Feb 28, 2012

Can the Holy Spirit be sinned away?

If you are saved, you can’t sin away Mercy, but you can sin away Grace and blessing.

Grace means= Favor & Privilege
Mercy means= Pity & Pardon
Can man SIN away salvation? I am not sure.  It has been debated for many years.
 But man can sin away Favor & Privilege
Man can step outside Gods blessings because of disobedience and lack of repentance.

Man can cross a line, a fatal line, when he does not allow God to deal with him, concerning
Sin. When we cross that fatal line, God stops striving with us to repent of our sin.
When man does not allow God to deal with him then God stops. Sad place to be.
Genesis 6:3
 God was long suffering after mans fall and strives with man before the world was flooded.
 God was grieved, sorry that he had made man on the earth because of sin.
He waited 75 yrs, ( scholars have determined this was the time it took to build the Ark. "BacktoGenesis.com")
 Before he had enough of man’s determined sin and Godlessness.
They experienced Gods patience for 75 yrs. A very long time to consider repentance.
 But their chance to repent was taken away with the flood.

What was true before the flood is also true since the flood.

God still stands between the living and the dead, the blessed and the cursed. 
God strives with man now, through the Holy Spirit, but limits how much time he will plead.
How does God Strive?
God strives with us through his Silence, the feeling that God is so very far away. We seek him (hopefully)
because we cant feel him or sense him.
 God strives.
God strives with us through conviction that is brought into our heart and mind.
An impression of the Holy Spirit
An outpouring of the Holy Spirit
God strives.

It’s shameful that God has to plead with us about sin, when we ought to be the one pleading with God about our sin.

Last but not least, Gods Word.

God Strives with us through the preaching of the Gospel.
Sometimes the Spirit comes in on the TV or the wave of a radio or the voice of an Evangelist.
But He does come and he has come and he will come again through his word, the Bible.
No distance can weary him.
God Strives.

He, the Spirit comes to you and says, “Child, who goes by the way of the grave, 
a traveler to judgment day, then child of eternity, ARE YOU READY TO RESPOND TO GOD?
The Holy Spirit is striving with your heart. Why don’t you surrender?
Why don’t you say, “Forgive me Lord…I surrender all.”
Restore to me the joy of my salvation.
Restore to me the blessing.
God Strives

Have you sinned the blessing of the Holy Spirit away?

The result of repentance is restoration!
Restoration is Grace because of Mercy! 
Mercy is available  because 
GOD STRIVES
The door is still open
But will he close the door one day soon?
Will he grieve again?
Are you ready?

Feb 1, 2012

One of my Dreams. The Path.

After I became a Christian in 1984, the Lord began to show me some spiritual concepts through some very intriguing dreams. The following is one of many.

I was standing in a courtyard. This courtyard had the dimensions of a perfect square. There were no walls and the ground was dirt. A very light brown colored dirt. As I stood there, and began to look around, walls began to form from the ground up. There were no doors, just walls. The walls were also made of dirt. The same color as the ground.

I stood frozen in place..I began to look at the wall that was to my right. As I stared at this wall a door began to come into view. It very slowly formed. The shape of this door was a rounded arch shaped door. As the door came into view I could see beautiful greenry begin to take shape on the walls. Vines, and Ivy, all green.
The courtyard was transformed from a dull dirt brown into a beautiful courtyard with exquisite green vines and plants crawling up the walls.

I gazed at the door. The door slowly began to open. I walked over to the door and a bright dazzling light began to stream through it into the courtyard. I began to walk through the door into the light. As I did, I caught a glimpse of a path that spiraled upward. The path was made entirely of light. Beautiful glorious light!

I stepped onto the path and I looked over to my right. What I saw was very strange and to this day I have not been able to totally understand the meaning of it.
What I saw were mummies. Three mummies. They were wrapped in strips of linen clothe. They were piled on top of each other. The strange thing was the fact that two of the mummies were dead but the other mummy was very slowly trying to move as if he was trying to come back to life! (I have no idea, to this day, what the mummies represented).

After looking at the mummies I continued to travel on the lighted path. The path was spiraled and was headed towards the sky. As I continued to walk on the illuminated path I looked up, and saw another door.

I stared at the door and tried to bring it into focus but the door was very bright and very difficult to look at. While trying to bring the door, into focus, the door began to slowly open, very slowly.

I intently stared at the door in expectation of what or who would come through this door!

BAM! AN EVEN MORE GLORIOUS LIGHT BEGAN TO STREAM THROUGH THE DOORWAY!

As I peered into it, the shape of a man's form became visible.
The man was JESUS CHRIST!
His hair was long brown, passed his shoulders. His robe was white, not a glorious white, just white. And on his feet were sandals.

THE THING THAT STRUCK ME THE MOST WAS THE FACT THAT JESUS CHRIST LOOKED AT ME AND BROKE INTO THE MOST DELIGHTFUL, DAZZLING SMILE I HAVE EVER SEEN! HE SMILED AT ME AND MOTIONED ME TO COME UP. WITH HIS RIGHT HAND HE MOTIONED ME TO COME WITH HIM THROUGH THE DOOR, ALL THE TIME HE HAD THAT RADIANT SMILE ON HIS FACE!

I began to move faster on the path, up to him, focusing on his face, HIS SMILE, and that was the end of the dream!
Amazing huh?
Any ideas or comments?
Any ideas about the mummies? Plz let me know!