Jesus said:"My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me." John 10:27. Very few believers HEAR the voice of Jesus. Very few know Jesus and are known by Him. Very few believers follow Jesus.
Why is that? Are they really His sheep? Jesus said:"He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”John 8:47. Most believers are of their church. They understand and accept the teachings of their church and their preachers but they do not understand the words of Jesus. They are for ever studying the Bible and seeking a new interpretation of scripture but they never come to understanding, because they never accepted Jesus. They simply do not belong to Him.
The words of Jesus, the words that He spoke and taught, as also recorded in the gospels, Matthew Mark Luke and John, those are the words of eternal life, but most believers do not accept them. Neither do they obey them. They are not children of God.
The apostle John wrote in John 1:12"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." Those who have received Jesus, accepted Him as their Lord and Master, have the right to become children of God. They are born again because they embrace Jesus and His words. They go after Him and live their lives to please Him. They repent and are baptized in water, born again of Spirit and of water. They do not argue His words. They embrace Him and therefor it is given to them to see and enter the kingdom of God. they hear His voice, and they follow Him.
Jesus said:“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”John 3:3. Jesus said:“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."John 3:5,6.
Most believers are not children of God. They are not Jesus' sheep. They do not hear His voice and they do not follow Him. They believe they are saved because they confess to believe in Jesus, but they have no relationship with Him. They are deceived, lost and doomed.
Those who receive Jesus, embrace and obey Him, will hear His voice. They will understand His words and they will be able to follow Him.
If we draw closer to Jesus, He will draw closer to us. If we seek Him, we will find Him and we will know Him. He will know us and in Him we will have eternal life.
Are you one of Jesus' sheep? Do you hear His voice and do you follow Him? Does Jesus know you? Or will he say to you:"Go away I never knew you, you who practice lawlessness?
Many Christian believers focus on all the wrong things and that is why they are losers, they do not have victory over sin, satan and the flesh. They cannot stop sinning, they cannot resist temptation, they have no self-control.. They are driven by their fleshly desires that cause them to sin and get into trouble all the time and will eventually cause them to end up in hell.
These Christian believers, who are some of them very serious, focus on various things. Some are preachers, evangelists, pastors, church leaders, they focus on building churches. Others are church members who ardently support the church, do Bible study, attend motivational speeches and conferences, do charity work, go on mission trips, give vast amounts of money to churches and missions, but they are still losers, sinners driven by their own lusts. impulses, insights, ideals and opinions. Are they pleasing to God? Do they bring glory to Jesus? Is their fruit pleasing to God? No, because their fruit is bad.
We can only bear good fruit if we remain IN Christ. We can only do the will of God if we follow and obey Jesus. "Those who are being led by the Spirit of God, they are the children of God."
Those who are in the flesh, going after the desires, impulses, logic and lusts of the flesh cannot please God. They can also not overcome sin, defeat satan and control their flesh.
The only way to be pleasing to God is to follow and obey Jesus, to be led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, will guide you into doing the will of God, following His plan, will lead you to victory and fruitfulness for the kingdom of God. Without Jesus we can do nothing. Without His Holy Spirit guiding us, we are LOST.
Our focus must be with Jesus. Our fellowship must be with Him. If we stay in fellowship with Jesus, follow and obey Him, we will overcome, sin satan and the flesh, we will be victorious.
Submit fully to Jesus. Repent of sin and your own selfish ways, go after Jesus. Obey His words and teachings as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Repent, stop sinning. stop going after your own desires, be baptized in water and seek Jesus in prayer. commit to be pleasing to Him Him every day, stay focused on Him and He will fill you with His wisdom, guidance and understanding. He will give His Holy Spirit to be in and with you, to stay with you so that you can do His will and be victorious, pleasing to Him, bear good fruit and bring glory to God.
Focus on Jesus, follow and obey Him and you will overcome.
Salvation is not about interpreting the Bible. Salvation is about knowing, obeying and following Jesus Christ. He Himself is the way, the truth and the life. There is no other way to have eternal life.
The Bible testifies of Jesus. The words that He spoke, His teachings and the miracles that He performed, His human birth, life, death and resurrection were recorded in the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The words of Jesus are the words of eternal life, for those who accept and obey them. Jesus said:"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life."John 6:63. The words of Jesus are plain and simple and need no interpretation, they only need to be obeyed.
Those who believe and obey the words of Jesus are spiritually re-born, they become born of the Spirit of God that makes them Spiritually Alive. They are given insight and understanding of the kingdom of heaven, they are enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said:"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you."John 14:26.
