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JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

JUDAS’ JOURNEY TO HELL

Brothers and sisters, we know that God commands every believer to be fed/taught the word of God without adding to nor taking away from it that our foundation will be permanently established upon Christ our Rock. ANYTHING/PERSON that adds to or takes away from the word of God unrepentantly is cursed and not accepted by God. The righteous will believe and receive correction, but the wicked no matter how long and often they hear the truth will never believe it but resist it. The Word of God is the only spiritual food that can feed/grow the church that is commanded by God to: Act 20:28 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he  hath purchased with his own blood.  God commands that the New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ be taught/understood/interpreted within the whole context of both Old and New Testaments wholly by the Standard of Christ held within the whole framework of the boundaries, principals/doctrines of the New Testament of Jesus Christ:  2Ti 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2Ti 3:17 - That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. This starts with the Gifts, (Eph 4:11-16 - And he gave…)    of the Holy Ghost to the church in the guiding/guarding servant officers/teachers, and aides  throughout the whole church of mature believers with various gifts so that the Word of God like leavening will spread throughout the whole of the congregation over time with the goal that every believer in the unity of the gospel will grow  over time from spiritual babyhood on milk to spiritual maturity on the strong meat of the the Word, be equipped, able to live, share and defend the gospel message, and have the knowledge to do/live God’s will walk in love and protect themselves from false teachers/false doctrines. There is no salvation, no church, no growth, without the gospel. WE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT JESUS. We know that Lord Jesus is loving, kind and merciful. However, we also know that a view of Him as soft, weak, wishy washy, touchy feely warm and fuzzy, loosie goosy understanding and accepting of divergent views/mixes of His gospel is not only wrong it is blasphemous. Although it is eternally true that Lord Jesus is loving, kind, and merciful, again, He adamantly resists the lie or perception of Himself and/or His gospel as loosie goosy come as you are and do as you wish because God knows we are all just helpless sinners, see Rom 6 . Jesus always presents His gospel as absolute, exclusive, explicit, exhaustive, eternal, inerrant, final, finished complete, and unchanging. Jesus never did nor ever will negotiate, compromise, cut a deal, make a bargain, accept excuses, alternatives, mixes, additions, subtractions of His gospel of the New Covenant.  Salvation being forgiven of our sins never meant nor means we can unrepentantly practice any sin see Rom 6. Jesus is the Lamb of God, but let none forget that Jesus is the Lion of Judah, King of kings who fears nothing and no man, He loves and disciplines His church. He will defend His church, He will not turn back from battle until the victory and every adversary bow at His feet. Moses warned about Jesus: Act 3:22 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Act 3:23 - And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.  Those who knowingly/unrepentantly pervert scriptures are not fighting against men they are the enemy fighting against God in vain. God always wins, always. Jesus has given every believer the power of self-control/discipline. Jesus as the Head of the church again, disciplines, purges all those whom He loves so that they can bear good fruit. We know that God never condemns or gets angry with those who make mistakes in interpretation of scriptures out of ignorance, but who gladly receive the correction of truth when they hear. It is anyone who regardless of how often and no matter how long they hear the gospel truth that chooses to resist/continually- reject it that God rightly condemns as wicked persons: Rom 1 20-21; Rom 1:28; Heb 6:4-8; 2Co 11:26; 1Co 5:13.  As we sit together, dearly beloveds at Lord Jesus’ table to eat and drink into Him receiving the spiritual nourishment that only He can provide, we are separated by time, space and distance from one another but joined together in spirit/heart, and mind comforted together in the Holy Ghost who is  always standing by to guide and perfect our understanding of God’s will in His presence lavishing upon us His undying love and truth. Through Lord Jesus we who have believed in His atoning work have full confidence, assurance and peace that He has forgiven us permanently, and made us new creations in Him and priests under Him our High Priest forever:  1Pe 2:5 - Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. All believers are priests in the family of God although all do not hold the same office. It doesn’t matter what race, nation, male, female, rich, poor, healthy, impaired health, all are priests under our Great High Priest Jesus Christ. Dearly beloveds, your priestly prayers and sacrificial love offerings are pleasing and count with God: Rev 8:3-4;  Rev 19:8. I pray that we will be reconciled to God who through Christ Jesus who has finished our work for us under His New Covenant.  Col 2:13 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Col 2:14 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; (Isa 43:25 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Jer 31:34 …saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Psa 103:12 , Mic 7:19 Rom 4:8 - Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Heb 8:12 - For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Eph 1:7 - In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; The forgiveness of our sins through faith in Christ is permanent, finished, and complete: Heb 9:12;  Heb 5:9. Holy brethren, we know that false teachers deliberately in vain pervert the apostle John’s vs 1Jo 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. False teachers use this one verse out of context to pervert the gospel to deceive the gullible to believe that to stay saved, or not lose fellowship with God they must keep a record of every sins and continually confess each of them, so they won’t fall away or lose fellowship with God. This is a dangerous spiritually toxic lie of a doctrine made wrongly out of one verse in scripture that has caused depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations, and suicide in deceived believers including some pastors too. Anyone who comes to Christ already with these conditions are highly likely to have them worsen to crisis or acting out in self-harm. They sincerely want to please God but noting their constant failures not remembering to confess some sin that day or somewhere in the past and/or become overwhelmed by this endless work they become self-loathing/angry having failed to please God over and over again and see themselves as no good, not deserving to live. We know the only the truth can set every believer free: Jhn 8:32. 1 John 1: 9 interpreted correctly within the context of the whole of both Old and New Testaments is that the apostles’ all eyewitnesses of Jesus the Word of God received the gospel directly from Him. John wants us all to know the truth to be absolutely confident and assured that we have permanent fellowship with God, Jesus Christ and one another with full joy when we believe the absolute truth that God is absolute light and there is absolutely no darkness in Him. Therefore, we can be certain that anyone who claims to be in Christ yet walks in darkness- have no evidence of living/doing the will of God but live contrariwise are liars.  However, we can be absolutely certain that all authentic believers will consistently live/do the will of God, and can be absolutely confident and assured that they have fellowship with the Father, Son, and saints (G40 hagios) proof positive that they are walking in the light and the blood of Jesus cleanses them from all unrighteousness, all sins, permanently. Those who claim they’ve never sinned, or were born sinless, are liars, for all have sinned. Again, John assures every believer that: 1Jo 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Rom 10:9-13.

