Are You Called?


by Anthony Smith - Date: 2007-01-02 - Word Count: 1136 Share This!

Are you called by God to enter into His Kingdom? Are you called by God to accept or reject His plan of Salvation? Have you already made up you mind that God doesn't exist or that there is a better way? Are you sure of the way you are going, is the deity or god that you worship, fulfilling your every need, does it guarantee your salvation from sin and safety from everlasting damnation? This world is full of gods many and lords many, but are these gods you serve able to answer prayer or does these gods only offer death and destruction? Does these gods tell you to kill, maim and disembowel all that refuse to believe in it, does it demand you to bow openly and sacrifice your self for it?

Rom 8:22-23; For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Redemption; In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ.(Webster)

There are many passages in the New Testament which represent Christ's sufferings under the idea of a ransom or price, and the result thereby secured is a purchase or redemption (Compare Act_20:28; 1Co_6:19, 1Co_6:20; Gal_3:13; Gal_4:4, Gal_4:5; Eph_1:7; Col_1:14; 1Ti_2:5, 1Ti_2:6; Tit_2:14; Heb_9:12; 1Pe_1:18, 1Pe_1:19; Rev_5:9). The idea running through all these texts, however various their reference, is that of payment made for our redemption. The debt against us is not viewed as simply canceled, but is fully paid. Christ's blood and life.(Easton)

This world has been devouring itself alive, moving to one god then another, growing by leaps and bounds. Not knowing from one day to another what will be ahead. Worldly spirits not desiring the redemption of body or the soul, saying that there is only reward for the obedient and only death for the unbeliever. These gods desire murder for reward, others saying that renewing of the body after death will bring you back a more perfect human being, where you can just start all over again, life after life, death after death with no end. Hypocrites all, false gods and prophets, whose end is death everlasting in fire and smoke, brimstone and terror, a fitting end and well deserved. The penalties of God's violated law, has been added to our charge the minute that we understand right from wrong. We have an obligation to God and Christ, for Jesus paid a dept that He did not owe.

These violated Laws of God are the laws of the sinful spirit of flesh over spirit. Fornication is forsaking of God and or a following after idols, these are the gods of man, stone, rock, all manner of the wild imagination of man. Sitting in the mountains, rejecting all mankind, never helping nor striving to aid mankind in finding the truth. Burrowing their head into the sand believing that all will be well and good, threw their own enlightenment.

I will call them "The Shall Nots". We see the worshiping of rocks and temples made to honor them. Idols made of all manner of stone and iron, being made in the imagery of a man, the worshiping of the cattle of the field and monkeys of the forest, mothers sacrificing their sons for others vanity. Worshiping the creature of the fields and the crawlers of the ground instead of worshiping the Creator of all things. God rejects any man made likeness of Him, He demands worship of Him and not idols. We are not gods to worship, we are the creature that God tell us that we shall worship more than Him. Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Where then is the image of God that we worship? Are there no resemblances of our Father? Yes. Col 1:4-17; Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; (Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Consist To stand together; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection. Hence, to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.(Webster.)

Jesus of Nazareth is the image of the invisible God, Jesus of Jerusalem is the Bearer of the Gospel of God, Jesus the Lion of the Tribe of Juda is the King of all Kings and the Sword of the Lord God Almighty. Not stone or wood, not hiding in the mountains, not in the desert, nor the valley, not in the image of crawlers or walkers of the field, not in the birds that fly nor the fish that swims in the depth of the ocean, but a living Lord, a living Christ that is every where, from everlasting to everlasting. Look at the gods you've made, do they not follow after the will of their creator, do they not serve the best interest of those that demand their worship? Do not be blinded by strange flesh, strange gods and strange commandments.

God's violated law are; For without are dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, lier's, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, covetousness, adultery, and idolatry and all other things that cause unrighteousness.

Rom 8:28 ; And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Jesus stated to all; "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."

Paul stated; "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." Think clearly, are you called? Ars.


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