Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, April 23, 2023
Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, April 23, 2023
When you take hold of Him, you’re a snapshot from there into eternity, from this time zone into eternity.
And those with the word of God within them, saith the Lord, shall live forever in eternity and be eternal.
With the glorified body that you receive at the time of translation, you are not affected when “the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (2 Peter 3: 10 – 13).
All of heavens gone. The atomic structure of our heavens will just burn up. Now, atomic bomb goes so far and hydrogen, cobalt. It’ll be like a lake of fire around this world by the time in Armageddon when God intervenes, when Jesus intervenes.
But we are dealing now with something that only God can do, really.
Men’s weapons, they are imitations of something God’s got, beyond that.
Various countries now have nuclear weapons. These weapons did not exist a hundred years ago. The fact that this type of weapons now exists tells us that the Lord Jesus is coming soon.
Then we find out that the Lord just takes the earth, it won’t hurt anybody, they have eternal life. He takes the earth, the Bible said, the works therein, burn it up. It becomes new again, a new creation.
And there’s a new heavens, oh, how beautiful. No more sea, then. The millennium has sea still. No more sea, it says. All ground and it’s beautiful on this earth, they have eternal life and the others are with Him in the holy city, another group that’s with Him. It is over with. We have a new heavens and we have a new earth.
Now we are describing: the translation of the church goes first, then the tribulation, the great Armageddon battle, He intervenes or no flesh will be saved and their flesh saved, then they go into the millennium. But in this Scripture, where the elements melt here, it’s at the end of that thousand-year period when He’s going to get rid of Satan and put him in a lake of fire and then He just burns up everything on this earth and where those people are, they are with Him and then they come back.
That holy city is prepared for that translation group.
From the holy city, we will look into His universe and “see beautiful cities and places of such wonder of” His creation. We will see “glorious spiritual colors never seen or beheld by man’s eyes”. We will see “more than trillions” of His creations.
You want to thank the Lord Jesus, the Almighty God, that you will dwell with Him in the holy city, sitting on His throne with Him and ruling His entire Kingdom with Him.
Revelation 3: 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”.
“And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me”.
You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, April 23, 2023
We listened to a sermon titled “Salvation Time, Part Two”,CD # 1001, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
Time and Salvation: When time is used in prayer and faith, it is of eternal value.
When you use your time in prayer with faith, it becomes an eternal value.
Nothing else can become of eternal value as your prayer that is with time, because time one day will vanish and eternity will be here.
And your salvation within you, potentially, eternity.
Now, one of Satan’s best delusions, one of the best he has, besides discouragement that he uses on people, the next best that he’s got is he tells people that you’ve got plenty of time. Go back out in the world, you’ve got plenty of time, seek the Lord later, call upon the Lord later, seek Jesus for salvation later on or the baptism or of your healing, and so forth.
So we find out that Satan is unique in one way. He knows how to use the time element, put it off until later. That does not work.
All through the Scriptures, we find that people put it off until it becomes too late.
Remember the rich fool, left God out of his planning. I have plenty of time. I will do this. I will build that. I will do this. And he left the Lord out, the time element, his time was running out. And the Lord said, “This night, thou fool, thy soul is required”. That’s the end of it, right there. Do you believe that Satan moved on him, caused him to delay? He had delayed too long. His soul was required. (Luke 12: 16 – 21).
Then we find out the rich man and Lazarus. Plenty of time to seek the Lord. Satan said for you are rich, you have plenty of time. He tells the poor the same thing, the worker, the middle class, all of them the same thing. And one day, it was too late. Lazarus was carried away, bosom of Abraham, paradise. The rich man was carried into hades. (Luke 16: 19 – 31).
Satan, moving among the people, among the teenagers today and church goers too, all sit down for a while. You’ve got plenty of time and pretty soon, by using the time element, it seems to me, by watching it, that that time never comes, generally, for them to give their heart to the Lord. It is too late.
Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day of miracles and right now is the time to receive the Holy Spirit.
Although providence moves in our lives, there is a wooing and a calling coming and going from the Holy Spirit to His people.
James 4: 14: “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
Your life is less than a second in God’s eternity time, upon this earth, and it goes very quickly.
