Love & Repentance Part-1

Love  &  Repentance

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and FORSAKES [them] will have mercy.

Proverbs 28:13

I don't care who you are, everyone is in need, and everyone wants change in some form or another. I tell you though, don't ever, don't you ever... say; 

“I’d come to messiah but I have to change my life first. I have to deal with this sin, or this issue, or this problem.. before I come to Him.”

A lot of preachers or christians would then go into a dialog about “Repentance” to someone who would say that, and I would be for that.. if they(meaning the preachers) understood what repentance was. Your life does need to be cleaned up, and you do have to deal with your issues, but the fact of the matter is.. if you wait until your issues are cleaned up then you will be waiting your whole life! You will never come to messiah because you will never be able to change! Only messiah can change you..

Messiah is the one who gives you new eyes to see, and a new heart that seeks after Him, He is the one who makes you holy and able to flee from sin! If you could do that by your own power then you don't need HIM! 

If you honestly want Messiah then get on your knees and repent, but be fore warned! Repentance isn't just being sorrowful. Repentance also brings change, seeking Messiah and accepting His mercy whole heartedly isn't a one time event, and it will produce a change in you that will not be by your own hands. His mercy should open the flood gates, His love and forgiveness, His sacrifice should overwhelm our very being and produce His likeness in us! If it does not, then you do not have Him! no matter how much you claim to accept Him

Many claim to have "accepted him" but no real change of heart has come! Preach repentance and it falls on deaf ears! Because its a word that doesn't hit home in this generation of lawlessness! "Repent you shout!" But this generation says "we have!" Foolishness! A bunch of whitewashed tombs, like in Jeremiah’s time! people have turned their backs on G-D but not their faces! Nor their hands asking for blessing when they deserve wrath!

“Roam the streets of Yerushalayim(Jerusalem) look around, observe and ask in it’s open spaces: If you can find anyone (If there is anyone!) who acts with justice and seeks the truth, I will pardon her. And though they say, ‘As Adonai lives,’ the fact is that they are swearing falsely.”

Yirmeyahu(Jeremiah) 5:1-2

Following Messiah is more than “I’m sorry”...if you claim to love and “accept” Him, then why do you hold onto what He abhors? Why do you look on what He says is good and perfect, and Holy as something disgusting and burdensome? You claim that He died so you can have freedom to SIN, you have totally missed the part of repentance in turning away from what G-D abhors. There’s no turning from the flesh and looking unto Messiah, and thus there is no renewal of heart and mind! You stay in your chains of sin while claiming you’re free...HERESY! 

They refused correction. They made their faces harder than rock, refusing to REPENT.

Yirmeyahu(Jeremiah) 5:3-4

“Why should I forgive you? Your people have abandoned me and sworn by non-gods.

When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery, thronging to the brothels.

They have become like well-fed horses,

lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife. Should I not punish for this?” asks ADONAI

Yirmeyahu(Jeremiah) 5:7-9

If you don’t understand true repentance, then you surely can’t understand Holiness, nor the fact that G-D is righteous, you wont understand His righteous judgements. G-D to you, will just be someone who is required to forgive you, and your part is to continue living as you wish. You will have absolutely no FEAR of G-D because why should you? your god doesn’t punish, and your god isn’t holy which thus makes your god NOT the G-D of Abraham,Isaac, and Jacob.

“Hear this, stupid, brainless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear: Don’t you fear me?”-says ADONAI.

Won’t you tremble at my presence?

Yirmeyahu(Jeremiah) 5:21-22

False sheep claim they have repented, they say they are sorry, but are they? Are they really? you ask them do they know the cost of their transgressions, and they say; “Surely we do! It cost Messiahs life!” Then again I ask, why do they continue to live as if they are crucifying Messiah all over again!? They don't live by His mitzvah(His commandments) they say they love Him, but only love Him when he blesses them! They say they are sorry, but are only sorry because they got caught! They don’t wish to turn from evil at all, and they openly hang on to their idols and wickedness while claiming to be a child of G-D 

(that’s called mocking kiddies and G-D doesn’t take kindly to it.) don’t tell me Ezekiel 8 doesn’t peg a lot of Christianity today that hangs onto paganism in one way or another.

“Human being, did you see what the leaders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each one in the room of his own carved image, because they say, ‘ADONAI can’t see us; ADONAI has left the land.’ ?” He also said to me, “You will see even worse abominations that they are doing.” He brought me to the entrance of the north gate to ADONAI’s house; and there before me were women weeping for *Tammuz*.

