Who Decides?

Mark 7:29
Then he told her, "For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter."

Who decides who stays and who goes, in the end? It's the Lord Jesus Christ who decides. It is He who decides whether a demon should stay or leave a person. It is He who decides, if one should be freed from the power of sinful nature of the Devil or not. When you come to Him, it is He who knows whether you should be freed or not. He knows what you come for! You cannot hide your true intentions from Him.  He knows the motives of the heart, if it is bad or good. You can fool man who is as sinful as you, but you cannot fool the Lord Jesus Christ. You may claim that you belong to Him, but what if He turns around and tell you now that, He does not know you. What would you do? You may claim that you came to Him with a good intention in your heart, but He says, no, "I do not know you, away from me you evildoer". You see, He knows that even though you went around claiming that you have come to Christ, He says, you kept doing evil. You continued being an evildoer, in every sense of that word. You may say, "well, I am your child, you know" but if you were His child, you would have stopped obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you but you didn't. You think that He doesn't know your true intentions and motives of the heart, He does!

The Lord Jesus Christ broke the truth about belonging to a 'special race' in the passage where the verse above was taken from. Very frankly, without hiding the the truth about how the 'special race' viewed her. He compared this woman to a dog, while he referred to this 'special race' as children. That's how they viewed it, even though they don't say it openly. Here, the Lord Jesus Christ says it openly, to see what she has to reply to this statement of His. He waited for her reply. Her reply would make the difference to Him. She wasn't from this 'special race', He knew it. She replied without being offended by what He had referred her to. She gave a humble reply though. Her reply showed brokenness of heart. She replied saying, she was truly in need of God's mercy. You see, God created human beings as as well as, dogs. So, show me your mercy as you would show to a dog, it's alright she said. That was enough for her, she said. She was truly seeking the mercies of God. We need His mercies. We live by His mercies. We survive by his mercies alone. You see, it is better to be a dog and have God's mercies on you than be a human being who has not His mercies over his or her life. That's what the woman who wasn't from the 'special race' had to say to Him. He said to her, "for such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter" The reply from her made the difference. She did not bother about what race she had come from. She looked up to her Creator and now in this case as her Healer. It's God who created the dog, too! The Lord Jesus Christ could have just left that demon to torment her daughter, but He didn't! He told her, you can go now, the demon has left your daughter. He need not go over to her house to chase away that demon? No! He just said that the demon won't be there in her daughter, when she gets home. How did He do that? Who decides that the demon should be cast out or left in there to torment the young and innocent girl? It's the Lord Jesus Christ who decides who becomes the objects of God's mercies or wrath. and no one else can do that. He listens to the Father in prayer. It is He who decides who should be there or not there! All authority on Earth, underneath the Earth and in heaven was given to the Lord Jesus Christ by the Father in heaven. He decides the outcome of everything on Earth. Many of us do not know this truth. Try opposing this truth, and you will know it, sooner. Pharaoh opposed this truth in the Old Testament, not knowing it was Christ our Lord He was opposing. As an object of God's wrath, prepared for eternal destruction, Pharaoh could only see Moses as the Deliverer here. The actual Deliverer there was Jesus Christ our Lord Himself. Moses was only a type of Christ in that situation. He represented Christ our Lord to Pharaoh. Pharaoh was blind to this truth.

Romans 9:22-24
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory--even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Christ Lives in Me

Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

You see, it's a very personal faith in the Son of God. It's personal because there is something He did for me. He gave Himself for me. Who was I, when He gave Himself for me? I was a sinner, ignorantly a chief of it actually! We became sinners ignorantly. We are still ignorant of who Christ is, if we obey the sinful nature of the Devil in us. But now, I too have paid the price for being ignorant of God's love. That's the greatest sin of mankind, being ignorant of God's love. God's love is very different from what we know without knowing Christ. Once we come to know Christ our Lord, we become crucified with Him. We have crucified the sinful nature of the Devil in us. We longer return to please the sinful nature of the Devil in us. If we still do, then we haven't been crucified with Christ. Being "crucified with Christ" means we consciously have chosen to crucify the sinful nature of the Devil in us, to put it to death. We know that we cannot do that with our own abilities or strength. God the Holy Spirit helps us with that daily. That's what living by faith in the Son of God means. I live by the Spirit of God in me, whom Christ and the Father in heaven had sent after Christ had finished His work on Earth and ascended to the right hand of God the Father through His mighty resurrection from the dead. Even though Christ is physically at God the Father's right hand now, He had sent His Spirit to live in me because I believe He loved me and gave Himself for me on the cruel cross at Calvary. He gave Himself for me through His death on that cruel cross because that's how cruel I am going to be to the sinful nature of the Devil in me. With the help of God the Holy Spirit in me now, I am going to put it to death. In this way, i longer live obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in me but Christ lives in me. Christ my Lord lives in me through His Spirit in me. I am full of Christ because I am full of His Spirit now. This is how my life is in the body now. My body has become the temple of God the Holy Spirit fully when Christ is fully formed in me  Therefore, Christ lives in me now, when His divine nature is formed in me. He lives in me through Christformation. God the Holy Spirit helps to transform my sinful mind into the mind of Christ according to the proportion of Christformation in my born again spirit. My imperishable body at God's right hand is on it's way to become the temple of God the Holy Spirit fully. When full Christformation has occurred in me, then I become the fully Christconformed temple of God the Holy Spirit. God's work has been completed in me. For now, I live by faith in the son of God to see this happen fully in me. He will not fail me, this I know!

1 Thessalonians 5: 23-24
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

Nothing like Living by the Spirit

Galatians 5:16-18
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.  For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.  But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

The day you came to believe in Jesus Christ to be your Savior and Lord may not be the same day you had started living by the Spirit  of the LORD. Living by the Spirit is your conscious effort not to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You could one day live by the Spirit and on another day be doing just the opposite. It's possible. The war would have started in your inner-self but that may not mean that you had obeyed the leading of the Spirit of the LORD in you, each time the war goes on inside of you. You may not see some of the sins of the sinful nature of the Devil in you as your enemy, even though it has been identified as an enemy of the Spirit of God in you. It may take a while before you realize what is happening inside of you. On the outside, for a show to others, you might have pretended like you have obeyed the leading of the Spirit of the LORD, but inside what happens, only you and the LORD would know. That's your secret life with Him. You would have to answer to Him, one day! No one else in this world would know whether you did obey Christ and everything He had commanded or you chose to obey the urges of the sinful nature of the Devil in you.Only He knows and only He can judge you for that. What you may have shown on the outside may not be what had happened inside of you. God is more concerned about what had happened in the inside of you, but men are more concerned about what you show on the outside of you. God the Holy Spirit knows all things about you and me. We cannot lie to Him. We can lie to man and get away with it, but we cannot lie to God the Holy Spirit who dwells in the inside of us. He will search us inside out. But, there is nothing like living by the Spirit of the Lord in you- to be led by Him at all times. We struggle to do so, but we can win that war. Living by the Spirit is the same as being led by the Shepherd. God the Holy Spirit brings everything Christ had commanded to us. He leads us to full Christformation in us by doing so, when we obey His leading.

Romans 8:13-14
For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,  because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

After 12 Years of Suffering

Mark 5: 34
He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."

The Lord Jesus Christ knows all those who come to Him and the state they were in when they first came.   You have to come to Him through the faith you have in God. You have to be directed to Him by God the Father Himself. You cannot go the Lord Jesus Christ without being led by the will of the Father in Heaven. He draws you to Christ our Lord. You have to come to Him by your faith in God. When you know that there is a God, He will direct you to Christ His only begotten Son. When you go to the Son, you will see the Father in Him. When you go to the Son, He will also introduce you to God the Holy Spirit who will come and dwell in you, when you believe in Him to be your Savior. Savior of what, you may ask?  Savior who frees you from the suffering of living in bondage to the sinful nature of the Devil in you. In the passage where the verse above was taken from, we see a woman suffering from a sickness. This sickness had brought her painful sufferings for twelve years. She was suffering from a womb problem. She embarrassingly had an excessive bleeding problem. She had suffered this sickness for twelve long and painful years, we could see it. She had no choice but to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe, she could not afford to see a physician or she could have been told by the physician that this sickness in her is incurable. It could have been a disease that she could not have been treated with medication. The passage does not specify here. She had no other choice but to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The way she came to Him amazes us. She could not have thought about it unless God had told her so. God the Father could have whispered to her to "go and touch the clothes of my Son" and you will be healed or else how did that thought come into her? It was definitely a rare thought. She acted out of that faith in her. We need faith from God to come to Christ. When this faith comes from God the Father to us, our eyes that has been blinded to the things of God will suddenly be opened. God will open our eyes, ears and understanding. Here, the suffering woman could see the truth appearing before her. She didn't want to miss it! She stretched out her hand and touched the cloak of the Lord Jesus Christ by that new found faith in her. The Lord Jesus Christ knows everyone who comes to Him drawn by the Father in heaven to Him. He didn't touch her, but she touched Him first. That would have needed courage on her part! She did it anyhow! The Lord knew it, even though He was in a pressing crowd, that someone had deliberately touched Him for some purpose. He wanted to know for what purpose, or is it that, He had already known it but wanted her to make known the purpose of her touch. He felt power leaving Him. When she confessed finally, He told her; " Daughter your faith has healed you". You need faith to come to Christ our Lord.You can never come to Him without that faith in you.