Isaiah 40: 8: “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Even He says heaven and earth shall pass away. We’ll have a new heaven and a new earth, but the word of God will endure forever. (Luke 21: 33).
And those with the word of God within them, saith the Lord, shall live forever in eternity and be eternal.
Life is like a vapor. See, time is strange, but it’s created by God.
Don’t delay, come to the Lord Jesus. Today, that delay has caused, what we call, a lukewarmness and kind of a slow growth. But there is coming an urgency of the Holy Spirit and a powerful move of miracles. This time, He will cause, like in the last revival, only it’ll be a quick short work.
In this lifetime, is the time to seek for salvation, for it can do you no good in the hereafter.
You know, you say I have plenty of time for the translation. Yes, but you could be called anytime. It said this night thy soul is required; there was no translation there. It took him just like that.
Some Scientists believe in black holes, wormholes, and dwarf white stars, so forth.
They claim in a black hole the time ceases. They say because gravity is stronger than the speed of light, nothing can escape it. Probably, partly, this is true.
Eternity belongs to God, that’s what they are trying to get into. Eternity, though, belongs to the Lord.
It may go on forever for a long time in there, but in one moment’s time, He can cease it, just like that. There’ll be no time in that hole. It will vanish like a smoke.
Jude 1: 13: “Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
God’s trying to reveal to you now is the time to get in.
In black holes, the atoms are stripped of all space. And as the mass is reduced, and gravity intensifies, to the point that light cannot escape. Time changes to zero, they claim.
Jesus, one time said and they should be cast into outer darkness (Matthew 8: 11 -12).
We know there’s bottomless pits because it describes it in the Book of Revelations. And it cometh out of the bottomless pit during the great tribulation and Armageddon, so forth like that (Revelation 17: 8).
But yet, Jesus and Jude and some of the Scriptures, Peter, are describing some different type places, prison houses. And in their description, Jesus said in the “outer”. That won’t be down.
We don’t know how many places He’s had because He is infinite. Anyway, I never want to find out. Today is the day of salvation.
Men love darkness, rather than light (John 3: 19). Evidently, He’s going to give them some. Men love darkness rather than light, meaning sin and all that.
It’s been said, the lake of fire, it could be the color of fire, but it could be any color. It could be a dark glowing color, be green, blue; we don’t know what kind of fire.
If it has too much of our kind of red fire, then of course, there will be light there. But men love darkness. I believe it will be the kind of gloom glow and different ways that God has. But it’s real.
And, oh, how real heaven is. I don’t think of hell too much because in my heart I don’t want to go there because He has such wonderful things that He has reserved for the people that love Him.
And people say the Lord, He has no mercy. His mercy and His compassion outdoes the judgment that He’ll ever bring.
But right now, His divine love and His salvation is being poured out to those that accept it in their heart.
And if they get into what they call a white dwarf star, that is kind of liquid, that even the gases in there, the gravity is so intense that the gases are liquified and it becomes a boiling lake of fire, is what Scientists call it.
The Bible says where the worm never dieth and the fire never quench, sounds like things they are explaining there (Mark 9: 42 – 48).
Time: One day with the Lord is as a thousand years.
2 Peter 3: 8: “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Psalm 90: 4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”
He lives and can go back in the past, present and future, but He is eternal. Time will never change Him, for He created time.
Christians are potentially walking in eternity by faith promises, although they are trapped in time that God created for this planet.
There are different prisms of time.
This earth, the seed of Adam, this time prism that we have here is for 6,000 years, then Armageddon. And then another one for the millennium, a 1,000. But the translation takes place and those of the earth that give their heart to God, way before that. Then we have what we call the millennium. That makes it 7,000, God’s week.
In that time prism, 7,000 years total before He sits completely and brings down the new heaven, so forth like that.
He can live in the present, the past or the future. He is eternal. He created time, but not eternity. God did not create eternal and He did not create eternity. He is eternity. He is the creator and He cannot be created, saith the Lord. Time is like a second when it’s placed to the Lord.
No matter, no space, then there is no time, not there yet.
But when He creates and matter appears, time starts, but He is still in eternity.
Today is the day of salvation, saith the Lord.
Now, with Him, a day is, it’s a thousand years if He wants it that way, or one thousand years is, go by Him, one day to Him.
