Alone
When we take into account all the scriptures say about conscious, eternal punishment it seems that those outside of Christ will be alone forever. There will be no friendship or relationships in that “outer darkness”. There’s no one to talk to. They have to suffer alone. And it’s their utter loneliness, isolation, hopelessness and despair which eats away at them, which is “the worm that never dies”.
Have you ever been truly alone for any length of time?
If you’ve been born again it’s impossible to be alone because Jesus Christ is in you, and you in Him.
Man was not created to be alone.
When a person rejects Jesus Christ they also reject everything God created them to be.
They get what they want, and they have all eternity to regret it.
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See, even if you do improve your life it still doesn’t mean you achieve eternal life.
Eternal life is a gift which only Jesus can give.
Religion, at best, can only modify human thinking and behavior.
Whereas only Jesus can give eternal life.
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Tucker often used a mocking manner or tone of speech.
Maybe God’s trying to teach him not to do that?
As a Christian it’s dishonorable to do that, and it’s also unproductive, as intelligent people will switch off.
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There’s ample proof of God’s existence just within the extreme complexity of your own body.
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2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
[1]Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
[2]not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
[3]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[4]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[5]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[6]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[7]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[8]And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
[9]The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
[10]and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
[11]And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
[12]that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. .
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Verse 1. The coming of the Lord and our gathering to Him IS ONE SINGLE EVENT.
Verse 2. This event is called “the day of Christ”.
Verse 3. Two things must happen before Verse 1 is fulfilled.
Verse 8. When is the Antichrist destroyed? When Jesus returns. This means that Verse 1 is only fulfilled AFTER the Antichrist’s reign reaches its end, because it ends when the Lord returns and we are gathered up to Him.
Verses 9-12.
The deception of the Antichrist is twofold:
a Through signs and wonders.
b. Through a certain doctrine.
Verse 12 indicates that the appeal of this doctrine is that people can “have pleasure in unrighteousness”. They don’t feel guilt over unrighteousness. In this doctrine you can be unrighteous and not feel guilt.
In other words, such people can commit evil and still consider themselves highly spiritual people.
Verse 11.
God gives them a strong delusion to believe a lie.
The lie is twofold:
a. That the Antichrist is God.
b. That sin is no longer sin, but something we can legitimately seek pleasure in without feeling guilty.
Verse 4. Because the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, is God, the false messiah must also claim to be God.
Seems like the world is ready for this, doesn’t it?
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Those who don’t stand for the truth have already fallen for a lie.
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Are you looking for some kind of praise or recognition from men?
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John 14:2-3
“In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
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There are many houses there.
In Revelation we only see people around the Throne.
And yet there are many houses there, with people living in them.
Do you have a house reserved for you?
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Mankind acts as if God doesn’t exist.
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How would you describe your attitude toward God?
Cooperative or uncooperative?
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Prayer is the most powerful thing a person can do because when God answers prayer it is a far more powerful action than solely human effort can produce.
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Colossians 2:9-10
“For in Him (Jesus Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
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In Christ you are complete.
Outside of Christ you are incomplete.
To be complete in Christ means you have everything He has (except His divinity) imputed to you.
But anything other than this completeness is a state of spiritual bankruptcy: separation from God.
You either have everything or nothing.
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Even though democracy was created by the ancient Greeks it’s only a recent phenomena, historically speaking.
This great experiment with freedom, however, began to go horribly wrong.
Democracy, not surprisingly, became a choice of good or evil. It was no longer just about “politics”, but about serious moral issues.
Human nature is sinful, so, no surprise that the masses began to have more affinity for evil policies than righteous ones.
And as people increasingly opt for evil leaders it’s no surprise that these leaders crave power to the extent that they would gradually phase democracy out, censoring any other point of view, while denying that they’re doing that.
And thus, due to sinful human nature, democracy becomes a failed experiment.
My tbought was that, perhaps God gave the world one last chance to choose righteousness and freedom, and the world threw it back in His face?
The lesson? Mankind is not worthy of freedom.
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If you were God, how would you feel if people didn’t believe what you said?
