"God's Perfect Order"

 "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." (Hebrews 11:40 KJV)

  "For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus." (Romans 3:23-26 NLT)

 If you didn't figure it out, the whole point of yesterday's post was about love; loving and forgiving one another, just as we have been forgiven because of God's love towards those who believe in His Son! That whole thing about the credit card verses the debit card, might seem strange to some; but Jesus went down into the belly of this earth to pay off the debt of those who were waiting ever since they went into the grave. While we, those who are alive after His death on the cross, are given forgiveness for all sin, now and into eternity!

 If that isn't enough, there is a third wave of believers that get saved, as no card is given, but they will 'wash their own robes', as they will be killed just for their testimony of believing in Christ Jesus. These will those who were left behind after the Rapture, them that might have been lukewarm, having known the truth, but not living as though they truly believe it. 

 I have heard several Pastors say, "If you can't be willing to receive Christ into your heart now, and declare Him Lord, as you are living in freedom; how would you be able to make Him Lord of your life, then, if you are going to be killed for declaring that He is Lord!" This is a very real thing, and the mass of those who will be willing to die for the sake of confessing that Jesus is Lord, will be many!

 I truly hope and pray that I am in that second waive, and not the third...

"If anyone claims, "I am living in the light," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves another brother or sister is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates another brother or sister is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness." (1 John 2:9-11 NLT)