"Go in peace", He said to her. You come in faith to Him and He sends you off with the peace of God in you. He is the Prince of Peace. There is no one else who can give you the peace that comes from God. When you sincerely come to Christ our Lord, He becomes your Prince of Peace.  You need that peace of God "that surpasses human understanding", to fill you. Only He can give you that peace with God to fill you. When you are at peace with God, you will be at peace within yourself. When you are at peace within you, you will be at peace with others. Only Christ our Lord can fill you with such peace, for He is the only Prince of Peace, until then you will be at war with God. When you are at war with God, you will only obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You will continue to be at war with God as long as you obey the passions, urges, and evil desires of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. When you are at war with God, you will be at war with yourself. When you are at war with yourself, you will be at war with others around you.Until you come to Christ our Lord, you will be caught in that vicious cycle of life. Like the woman in the verse above, you have to come to Christ when are you drawn by the Father in heaven to Him. Don't resist it! Come to Him now and you will be freed from your suffering of living in bondage to sin, sickness and shame. He will truly free you from the evil bondage to the sinful nature of the Devil in you, that brings sin, sicknesses and shame to you. Do not be afraid of  being ridiculed for your faith in God. Come to Him now and acknowledge your need humbly to Him like the woman in the verse above. Turn away from your bondage to the sinful nature of the Devil in you. You will truly be freed by Him who is your Deliverer!

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

You Will Be Trapped in Your Own Sins

James 1: 15
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

You will be trapped in your own sins, if you stubbornly continue in committing these sins. You should turn away from them now. Don't persist in them. Don't insist on sinning. Sin and more sins will not help you but destroy you in the end. The sinful nature of the Devil in you is self-destructive, meaning, if practiced, it will destroy the practitioner. You can never deploy the sinful nature of the Devil in you for victory. It will be a sure defeat, in the end. If you promote the use of the sinful nature of the Devil in you, it will back-fire on you someday. If you find yourself deeper into committing sins, then you have become a slave of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Your are only serving in your bondage to that evil nature within you. Probably, you will never be freed from its evil grips, as one sin leads to another. You keep on maturing the wrong way by obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Its a sure pathway to destruction. You will mature into eternal death by your own choice and actions. It's just like any fruit tree that keeps growing into a large one but without any good fruit on it.  What will happen to this  tree and it's branches in particular? Instead of seeing the good fruit of the divine nature of Christ formed in their born again spirits, you could only find the bad fruit of the sinful nature of the Devil maturing in them. They become even worse than those who do not know Christ our Lord or His words. What does it show here? These branches were actually on the bad tree and not the good tree. No wonder you could not find the good fruit of the divine nature of Christ to be formed in them. You could only find the maturing of the sinful nature of the Devil in them. They never remained in Christ. "Remain" here means "obey Christ". They never obeyed Christ or everything He has commanded. What will happen to them eventually?

