soul from the pit,
That he may be enlightened with the light of life."
Dear friends, God speaks to us many times to turn us from our wickedness. He warns us in dreams, through misfortune, through accidents, through sickness. It is not the will of God that we perish but that we turn from our wicked ways and that we OBEY Jesus Christ. But if we persist in our wickedness then the swift judgment of God will come on the disobedient. They will perish and spend eternity in damnation. God cares for us. He warns us many times, often but very few take notice and listen. Very few repent and turn from their wicked ways and that is why most people will perish.
God has spoken to me many times for which I am extremely thankful. He warned me, He chastised me and He turned me from my error. Now I walk in His ways and I am careful to listen and to obey Him to do what is pleasing to Him, because if we do not love him and do not obey Him we will end up in damnation.
God speaks many times because He cares for us. Do we take note and listen or do we persist in our wicked ways. In the end we will only have ourselves to blame.
If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Master, repent, be baptized in water and receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, then you become a CHILD OF GOD and Jesus will TEACH you, He will GUIDE you and He will COACH you, He will TAKE YOU TO SCHOOL. He will teach you how to be an obedient child of God.
Jesus said that HE WHO ENDURES UNTIL THE END will be saved. It is only if we endure with Jesus and if we stay in the SCHOOL, if we allow Him to guide us and teach us and we STAY WITH HIM, it is only then that we will graduate. We will only graduate if we stay with Him until the end and only then will we receive eternal life, It is only those who STAY THE COURSE, who do not drop out but who stay with Jesus until the very end, who follow and who obey Him, who are taught by Him, who have learned from Him and who have PASSED THE GRADE, those who are pleasing to Him, who have lived up to His standard, it is only they who will be WORTHY to enter into His rest, only they will have eternal life.
Very few START following Jesus, very few submit themselves to Jesus. Some just follow Him for a little bit until life becomes difficult and they have to suffer for the Kingdom of God, then they drop out and they leave Him, they go back to the world and the pleasures of sin. Very few will graduate, very few will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Are you STAYING with Jesus? Are you going along with Him, being taught by Him and do you hope to GRADUATE? Will you stay with Jesus until the very end?
May Jesus bless you.
Many Christian believers are living godless, reckless lives and they still believe that they have eternal life, that they have salvation. They are living under false security. They have been deceived by the devil. They base their faith and their belief that they are saved on what other people have told them, on some Bible verses that they quote but these people do not know Jesus Christ. Jesus warned that very few people will be saved. Narrow is the door that leads to LIFE and FEW there be that find it. Entering the Kingdom of heaven is NOT EASY. The requirements to be a child of God are extremely strict. It is like running a marathon.
Many people enroll for the marathon and many start running. Many people think that they will be able to complete it but very few make it in time. Following Jesus Christ is the same. Many start following Jesus but very very FEW ENDURE with Him until the end.
Many have FALSE SECURITY because they belong to a church, or because they have said a SINNER'S PRAYER, they have been baptized in water, some have received the gift of tongues and they speak in tongues and because they speak in tongues they think that they have security of salvation. THERE IS NO SECURITY! The only security is Jesus Christ. We have to follow Him every day. Jesus said:”Whoever WISHES to come after Me must DENY himself, pick up his cross EVERY DAY and come here FOLLOW ME.”
If we do not go after Jesus every day and follow Him until the very end then we will not have eternal life. Many people make marriage vows. Very few of those people stay together until the end, they are unfaithful. Jesus is faithful to us but if we are unfaithful to Him, if we deny Him, HE WILL REJECT US! Then we are not suitable. The Grace of God is NO A LICENSE TO SIN. If we keep on turning away from Jesus there will come a day that we die away from Him and when we stand in front of Him, He will say to us:”Go away I never knew you.”
Entering the Kingdom of Heaven is NOT EASY. Very few people will make it, only those who endure with Jesus UNTIL THE VERY END, those who do His will, who LISTEN to His VOICE, who FOLLOW Him, You need confirmation EVERY DAY from Jesus that He is pleased with you. You need to look after your relationship with Jesus above everything else. If Jesus is not pleased with you, you WILL NOT ENTER the Kingdom of HEAVEN. Are you pleasing to the Master?
