SALVATION - part 3

Dimension of Salvation

Salvation is 24/7. It is available for everyone who wants it at any time with no expiry date.

Psalm 118:22-24

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

The work of redemption of Christ, the cornerstone, is multidimensional. Christ will do, has done and does today. It is a prophecy and also an assurance that we can stand on salvation every day, any day and that our righteousness endures forever.

Relation with the Law

Matthew 5:17 

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

The reason Jesus is the fulfillment of the law is because the law was made to bring a curse. Jesus through crucifixion, to be sure, had his purpose to be a redeemer.

Galatians 3:10-13

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

Justification by work does not work

No good works are sufficient. Salvation can't be earned. Salvation is a gift attesting to God’s very nature.

Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

The reason for this harsh reply is because these people, that did all these miracles, were justifying their salvation through their works. Therefore they were not doing it for Him as they claimed, they were doing it for themselves because they used it to justify their redemption. 

Andy De Campos

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SALVATION - part 2

Why did Jesus come?

Jesus was not just a good teacher. He was the living word of God to come down from Heaven to be born as a human being.

John 14:6

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

He didn’t say “I know the way” (to Heaven) he said “I am the way”.

He did not say “I know the truth” he said “I am the truth itself”.

He did not say “I know the source of life” he said “I am the source of life”.

Sin is not a strange concept

We need salvation because we have sinned. To sin means to miss the mark. If God simply overlooked then He wouldn’t be who He said.

God is

     (a) good

     (b) holy

     (c) just

1 John 1:8-10 MSG

If we claim that we're free of sin, we're only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins---make a clean breast of them---he won't let us down; he'll be true to himself. He'll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. If we claim that we've never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God---make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.

Everybody on earth actually knows this, as there have always been courts of justice (to some degree or another) and laws. If there was no perceived sin there would be no judiciary and punishment or correction.

All sin leads to death

What most people are wrong about is that they think that Hell is for different degrees of sin. In essence, some of us are good enough. That is not the truth, for all have fallen short and all are in need of the mercy of God.

Romans 3:23-24

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

All of us one day will stand before God and if we do not have Jesus as our intercessory we will perish.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.

The wages of sin is death and this is very literal. Death actually entered the world through sin. This is why, if we are covered in Jesus blood now, we actually have some authority now to rebuke physical illness attacking us now!

Romans 6:22-23 MSG

But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

Judgement

Psalm 115:17 AMP

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any who go down into silence.

 

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

The old question of the world “if God is good what does he send people to hell?”. This is build on a false premise that God actively sends people to hell and it implies that God is inconstant, having more than one personality.

Analogy from the movie “Courageous”

God is the judge: imagine the most loved person by you is murdered. The murderer goes before the judge and tells the judge that he has done a lot of good things more than the bad things. The judge let him go. Would you say that that is a good judge? You would say no it's a bad judge. Well God is a good judge and no matter what to be a good judge must judge us by the wrongs we have done. The good news is that he sent his son to pay for everything. She will still judge always but he found a way around it.

Andy De Campos

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special: UN backs Satanic monument in NYC - April 2016

We interrupt our regular post for an important message:
Like some of my brothers, God often draws my attention to something by synchronicity.
I've been recently doing different studies on prayer, Bible battles, faith, authority, ancient civilizations of the Middle East and so on. Of course much of this is related, however, in the last 48 hours, most of these have converged on the topic of the god Baal. From the church sermon, to my audiobooks, to my own random Bible reading to my audio Bible commentary (which I hadn't picked up in a month) all landed on this topic.
When that happens, I should pay attention.
An then (of course) I run into a news video on an acquaintance's timeline that I never ever read (but did this time). Video is listed at the end of this post.

What I am stating here are FACTS.

COMING ATTRACTION

Memorial to child sacrifices comes to New York, London and maybe to your city soon.

Two replicas of the entrance to the millenarian temple of Baal will be erected in New York City and London in a few days.

"If I can make it there I'll make it anywhere".

NIMROD 

was the first antichrist figure in the Bible. He was presented as the hunter, with bow and arrow.

He erected the Tower of Babel somewhere in Mesopotamia; around Tigris and Euphrates area where the Garden of Eden.

Baal (or Beelzebub) was the god created for the first demonic pagan religion which originated there.

ASHORA 

was the other fertility goddess worshiped by the early pagans. In our own society we see what look like Ashora monuments put up by our governments.

The worship of Ashora includes the ritual dancing and slashing of the body as their false prophets did on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18).

Islam is the religion where we see this practiced today. Some muslims have celebrated the Ashora holiday this way recently: 

http://goo.gl/5M0Fjg; http://goo.gl/MM7X8c; http://goo.gl/RgPMGR.

BABEL

means "confusion" and also "gates of the gods".

The pale horse of Revelation 6:2 states in the end we will be governed by the antichrist as we were in the beginning: Nimrod.

The one world system with one world currency is an indication of that.

GATEWAYS to WHAT?

The world Trade Centre in NYC, centre of the US economy, could be viewed as a type of Babylon, maybe.

The arch if the temple of Baal will be opened in Times Square, next month in NYC and in Trafalgar Square in London.

http://goo.gl/GRWsuy 

In the natural this is to commemorate world heritage. In the spirit this is nothing more than a demonic event. Some state that it can serve as a gateway.

Occult and devil worshippers believe that Nimrod will be resurrected (or some leader associated with him) and rule the world.

IMMORALITY MATTERS AFTER ALL

In ancient times child sacrifices and bisexual orgies were done in this temple in order to appease the gods and help the crops. One of the things they did is to heat this large bronze statue of Baal which had its arms extended. The arms would reach very high temperatures and the children would be placed there. Babies and children would be burned alive while people had sex with each other around the screams and smell of burning flesh.

Now they are constructing replicas of the gate of the temple where this took place?

But wait a second? 

Do we have sexual immorality today?

Do we have child sacrifice today?

Hold that thought.

NEW (OLD) WORLD ORDER

According to some, the original Freemason was Nimrod.

He inspired all the pagan religions of Ancient Greece and Rome. 

He instituted the first New World Order after the flood.

These arches this month are being erected by UNESCO (United Nations).

The institute of digital archaeology wants to erect hundreds of these in cities throughout the world.

Secret and occult societies take this seriously even if you don't.

The people behind this are counting on the majority's naivety in thinking there is nothing special going on here other than a celebration of world heritage.

...right. 

the BAD NEWS 

Evil is coming. Things will get worse.

The big "THEY" out there are counting on 2 things:

(a) That you ignore all this;

(b) That if i know about it you will be in fear.

the GOOD NEWS

Christians must NOT be afraid.

Fear is bull crap. It is from the enemy.

A famous New Yorker once said:

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

Hebrews 13:6
The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

Romans 8:31
If God is for us, who can be against us?

Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.

“The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”
Oswald Chambers

BUT BE PREPARED

Too often people equate not being afraid to not knowing about what is to come. This is wrong. This is not what the Bible says.

Matthew 24

[36] “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. [37] As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. [38] For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; [39] and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. [42] “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. [43] But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. [44] So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

1 John 4:1-4
Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

Micah 7:7
But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

PRAYER is the BEST thing we can do. I cannot emphasize this enough. Prayer changes things. First it changes you, then it changes the world.

Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the World!

Christians be safe.

Unbelievers, be saved!

My love to you all.

Andy De Campos

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