John 15: 6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

The Plagues are Coming

Revelation 15:7-8
Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Every plague comes directly from God. It cannot be man's doing. Man can do nothing when God interferes. They can only stand and watch and be amazed by the sweeping power of the LORD. He sweeps everything clean- all the pride, arrogance, greed, covetousness, envy, jealousy, strife, factions, divisions, stubbornness, rebelliousness, violence, brutality, slander, lust, evil-intentions, evil-schemes, evil-plotting, evil-plans, evil-manipulations, stealing, robbing, threatening, cheating, lying and all other evil-business dealings He will sweep them clean. If it is not cleaned up on the first round, there will be more rounds until it is all cleaned up completely. " No one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed". Plagues clean up all the evil on Earth. It will wash away everything that sticks up it's head and it's tail with pride. Look who is giving the seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God to the ever-ready seven angels? It's one of the four living creatures in the presence of the LORD. How do they know all the evil that's happening on this Earth, even though they were always found in the presence of the LORD? What is this telling us? Who are these four living creatures? Why were they in God's presence? How did they know what was happening on Earth in detail? They were very close to the Lord Jesus Christ. They obeyed Him. The Lord Jesus Christ was enthroned in their praises and prayer. They played a very important role in heaven, as well as on Earth. Remember the familiar prayer line, "your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven"

Revelation 4:7-11
The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE Lord GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME." Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,  the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:  "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."?

Do Not Pray For These People

Jeremiah 7:16
"So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you.

Do not take the LORD for granted and yet expect Him to hear your prayer. If you are no different from those who practice witchcraft, sorcery, divination, spiritism and all other related evil practices like idolatry, then you have arrogantly declared enmity with the LORD. We do not have to pray against such people, but just stop praying for them to the LORD and that will suffice. When you do not pray for such people, these rebellious and stubborn ones, they will get into trouble with the LORD along the way. God gave a command to Jeremiah the prophet of the LORD, telling him not to waste his time praying for those people who stubbornly kept obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them. They had refused to take counsel from the LORD that came through His prophets. They were stubborn and rebellious towards the LORD in all their ways. They became evil in all their pursuits.They refused to change their ways. They kept on doing those things that the LORD had warned them about.  There always comes a time when the LORD will command His prophets to stop their warnings, praying or interceding for the people. He will say to them that, all that the people are doing, seems as an abomination to Him. He will pursue with His actions on them. Their prayer or singing and praises will become a pain in His eardrums. He will tell them to stop all that play-acting before He strikes them with plagues and punishment, sometimes even by raising up enemies to destroy them. All these because they have been stubborn and rebellious  towards the LORD. They refused to turn from their evil ways. They showed no fear of the LORD. It's an ongoing thing! They misuse and abuse His name!

Amos 8:10
I will turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Obedience to The LORD

Luke 8: 19-21
Now Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd.  Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you."  He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice."

Obedience to The LORD is the most integral part of you towards your Christformation. If you do not obey Him personally, there will be no Christformation in you. Obedience to all that Christ our Lord had commanded is more important than anything else in this world. You may do 'lip-service' to people around you, just to please their wishes but you cannot do the same to the LORD. When someone wants to see you disobeying The LORD, you should choose to obey Christ and everything He has commanded and not them or their foolish wants, no matter who they are or claim to be in this world. If you do just 'lip-service' to the LORD, there won't be any Christformation in you in the end. You can go on fooling man and get away with it, but you can never fool the LORD, your God. It's you who will be in the losing end, if you try to fool your LORD God. Remember, God the Holy Spirit who dwells in you knows it when you try to fool God. You can never fool God. It's easier to fool man because they are as sinful as you but not God. He is holy and righteous. He is just and fair to everyone. He knows everything that takes place on this Earth. You may think that He doesn't but He does. You may ask, why then does evil go on. Evil goes on this Earth because evil men and women prefer to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in them than obey everything Christ had commanded. Obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them gives them all the evil pleasures,lust, evil passions and desires. These eventually would destroy them and they do not know it. They continue in these pleasures to their eventual destruction.

