Sometime in life one comes to a crossroads and must make a perpetual decision, a decision which determines his eternal destination. At this point God will reveal to you what you must sacrifice; persons, or things, plans and ambitions which you have not completely committed to God. Down through the years we may have been allowed to 'halt between two opinions' in the valley of decision. But ultimately, we will reach a place where a final decision must be made which places one on the other side of time into the realms of eternity. This is true, regardless of your choice of decision, or regardless of the years one may live after this decision is made. His life hereafter, will coincide with his ultimate decision in every instant, weather it be good or bad. This final decision will perpetuate your choice of life or death forever, because you have been brought to, and passed by, a landmark which separates a way of life and a way of death, and nothing can alter this decision once you have committed yourself to it. This is a binding which carries one into the realms of eternity.
Down through the years God may speak to you again and again to show you that you are lost and in need of a savior. He may appear to you time after time in loving concern to bring you to a right decision.
But there comes a time when he will leave you to your own choice and allow you to cross the line and forever be lost from his mercies. When a person comes to the point in his life where he is 'left desolate', and God no longer speaks to him, here, he is totally given over to evil. When one passes this point in his life, then he is turned over to a reprobate mind and to strong delusions and lies, according to 2nd Thess. ch 2; ver. 10,11,12. Here, he is lost from the mercies of God and his spirit, body and soul are in complete subjection to the forces of evil which invade his body as the seven wicked spirits take over his mind, and ultimately destroy his life. Here he is in perpetual darkness, and has passed from time to eternity.
We are seeing the results of this in the world today as satan is becoming personified in the flesh that has chosen evil over good. The results are filling the earth in the form of murders, rapists, abortions, child abuse, deceptions and lies, ect..
Sin , will reach a crest in this age and bring society (the world) as we know it to an abrupt end. Just as sin and death reached a crest in the floods of Noah and destroyed that society, that world, so shall it be in this age..........only that which has entered into the secret place of the most high ( as Noah entered the ark) shall survive. Contrary to traditional teaching, it is always the wicked who are taken out, and the righteous are left. The righteous are always left to inherit the earth and replenish and subdue it. This is God's order, his principle of creation! Satan has tried to change this principle by teaching lies from a thousand pulpits claiming that the righteous are whisked away into the sky and the wicked are left on the earth. This doctrine has distorted truth and taken away the incentive to reach the prize of the mark of high calling in Christ Jesus. The majority of mankind has chosen satan as their master and by their own choice they have filled the earth with floods of corruption worse than Sodom and Gomorra .
Everyone, saint or sinner will be brought to this ultimate decision. For the sinner, He will make a decision to turn from his old ways and follow Christ Jesus, or decide he prefers the old lifestyle of sin. The Christian will make many decisions in his daily walk with God as he grows from glory to glory. But there also comes a time in the Christians life that an ultimate decision must be made; it is the complete commitment of all that he has, all that he loves, all that he is or wants, all his ambitions and plans, his family, his friends, his home, and his very own life must be fully and totally committed to God at this final point which brings him to a crossway between life and death.
When the Christian makes this full commitment then God will have free access to intercept his life at any time and in any form which He chooses, to take from, or add to, the individual life. This process in the Christian's life begins at the precise time of decision to commit all to God. However, many times the Christian does not come to this final discussion and make the full commitment to God. There is a 'besetting sin' which he must either allow to become crucified or allow it to remain in his members to work death in him throughout his life time. This besetting sin is a 'sin-unto-death' which cannot be prayed away but must be crucified. It may be a sin connected to a family member, your home, your emotions, it may be a hidden lust, or habit which keeps festering inside your body. Whatever it may be, it is working death in you just as the apostle Paul said; 'oh wretched man that I am; Who shall deliver me from the body of this death!( please read Romans ch 7; ver. 23-24.) This 'besetting sin' may be hidden so deep within that it will take an act of God to bring it out into the open and allow it to pass under the blood before you can be free from its power in your life! Only the ultimate decision of full commitment will activate the powers of God to move in and destroy this part of the 'old man' of sin which remains and which must be crucified. Remember. It was after the apostle Paul had come into a deep relationship with God, even to ascending to the third heaven, that he cried out from the 'sin which was still in his members and was working death in him'! The apostle had to come to a place where he 'counted it all but dung that he might win Christ!' Ascending to the third heaven was not the apostles goal; His goal was that he might win Christ! What is your goal, today? Is it a tale of a home in the sky spawned by traditional folk lore, or is your goal like the apostles; winning Christ and being found in Him!