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Every person should become the person Jesus wants them to be.
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Ephesians 5:5-6
“For this you know, that no sexually immoral person, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”
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Taking the whole chapter into consideration it’s clear that Paul is warning professing Christians that, no matter what they claim to believe, if they are still sexually immoral or covetous they are not going to Heaven.
He is not saying these are the only sins which keep people out of Heaven.
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Futility is that thing which is disconnected from God.
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If you enjoyed any good ‘thing’ today remember the Source of it, and that He also gave you the capacity to enjoy it.
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“Abortion rights” rest on the fallacy that a baby in the womb is not a human being and therefore has no “rights” of its own.
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The Gospel is not predicated upon whether Christians live perfect lives, or live up to what you expect from them. It’s predicated upon one perfect life, alone. It rests solely on Jesus Christ. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. ‘We preach Christ, not ourselves’.
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Isaiah 29:13
“Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men”
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This also describes many in the traditional religious church system today.
They know what they’re supposed to believe and say about Christian things, and can say it on cue, when required, but their heart is somewhere else. It’s just words.
They may call you “brother” but they don’t love you like a brother – their heart is not in it.
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Thinking about the Lord Jesus Christ should make us happy.
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Quote:
“… Tucker Carlson asked Elon Musk to elaborate on what Larry Page had said about AI. “He really seemed to be — wanted sort of digital superintelligence, basically a digital god, if you will, as soon as possible,” the now-Twitter-CEO replied.
Musk continued to assert that Page has publicly stated that “the whole goal of Google” is to bring about artificial general intelligence, or AGI.”At one point I said, ‘what about, you know, [how are] we gonna make sure humanity’s okay here?’” he recounted, laughing. “And, um, then he called me a speciesist.”
Techstory.in
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When we talk of being a servant we don’t mean relieving others of their responsibility and doing their work for them. For example, if you make your child’s bed you are not serving them, you’re doing them a disservice. And the same goes in the church. If you’re teaching all the time then, rather than being a servant, you’re doing what others should be doing, so you’re doing them a disservice by doing what they should be doing.
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Get the Word out!
Why expect others to do it?
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Corrie Ten Boom:
“What we have to do,” said Corrie, “is love these people who hate us—love them, pray for them. These people are wounded people who have hate in their hearts. They need forgiveness. They need the Lord. That is the answer we must give.”
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Difficulties are God’s opportunity to show His power.
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Just because someone is a genius it doesn’t mean they are a good example.
There are comic geniuses who, unfortunately, are smutty.
I don’t find sexual innuendo funny anymore.
And it’s not because I got old or old fashioned, it’s because Jesus Christ is real to me.
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The life Jesus gives us is an endless life – a life without end.
Because His Kingdom shall have no end.
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Jesus Christ.
He’s the One.
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If you’ve received eternal life in Jesus then you see the things of daily life from an eternal perspective.
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True Christianity is to love the unrighteous as much as the righteous.
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It’s a cruel joke to encourage someone to continue believing in a lie.
When you wish them on their pagan days that’s what you do.
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How could we be embarrassed to follow the greatest Man who ever lived?
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We say ‘God bless you!’ so lightly, because if God blesses someone it’s the most amazing thing they can experience in this life.
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Woke ideology tries to coerce, badger and even threaten people into believing evil is good.
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Get ready for eternity.
You might get a lot of old pictures popping up in your feed. I get a continuous stream of pics of 70s rock stars. Someone clicked a picture and that memory is still floating around all these years later. But it won’t be long till even these memories fade and return to dust and vanish forever. Whatever significance they had, if any, will be forever lost in time.
To try and hold the things of this present life in your grasp is as futile as chasing the wind.
Quote, “All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.”
Hopelessness.
But the Christian life is about now and the future.
It’s about a sure and steadfast hope based on Christ’s promises.
It’s about a permanent future which won’t be lost in time, which will never decay, which has conquered the futility of existence in this present world.
Do you have eternal life in Jesus Christ?
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The conscience is not the definitive guide as to what constitutes guilt before God: His word is the absolute guide on this.
