WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVE?

Christian believers have different

motives, but very few have a desire to know Jesus, Himself and to be
known by Him. Jesus said some words that should scare believers and
wake them up. He said: “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.’ Matthew 7:21-23.

Jesus alone, will decide who goes into
heaven and who not. He was warning that many believers who prophesied
in His name and cast out demons, and in His name performed many
miracles will not enter heaven because they practiced lawlessness,
and He never knew them. How is that possible? How is it possible to
be a believer and perform supernatural miracles in the name of Jesus
and He does not know you?

Jesus said, that if we love Him, we
will obey Him and follow Him. We read in John 14:21 “He who has My
commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves
Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose
Myself to him.”

Is it our desire to know Jesus, for Him
to speak to us, to disclose Himself to us? Do we want to be pleasing
to Him, be known by Him? Do we have a desire for Jesus, or only for
the things that He can give us? If we do not obey His commandments,
His words as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, then we do not
love Him and do not know Him. If we do not have interaction with
Jesus then our relationship with Him is not real. We might know the
Bible, believe in Jesus, cast out demons, speak in tongues, prophecy
in His name, heal the sick in His name and perform many miracles. We
might travel the world, preaching, evangelizing, doing missionary
work, but if we do not absolutely obey Jesus’ commandments, live
holy, be led by Him, His Holy Spirit guiding us, then our works are
in vain, our relationship with Him is not real. You cannot be in sin
and in Christ.

The apostle Paul was driven by a desire
to know Jesus and to be known by Him. He wrote in Philippians 3:10,11
“that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the
fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11in
order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” He
warned against the false Christians, Philippians 3:2 “Beware of the
dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;”
and verse 18 “For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell
you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of
Christ, 19whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite,
and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on
earthly things.” Such people refuse to pick up their cross and
follow Jesus. They refuse to live holy in obedience to Jesus. They
are not going after Jesus, but after their lusts.

If we truly love Jesus we will not sin,
we will follow and obey Him. We read in 1 John 2:3-6 “By this we
know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4The
one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5but
whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been
perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6the one who says
he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He
walked.”

There is no place for sin and
worldliness in the life of a child of God. Either your life is filled
with Jesus and a consuming desire to live holy and please Him, know
Him, hear from Him, be led and approved by Him, or you are just
religious, deceiving yourself and separated from Jesus, heading for
destruction.

What is our motive? Are we seeking
Jesus? Have we found Him? Are we getting to know Him better every
day? Do we hear from Him and are we staying close to Him. Jesus said:
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28and
I give eternal life to them,” John 10:27,28.

Are we one of His sheep who hear His
voice, are known by Him, and do we follow Him?

May Jesus bless you.

The Hidden Agenda of Religion

Religion is preached and practiced
under many disguised objectives which seldom are pure.

For the most part Christianity is
preached with ulterior motives or hidden reasons and not as most
believe to bring man into the right relationship with God.

The objectives of churches and
religious organizations are not compatible with the kingdom of God.

Church organizations use the Bible and
the name of Jesus Christ to build their own organizations, their own
empires, to control and manipulate and exploit believers for their
own benefit which always involves money, wealth and power. Believers
become the slaves and victims of religious witchcraft because they
are led to believe that their service and support of these religious
organizations will ensure their eternal salvation. All of this is
WITCHCRAFT, LIES and DECEPTION because the believers do NOT get
closer to God and they have no guarantee of eternal salvation.

Believers themselves, become victims of
religion because they are seeking for an EASY entrance into paradise
and a guarantee of eternal salvation. They are not seeking the truth.
They want a cheap insurance policy and therefor they embrace and
believe the lies of the church organizations. People hate the truth
and they love lies. That is why churches and religious organizations
are so powerful, financially and politically. Religious organizations
instigate religious wars and believers think they are doing God a
service by persecuting and destroying their fellow man who was also
created by God. Instead of coming closer to God they become self
righteous evil religious zealots that destroy God's creation, instead
of becoming children of God they become religious demons.

Religious scholars think that by
studying the Bible they will gain salvation, whereas Jesus warned the
religious pharisees, the Bible teachers of the time, He said:” You
search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal
life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to
come to Me so that you may have life. “ John 5:39,40. They
never get to KNOW Jesus Christ. They perish IN THEIR SINS

Jesus Christ came to reconcile man with
God, to bring us into relationship with HIM, to KNOW Him and to be
UNITED with Him, to be BORN AGAIN and to become children of God, He
came to REDEEM for Himself a people who are PURE, RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY
and who live daily in communion with Him, people FILLED with the
Spirit of God who follow His guidance and serve the kingdom of God.

Religion is in DIRECT OPPOSITION to the
kingdom of God.

Jesus Christ said:”My sheep HEAR my
VOICE and I KNOW them and they FOLLOW Me.” John 10:27

I want to ask you dear friend, is this
TRUE of YOU?

Do YOU know His VOICE and do you FOLLOW
Jesus Christ?

Is He REAL and ALIVE to you? Or are you
just practicing religion and you do not know Jesus Christ for REAL?

If you have not come to know Jesus
Christ for REAL your religion is in VAIN and it cannot save you.

May Jesus bless you.

Selfish Fellowship

People go after fellowship with other people, with other Christians all because of selfish reasons. It is all about THEM. They don't want to be lonely, they want to be affiliated, they want to be accepted. People want Jesus for what they can get out of Him not for the sake of being with Jesus Himself and that is why they look for the company of other people.

If we love Jesus and we want to spend eternity with Him we will already do s RIGHT NOW. We will constantly make ourselves aware of Him and His presence. We will treasure HIS FELLOWSHIP. Where our treasure is there our heart will be also .

Is our heart WITH Jesus and with being pleasing to Him or do we seek the approval, acceptance and fellowship of other people?

May Jesus bless you.

The Profit Motive

The whole world is driven by the profit motive. People are always scheming, thinking of how they can benefit from what they say or what they do. Their motives are selfish. Even preachers and churches want to benefit from the people.

The child of God is motivated by the Spirit of God, his only desire is to be pleasing to Jesus. What is YOUR and my motive? Why do we do things? Do we want to achieve some selfish ambition or gain some benefit or are we seeking to be pleasing to Jesus? What motivates us, the Spirit of God or our own selfish desires? Are we TRULY children of God?

May Jesus bless you.