He sees the future millions of years to wherever He creates again for that He is eternal.
He alone is eternal always; time makes no change in the Lord of Host.
Don’t put off salvation for this is your time.
It’s like the flower that fadeth away.
God gives you a lot of time to worship Him, to serve Him and to believe Him. It’s like the sun. It comes up and it is gone. It’s a reality. God is great.
2 Peter 3: 10: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
Now, the day of the Lord is not the translation. That is a secret. That comes, the first fruits, the harvest, the elect, they are translated, Chapter 4, through the door, at the rainbow. He sits on the throne.
But the day of the Lord is at the end of the battle of Armageddon. And then again at the end of the millennium when Satan is sealed back into the pit again after being released for a little season.
All of heavens gone. The atomic structure of our heavens will just burn up. Now, atomic bomb goes so far and hydrogen, cobalt. It’ll be like a lake of fire around this world by the time in Armageddon when God intervenes, when Jesus intervenes.
But we are dealing now with something that only God can do, really.
Men’s weapons, they are imitations of something God’s got, beyond that.
This does not happen at Armageddon because He intervenes or no flesh will be saved.
After the white throne judgment, at that time, then eternal life is done being, whoever is going to receive, whatever is left, has occurred.
Then we find out that the Lord just takes the earth, it won’t hurt anybody, they have eternal life. He takes the earth, the Bible said, the works therein, burn it up. It becomes new again, a new creation.
He looks in the heavens and the heavens shall melt and pass away with a great noise.
We’ll have a new heavens and a new earth. Read chapter 21 of Revelations, it says the same thing.
Then we look and see that holy city in there, setting in there. How beautiful it is.
Now we are describing: the translation of the church goes first, then the tribulation, the great Armageddon battle, He intervenes or no flesh will be saved and their flesh saved, then they go into the millennium. But in this Scripture, where the elements melt here, it’s at the end of that thousand-year period when He’s going to get rid of Satan and put him in a lake of fire and then He just burns up everything on this earth and where those people are, they are with Him and then they come back.
But the bride is always, the elect is, with the Lord Jesus in the holy city. But there will be, the meek shall inherit the earth.
And there’s a new heavens, oh, how beautiful. No more sea, then. The millennium has sea still. No more sea, it says. All ground and it’s beautiful on this earth, they have eternal life and the others are with Him in the holy city, another group that’s with Him. It is over with. We have a new heavens and we have a new earth.
Today is the day of salvation. We don’t need to go where the rich fool went and where the rich man went.
That holy city is prepared for that translation group.
Salvation is a gift. You accept it and you accept the salvation of the Lord Jesus. Jesus is the only door. It’s the only name that you need. It’s the Lord Jesus. He made it very simple. One name you go to, the Lord Jesus Christ. When you take hold of Him, you’re a snapshot from there into eternity, from this time zone into eternity.
For He created time, and soon, in Revelation 10, the Angel come down in a messenger, and said, soon time shall be no longer. Glory, it’s running out. We blend into eternity.
Today is the day of salvation. Satan says put it off, boys, drink and be merry and have a lot of fun. The Lord says now is the time. All through the Bible, there’s an urgency of the Holy Spirit.
When that superstructure begins to melt, I want to have a glorified body. You walk around an atomic bomb, it couldn’t do nothing to you. When you are changed into a glorified body, it’s eternal then and it’s wonderful.
I started the sermon:
2 Peter 3: 10 – 13: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
Revelation 20: 1 – 3: “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
Revelation 20: 7 – 15: “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, God and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
But the day of the Lord is at the end of the battle of Armageddon. And then again at the end of the millennium when Satan is sealed back into the pit again after being released for a little season.
This does not happen at Armageddon because He intervenes or no flesh will be saved.
He looks in the heavens and the heavens shall melt and pass away with a great noise.
Now we are describing: the translation of the church goes first, then the tribulation, the great Armageddon battle, He intervenes or no flesh will be saved and their flesh saved, then they go into the millennium. But in this Scripture, where the elements melt here, it’s at the end of that thousand-year period when He’s going to get rid of Satan and put him in a lake of fire and then He just burns up everything on this earth and where those people are, they are with Him and then they come back.
