The Necessary Orientation 9
The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:8-NIV)
Conclusion
If we put our trust in the current grace-Heaven-rapture error, not giving diligence to putting away the sins of the flesh, getting rid of the old life, we will inherit corruption and death in the Day of Christ. We certainly shall inherit corruption and death.
It is not a case of our being punished by not being permitted to experience the glory of the new world, it is rather that we have destroyed our inheritance by not obeying the Apostle. We chose to live in the flesh and we have gained corruption and death as a result-not as a punishment but as a result. We have reaped what we have sown, not as a punishment but as the natural consequence of sowing the seeds of corruption and death.
This is why mercy and grace will have nothing to do with what we inherit. If you sow weeds you are going to reap weeds. The gardener may love you but you are going to reap weeds rather than flowers. Do you see the point?
It is true that on top of this there will be punishments, as we see in the parable of the foolish virgins and the parable of the talents. There will be some whom the Lord will drive from His Presence even though they have wrought miracles in His name.
But even in these instances the punishments are consequences of how we have behaved, aren't they? It isn't that God hates us, it is that we have judged ourselves unworthy of His Kingdom and have acted accordingly.
God opens His great hand and satisfies the desire of every living thing, the Bible tells us. And so it is. If we love the holy ways of Jesus Christ, then this is what we will inherit. If we love the filth and uproar of Satan and his ways, then this is what we have chosen. This is what we will inherit.
The greatest lie ever told is the current Evangelical teaching that Jesus Christ came to bring those who choose to revel in the ways of Satan into the pure Paradise of God, on the basis of "accepting Christ." Not only would Paradise be destroyed, but those Satan-lovers would be in agony as the blazing light of God, His saints and His angels, laid bare the deceit and corruption in their hearts. They would be in terrible agony as the holy fire of God's Person began to incinerate the core of their personalities.
No, this is the basic lie of Christianity today. Paul advised us that we all shall be revealed before the Judgment Seat of Christ that we may receive what we have practiced in the world. This is the Word of God. It shall never be changed though it is challenged thousands of times each Sunday in the Evangelical churches.
We have been crucified with Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. We have been raised from the dead with Him that we might walk in newness of life. We have ascended with Him to the right hand of God.
Now He is our life. When He appears we shall appear with Him to bring justice and deliverance to those of the nations whom God judges worthy of eternal life in His Kingdom.
Let us joyously embrace this necessary orientation that we may follow the Holy Spirit as He leads us to total deliverance from our sins and self-will. Let us press, press, press, toward the mark, which is the inheriting of all that our loving Father in Heaven has promised us through JeLet us joyously embrace this necessary orientation that we may follow the Holy Spirit as He leads us to total deliverance from our sins and self-will. Let us press, press, press, toward the mark, which is the inheriting of all that our loving Father in Heaven has promised us through Jesus Christ.
(from The Necessary Orientation) WOR