What does It Truly Take to Get To Heaven?

"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.(7.) Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." John 3:3, 7

Well it is a fact I trust the entire word of God, and without question. However, when I read the words of Jesus Christ it just gives it a little more unction, I don't know why it is all His word. Here we see this ruler of the Jews who is clueless about heaven and getting there. So he ask Jesus a very powerful question (how do I get to heaven), and Jesus gives him a very powerful answer, "Ye must be born again." What this answer does is it leaves no possible doubt that one must be born again to ever see or enter heaven. The reason this question came to my mind is this week I saw a "place of worship" (some places, it would be an insult to the Lord's churches to call them a church) that had a sign in front of it that read "They that want to get to heaven, must have a plan" (maybe not an exact quote but the same non-the-less) and it made me wonder, what kinda plan? I have to put this sign in the class of the dumbest signs ever, right with the one I saw in Tyler, Texas that read "God could not be everywhere at once so He created Mothers" and yes it was Mothers Day week. People this weak in mind biblically should not be allowed to put up signs. The only plan in salvation or getting to heaven is God's plan which is in the person of Jesus Christ. You can ask 50 different kind of preachers how to be born again and you will most likely get 50 different ways to be saved. However, there is only one way to be saved and that is God's way. God point blank answered that question through the Apostle Paul in Acts 16:30, 31 "And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (31.) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved..." Jesus so boldly answered the question in John 3:5 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The water here is the natural birth and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Now let us understand the birthing of the Holy Spirit is a process, it starts with a calling by the Holy Spirit Romans 8:14, then it is a quickening Ephesians 2:1, 5, then there is a delivery of faith Galatians 5:22 and Galatians 3:23, then there is a believing and a promise of deliverance John 3:15. This is the plan and it most certainly is not our plan it is God's plan and that make it a plan without error or failure. All other plans are false and failed. There is no works on our part, no church membership, no baptism needed, no nothing else. I know there are a lot of differences of opinion on this and man makes it sound as though that salvation is something we do, something we accomplish, however God without question says the natural man will never change who he is. If God does not change the sinner then the sinner is doomed for eternal damnation. You can listen to man hack away at the word of God and cut it to pieces to make a doctrine of damnation into a doctrine of salvation. There is a proper way to be saved and to see the kingdom of God but it is in the plan of God which is through Jesus Christ. Any thing else takes the glory away from Jesus Christ, it is he who died, it is he who rose on the third day, and it is he who sits on Gods right hand. It is he who judges and he who condemns Romans 8:34. It is all Him and nothing else, and no one will ever be born from above without Him in their hearts. Only His blood can cleanse all our sins, therefore it is only in Him that we can be fully clean and white. Man or the Son of man, who do you believe?

God's Love.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10

John said "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us..." this is love, God loved us from the beginning of all things. there has never been a time when God did not love us. While it is a fact that God NEVER loved everyone in the world, but there is a remnant He has loved with an eternal love. By eternal I mean He never did not love us nor did He ever come to love us. Some people have an issue with the immutability of God, which means God never changes therefore it is imposable for Gods love to ever change. Either He has forever loved you of He does not. There is nothing man can do to change or persuade God's love for them. There is something else most do not get and that is God hates all that He does not love. We know that God hated Esau, "... Esau have I hated." Romans 9:13 God had always hate Esau even before the world was created. Esau never did anything to cause God to hate Him, God never loved him, ever. Just like Jacob never did anything to cause God to love him. I never did anything for God to love me, and if you are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ you never did anything for God to love you. John said "...not that we loved God..." how could we, we were not even born. When Jesus Christ died for a remnant and not the entire world. If Christ had died for the entire population of the world then everyone would be saved. The sins of the remnant were actually cleansed when the blood of Jesus Christ was spilt on the cross, not when we are acknowledging our faith. We are saved once we acknowledge faith, but salvation includes so much more than faith. We love God because He loved us, not from the moment we acknowledge faith but before the world was created, and into all eternity. This is why we came to the acknowledging of faith, because the Holy Spirit brought us to that point and gave us the faith to be saved. Many people believe that God loves everyone and everyone has the same opportunity for salvation, and God has basically nothing to do with it, because it is our choice. Now beloved that is a gross error of thinking. We are the ones who have nothing to do with our salvation because it is totally in Gods hands of love. Man has made salvation a errors doctrine and have mislead so many to a false salvation. God said in Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves..." and so many still believe it is by something we do. God not only loved us, elected us as his own, but He also sent the Holy Spirit with a quickening of the spirit, and the faith by which we are saved. Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is...faith," Since this is that truth, then it is imposable for any lost sinner to save themselves. It is a gross misunderstanding of the scriptures that lead people to believe salvation is their choice. You will never find an occasion in the bible where anyone was saved by today's ways. If man is truly totally depraved because there is not good in them than they cannot change what they are, and they are at enmity with God. Romans 8:7 "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God..." The word "enmity" means they are haters of God, as to who God truly is. They may love the god in their mind but the sovereign God of the bible they hate. You cannot find anyone saved in the bible by today's ungodly standards. Not one time did anyone on the own turn from carnal to God. No one ever made a decision for Christ and no one was ever asked too. No where in the bible was a sinner told salvation was a choice, nor was anyone ever told "God cannot change mans will" as so many errors preached today declare. God has an elect remnant and He sent Jesus Christ to die for them over two thousand years ago, this how God displayed His love to us-ward.

Do You Believe In Spiritual Israel.

"And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" Romans 11:17

Do you believe in a people called spiritual Israel? I without a doubt believe that there is a nation chosen of God to be His son and that nation is without a doubt Israel. But spiritual Israel is much different, spiritual Israel includes Jews and Gentiles. I believe Spiritual Israel is made up of all the saved in the entire world. Romans chapter 11 speaks of some of the natural branches being broken off and replaced with branches of a different tree. I believe the tree is Abraham which God promised to make the Father of many Nations, "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee." Genesis 17:5 I believe these many nations are the nations of the world that have believers in Jesus Christ. Back in Romans chapter 11 when God broke off the natural branches "For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Romans 11:21 God replaced them with Gentile branches and the Gentile branches became as they were natural branches of the tree of Abraham. God promised in Romans 11:26 "And so all Israel shall be saved..." If God has promised that all Israel shall be saved then every Jew must be saved, but that is imposable since God broke off some of the natural branches and discarded them. Romans 11:17 "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;" Paul went on to write in verse 17 "... and with them partakest of the root and fatness..." in other words the Gentile branches became part of the tree as though they were natural branches. Centuries have passed and innumerable numbers of Jews have died without Jesus Christ and will never be saved, therefore if God says all Israel will be saved, because we know it does not include the countless number of Jews who have died without Jesus Christ in their hearts. God says it was for unbelief that the natural branches were broken off to start with. Romans 11:20 "Well; because of unbelief they were broken off..." While God did say He could Graft them back into the tree He never said that He would. The in-grafted branches will forever be as natural branches of the tree of Father Abraham or Spiritual Israel. God will only graft them back in if they turn to Jesus Christ for salvation. Romans 11:23 "And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again." I know that some people believe that all Jews will be saved but if they die without believing in Jesus Christ they have died eternally lost and separated from the spiritual Israel tree. This is a great blessing from God to the Gentiles because without being grafted in we would never have been saved. As Gentiles we need to thank God for the grace of election that brought this great blessing to a remnant of the Gentile people as well to the Jewish people whom God also elected and saved. Thank you Lord for making me a Spiritual Israelite!!