Many of us are confused with the marked differences of having to love, honor and obey. We love God and love men, we honor our parents, but we obey The LORD. When these three are mixed-up, we have what we see today.  People mistake honor for obedience and love for honor. The only two that go along is love and obey. We must love and obey The LORD. We must love our fellow man at the same time, but not necessarily obey them, especially if they are still obeying the sinful nature of the Devil themselves. What happens when we obey such men and women? We will start disobeying The LORD and that's very dangerous for our relationship with the LORD. Never disobey The LORD at any costs, even if it means having to lose relationships of people who choose to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in them, instead of obeying The LORD and everything Christ had commanded. "Carrying the cross" means painfully having to hate the sinful nature of the Devil in you and others, no matter who they are to you. If they choose to keep on obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them even after many warnings, no matter who they are to you, keep away from them. If you mingle with them, you will start disobeying The LORD by obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you too!"My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice". We should keep echoing what the Lord Jesus Christ said about this till the end and not give in to anyone who keeps displeasing Him. They may demand their way with you, but you should order them strictly to go away from you until they start obeying everything Christ had commanded. It's about obedience to The LORD. Don't give what is sacred to dogs. They won't know how to appreciate it. Don't  throw pearls to swine. They won't know the difference! Don't give to dogs and swines. Just ignore them!

Yes, you are terribly right! If you know that you should keep away from somebody who is in the habit of obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them and you deliberately don't, you actually are sinning against The LORD.You should keep away from such men and women.That's the best thing you could do to them, to make them realize what they have been continually doing, even now, without any repentance or remorse of their transgressions against the LORD. You see, the sinful nature of the Devil in us is our greatest enemy within and if we do not fight it and win, how can we be a disciple of Jesus Christ our Lord? You may have overcome the sinful nature of the Devil in you or be in pursuit of defeating it completely, but the Devil may stir the sinful nature of someone else in your family to disrupt your victory. What do you do? Just because they are your loved family members, do you give in and admit defeat to the Devil? No, you shouldn't! You should fight it, too. That's when this word "hate" comes in. You cannot give in to them! You have to "hate" the sinful nature of the Devil in you or in others at all costs, with the same 'fierce fire' in you and win the battle triumphantly like how the Lord Jesus Christ did. He did not sin at all, even at His death on the cross. That's why the cross is a symbol of His power to overcome the sinful nature of the Devil in you.

Luke 14:26-27
 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Impostors

2 Timothy 3:12-13
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,  while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Don't just sit there quietly, being easily deceived by these impostors. Rise up and give them 'hell'.They deserve 'hell'. They create hell for others, but demand 'respect' for themselves. Give them your boot on their faces. That's what they deserve now. There are many of them out there, like tadpoles and they breed very quickly. One gives birth to many. These are very evil and wicked men and women. These are masters of evil. They invent evil and wickedness. They run 'factories' that produces impostors. First, they are deceived by their 'seniors' and then they start deceiving others while graduating as impostors themselves, an exact replica of those that they were trained under. What were they trained in? They were trained to be professional impostors. They wear 'robes' cheating the innocent. Some wear 'coats' cheating like successful businessmen. They are actually very successful cheats, conman and woman. Real bunch of stupid people who sit there cheating each other. Cheating is in their genes. In their private lives, they practice all that the Lord had commanded them not to do. They are experts in greed, experts in cheating, experts in lying and deceiving everyone. They twist and turn the word of God to distort it out of shape and yet there are fools sitting there listening to them. What kind of numskulls are they? They will appear educated, but when they start speaking you'd feel like why these lowly beings are given a chance to speak at all. They each have all the qualifications of a conman or woman written all over their behavior and lifestyles they lead. Somehow, they get their 'titles' from the outside and use it to show it off inside. These are very corrupted attention seekers. If you don't show them the 'respect' they demand from you, they will ostracize you from their company. Normally, I'd give them my dirty 'boots' on their faces and leave. When are you innocent people going to do this? Do it now! They teach others to do these, so why don't you give them back their own 'bitter pill'. They would need this now! Just do it! Don't worry! They would claim that they are 'powerful' in prayer. Don't believe them! God does not hear their all their prayers anymore. It's all been tested! They failed the test too many times. God doesn't hear them anymore! These are very very dangerous conman and woman disguising themselves to be your servants. Be ware and get out of their company quickly. They do not hesitate to use and abuse God's name to their own interests. They peddle the word of God to their own whims and fancies to earn more money and prestige for themselves. like as though they are serving you.They portray themselves as very 'smart' people in public but they are not smart! They are the most stupid group of people we have ever come across in our lives. Watch their ways carefully, and you will notice it. They bravely blame others for all the mistakes they actually commit. They cover-up their evil deeds by accusing others of the same thing. These are very crooked beings, raised up with real crooked backgrounds and upbringing. Incorrigible and self-condemned lot! 