When a Christian makes this final and full commitment to God he has placed himself on the other side of Calvary and is hid in Christ and the world knows him no more!
Before this ultimate decision is made, a Christian is functioning in a realm of semi-reality, and is drifting afloat between decisions of 'right and wrong' matters which make up his world of indecision. At this point in a Christians life he cannot discern weather what he hears in his spirit is God or is it satan, is this wrong or is it right, should I go to this church or that church? This is a continuous battle in the mind of a Christian who has not made the ultimate decision to commit his all to the Lord Jesus. This Christian here is 'unstable in all his ways' and is 'tossed about with every wind of doctrine' as the sin in his members works the works of death in him; because he has not made the decision to be crucified!
When the Christian comes to make this full commitment to God , then he is brought into a reality of life in God which he never knew before! He becomes hid away in Christ and ceases from his own labors and enters into a place of rest and serenity. He has come to a place where the will of God supersedes the will of flesh and takes authority over every phase of his life. Here, one is at ease and all things become new! His former fears are changed to joy, his weakness has been replaced by the strength of the Lord, his doubts have vanished and been replaced by a great knowledge and wisdom imparted to him through the Holy Ghost. It is here that one can declare with the Psalmist David; ' yea though I walk through the shadow of (his) death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me! ( here a knowledge of his presence is born), thou preparest a table before me, in the presence of my enemy, and thou leadest me beside the still water of thy peace! My cup of joy runs over!
It is only after one comes to complete commitment that he can enter into the 'heavenly places with Christ Jesus'. Once the Lord has been given free will access to all our life, He moves us from the realms of negativity to the realms of positively, from shadows to reality!
Here, one passes from time to eternity. When the ultimate decision is made, and we have crossed the boundary line , whatever our choice may be, it places us in a perpetual position of no return. Therefore, we have passed out of the realm of time and out into the realm of eternity.
This is so sad for one who is making a wrong decision , because from now on sin will work in his members unhindered and many in this end time are becoming the very personification of evil . They have insatiable appetites and lusts of a perverted nature. There is no peace for this one who is turned over to darkness! God's mercy which once reached out to enfold him is no longer present. He searches diligently day after day for peace and joy, for comfort from the many burdens which sin has placed upon him.
Separated from the mercies and love of God he becomes a vagabond in the earth and his days are all hounded by the close footsteps of the grim reaper. This perpetual state of the individual is a state of no return, unknowingly, he has passed from time into eternity. Because he turned away the loving hand of the master and stopped his ears to his voice when he pleaded to him to turn from his evil ways, God here, has turned him over to a reprobate mind; God, has sent to him a strong delusion and caused him to believe a lie and be damned according to 2nd Thess. ch 2; ver. 10-11-12.
Today we are seeing the results of this perpetual state of the damned according to Romans ch 1; ver. 24-32. It is here, in the world where the condemned have passed out from the time realm into the perpetuity of eternity that we today see the world of the homosexual as recorded in Romans ch 1.
It is a world which becomes more vile and corrupted day by day!
It is a world where little children are used in a manner far below the animal level of decency! It is a world that God has turned over to satan , a world which is bringing the full potential sins of Adam to a full climax which will destroy itself as it reaches a dynamic crest as did the floods of Noah. The power of death which is inherent in sin is the same power which will destroy it. Sin and death are synonymous!
They walk hand in hand as sin leads mankind into the chambers of death and destroys him, spirit, soul, and body!
As we watch this closing climax of this age reach its zenith of power and corruption we are awed, we are shocked, we are horrified!