We’ll have a new heavens and a new earth. Read chapter 21 of Revelations, it says the same thing.
Then we look and see that holy city in there, setting in there. How beautiful it is.
Revelation 21: 1 – 3: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
And there’s a new heavens, oh, how beautiful. No more sea, then. The millennium has sea still. No more sea, it says. All ground and it’s beautiful on this earth, they have eternal life and the others are with Him in the holy city, another group that’s with Him. It is over with. We have a new heavens and we have a new earth.
But the bride is always, the elect is, with the Lord Jesus in the holy city. But there will be, the meek shall inherit the earth.
All of heavens gone. The atomic structure of our heavens will just burn up. Now, atomic bomb goes so far and hydrogen, cobalt. It’ll be like a lake of fire around this world by the time in Armageddon when God intervenes, when Jesus intervenes.
But we are dealing now with something that only God can do, really.
Men’s weapons, they are imitations of something God’s got, beyond that.
Various countries now have nuclear weapons. These weapons did not exist a hundred years ago. The fact that this type of weapons now exists tells us that the Lord Jesus is coming soon.
Those who did not come to salvation, whose names are not written in the book of life, are in the lake of fire, which is the second death, and are not in the new heaven and the new earth.
Revelation 21: 8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
After the white throne judgment, at that time, then eternal life is done being, whoever is going to receive, whatever is left, has occurred.
When that superstructure begins to melt, I want to have a glorified body.
Then we find out that the Lord just takes the earth, it won’t hurt anybody, they have eternal life. He takes the earth, the Bible said, the works therein, burn it up. It becomes new again, a new creation.
On the new earth, there is no more sin. All those living on the new earth have eternal life; they have glorified bodies. There is no more Satan; he is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (Revelation 20: 7 – 15).
The Kings of the earth bring their glory and honour into the holy city where we are residing with our eternal God, the Lord Jesus. It is only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life can enter the holy city.
Revelation 21: 22 – 27: “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
When you receive salvation in your heart, you have eternal life from the Lord Jesus. This is a life that lasts for eternity.
When you take hold of Him, you’re a snapshot from there into eternity, from this time zone into eternity.
And those with the word of God within them, saith the Lord, shall live forever in eternity and be eternal.
He created time, but not eternity. God did not create eternal and He did not create eternity. He is eternity. He is the creator and He cannot be created, saith the Lord.
With the glorified body that you receive at the time of translation, you are not affected when “the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up” (2 Peter 3: 10 – 13).
I read from Scroll # 35:
Behold what I have spoken about the water is true! What I have spoken about my name is true! It is I the Lord Jesus which has spoken unto my people the Bride! And unto them who will take my name will become my Bride. And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me! For she has spiritually married me and has taken my name the Lord Jesus Christ, for she is My own, the very handy work of my spirit! For even now the time must shortly come when I will take her to My palace.
I read from Scroll # 244:
BEAUTIFUL CITIES – Jesus, you are more than this who created all the beauty around us and the awesome heavens, universes and stars! One day beside the Holy City we will see beautiful cities and places of such wonder of thy creation! Besides the stars and heavens you have created magnificent things that we have not seen! “Beautiful colors of icy wonder like, of spiritual fires and lights of such beauty, and creatures likewise of such formation that we will be amazed and startled by such a creator of so many more things that can not be mentioned and are without number! Such glorious spiritual colors never seen or beheld by man’s eyes!” – Surely and definitely many marvelous mysteries await us that love Him! Literally more than trillions of creations will He unveil to His chosen! – After this was revealed to me I wondered how to unveil it and then I remembered God’s Word that could have to do with the millennium. (Luke 19: 16-19) But also may involve what was told. Nevertheless the elect are in for many surprises that eye hath not seen!
I continued with the sermon:
That holy city is prepared for that translation group.
From the holy city, we will look into His universe and “see beautiful cities and places of such wonder of” His creation. We will see “glorious spiritual colors never seen or beheld by man’s eyes”. We will see “more than trillions” of His creations.
You want to thank the Lord Jesus, the Almighty God, that you will dwell with Him in the holy city, sitting on His throne with Him and ruling His entire Kingdom with Him.
Revelation 3: 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”.