The reason why believers are in darkness, is because they do not obey the words of Jesus and therefor they do not receive nor accept the Holy Spirit that He promised to those who love Him. They rather seek salvation in the Bible, adding their own interpretations or that of others. They are doing the same as the pharisees did and Jesus said to them:"39“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; 40and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life."John5:39,40. The very same today, believers search the Scriptures, study the Bible, adding their own doctrines and interpretations, believing that they will have eternal life by doing that, but they refuse to go to Jesus, to follow and obey Him. They are forever arguing about their salvation, about scripture interpretation, but they do not go to Jesus. They do not trust the Holy Spirit. They look for assurances in the Bible but they have no relationship with Jesus, they do not know Him. They are in darkness.
If we obey Jesus, repent and are baptized in water and live according to His teachings, He will reveal Himself to us, He will give His Holy Spirit in us, He will make us new inside, born-again, so that we can see the kingdom of God. It is through our relationship with Jesus, through prayer and obedience, that we grow in knowledge of Him and of the kingdom of God, not through Bible study and interpretation of the Scriptures. Jesus gives UNDERSTANDING, wisdom and guidance to those who love, trust and obey Him.
Stop listening to the opinions of men. Stop following after every new teaching of men, stop buying and reading their books. Stop seeking and following various interpretations of Scripture. Obey Jesus, His words. Pray, seek Jesus in sincerity, from your heart, in faith. Ask His guidance in every aspect of your life. Trust Him, expect an answer, expect guidance. Stay focused on Jesus and He will guide you, He will give you eternal life if you stay with Him, until the end.
A born-again Christian is not a sinner, because he is a new creature. He has been born of the Spirit of God and of water through baptism.
A born-again child of God has been grafted into the Vine, Jesus Christ. We read in John 15:1 "1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3“You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned."
If we do not stay with Jesus and do what He commands, but rather go after the pleasures of sin, and follow after our own lusts, we will produce bad fruit. We will be warned and disciplined but if we do not change our ways obey Jesus and bear good fruit we will get cut off and burned. Those who bear bad fruit will end up in hell even if they were once born-again.
Many people pretend to be Christians, but they are false prophets and false Christians. They are very religious, some are preachers, prophets, Bible scholars and spiritual people. Some even heal the sick and speak in tongues, but they are false, because they produce bad fruit, they are SINNERS.
Jesus warned: “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16“You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17“So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18“A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20“So then, you will know them by their fruits.
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.’ Matthew 7:15-23.
If we truly follow Jesus Christ, we will obey Him and bear good fruit. We will be known by our fruit. Christians are not sinners, they are saints, holy people. They do not sin.
Churches are a evil force that seek to control and manipulate you. They are driven by the spirit of Jezebel. Not only do they fornicate with the world but they seduce believers to follow after them. The worldly church is Mother of Prostitutes in Revelation 18 and 19, and her daughters, all the worldly church organizations that were born from her. The Roman Catholic Church was built and grown on the blood of the saints. From her came forth thousands of harlot daughters. Every time believers try to come out of the spell of the church harlot Jezebel spirit, they are infiltrated again and seduced to start a new church. That is why there are thousands of churches but few disciples of Jesus Christ.
Churches use the Name of Jesus and the Bible, but seduce people into following after them. They are not disciples of Jesus, neither do they make disciples of Jesus. They make their own doctrines and rules and rituals, and promise members salvation, while they disobey Jesus and teach others to do the same.
There is only one way to have eternal life. That is is to follow and obey Jesus, not to follow others, or to belong to a church.
Church organizations are none of them part of the kingdom of God. They are all kingdoms of men led by the spirit of Jezebel. They are in the power of the evil one, satan, and they destroy souls through lies, sorcery, witchcraft, deception. They twist the truth, use souls for their own benefit, while they are leading them to hell.
The true Body of Christ is not an organization and it has no leaders. Jesus Christ Himself is the Head and Leader. He guides every disciple by His Holy Spirit that He gives in them. They are His sheep, who listen to His voice and who follow Him. They are a small flock that meet in houses, or wherever the Head, Jesus, brings them together.
Jesus calls His sheep out, to listen to His voice and follow Him, to serve Him and be part of His kingdom. The judgment of Jesus is coming on the harlot church, Babylon.
"4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6“Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. 7“To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.’ 8“For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong." Revelation 18:4-8.
Come out of the deception of the Jezebel church system and follow Jesus. Jesus Christ is the only way, follow Him. 14“These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.” Revelation 17:14.
Are you with Jesus? Will you overcome with Him? Are you called and chosen and faithful?
Everything that God made is exceedingly wonderful. So are women, if they serve the purpose that God made them for, as a helpmate for the man, and keeper of the home. However, many women want to be men and want to compete with men. In the end they are the ones who suffer and are unfulfilled.
Modern society has rejected God and even Christians follow after the ways of the world. Women don't want to stay at home, keep the house, bring up the children and be a helpmate to their husband. They have all sorts of excuses, that are basically selfish.
