![]() ![]() Boy! Shakespeare couldn’t have done better! She had eyes like stars. A fellow in our churchįell in love with my sister. Some of you ladies remember the first one you got. You know why? Because it is a love letter. That covers a lot of territory, doesn’t it? The King James version, says "Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." I believe that’s the territory in which he lived, and moved, and had his being. If you turn over to chapter 4 verse 6, this explains his life, I think. The thing that gripped me as I read it this week, Christ may be magnified,īut, he says, that Christ might be magnified IN MY BODY. (or as some put it by my body), whether it be by life, or by death." ".as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body Now I’ve come to this conclusion reading recently our verse in Phillipians, that the motivation of the apostle in his zigzag course - in prison, out of prison, in weariness, in fastings, in painfulness, in tribulations, in distress, in perils of his countrymen, in perils of the deep, in perils of robbers - the one thing that motivated him is here in this 20th verse: I thought that 14th verse, "For the love of Christ constraineth me," was the motivation, with the obligation to present Christ in all his majesty and glory. Then verse 14 expresses what I always considered to be the thing that really motivated him. "All roads lead to the judgment seat." Without exception. ![]() "All roads lead to the judgment seat." It’s true. We must all appear at the judgment seat of Christ.ĭear Keith Green said one day in my office, as we were talking about the roads,.Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men.If we are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord.I used to think that in the second letter to the Corinthians, chapter 5, Paul gives a summary of his theology. I believe this message will be especially helpful to anyone that has ever doubted their salvation or anyone that wishes to be wise enough to do a self-examination before they stand before the Lord.Phillipians 1:20, "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body." During a sermon one night he spoke of having traveled all over the United States preaching, and that he estimated that only 5% of the people sitting in churches in America are truly born again, saved, and going to heaven when Christ comes back. Ravenhill was a fiery and passionate preacher of the true word of God. Tozer's best friend, was one of God's true prophets from England. Unless something changes, that means the majority of people that think they are "saved" are going to be in for a complete shock at the Judgment Seat of Christ. I believe the majority of "Christians" sitting in church today have a relationship with "Christianity", NOT with Jesus Christ. We are called to examine ourselves and to test ourselves to see if the Spirit of Christ is really in us (2 Cor 13:5). I am so blessed by these wise people who are taking a pause to ask this question. I have been receiving more and more emails from people who desperately want to know how can they know for sure if they are REALLY born again REALLY saved. ![]()
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