Yechezk’el(Ezekiel)8:12-14

*(“Tammuz” by the way means “Sprout of Life” and was a sumerian deity of food and vegetation, and so hence in Ezekiel we see that Hebrew women were following the ritualistic mourning to “Tammuz”. Whoring after other gods..)

Christianity today is essentially whoring after other gods, because they seek to make the G-D of the bible into their own image, they take G-D and His commandments and take the parts they like while ignoring the parts they don’t. Either G-D is everything the bible says He is...or He is not...you don’t get to pick and choose what works for “you”.

Here’s a question for you, since when have such important words like Repentance and LOVE lost complete meaning? 

You may be asking yourself, what does Love have to do with Repentance? My reply would be; “it has everything to do with it.” I’ve tried explaining true repentance, and I’ve tried explaining love before...but it seems like a good time to do it again.

Not understanding love is why there is so much divorce in this world today! And among christians who are suppose to know what love is! They get into relationships that they think were built upon love, but in reality it was built upon the flesh, and so they think all love is about is take, take, and take, and when trouble or disagreements come in the marriage (and they will!) They are quick to say things like "oh well...we fell out of love". Or "I'm not feeling this anymore" and they get a divorce and walk around telling people "I just fell out of love, just don't love him or her anymore"

How the hell do you "fall out of love"..??? I’m completely serious, it seems love has been brought so low that it’s now just some whimsical feeling that you can fall in and out of. True love isn't a light switch you can turn on and off, once its on, its on, and there's no falling out of it! I'm glad G-D doesn't fall out of love for us, and actually knows the meaning of it! He is the author of Love after all.

How quickly the world wishes to tell you about love, how quickly the world interjects it’s opinions. Yet, the world and the flesh are both equal in the fact that they are ignorant of it. Love is more than yearning, it’s far more than a primal urge. Love is simply put willful surrender, willful change, Yeshua(Jesus) was the perfect example of Love(and obedience). Yeshua wasn’t about simplistic  fleshly carnal desire, blind by some happy sappy love. Yeshua was all about the Father, only cared to do His will, and willfully surrendered Himself to DEATH, that is real LOVE.(John 15:13)

Real Love doesn’t think about what has to be changed, doesn’t think about personal gain, it doesn’t think about surrendering...NO...Real Love just does! it’s not about what is being given up, the thought doesn’t really enter the mind, it’s like everything is considered a loss without the person and a total waste, and we willfully give everything up for the person. When truly in love we want the very best for the person, even if that means we get nothing in return, and even if that means letting the person go.

Again it’s willful surrender for the betterment of them, that’s LOVE!

So why do we not love G-D like this? I’m convinced we don’t know true love, we have listened to the biggest talkers giving us wrong advice on what love is, we listen to the flesh and the world, and they say love is all about take, there’s no give, only take....So we view G-D and love for Him exactly the same way...

Hence...Love & Repentance go hand and hand, it’s a beautiful marriage.

Part 2... coming soon

You “choosing G-D” isn't the miracle to glory in, the miracle is G-D unveiled your eyes too choose Him, even though you were wicked from the start. 

Do..YOU..Love God?

Quick question for you, Do you LOVE God?

Now for those who are brothers in sisters in Christ,

I'm sure you are thinking "Sure do!", even unbelievers

might even say "Sure, why not". This might, at first glance,

seem like an easy question, HOWEVER, if this question

is so easy and if every self professing brother and sister in

Christ would answer "Yes, I sure do" without hesitation,

Then why may I ask do we not ACT like it?

Maybe we don't know what LOVE really is? Just maybe

we have a inadequate view of the meaning of LOVE?

Perhaps we have a "World View" of what love is.

Now if we want to know what true Love is, the easiest place to look

is Jesus Christ. John 15:13 says:

"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's

life for his friends."

Jesus Christ took the wrath we deserved, loving what didn't deserve to be loved, forgiving what didn't deserved to be forgiven.

I think this is, as it says, a stumbling block for most…because you see a lot of us don't think we are underserving,( some of us do

and that also can create a problem of not accepting what Christ's

has done. ) A lot of people treat God as if

He has some obligation to love us, as if He had to forgive our sins.

So they miss the big picture, and they don't see how evil they are,

and they don't truly see God's LOVE because they just blow it off

like He is required to.

We tend to look at love like "What's in it for us" but that's not love at all. Love is a surrendering of SELF, of doing something

for someone else not out of requirement or to GET something in

return. I'm going to type that out again:

Love…IS…NOT doing something for someone else out of requirement! Are we not saved by THE GRACE of God?

God didn't have to create the human race…wasn't required too..

God didn't have to forgive our WICKEDNESS…wasn't required too

But God did create the human race and He did forgive our sins!