If you want to follow Jesus and live God's way, He will enable you to do so, even in modern society. God never changed.
I want to share my testimony with you. My first marriage was, to say the least, stormy. My mother-in-law believed that my wife should be independent, should be a career women. All went well until she visited, then hell broke loose in my house, and the wife was dissatisfied. She was an apprentice hair dresser and her mother insisted that she finnish her apprenticeship, which meant that she had to work long hours for extremely low wages. Our baby had to go to day care. My salary had to support the house, the daycare and my wife's transport, because her wages were so little it hardly covered her tuition costs. I had to walk to work because I could not afford transport. My wife drove to work with our car. My wife fell pregnant and we had our second baby. She had to interrupt her apprenticeship for a while, and once again mother-in-law interfered, insisting she go work. My wife had a nervous breakdown and ended up in psych ward. She went totally nuts. We were battling financially. I now had two babies in day care and a wife in the nuthouse. She came out of there and was permanently on medication, but then she went back to work to finish her apprenticeship.
When our second baby was nine months old my wife came home from work one day and drove in front of a thirty ton truck, loaded with steel. She wife never regained consciousness but died 3 weeks later in hospital. I became a widower with two little boys, one 3 years old and the other 9 months old. On top of that I had massive hospital bills. Never once did my in-laws offer to help with the children. A week after my wife died I received a certificate in the mail. My wife had qualified as a hairdresser. My dead wife was a qualified career women, a hairdresser with one of the elite hair salons.
My unmarried sister came and lived with us for a while to help with the house and the kids.
I was introduced to many women but none of them were interested in a 29 year old widower with two little boys. Then I was introduced to a young lady who, on the second date asked to see my children and scolded me for not bringing them along. She had never been married before but I asked her and soon after we got married. Her name is Christiena, my wife now for 34 years.
She was well educated, with a college diploma, working at a big corporation. When we married she quit her job to stay home and look after my kids. We later had one boy of our own. She has been a mother, a nurturer, a housekeeper, a loving wife and helpmate. My children grew up with a mother who was always there for them, feeding them before they went to school, waiting for them after school, taking care of all their needs, when they were naughty, when they were sick, when they were sad and needed support. She has always been there for them. They grew up to be fine hard working men, who know right from wrong and were taught excellent values.
When I married Christiena, I had a lot of debt. I was not earning a lot of money, but she is a godly woman and she came to be a mother for my children and a helpmate for me. We have been through rough times together. At one time I was fired from my job because of following Jesus. We lived in a country where there is no social Security, no government help, but Christiena never went out to work. Jesus supplied for us and helped us. He enabled me to provide for my family. We never begged and never came short of anything. My children never went to bed hungry. They were always properly clothed and kept. Together we have done many things, as husband and wife, as a family. We have worked hard, built a house with our own hands, done all kinds of things together. We worked together and prayed together and we are still together.
A year ago I was very ill. I was diagnosed with rectal cancer. The past year was physically the most difficult year in my life. I was in hospital, in pain, in ICU for more than a month. I died twice and was resuscitated. In December 2017 nobody believed I would survive, other than my wife, Christiena, she prayed for me and stayed with me, often sleeping in the hospital at my bed side. I came out of hospital and was so weak I could not walk. She nursed me back to a situation that I was strong enough to go through chemo, radiation and thereafter through huge surgery. Christiena nursed me and looked after me through all of this. I never went to rehab. After the first time I came out of hospital I had open wounds on my stomach. I carried a vacuum pump, to drain the wounds, because I had sepsis. The wounds had to be cleaned and dressed daily. She fed me when I was too weak to eat and rather felt like dying. She drove me around to hospital and back for months, looking after me day and night. In June 2018 I went in for a very big surgery, 7 hours, during which my rectum was removed, my gallbladder was removed, plastic surgery was done to reconstruct my rear, using muscle from my leg and repairing hernias created by the previous surgeries. I had a painful recovery from that, for months and had drain pipes hanging from my body that had to be cleaned daily. My wounds had to heal. I am recovering well, with my helpmate beside me. She never left her post.
I thank Jesus for keeping me alive and for supplying in all our needs. I thank Jesus for a good wife and helpmate, a fellow follower of Jesus and servant of the kingdom of God. I thank Jesus that we can testify for Him and point others to Him. Jesus makes our life complete.
Follow Jesus. Be the man He wants you to be and He will sustain you. Be the woman He made you to be and you will be fulfilled.
Most Christian believers are not serious about following Jesus. They just want salvation. They don't want to go into hell, when they die, but they are not interested in Jesus. What they do not realize is that Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY to eternal life, not just believing in Him, but following and obeying Him.
If you do not OBEY the teachings of Jesus and do not FOLLOW after Him, you will no way enter heaven. Going to church, reading the Bible, confessing to be a Christian, will not save you.