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A church which does not encourage questions does not encourage thinking. This is a huge problem today: the unthinking Christian.
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Do as you would like your children to do. Be the person you would like them to be.
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Willful sin is a willful act directly and personally against God.
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Those who want a society without God may eventually realize that in such there is no genuine love, but everyone is out for what they can get, so it may come back to bite them later.
Large inner cities in America are proof of this.
They are a failed Left Wing social experiment.
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Incumbent governments often pretend that vote rigging is impossible and demonize the opposition if they investigate the possibility of it. They are betting on people having short memories, because it wasn’t so long ago it was they who were questioning the validity of an election.
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Your greatest gift becomes your greatest liability if you take credit for it.
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What’s the most romantic thing? It’s when someone willingly gives up their own individual life and independence to covenant before God to be with you all your life, unconditionally, forsaking all others, come what may. It’s beautiful. It’s the definition of love.
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One of the central themes of the Bible is the GOODNESS and LOVE of God.
If that’s what He’s like, if that’s His nature, why wouldn’t you expect Him to be good to you?
Why would you expect Him to be something other than good when it comes to you?
Why would you expect Him to go contrary to His nature when it comes to you?
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God gives us faith to do His will.
Therefore, we can’t have faith for things which are not His will.
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Amazing how an ideology can be pushed onto people without them realizing it’s an ideology they’ve swallowed. That’s the power of the mainstream media.
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If you want to achieve something you’ve got to want it more than wanting the things which impede it: there comes a choice.
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If you miraculously and suddenly became rich it wouldn’t help you know God. So, wealth is very over-rated.
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The brain is the physical hardware, but the software of the mind is spiritual.
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Even if a person’s conscience is fully seared or dead, at least they could still remember back to when they once were ashamed of sin.
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Don’t know why you want a Godless society?
Haven’t you noticed that Godless people don’t treat others very well?
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God made good things for man so man could enjoy them and then realize that God must be good.
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There are no “auspicious” days. That is superstition.
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It might interest you to know that Jesus Christ does not believe the theory of evolution.
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Mark 10:6
“But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.”
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We are to respect people, but we’re not compelled to respect their beliefs or lifestyle.
Jesus loved people, but without affirming their sinful lifestyles.
He loved the person, not their sin.
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I saw the movie, Jesus Revolution.
My take away is that it shows the love people had back then.
Another take away is the opening of homes to the seekers. Open door policy.
Very few people want smelly people in their living room.
They don’t want to take a risk.
They haven’t really grasped Jesus’ concept of giving your life away.
On the charismatic issue it portrays Chuck Smith as bringing balance when Lonnie Frisbee started to believe it was all about him.
In the end it sanitizes Lonnie’s life with no mention of his backsliding.
I think God could use it to awaken churches to the real, dying world outside their doors and cause them to ask, what are they doing?
They don’t want smelly people in their living room because they don’t even want clean cut believers in their living room, as it’s their private space.
Another point
I know it’s just a movie, and is extremely limited as to the picture it can paint of the real history of the revival.
But there was an element of the Jesus People movement not mentioned.
And that was that many Jesus professing hippies had not repented of their sins and were still on drugs and extra marital sex.
There were two camps, the real and the fake.
The movie doesn’t touch on this but implies it all was real.
Another point
God can use a movie like this to reach many people with the simple Gospel.
To see the simplicity of how normal people in normal life can be drawn to Christ by the Holy Spirit.
This the heart of everything because it’s God’s heart.
He calls people to, Come!
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At that point in history young people were questioning everything.
That was fertile soil.
Everyone should agree that the Holy Spirit should lead everything in an assembly.
The question is, who decides what the leading of the Holy Spirit is?
People have different takes on what they think the Holy Spirit is leading to do.
Another take away from the movie:
Note the emphasis on water baptism as the immediate response to the Gospel, as per the NT precedents.
It’s not baptismal regeneration.
But it evokes a public confession from the convert.
Without this open confession or testimony there would be much confusion as to who is a believer and who is nor.
Hence the wisdom of God in commanding baptism.
Ian Vincent 
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