Our hearts cry out for the innocent and the defenseless victims who are being raped, sodomized and murdered by the flesh of mankind which has become a personification of satan! Just this morning I wept in sorrow and grief as the news that a law was passed which grants the right to adopt children to the homosexual. I was experiencing the same grief which Lot felt as the scriptures say that Lot was vexed in his spirit by their unlawful deeds. The perverted sex of Sodom has become magnified and intensified in this endtime day of consummation! We are seeing the potentials of sin which have lain dormant since Adam, come to its full consummation in this very day we are in!
We hear much today about the evil and corruption which is taking over this present day world. But we need also to know about the position which the church is to come into in this endtime age. Knowing the position of the church and the purpose of God in the church will give one strength to stand and bring in a joy and peace to us in this terrible day in which we live. We must come to a deeper knowledge of God's purpose for humanity in this age. When we come into a knowledge of where God is taking us and where we are now at this present time , then we can know what to expect and by this knowledge we shall find a door of escape . God's people in this very hour are being herded into the sheep-fold by a loving shepherd and the door will soon be closed on the world outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
Many are making the ultimate decision today. Millions are passing the greatest milestone in their life that they will ever pass as they make the last decision concerning their souls salvation. As millions make this final decision, they are giving themselves over to evil powers which they have never known. This is the powers we are seeing demonstrated the world over as children raise up against their parents and parents against their children causing them to be put to death. Never in the history of mankind has this world been so violent and evil. There is an evil invading the world today which has brought in the consummation of the sin-unto-death, it is the homosexual sin which has brought in the Aids Syndrome and stripped mankind of his last weapon; his immune system. A man afflicted with Aids has no defense. Every kind of disease known and unknown, will ravish his body unhindered with full power to destroy him at its own leisure!
The potential of this endtime sin has lain dormant within man since Adam and is now coming into full consummation as man makes the final decision and abandons all cautions, having his conscience seared with a hot iron he becomes a plaything in the hands of satan. Mankind in this day is without natural affections, he has lost the ability to love, his sense of respect and honor are gone. We see this displayed every day in the news casts the world over. Women are loosing the natural ability to love her child, her husband . Illicit love is taking place because no one wants the responsibility of being committed.
Man in this endtime age has sunk lower than the animal which runs through his yard as he makes his final and last decision to serve his master satan. Even the dumb animal mates with its own kind and with the opposite sex! Many spiritual leaders of this day will hold up a God of mercy and love and forget the God of judgment and justice! Justice is crying out for judgment in this awful day of evil!
The God of love has become a God of wrath as the dead branches are cut off and thrown into the fire.........brute beast, made to be burned!
Our once beloved nation which was founded upon such high principles is now being ruled by a humanity which is given over to perverted sex and is passing laws which nauseates and shocks the Christian world which is watching in awe as the great whore of Revelations rides into town on her red donkey! We once cried out for God to save America but now we cry out, oh God save your people, because our country is already given over to satanic powers of the new age and world order, to the sex crazed drug addicts and the homosexual! But don't think for one moment that God has forgotten his people! The same angel that brought Lot out of Sodom is among us today, coaxing and pleading and leading us out into a higher land. The scriptures say that the 'sun'
(Son) was rising as Lot entered into the city of Zoar. A 'Son' is rising in this day also, with healing in His wings, praise God! Just as in the days of Lot, many are so reluctant to leave the land of Sodom. It seems that the angel almost had to force Lot to leave and Lots wife made her final discussion on her way out; she just could not give up the sordid lifestyle of Sodom!
Today as many are in the valley of decision, both saint and sinner,
it is a time of great change. The world around us grows worse every day that passes by as millions make an ultimate decision, a decision that will change the course of humanity forever! Many who have made it into the kingdom will be cast out when they refuse to make a full commitment to God. Many will fail to overcome the 'besetting sin' the 'sin-in-the member' which is a sin-unto-death. This is the sin which must become crucified 'in the member;! This only is reality!
The apostle said; I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus!
Brother you can't look upon a natural cross of two thousand years ago and 'imagine' it and be crucified; no, one become a partaker of a present cross, which is the spiritual cross which came forth from the natural cross of calvary and is alive and activated , bringing forth in this hour, power over death hell and the grave, Praise God!
The cross of Christ became a spiritual cross which invades my life and brings to death the sin in my members and creates a new man within me, a man of resurrection life in the like manner of Christ Jesus!
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