IF I STUMBLE

Jesus requires of us to be perfect. We

have to obey His words and commandments and follow Him until the end
to have eternal life. He requires utter obedience and holiness,
without which no one will see the Lord. We are all human, fallible,
capable of making mistakes. We all stumble. How do we deal with it?

Do we carry on in sin, or in our
mistake, or do we immediately correct it and take every precaution to
avoid falling into the same trap again? We must realize that we are
the masters of our own destiny. Our actions will determine whether we
enter heaven, or end up in hell. The words of Jesus are clear. Those
who disobey Him will not enter heaven. We have to decide whether we
want to live, have eternal life with Jesus, follow and obey Him, or
go our own way and end up in hell.

If we are serious
about eternal life, we will immediately correct our error, as soon as
it occurs, plead Jesus’ forgiveness and do our utmost not to repeat
that mistake. If we don’t we will certainly not enter heaven. Some
people say it is impossible. I want to set before you a scenario. I
was a pilot. As a pilot, your life and those of the people flying
with you are in your hands. If you make an error and do not correct
it in time, you can be in serious trouble. You will die. The onus is
on you alone to make swift effective correction. I flew for many
years and I made many mistakes, but I survived. I was not the best
pilot that I knew, I knew many brilliant pilots, some of them, who
killed themselves, because they took chances, got reckless or just
plain complacent. They paid for it with there lives. I also made many
mistakes, but I never became complacent. I was always careful to stay
within my limits and that of the aircraft, but nothing is perfect or
predictable in air space. You cannot just stop, get out and correct.
You will go down, and you seldom are able to choose where you crash.
You never know what can happen. You may develop a mechanical problem
with the aircraft. You need to check that out and correct it before
you take off. Once you are in the air you are on your own and your
actions determine whether you survive or not. You might take off and
fly into bad whether. You might encounter high headwinds, causing you
to consume more fuel, reducing your endurance so that you might not
have enough fuel to reach your destination. If you don’t take
timely action, divert and take in fuel sooner, at a different
location, you will run out of fuel and crash. You have to plan your
flight, endurance, fuel management and availability, alternates and
deviations. You are not the only person in the air, you have to look
out and make sure you do not collide with other aircraft. I am not
trying to give you a lesson in flying but I want to stress to you how
important it is to do everything right if you want to stay alive as a
pilot. It is the very same in our walk with Jesus. As a pilot I made
mistakes, got lost in the air, got caught in bad weather, storms,
thunder, lightning, high winds, cross winds on landing that can flip
your plane and throw you on the side of the runway, kill you, and
many more. I survived because I was cautious, avoided taking chance
and above all, Jesus kept me alive. I called on Him many times and He
saved me from death and destruction.

We have to be careful in our walk with
Jesus, not to sin, not to fall into temptation because that mistake
that we make can be fatal. If we call on Jesus and take corrective
action, we can save ourselves from hell and damnation. Many people do
not repent, they do not correct their ways. Many are on the wrong
way, they will reach the wrong destination.

Jesus will never leave us. He will
never reject us if we come to Him, call on Him. He will always help,
forgive and accept us back, if we repent of our error and come to
Him. We leave Jesus, He never leaves us. However, He will never force
us to obey Him. The wages of sin is death. Even if you are an old
pilot, if you make a mistake you can die. Even if you are a seasoned
Christian. If you sin you will burn. Jesus requires utter holiness
and obedience. We must be extremely careful and make every effort to
avoid sin. Remove all things from your life that can make you stumble
or fall into temptation. Practice self control. Choose right and do
right. If we do stumble we must immediately correct, repent and live
holy, follow Jesus. You cannot afford to allow yourself to be
distracted from Jesus, from living holy, righteous in obedience to
Him. Our conscience and the Holy Spirit immediately warns us, the
moment we go wrong. Stay focused on Jesus. He will guide you. Take
heed, listen, obey, correct and stay on the straight narrow road,
that leads to life.

The righteous may stumble, but they
immediately repent and correct. Sinners continue in their wickedness
and look for excuses. Some believers knowingly sin and commit
adultery and fornication, with the intention of later asking
forgiveness. They are not honest in their hearts, they keep their sin
in their hearts and never repented. They will perish. God is not
mocked. Jesus said that he who looks at a woman with lust is already
guilty of adultery. Do not take chances. Many live in sin and hope to
have the opportunity to have a death bed repentance before they die.
Many die every day, unexpectedly. As you live, so shall you die. If
you live in sin, you will perish in your sin.

Jesus saves from sin, but then we have
to live holy, follow and obey Him until the end, to have eternal
life.

May Jesus bless you.

You cannot afford to stumble

The false Grace gospel that is being

preached in churches has led to a situation where Christians believe
that it is acceptable to sin. Many of them say that they are all
sinners. They think that it is acceptable to keep on stumbling, to
keep on going back to the same sin. Jesus made it very clear that it
is not acceptable for any of His followers to stumble.

We read in Matthew 5:27 Jesus said:"You
have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery, but I say
to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has
already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye
makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you, for it is
better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your
whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you
stumble, cut it off, and throw it from you, for it is better for you
to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go
into hell." If you keep on stumbling, you will end up in hell.

Jesus does not call us to stumble He
calls us to repent and stop sinning, and live in holiness or else we
will end up in hell. The writer of Hebrews writes in Hebrews 10:26
"For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge
of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a
terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which
will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of
Moses, dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much severer punishment do you think He will deserve who has
trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the
blood of the Covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted
the Spirit of Grace. For we know Him who said:"Vengeance is
mine, I will repay," and again, the Lord will judge His people.
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the Living God."
He is talking here about believers. It is not acceptable to go back
to sin. If you go back to son there is no more grace. It is not
acceptable to go back to sin. The wrath of God will come on you and
if you do not repent, you will perish.

