Jan05

Who Will Go to Heaven?

by TKMission on January 5, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Posted In: Articles

Who Will go to Heaven (according to Psalm 24)?

      ”Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully…” Psalm 24 deals with such an astounding truth. 

 

Did you ever wonder who will go to Heaven? Some belief all good men go to Heaven and bad men go to Hell. Others belief that all will go to Heaven or will ultimatly reach Heaven! Some belief nothing. There is only one of two places to go when you die and go out of this world! Heaven or Hell. 

Who can ascend  into the presence of the Lord or stand in His Holy Place? Who can? Well, God gave all men testimony: he that have “clean hands” and “a pure heart” and who have not (past tense – even if you do not do it today anymore that disqualifies you – have not!!!) lifted up his soul unto vanity (did vain things, look after vain things, think vain things, etc) nor sworn deceitfully – that is have never told a lie!!! And how many lies do you have to tell to be a liar? You quest it – ONLY ONE!

So here the Lord Gos through David addresses the issue who can and who will go to Heaven! He also addresses the issue of what work the Lord must do in those who will go to Heaven, for none with unclean hands, impure hearts and who lives in vanity and deceit can ever “ascend” nor stand in His Holy place! Just look at this! That is NO MAN can be or will be able! By natural birth you are not going to get into Heaven because you also are impure and unclean by nature! If you would die in the same way you came into this world you will not go to Heaven!  One lie disqualifies you from entering Heaven!

“Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully…”

 

Then the Holy Lord draws a picture of “gates” and “everlasting doors” that guards as it is the very entrance into the very presence of God – Heaven - and describes the eternal “temple” or dwelling place of a Holy and Majestic God! The ancient gates of the eternal temple are personified and addressed in song by the attending angels.

The Lord Jesus Christ ALONE (not Mary, Mohammed, Buddha, Lekgenyane, Modise, Shembe, Confucius, etc ONLY JESUS CHRIST) could ascend into the hill of the Lord because His hands were clean and His heart was pure, there was no fault nor sin in Him nor did He ever do one sin, He alone was the spotless unblemished Lamb of God to ENTER AND OPEN UP THE WAY FOR US so we by faith in Him are conformed to his image we shall enter too.

We have here a picture of our Lord’s glorious ascent into the very presence of God. This is what happened the moment when He “ascended on High” and this Psalm pictures that very moment when a Man for the very FIRST TIME ENTERED the very presence of God and stood in the Most Holy of holies  “TO BRING MANY SONS TO GLORY!”

“For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in   B R I N G I N G   M A N Y   S O N S   U N T O   G L O R Y, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” Hebrews 2:10 

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,    T H A T   H E    M I G H T   B R I N G   U S   T O   G O D, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”1Peter 3:18 

 

These “ancient gates” and “everlasting doors” were opened that moment Christ ascended on High to enter the very presence of God ON BEHALF OF ALL MAN so that we may through His redemptive work share in His glory and live in the very eternal presence of a Holy God! Christ is the King of Glory.

Oh, the depth of the work of Christ accomplished to bring man into the very presence of God so that man may serve and worship Him who alone is worthy of all praise and glory! And to serve Him, we first must be redeemed and be sanctified (set apart) so that He may receive our everything, our unadulterated unmixed pure devotion that would be acceptable to a Holy God!

Israel could not serve God in Egypt, God said “let My people go SO THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME” and so they first HAD TO BROUGHT OUT TO BE BROUGHT INTO separation from sin, the world, self and its influences so that they could be brought into a place where they could serve the Lord free from bondage and such is the Work Christ came to accomplish, man FREE from sin, the world and the flesh can be separated unto the Lord (holy) in order to serve Him alone all the days of our lives:

“That he would grant unto us, that WE BEING    DELIVERED OUT OF THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES MIGHT SERVE HIM WITHOUT FEAR, IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE HIM, ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE.” Luk 1:74-75 (Italics mine)

 

May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering and may He bring MANY in this present age to His glorious redemption so that YOU MAY SERVE HIM WITHOUT FEAR IN HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE!

It is possible that someone are saying, “I shall never enter into the Heaven of God, for I have neither clean hands nor a pure heart.”

Look then to Christ, who has already climbed the Holy Hill. He has entered as the forerunner of those who ENTER THROUGH Him (see John 10:9-10). He has entered there FOR YOU!