1 John 1 assures us that Christ has finished our work, we are a permanently forgiven people, under the New Covenant. John absolutely defends the New Covenant forgiveness through the atonement of Christ: 1Jo 5:18 - We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. In God we are either Saint or sinner and there is absolutely no mix of the two. There is absolutely not one scripture nor doctrine that teaches the lie that the blood of Jesus is insufficient to save permanently leaving the believer to keep a record of their own sins to keep coming to Jesus and/or God to be forgiven/ saved over and over again per each and every sin.  Brothers and sisters, after salvation, we know how God commands every Christian to live, and that we have been equipped and empowered to live the will of God out of love and trust in Him.  The role and purpose of confession after salvation is clearly laid out in scripture Pl 2:11,  Jas 5:16;  Not in any perverted sense to be forgiven over and over again to stay saved or to stay in fellowship with God, but to serve God and one another. Again, we know that through Christ our salvation is permanent and done; Heb 9:12 - Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.   We are all on a journey either to heaven or to hell. We can be certain that Judas’ journey to hell was certified after he heard the gospel many times over the years, and steadfastly refused to believe it.  On the very night Judas the thief showed up to betray Lord Jesus with the chief priests and their sycophants who were thieves too, Judas had the thirty pieces of silver already in hand, when he kissed Jesus on the cheek, referring to Him only as master.  Judas knew Jesus would be put to death and never believed in Him. Judas' fellow disciples and Lord Jesus Christ's message,  meant nothing to Judas. Judas shamelessly watched his shocked/terrified fellow disciples run in fear like roaches caught in the light leaving Jesus alone and revealing himself as the betrayer. Judas was glad that he would live, assured of his financial future with his ill -gotten gain-or so he thought. Some in error might still have a bit of sympathy for the sneaky thief, after all wasn't his fall foretold before he was born predestinating his terrible end?  Love and truth forever, serola