2 Corinthians 6:8-10
Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders  nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Oppressor

James 5:1-6
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.  Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.  Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.

Oppressors are responsible for the whole situation. We would put the whole blame on the oppressors and not anyone else. We are in this situation because of these oppressors. Each of them would have to give an account of what they have done to the Lord Almighty. He rules the heavens and the Earth. He who hears the worship and the cries of the people. The "rich people" mentioned in the verse above are rich oppressors. The following verses tells us how they became "rich oppressors". Hoarding wealth is a great sin as mentioned here. Failure to pay wages is another. Why did they do all these? Firstly, they have no fear of God. Secondly, the very reason they wanted to be rich was to live in luxury and self indulgence. Now the situation is, the oppressors of the poor have fattened themselves. They don't know that the "day of slaughter" has come. What is the day of slaughter? The "day of slaughter" is the day of God's vengeance? Why did the need for the day of slaughter arise? God is a just God. He watches everything that happens on Earth. He hears the cries of those being oppressed. Remember, His people's cries in Egypt. He heard them. He sent for a deliverer of His people. The "day of slaughter" has now become  necessary because these rich oppressors have begun to take the laws into their own hands. They start condemning men and women, murdering them as they wished even though these people were not opposing them but they were just asking for what is due to them. For this honest plea, they resort to merciless oppression,  murders and destroying innocent lives. They only had asked for what was due to them. In doing all these, you clearly have shown that you do not fear God at all. Now is God's time to be merciless to you. You have been bullying God's people all these years. Now is God's turn to bully you. 

You may not have heard of how it is when God returns the bully. Let us warn you of the ten plagues He brought on Egypt. He is a very patient God, very long-suffering at that. He gave ample of warnings through Moses, His prophet, to be very fair with the oppressor, but Pharaoh, the king of Egypt took no heed. He was stubborn. Well, the Bible tells us that Pharaoh was stubborn for a reason because he was meant to be an object of God's wrath. God knew in the end that He would have no other choice but to unleash His wrath on Pharaoh and all his evil men. He did just that. What about today? Do you think God will unleash such wrath to oppressors of His poor and innocent people on Earth? Do you know that He is watching everything that happens on Earth, the same way like He did 6000 years ago? Do you also know that He does not change or shift in his nature? Unlike men, when we read the book of 1 and 2 Kings in the Old Testament, we notice that each king that that took over Israel or Judah to rule, changed in  their way of rule. Some were just, others were evil. Some feared God, many didn't. We learnt of the consequences of their rule, whether it be just or evil. God is a fair God. He treats everyone with fairness, no matter who you claim to be or 'wear' on the "outside" to show your authority. He is also the God who created the "inside", and you must fear that and give the due reverence to Him. Look at the fore-warning  given below by the Lord Jesus Christ. It's for the New Testament times and that means for now, these times before He returns to Earth to judge everyone justly.

Luke 11:39-41
Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.  You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?  But give what is inside [the dish] to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.

"Give what is inside of the dish to the poor", what "dish" was He talking about here in this passage? Was He talking about the 'beggars dish' here? No! He was warning you about your "dish" that is inside of you. What was that dish and what was in it, how do you give that to the poor? You see, you are not clean before Him until you do this. in fact, when you do this, you will be perfectly clean. What is "this" in the "dish"? Have you ever asked yourself this question or, have you turned around and asked Him who gave out this commandment? Did you bother asking Him what did He mean by that? You were not bothered, right? Now, you are about to face the consequences of your own carelessness! You didn't care as long as you were happy, right? Are you really happy now? Who is on the losing end? Your heart was only the money, right? You forgot that there is a just and righteous God watching you, right? If you did, then how come there are so many people around you who feel oppressed? What have you been doing all this while? Living in luxury and in self-indulgence? Is that what God told you do? You keep telling others that's what God wants. Truly, is that what God wants? Did you ask Him about this? Did He tell you to carry on with what you have been doing thus far? We don't think so! Are you clean inside? How do you give and become clean? If you give from the sinful nature of the Devil in you, you are still unclean before Him. No wonder, you are still full of greed and wickedness inside? Give with obedience to Christ and everything He had commanded and then only the divine nature of Christ will be formed in you. When the divine nature of Christ is formed in you, greed and every wickedness that was mentioned above about the way you treat others would have been put to death with the help of God the Holy Spirit who dwells in you. You see, what is inside that dish? Is it still the sinful nature of the Devil in you or the divine nature of Christ? If you have been giving out of the sinful nature of the Devil in you, then don't boast. It will all be in vain, because you will mature with greed and every wickedness related to this and you will be destroyed in the end too. Remember, the sinful nature in you is self-destructive by it's evil nature. It will eat you up eventually. Can't you see what's written in the verses above? "Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.  Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire". What "fire"? Fire from the Lake of Fire! Isn't all that you have done in vain in the end? Wake up!

