December 2000

[Part Forty-eight]

“SEALS OF GOD”

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“He Who comes from above (heaven, or spirit realm) is far above all others; while he who comes from the earth belongs to the earth (the natural realm) and speaks the language of earth- his words are from an earthly viewpoint.He who is from heaven is far over all others in prominence and excellence. He testifies to what He has actually seen and heard, but none accepted His Witness or proof as true. But he who does receive His Testimony as True has SET HIS SEAL to certify that GOD IS TRUE!! This means he is fully assured that GOD CANNOT LIE! For since He (Christ) Whom God has sent, speaks the Words of God, His Father does not impart His Spirit sparingly or by measure to Him, but has given all things into His Hand!!So he who believes on, has faith in, clings to, and utterly relies on the Sonnow possesses Eternal Life. But he who disobeys- is unbelieving toward,refuses to trust in, disregards, is not subject to the Son, will never see orexperience Eternal Life. Also the wrath of God continues to abide on him(to chastise and lead him into all Truth).” (Jn 3:31-36)

           Have you yet SET YOUR SEAL to acknowledge and ratify the fact that GOD IS TRUE? Or are you still imprisoned by unbelief and still calling God a liar?! If the latter is true, you must realize one thing- it is not enough to say you believe that God is partially true! We cannot pick and choose what we consider to be His Wheat, and just discard the rest as so much chaff! Either God is ALL TRUTH or He is a liar! The time of fence-sitting is past! God is calling the world into account and all men shall be forced to avow their allegiance to either Christ or Antichrist! They will either be among the sheep who wholeheartedly follow the Mind of Christ as their Shepherd of Truth; or be among the goats who stubbornly cling to the unbelieving lies of the false shepherd which is the Antichrist carnal mind!!
        Does our full acceptance that God is True mean we fully understand all Truth? Not at all! God reveals His mysteries and secrets to us as we are ready to receive them. This is not mere head knowledge, but “As a man thinks in his heart, so IS HE!” (Pr 23:7) “Death (carnal-mindedness) and Life (spiritual-mindedness) are in the power of the tongue (i.e., “language, speech, vocabulary”) and they that love it, shall eat the fruit thereof!” (Pr 18:21) Believers love the Life and Mind of Christ and eat His “Fruits of the Spirit“ (Gal 5:22-23) but unbelievers love the life and mind of their flesh and eat its “Fruit unto death”! (Ro 7:5) But God says, “When you were servants of sin, you were free from Righteousness (that is, slaves to our own unrighteousness and self-righteousness- and “All our righteousnesses are as filthy (lit. menstrual) rags.” Is 64:6). What fruit did you bear from those unprofitable things of which you are now ashamed?! The end of all that is death! But you, servants of God, are free from sin and produce Fruits of Holiness that end in Eternal Life! For the wages of sin is death; but the Gift of God is Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord. ” (Ro 6:22)
        Now is the time to set our seal of acknowledgement that GOD IS TRUE! His first Truth is He loves us! He set His Seal on this Love by sacrificing His Son to suffer the contradiction and crucifixion of sinful men to become the SAVIOR OF ALL THE WORLD- and this Rock of Truth is the Foundation on which Christ has built His Bride Church! Will you thereon “set your seal”?

[TO BE CONTINUED]