On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 3:59:36 PM UTC-4, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
Some people would wonder: Why would Rick write this? God is
supposed to be all about love. How could Rick be so cruel and
pervert God's love into some form of hate? How could Rick be
so hateful to turn God's love into something else?
God is love. But He is also Holy. And He doesn't have a future
in mind where sin will abide. What will come in the hereafter is
described in the Bible. It is Heaven revealed to us, and God's
own Holy Temple. God has set it aside for Himself in eternity,
and He has purposed to keep all wrongness apart from it:
http://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/21.htm
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or
maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's
book of life.
God examines the hearts and minds of each person and He knows
each person's true state. He knows who is His, and who is not
His, and who will be His one day, and who will never be His one
day. He doesn't impose upon people, casting them into these
roles, but each person is revealed by who they are, and what
choices they will make.
For all (literally all) who will seek the truth, God reaches
in to their heart and flips the invisible switches necessary
to come to salvation. Until that time we remain dead in sin,
dead in our transgressions, wholly condemned and on our way
to Hell already. But when God reaches in to a person's life,
He begins a work within them that He Himself is able to complete.
No act of salvation is by man's power or authority. No thing a
person is able to do is able to save them. All a person can do
is reveal themselves before God, indicating for the permanent
record (all of those books written down in Heaven) who you are,
and what you are in pursuit of. God sees past facades and outer
shells, and He looks straight through to the heart.
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Without knowing who God is, your current sin condition, and the
judgment that is coming ... how can you place value on that which
Jesus did at the cross?
My goals are to teach you the fundamentals about God, about sin,
about judgment and condemnation for sin in Hell, but even more
importantly about God's love and grace for you, in that God has
made a way out of that death-sentence in Hell by sending His own
Son to die at the cross in your place.
I'm teaching you about the love of God, the purposed heart of
God that He will keep His eternal House clean, and that He wants
you to be a part of His Kingdom. He teaches you this Himself
through men and women like me who are, as accurately as we're
able, in as many diverse ways as we're able, teaching you His
words, about Him, about His Son, and also about yourselves.
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I pray you will come to see yourself as you are. I pray you will
come to Jesus and ask Him to change you, to forgive your sin and
take you off the path you're on today, and set you on the right
path of light and love and peace and joy that leads to His eternal
Kingdom of Heaven's paradise.
God calls out to you. Will you answer?