Luke 12:15-21
Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."  And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop.  He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.'  "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." ' "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself ?'  "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

You can only be rich toward God when the divine nature of Christ formed in you. You can never be rich toward God with the sinful nature of the Devil still found in you. Let us warn you with this. Don't unnecessarily fall into God's hand of judgment! No one knows what will happen to anyone at any time. You should never lead a selfish life, even if you find everyone on your street doing just that. You should be different. You can only be different when Christ's divine nature is formed in you. This involves obedience to everything Christ had commanded. Do you know that oppressors do not have the divine nature of Christ formed in them, even if they were to claim that they belong to Christ? How can they oppress the poor and yet believe in Christ? Sheer nonsense! These oppressors live in mansions and bungalows in maximum comfort. Just take a drive along any of the housing estates, you'd find these large houses with large luxury and expensive cars parked in front of their houses. They have all the comfort they want. But for a change, just take a walk into all the slums nearby and you'd be able to see the vast difference. How is it so?  To whom do these mansions and bungalows belong to? Check the records. How come there are very, very poor people living around the rich oppressors? Where has the conscience of the rich oppressors gone to? Are their consciences dead? This is not what the Lord Jesus Christ meant. He meant, you were not suppose to have plenty of good things laid up for many years. you are not suppose to take life easy, eat, drink and be merry. He never did those things while He was on Earth. His life did not consists of the abundance of his possessions. He did not amass wealth or store up things for himself. Where did you get this false teaching from? The disciples or the apostles (minus off Judas Iscariot) did not do these things. Where did you get this idea from? Definitely from the sinful nature of the Devil in you. How was it stirred up in you? Someone who still worships idols (Money as their god) must have taught you this. They must have convinced you that it is alright to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you, in order to amass wealth. We must rise up against these oppressors who go around representing the sinful nature of the Devil! The poor of the Lord must rise up against them. Even the only tiny two or three-roomed flat or apartment of the poor bought through hard labor and savings are taken away so easily, even when their reasons are legitimate like illness or sicknesses. They are so merciless to take it away from them, leaving them with nothing to live on. This is not fair!  Now, God should be merciless to them. Now is God's time for vengeance against these oppressors. He ask us these questions. Are you willing to respond? You should take back from them what has been stolen from you. He asks you these questions now......are you willing to respond to Him with courage?

Psalms 94:16
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

Unfaithful

Ezra 9:1-2
After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites,Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness."

It's God's confrontation hour at hand! He has been quietly waiting for these dreadful times to come. The testing period is over and now enters the decision time. God has prepared the days ahead for the unfaithful. They who have dared to corrupt His word with worldliness. They who have dared to mingle worldliness with the teachings of Christ. Who is actually responsible for this? You claimed yourself to be a leader, so be ready for what's coming your way. You claimed yourself to be a priest, be ready! You have led the way into this unfaithfulness. You must pay the price for your gross wickedness. You thought that God didn't mind this, but He does! You have been found unfaithful in his sight. You cannot hide anymore. You cannot run anywhere and hide now. Your sins against the LORD will be found out. You have dared to corrupt the way of Christ our Lord with the ways of the world and yet not admit it. You have turned many away to your idol called 'Money' instead. You have become grossly stubborn and rebellious towards the LORD and used His name in vain. You try to justify your actions by saying that what you have done, you were given authority to do so. Who gave you that authority to mingle God's written word with the world? You must answer that question now? Your pay back time has drawn nigh! You will not get away with this gross unfaithfulness. You have been committing this unfaithfulness for a very long. long time now. You never feared God when you did this. You continue in them till this day, even after being warned against it. You show no fear of God. You have begun to assume that you are God.  Therefore, your end has finally come. Your total destruction is at hand. It's coming from God Himself, who sits on the throne and rules the Earth.