You need to get serious about following Jesus. Put your mind on Jesus and do what He commanded. Repent, from your heart. Stop sinning. Stop going after your own desires and the things of the world. Be baptized in water. Live holy. Live according to the words of Jesus as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Communicate with Jesus, pray, seek Him with all your heart and He will come and dwell with you. You will experience His presence. He will give His Holy Spirit in and with you to teach and guide you, but you need to seek Him.
If we seek Him we find Him, if we draw closer to Him, He draws closer to us. Stop following after other people. Stop seeking the advice of others. If you want eternal life you have to follow the advice and guidance of Jesus, not that of other Christians. If you need guidance and direction, PRAY, ask Jesus. He will give it to you. That is the only way that you can follow Jesus. That is what the Bible tells you and that is the advice that true followers of Jesus will give you.
Jesus is ALIVE and He speaks. His sheep HEAR His VOICE and they FOLLOW Him. They do not follow after the pleasures of sin, their own ambitions and other people. Their ambition is to follow Jesus, do what He tells them to do, go where He sends them, achieve His will and for Him to be pleased with them. they live for Him and His kingdom.
Jesus is Lord. If you do not follow and serve Him, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven, His kingdom.
If you want LIFE, get serious about Jesus. Go after Him, serve, follow and obey Him until the very end.
Very few people are willing to talk about Jesus. That includes MOST professing Christians. They will talk about their church and their pastor and God, but they avoid talking about Jesus.
Here is a surprize, dear friends. Jesus said:"But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven."Matthew 10:33.
Also He said:"For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels."Mark 8:38.
Jesus will deny and refuse most professing Christians entry into heaven because they denied Him both in words and in deeds. Many confessed to be Christians but they did not follow nor obey Jesus. They did not know Him and therefor had no testimony of Him. By their deeds they showed that they were of the devil. They were a shame on His Name.
Jesus said:"Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’" Matthew 7:22,23.
Dear friend, do you talk about Jesus? Do you witness for Jesus? Do you show by your obedience to His words that you love and follow Him? Do you testify for Jesus, that He is alive, He is your Lord and that you follow Him? Or do you deny Him?
Many people ask me why I always say: May Jesus bless you. That is because Jesus is my Lord and I confess Him. To refer to God, can mean any god. I talk about Jesus. What about you?
Jesus leads you to victory, if you follow Him. If you follow Jesus you will have many battles, trials and tribulations
We must go into the kingdom of heaven through much tribulation. The way of the disciple, the true follower of Jesus is a life of battles, trials, tribulations but also of victory. We are called to overcome, sin, satan and the flesh.
I read the words of the apostle Paul in Romans 8:28-37.
" 28And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36Just as it is written,
“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
37But in all these things we OVERWHELMINGLY CONQUER through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Are you suffering temptation, tribulation, distress, difficulty, pain, rejection, persecution for following Jesus? Are you overcoming? If you stay in Jesus you will overcome.
If you are not haveing tribulation, you are not following Jesus. we read in Acts 14:22 "strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, "Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God."
There will be no crown for those who did not bear their cross. There will be no prize for those who did not run the race and won. Are you making progress in your journey into the kingdom of God. Are you enduring tribulation with Jesus, and overcoming? Are you a victor or a loser?
The world has become a terrible dangerous place and it has it has become so small that there is nowhere to run for safety. People are treacherous, they cheat and betray each other. Men cannot even trust their own wives any more, and that is why many men are avoiding and staying away from women. You cannot trust anybody.
This is nothing new. We all know how Samson was betrayed by Delilah. So, what is the solution? What shall we and our children do to survive?
We were warned in Jeremiah 17:5-8 "Thus says the LORD,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6“For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.
7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD
And whose trust is the LORD.
8“For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit."
Many Christian believers are familiar with this scripture, but they do not really believe it, because they are subjected to the same troubles and betrayals as the unbelievers. They do not trust in Jesus and do not find refuge in Him, because they do not follow and obey Him.
These people justify themselves and their sin, their unfaithfulness to Jesus. God is not fooled because He repays each man according to their deeds. Let us read further in Jeremiah 17:9-10.
9“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?
10“I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds."
Going to church, being religious, confessing Jesus, will not save and protect you. You need to show by your DEEDS that you trust and OBEY Him. Get serious with God. Obey Jesus, repent and be baptized and LIVE in obedience to His words as recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. He will give His Holy Spirit in you to teach , guide and protect you, if you TRUST, FOLLOW and OBEY Him.
God protects those trust Him, those who follow and obey Jesus. He keeps them from harm and keeps their feet from stumbling, but all sinners and those who disobey Jesus will perish. You can run, but you cannot hide..
There is only one safe place and that is to trust, follow and obey Jesus. Are you following Jesus or are you living in fear and anxiety because you know that you are doomed?