Many believe that God will only punish
them, but they will still be saved. That is a lie. If you bear bad
fruit you will get cut off and burned. If you bear no fruit for the
kingdom of God you will get cut off and burned. If you sin, you will
burn. The Apostle John wrote in 1st John chapter 5 verse 18:"We
know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning." If a
person keeps on sinning he is not a child of God. He was not born
again or if he was born again, like the hog he has gone back to roll
in the mire, like the dog he has gone back to his own vomit.

We read in 1st John chapter 3 verse 4
"Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin
is lawlessness. You know that He (Jesus), appeared in order to take
away sins and in Him there is no sin. No one who abides in Him sins.
No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. Little children, make sure
that no one deceives you. The one who practices righteousness is
righteous just as He is righteous. The one who practices sin is of
the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of
God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No
one who is born of God practices sin, because his seed abides in him
and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of
God and the children of the devil are obvious, anyone who does not
practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love
his brother”

There are so many Christian believers
that study the Bible and that quote you Bible verses about the grace
of God, but they don't know Jesus. They are not born again, they do
not abide in Jesus. As the Apostle said:"no one who abides in
Him sins. No one who sins has seen Him or knows Him." If you sin
you are of the devil, you're not a child of God, you're only
deceiving yourself. It is not acceptable even to stumble. Do not
tolerate any sin in your life if you are serious about following
Jesus. We have to be holy and sin no more. Without holiness no man
shall see God. Believers that keep on stumbling are on their way to
hell. They must repent and stop stumbling, and they must start
following Jesus every step of the way, and then they will sin no
more, and they will not stumble, because He will guide them He will
keep them. Stop stumbling and follow Jesus.

May Jesus bless you.

Do not stumble

In our walk with Jesus Christ it is important that we do not stumble, because if we stumble we might not get up and follow Him again. Many have stumbled and they never recovered.
We cannot afford to stumble and therefor we must stay focused on Jesus, keep our eyes on Him, follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, trust in Him only.
Many believers get drawn away when they look to other people, they look to other saints and they stumble, they fall, they fall away from Jesus Christ  and the are lost.
We cannot afford to stumble. We cannot afford to look to other people. Jesus Christ is the only way. We must guard our relationship with Him and go with Him even though we are on our own. It is rather better to be on our own with Jesus and to do what He tells us to do, than to be with other people, than to trust in people because people fail.
Only Jesus Christ cannot fail. Only the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth.
You cannot afford to stumble. Stay focused on Jesus, trust Him, obey Him and He will keep you from stumbling.
May Jesus bless you.

When you DO stumble

If we follow Jesus Christ we are in a race, a marathon and we have to complete that marathon according to the rules if we want to win the prize of eternal life. The best marathon runners do also stumble even though they take care not to fall but when they stumble they get back up and run, as quickly as possible and they keep on running until the end or else they will not finish the race and they will not win the prize. The same with us as followers of Jesus Christ, we will stumble but what matters is what we do after we stumbled. Do we go sit down? Do we drop out of the race, or do we get back into the race and be very careful not to make the same mistakes again, not to stumble again. All those who follow Jesus Christ will be tested and tried. The devil will try to make you stumble but the important thing is that you GET RIGHT BACK UP and make sure that you do not stumble again.

I stumbled last week. We had a water main burst on the farm where I live and the animals were without water, and one of the workers who was on duty, who was supposed to fix the leak, took his time at it. I got real mad and I blew up, I said things that I should not have said. I felt terrible. I walked away and I repented to the Lord. I went back to this man and I apologized to him for the way that I spoke to him. I stumbled, I said things that I should not have said in the cheat of the moment but I thought about it and I have prayed about it and next time such a situation comes around I will react differently. The devil caught me off guard and I stumbled but, PRAISE JESUS, I got up, I am following HIM, I am a witness for HIM, I shine my light for Him and I am following Him, I am back in the race! I won't give up. Even though I stumble I will get up and I will follow Jesus Christ until the end.

If you do stumble, get right back up, correct your error and BE CAREFUL not to stumble again in the same situation. Think about it very nicely, ask the Lord for wisdom and next time around the devil will not trip you up. We must not quit or give up. If we do stumble we must become stronger after the event so that next time we will know how to handle it better and not stumble again.

Do not give up. Do not quit but keep running, keep going after Jesus for that prize of eternal life.

May Jesus bless you.

Do not STUMBLE

The wages of sin is death. If we stumble and fall into sin it can cause us to end up in hell. Satan is doing his best to make us stumble so that we can end up in damnation. Even though we might be very careful we might stumble at times. The only way that we will NOT STUMBLE is if we STAY FOCUSED ON Jesus, if we keep our eyes on Him and we get our guidance from Him, if we do not act on our own, our own judgment, our own initiative but if we live constantly, moment by moment under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In everything we have to FIRST ASK JESUS how to react, what to do, or else we will stumble.

If we keep our eyes on Jesus, stay focused on Him, He will not allow us to stumble. Make sure that you do not stumble. Stay focused on Jesus, always in prayer, always ask of Him and He will guide you so that you will not stumble, you will not sin, you WILL be pleasing to Him. The only way to have eternal life is to follow Jesus Christ step by step. If you take your eyes off Him YOU WILL STUMBLE!

Do not stumble, follow Jesus.

May Jesus bless you.