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Last weekend’s service was one of those that you never ever thought God would touch you, but He does and makes you cry your heart out.

Oh, thinking about the state of the church, cells and members, how they think they’re good enough to enter heaven makes me cry. I cry because people live with such deception all their lives, abandon the full potential of which God has for them, and the blessings He wants to lavish upon them.

They slog, work 16 hours a day, get home at 10pm, sleep and begins the cycle all over again, earning what they think qualifies them to be rich, all so that they may live comfortably in a condominium with gym facilities they never use, living halls that are barely filled with the living, spanky clean kitchens and unused ovens?

Matthew 19:23-24 says,”Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Yeah, we might not be as rich as this young ruler, but it was a matter of the heart. In the preceeding verse:

Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.”
“Which ones?” the man inquired.
Jesus replied, ” ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

He boasts in his ability to follow the commandments, but when told to surrender, obey, and follow, he had an issue.

And that issue has cost him eternal life.

Now, it’s not as though God is calling you to sell your apartment and all other assets (God knows we love our cars, right guys?) for nothing, but the fact that if God were to call us to something, and we disobey God and here’s what the Bible says about disobedience with reference to the times of Moses:

7So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,
where your fathers tested and tried me
and for forty years saw what I did.
That is why I was angry with that generation,
and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.‘ “[a]

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.“[b]

Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed[c]? 19So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.

- Hebrews 3:7-19

I can’t continue writing.

Lord.

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