“And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me”.
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Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
We listened to a sermon titled “Spiritual Death – Faith And Forgiveness”, CD # 963A, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
The most important thing that there is right now is soul winning. It is the most important thing.
We’ve had the teaching rain. And now, we are going into the harvest rain.
Soul winning the harvest, and that’s the harvest rain of translation, and we are entering the age to do it. And the Lord will do a quick short work right toward the end of it.
Healing and deliverance will go right along with it, but the importance now is soul winning.
Soul winning is what’s coming. And the Lord is going to have a bountiful harvest.
The Bible said not exactly just sinners that are walking around. Some of them have not really heard the word or partook of the word, but it’s those that have rejected the word and they will have no part of the word of God. And they walk around while they are yet dead and He can do nothing for them.
Luke 8: 15: “But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
Some people preach part of the word. It won’t catch it. Tribulation will catch some of them.
Some use gimmick and they use something to place in front of the word of God and something to take away from the miracles so that they don’t show their unbelief.
But the honest and the good heart preaches it just like it is and it will fall just like God said. That’s your honest and good heart and they bring forth the elect of God. Now that’s the difference. All others are on sand and will sink.
And some preach the least of the word of God; you have the great tribulation saints.
But the honest and the good heart will preach it from the word. There is the good fruit.
There’s only one way to preach the gospel and that’s to be honest about it to the people. When you do that, you’ll be ruled out of the system, you’ll be ruled out as independent and you’ll be on a different sphere.
If you stay right with the word, you’ll bring what crop the Lord wants. That is for sure, because you get what you plant.
The spiritual dead bury the physical dead.
And Jesus said follow me and let the dead bury their dead.
Matthew 8: 22: “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”
You are passing right out of spiritual death when you get that word in you.
By faith in the word of God, we not only feel the Holy Spirit, but we know the Holy Spirit is with us and the Holy Spirit is eternal life.
John 5: 25: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.”
He that eateth of the bread that comes down from heaven shall not die (John 6: 50). Just point-blank, shall not die. Even though this body passes away, Jesus said it means nothing.
If you partake and act upon the word of God, in the action of the Holy Spirit, the Bible said that you shall never die, means that this body will pass away. It makes no difference. You’ll go on to meet the Lord.
Jesus said let the dead bury the dead, because He said that those burying the dead are just as dead as those being buried. They have rejected eternal life is what He meant. He said follow me.
The good and honest heart bringeth forth fruit with the word, meaning it is brought by the word of God. There is the ones that will have eternal life.
But if you are going to get eternal life and get into the translation, there’s only one way it will come and that’s through the Lord Jesus Christ. And it will come through the word of God. That’s the only thing that will bring it.
If you go in any other direction than what I preach here, in the building. If you go any way than the word of God here, it won’t work. You’ll wind up into predicament.
If you’ve got a good garden and you keep the weeds out, you’ll bring forth a crop.
He that keeps Christ’s sayings, that means to keep in your heart, shall never die spiritually.
John 8: 51: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
These statements are so point-blank and positive. The way that He says it that it brings out another viewpoint.
“shall never see death”: As if, this gives hope to those that will pass on before the translation. You won’t even know it if you love Jesus. You will just sleep and wake up in His arms, is what He means.
A real Christian that loves God, that’s why when we preach here, faith and power. Faith is a substance and when that substance reaches more potency, as we go in further into the dimension of God, perfect faith will begin to rise and he can have whatsoever he saith, no matter what, he know he’s got it and that’s the real church.
By this substance of power and the substance of faith that comes off the ministry, into the hearts and into the bodies of the people, is creating a power within you.
And in that power, you love God, it will take that faith when you cross over. It’s what I’m trying to tell you, what I’ve been trying to do.
Enoch walked with God. Because the Bible said he was translated by faith, that substance. If you get that much faith, you have the word of God in you.
So, when someone passes on, I preach in such a way, that I feel in my heart that if they had any inkling at all, what I said and believe it, I had power that I put in there will pull them in there.
“he shall never see death”: That’s almost like you live on and on, but we know we have to get out of this body or be changed by the Holy Spirit. He’s speaking spiritually.
But “shall never see death”: It means there is no struggle. You’ll just transpire and be right like in the bosom of Abraham.
