Your Kingdom? Or not?

Posted : 16 Aug, 2011 01:05 PM

A missionary among Muslims in Africa asked me the other day:



How does a person get to heaven?





I said:



Through FAITH in God Jesus, repentance, and holy life.





He said:



Exactly.





Acts 2:38



Peter replied, �Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.



John 1:11-13: "To all who received Him (Jesus), to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, *NOR OF HUMAN DECISION* or a husband's will,

but BORN OF GOD!"



Ephesians 2:8-10: "For it by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is NOT from *YOURSELVES*, it is the *GIFT* of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.



For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.



Hebrews chapter 10 verses 26-30 says this: If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?



For we know Him (God) who said, �It is mine to avenge; I will repay,� and again, �The Lord will judge (discipline) his people.�



It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.



Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me.



And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,



and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.



His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace,



and His voice as the sound of many waters;



He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.



And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.



But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me,



�Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.



I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.



Amen.



And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.



Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.



Revelation 1:12-20





Who is this Man?



He is the Word of God. He is God. He is the Son of God- Jesus.

He is our judge during the Judgement Day and He is our Advocate. Kiss the Son, lest He become angry for your sins and godless life and you perish!!!!



Psalm 2

The Messiah�s Triumph and Kingdom

1 Why do the nations rage,

And the people plot a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,

3 �Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.�



4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;

The Lord shall hold them in derision.

5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

And distress them in His deep displeasure:

6 �Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.�



7 �I will declare the decree:

The LORD has said to Me,

�You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

8 Ask of Me, and I will give You

The nations for Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

9 You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron;

You shall dash them to pieces like a potter�s vessel.��



10 Now therefore, be wise, O kings;

Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

11 Serve the LORD with fear,

And rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son,[b] lest He[c] be angry,

And you perish in the way,

When His wrath is kindled but a little.

Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.









Isaiah 45

Cyrus, God�s Instrument



1 �Thus says the LORD to His anointed,

To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held�

To subdue nations before him

And loose the armor of kings,

To open before him the double doors,

So that the gates will not be shut:

2 � I will go before you

And make the crooked places straight;

I will break in pieces the gates of bronze

And cut the bars of iron.

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness

And hidden riches of secret places,

That you may know that I, the LORD,

Who call you by your name,

Am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob My servant�s sake,

And Israel My elect,

I have even called you by your name;

I have named you, though you have not known Me.

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;

There is no God besides Me.

I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting

That there is none besides Me.

I am the LORD, and there is no other;

7 I form the light and create darkness,

I make peace and create calamity;

I, the LORD, do all these things.�

8 � Rain down, you heavens, from above,

And let the skies pour down righteousness;

Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,

And let righteousness spring up together.

I, the LORD, have created it.

9 � Woe to him who strives with his Maker!

Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!

Shall the clay say to him who forms it, �What are you making?�

Or shall your handiwork say, �He has no hands�?

10 Woe to him who says to his father, �What are you begetting?�

Or to the woman, �What have you brought forth?��

11 Thus says the LORD,

The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:



� Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons;

And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

12 I have made the earth,

And created man on it.

I�My hands�stretched out the heavens,

And all their host I have commanded.

13 I have raised him up in righteousness,

And I will direct all his ways;

He shall build My city

And let My exiles go free,

Not for price nor reward,�

Says the LORD of hosts.

The LORD, the Only Savior





14 Thus says the LORD:

� The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush

And of the Sabeans, men of stature,

Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;

They shall walk behind you,

They shall come over in chains;

And they shall bow down to you.

They will make supplication to you, saying, �Surely God is in you,

And there is no other;

There isno other God.��

15 Truly You are God, who hide Yourself,

O God of Israel, the Savior!

16 They shall be ashamed

And also disgraced, all of them;

They shall go in confusion together,

Who are makers of idols.

17 But Israel shall be saved by the LORD

With an everlasting salvation;

You shall not be ashamed or disgraced

Forever and ever.

18 For thus says the LORD,

Who created the heavens,

Who is God,

Who formed the earth and made it,

Who has established it,

Who did not create it in vain,

Who formed it to be inhabited:



� I am the LORD, and there is no other.

19 I have not spoken in secret,

In a dark place of the earth;

I did not say to the seed of Jacob,



� Seek Me in vain�;

I, the LORD, speak righteousness,

I declare things that are right.

20 � Assemble yourselves and come;

Draw near together,

You who have escaped from the nations.

They have no knowledge,

Who carry the wood of their carved image,

And pray to a god that cannot save.

21 Tell and bring forth your case;

Yes, let them take counsel together.

Who has declared this from ancient time?

Who has told it from that time?

Have not I, the LORD?

And there is no other God besides Me,

A just God and a Savior;

There is none besides Me.

22 � Look to Me, and be saved,

All you ends of the earth!

For I am God, and there is no other.

23 I have sworn by Myself;

The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,

And shall not return,

That to Me every knee shall bow,

Every tongue shall take an oath.

24 He shall say,

� Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength.

To Him men shall come,

And all shall be ashamed

Who are incensed against Him.

25 In the LORD all the descendants of Israel

Shall be justified, and shall glory.��

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