AMEN! glory be to Him alone!

Now this brings me to this overall point, Why don't

we LIVE and Act like we LOVE God? sin is conquered,

let it go MOVE FORWARD in Christ! Jesus says in John

14:15

"If you love me, keep My commandments."

Then why is it many claim to Love Christ, but yet not want to listen

to what He said? I'm not talking about works, I'm not talking about people falling in sin as it will always(while on earth) be

something we have to continually make war against, DAILY

we have to Die to our Flesh! Many say they love Christ,

but refuse to die daily! many say they love Christ and say

they have no need for His commandments or at least they act

like they don't need to be changed by Him.

The fact of the matter is, if you TRULY and honestly LOVE Christ

then you will surrender yourself. AND AGAIN Love is not doing something out of requirement, if you love Christ you wouldn't want to do anything else but FOLLOW and hang on His every word.

"For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to

silence the ignorance of foolish men- as free, yet not

using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God."

1 Peter 2:15-16

This my brothers and sisters goes hand in hand! We see Gods

grace His overwhelming mercy and forgiveness and how we

are free from sin,(NOT Free to sin…Free FROM sin)

but we don't take our freedom lightly…

we know how evil we are without Christ and we know the price!

we don't use our freedom as a means to sin MORE..NO!

we see our freedom and we hold it tightly we see our forgiveness

and we see how undeserving we are of it, we see Gods power and love and we surrender as servants looking for Him to work through

US! looking to please God and follow His commands not for

our Glory…but HIS GLORY the only place Glory can be placed!

Blessed [is] the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly [are] not so, But [are] like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Psalms 1:1-6

I want to share something with you, ready? I'm not the best

example of a follower of Christ, each day I must remember

to die to this selfish-flesh of mine. I seek to be that shinning light,

not for my glory but Gods, and I know He needs to shine through

me, it's not me working for God and me taking credit, it's

God working through me and giving Him all glory for it.

There's no good in me, I can't create good, I can't save myself..

if I rely on me i'll only disappoint. God's love is amazing the more we realize how undeserving we are of it, His love should bring us to the point of surrender, it should bring peace and faithfulness.

Sometimes we lose sight of what's important, and we claim

we love God but our actions say otherwise…we must

be convicted of our weakness and we must give it to GOD,

because only He can bring the change needed.

What we can not do is get to a point where we think change

can not come, that the new creation that we are suppose to be

can not come. We can't say we love God and then live a life

of blatant contradiction. It's like saying you love your wife

but then you continue to sleep with someone else on the side.

Listen, I know we all struggle in certain areas of our walk,

and we fall down BUT

1. we can't stay down

2. we can't expect to change if we rely on ourselves to

do the changing.

Here's the overall point i'm getting at; We will be tempted,

but it's what we do in times of temptation that matter.

If you think that you can stay strong, if you think that you

can ever change you, then you are going to end up in a never

ending cycle of failing yourself. The only way you will ever change

is through Jesus Christ, giving up and surrendering to Him

is the only way change can come. Are all things possible with God?

Then look to Him not yourself! the only thing possible with you is

FAILURE

Be thankful that God doesn't give up on you, that you are

indeed forgiven and through HIM you can be remade new.

If we love God, then we must surrender to Him, we must

repent and ask Him to bring the change we can't bring ourselves..

the more you try to save you with your own power the more

you will fail.

This doesn't mean a life of surrendering to our sinfulness,

This is about living like we truly love God and surrendering

to Him to save us from ourselves, it's the only way we can be saved.

Don't say "Oh well, this is who I am…I'm a sinner..I cant change

who I am" that's actually true, but that should drive

you to Christ not into stagnation.

I write this to all those who read, but not just to you, but to myself…

for I know I am no better and need to place all hope for change

in Christ not myself, and I need this change of living a life of sin

to living a life of Holiness. I need to surrender who I am, surrender

this body and let the Holy spirit guide and work through me…

there is no other way.

I pray God would work in you, reveal Himself and renew you..

that when temptations come whatever it may be that you

would run from temptations to Christ and rest in His Holiness.

That He wold bring the change that needs to come,

Ezekiel 36:27 says:

"I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them."

This is what I ask for, and this is what God can and WILL do!

take our lusts our pride our selfishness our hard hearts and

change them to do YOUR will oh God! too walk in your statutes..

to love you as we claim we do! We don't need to defend

ourselves or attack others back who physically or verbally assault

us, you will vindicate us LORD, our strength lies not in our flesh

but in you God!

1 Peter 2:19-21 says;

"For this [is] commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

For what credit [is it] if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this [is] commendable before God.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: Amen..