The way He put that, it’s just passing from one dimension and walking into the other. And you’ll come back later with Him at the translation and pick up the old changed body. It will change on you.
And we which are alive and remain shall not prevent them. We’ll be caught up together and those will come back with God and they will enter back into that body. It will be changed like the ones on earth at the translation and they shall never see death.
It is just like passing on. Glory to God.
The honest and good heart brings forth the fruit right.
Believers in Christ shall never die spiritually.
Not only is He telling they will have eternal life, but He’s saying something again, shall never die.
It’s such a thing of having so much faith in God that it’s not really a death, it’s a translation. It’s just like Enoch and it’s just like Elijah. That’s what He is trying to say here. If you really have that faith in your heart and you believe in God like that, it’s just like a translation. It ain’t nothing to do with death. Isn’t He wonderful.
Like you are translated, like Enoch and Elijah. Really, the translation takes place. In other words, it’s no difference, than when we which are alive and the translation takes place and our bodies are changed. And when we turn to light, our bones turn to glorified and we turn to light like Jesus’ body, it said. And we just turn to light.
It’s no difference than all of a sudden, at death, they shall never die, they will never see death, shall never die and it just turns like that, it’s like translation, the same as being translated.
How God in His great compassion relieves the fear of departing.
Blessed is he that hath no part in the second death.
Belief in Christ, belief in the Scriptures, is the only hope of escape from hades (Luke 16: 27 – 28).
The honest and good heart will also hear the message and is on good ground and it takes seed.
I am He that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore (Revelation 1: 18).
And maybe you’ve testified since a young child to those people that have passed on, a mother, a brother, a sister, a friend or something and you’ve taught the word of God from a good honest heart and when you pass on, they’ll welcome you in or translate.
It is a substance of faith and power that God loves in His people. And when they’ve got power, they’ve got faith in His word and power in His word, that there is a substance of faith. Faith has a substance.
Passed from death unto life. You ought to feel just freedom in your heart. Believe these words, that’s what going to get you there.
I read from Scroll # 100:
PARABLE – The Sower parable – “Portrays Christ’s Word falls on four kinds of hearers!” (Matt. 13:3-23) – “First the seed is the word of God!” (Luke 8:11) – “Jesus sows the Word. Those who do not understand the Word in their heart, the devil taketh it away! – Those who hear in stoney places have not root when he is offended by tribulation or persecution because of the Word, he falls away!” – “Those who hear among the thorns, reveals the cares of life choke out the Word!” (Matt. 13: 21-22) – “And he who receiveth the Word in good ground are those who bring forth good fruit!” – “They hear the Word and understand it and even some bring forth a hundredfold; these are the Lord’s children!” (Matt. 13:23) – “This reveals that in our age a great harvest is upon us!”. . . “Blessed are they who hear and keep the Word!” (Luke 11:28) – “Behold saith the Lord, I have promised them an open door – even now!” (Rev. 3:8) – “Parables are not for everyone, but for those who love a mystery and deligently search His word!”
I continued with the sermon:
The moment that you take the word of God in your heart, Jesus as your Saviour, you are passed from this death into life; potentially, you go into eternal life. And you have the honest in your heart of the Holy Spirit, that eternal life is in you. And this body changes, then you’ll know the whole thing is yours.
The moment that you believe the word of God for salvation in your honest and good heart, you have eternal life.
You will understand the word of God; you will keep the word of God; you will bring forth good fruit; these are the Lord’s children.
The parable of the Sower is in Luke 8: 4 – 15 . You can also read it in Matthew 13: 1 – 23 and Mark 4: 1 – 20.
Luke 8: 4 – 15: “And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and chocked it. And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; THAT SEEING THEY MIGHT NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
You will notice Luke 8: 13 states: “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.”
Those that received the word of God on a rock initially received the word with joy, and “for a while”, believed God. They will testify that they are saved, they may tell you how happy they were when they first received salvation and they may even tell you of the miracles that they have received. These statements will all be true because they did believe God “for a while”, which could be months or years. However, it caught up with them because they did not receive the word of God for salvation in a good and honest heart.
With your salvation received in a good and honest, you will preach and witness from a good and honest heart. You will not preach part of the word.