2 Corinthians 6: 14-18
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."  "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."  "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,says the Lord Almighty."

Busybodies

2 Thessalonians 3:11
We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

Many profess the name of Christ, but the only work they do is to be busybodies. They are busybodies seeking to know how the neighbor behaves, but they forget their own behavior is offending others. We thought that single and young widows are warned to be careful about being busybodies, but there are many more men who are busybodies today. They have taken over the single and young widows. Maybe, they have mistaken of being a busybody to be busy. They are not busy, but they are busybodies and yet they do not know what they are doing. There is too much idling, so they have become busybodies. They have taken over the female role of being a busybody. They fret, feel jealous, threatened, envious, insecure and so forth, so they resort to being nosy and a busybody. It makes you want to puke badly when you see men behaving like women and become busybodies. This they do in the name of serving Christ. Well, they think they are smarter, we don't think so! The verse below spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ as a prophecy. This is what busybodies did to Him. But, weren't they all put to shame in the end, when He showed God's power by being raised from the dead?

Psalms 41:6
Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad.

Evildoer

Luke 13:24-30
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.  Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.' "But he will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'  "Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'  "But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'  "There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."

You won't know you are an evildoer until you search your inner self. Many do not search their inner selves to see, if they still keep obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them. Many choose to live very careless lives when it comes to things hidden in them. They choose to just continue living in them carelessly. When the real time comes for the "owner of the house" to close the door to that house and you are shut out from it, you will come pleading! Take special note; it's the "owner" of the house who decides who is "in" and who is "out" of that house. He had kept it opened for a long time now. Do you also realize that it is not enough to just attend and mingle around, have fun together and just "hear" the teachings? There is much more to than just be there where these things are taking place. They fought back with all their rights saying; 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'. What they meant was they were there, taking part in all that they did together, so why did the "owner of the house" still not know or recognize them. You were there right where all these things were done and enjoyed the food,fellowship and the teachings, but you continued being an evildoer. An evildoer is one who continually keeps  obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in him or her. He matures doing evil with obeying that evil nature.You liked to be present where these things took place but at the same time, not give up your evil ways. You kept being an evil doer! That's why the "owner of the house" said, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'

It's very important that you put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you now, before it's too late. The warning is repeatedly being sounded here. Do you heed His call? If you do, good! If you don't, then be ready for what's coming for you, no matter who you are on this Earth. It won't make any difference to the "owner of the house" who you are here. If you can hear it, act now before it's too late. Don't take His words too lightly. Abraham. Issac and Jacob and all the rest who were in that house already didn't take God's word lightly, so why must you? You must take God's word to you seriously and obey it. You must obey everything Christ had commanded. Don't give excuses for not obeying Him. Don't give excuses that you were not given strict warning about disobeying everything Christ had commanded. The warnings have been repeated here too many times, but it fell on deaf ears each time. Maybe, you didn't want to obey Christ and everything He had commanded. That is your own stubbornness and rebelliousness towards the "owner of the house" Probably you thought that you couldn't see the "owner of the house" so you could do things as you wished. No, what's the point of those teachings, if you don't make every effort  to obey it? "Walking through that narrow door" is obeying Christ and everything He had commanded. Obeying Christ our Lord instead of obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in you is the hardest thing to do on Earth. The struggle and the battle is always there but we have been assigned a very close helper. He dwells in you. Do you obey His leading? He will lead you towards full Christformation in you, Why won't you rather obey Him, instead of choosing to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in you? If you obey the leading of God the Holy Spirit in you, the divine nature of Christ will be formed in you. When the divine nature of Christ is formed in you, then the "owner of the house" will recognize you. Until then, He would not know who you are or recognize you, if you still have the sinful nature of the Devil in you. Didn't Christ our Lord tell you to overcome it by listening to Him and everything He had commanded?

Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.