Follow in His footsteps, and repose upon His merit. Endeavour with all your might to be found IN Him, for IN Him alone you can enter and stand.

He rides triumphantly into Heaven, and you shall ride there too if you repent and come to Him to enter through Him Who is now the Entrance and Door to Heaven ALONE (Acts 4:12; 1 Tim 2:4-5).

“But how can I get the character described?” say you. The Spirit of Christ will give you that if your eye become single focussed on Christ and Christ the Lord alone.

He will create within you a new heart and a right spirit. He will circumcise your heart and take out of your inner being the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh and write His law on this heart so that you may serve Him without any bondage in holiness and righteousness! He ever lives NOW to bring you if you will but come to Him into the very presence of God and exchange your life with His!

Faith stands by the fountain filled with blood (the cross of Christ), and as she washes therein, clean hands and a pure heart, a holy soul and a truthful tongue are given to her.

“Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. HE SHALL RECEIVE THE BLESSING FROM THE LORD, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM THE GOD OF HIS SALVATION…” Psalm 24:3-5 

“THIS is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face…”. Psa 24:6 

 

Come and follow Him and adhere to Him and His Word alone and you will find that He is the Way the Truth and the Life!

God Bless!

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Jan05

True and False “knowing” God and the end time

by TKMission on January 5, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Posted In: Teachings

One of the great signs is apostacy – a falling away from sound Biblical Faith and a following after faith that feels good or another kind of “knowing God.”

How is it that humans can be seduced by false light? What is Good, what Evil?…..It is important to begin by understanding that when both God and the serpent spoke about knowing good and evil, they were not talking about discerning right from wrong………..I was very interested to learn that the Hebrew word translated “good” in Gen.3 has NO moral significance at all!! Its meaning is limited to natural sensual experience that feels pleasant, sweet, peaceful or agreeable, but it does not touch on the issues of moral goodness, or of righteousness before God.

In other words, the knowledge of good is about feeling good, not being good……………………………..significantly the Hebrew word for “evil” in Gen.3 contains both natural/sensual and moral elements….including sensual evils such as calamity, bitter taste, deformity, distress, injury and misery, and also moral evil such as whicked desires, thougths and beliefs. therefore to know the evil of the serpent is to experience both feeling bad and being bad.

Furthermore, to know evil means that being bad makes us feel good. This is the grave result of the Fall, and one problem of our sin nature.”On Knowing” – The Hebrew word translated “knowledge” or “knowing” in Gen.3 in the context of the forbidden fruit …, is from the root word yada, having the sense of “knowing by experience’, as opposed to knowing through the mind or intellect. In Hebrew yada is also a euphemism for sexual intercourse. It is surely no accident that this word was used in Gen to describe how humans can know good and evil. The fact that satan is the god of occult experience, where human flesh and spirit meet occult spirit.

This means that the knowledge gained by men and women in occult spiritual encounters is sensual and experiential knowledge of Satan. In the same manner a man comes to know a woman by intimate personal encounter and not through a book, so man comes to know satan through occult experience and not through the Word.

Occult knowing is an intimate, sensual and personal experience with occult spirit. therefore when people ‘soak’, enter trance states and open themselves to occult love they are, whether they realise it or not, lying with God’s enemy, the serpent.”

End time deception and apostacy is one of the greatest signs of the coming of Christ. Christ Jesus will be replaced by another “Christ” even antichrist, the Holy Spirit will be replaced by another spirit and the gospel will be replaced by another gospel and so God will be replaced in this world by another system, who also speaks about salvation, faith, knowing God, but it is in nature contradictions of the True. The Truth will be replaced by the Lie! Antichrist does not merely mean “against Christ” but it also mean “in the place of Christ!” BEFRORE ANTICHRIST WILL BE REVEALED IN THE WORLD (visible – in person) AS AGAINST CHRIST HE WILL BE REVEALED TO THE WORLD (invisible – in spirit) IN THE PLACE OF CHRIST!

This mean that people will get more and more spiritual and christianised, but the Christ they will follow and cling to will not be Christ Jesus but the antichrist! How do we know? The False gives man an experience based knowledge and faith (without the sound Word of God) the Truth gives man liberty from sin and strict obedience to the Word of God even when there is nothing to experience!

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