The honest and good heart brings forth fruit on good ground. It means the gospel was not slighted with the word, be honest.
Some people preach part of the word. It won’t catch it. Tribulation will catch some of them.
Some use gimmick and they use something to place in front of the word of God and something to take away from the miracles so that they don’t show their unbelief.
But the honest and the good heart preaches it just like it is and it will fall just like God said. That’s your honest and good heart and they bring forth the elect of God.
But the honest and the good heart will preach it from the word. There is the good fruit.
The most important thing that there is right now is soul winning.
And the Lord is going to have a bountiful harvest.
There’s only one way to preach the gospel and that’s to be honest about it to the people.
If you stay right with the word, you’ll bring what crop the Lord wants. That is for sure, because you get what you plant.
When you bring the honest, that’s going to cause division. That’s going to cause the separation in there. But at the end of it, my, what a people.
In your honest and good heart, the word of God will have root. You will know that the following Scriptures are true:
John 11: 25 – 26: “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?”
John 15: 16: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”
The Lord Jesus is also the Father. Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Romans 8: 14: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
The children of God “are led by the Spirit of God”.
Colossians 3: 3 – 4: “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”
Believe these words, that’s what going to get you there.
There is no other way. If you have some other way, you are a thief and a robber, the Bible says (John 10: 1).
The Bible said some people walk around, but they are dead while they are still alive, walking around. You say who are these people?
The Bible said not exactly just sinners that are walking around. Some of them have not really heard the word or partook of the word, but it’s those that have rejected the word and they will have no part of the word of God. And they walk around while they are yet dead and He can do nothing for them.
When you preach from a good and honest heart, you are speaking the words of Christ. Anyone that rejects God’s word is rejecting eternal life.
The great tribulation saints will also come to believe the way you have believed, in a good and honest heart.
Matthew 8: 22: “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”
And Jesus said follow me and let the dead bury their dead.
They have rejected eternal life is what He meant. He said follow me.
It meant that the people that have died physically, the ones that were burying them were just as dead while they yet walked around. They have rejected the word of God.
Those that reject the true word of God, given from a honest heart, and bringing forth the word of God, they are dead while they are yet walking around; let the dead bury their dead.
Believing the Lord Jesus for salvation in your honest and good heart and witnessing from such a heart, you will bring forth the fruit of God, you will see all of those you have helped bring to salvation welcoming you to heaven.
So the Bible said make friends now that they may welcome you in life to come when you leave here. In other words, all that’s contacted with the gospel that’s passed on. That we have helped to save; they’ve passed on from this world.
And maybe you’ve testified since a young child to those people that have passed on, a mother, a brother, a sister, a friend or something and you’ve taught the word of God from a good honest heart and when you pass on, they’ll welcome you in or translate.
John 8: 51: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
With your salvation in a honest and good heart, you will never see death, spiritually speaking.
These statements are so point-blank and positive. The way that He says it that it brings out another viewpoint.
“he shall never see death”: That’s almost like you live on and on, but we know we have to get out of this body or be changed by the Holy Spirit. He’s speaking spiritually.
And we which are alive and remain shall not prevent them. We’ll be caught up together and those will come back with God and they will enter back into that body. It will be changed like the ones on earth at the translation and they shall never see death.
The way He put that, it’s just passing from one dimension and walking into the other. And you’ll come back later with Him at the translation and pick up the old changed body.
Like you are translated, like Enoch and Elijah. Really, the translation takes place.
In other words, it’s no difference, than when we which are alive and the translation takes place and our bodies are changed. And when we turn to light, our bones turn to glorified and we turn to light like Jesus’ body, it said. And we just turn to light.
You will not see death. It means you are not on the same path as death. You don’t even know how death looks like because you shall never see it.
How God in His great compassion relieves the fear of departing.
Some are afraid when they are translated. Translation comes, it’s a twinkling of an eye. Your human mind won’t even think of what happened. It will be done. You will be caught up at the presence of Jesus.
You want to thank the Lord Jesus for letting you receive the word of God for salvation in a good and honest heart. It is only then that you have eternal life. You will then be able to preach the word of God from a honest and good heart and bring forth good fruit; these are the Lord’s children.
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